Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-20
NEWS IND NOTES.

Harvest hands in Oregon demand So q
day and board.
London had at the date of last census
G8SD 3 1872 AL inhabitants.
The Biographies which were made be-
fore this year say that three-fourths Of
the earth s surface is covered with water.
If the present state of things continues
this statement will have to be revised.
A process has been invented by means
of which photographs can DE printed al
most as fast as newspaper, and without
dependence on sun or light. They are
said to be of the first quality. That Of
course would make photographs much
cheaper.
According to q French psychologist,
the wing Of an ordinary house fly makes
$50 strokes in one second; the wing Of
the humble bee, 240; the wing of the
honey bee, 100; the wing of the wasp,
ITO; the wing Of the dragon fly, IS; the
wing of the sparrow, -; the wing OF the
wild duck, 8; the wing of the house
pigeon, s; the wing of the osprey, 6.
Patriotic Germans are hard at work
wedding out words of French extraction
from their vocabulary. Among them is
q tobacconlst Of Dusseldorf, who, wish
ing to Danish the word cigars from the
German dictionary, offered prizes for
substitutes that should be thoroughly
Teutonic Two Of the words offered are
SAID to have been glimstengel burning
stalk and giftnudeln (poison tubes).
Tests made in London have shown that
the value of coal wasted in smoke from
the domestic fire-places in that city
amounts to ST. ,2S2 800 annually, while
the aggregate waste of uncOnsumed car
bon is SI3 900 900 year, and the dam
age to property caused by the smoky at
mOsphere it put down ut $40, 900 900.
The effect upon human life and health of
an enormous volume of hydro carbon
and carbonic-oX oxide gases pouring into the
atmosphere daily is fearful to contem-
plate, and science could do nothing more
practical than TO bend its energies to the
solution of such a great economic prob
lem.
The japanese are actively discussing
the effect which the constitution and the
revised treaties viii have on their in
ternal affairs The revenue is expected
to increase this year over 81 900, 900, rs
compared with last year from increased
foreign trade and a change in the none
tarv customs. The Chova Shimbun says
that the revision Of the treaties will bring
u change.in the tariff. Duties viii be
calculated upon the ruling market price
at the port of landing instead of the price
at the point of shipment, ana this, by
avoiding undervaIUations, which it ap-
pears are practiced on the japanese as
well as on lis Americans, VIII increase
the customs revenue to treble the present
amount.
Uncle Sam is rapidly becoming the big
gest express company in the country,
and the United States now carries almost
every article which does not exceed four
pounds in weight, and which does not,
contain liquids, live animals or anything
infiamable, or is not in the nature of OBJ
scene literature. About everything one
can imagine, from old towels and dam
aged oyershoes TO gold watches and dia-
monds, is sent through the mails. Pack
ages can be sent to foreign countries or
received from them, but the articles
which are prohibited in the United States
mails cannot be- sent by parcels post.
Neither can gold, silver or precious
stones. At least, so the law says, but
they are sent just the same.
The United States treasury holds no
less than SIG, COO, 900 of unclaimed in
terest on bonds Issued by the govern
ment, and it has apparently been the
chief aim of the accounting officers to
hold on to this money and avoid the pay
ment Of claims. Second Comptroller
Gnkin3on proposes to institute reform