Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
NEWS IND NOTES.


Paper tough as wood is said now to be
made by mixing chloride of zinc with the
pulp in the process of manufacture.
Turkish officer laments the spread of
Christianity amongst the women of STAN
boul, Fbecause, - he says, cit will at
once lead to great immodesty in dress.
A housekeeper gives the following rule
for keeping ice water. To keep ice water
in an ordinary pitcher fold several news
papers into a square which will set over
and entirely cover your pitcher. Line
with canton flannel, stitching all tightly
into place; cover with dark flannel
(green looks cool make handle across
the top to lift it by, and you find that
you have a small, convenient and effec-
tive cooler.
A ''postaI tube, - to connect Dover
with Calais, over the English channel, is
being discussed in England. The plan is
to suspend two tubes of about a yard
each IN diameter, by means of steel
cables, across the channel, forty yards
above the level of the sea. The steel
cables viii be fixed to pillars at distances
of about eight hundred yards, and in
each tube little railway viii run with
cars capable of carrying 400 pounds in
weight. No parcel of greater weight
than this will be taken. and the cost is
estimated at the modest figure of
So 900 900.
"Digging for worms in Gippsland,
in Australia, is not what it is in this
country. They have earth-worms there
six feet long. They live in burrows on
the sloping sides of creeks and are some
times turned out of the ground by the
plough. They have a curious smell, like
ere osOte, and fowls refuse to touch them;
but old natives of the district say that
oil made from them is good for rheuma-
tism. There are two other varieties of
enormous earthworms known, one in
habiting South Africa, and the other
Southern India and Ceylon, but the
Australian kind is the largest.
Queen Victoria recently decided to so
far relax the rule against permitting di-
vorced wives to be presented at court as
to admit those who had been plaintiffs in
the suits and had obtained DEGREES
against their husbands. This made such
a rush of applicants for presentation
that the palace would not have held
them. The queen was compelled to de-
eide that she would herself read all the
proceedings in the suits and the testi-
mony of witnesses in order to discover
whether there was any smirching of the
wife before an applicant could be re-
ceived under the new rule.
Those who have feared that the com
petition of wheat from India will pres
emily drive our American farmers out
of the European market may be in a
measure treasured by report just is
sued by the under secretary of state for
India. The methods of threshing in use
in that country are of a nature that
fba fv,fo
own in cleanliness and value. Cattle
are employed to tread out the grain, and
the consequence, of course, is that when
the wheat comes to be shipped If con-
tains an indefinite amount of filth which
detracts from its value at the shipping
point, and, remaining in the cargo dur
ing the voyage, saturates it with i'm
purities, so that the grain can never be
made pure and wholesome. Both the
government and the trade associations
have tried to remedy these matters, but
thus far with little success.
Professor F A. March says: OF late
years the English language alone has
been much spoken of as likely TO grow so
great Hardly any philosophic lin
gust attempts to forecast the future
without some discussion of the DESTINY of
English; and De CandolIe calculates that
within a hundred years English will be
spoken by $50 900 900 of men, German
by 1924 200 900 and French by 90 600 600.
At present the population either speaking
the English language or under the de-
of English-speaking peoples
number more than three hundred and
eighteen million, two hundred and
nety-eight thousand, or one-fourth
the population of the globe. The
Engiish-speakiug races occupy one
fourth of the dry land of the earth, and
own nearly two-thirds of ths tonnage
of ships. They live IN all regions; they
handle all articles of trade; they
preach to all nations; they ga
one-half of the world 5 gold SS5
and distribute more than ia spo 81
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of the letters mailed 9ds andE Z
by the postal service of the CamnhA
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