Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
NEWS AND VOTES.

At New York wedding the other day
the bride received 81 900 900 worth of
presents.
It is said that within the past year
$500, 00o, 900 of English capital has been
invested in this country.
Eighteen grocers in Cincinnati offer
their customers per cent. discount IL
they VIII carry home their purchases.
The revised 42-star flag is beginning to
has been a general discarding OF the old
standards.
Boston is to have a twelve-story build
| ing at Washington and Court streets. f.
| l.. Amer is the owner, and the structure
| will cost him SG25 600 1t viii be the
| Hottest building in the Hub.
The huge cantllever bridge over the
Firth of Forth has been completed all but
the bridging of the 350-foot gap between
| the sections. The connecting girder will
be fifty feet in depth and will weigh 500
| tons.
London justice has been figuring and
finds that all the people now living in the
world, or about one billion, four hum
dred million, could find standing room
square, and, by aid of a telephone,
could be addressed by single speaker.
The United States interest bearing
debt is only 1894, All SOP. less than that
of either France, Great Britain, Rus
STA, Italy, Spain or Austria, while our
national wealth exceeds that of any
nation on the globe. 1t is not the
national, but state, county, town and
municipal debts with which many peo-
pie are afflicted.
one of the questions that congress will
be required to deal with before long will
doubtless be law for the perpetuation
of the national banks of the country
The annual statement recently issued
from the treasury shows that the redue-
ton of the public debt for the fiscal year
has been S81 900 900. At this rate the
interest bearing debt will soon be paid,
and the redemption of bonds will OF
course prevent national banks from de-
posting them for security as now specl-
fed by law.
Col. George E. Waring, Jr, of New
port, widely known sanitary engineer,
told the American medical association in
paper which he had read before them
the other day, that proper attention to
sanitary conditions would reduce the
death rate in this country from eighteen
per thousand, which is the figure at
present, to twelve per thousand. This
would mean, as lie went on to show, the
saving every year, on the basis of the
present population, no fewer than
365 900 lives. Many of these lives would
be worth saving.
An English syndicate is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of the dry
goods interests in the principal cities of
the United States. There must be a
great deal of idle money lying about in
the British dominlons, with a strong
purpose to move westward whence the
star of empire takes its way This ten
dency of foreign capital in this direction
is the strongest evidence of lasting
peace with European powers that we
can have. There is nothing so likely to
affect the balance of power and keep
nations at peace as large financial in
Jerests.
The British have taken great interest
and pride in promoting the cultivation of
tea il India, which has increased to such
an extent that most of the tea for the
English market is raised in India. 1t ap-
pears, however, that the Indian tea is
much less wholesome than the Chinese
dEtICIe. Lie DTlIlSl CONSUL at huukON
reports the results of analysis made by
Professor Dittmar, F. R. s., from which
it appears that the quantity of tannin in
Indian tea is 8. 6S per cent. and in Chinese
COL. The samples taken were high-class
teas. The excess of tannin, with its
astringent and deleterious qualities, is
quite marked in the Indian production.
A canal which will be of great service
to Southern Europe is that which, as
proposed is to commence upon the north
western shore of Italy, just above Civita
Vecchia, at Castro, and cutting through |
to Fano on the eastern or Adriatic shore. |
In this line two lakes are met, those of |
Bolsena and Trasimeno, both of which |
are to be drained, thus securing the area |
for cultivation. The estimated length of |
the canal IS about one hundred and sixty |
nine miles, the width of it one hundred |
and ten yards, and its depth some thirty |
nine feet, so that ships of any tonnage, |
and even men of war will be able to pass
through it. The cost of this vast work i
is calculated to reach as high as $780, |
900 900, and it Is expected that in five
years the undertaking would be an ac-
fact The Importance of the
project admits, of course, of no ques-
ton, when the fact of the long sea pas
sage around the southern coast of Italy
and up the stormy Adraitic to Trieste
and Venice is considered.