Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-27
NEHis md NOTES.

Papyrus was made from the birch and
| lime trees
Twigs CT myrtle laid under bed will
| keep of fieas and moths.
The great oak of Saintes, irs France, is
! about two thousand years old.
Asbestos has been found to work adj
mirably when used as a fireproof screen
! in theaters.
Shelby county, NO., has minister
| who for usefulness breaks the record. In
! one day last week Rev Charles McAnallY
| preached two sermons, married TIVE
| couples and set three broken ribs.
The sum total of ali the counterfeit
| money set afloat last year did not
amount to $50 900, and the s'queeF''
men were out of pocket III their transact
tiaHs. There's more profit in stealing
evereeats.
A bill 10 establish the Australian ballot
system has been introduced in the legis-
lature of Alabama. The question of bal
lot reform is now being pressed in some
practical form in more than two-thirds of
the states.
Duluth has had big boom during the
last twelve months, and her enterprising
people are preparing for another. She
reports over 81 800 900 has been spent
for Improvements, and 7S2 new buildings
have been erected at u cost OF 81 ,802 500.
Proctor Knott may be enrolled among the
prophets yet.
Woman Suffrage seems to be moving
forward with more aggressive stride in
England than in the United States. The
election Of Miss Jane Golden and Lady
SandhuFst as members of the council of
the city OF London shows that the women
will be expected not merely to vote, but
also to take their share of Official respon-
sibility. In a country where the highest
Office may be filed by a woman the app
propriateness of electing women to places
of less responsibility can hardly be called
in question.
The American federation OF labor sends
out & circular addressed to Workingmen
al over the United States urging an ac-
tive participation in the eigllt-hoHP agita-
ton that is to eliminate May / of next
year. Four days are named for mass
meetings in every town and city through
out the country Washington IS birthday
of this and next year, and July and
Labor day September p OF this year 1t
is especially urged that "'Our movement
manner becoming the manhood of Amer
lea
The trial trfD of electric street ears
using the Sprague system last week in
Boston is spoken of by the Boston press
as entirely satisfactory. A speed of
twenty miles aa hour was attained where
such rate Of going was permissible.
The ears went safely around curves and up
grades, and showed no liability to derail-
ment, besides being readily moved back |
ward or forward at the viii of the driver.
There is but one thing yet improved in /
the proposition that we may dispense with !
e-PoBer. The question of compare |
tive eheappess remains as yet undecided. |
A crusade against dogs has been begun |
in the Massachusetts, legislature A bill /
has been introduced and referred in the /
house which provides that all damages to /
persons or property, caused by dogs, |
shall be paid by the treasurer of the /
town or city in which such damage is |
done, the act not to affect the double /
damage done to persons; and that all /
female dogs shall be prohibited from run
ming at large in places Of more than 5000
people. Mr. Blume of Boston is the
sponsor of this measure, and a member
from the country portion Of the state
offers an order looking to similar end.
There is trouble in Syracuse. Thirty
clergymen of that city have issued an +
appeal to citizens for aid in closing the /
saloons on Sunday, and they propose TO
impeaeh the mayor. The mayor, al
though he was chosen by the liquor in
terest. announced in a letter several
weeks ago to the police commissioners
that the saloons must be closed ON Sun
days from a. m until p m. In this
RpiStle the mayor said: 81 see no
harm if before and after l the saloons
are kept open for quiet business - The
elergymen denounced the mayor as coun-
selling law-breaking and asked him to
withdraw his letter. This he declined to
10, but he has kept the saloons closed
Sunday mornings.