Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-17
NE# and NOTES.

A fashionable New York seheel drills
its pupils in the art of getting in and out
OF carriages, as wei as how TO ataspaF
agus, oranges and grapes.
Canada has a population of about
5000 900 and owes nearly $500, 600 900
Cuba has population of about 800 600
and debt Of SIS6 900 Geo.
Owing to the great use of the twine-
binder in harvesting, the consumption of
hemp and similar fibers has increased 20
per cent. during the past year.
The new palace of the Japanese en-
peror cost So 1868 ,23l. The first estimate
of the cost was S12, 300 600, but it was
reduced by order of the emperor.
Recent statistics show that the number
of colleges and institutions in the country
is the same as it was ten years ago, but
the number of students has increased
from II ,l6I to 80 1915 in the same period.
Michigan pays her governor s. rs per
day, while the janitor who has charge of
the house gallery in the capitol gets IS
per day. The Jackson Patriot wants to
know why it weuldn 4 be q good scheme,
instead of relegating the governor to pri-
vate life at the end of his term, to pro-
mote him to the office of janitor.
The Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
crop in Central Illinois. In some places
whole fields have been destroyed. The
dry freezing weather is also aiding in the
killing of wheat. The farmers are greatly
alarmed at the work of the insects which
gather thick on the wheat and are afraid
they viii destroy the entire crop.
Blaine is as full of surplus reducing
schemes as circus mule is of tricks. His
latest is to buy Cuba This would not
only relieve the treasury plethora now
but would absorb $40 600 600 a year in
sugar bounty under the senate bill, thus
creating a necessity for that amount of
protection for those private affairs
commonly called trusts.
There is some common sense as well as
justice in New Jersey. Judge Hopper
refused the other day TO admit challenges
of jurors because they had read newspa--
per articles about the case on trial, de-
claring that If a man were able to judge
fairly of the evidence produced he was
not disqualified by having intelligence
enough to read the newspapers.
Several years ago Benjamin Braswell
left a small fortune to his county of Nor
gan, in Georgia, ''for the sole purpose
of educating the orphan children in
said county. The custodians have re-
ported that the fund has outgrown the
orphans. 1t has reached S4S 200, and
they have been able to eXpend only 500
out of an income of S2470 on the educa-
ton Of the children. They are not per-
mitted to make any more orphans, and
unless some one runs off to Canada with
the fund they do not know what to do
with it.
The growing scarcity of United States
government bonds and other first-elass
securities has driven the savings banks of
New York to appeal to the legislature for
an enlargement of the list in which they
may invest their trust funds. A bill has
accordingly been introduced allowing in
vestments in stocks and bonds in cities of |
so 600 inhabitants in certain states not |
given to repudiating debts, with various |
limitations. One proviso of this bin is |
that no city stocks or bonds issued to aid !
in the construction of any railroad shall |
be eligible for investment
Of high license in Philadelphia the |
Public Ledger says: Not only has the |
operation of the law, as administered by
our license court, reduced the number of |
places from about 5000 to l347,
but it has already, in its existence of
seven months from June 1888, to jan
uary l, 1889, decreased (according to
published statistics) the commitments to
the county prison by GIGS, as compared
with the same months in the preceding
year; decreased the commitments for
drunkenness by $50; reduced the num-
Der of commitments for Sunday drunken
ness from S65 to 246, and reduced the
of women for drunkenness
for the same period from eighty-nine to