Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-13
NEWS AND EorEs.

Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
The newest engagement ring is of
twisted gold without stone.
The possessions of Trinity church, in
New York, foot up to Sl40 900 900.
Wooden mills at Bennington, Vt.
which cost $500, 900 were sold last week
for S66 900.
There are, according to the Toronto
Mail, twenty-five cases OF leprosy under
treatment at the Lazaretto at Tracadie,
Gloucester county, New Brunswick.
The name of "Hood'' has been given
to the most powerful of England IS new
battle-ships She is to have engines of
20 900 horse power and displacement of
IA 600 tons
There is an enormous profit in the
steamship business during the spring and
summer months, the gross receipts fire.
quently rising above one hundred thou
sand dollars from single voyage.
The run of salmon in Alaskan waters
this year is only about q third what it
was last Certain fishing stations which
last year sent %, 900 eases to market
have packed only 5000 so far this season.
These are the days of progress. The
making of horse-car line from Cairo
to the pyramids is likely to become a
completed fact before long. The money
to be paid for the government conces-
sion has actually been paid over to the
official concerned and preliminary oper-
atoms have already commenced. The
next step VIII probably be letting out the
sides of the pyramids to some Yankee
for advertising purposes.
Macon county, Mo-, proposes to give
high license fair test. The tax is fixed
at $3.50 per annum, strictly IN advances;
and the saloon is restricted under heavy
penalties as to the manner of conducting
the business. This tax is distributed as
follows: $1,000 to the city or town, $500
to she county cad $50 to the state.
Under these conditions and restrictions
but few saloons will be established, and
they will have to sell good many drinks
to pay the heavy tax imposed.
In the state of Maine women are en-
gagged in over fifty different employ
ments; ranging from cotton and other
manufactures to the professions By far
the largest number are employed IN man
ufacturing, there being about seven
thousand thus employed. The average
weekly salary is about eight dollars, and
one maker of portraits III crayon gets
SIC. One woman is proprietor of pros
porous newspaper; another owns an ex-
tensiye orchard; there are q dozen regu-
larry indorsed physicians in practice and
several ministers, all Universalists.
While the rabbit pest is increasing in
Australia beyond the means Of destruc-
ton, the inoffensiye and valuable kan
CARGO is becoming extinct in his habitat.
By American dealers the skins OF kan
garoos are in greet demand, and the
question of their preservation is hardly
less important to the people Of Australia
than he protection of the fur seals OF
Behring sea Is TO the United States. In
order to save these marsupials from
wholesale slaughter the Australians are
making efforts to provide a close time
during which it shall be unlawful to kill
them. 1t is also proposed to protect the
young of tie kangaroos by imposing a
fine upon any one found in possession of
8 fresh skin weighing less than five
sixths of a pound. While the preserva-
ton of the kangaroo is in the interest
alike of commerce and of science, the
proposed regulations viii unquestionably
meet with strong resistance from the
Australian hunters.