Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

White strawberries grow wild in parts
of Pennsylvania,
Joliet, Ill . has fixed the license for
billiard tables at $4,000 table.
Electricity has increased the produce
tions Of the Nevada mines % per cent.
In France they applied electricity to
the playing of organs. Why would it
not be good idea to apply it to the or
ganist?
In England there are over eight hun
dred thousand more widows than widow
ers In France there are 1913 widows
for every 100 widowers.
The income of professional rat catcher
averages $500 per~Year, and there are
only ten of them in the United States.
The average income of lawyers is only
500 per year, and the ranks are over
crowded.
Scientists say that the Caucasian skull
has, during the last thirteen centuries,
increased in circumference nearly two
inches, and has gained in cranial capac-
ity three and half cubic inches There
has been no increase in width, but the
brain has gained in height and length.
The Egyptians have always been recog-
nIZed for their ability in the manufacture
of perfumes, but due credit was never
given them before vase containing some
Egyptian ointment was opened at the
museum at Alnwick. The perfume it
contained still held pungent odor, al
though it was more than three thousand
years old
An artesan wen in North City, sub
urb of st. Augustine, Fla, is said to
have the greatest flow of any artesian
well in the world. 1t is an eight-inch
well, and its flow exceeds the highest ex-
pectations. From a measurement made
by DR.. j . K. Rainey, the flow exceeds
eight thousand gallons per minute, or
over eleven million and five hundred
thousand gallons every twenty-four
hours.
For several years past Henry Wood,
living near New Philadelphia, Ohio, has
been troubled with something in his
stomach that seemed to crawl around and
make itself busy Occasionally it would
rise in his throat and choke him The
other day during choking spell he pulled
from his throat a live snake measuring
fourteen inches in length. The family
have it preserved in bottle, and many
people have called 10 see it.
In invention has been made which
promises to revolutioniZe completely the
industry of china decoration. by pro-
cess discovered by Mr.. J. B. Bonnaud it
is possible to obtain in a few minutes the
same artistic effects which cost the hand
painter on china days of labor. Land
scapes, groupes of figures aud portraits
are produced by this means on vases,
plates and plaques in their natural colors,
even to the most delicate shades.
said to be a Hebrew~Bible at the Vatican
in Rome. In 1912 Pope Julius, then in
great financial straits, refused to sell it
to a syndicate OF rich Venetian Jews for
its weight in gold. The Bible weighs
more than three hundred and twenty
five poundS, and Is never carried by less
than three men. The price refused by
Pope Julius was therefore about one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars, and that, too, when gold Was worth
at least thrice what it is now worth.
The following letter, written on large
and heavy paper, has been sent on its
way:
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1883.
Benjamin Harrison, President Of the United
States of America, to Her Majesty Victoria, |
Queen of the United Kingdom OF Great Brit |
ain and Ireland, Empress of India, etc..
GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND have re- |
ceived the letter which your majesty was |
pleased to address to me on the 10Th nit
announcing that Princess Beatrice Mary |
Victoria Feodore, consort of his royal |
nighness, Prince Henry Maurice of |
Battenburg, safely gave birth TO prince |
at Windsor at , o CLOCK in the morning |
on May 81 last. l fully participate in |
the satisfaction which this happy event |
has afforded to your majesty royal |
family, and 1 offer my sincere congratu-
Iations on the occasion May God have |
your majesty always in his safe and holy |
keeping. Your good friend,
BENJAMIN HARRISONz3
By the president:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON.
Acting Secretary of state. -