Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-31
NEWS AND NOTES.

New York claims the best diamond
cutters. They get $50 per week.
The many Massachusetts girls who do
not find an opportunity to marry evil
IDENTIFY do not care TO do housework. In
that state there are Al ,957 Canadian wo-
men and girls in domestic service.
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 a zeal in favor of forestry.
The Boston Medical and Surgical Jour-
nal denounces the new elixir Of life and
declares that the sooner the general pub
lie, and especially the septuagenarian
readers of this latest sensation, under
stand that for the physically used up and
worn out there is no secret OF rejuvena-
ton, no elixir of youth, the better.
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 will 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.
DR.. Norman Kerr of England, who
was first drawn to the study of inebri-
ETY. as q disease while working as q
temperance Teformer, points out that
certain periods of life are accompanied
by special craving for stimulants,
which disappears along with the physi-
illogical circumstances that caused the
disturbance of the system. The habit of
drunkenness may also result from some
aceident-may, indeed, be symptom of
some obscure brain disease.
In an English Sunday school the other
day a lady teacher was impressing upon
her pupils the necessity of being entirely
devoted to God. cit won' do, my dear
boy. - she said, ''to be half hearted in
this service. There is a crown of glory
laid up for everyone who is good all the
time; but do you suppose there is any
thing for boy who Is good only half the
time?'' There was an oratorical pause for
a moment and then a big shock
headed boy drawled out: FfIt do Zeem
to me, missus, that theem as is good arr
the time ought to get 'arf q crown at
least. -
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 so 900, ZOO acres of land is
under cultivation; that 750, 600 men are
employed in the business, and over
one million horses. The cows ana
horses each year eat 80 900 900
tons of hay, 80, 900 900 of corn meal,
about as much oat meal, 27O 900 600
bushels of oats, . 600 200 bushels of bran
and 80 600, 600 bushels of corn It costs
$3.50, 900, 600 year to feed these animals
and $3.50, 900, 200 TO pay the hired help.
There are some interesting items on
England IS civil pension list. Sir Richard
owen has had $1,000 year since 1912,
and Lord Tennyson the same since 1915.
The widow of Kitto, the biblical
encyclopedias, gets $3.50, and the
widow of Haydn, of the Dictionary of
Dates, - $500. The daughter of Douglas
Jerrold gets $3.50. Mr.. Gerald Massey.