Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
Ksnass is the banner Republican state.
1t gave Harrison 81, 600 maj ority.

K,nass is the banner Republican state.
1t gave Harrison 81. 600 maj ority.
A talking pisno, operated by numerous
keys and producing words OF all KINDS, is
one Of the curio5ities Of New York
museum.
There are over q thousand patients in
the Insane Hospital 1T NorFistown, Pa ,
and nsli Of them are women, under the
sole charge OF DR.. ALICE Bennett.
The Vermont census shows that she
has nesrIy forty per cent more women
than men, spd vet her legislature, by q
vote Il 1872 to 81, defeats a bill for. woman
suffrage.
Bread baked en- Eastwood sawdu5t
ana corn starch passed muster in BOs>
ton restaurant ss "Indisn bread" but
some of the eatsrs after ward complained
tina. their hunger had not been satisfied.
Mrs. Henry Jones, daughter OF Noah
Webster Of dictionary fame, and over
nintY yesrs old, died at Bridgeport, Conn +,
on the'l5'h inst. Her daughter married
Henry Ward Beecher's BROTHER, Thomas.
1t was when the late Professor Proctor
was sn English school examiner that q
little girl defined the difference between
8 man and brute as follows: IA brute
is an imperfect beast; man is perfect
BEAST"
II has hitherto been thought that
Buenos AYres WAS one Of the most *
peusiye cities to live in, medium eiz-d
mouse renting there for 81 800 year. l.
Is learned, though, that sn eigbt-room
house in the outskirts OF Sydney brir GO
$3.50 year.
The great American base bail sggregs-
tor, IN charge Of Sp,ldipg OF Chicago,
sailed for Australia on the II n inst. Tie
players will have as companions some
fifty ballet girls, who have been engaged
bY An Australian theatrical manager to
augment his local ballet forces. Among
the supplies Of the base bsllists are 10, 0C0
cigarettes.
henry G. Spofford, once z prominent
and wealthy lswyer in Chicago, recently
died In Jerusalem. He vent there some
years sgo under the delusion that he had
been commissioned By the Almighty 10
convert the Jews. His property was
swept away by the great Chicago fire, and
shortly sitter his children were lost on the
V lie du Hsyre. This upset his mind,
snd the trip TO Jerusalem was the result.
A Chicago chemist who has analyz ed
the contents OF cigarettes Of different
brands finds that they were generally
made Of tobacco imperfectly fermented
containing an unusually large emoun' OF
nicotine, sno IN unnatural proportion Of
insoluble ash, tina. several kinds were
stepped in 81 irjurious substance, and sll
we're impregnated with dirt. This seems
TO be sn unusually good showing for the
cigarette.
Colonel William II. Harris, son OF OK
Senator Irs Harris has arrived from the
City Of Mexico. Colonel Harris has
charge CT the work for drsining the city
Of Mexico, work which Mexico hsafhsd
under consideration for two centuries
The project is to run sys, en- Of Grsins
from the lakes so that there msy Ae LGi
danger to the city from fl3oda, WI ch
have been SO damaging to property at
frequent intervals. ....a..,s.sgi3
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Success is always attended BY q swssm5
Of hItterers. One Ct the pewsEAReT |
adulstors Of Harrison says Els |
than Arthur, "less emotional"
than Garfield, at Sbler leSder tnsn Hayes, !
0 nd greater strtesman than Grant, and !
promises, with sll his wonderful quail
itiee, to leave record behind him second |
only to that OF Lincoln. The suthor of |
this tribute must badly want = foreign |
mission or postoffce.
In Brooklyn there Is . sugar refinery
which was closed BY order Of the sugar
trust. Thers WAS extreme bitterness
amor the workingmen Of that city ever |
this brutal measure, which threw many
hundreds OF people out Of employment IN |
order to cheek the supply Of 8 necessary |
Of living Yet in Brooklyn there was
large ineresse Of the vote of the psrty !
that defends the policy to which the sugar
trust ewes Its existence.
The inter-sts commerce commission |
lxs issued q circular stating that the
3ure1u In charge Of the auditor will
be known as the bureau OF
:ltt and transportation. Auditor G. G.
McKGin remaining at the head thereof,
md that in view Of the importance Of pro-
riding for an exhaustive compilation Of
statistics from the annual reports of
carriers, and the great amount Of detail
work involved, s bureau Of statistics has
'een established, which is in charge Ct
Professor Henry C.Adsms, ststistician.
Firs! Auditor Cnerowith oitha .re,suy3T,
department. IN his annual report for To
asst fEcal yesr shows that the trsusEe
ions of his flee for the year covered theff
djustment Of accounts aggre eating
Il. 931, 906 9SS. Ia his last annual repGxt.
u1itor Cnenowith congra tulated the
flee upon the fact that every desk in the e
everal divisions had been clesIed OF de-
.yed work; and this year he says moth
lg is IN tie way Of prompt and speedy
sttlement of eli current business. while l
? comparing the work Of the three years I