Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

Alfalfa cultivation is on the increase in
Western Kansas.
A piano is being built at the Steinway
factory at Hamburg which is to cost
$50 900.
The Hudson river is filed with quanti-
ties of floating ice which shows no sign
of closing.
A current remark in New York is that
cit is beautiful weather between fOgs
nowadays.
A young lady in Maine had sixteen
teeth extracted as one Of her preparations
for marriage.
Private detectives are now employed to
watch the gifts at fashionable weddings
in Philadelphia.
In England the census takes in every
thing, even down to eats. The last report
states that there are 900 900 of these
animals in England.
The three yew trees in Fountain IS
abbey, Yorkshire, under which the
founders of the abbey held their council
in 1882, have been In existence 1900
years.
The rose tree has ever been fayorite;
the rose was anciently considered token
sub rosa means that it is not to be repeat
ed.
It is curious that grass will not grow
under certain trees, notably the beech,
fir. chestnut and aspen. This latter tree,
so the story goes, furnished the wood for
our Saviour's cross, and its leaves were
doomed to tremble till the end of the
world.
At Braburn, in Kent, there is a yew
tree at least 5000 years old, and another
in Fortinga1, Perthshire, must have at
tanned the age of $500 years. Taking the
girth of some of these old trees, among
the oaks we have the Salcey forest oak,
"A feet; Cog in Yardley forest, % feet,
and containing 1868 cubic feet of timber;
the Shelton oak, near Shrewsbury, 30
feet, and the Broomfeld oak, near Lud-
low, 68 feet.
A noteworthy effect of the high license
law in Philadelphia is recorded by the
latest report of the Society for the Pre-
vention of cruelty to children, which was
made on Monday. This report says that
last year there was a falling off in the
number of complaints, principally of
neglect, and this is attributed in part to
the enforcement of the high license law.
II ID a AdCbB VIC A4COGGiS
of the thousands of saloons that were
closed up under the operation of the law,
the greater number were of the class Of
fering special temptations to the poor and
vicious, and the decrease of such temp
tations might reasonably be expected to
reduce the cases of neglect and cruelty.
If it has done SO, as the returns seem to
show, the law has had a far-reaching IN
fiuence on the happiness of women and
children. -
DR.. T. R. Allison, an English physi-
clan, has been trying the experiment of
living on meal and water for a month.
His daily allowance is one pound of whole
meal, made into a cake with distilled
water, and one quart of water. His ac-
count of his condition after a week is
cheering. In the first few days he felt
hungry, but about the fourth day this
disappeared, and he had no longer any
craving for other food His brain was
clear. his lung capacity had increased
FIVE inches, and both his sight and his
hearing inprov ed. He had lost seven
pounds weight but seems to regard this
or rather an advantage. Altogether he
feels thoroughly satisfied with his expert
ment It is a very economical one, the
wheat for seven days having cost only
pence. This, he says, sis living on
almost penny day and enjoying IT..