Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-10
NEWS AND VOTES.

Washington state, it appears, not only
wants woman suffrage, it wants women
themselves Perhaps after it is supplied
it will change its views on suffrage.
In Europe they are talking about the
immense war preparations of Turkey.
The poorer Turkey gets the richer she IS
for warlike purposes, paradoxical as 1t
may seem.
The judge and chief of the Puyallup
Indians is dead. He was known as
Tommy Thompson, was forty-four years
old, very intelligent and respected by all
the Indians He died at the reservation,
near Tacoma, W. T.
A large darning needle was found in
the liver of a deer recently killed in the
presence of a nobleman near Vienna.
Viennese microscopic, who examined the
liver, found it to be sound save in the
immediate proximity of the needle.
Among the most cherished of Mrs. Ole
Bull IS possessions is u Casper di Salo
violin with a decorated scroll, whose
graceful curve ends in a head half
cherub. half human. This was carved
in the Sixteenth century by that strange,
wild genius, Benvenuto Celini, and cost
Ole Bull nearly S2500.
that if the Atlantic ocean were to dry up
the "'Ianes'' so-calIed of steam passen-
ger traffic would be clearly defined along
the ocean bed by broad roadways liter
ally paved with champagne and beer
BOTTLES thrown overheard by stewards Of
steamers since the days of the first steam
packet-ship.
An artesian well in North City, sab
Of
have the largest flow of any artesian
well in the world. 1t is an eight-inch
well, and the flow exceeds the highest
expectation. The flow exceeds eight
thousand gallons per minute, or over
eleven million five hundred thousand
gallons every twenty-four hours.
If any person has been frightened by
recent rumors of a coming deficiency in
the beef supply of the country they can
find reinsurance in this years report of
| the agricultural department on farm
| animals. TO put the statement in round
| numbers there were % 900, 600 in the
United States in 1860, SO 900 900 in 1880
and so ,00O, 900 in 1888, the year covered
by the last report.
AJapanese draft was received by one
! of the Rochester banks on Saturday for
| collection. 1t was for S295, and was
| drawn on Lee Yune, dealer in japanese
! goods, by his correspondent in Japan.
! The draft was written in Japanese char
| acters on rice paper about four by eight
| inches, and contained the usual data. It
was accompanied by bill of goods made
| out in the same way, and was honored
by Lee Yune when presented.
One of the easiest ways to reduce
weight is to wear short flannel sweater
! and ride on q brisk trot. If the horse
trots roughly, and the rider bounces up
and down in the saddle, so much the
better. Ten pounds d week can be lost
by this process. The best kind of
sweater is made by taking four, SIX or
! eight th1cknesses of flannel and wrapping
them around the loins and lower part Of
the chest. The upper chest should be
left free.
The giant tower at Hell gate, in New
| York harbor, is now no more. All that
remained Of it was pulled down recently
and sold at auction for old iron. The
| total height of the tower was 250 feet 6
inches, the base being 100 feet high.
| The upper part was removed in sections
! The tower was built by the government
in 1884 1t was pulled down because the
pilot commissioners condemned the cleo
trio light as an obstruction to navigation
A German peasant, who arrived at Cas-
| tie garden last week with only francs in
his pocket, had been told by an emigrant
agent that gold was so plentihflaR this
country that people gave golden trinKefs
to their children to play with, and
trimmed the carriages, buildings and
streets with the precious metal. He
therefore sold his little place, bought g
ticket to New York, and gave farewell
feast to his neighbors. He will be sent
| back.