Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-17
NEWS AND VOTES.

New York city g debt is sos 900 900.
There are 80 900, 600 teachers and
scholars in the Sunday-sehools of the
world
Southern California estimates her
honey crop at 1000, 600 pounds for this
season.
The Minnesota wheat crop is estimated
at 40 900 200 bushels, and for Dakota
30, 600 200 bushels.
Canada has population Of 4 1872 ,101,
an area of 3 $40 ,257 square miles, and
public debt amounting to 1884 ,513, 842.
In China the inhabitants are counted
every year III a curious manner. The
oldest master OF every ten houses has to
count the families and has to make q
list, which is sent to the imperial tax
house. Last year the whole number
amounted to 879 1888 500 inhabitants.
A rare bird was shot at Dundee, Ind.
The bird is snow white and stands seven
feet high, The remarkable fact that it
weighs less than four pounds has excited
no little interest. For want of the
proper name the people have appropri-
ately dubbed it the ''phantom heron. ;"
A crab that climbs cocoanut trees is
the bIrgo latis, or robber crab, OF the
Tanning island. 1t cracks the nuts with
its claws and wakes fat on the milky
elixir found therein. fine specimen
has lately been added to the shell-f1sh
collection in the state museum of Cali
fornia.
NJ Courtonne, a French savant, has
just deposited with the academy of sci
ence a sealed communication containing a
description of a machine of his invention
for the transmission Of luminous Vibra-
tions, to which he has given the name of
"telephote, - and by the means of which
it Will be possible, he claims, to see OBJ
jects hundreds and thousand of miles
distant in spite of any number of inter-
vening obstacles.
Experiments have recently been made
at Kiel by the German naval authorities
on torpedoes made of paper and worked
by electricity. The results are said to
have been very satisfactory. The tor
pedo is about eleven feet long by sixteen
inches in diameter and is made of twelve
layers OF paper fourteen inches thich,
compressed and vanished. The motor
is mounted on three paper ribs and
driven from the ship or shore by a cable.
the steering and ignition of the charge
being controlled through the same cable.
Inc estimated losses by Jne nre at
Spokane Falls have fallen from SIS ,000,-
600 to So 900 900. Though the blow is
still severe at the reduced figures, the
inhabitants have not succumbed under
it. AS proof of their elasticity of spirit
in misfortune it is related that the price
of real estate in the burnt district has
considerably advanced. The municipal
councils have taken measures to insure
the building of the business part of the
city of granite and marble, so that Spo-
kane Falls will rise from Its ashes more
solid and more beautiful than ever.
The arrangements of the census bureau
are on large scale, though only one
tenth of what they VIII be year hence.
One hundred typewTiters are now at
work; next March 1000 clerks will be
kept busy; next June 40, 600 enumerators
will be securing the country. Fifty fe-
male typewriters will be clicking away
next week. The typewriter is to entirely
exclude pen copy, Mr.. Porter expecting
thereby to save upwards of $50, 600.
Over a hundred thousand applications
for employment have already been re-
ceived, and the communications are an
swered as promptly as possible. Twenty
FIVE topographers and ten stenographers
are at work, and 250, 900 envelopes are
used each month.