Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
NEWS IND NOTES.

The Connecticut Republican papers are
advocating the adoption of the Australian
system Of voting in that state.
A bill for a geological survey OF the
state will be brought before the legisla-
ture of Kansas at the present session.
Egypt viii preserve its monuments
from fund aceruing from So fee
charged all tourists visiting Nile an
tiquities.
The oldest musical society in the
world, the Antlitzgesellschaft. celebrated
its 270th anniversary last week at ST.
Gall, in Switzerland, with great eclat.
Experimenters at Manhattan, Kan,
have discovered that the use Of salt on
wheat fields viii greatly increase the
yield. II is also announced that salt will
kill potato bugs.
The French chemist who discovered
oleomargaFine has now invented pro-
cess for treating steel by which steel
bronze and bell metal can be made at
fabulously low prices.
Under the terms of viii left by an
Iowa man the same gold watch was left
to thirteen different persons. He was not
friendly with any of them, and he prob
ably did it hoping they would fight each
other, which they are doing in lively
manner.
There is fashion even in tombstones.
White marble monuments are going out,
and but few headstones are now made for
the fashionable dead in white material.
Granite in dark shades is the prevailing
rage, and nearly all the new monuments
are being made in that material.
Medical missionaries in China find that
a great many of the more ignorant peo-
! pie regard them as prisoners. When any
! of the natives show desire to consult
| the strangers someone is sure to dissuade
them by asking them the question: do
| you want to be poisoned by the Jesus
! doctors?'
Maine is bad state in which to COM
! nit crime. In most cases punishment
! is swift and sure, but it is claimed that
| fhe conviction and sentence of Sawyer
| and Campbell at Augusta beats the re-
| cord. In just one week after the crime
was committed the prisoners were in jail,
sentenced to prison for life.
1t seems that new type of blindness
| has been developed at the United States
recruiting office that is probably not ne
cessarily peculiar to this region, says the
Springfield Republican. 1t is that of
| having defective eyesight for about two
weeks after ''spree. Nine out of ten
men were refused permission to enter the
ranks one day this week because they had
this disease.
| Connecticut farmers, an exchange
states, suffered severe loss in consequence
of the early September frosts, which
| damaged tobacco. The yield of tobacco
in 1887 was $50 ZOO 200 pounds. The
acreage last year was slightly more than
that of 1887, but the marketable tobacco
Will not nearly equal the previous year S
| crop. Nearly all the tobacco that es-
capped the frost has been disposed of at
prices ranging from y 20 20 cents per
| pound The frosted tobacco cannot be
sold at any price, it is said.
| congressman Kean of New Jersey gave
a dinner TO few friends on the 10th
inst, in the room Of the house committee
| on coinage, weights and measures
About fifteen minutes after they left
the clerk of the committee returned for
his overcoat, and entering the room
found it enveloped in smoke and flames
He gave the alarm and the police and
IabOrers soon succeeded in eXting1ishin9
the flames but not until the sofa, desk
and bookcase, which contained some
valuable volumes and private papers had
been destroyed. The origin of the fire is
not exactly known, but it is supposed tc
have been started by a cigar stump
carelessly thrown on the floor or lounge
The melon growers of Georgia are tc
meet at Albany Tomorrow for the pur-
pose of forming a combination to handle
next seasons watermelon crop. The
growers allege that the commission men
combined against them last year.