Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
NEWS IND NOTES.

An Ohio girl claims to have invented a
process by which barrel of oil can be
converted into 10 900 200 cubic feet Of
gas.
1t is getting to be the fashion in New
| York to salt tenement houses with free
tenants for the purpose of selling them.
The sale beng effected, the tenants move
out.
The Woman s Christian Temperance
Union of Alabama has decided that wo-
man suffrage would only add to the evils
OF politics, and has formally declined to
support any movement looking to that
result
a saddle colored negro claiming to be
lawyer from New York, Arrived at Pow
der Springs, Ga. few days ago and on
the strength of Harrison S election, told
the negroes that he was sent out to buy
all the lands he could and sell them to
negroes on twenty years time at per
cent. His charge for inspecting farm
was from $40 to Sl2, which every one
that wanted to buy had to pay in advance
and he was to meet them in Marietta and
make them deeds to the farms. He
picked up few hundred dollars and left
Another cast steel gun of six inches
napolis This gun is open-hearth steel
The gun which recently burst at the prov
ing ground was of Bessemer steel. Both
of these guns were cast solid and bored
out DR.. Calling Of Calling gun fame
insists that the guns should be cast with
a core and that cooling should begin on
the inside. It is probable that this method
will be tried before the cast steel gun is
abandoned. Cast steel guns have been
made in Switzerland and found to be SER
viceable.
A very interesting election case will
come before the Federal grand jury at
Indianapolis from Randolph county. 1t
seems wife was suing for divorce, and
when the husband took the stand as de-
PENDANT he testified that he had given the
plaintiff q pair of shoes and dress and
cloak, and he added: 81 sold my vote
for 81 and gave her that The court
declined to permit the witness to be
further questioned, but the Federal ,au-
thorlties have been notified and several
prominent Republicans have been sub
pRnaed to tell what they know about the
case.
The people of Great Britain are grow
ING more temperate In the last ten
years the annual revenue from the con-
sumption OF spirits has declined from
E2I ,0l2 ,6I1 to. less than Els 900 900.
The consumption of tea. on the other
hand, grows steadily. In this latter ar
tiele the imports from India and Ceylop
are increasing, while the trade with
China is falling off. From the last
named country the receipts last year
were III 900, 600 against 145 900 600 in
the previous year, and from India 81 =
strength of the Indian teas accounting for
their popularity. The consumption of
coffee is decreasing.
A Georgia newspaper wants the Smith
sonian Institution to send a man down
there to examine a petrified vertebra re-
Gently found in Dou@herty county by
negro school teacher while digging
well. The bone is described as six and
one-half inches in diameter and nine
inches long, and the excited editor thinks
it must have belonged TO an animal as
large as a meeting house. If its posses
sOr was sea monster the editor declares
that its body would heve damned up
Flint river and caused it to overflow its
banks on either side. To be still more
definite he afirTns that this one segment
of the backbone OF one animal would fer
tilize several hills of Watermelons.
Says an intelligent government official
of Japan: ''Our country is in deplor-
able state as far as religion is concerned
The people of the better classes are large |
" agnostics They believe in no religion,
and though the bulk of them are nomin-
ally Buddhists, they are really infdels.
1 believe that any religion is better than
no religion and there is at present room
in Japan for all the work that both Budd-
hists and Christians can do. When the |
two religions have conquered the empire,
and the sects come together. there may
be trouble, but not before We have
now our preachers and the Christians
have their missionaries. There is a vast
field before us, and there is room for
both to do good -