Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

Carriage horses, only fairly well
matched, in Buenos Ayres bring SoOOO
pair.
The constitutional convention OF North
Dakota will cost he new state $50 ,oOo, OF
$40, 900 in excess of the appropriation
The land of Central park, New York
which originally cost the city Sc 900 ,0OO,
is now valued at S1O0, 900 600. 1t costs
to keep it up $500 900 year
A projected canal across the upper part
of Italy, connecting from the Adriatio to
the Mediterranean would take six years
to build and cost S125, 900 600.
Since 1900 the population of Europe
has just doubled itself. Then the popu-
lation was l75 900 900; in 1880, PIG ,OOO,-
900; in 1860, 289 900, 900; in 1880, $751;
900 900; in 1888, $50 900 600.
Florida has SIP 200 900 invested in the
orange business, and the sales this year
were a fourth Of that big sum Ten
years ago the fruit was luxury. Now
everybody eats oranges, which are al
most as common as apples.
An Italian has discovered that the de-
cav incident to old age is caused by NIL
crobe which is inherited. He proposes
to find an antidote which will destroy
this microbe. Then woman OF seventy
will be a Hebe, and and old gentleman
of eighty Will have the charms OF an
Apollo.
Iron ore Is produced in twenty mine
counties of England and Wales, twelve
counties in Scotland, and in one of the
provinces of Ireland. The production
has fallen off seriously during recent
years, and some of the older centers OF
production are becoming extinct, II they
are not so already.
The objection against making lead
pencils out of paper instead of wood has
been overcome. One of the dlfhcultles
has been the toughness of the paper COW
! ering and its consequent resistance TO the
action of knife. By new process Inc
molecular cohesion of the paper is modi-
fed in such manner that it can be cut
as easily as cedar wood.
LIQUOR saloons do not have monopoly
! of sporting news in Brooklyn, and thus
! attract young men within their doors.
! The young men of Brooklyn III passing
! by the doors of the fine building OF the
| Young Men s Christian Association now
adays see displayed upon either side OF
the door pIacards with the words printed
upon them in large letters of Base ball
returns inside.
In the Revue d Hygiene Therapeutique
Blanche Howard, female doctor, gives
statistical proof that the mortality from
diphtheria is rapidly increasing. Twenty
wears ago in France this mortality was
between thirty-six and forty-five deaths
in every 100 900 inhabitants; now 1t
amounts to one hundred and ten to one
hundred and twenty-One in every lOO, =
600. In England the deaths il every
100 900 number twenty-five; in America
sixty to ninety; in Germany one hundred
and forty to one hundred and ffty-fve;
in Christianla $40.
There have been big gold nuggets found
in various countries, but the largest that
was ever discovered, the Silver Dollar
states. was found in New South Wales,
Australia. It was unearthed on May 10 {,
1872. It's weight was $40 pounds, height
four feet nine inches, width three feet
two inches, average thickness four
inches. and it was worth $l48 800. 1t
was found Embedded in q thick wall OF
blue slate at depth of 25O feet from the
surface. An interesting feature of its
history was that the owners of the mine
were living on charity when they found
it,
The Argentine Republic is evidently
destined to plav a brilliant part IN South
American prog1 ess. In the item of corn
alone, that country last year shipped
445 900 tons to Europe, and this year il
will send 2 800, 900 tons. Us healthful
climate and fertile soil have enabled it tc
attract Immigrants from Europe, and
the government mas sought to encourage
them by paying their passage from the
coast to their destination in the interior
At the present rate of increase the popu'
lation will in ten years amount to 8 600,
600. The new element is chiefly italian
and the future of Latin republic on the
Western Continent will be eagerly
watched by sociologists and students o.
of history.