Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-18
NEWS and NOTES.


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OF the 200 900 population of Milwaukee
l60 1000 are foreigners.
Madrid theaters are allowed by law to
use only the electric light.
There are 1876 900 drink-sellers in
Belgium, or one for every ten families.
The cheapest Christmas present sold by
one jeweler in New York city cost s cents;
the most expensive cost $50 900.
A statistical genius has figured out that
this years. corn crop, 2 900 900 600 BUSH
els, will load q string Of wagons stretching
2S4 600 miles, or enough to make eleven
rows OF wagons loaded with corn clear
round the earth and have 5000 miles of
teams not in the line
Denver has invested 1855 900 in cable
system for rapid transit and has a road
six and three-tenth miles long over which
the fare is ) cents. The speed in the
residence sections is limited to twelve
miles an hour and in the business por-
tons eight and half miles an hour.
1t may be stated as d proposition, says
the Meridian miss } News, ''that the
most peaceable and most tractable of the
negro race are the full-blooded negroes,
whether they are educated or not. The
negro is seldom found in the lead where
there is anything approaching con-
splracy or an emeute.
The White Caps have appeared in Della
ware and have started in by ordering Idle
young men in Newcastle to go to work.
On Long Island, New York, they are try
ing to regulate cOnvivial clubs. In
Monticello, III +, last week they threat
ened violence to the mayor, the Method
ist minister and other well known citi-
zens. Gov. Foraker ought to send his
method of humiliation to the governors
of those states.
Maine has great many thrifty citi-
zen. Governor Burleigh, in his annual
message, states that in the savings banks
of that state there are deposits aggregat-
ing about S41 900 600, and of this large
sum over 100 900 depositors have less
than $500 each. The entire vote at the
state election was IA ,567, and it will
thus be seen that number not far from
the voting population of the entire state
have deposits in the savings banks.
Some men are born rich, while others
are born lucky. An old Georgia farmer
named Dickey, who has for years barely
subsisted on the meagre crops he has been
able to wiring from the wretched soil of
his farm, has just leased his land to d
syndicate for 100 years at Sl2 900 year,
and more if the hopes of the spectators
are realized. The cause of this good
fortune was the discovery of bed of the
best marble in America on his premises.
The entire aspect of nature along the
Hudson just now is far more like spring
than winter, and the ice-gatherers are i'll
utter despair. a farmer near Kingston
has just been sowing eight bushels of rye.
Others are plowmg for other crops. The
steam passenger yachts have been
dropped into the water from the dry
docks, and are making regular trips
along the river. Tows are being made
up for various points North and South.
Continuance of such mild, moist weather
is contemplated with alarm by the fruit
growers.
Contractors have agreed and given sat
fsfactory bonds to clean the 500 miles of
streets of Philadelphia for the next
twelve months and to take up and carry
away all the ashes and garbage supplied
by the 16O 900 dwellings in the city for
the same time for the sum of 1926 ,942.
For similar work the city of Boston ex-
ponds annually about $3.50 900 on less
than half that number of miles Of streets
and a far smaller list OF dwellings. For
similar service New York city appropri-
ated 81 ,272 200 for single year with a
less number of streets to clean and
smaller number of houses to care for.
The smuggling of Chinese men and
women from British America into United
States territory is very lucrative bust
ness ut various points along the border
from Vancouver 10 Winnipeg. If the
venture fails at one place it is renewed at |
another, and sooner or later the pilgrims |
get in A new trick just discovered at |
Whatcom, W T., has almost taken away |
the breath OF the FEDERAL officials, for |
they know that it must have been very |
successful for a time. The large number |
of squaws coming into the country from |
British Columbia finally attracted the at |
tention of an official, and he took party |
of them to jail. On close inspection it |
was found that the creatures were not |
squaws ct all, but able-bodied Cinnamon |
who had painted and otherwise disguised |
themselves so as to resemble the typical /
Indian sQuaw of the frontier. IN one in
stance two young and rather comely Chi |
nese women came across in the garb of /
American women, but closely yelled. An |
ungallant official lifted their wells and /
found them out. These girls were billed |
through to San Francisco, and were |
worth to their owner about $1,000 apiece.