Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-25
NEWS and NOTES.

An Indiana woman who has had no less
than five husbands is now looking around
for sixth. She was divorced from the
| last one.
The Jews free school at Spitalfelds,
England, is said to be the largest school
! in the world. 1t numbers $500 pupils
225O boys and 1850 girls.
A new dance called the ''chow-chow
has become very popular in the East. A
! portion of it consists of waltz in which
you can hug the four ladies in rotation.
| The Maltese cat in a Poughkeepsie
| N. Y, drug store, suddenly developed
al appetite for leeches, and while the
| druggist s back was turned ate thirty of
| them.
''Volks Kaffe Speisehallen,- GeselI-
| schaft' is the title of the new coffee
house company in Berlin. 1t is hailed
with much delight as marvellous insti-
| tuition.
A family of five in Dakota subsisted for
three weeks on five pounds of pork and a
| Eushel of carrots, and there is no use in
any young housekeeper trying to beat
that record.
As soon as an articles becomes un-
common, its value as work of art rises
to surprising degree. Buffalo robes,
which have become scarce, are now
fashionable floor rugs. Any one possess
ing buffalo robe should take it from his
sleigh and spread it among the rugs of
oriental manufacture.
The new American navy, when COM
pleted, viii consist of twenty-five vessels,
ranging from the armored cruiser Maine,
carrying 444 men, down to first-class
torpedo boat, carrying four officers and
eighteen men, There will be 57S6 men
on board the twenty-five vessels-500
officers and $3.50 sailors and marines.
The Masonic fraternity in New York
state numbers 20 900 men and has $50,
900 in cash, besides large pledges for the
construction of Masonic home. It has
been decided to locate the buildings at
Utica on account of the eity's central
position and railroad facilities. Probably
cottages will be erected, with one or two
larger buildings for general purposes.
Illinois census returns show that out
side of the cities the population is the
decreasing. The school census of 1888
shows that in July last there were in the
state S43 1916 males under twenty-One
years of age. In, 1880 there were 1884,
676. This is gain of 81 300, but the
gain in Cook county was SO ,217, so that
the loss i'll the rest of the state was 49,
9I7.
Says the New York Medical Journal:
In an experimental observation of thirty
eight boys of all classes of society and of
average health, who had been using to-
bacco for periods ranging from two
months to two years, twenty-seven
showed severe injury to the constitution
and insufficient growth: thirty-two
showed the existence of irregularity of
the heart g action, disordered stomachs,
coughs and craving for alcohol; thirteen
had intermittency of the pulse and one
had consumption. After they had aban-
doned the use of tobacco within six
months one-half were free from all their
former symptoms, and the remainder had
recovered by the end of the year.
The jewelers. Review, talking about
precious stones, says that during the last
decade new ones have come into favor,
some neglected ones have regained their
popularity, and still others, such as the
amethyst and cameo, have been thrown
out entirely. 'The latter, no matter
how finely cut, would not find purchasers
now at one-fifth of their former value.
Rubies were considered high ten years
ago, and further rise was not looked
for, but to-day they are still higher,
9 SIG karat stone having been quoted at
S33 600. There is no demand at present
for topaz, yet syndicate of French cap
italists has been organized to con-
troll the topaz mines of Spain, in
the expectation that after twenty
years of disfavor this gem will again be
popular. Coral has felt the change of
fashion for during the last three years
the imports have been less than $1,000 per
annum, and in the last ten years in all
S33, 1856, whereas in the ten years pre-
ceding 1888 ,577 worth were imported.
The popularity of amber, on the other
hand, is increasing. The imports of
amber beads for the ten years 1868 to
1878 amounted to less than $1,000 worth,
whereas during the last ten years S35,
S97 worth have been introduced. Amber
to only SAT 200 was imported
from 1868 to 1878, but over $3.50 200 |
worth from 1873 to 1888 -
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