Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
NEWS and NOTES.

An English admiral contends that all
the big guns of over thirty tons are prae-
tically useless in action. Twenty rounds
| viii finish them,
Issac H. Wright of Dorchester county
Md, has an orchard of 30 200 peach
trees. This year he expects to raise only
moderate crop.
Bradstreet's estimates the property
losses by the recent floods in Pennsyl-
vania at S44 ,250 coo. This includes the
losses on the Susquehanna and Juniata,
as well as on the Conemaugh.
The boys of Fort Worth should read a
lesson in the fate Of Allen Jamison, a
youth of thirteen, living at Evansville,
Ind. He was sitting IN a tree back of
the ball park watching the game of base
ball when he lost his balance and fell to
the ground, breaking his right arm and
leg and fracturing his skull, and sus-
tanning internal injuries.
People wonder, said the brilliant and
versatile Chauncey NJ. Depew the other
day, 'fabout what they call the omnis-
cience L display in my after dinner
speeches. Why, it's simply by hunting
up men and things IN encyclopedias and
frescoing them in my mind in my own
way that have become the know every
thing fellow they re making so much fuss
about. -
South Africa may yet rival our own
great West in its gold product. In 1885
its export of gold was valued at S347 500;
two years later the value had risen to
81 $50 600. Last year 1t was nearly four
times as large, amounting to 81 ,531 900.
During the first four months of the pres
ent year, according to South African
paper of the date of May l, the value of
the gold exported was 81 ,l40 900.
According to the latest educational re-
port only ,466 ,913 of 10 900 900 children
in the Russian empire attended schools.
About 80 per cent. therefore, of young
Russia receive no education at all. In
sixty governments there is only one
school for secondary instruction to every
Is ZOO boys and % 900 girls. Only SO per
cent Of the boys Of any age to attend a
public high school can be accommodated
For girls the number of such schools is
even more insignificant. The school
master cannot be said to be abroad in
Russia yet.
A woman IS supplied choir is one of the
latest new things. The pastor at Mel
bourne who introduced this innovation
apoIogiZed for il in this way: cit can
not be denied that, considering the ex-
traordinary caprices of fashion in the
matter of female attire, It would offend
the taste TO see the simple uniformity of
surpliced men and boys disturbed by the
intrusion of the grotesque and daily
changing inventions of the Paris milliner.
What better solution, then, of the diff
Guilty could there be than to clothe the
female members of the choir IN an eccle-
siastical Yestment of such a suitable type
as should harmonic well with the sur
roundings of their position and at the
same time not destroy that distinctive
gracefulness of attire to which their
sex entities Them The aecclesiass.
teal vestmentp OF the three femss
members of his choir consisted of sur
plices edged with black, and college.
caps. Soon after that the same novel4ss
appeared at harvest festival in YoEis
shire, where the surplices worn b5 llle
women were made of Scotch lawn With
pleated backs, and in shape were not I'M
like eollegian s gown, while purple vel
vet caps similar TO those worn by doctors
of civil law completed the attire. Canon
Lidden decidedly disapproved, and ex-
pressed himself thus in letter: ssIt is
difficult to say whether the spectacle of
ladies dressed IN SUPPLIES and SO on in
church Is more irrsFerent than It is GER
taiply grotesque. It is greatly to be
hoped that the good sense and Christian
feeling Of the Australian churches will
steadily discourage anything OF the kind.
and especially for the sake of the ladies
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