Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-12
NEWS and NOTES.

Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are
to wrestle with the prohibitory amend
ment
A shingle nail was found in a perfectly
fresh egg recently by farmer near
Niles, Mich.
The Ohio legislature will have before it
q bill providing, after the new New York
law, for execution by electricity.
conductor on the Broadway line in
New York estimates that, in collecting
fares and helping passengers on and off
the car, he walks at least two miles a
day.
A grizzly bear that weighed 100 pounds
was killed at Big Horn basin, Wyoming
territory a short time ago. One hundred
and nine shots were fired from nine rifles
before the brute was killed.
The White Caps have made their ap-
pearance almost simultaneously in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey, and have al
ready declared their purpose either to
drive out or otherwise punish persons OBJ
noXious to them.
An omnibus run by electricity, the
only one in the world, has made success
full trips in London. 1t runs on any kind
of % street without the use of rails, while
in reality tram car running on track.
For the space of Ill years from Janu-
ary l we are to have the figure in our
years, and the occulists, who put much
stress upon numbers, predict that the
condition of mankind will be greatly i'm
proved over all past times during this
period. 1t is the age of Kal Yuga.
Three young women of Rapid City,
Dakota, at a dinner last December, it is
said declared their intention never to
marry, and agreed to dine together on
the 23d OF each December. Since then
three honorary members have been added
to the ''elub - They are the girl hus-
bands, and all six met at dinner on the
23d inst.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
while December q is, by a sort of COM
mon consent, reckoned "'the shortest
day. in the year-that is, between sun
up and sundown-it is not so in strict
fact. The 22d is precisely the same in
shortness, for, while sunset is one min
ute later on that day sunrise is also
minute later, leaving things even at the
close.
Says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser: F'The greatest national debt
among the nations of the globe is borne
by France. It is about SIS ,250 900 900.
Russia comes next with So 900 900 900;
then England with So $50 900 900, Aus
Hungary with 81 ,4S5 900 900, Italy
with s. ,225 900 900, Spain with 81 ,207 >
800 900, and Prussia with 81 200, 000,-
OO0.''
On the subject of electricity for execu-
tons the Scientific American says: The
law has been passed and no provision has
been made to carry it out. Apparatus
has not been provided, no competent
specialists have been appointed to super
intend its administration, and in the
present state of affairs the law appears to
amount to little more than an indefinite
suspension of the death penalty for muir
der.
The Mount Morgan gold NINE of
Queensland has proved to be the richest
mine in the world. It is situated on the
range of a sheep ranch. 1t is an IRON
stone hill in the midst of green grass. A
public road runs over the mountain, and
it was while repairing it that the gold was
discovered. 1t was purchased for $1,000,
just So an acre, and the shares are now
worth SIS 900, 900. 1t is supposed to be
an old geyser impregnated with gold.
The metal is extracted by the chlorination
process and costs but 81 80 a ton.