Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
NEWS md NOTES.

The number of women who insure
their lives is rapidly increasing.
The dairynen of Central New York
have sold 626 ,917 boxes of cheese this
year.
From 200 TO 400 square miles of the
! great pine forests OF Georgia are cleared
every year.
| A single gold dollar can be made into a
! sheet that viii carpet two rooms sixteen
and one-ha!f feet square.
\ grand Rapids (Mich) man who
owns Bible printed in 1899 is said to be
doing his best TO prevent its being worn
cut.
Designs for the Grant monument to be
erected i'll New York viii not he accepted
after January ,. Fifty designs have al
ready been received.
Alabama mobs have been taught that
| it is dangerous to fool with the law. 1t is
q lesson, says the Madison Ind y C0ur-
Ter, that needs to be taught III Indiana
and some other states.
The increasing number of intermar-
riages between deaf mutes is attracting
attention. It's believed to imply the
founding Of a mate race. BY al means
lei lis have such race, says the Alta
Californian, and let them be hired to do
all the celebrating of elections and Fourth
OF July.
Rome, once mistress OF the world, has
made wonderful material progress during
the past twenty years. within that time
eighty-twO miles OF new streets have been
made, over 5000 houses have been built
or enlarged, about S27 900 ZOO have been
spent in public improvements and the
population has increased from PA 600 to
$40 GOO.
a native forage plant, called "spiked
clover, - is attracting attention in Cali
fOrnia. 1t grows i'll great profusion on
low lands by the streams in Humboldt
county, attaining sometimes the height
of twelve feet. The plant puts out white
blossoms on slender spikes, and resembles
the clover leaf in formation. It is eaten
with avidity by horses and cattle.
That war in East Africa is cruel
thing. Missionaries at some twenty sta
tons see their civilizins labors of years
neUtralized in a day. There were several
hundred little blacks redeemed from
slavery in a school at Ba@amoyo which
the Germans bombarded. Everything is
topsy-turvey; but the Arab slave trade is
to be suppressed at whatever cost.
4 farmer near KIttannmg, Pa, owns
the most remarkable oil well i'll the coun-
try, the product being refined by nature,
so that the farmer sells it to consumers
direct, who use it III their lamps. 1t an
swers the purpose without being refined.
As there is n gas well by the side of the
oil producer, it is supposed that the gas
forces the crude petroleum through sand
and gravel, thus clearing it of refuse
matter.
The statute providing for execution by
electricity in New York state contains the
following clause: ''No account of the
details of any such execution beyond the
statement of the fact that such convict
was on the day in question duly executed
according to law at the prison shall be
published in any newspaper. Any per-
son who shall violate or omit to comply
with any provision of this section shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor.
Mayor Filter of Philadelphia talks
freely of the "boodle' raised for the
Republicans in the Quaker City. He
says that he called meeting of business
men at his office, contributed $40 900
himself and appointed subcommittee to
collect subscriptions from the various
trades. He innocently remarks that sit
was represented to the manufacturers
the money so expended would return to
them in their business - He asserts that |
Thomas Dolan, John Wanamaker, Al.
Drexel s. Co., Harrison, Frazier s. Co.,
Hamilton Diston, John and james Dob |
son and S. V. Williamson gave $40 900 |
each, and that altogether Philadelphia
raised not less than $500 900 for the Re-
publican national committee.