Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-08
NEYS IND NOTES.

Philadelphia built 500 two story houses
last year
The people of Topeka viii soon be rid
ing over the longest of electric railways
fourteen miles.
There are nine cables connecting Eu-
rope and America, which utilize 1l3, 900
miles of cables.
Publishers say that there has been a
great growth of recent years in the mar
ket for Christian literature.
The sultan never uses plate, but takes
his food usually with spoon or his fin
gers directly from the little kettles in
which it is cooked.
The Texas delegation in Washington
are said to measure more from foot to
crown and to weigh more than any other
thirteen men i'll congress.
More than one-half the foreign COM
merce of the United States entered and
cleared at the port of New York last
year, and amounted to more than 1852 >
900 900.
The leading New York hotel keepers
have combined to set up printing office
which is TO furnish the printing and sta
tionery needed for the hotels of that and
other cities.
The slot device for ensnaring pennies,
nickleS, quarters and dimes originated in
England, and was imported to this coun-
try by Erastus Wiman, who, it is said,
owns the American rights to the inYen-
ton.
The Terre Haute Express paid the
writer of this verse $50 and called him a
poet:
'As the cockroach never plays ball or votes,
Or seeks undying fame,
He has no business in the soup,
But he gets there just the same
One of the smartest Western towns
growing is Gladstone, Mich. Fourteen
months ago it began to be, and was
named after the Grand Old Man. To-day
it has 1000 inhabitants, the principal
streets are paved with cedar blocks, there
is a complete fire apparatus, $4,000 town
hall, an elegant electric light plant, five
churches, three school buildings, two
bank buildings, three hotels, six manu-
factories, one weekly newspaper, and
fifty business houses, representing the
various branches of trade.
Compulsory education is carried on III
London under difficulties. One case is
that of a poor woman who had three
children at school and was compelled to
feed the family on a halfpenny's worth
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day, while in another case a family of
six children had but q farthing's worth
of rice between them for their dinner.
Children fed like this viii not learn much.
There is society in London, formed for
the purpose of feeding school children,
but this, as a charitable work, can
hardly be comprehensive enough TO cover
the entire ground How little the ex-
pense is may be judged when it is said
that good, wholesome dinners have been
provided for poor school children at the
rate of 1877 dinners for each S. expended.
1t is hard for the clergymen to please
everybody. A Boston woman complains
that her pastor never looks at her when
he breaches, but devotes all his attention
to the sinners on the other side of the
church. For this reason she says that his
sermons do not have the moral effect on
her which they ought to have On the
other hand, Chicago woman recently
complained that her pastor invariably
looked at her when he was preaching, es-
pecially when he denounced humbugs and
hypocrites, and she wanted to know if it
WASH t an outrage to treat respectable
pewholders in this way. When the cler-
gyman finally heard of her grievance he
laughingly explained that he WASH t look
ing at the woman at all when she thought
he was but at a certain pillar behind her,
the sight of which, for some mysterious
reason, always seemed to clarity his
thouoht