Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES.

The public debt of Canada is 1924 :
600 600
New Year calling is on the wane in
New York
The records of Kansas show the amount
Of land mortgages in the state to be
S235 900 ,00o
One Of the greatest innovations in the
house of parliament is the introduction of
bootblack in he commons cloak-room. .
He is the first of his kind.
Quick-tiring Armstrong guns, thirty
six and 100 Founders, discharging ten
and eleven shots a minute, have been
finally adopted by the British army.
mammoth cotton palace is to be,
erected in New Orleans, in which the
products of Louisiana and other states
will be exhibited during carnival week.
A little girl who wrote on her examina-
ton papers, 1.-The interior of Africa is
principally used for purposes of ex-
ploration, - was wiser than she thought.
East New York has colony of Nor
mons who oppose polygamy but believe in
Joe Smith. MormouiSm without polyg-
amy appears to be a sort of fangless SER
pent Of the angleworm species.
The latest development of the tea habit
is chewing dried tea leaves. ''Its first
effect is an agreeable exhileration. U1ti-
timately it induces sleeplessness and an
abnormal condition of mind with strange
wishes and deliriums.
A botanical exploring party from Ger
many recently discovered on one OF the
PHILIPPINE islands a number of plants
whose flowers were almost a yard in di-
ameter, the petals, five in number, be-
ing oval and of a creamy-white shade
One-fifth of the immigration to the
port of New York from Europe last year
was from two countries which have only
recently begun to contribute to our popu-
lation-Italy and Russia. The report
from Castle Garden shows that out of
363 ,030 immigrants for the year, 43 ,683
were Italians and 30 1897 were Russians.
The immigration from these TWO coun-
tries was as high as that from Germany
and the immigration from italy alone
was just about equal to that from Ire
land.
''Old men for, counsel' are well
thought of in New Hampshire. OF the
32I delegates to the constitutional con-
vention now in session at Concord, sixty
five are between sixty and seventy years
of age, and nineteen are over seventy
The oldest member of the convention is
John w. Morse of Bradford, Demo-
GRAFT, who is in his eighty third year, and
who has had fourteen years service in the
legislature. The president of the con-
vention, Ex-Governor Charles n. Bell of
Exeter, is in his sixty-sixth year.
A banker of Lille, France, had the
misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the
Bank of France, and in order to dry
them he placed them on a board at an
open window where the sun shown upon
them. They dried more rapidly than he
anticipated. A gust of wind carried
them into the street, where, unfor-
tunately, a goat picking up odds and
ends at once captured the bank bills and |
swallowed them. The goat was pur-
chased and the bills secured IN a very |
dilapidated condition, but the Bank of
France recognized its obligation and re-
deemed them.
Labouchere has this to say about very |
interesting question: There are over
l 200 900 girls in England who are not |
likely to get married In order to rem |
edy this state of things I would suggest |
that the girls should be allowed to pro- |
pose-in fact, that the counting and pro-
posing should henceforth be business |
appertaining equally to both sexes. !
There are number of young men who |
are shy. They have vague and general |
idea OF marrying, yet cannot screw up |
their courage to the sticking point. |
These, were the road to matrimony made |
easy TO them, would succumb. If, in
addition to this, parents would have the |
sense to leave TO their daughters the same
as TO their sons, and would let their in
tentions in this respect be known, they
would speedily reduce the number of
girls at present condemned TO single life.