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

! The number of mems linen collars
made in this country every year is ,00o,-
600.
The clergy of the Church of England
| of all trades, from archbishops to curates,
number % 900.
Sioux City will send special ''corn
! palace to Washington at the time of
Harrison s Inauguration.
In the next legislature of Pennsylvania
there will be six Browns, one White and
Green, but not single colored man.
A little girl of Poulan, Ga, raised
enough peanuts and sugar cane to pay for
FIVE and a half acres OF land, and she
had enough money left to fence it with.
An electric hand saw is the latest in
vention for carpenters. It works like
any ordinary saw, the electricity being
applied only in the process of setting
and sharpening.
President Depew unhesitatingly pro-
| nounees steam heating of railroad trains
a success. This is valuable testimony,
but WASH It it President Depew who said
that couldn It be done?
A San Francisco gentleman owns dog
on whose collar he has attached the fol-
lowing legend: 81 will not be res
pousible for the damage done to people
who persist in discussing Robert
Elsemere in this dogs hearing. He
can It stand everything
A recent novelty IS an invention de-
signed to facilitate the manufacture of
durable boot-heels. By its use Il heel
shaped leather shell is made and filled
with solid body. 1t has also novel
device for pressing the leather into the
,%f,F nd
working it. lt
A London photographer claimed the
right to exhibit and sell photographs of
customers against their will after he had
been paid for taking the photographs.
Justice North had the matter brought be-
fore him the other day and his disposal of
it was summary and emphatic. ''The
photographer is wholly in the wrong -
said he, and peremptorily enjoined him
against showing or selling the pictures.
Cremation is apparently failure in
Philadelphia. The crematory in that
city is said to be the largest in the world.
It has been in operation since May, but
thus far the receipts have not equalled
the expenses, while the price of incinera-
ton has been reduced from $50 to S28.
The Philadelphia Times states that not
wlthstanding the reduction "an order
has not been received for three weeks -
Still the president of the enterprise de-
clares that he is not discouraged.
The question of whether a lawyers
first duty is to society or his client has
just been passed upon in Chicago, where
a prominent attorney refused to surren-
der the name of criminal with whom he
was negotiating the return 10 owners of
some stolen bonds. He was arrested,
but still pleaded that his relations with
client could not be so broken; taken be-
fore the grand jury he again refused to
We The name. Judge Jameson was
finally appealed to and he decided that
the name must be divulged, and it was
An enterprising Oneida firm recently |
placed number of young alligators in a
show window of their store. Morning |
after morning it was observed that one of |
the alligators had disappeared /
during the night. As no remains |
could be found the cause of the disap- |
pearanee remained a mystery until /
only one alligator remained. Then a
watch was set for the purpose of detect |
ing the thief. Long after midnight
large Maltese cat crept into the room |
and, going to the window, drove the |
little gator into a corner. After play |
ing with it for a few minutes the cat |
calmly proceeded to eat the body, swal- |
lowing large portions of it entire.