Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26
NEWS AND NOTES.

A Maine man has raised blue pig
which he vii! exhibit at the state fair.
An egg shaped like horn is curiosity
row attracting attention at Carterviile,
Ga.
Some two or three weeks ago q woman
IN Baker county, Florida, gave birth TO
a child, and twenty-six hours later to
another.
Pineapples are growing in favor with
the thrifty Floridians. Eden sets out
over five hundred thousand trees this
year and Ankora three hundred thou
sand.
Corn beer" has become a popular
drink in Pennsylvania. 1t is said to
corn a man much more quickly and
thoroughly than the old-fashiOned kind.
Montana will be the first state to try
the Australian ballot law this year.
that will be on the lst of October, when
she votes OH her new constitution and
state officers.
Farms may be had cheap in Hungary.
If the owners cannot pay the taxes they
are forthwith sold up by the state, and
recently a farm assessed at EGO annually
was brought to the hammer and pur-
chased at kreuzers-nOt quite one-half
penny
Richmond has a unique way of desig-
mating it's wards. Instead Of numbering
them as other cities do they are called
after great names in our history. For
instance. they have Marshall ward, a
Jefferson ward, d Madison ward, Mon
roe ward, etc.
A large and very important discovery
of uranium is reported in Cornwall. 1t
is a true assure vein, the ore containing
an average of l per cent. of the pure
metal, going up as high III many places
as 80 per cent. The market price of
uranium is Sl2 900 ton.
There are several good reasons for the
attempt TO train swallows for military
messages, instead of carrier pigeons
The swallows are swifter, and more diff
cult marks to shoot at. The experiment
so far promises well. A young swallow
from RoubaiX flew home from Paris,
155 miles, III an hour and thirty minutes.
BaIlotin9 was once done IN Massachusetts,
by means of corn or beans and by the
viva voce method, or sometimes with
"uplifted hands Written ballets did
not 90 out of general use until 1880 when
Hon. David Henshaw introduced printed
tickets at the polls and was sustained
in his action by decision of the supreme
court.
The total cost of supplying the British
man Of war Hero with ammunition for a
commission is estimated by 8 correspond
ent Of the London Daily News at be-
tween one hundred and seventy-five
thousand and two hundred thousand dol
lars. 1t costs about forty-one dollars to
fire single shot from one of her twelve
inch guns.
Celluloid is TO be used for sheathing
ships, in place of copper. A French
company now undertakes to supply the
substance for this at francs per surface
metre, and per millimetre OF thickness.
In experiments By n. Butaine, plates of
celluIoid applied to various vessels in
January last were recovered five or six
months after, and found intact and free
from marine vegetation, which was
abundant on parts uncovered.
A large public bath will soon be
erected in Philadelphia from money left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott.
Franklin left IN his will, dated April %,
1870, $4,000 to be used by Philadelphia
in such a way that after the lapse of a
century the principal ana interest SQOuIQ
amount to a sum large enough to make
public improvements. In 1916
John Scott added $4,000 to this sum.
The principal now amounts altogether to
about SI10 900. Ten thousand dollars of
this will be laid aside for another cent
urY after the new bath is constructed.
Mr.. Valentine, the Vermont commits
sioner of agriculture, mas started on
carriage trip through Bennington county
to inspect the unoocupied farms upon
which it is proposed TO locate colony OF !
Swedes. He is accompanied by Mr.. |
Nordgren, a prominent Swede of Ne |
braska, who has brought to this country |
several colonies of Swedes and located |
them in the West. He is good Judge |
of the wants of his countrymeu, and if |
be decides that the Vermont farms will |
afford fair competence, he will bring a |
colony Of fifty families from Sweden to |
Bennington county, they paying their |
Own passage and having from three to |
dive years in which to pay for their land.
According to a computation just issued |
by an eminent statistician, the cost in |
human life of the wars of the last thirty |
four years has been 2 ,254 900 souls. The |
Crimean war cost go ,00G men; the Ital- |
ian war (l859) IS, 900; the Danish war
(1S64) 5000; the American civil war-the |
Northern states ESQ 200; the Southern |