Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-10

Wood, an English jockey. in a rdSent
lawsuit brought out the information that
he had earned more than $40 900 year.
A Charleston druggist advertised that
the milk of a cOcoanut would remove
freckles. and 1000 of the nuts were sold
at retail in two days to women folks.
He got a commission on all sales. The
freckles still abide.
Kansas is agitatins the question of re-
submitting its prohibitory amendment 10
the people. The result of the voting in
the Eastern states on this issue is said Ia
be worth so 900 votes for the repeal of
prohibition in Kansas. where, 1t is al
legged, more liquor is now CONSUMED than
when licenses were granted.
The great bridge which is to cross the
st. Lawrence at Quebec win, with its
approaches, be 81 900 feet, or nearly six
and a half miles long. The top of ths
bridge viii be 40S feet above high water
level, allowing the largest ocean vessels
to pass under it. One span in the bridge
viii have length of 1442 feet.
Lawyers are tough. The woman who
died IN Pomona, Cal, few weeks
since, having had six husbands, selected
each one from a different profession.
pork packer, the third an army officer,
the fourth preacher, the fifth a sugar
planter, and the sixth lawyer, who
survives her.
The Giant Diamond, lately discovered
in Cape Colony and now at the Paris Ex-
position, weighs $50 carats and is valued
at SO, 900 900. 1t is kept in glass case
by itself and guardians stand around it
oil mic l. p1o in
safe. which is similarly guarded all
night. 1t is said to be of the first water
and as pure as the famous Regent in the
French crown diamonds. 1t is for sale.
A convention was held at Chiplev.
Fla. recently to consider the proposition
of annexing West Florida to the state of
Alabama. There were about two, thou
sand people present, some from Florida
and some from Alabama. No resOlu-
tons were offered, the managers of the
affair deeming it unadvisable At this
time, although seven-e ighths of the Wis
itors present were enthusiastically in
favor of annexation.
Mayor Grant of New York has ascer-
tanned that the city owns ISL, more or
less noble steeds. There are 352 used by
the fire department, I36 by the police.
and 100 by the street cleaning depart
ment. These animals cost $3.50 ,0S5 10,
the police horses costing $3.50 and the
fire department horses $3.50 each. It
costs about twenty EIGHT cents a day to
keep fire department horse, and about
seventy eight cents for those used by the
street cleaning department.
The emo fence'' law is making not
little disturbance in Georgia. This law,
which must be accepted by the county
before it comes into force, forbids owners
of horses, COWS and other domestic ami
mails to turn them out to pasture in the
highway This would enable the farmers
to avoid the expense of building fences
to keep ont other peoples cattle, and
hence the 'sno fence'' law. The objec-
ton to the law in Georgia is that some
poor people own cows but have no
pastures, and must turn them into the
highways or let them feed on their
neighbours premises.
An order has been offered in the Bos-
ton city council directing the school COM
mittee to consider and report upon the
feasibility and cost of providing an adj
vanced grade of education in connection.
with the public school system, embracing
the curriculum of academic studies as
taught at Harvard university. Action on
the order was deferred to September, so
that it will not be kpawn for some time
what the council aud the school commit
zee think abouts5E The corporation
eeaiseH has latel5 iren an opinion that
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