Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES.

The profits of the sugar trust for the
first five months of 1883, SIS, 23O 600.
Artificial ice is cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article is in the
North.
The world output of tobacco is in
creasing more rapidly than either wheat
or corn.
Paper tough as wood is said now to be
made by mixing chloride of zinc with the
pulp in the process of manufacture.
a Turkish officer laments the spread of
Christianity amongst the women of Siam
boul, EFbecause, he says, sit will at
once lead to great immodesty in dress. -
Russia has fixed doctors charges
Physicians making $3.50 per year will get
A5 cents per visit; others % cents In
country towns 10 cents is the usual
charge
In Leavenworth, Kan, a man must
sign a certificate that he is sick before he
can obtain drink at drug store. In
one month % 900 men registered them
selves sick.
According to the most reliable esti-
mates the population of London is now
4 ,250 600. OF this number 900 ,000 or
more than one-f1fth, are in receipt of
some form Of pauper relief.
England has over one million dollars
| invested in the manufacture of idols for
| heather countries, and yet the churches
of that country are continually calling
| for more money and more missionaries
to suppress idolatry.
Naptha is now much used as fuel in
| Middle Russia. Last year $50 900 tons
of it were sent up the Volga for fuel pur-
poses, and it is expected that the export
for the same purpose will this year reach
| no less than one million tons.
a man with an artificial face has been
attracting much attention at an English
watering place. He had an artificial
| cheek, eye and palate, fitted by a sur
| geon of Bristol. He eats without the
I slightest difficulty, and speaks distinctly.
The prolonged rains are delaying the
| farmers of Pennsylvania at a critical
time in harvesting grass and grain crops.
| There has been very little opportunity for
! cultivating the corn fields. and in many
! parts of the state the ground is badly
! washed and covered with rank growth
| of weeds.
| A patient gentleman who collects sta
! tistlcs, brings out some figures to help
| 1852 to 1877 war killed 946 900 people,
and, what is still more wonderful, the
killing of each man cost more than
$1,000. The total cost was E2 ,4f3 900 900;
so that peace has its good points from an
econimical side.
A housekeepeP- gives the following rule
for keeping. ice water. To keep ice water
in an ordinary pitcher fold several news
papers into square which will set over
and entirely cover your pitcher. Line
with canton flannel, stitching all tightly
into place; cover with dark flannel
green looks cooD make q handle across
the top to lift it by, and you find that
you have small, convenient and effec-
tive cooler.
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 l 900 900 of this afflicted class In
the United States there are So 900; in
Great Britain, 20 900; in Germany u.s. |
900; in France, 80 900; IN Sweden, |
1000; in Norway, 100; in Denmark, |
1000; in Holland, $500, and in Switzer-
land (the country above all others where !
deafness is PREVALENT 10 900.
DR.. Hammond says there is no agent |
more powerful with some persons as a 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 draught of
it are due to the weakness of the hearts
action. Had the draught been colder
in such cases, life would have become
extinct.
Tobacco may be king yet as cotton
was. The acreage in this country is in
cFeesing every year, and in Cuba the
planters are abandoning sugar and turn
ing their attention to tobacco, finding
the latter far more profitable. In the
East Indies this industry has lately been
making immense strides, and the stock
of the corporations who control the great
tobacco plantations in SumatTa and Ba-
tavia has advanced nearly one hundred
points in the last three months.
clock manufacturer says: ''The dial
of the clocks which we make for China is
marked, in lieu of figures, with charao-
tiers which, suppose, mean something
to them. They don It to me. There are
three circles of characters, the inner one
having eight divisions, the next one
twelve and the outermost twenty-four
There are two hands, the shorter one |
making a revolution every two hours,
while the long one takes twenty-four
hours to get around. But how they COM
pute time by these is a Chinese puzzle -
An unbreakable substitute for glass, a
French invention, consists in immersing
wire in a heated state in thin paste
formed of soluble glass, gelatine and
glycerine and glucose, in proportions
varying according to the use for which
the material is designed. When nearly
dry the sheets are dipped in concern
trated solution of chrome alum or BIZ
ohromate of potash. Any desired color !
ing matter may be incorporated with the /.
gelatine, and copal or other protective
7aruish applied to the surface.
A ''postal tube, - to connect Dover
with Calais, over the English channel, is ! !
being discussed in England. The plan is !
20 suspend two tubes of about a ward
each IN diameter, by means of steel I
cables, across the channel, forty Yards
above the level of the sea The steel I
cables will be fixed to pillars at distances
If about eight hundred yards, and in
ZACH tube little railway will run with 8
'ars capable of carrying $50 pounds in II