Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-10

quota of lawyers is in the midst of them,
and as busy as usual.
1t is a curious fact that Darwin A.
Henry, the expert electrician who was
killed in New York by falling upon
live wires while at work upon an electric
switchboard, had recently invented a
patent safety switchboard upon which
any one can work with safety.
4 European savant says that life may
be indefinitely prolonged by regularly
drinking the juice of the lemon. And
another European savant who knows
just as much-or as little-says that the
surest way to shorten life is to drink
lemon juice. Pay your money and take
your choice.
There is q good deal of truth and phil
osophy in the remark made by wit when
he heard of the divorce of q couple
recently married: 81 am glad they mar
ried each other, for if they had each
married somebody else there would have
been two unfortunate couples instead of
one. -
Natural gas as a fuel has been in use
about fifteen years. There are now en-
ploved in its transmission for fuel pur-
poses 81, $50 miles of pipe mains. In
Pittsburg alone there are 500 miles, and
the consumption of gas there represents
an annual consumption of 900, 900 tons
of coal.
Last month % ,461 steerage passengers
and 10 ,293 cabin passengers landed at
New York. In August last year 20, 1916
steerage passengers and Il ,058 cabin
passengers came. The total immigration
up to and including August 81 amounted
to 220 $50; last year it was 293, 991, de-
crease of 73 ,041, or % per cent.
A telegraph money order service has
been established in Great Britain between
eighteen of the principal cities as part
OF the postal service. Payment
of money is made at the postOffice on
identification Of the recipient, who gives
the name of the remitter, as required IN
the transmission of money orders by
mail.
1t is generally expected at the navy
department that Gen. Tracy will recon-
mend in his annual report to congress an
appropriation of about five hundred
thousand dollars for putting shipbuilding
plants into the navy yards. About one
hundred thousand dollars had already
been spent at each of the yards at New
York and Norfolk and q smaller sum at
Mare Island, Cal. =, so that large share
of the amount will go to Boston and
Portsmouth. About one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars is the estimate for
an effective plant, and probably this sum
will be spent at each of the New En-
gland yards if congress approves the
Recommendation of the secretary OF the
navy.
Charles Barrett, travelling agent of
the Missouri Pacific railroad, states
in ont no
Kansas have been obliged to rent the
public roads in order to get room enough
to stack .he wheat crop. In the NeshO,
Fall river and Arkansas bottoms the corn
is as high as a house. They use step
ladders to gather roasting ears. Chill
dren climb up into the cOrnstalkS to
hunt for eagles nests, and sometimes
fall and Kill themselves. Fourteen flu
neraIs took place in one county last week
from this cause ! attended all Of them.
That s why l am so sad. And, mind
you, the corn is not more than half
grown. -
Germany's great experiment IN social
ism will make more disturbance than
even the adoption Of free text books in
New Haven will. 1t will be very inter
ing TO watch it's working. Under the act
of 1889 every Saturday night every de-
pendent workman above the age of six
teen, whether male or female, will be
called upon to pay a fixed proportion of
his or her wages into COM
mon fund of national insur-
ance. Every employer of labor
is bound to contribute sum equivalent
to the total amount contributed by his
workmen, and the state supplements
these sums by grant of fifty marks
| (S2 5O) TO each pension. The working
men are divided into four classes, ac-
cording to wages, and the assessments
are p 2, 2}5 and pence per week, and
for the purpose of insurance the year is
| divided into forty seven week Cards
are issued to each workman with forty
seven spaces, and as the employer de-
| ducts the weekly amount a stamp is af-
! fixed in the space. When the card is
| completed it represents the owner s
| claim for the year, and is deposited in
| the official pigeon hole. 1t is calucu-
| lated that in 1891, when the act will
| be brought into full working order, it
will affect y, 600 900 workmen.