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

There is a giant rose tree in Roostoen,
Holland, which has held 5000 roses at the
same time The owner, Nine Regnen,
considers it one of the great wonders of
the world.
According to the most reliable esti-
mates the population of London is now
4 ,250 900. OF this number 900 900, or
more than one-ffth, are in receipt of
some form of pauper relief.
A man with an artificial face has been
attracting much attention at an English
watering place. He had an artificial
cheek, eye and palate, fitted by sur
geon of Bristol. He eats without the
slightest difficulty, and speaks distinctly.
The prolonged rains are delaying the
farmers of Pennsylvania at a critical
time in harvesting grass and grain crops.
There has been very little opportunity for
cultivating the corn fields. and in many
parts Of the state the ground is badly
washed and covered with rank growth
of weeds.
An Albany syndicate has purchased the
Durant tract of land in the Adirondacks,
paying 5000 900 for it. The tract en-
braces 3S9 ZOO acres, and contains 570,-
900 ZOO feet of spruce lumber. 1t is
stated that the object of the syndicate is
to make corner IN this lumber, which
is much used in making wood-pulp.
little girl in Albany whose family
was about to move to New Jersey, and
who had heard Jersey spoken of as a
forlorn and particularly God-forsaken
place, was saying her prayers at her
mothers knee the night before their
intended departure. She said all that
had ever been taught her, and then with
peculiar emphasis and solemnity added:
"And now, good-by, God, for to-mor-
row we go to New Jersey. -
Tobacco may be king yet as cotton
was. The acreage in this country is in
creasing every year, and in Cuba the
planters are abandoning sugar and turn
ing their attention to tobacco, finding
the latter far more profitable. In the
East Indies this industry has lately been
making immense strides, and the stock
of the corporations who control the great
tobacco plantations in Sumatra and Ba-
tavia has advanced nearly one hundred
points in the last three months.
A clock manufacturer says: ''The dial
of the clocks which we make for China is
marked, in lieu of figures, with charae-
tiers which, 1 suppose, mean something
to them. They don It to me. There are
three circles of characters, the inner one
having eight divisions, the next one
twelve and the outermost twenty-four.
There are two hands, the shorter one
making a revolution every two hours,
while the long one takes twenty-four
hours to get around. But how they COM
pute time by these is Chinese puzzle -
An unbreakable substitute for glass, a
French invention, consists in immersing
wire in a heated state in thin paste
formed of soluble glass, gelatine and
glycerine and glucose, in proportions
varying according to the use for which
the material is designed. When nearly
dry the sheets are dipped in a coneen-
trated solution of chrome alum or BIZ
chromate of potash. ANY desired color
ing matter may be incorporated with the
gelatine, and copal or other protective
varuish applied TO the surface.
A short time ago complaints were made
to the management of the French expo
sition that most of the exhibits of Tunis,
Algiers and Morocco were not African
products at all, but the manufacturers OF
Rue du Temple in Paris. An inyestiga-
ton proved that the complaints were
true. The Partisan firm received twenty