Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
NEWS AND NOTES.

The ravages of cholera Infautum in
Boston are frightful. There is a daily
average of eight deaths.
The humidity of the atmosphere this
season is unparalleled. 1t is said by the
New York Herald to be the precursor of
severe wind storms.
Buenos Ayres has determined on an in
terDational cattle show to be held April
80, 1890, under the patronage OF the Ar
gentine republic. The United States is
cordially invited to participate in it.
The syndicate of London paper manu-
facturers has about completed all the ar
raugements fer the proposed combina-
ton. The capital Of Fl 500 900 has
already been guaranteed. 1t is expected
that the immediate effect OF the combi-
nation viii be an advance of . per cent.
in the price of paper.
Stock papers throughout the country
are continually asserting that better
feeling regarding the future of the cat
tie business prevails, but at the same
time say that market reports are not
very encouraging. On what, then, is
better feeling regarding the future of
the cattle business based? The fact of
the matter down here is that cattlemen
have ceased to hope for Improvement. 1t
is TOO delusiye.
OF the 1900 kinds of flowers which grow
IN Europe only APO, or 10 per cent, are
OdoriferOus. The commonest flowers are
the white ones, of which there are 1894
kinds. Less than One-fifth of these are
fragrant. OF the 95l kinds of yellow
flowers seventy-seven are odoriferous; of
the S23 red kinds, eighty four; of the
594 blue kinds, thirty-one; of the sos
vioIet-blUe kinds, thirteen. Of the 240
kinds with combined coloTs twenty eight
are fTagrantj
1t takes a good deal of paper to go
around. There are 1000 pulp and paper
mills at work the year round. But the
newspapers and magazines consume vast
quantities of it. The Century company
take nearly two hundred tons month
for their publications, and their paper
bin amounts TO $500 600 yearly Harper
Brothers take 20 900 reams, Robert Bon
ner 10 900 Teams at time. Two cheap
literature firms buy $500 900 worth of
paper year. One patent medicine firm
buys $500 900 worth Of paper every year.
England is a very rich country. Ac-
curate London financial authorities esti-
mate that in the last five months alone
English people have subscribed $780,
900 600 to various foreign enterprises.
OF this sum IS 900, 900 have been alb
sorbed in railroad investments in North
and South American, $50 900 900 have
been placed in African gold mines, and
the remainder has been scattered in a
multitude of investments ali over the
globe. 1t is such expansion as this,
which has been going on for many years,
which makes England the wealthiest ma
ton on earth. Already the owniugs OF
Englishmen in foreign lands much surpass
the value of property contained i'll the
island.
Mr. George w. StrattOn, superinten-
dent of the San Simon cattle company
whose cattle possessions are principally
IN Arizona, states that his company has
shipped about seven thousand hessssaf
cattle, nearly all steers, out Of tlIe teF7ss
ritory during tie past two monthss& or
this number about four thousand head
went to Montana, the balance to- kaasas
and the Indian Nation. WhIleA he cafGieF
were being shipped, they hasF gathered
together at one time and in one herd