Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-17
NEWS IND NOTES.


The state of Iowa has % 900 school
teachers, and upward of $50 900 scholars.
A Pennsylvania oil expert says there is
more oil under the soil OF California than
in all of Pennsylvania.
Cherry county, Neb., with an area
larger than several Eastern states, hash It
a practicing physician within its hor-
ders.
prominent citizen of Fresno. Cal.
has started 'possum farm. He has pro-
cured carload of the animals from
Missouri
London has poor relief society that
receives as contributions garments in
stead of money. Each member is obliged
to contribute two garments year.
A little Boston girl who recently wrote
a composition about DR.. Holmes re-
marked that s'he was for several years
professor of monotony at the college.
An alum mine has been discovered in
Utah. 1t yields so to 80 per cent. pure
alum, which can be extracted by simply
placing the crude material in boiling
water.
There are fourteen different towns and
cities in the United States named
Augusta, and there is never day that
freight and mail matter is not going
wrong.
writer in the Manchester Mirror
says that the wealthiest town of its size
in America is BrookIine, Mass, of
which the assessment valuation is S407 >
454 OPS.
st. Simon IS Island, Ca, holds the
championship in one particular at least.
T.l,a hnS str v-h
1SX36, and moved it off without the own
er IS finding it out.
The plan to, give the members of the
lower house of congress private secre-
taries is interesting: The senators al
ready have them. The cost of supplying
members of the house with them is esti-
mated at 1915 900.
A Chinaman living in Canada has re-
vealed the secret that the Chinese mer-
chants on this continent have conspired to
bring about the removal of all the Chinese
in the United States to Canada and
Australia, and the transfer of all our
trade with China to Great Britain and It's
dependencies. The Chinese can go.
The discovery of gold bearing quartz
in the auckland hills of Massachusetts,
has excited the farmers and land owners
of that vicinity, and some predict q
regular old-fashioned California boom
The veins lie 1900 feet above the sea
level and run through blue slate rock in a
northerly and sOutherly direction, nearly
parallel with the glacial striae on the sur
face rock. The dip of the veins is very
nearly perpendicular, and they increase
in thickness as they have been developed
below the surface
DO, 81
that he has discovered the art of making
gold. The secret is to combine silver
and copper in the right proportions under
the action of the sunlight and Of little
nitric acid. The gold that he can thus
produce NJ. Tiffereau declares to be alb
solutely pure and of the first quality; and
he says that with 80 francs worth of
material he can make Il mass of the
precious metal which will be worth 5000
franc. S He evenlthinks that with little
experience he can bring down the cost
price TO 70 francs. NJ Tiffereau is q very
benevolent man. Some people wouldn t
say anything about it if they had made
such a valuable discovery.
A correspondent from Italy thus speaks
of the vast proportions and evil results of
the emigration from that country to the
United States: 1t is so large that not a
few districts are left without cultivation
or at the price of labor which renders all
produce unremuneratiYe. 1t is, as il
were, the motion of pendulum. 1 re-
member the time when labor was so i'll
paid that starvation was almost the sure
Now everyone is flying to
the United States or Brazil or the Plata,
and comparatively few remain to Guilt
vate rich and grateful soil. A lament
able feature of the exodus is that women
are turned into beasts of burden and are
to do the work that should fall
to the lot of man.