Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-23

ural Ball to Inaugural Reception. .
A bali by any other name would be as
wicked.
New York is a big place. Over 80 per
cent of the passenger trafic over all the
railroads in the United States last year
was carried over the th1rty-two miles OF
the elevated railroads in New York city !.
Senator Hoar's assertion in the senate
that the existence of mortgages on farms
is ga sign of life and health'' has made
some talk. 1t is certain that the farmers
have to be pretty lively IN order to pay
them.
Psychologists tell us that our bodies
change once in seven years. More or
less. says the New Haven Conn } News,
time-and politics changes minds In
1870 Messrs Allison, CulIom, Dawes,
house, voted TO abolish the duty on coal i.
Last Wednesday the same men, now
senator's, voted against placing bitumi-
nous coal on the free list. Free coal
would mean much to New England.
The old Egyptians were better builders
than those of the present day. There are
blocks of stone in the pyramids which
weigh three or four times as much as the
There is one stone the weight of which is
estimated at $50 tons. There are stones
thirty feet in length which fit so
closely together that q pen-knife
may be run over the surface
without discovering the break
between them. They are not laid with
mortar, either. We have no machinery
so perfect that It viii make two surfaces
thirty feet in length which win meet to-
gether as these stones in the pyramids
meet. 1t is supposed that they were
rubbed backward and forward. upon each
other until the surfaces assimilated max
ing them the world s wonders in mechan-
zeal skill.
Professor Kirchoff of Halle estimates
that the language most spoken on the
globe for the last thousand years at least
is Chinese, for it is without doubt the
only one which is talked by over 400 ,0G0,-
600 of the human race, the next Ian
guge most in use, but at very great
distance behind the Chinese, being
Hindustani, spoken by over 100, 900 900.
Then follows English, spoken by about
100 900 900; Russian, over 70, 900, 900:
German, over, 81 200, 200, and Spanish,
over Al 900 GOO.
rheumatism and other aches and pains,
says the London Herald, sis a piece of
new flannel applied to the part affected
If one inquiries why new flannel is Sc
leeted, the explanation given will prob
ably be that there is a mysterious oil in
new flannel which is good for the pain;
but, as a matter of fact, the merit seems
to consist in the power of irritating the
skin, which new flannel possesses in a
greater degree than old. 1t is in such
cases mild counter-irritant -
The plant from which the Chinese and
Japanese obtain the tea is called by bot
anists Thea bohea. 1t is small ever
green tree or shrub, closely allied to the
camelia-indeed, one of the latter, called
warratah. is also said to furnish certain
class of tea. The bush of the genuine
tea plant grows from three to six feet
high, bushy, branches numerous, leafy,
The young shoots, finely silky,
are evergreen. The flowers are
white and not unlike the myrtle, but
longer and usually two together; the an
theirs and stigma are yellow; in flower in
August and September in its native coun-
try 1t was first introduced into British
gardens in l768. The black and green
teas, as we obtain them, depend for their
color upon the. process of drying. Very
young leaves and shoots give the finest
tea.
More than $50 languages and dialects
are current in India and British Burmah,
with their 256, 900 900 of people, and the
distinct alphabets of these countries,
many of which are very elaborate, out
number all others in the world. Some
forty different alphabets or syllable sys-
tens, each having from 250 to 500 COM
are used to represent the sounds
of the $50 languages, and more than 10,-
900 different signs and types have been
from the original alphabet
to represent the fifty different sounds
all that the combined Indian vernaculars
contain. All these simple sounds cannot !
all be represented by the twenty-six let
ters of the English alphabet, twenty |
four letters of the English phonetic al I
phabet are captured and made to do SER
vice in this new English phonetic alpha |
bet; and we then have one simple alpha |
bet taking the places of forty or
more and becoming available as the writ |
ten language of 200 1000 900 of people
who have no written alphabet, because
they don It know just how to use one.