Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
NEWS AND NogEs.

This country consumes 3 ZOO, 900 900
pounds of sugar year, and an iniqui-
tous trust only has to raise the price /,
cent to make $50, 0e0, 600 out of sugar.
Dentists are SO numerous in Brooklyn
that it only costs 8 cents to get a tooth
pulled. And they do say that one can
get just as much pain for 10 cents as
for so.
The antiquity of dolls has lately been
proven at Rome, where there was found
in a sarcophagus containing the skeleton
of young girl wooden doll with jointed
arms and legs.
The Japanese government has had
weather service IL operation some time in
Toxic, aud reports that about 20 per
cent. of the forecasts thus far have been
verified The standard indication proba-
bly, is clear, fair OF eloudy, with possi-
BILE rains. - That hits it every time, -
A four-months- baby which arrived
in New York on Tuesday from Finland is
attracting attention among dime museum
managers on account of its great size.
The baby weighs sixty-seven and one
half pounds and is two and one-quarter
feet tall and twenty-sevep inches in
girth.
A proposition before the North Dakota
constitutional convention provides for the
submission of the election of United
States senator TO the people, The pro-
vision of the national constitution which
says that the legislature shall elect the
senator can be complied with by going
through the foFmality Of al election in
the Legislature after the people have eX~
pressed their preference, as Is now done
in the electoral college. This mode of
procedure has been found to work fairly
well in Nebraska.
The metric system Is slowly but surely
becoming established throughout the
civilized world. The English speaking
countries, however, are slower in adopt
ing it than those of other lands, and in
our own country there is as yet compare
lively little use of the system excepting
in scientific circles. That it is extending,
however, is shown By figures presented
at recent meeting of the French acad-
envy of sciences. Countries representing
302 ZOO 900 people have adopted it-a
gain of 50 goo, 900 people in ten years.
1t costs something to keep the royal
family of Great Britain going. Accord
ing to the last finance accounts of the
British government, the royal family
now receives 50 ,715 900 a year, of which
81 1926 900 goes to the daeen for the ex-
penses and salaries OF her household,
retired allowances, bountles, aims, spe-
eial services, etc. and $500, 600 to her
priyy purse. Besides, she has the reve-
nues of the Duchy of Lancaster, which
amount to 1925 zoe d year. The prince
of Wales has 9, salary of 5000 600, aud
receives about 500 200 from the Duehy of
Cornwall.
1t doesn Il take little bows long to learn
some things. A little darby boy was re-
Gently brought before the police court at
Richmond, Va, charged with some
trifiing offence. He asked to have his
case postponed one day, so that he might
bring as a witness another darky boy who
would exonerate him. The next morn
ing his friend was in court, but to the
surprise of everybody his testimony was
entirely against the accused boy and re-
suited in conviction, When the pris-
oner was asked 20 explain this fact, he
remarked, philosophically: oh, he
done been seen siEoe / saTn him.
The st. Louis Republic points out that
the great danger from foreign invest
ments in the United States is the steady
drain on our resources that would follow
the imitation. Every 500 COO 900 of for
elgn syndicate capital Invested here
would take $40 .00e 900 year or there
abouts ahFoad--never 10 return under
our present trade system, so restricted
that we have virtually no foreign COM
meree, except Ia agricultural products.
This drain from our closed market would
be ruinous. 1t would be for our cons
merce aud manufacturers what alien
lapdlordisn has been for Ireland. The
profits would be spent abroad.