Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-20
NEWs AND NOTES.

The next legislature of North Caro-
/ lima will have about 400 justices of the
! peace to elect
! 1t is said that after fifteen or twenty
more interments are allowed in Westmin
ster Abbey the room will all be occupied.
There are over twenty thousand young
women in great Britain studying music
with the idea of some day poisoning into
stars
Last August there were killed in New
South Wales the following ''noxious
animals: 50 ,566 langaroos, 80 1916 wal
1ibles, 1914 hawks, CT emus and 1873 ma
tive dogs.
Carbon was shown to be distinct ele-
ment by Layoisier in I7SS, who proved
the diamond to be its purest form, and
| converted it into earbonic acid gas by
combustion.
4 new dynamo with a capacity to run
eight incandescent lights has been in
vented by Vermont electrician. 1t has
some novel features, one being a slow
current obviating all danger, while one
light can be shut off without affecting the
others on the same circuit.
A Japan paper states that since the
United States prohibited Chinese immi-
grafton there has been a very perceptible
increase in the number of Chinese immi-
grants to Japan. Recently 4SG arrived
at Yokohama, and sSmost of them are
now employed in tea-frng godowns at
the rate of remuneration which none but
Chinese would accept. -
There is laundryman in Brooklyn, a
ScOtchman, who does a large business,
and who has never adopted the check
system in vogue with Chinese laundry
men. He relies entirely upon his mem
DRY, and yet makes no mistakes. He
claims to bave no private mark, and
never gives his customers any check.
How he does it no one knows. He says
he doesn t know himself.
A Bridgeport, Conn, man has in
vented boy, not the ordinary human
boy, but one that walks and pushes a
cart before him-a mechanical boy. This
boy when in motion makes as much
noise as railroad train, because of the
internal workings of his forces. HIS
head is out of proportion to the rest of
his body and has horrible grotesque ap-
pearance with its tin eyelids. The head
is calculated to brighten the average
woman and the noise to scare the sensi-
tive horses. Consequently the trial trips
of this mechanical pedestrian have been
made at night.
DR.. Pinel of Paris is said to have sue
ceeded in hypnotizing several subjects by
means Of the photograph. All the COM
mands given through this channel were,
he declares, as readily obeyed as those
which be uttered directly, and ''sugges-
tions'' ofseverv possible sorts were as eff
fectually communicated through the me-
dunn of the machine as if made viva
yoce. The conclusion which he deduces
from his experiments is that the received
theory of magnetic current passing from
the operator to the subject is entirely
baselesS, and that the real cause of the
phenomena of hypnotism is nervous de- |
rangement on the part of those subject to |
them.
Worthington G.. Smith, the eminent |
microscopic, finds that genuine honey |
can be readily distinguished from manu-
featured honey by the microscope. The |
former has few or 10 sugar crystals and |
abounds with pollen grains, while the |
limitations have little else than these /
crystals, with rarely a trace of pollen |
grains. The honeyed taste of the manu-
featured article, he thinks, may come |
from honey comb or beeswax being |
mashed up with the articles used in the |
manufacture. Each class of plants has
its own specific form of pollen grain, and /
Mr.. Smith says that any one conyersant |
with this branch of botany could tell from /
what part of the world the honey came by
studying the pollen grains that it might |
contain.
As substitute for granite blocks,
steel paving is attracting considerable
attention, its durability being said to be
quite point in its favor, and its cost be-
ing somewhat less. It consists of steel
strips about two and one-half inches wide
and one inch thick, rolled with channel
on the side exposed to traffic, and with
notches about six inches apart; these
strips weigh eleven pounds TO the yard,
are laid across the street a distance of
about five inches between centers,
and their length is only sufficient
to extend to the middle of the
street, so that the proper slope from the
center to the cutters can be secured.
They are boIted together, so as to insure
them against lateral slipping, and are
fastened TO wooden sills. a firmly cen
structed bed of gravel composes the sup
port of this pavement, while between the
steel strips q mixture of pitch and cement
is poured, filing the interstices to level
with the tops of the strips and rendering
the surface comparatively smooth.