Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-21
NEWS IND NOTES.

New 10rk mas q DoXlng cluD, the only
one in the United States.
During the year ending June 80, 1888 !,
the number of acres of government land
entered in Florida was l ,266 ,36S-double
that of any other Southern state.
The mild weather is causing loss to
New York apple growers, who have 500 >
900 barrels of the fruit stored Rot has
| set in, and it is feared one-half will be
lost.
An alum mine has been discovered in
Utah. 1t yields 80 to 80 per cent. pure
alum, which can be extracted by simply
placing the crude material in boiling
water.
The patent office reports show great
increase in the number of patents issued
to feminine designers, and the character
of many of the inventions testifies to the
fact that the sex is not devoid Of mechan-
zeal ingenuity.
A Buffalo girl got rid of an undesirable
sutton in n unique way. He proposed on
the way home from church Sunday even
ing, and the fair creature, who is GO 'er
young to marry said eyes, - but
added that she would not marry him till
he gained the consent of her father. The
young man discovered the next day that
the young lady's father died several
years ago. and the disappointed lover has
emigrated to Black Rock.
The New York legislature has some
sharp clerks. The first thing the newly
appointed officials of the assembly did
was to hunt up the pay clerk and draw
their mileage. This is computed by the
usual highway, and the knowing ones
figure close. How far is it TO your
home?' said the clerk to the messenger.
cit is ZIG miles by rail and l live just
three-quarters of q mile from the station,
so you can call it 2l7 miles, - was the re-
ply.
The Florida lemon trade is prospecting.
Most of the lemons that are sold i'll New
York come from Naples, Sorrento, Rodi
and Messina, and sometimes as many as
40 600 or so 900 boxes are sold by auction
in a day. The best lemons however,
come from Florida. They are naturally
of prime quality and are not injured by
long distance transportation 1t is be-
lieyed that the Florida lemon growers by
care in sorting and picking can IN time
run the Italian product out of the mar
ket.
Another bridge between New York and
Brooklyn is talked of. The present
structure cost about SIS 900 1000 and the
people on the New York side have just
found out that it has benefited Brooklyn
real estate at the expense of New York,
inasmuch as it has brought the outlying
districts of the former city nearer to the
business center than those of New York.
For this reason the building of another
bridge over the East river is not looked
upon with favor by New York real estate
owners.
Last year was great one for the
potato crop. The entire product was
go 900 900 bushels, an increase over the
preceding year of 90, 600 200 bushels
This vegetable is grown principally in
New York, Michigan, Illinois and Mime
sofa and Dakota is coming into promi-
nence, her crop last year being a four
fold increase over 1887. The total i'm
portations last year were 5000, 200
bushels, but there will be no necessity of
bringing any foreign grown potatoes into
the country this year.
The Buffalo man who Won q sweet girl
by writing numerous love letters TO her
on S. bills has started a fashion that will
make counting harder than ever Not
only will the dear creatures refuse to re-
turn such missives in case of a quarrel,
but they will insist on bills Of larger
denomination being used. The world
VIII seem but a dreary place to a man
who has been using S. bills as stationery
for his love letters when he gets note
like this from the adored object: IAN
other young gentleman is writing to me
on $40 bills. Unless you employ $50 bills
all is over between US.
A duel was fought in Paris the other
day in which those old-fashioned weap-
ons, the bow and arrow, were employed
The principals were each given a six-foot
bow and quiYer full OF steel-headed ar
rows. Then the seconds fled. Shooting
began at will. After several shots had
been exchanged one of the combatants
started to run and the other chased him,
shooting as he ran The first fighter
climbed a tree and the victor shot arrows
among the branches until his stock was
exhausted, and then went quietly home
to breakfast. The man in the tree was
pretty badly wounded, but viii recover.
The fight, as usual, was about a woman.