Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

John Cennerten of Louisville, Ky, has
mule which chews tobacco.
The winter in France has thus far been
the seYerest for fifteen years.
The governor of New York state and
the mayor of New York city are BACH
elors.
The breasted vest, out of the
field of fashion for a long time, has come
back TO it.
An experiment recently made in
England proves that tortoise can walk
mile in four hours.
A Chinaman who, after several years }
residence in this country, returned to
China, has been telling his countrymen
that the Americans worship a mysteri
Gus being who is called All Nit Dol
Lar.
The Scientific American says the great
oil fields of New York and Pennsylvania
are rapidly becoming exhausted. The
supply has fallen from 100 900 to 43 ,000
barrels per day. Search is being made
for new fields.
AT hotels i'll New York and Philadel-
phia there are machines where you drop
a nickel in the slot and get life aud acct
dent insurance for one day. They are
backed by a capital OF 81, 500 900, said to
be English, to pay insurance losses.
Tile use of cigars by civilized people is
much more recent than most people sup
pose. The real cigar, which is a pure
roll of tobacco alone, probably originated
in Cuba, where the very best cigars are
still made If not there it was undoubt-
eddy in one of the West India Isiands.
Their origin with US, as in Europe, did
not begin until early i'll the present CEN
fury.
The chief object of the New I ork Work
ingwomen IS Protective Union is to see
that worllingwomen are paid for their
work. Most of the officers connected with
the union give their services gTatuitously,
and through their efforts many friendless
working girls have been able to secure the
salaries out of which dishonest employers
and confidence business men would
have cheated them.
thrilling romance has developed at
Martinsburg, w. Va. A physician was
divorced from his wife. The two pinned
for each other, but relatives refused their
consent to a remarriage, and the affair
has eliminated in the doctor taking his
rosy wife and child and leaving for parts
unknown. Instances of remarriage
after divorce are common, but genuine
elopement with q divorced wife Is some
thing new even in fiction.
An absent minded old gentleman of
Sumpter county, Ca, bathed, shaved
and started for the depot after his wife,
who had been away on visit. He had
forgotten the time the train arrived, and
she met him half way home. She got
into the buggy, and after greeting him
affeetionatelY, said: 81 m glad you
didn come clear to town. l should
have been ashamed to ride with you -
"Why?'' he asked innocently. ''Look
at yourself, she replied. He was ar
rayed in his underclothing.
Do things travel in a circle and not in
straight line? England led the world in
attacking the slave trade and abOlishing
slavery, and now an English company is
reported as declaring that colonization is
impossible in Africa without using slave
labor! California has affected the poll
tics of the whole country by outcFying
against Chinese labor, and now Cali
fornians are boldly declaring that the
state cannot do without Chinese. Does
mankind know what it wants, anyway?
Some apprehension is felt in Europe
over the borrowing that has been done
by the Argentine Republic during the
past year. The London Financial News
prints list of loans placed by Argentine
companies during the year in Europe,
which shows an enormous total of over
Sls5 900 900 for population less than
2 500 900, or sum more than three
times greater than the estimated revenue
for this year. 1t exceeds also the entire
internal, foreign and floating debt of that
country year ago.
Alderman elect Durfree of Fail River,
Mass stood over teFty-two pounds of
dynamite the other day, while man in
bomb proof worked awa9 al an electric
battery and wondered why the charge
wouldn't go OF. After awhile the man
crawled carefully up, discovered Mr..
Durfree, and explained the situation.
The alderman S boot heel was placed eX-
aetly on the electric wire aud was press
ing into the earth, thus preventing the
passage of the current. He left the spot
without ceremony, hut his teeth chatter
now every time he thinks of the incident.
Most of the sardines sold nowadays,
says Il grocer, are nothing but small her. |
rings put up in boxes with gaudy labels |
and French inscriptions. In Passport, /
Me-, there are nineteen places where |
they turn out sardines, besides three at |
Lubee, two at Jonesport and one each at |
Millbridge, Lamoine and Robinston.
When it was first attempted to make /
sardines from herrings it was found that 1
the difficulty lay in eFadicating the her
ring flavor. Ii took years of experience |
to accomplish this. Finally a manufac- |
turer succeeded in producing a combina-
ton oil and spices which removed the /
trouble.