Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

An Indiana man has been convicted of
stealing $40 plows, all of which he had
stored away in barn.
1t is said that Charleston has improved
80 per cent. in general appearance
since the earthquake obliged SO much re-
building.
There are 70l Chinese 1aundries in New
York, 24S in Brooklyn and fifty in Jersey
City. These give employment to nearly
10 900 Cinnamon.
Mrs. J A. Adams, an Illinois temper
ance lecturer, says that Michigan is the
rum center of the middle states and
should be avoided by ali respectable emf
grants -
There is dog employed in the postal
service in the Office at Allentown. The
mail bags are laid on the pavement and
the dog sits on them till the proper per-
son takes them away. No one else dares
to touch the bags while in the dog s Gus
tody
S. d. Thompson Of Vienna, Ca, has a
curiosity in the shape of puppy with i've
feet. Just below the ankle on the right
leg the foot is divided into two distinct
feet, lacking only a toe TO each OF being
perfect. The puppy is month old and
uses his foot as if it were perfectly ma
tural.
Woman cannot have all the rights she
wants in Belgium. The Belgian courts
have decided against the request of Mile.
Popelin to be admitted to practice at bar.
They take the ground that women have
other social duties to perform, and that
the laws and customs OF the country do
not permit her to enjoy the privileges of
a barrister.
The Washington monument is a great
temptation to that variety of fool whose
folly is betrayed by his inscribing his
name in lofty places, The judge before
whom an offender Of this class was re-
Gently arraigned declared that he would
do all in his power, even to imposing the
extreme penalty of 500 fine, to stop this
defaeing of the monument.
Arbor Day, which originated in Ne
braska, has been the means OF causing
the planting of nearly 900 900 acres of
forest land in that state alone. The i'm
Portance of forest culture is illustrated by
the fact that the value Of the annual for
est product of the United States is $780,
600 900, or nearly double that of our
wheat crop, and ten times more than the
yield of our gold and silver mines.
a German paper reports that a novel
use of electricity had been made in India
for the prevention of the intrusion of
snakes into dwellings. Before all the
doors and around the house two wires are
laid, which are isolated from each other
and connected with an induction appara-
tus. Should a snake attempt to crawl
over the wires he receives a shock OF cleo
tricity which either kills or frightens him
into hasty retreat.
MoFmonlsm is getting too prominent in
Idaho, and the legislature proposes to put
it down. The Mormons evaded the law
requiring them before voting to take oath
that they we're :9ct members % the Mor-
mon church by getting themselves eXcom-
municated and then received again into
the church after election. A law will
now be passed requiring an oath that the
voter has not been member Of the Nor
mon church for two years.
The latest in trusts is the raw silk. It
is said to be composed of English, French,
Italian and few American bankers, and
to include all the largest houses of Lon
don and Manchester. 1t is even reported
that the Italian government is interested
in the scheme. The attempt to form
syndicate to control the price of raw silk !
a few years ago failed, but from the fact
that there has been a sharp advance in |
price in the past few weeks, it looks as
though the present scheme was more sue
cessful.
About ten years ago an old gentleman
of Gainesville, Ca, bought a postof1ce |
money order to make payment due in |
another state. Thinking it was merely |
the receipt for the. money and that Post
master Wilkie would send on the funds, |
he put the paper away and considered |
the matter settled. Recently the parties !
began to dun him for the amount, when |
he hunted up the money order and took it
to the office, when Henry Miller explained |
the matter to him, and the order, given
in 1873, was duly forwarded.