Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-09
0Ews and VOTES.


The profits of the sugar trust for the
first five months of 1889, SIS ,230, 900.
Artificial ice is cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article is in the
North
The world s output of tobacco is IN
creasing more rapidly thar either wheat
or corn.
A curious feature in ornithology is re-
ported from lexington, Yorkshire, Eng,
where hen has Matched two chickens
from one egg, both chickens being in
perfect state, except that they are joined
together on one side of the membranes of
the wing. Beyond this they walk about
and feed in the usual manner.
A patient gentleman, who collects sta
tistIes, brings out some figures to help
the cause of peace. 1t seems that from
1852 to 1877 war killed l ,94S 900 people,
and, what is still more wonderful, thu
killing of each man cost more than
$1,000. The total cost was 20 ,tl3, 900, GOO;
so that peace has its good points from an
econimical side.
In the year 1888, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, there were in the United States
2lS4 murders. Perhaps the word
murder does not, in its strict legal
were all violent and illegal killings.
The record is not a bad one in proportion
to population, but what is bad is that
there were only 81 legal hangings and IA
lynchings.
OF the $40 persons committed TO the
Eastern penItentiary of Pennsylvani n
during 1888, 40S were without the knowl-
edge of q trade or occupation whereby
they might earn a living, save the SIM
plest kind of unskilled labor, and more
than half of them were drifting about
doing nothing at the time OF their arrest.
This emphasizes the need of every youn
man learning a trade of some kind.
There is in the civilized world an aver
age of one deaf mute to every 1900 of the
population; in other words there are at
least 900 900 of this afflicted class. In
the United States there are 38 ,000 in
Great Britain, 20 900; in Germany, 2 >,
GOO; in France, 80 goo; IN Swed en-,
1000; in Norway, 100; in Denma TX,
1000; in Holland, 1880, and in Swi tier
land (the country above all others where
deafness is prevalenD 10, 600.
A great impetus has been given to Rus
sian industries within the last ten or if
teen years. Thus, in 1875 all the colt on
mills in that country contained about two
million spindles, while there are now,
according to the latest reports, ll5 900 =
900 spindles, divided between sixty seven
mills. The number of cotton weaving
establishments in Russia is said to be ass,
giving employment to more than eighty
thousand hands, the total annual produce
ton being estimated at 90 200, 200 rou-
bles.
DR.. Hammond says there is no agent
more powerful with some persons as de-
present of the heart than a large
draught of ice water. Under certain
circumstances it acts with all the force
or prussic acid The faintness and pale
ness that frequently follow drought of
it are due to the weakness Of the hearts
action. Had the draught been colder
in such cases, life would have become
extinct.
Quite number of large buildings have
been built in Eastern cities with hollow
brick. They are said to stand the same
pressure, up to 80 eco pounds, that the
best solid brick VIII stand. They cost
one-third less than the solid form and
make the walls proof against fire, moist
ure and frost, being warm in winter aud
cool in summer. The bricks are set on
end, thus making a wall hollow from top
to bottom.