Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

The people of the United States use
annually about seven postal cards for
every man, woman and child; that is 70
say, their total consumption for q year
reaches 400 900 600.
The peanut trust must be actively at
work in behalf of peanuts Not long
ago it was given out that they would cure
insomnia, and now it is announced that a
Maiden, Mass, man has been cured OF
dyspepsia by eating them.
The latest marine Internal machine IS a
floating battering ram, invented for
America. 1t consists of a cigar-shaped
boat, made entirely of thick steel, and
operated by the captain only, who is
lodged in an invulnerable tuTret. Such
q contrivance as this is capable of sinking
the largest Ironclad with the greatest
ease.
A novel use is made of the electric
light on the st. Lawrence river, near the
Thousand Islands resorts. One of the
lights has been placed at the end of a
yard arm on the steamer st. Lawrence.
which has a dynamo aboard. The light
stands in front of a powerful reflector;
and as the boat steams about at night
among the islands, the search light is
cast upon them, revealing with startllnS
distinctiveness their beauty and tbs'
beauty of their landscapes.
Ceylon cats are curious instance OF.
what evolution has accomplished in Che
way of adapting creatures to envFah2
ments. They have no tails, and sare
able, b. lack of that appendaGe, to fmi-
tate re- lhits and so get them into their
clutches. They are great rabbit catch
ers, and as such are valuable beyond all
other cats in Australia. They have been
introduced into this country, but whether
for their hunting propensities or not is
not stated. The cat family has never
been utilized by man as it mig mt be. Rat
and mice catchers can also be developed
into good hunters in many other direc-
tons.
The general idea of cancer is that it is
incurable, but the results obtained in the
first years. history of the cancer hospital
in New York are cheering. Between
December Z, 1887, and December 81,
1888, 278 patients were admitted to the
hospital, of whom I49 received free
treatment, the rest paying in full or in
part. The average number of patients
in the hospital daily was twenty-five,
and the average duration of treatment
was thirty-six days. At the time the re-
port was made thlrty-One patients were
still under treatment, forty-nine had
died, thirty-six were unimproved, sixty
eight improved and ninety-fOur pro-
nOunced cured.
The food laid in for a voyage of one of
the large steamships from New York to
Liverpool was: Nine thousand five hun
dred pounds of beef, 1000 pounds of NUT
ton, 900 pounds of lamb, 257 pounds of
veal, $50 pounds OF pork, 40 pounds of
picked legs of pork, 600 pounds of corned
tongue, roo pounds of corned beef, 1000
pounds Of fresh fish, 20 pounds of calves
feet, Is pounds of calves heads, 40
fowls, 240 spring chickens, 100 ducks, so
turkeys, so geese, 600 squads, 800 tins of
sardines, 800 plovers, l75 pounds of sau-
sages, 1900 pounds of ham, 500 pounds of
bacon, 10, 900 eggs, 1000 quarts of milk,
700 pounds of butter, 4lO pounds of cof-
fee, 81 pounds Of tea, 900 pounds of su-
gar, 100 pounds of rice, 200 pounds of
barley, 100 jars of jam and jelly, 90 bot
ties Of pickles, so bottles of sauces, 20
barrels of apples, IA boxes of lemons, IS
boxes of oranges, tons of potatoes, "a
barrels Of flour