Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-07

/ clared their intention to became such
and to limit me quantity of land which
! corporations night hold or own TO one
section or less.
There are $500 women in the United
| States having diplomas from either Amer
/ lean or foreign medical schools. The
/ first medical degree given a woman in
America was issued eighty years ago.
A jug of cider thirty two years old was
unearthed in Camden the other day, and
| of the twenty men who got a swallow of
| the smooth and deceitfui liquid sixteen
were made drunk within ten minutes.
| The bank Of England, having nearly
| Sll0, 600 600 of gold in its vaults, has
put IFS discount rate down TO 8 per cent.
But it is funny that with money so cheap
in London the bank rare in the great
cities of India is 10 per cent.
Insurance men in Pennsylvania are
much exercised over bill now adjoining
the legislative calendar, which contains
the essential points of the New Hampshire
''valued policy law. They propose to
make an active crusade against the
measure, which would, they say, legis-
late insurance business, companies and
agencies out OF the state.
C. C. Brown of Duluth, Mimi, re-
Gently unearthed a genuine freak in the
shape of a mammoth cochin rooster,
which has four distinct wings, two in
their natural places and one at the knee
joint of each leg. The bird weighs about
sixteen pounds, is alive and well, uses all
four wings when flying. An offer of
$3.50, made by a Chicago party was re-
fused, and the bird viii be exhibited
throughout the country.
An electrical shoal water indicator has
been devised by two Mexican inventors
1t consists of a strong cylinder filed with
shot, so that when hung by cable from
ship it viii remain perfectly upright in
the water. Embedded in its center is q
glass or vuleanite tube half full of mercu-
~, the two ends being closed by metallic
plates, which are IL communication, by
insulated wires carried by the cable, with
an electric battery and bell on the deck of
the ship. The action of the apparatus is as
follows: When the vessel approaches
shallow water the cylinder drags on the
ground below, and is consequently
no longer up right, but is thrown on its
side. This causes the mercury in the
tube to touch both the metallic plates at
tached to that tube, as above explained;
the electrical circuit thus becomes COM
plete, and the warning bell on the ship
instantly rings
A unique remedy for eczema and other
cutaneous diseases, says the London Hos
pital, lis Hebra s water bed or, rather,
to define it accurately, continual bath.
The patient lives entirely in his bath.
eats, drinks and sleeps there till he is
we'll. One patient was kept IN such
bath for 3S5 days. Think of this! More
than year of washing day. is enough
to make any one hate the sight of water
forever. There is slight danger of the
patient slipping entirely under water in
his sleep and drowning; but it
is usual to pass bandage
under his arm and fasten it
so as to support the upper part of his
body on the inclined part of the bath on
which the head rests. The palms and
soles become white and shriveIed like
washerwoman 8 hands, but the skin of
the other parts of the body does not suf-
fer, and the treatment is said to be very
efficacious in severe burns. When the
patient first gets into the bed, the tenn
perature Is SO deg. (, but as he gets used
to it 1t is raised by degrees to SO deg. -