Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

A new Connecticut law prohibits cigar
cite smoking by minors under sixteen
and the sale of tobacco in any form to
such persons.
Issac II. Wright of Dorchester county
Md. has an orchard of 30 200 peach
trees. This year he expects TO raise only
a moderate crop.
Bradstreet's estimates the property
losses by, the recent floods in Pennsyl-
vania at S44 ,25O, 600 This includes the
losses on the Susquehanna and Juniata
as we'll as on the Conemaugh.
On the 25th instant J. GLADDEN.,
proprietor of the Buckner hotel, Buck
ner, Ark. died suddenly of cohsump-
ton, and his wife, upon seeing his life
less body, dropped dead by his side,
both deaths occurring in ten minutes.
An Anglican clergyman, a Sunday
school superintendent and a deputy post
master since 1863-such is the record of
Rev. r. t. Burns of Kingston, Ont. ),
who. is a defanlter for over three thou
sand dollars to the depositors savings
department of the postoffice. z
At Brazil, Ind recently, Mrs. Maria
Givens, aged serenity years, met Witt a
peculiar accident that came neRBt result
ing fatally. She was peck ed 9ontthe back
of the left hand by an inFtgiateyf ben :,
Blood poisoning resulted ,41and it re-
quired skillful medical attention to save
her life.
The great bridge which is to cross the
St. Lawrence at Quebec will, with its ap-
proaches, be 81 600 feet, or nearly six
and q half miles long. The top of the
bridge will be 4OS feet above high water
level. allowing the largest ocean vessels
to pass under it. One span of the bridge
will have a length of 1912 feet.
a method of painting with petroleum Is
said to have been invented by NJ. H
Ludwig, a German landscape painter at
Rome, for which it is claimed that it
makes the colOrs more luminous and
preserves them better than previous pro-
cesses. The Prussian ministry are said
to have sent a special artist to Rome to
report on the discovery.
The bark Belle of Oregon landed at
Philadelphia few days ago 500 tons of
sulphur gathered from extinct volcanoes
of Japan The japanese have recently
found that the craters of some of the ex-
tinct volcanoes with which their islands
abound are rich in sulphur. The ship
Cheesbrough has been chartered to load
a similar cargo at Hakodadl, Japan, for
Sandy Hook at 81 per ton.
South Africa may yet rival our own
great West in its gold product. In 1885
its export Of gold was valued at S347 500;
two years later the value had risen to
81 $50 600. Last year It was nearly four
times as large, amounting to 81 ,531 GOO.
During the first four months of the pres:
ent year, according to a South African
paper of the date Of May l the value of
the gold exported was 81 ,l40 GOO.
The Russian government is arming its
infantry with new repeating rifi6sins
which nOiseless powder is used. Ii is Rak.
believed that Russia win be in a hurry to
provoke war until this armament shall.
nave been completed, which viii reQuiE&
no little time. The spectacle of two
armies i'll battle moving each other down
with guns making no noise in their dis
charge would give new horror to war.
All the batteries of the new ships of
our navy are given a coat of bronze
color as soon as mounted the guns
being of q bright steel color when re-
ceived from the proving grounds at
Annapolis. 1t was at one time the Gus
tom to carry the heavy rifles brightly
polished, but it was found in service that
the glare from the heavy pieces greasls
disturbed the aim of tie gunners, besiess
serving as q reflector to the rays OF 4he
sun and making known the localityS of
the guns.
According to the latest educatzpna re-
port only l 1866, 9I3 of 10, 600 00e en- ldren
in the Russian empirel attended schools
About 80 per cent. therefore ,of yoeRg