Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

Il6E6 are iOtIf -iILiO cC"iSh
gogues in New York city.
Some Paris handkerchiefs are made in
the form of a leaf with stem.
A man ill Pasadena, Cal. has Matched
300 tarantulas in an incubator.
President Marvel is expected to reduce
the Atchison railroad IS expenses 81, 25O,-
600 year.
The coal fields of Hokkaido, in Japan,
are estimated By an Amer can engi-
neer to be worth 500 900, 600
The total wealth of this country is es-
timated at about sixty billion dollars,
aud vet there are those who feel poor.
The French government, when it takes
possession of the telephones in France,
proposes furnishing the service to the
public at cost.
The japanese government has coined
$50 600 200 worth of nickel &c pieces.
The people like them much, and the
coinage will be continued.
Taylor $ hustle mandatory at Bridge
port, Conn where 600 girls have been
employed, has shut down. The suspen-
sion is likely to be indefinite, from the
fact, it is said, that the hustle has gone
so largely out of fashion that compare
lively no demand for it remains.
The skin of whale is from tive inches
to two feet thick, that of large speci-
men weighing thirty tons. The rhinOc-
eros is the thickest skinned quadruped,
with a hide so tough as to resist the
claws of the lion or tiger, the sword, or
the balls Of the old-fashioned musket.
An English scientist has been making
.Ao,,,k
part which light plays in the develop
ment Of animal life. A dozen tadpoles
were confined in a box from which every
raw of light was excluded. The result
was that only two OF them developed into
frogs, and these were short lived. The
others increased considerably in size but
never left the tadpole form.
Every public school in Chicago has an
elegant American flag of the latest style,
with forty-tw stars in it, and the JAM
tor of each school building has orders to
hoist the colors, not only on every legal
holiday but also every Monday morning
throughout the school year. There is a
talk of a law requiring. the flag TO be
floated from every public school house in
Illinois.
The longest horse car line in the world
will connect Buenos Ayres with the out
living towns, and when completed will
extend over two hundred miles, The
rolling stock consists of five sleeping cars
eighteen feet long, each with six beds,
which In the day time are rolled back to
form seats; four Iwo-storied carriages,
twenty platform carriages, six ice wag-
ons, four cattle trucks and 200 goods
vans.
A man is liable to fine of S25 in Lon
don for sweeping or throwing any ref
use, dirt, ashes, decayed fruit upon the
foot or earriage-way paVements. In
Paris when a man throws a scrap of
paper into the street he is waited upon
by a polite officer, who requests HIM 10
nick It up. In American cities man
can throw anything smaller and less
| troublesome than dead horse into the
street.
The exercises on the clog College
grounds in Bucks county, Pa, were as
much commemorative of the founding of
| the PRESBYTERIAN church in the United
States as of the building of the first col
| Iege in I776. From it have come direct
Princeton college and Washington and
Jefferson university on the western slope
of the AIleghenies Since then the Pres
DVLeTlSd
the progress of thought, and to-day It is
in the front rank in support Of educa-
tIonaI institutions.
Since Foraker has been governor OF
| Ohio the salary of the office has been
doubled by increase from $1,000 10 $1,000,
| and the legislature has passed laws yir-
| tuaIly putting the government of the
| cities in his hands By appointment OF
| the most important offices. In addition
! he has served two full terms, and the
Democrats think it is time for him to
retire. They ere making vigorous can
vass and are hopeful, not only OF elect
| ing their candidate for governor, but
| of securing 4 majority in the legisla-
| ture and elerting a Democrat TO the
| United States senate as successor TO The
! present Democratic incumbent, Senator
| Payne.
There Is now one representative in the
| lower Bouse of congress TO every 15l .00(
| of population If the census of 1890
shows, as it probably viii, that the FFop-
| ulation of the United States is at least
IS 600 900, there should be 43n congress
| men. according to tie present rule o.