Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-24
NEWS AND NOTES.

In one year Russia exported to England
the large number of LOSS, 900 900 eggs,
which sold for 20 ,265, 900 rOubles.
In Niagara county, N. Y, farms sold
at 500 per acre fifteen years ago. They
can now be bought at from $40 to $50,
and almost every one in the county Is for
sale.
A very old pear tree is now standing
on the grounds of W. II. Smith in Rich
mond, Ne. It's exact age is not known,
but its identity can be traced back for
80 years. It still produces fruit.
The constitutional convention of Idaho
has adopted a provision making the YER
diet OF three-fourths of jury sufficient
in all civil cases. California and LouisI-
ana have similar provisions, and they
work well.
Sleeping cars have been OF slow intro
duction in Europe. 1t is now announced
that a train Of these cars run between
Paris and Rome. Each car is divided
into seven compartments, two having
four berths each and five ten beTths
each.
Boston IS international maritime exhi-
bltion will open November I, 1889, and
close January 4, 1890. 1t will admit eX-
hiblts of everything connected with ships,
shipping and marine interests, and will
be the first exhibition Of the kind ever
held.
Ouinine, which before the repeal Of the
tariff on it cost So. so an ounce, can now
be bought for less than 40 cents. Then
there was one mandatory in ghis coun-
try, now there are six. Protection fos-
tered the monopoly, and free trade Quilt
up the competition. Mr.. Mckenzie OF
Kentucky gave the prOtectionists the
heaviest blow when he got Quinine on the
free list.
Woman has some rights in this coun-
try. New York man has just been ar
rested for debt incurred by his wife be-
fore she married him, and the complaint
alleges that, to avoid paying said bill, he
has transferred his property to his wife &.
1t is also stated that the offense is not
q baflabIe oue,'7 and that he is in jail
awaiting trial. He was walking with his
wife when arrested. She was not
touched.
In Boston a magistrate has fined six
Jewish workmen SO apiece for ''per-
forming secular labor on the Lord S
day - and thereby violating the law of
Massachusetts as laid down in chapter 50
case if the mems statements are truth
full. They told the officers who arrested
them that they had no choice in the
matter; they were poor men dependent
on their labor for their bread, and re-
fusal to work on Sunday would mean the
immediate loss of their places.
Consul-GeneraI Way of st. Petersburg
gives some interesting information con-
! md 10 fs
growers are treated. The great grain
producing plains of the empire are nat
uralIy Invisible into two belts stretching
across the country from Poland far into
| Siberia-the black lands of 100 200
| square miles, as fertile as any to be found
IN the world, devoid of stone, needing no
| tertilizing and producing huge crops year
| after wear: and the arabic steppes OF
| 26Q 900 square miles, without forests
which can be fortified to advantage, and
| which are said TO resemble our Western
praiTies. But little of this land
! is utilized The peasants are crushed
| beneath the burdens imposed by the
! government. They must buy their lands
! from the government on system of an
! nual payments, and care seems to be
! taken that they shall never quite pay for
! them They lack transportation facili-
! ties, for railroads there have been built
for military purposes and not for grain
carriage Then, By requiring the peas
ant to obtain permits TO send wheat over
the state roads, such delays are brought
! about as shall lead to the gluttering OF
! local stations, and SO to vex the peasant
into selling his grain to agents OF the
! government at sweeping reductions OF
! price The government exports this and
| converts it INTO gold at q huge profit in
! the markets of Western Europe.