Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14
NEWS AND NOTES.

One acre in Wall street, New York, is
worth Sl4 300 900.
Columbia college win establish post
graduate department. in electrical en-
| gineering.
Of books written by women is to be estab-
lished in Paris.
There are over 1000 women and girls in
Pittsburg who work in the iron mills en-
gagged in making barbe6 wire.
The London Times has the figures TO
show that Spain has degenerated faster
| than any nation on earth-even faster
than Patagonia.
According to the American Hairdresser,
i'll the novels turned out during the past
year there were $50 blondes to 100 bru-
nettes as heroines.
The United States consumes 100 900 900
pairs of boots and shoes per annum, 100 :
600 900 of which are furnished by the
New England states.
A recent judicial ruling upon the inn
portant question: When is a man drunk?
is, fWhen consciousness becomes modi-
fed in any degree whatever through the
influence of alcohol, and when or as long
as no exercise of independent nervous
force is adequate to restore it to a normal
state, the man so affected is drunk. -
Cut this out and paste it in your hat
When you can read it and understand it
you can be sure you are sober.
A Pittsburg man is said to have really
married q girl under the impression that
he was marrying her sister. His court
ship of the other girl was brief, and the
sisters so closely resembled each other
that he proposed and was accepted before
he discovered his mistake. He has never
confessed that he made this odd error,
but the girl who lost 81 good husband be-
cause of it insists to this day that she
ought to be in her sisters shoes.
The annual report of the Massachusetts
state board of lunacy and charity con-
tains mouTnful statement to the effect
that there is rapid increase of insanity
in Massachusetts,, the number of the in
sane under the supervision or care of the
board having increased 60 per cent. dur
ing the last ten years, although the gain
in the population of the state in the same
period has not exceeded 25 per cent. In
other words, on this showing, the rate of
increase in insanity is more than twice as
great as the rate of increase in pOpula-
tion
In many establishments in Albany, says
the Journal, workingmen demand the
privilege of bringing beer into the faeto-
Iies for consumption at the noon hour,
and in at least one establishment beer is
paid for by the proprietors. In all the
photographic establishments of this coun-
try, where the work is manly done by
German workingmen, stipulation re-
quires the proprietors to furnish beer as
part of the employees wages. In one
photographic establishment in New York,
where 600 men are employed, each one
receives, by contract, three pints of beer
per day. An effort was made to break
up this system, but so much trouble en-
sued that it had to be relinquished.
There lived in a Pennsylvania town a
few years ago a woman who managed
this baby-in- the-bureau question most
sliilfully. To begin with, the baby, as
well as the bureau, was her own. Her
method was to remove the two upper
drawers, and, seating the child in the
lower drawer, gently slide it shut and
turn the key. The child then sat up of
its own accord and with its head ia the
space vacated by the upper drawers
crowed merrilY away for hours. Not in
frequently the mother thus left the child
to attend to her duties in some other
room, or even to go on shopping expedi-
tions requiring an hour or two. Confined
in this improyised cradle tie child was
not always quiet, but it could neither
harm itself nor any of the AFFECTS about
it, and this the mother knew.
The process of photographing rifle bull
lets in motion, by means of the electric
light, presents some remarkable phe-
nomena, Judging from the experiments
made by Mach, the Austrian chemist.
In this operation his plan is to illumine
the bullet by letting it break an electric
current formed, but the velocity of the
bullet must exceed that of sound, in or
der that the conditions of the air before
and behind the projectile can be shown.
After various experiments he succeeded
in his efforts to photograph projectiles
fired by Wernal and Jurde guns, having
respectively an initial velocity of 43S and
$50 metres per second. The photographs
obtained in this manner showed an air
formation in front of the bullet having
the form OF an hyberbole, while behind
it almost vacuum was formed in which,
when the initial velocity was very great,
there was some curious spiral motions.
From the description given, there ap-
peared from these photographs to be q
great similarity between the motion Of
body through the water and that of a
projectile through the air.