Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

A Maine man has raised a blue pig ,
which he will exhibit at the state fair.
An egg shaped like horn is curiosity
now attracting attention at CarterYille,
! Ca.
! Some two or three weeks ago a woman
/ IN Baker county, Florida, gave birth TO
child, and twenty-six hours later to
another.
The demand for consumption in New
York City alone, at this season, is esti-
mated at about eight hundred and fifty
thousand oysters day.
Johns Hopkins hospital, in Baltimore,
is the only free hospital in the United
States which pays its physicians. Dr..
| William Osler, VINO is styled professor of
medicine, receives an annual salary Of
$4,000
Farms may be had cheap in Hungary.
If the owners cannot pay the taxes they
are forthwith sold up by the state, and
recently a farm assessed at EGO annually
was brought to the hammer and pur-
chased at 2 kreuZers-nOt quite one-half
penny.
An enterprising firm has offered the
British government $I25 600 q year for
the privilege Of placing soap and pill
advertisement on the postage stamps,
the advertisement to be put on at the
time the canceling is done and by the
same machine.
A large and very important discovery
of uranium is reported in Cornwall. 1t
is true assure Vein, the ore containing
an average Of l per cent. of the pure
metal, going up as high IN many places
as 30 per cent. The market price OF
uranium is Sl2, 900 a ton.
The Chicago Herald, in view of the
fact that the smoke nuisance in that city
is daily becoming more and more unen-
durable, urges the city council to pro-
coed with drastic measures to suppress It.
The Herald would forbid the use of btu
menous coal within certain limits.
The beauty of our new cruiser Balti-
more, which is as speedy as the focean
greyhounds themselves, is that no or
binary merchant vessel of an enemy once
sighted at sea could hope to escape her,
while there is no fighting ship of a class
too strong for her from which she could
not easily run away upon occasion.
The total cost of supplying the British
man of war Hero with ammunition for
commission is estimated by a correspond
ent of the London Daily News at be-
thousand ana two hundred thousand dol
lars. 1t costs about fOrty-one dollars to
fire a single shot from one of her twelve
inch guns.
The Buffalo Express, Republican, in
sists that Assistant Secretary Bussey of
the interior department should walk The
plank along with Tanner Bussey's law
is as dangerous as was Tanner S lawless-
ness. The decision that q Gishonorable
discharge from the military service does
not operate as a bar against a claim for
pension suits neither the soldiers nor the
tax payers. Pensions the soldiers under
stand to be in requital OF honorable SER
vice; and the tax payers take the same
view of the matter. Bnssey stands by
himself with no backing except that of
the scamps who would profit by his rul-
ing.
According to computation just issued
by an eminent statistician, the cost in
human life of the wars Of the last thirty
four years has been ,254 900 souls. The
Crimean war cost 750 geo men; the Ital-
ian war (lS59) 45, coo: the Danish war
(1S64) 5000; the American civil war-the
Northern states $50 .000; the Southern
states $40 600; the Austro- Prussian war
45 900; the Franco German variance
l55 600; Germany 60 600; the Turko-
Russian war 250 600; the South African
wars 80 ,000; the Afghan war 25 600; the
Mexican and Cochin Chinese expeditions
G5 900; and the Bulgaria Servian insur-
rection % 600. This list does not in
clude mortality from sickness