Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-21
NEWS IND NOTES.

The Australian beetle is colonized in
California that it may exterminate the
scale bug, an insect that preys upon the
fruit trees.
The average monthly temperature of
San Francisco for the last fifteen years
has been $50 degrees. The highest for
any month was SO degrees and the lowest
| 80 degrees.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has agreed to build a $500 house for the
widow of n hneman drowned at Johns
town and pay her his former salary of
$50 q month.
Victoria, B. c., is said to be the dull
est city in North America. Business
men get down to their office at p. m. j,
and leave ut p. IN. After that the town
Is completely deserted.
The greatest snuff taking country in
the world is France, though it shows
decline in the habit. IN 1869 the con-
| sumption was IS, 600 900 pounds, OF seven
/ ounces per head. Now IL is five ounces
During the first fourteen days of June
! upward of two million visitors passed
! through the wickets of the Paris expo
| sition. Such success ought to be q strong
! temptation TO New York to hold q
world s exposition in 1892.
| The SCISSORS gang" have made their
| appearance in London. These petty
| thieves, armed with scissors, frequent
! great crowds in Paris and use their
| weapons for the purpose of cutting the
mantles of fashionably dressed ladies.
A sea turtle ten feet long, five feet
| wide and weighing 1000 pounds was
caught recently in trap off South Har-
wIch, Cape Cod. This monster is esti-
mated to be fully 200 years old AS it
stands the distance between its fore flip
pers is over ten feet.
The total number of wears that a
| Frenchman, whatever his occupation is,
must hold himself in readiness to serve
his country in the army is twenty-five.
Thus he will not be free from more or
less active military service until he is
forty-siX, the military age being twenty
one.
The new cartridge recently tried at
Vincennes, France, has given surprising
results. The metal cartridge is dis
pensed with, and it can thus be adapted
instantly to all military rifles. II is also
smokeless, does not clog the barrel, and
will cost 20 per cent. less than the Ordi-
nary cartridge.
a new French invention, the thermo-
graphic press, is made for printing on
wood by means Of hot type AS neat an
impression Is claimed as is obtained in
photography, and by the use of q specially
prepared ink it is said that cold type
may be used with equally good effect.
It's speed is 400 impressions an hour on
fiat wood
Montgomery Sears, the Boston million
aire, intends to teach his city lesson.
He has sent bill to the city for 81 80
damages caused by the intrusion of
rocket stick into his Arlington street
house through the skylight. The rocket
was loaded with iron and went through
the house to the ground floor, and but for
the presence of Waterman might have
done more serious damage.
A windstorm in Evansville, Ind. blew
down electric light wires, and so charged
buildings and pools of water with cleo
tricity that men and horses coming into
contact with the current were seriously
injured. All the scientific testimony
which may be given as to the "Ohms''
or volts - of electricity necessary to kill
a human being is worth but little in face
of the practical illus trations of the
dangers from the subtle fluid with which
life is menaced in every city.
The state of Connecticut is trying to
reach for taxation some of the hidden
millions of mortgages, bonds and notes
not listed upon the tax duplicate.
Upon q rough estimate it is claimed
that there are $500 900 900 worth of
such securities in the state, while but
81 900 900 appear on the duplicate for
taxation. The state now proposes that
any person bringing note or bond to
the treasury and paying two mills per
year or more shall have it stamped free
from taxation for the time paid for.
France has not made that progress in
education which a republic ought to
make. The CONSUMPTION returns for 1885
now show that 10. 3 per cent. of the army
recruits could neither read nor write. In
the United States barely per cent. of
the native white population above the
age OF ten years is unable 10 write and
read. In 1888 the total appropriations
from the national, municipal and de-
partmental governments IN France,
answering to our Federal, state and city,
governments, amounted to but l4G 900, -
900 francs, or about twenty-nIne million I
two hundred thousand dollars, for -pur-
poses of primary education. In the Same
year the American expenditures ealpon
public schools amounted to SIl5, 1035S8G.
The daily average production Of oflss III
the Pennsylvania and New York fields
during the past twelve years has yarieeEsf
greatly, ranging from "a ,5O2 barrels i15
1876 to 81 1903 barrels in 1882. In 1853 I
the daily average yield was 46, 70S
1886 it reached 20, 729. If the ratio 81
production maintained thus far this year |
IS continued until January l., 1890, the |
average daily yield win border close on |
so 900 barrels, an increase of IA 900 /
barrels per day over the pre-
vious year. And it is noticeable |
in this connection that the number 1
of new oil wells completed duringSszse9
past four years has not been Messy so
large as during the years from 1877 tg
1882. There were 1915 new wells eSIax1
pleted during 1888, and 1914 in 1880 md
yet the oil production in these years was
$50 per cent. greater than in 1877, when
1899 new wells were completed. or in
1873, when 1864 new wells were fin
ished. Shipments of oil from the Penn
sylyanta field alone have ranged from
%, 657 ,599 barrels in 1884 to -27 900 600