Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania,
smokes twenty cigars day.
The queen of Portugal is the most ex-
travagant dresser in Europe.
Samuel Trust of Ripley county, Ind,
is seven feet tall and still growing.
Apples will be very scarce in the East
this fall, and the New York World pre-
diets that all "new cider' will be at
least year old.
The scarcity of school teachers in Maine
is accounted tor by the fact that young
women there can make from five to
twelve dollars week in a shoe factory,
and only from five to seven dollars teach
| ing school.
Edison, the electric wizard, who is
now in France, told Paris reporter the
other dav that ne was greatly interested
in the subject of AERIAL navigation. If
any man can make Ga flying machine
! that will fly his name is Edison.
To recognize the Importance of the
culture and care OF forest trees, the
! Pennsylvania forestry association has
! asked for a charter. The experiences Of
! the past seasons in clOud-bursts has
! stimulated zeal in favor of forestry.
! There is a wine cellar in operation in
| CuIlman, Ala, having a capacity of
from fifteen to twenty thousand gallons.
There are forty-fve varieties of grapes
! cultivated successfully in this vicinity
and the present crop is much above the
average.
The Bible has been printed in twenty
nine different languages to supply the
people living in Pennsylvania. The
largely varied Industries of Pennsylvania
attract within its limits a more cosmO-
! politan population than any other state in
| the Union.
Edward Hertzberg, who lives some
where in the West, is in Washington try
ing to get patent on an apparatus for
| bOttlAg sunshine. He carries with him
box containing mirrors peculiarly ar
| ranged. He says that If a sunbeam is
kept busy it will remain intact for a long
time
There are about hundred species of
mosquito in the world, occurring in all
chimes. England has eight or ten spe-
cies, for mosquitoes as well as Hessian
flies are as common in England as white
/ butterflies. Most, if not all of the Brit
sh species, bite in very not weather,
when apparently, like their betters, they
require more liquid refreshment.
4 process of engraving on glass and
" NSttil W ClCtLI1titS iiCtS DCCi COl1iA bLl-
Gated to the French Academy of Science. |
The plate to be engraved is covered with |
a concentrated solution of nitrate of pot |
ash and put in connection with one Of the |
poles of the battery, and the design is |
traced out with fine platinum point con- |
nected with the other pole. Results Of a |
marvellous delicacy are obtained.
In a lecture at New York a young |
convert from Bramnism, Mr.. Vishun,
ave the number of Christians now in |
India, including Protestants and Cath |
Olcs, as about three millions, and said |
that if the increase in the number of |
conversions should continue as in the |
last ten years the whole of India, with |
its population of over two hundred and |
fifty millions, would be ChristianiZed |
within a century.
A correspondent Of the Jewish Messen-
ger suggests that the Jews should buy |
Jerusalem from the Turks. "There is
money enough among US, - he says, |
Fand if not enough cash on hand suf-
ficient bonds could be issued TO buy it -
The Jewish Messenger, commenting on
the letter, saws: "Why not indeed? Be-
cause real estate in New York, Chicago,
Melbourne, etc, is more popular just
now, and likely to be for some time to
come.
The last steamer arriving at Victoria,
B. c., from Alaska brings word of the
abandonment of the great Bears Nest
gold mine, recently purchased by the
duke of Sutherland and a syndicate of
English capitalists, and which has turned
out to be perfectly worthless. The loss
to the syndicate viii foot up nearly two
million dollars. 1t is stated that several
other mining properties in Alaska for
which high prices were paid are likely to
prove failures.
Or. Norman Kerr of England, who
was first drawn to the study OF inebri+
ETY. as a disease while working as a
temperance reformer, points out that
certain periods of life are accompanied
by a special craving for stimul8nts,
which disappears along with the physi-
illogical circumstances that caused the
disturbance of the system. The habit of
drunkenness may also result from some
accident may, indeed, be a symptom of
some obscure brain disease.
The Russian mobiles are fast going into
bankruptcy. The credit bank for lend
ing money to them on mortgage of their
land, established by the government two
or three years ago, has now no less than
1000 estates which will have to be sold by
public auction at the end of this year for
nom payment of interest on loans. The
question is, who will buy this enormous
amount of property? If neither the bank
nor the government buy it, there will be
1000 noble land owners ruined by an in
stitutiOn which was established by the
government for their especial help.
The farmers have this year raised a
tremendous wheat crop for which they
will get European prices, less the cost of
transportation. But when they buy
sugar, lumber, clothing, salt, tools,
medicines, tinware, or any other of the
thousands of necessary things taxed in
the tariff schedules, they must pay
American prices. They sell in the
cheapest market and buy in the dearest
market. As long as they are satisfied
with this kind of trading, there is no
reason why Harrison shouldn t be presi-
dent
The dairy business of this country
amounts TO something. 1t is estimated !
that over two and one-half billion dollars
is invested in it; that 10 900 900 cows
supply the raw material; that to feed
these cows 60, 600 200 acres of land is