Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-25
sETs And NOTES.


Damascus has $50 900 inhabitants and
is soon to have gas and street ears.
The novel enterprise of raising frogs for
the Boston market is about to be started
at Manchester, n. n.
AT least 20, 900 pieces of property were
advertised for sale in a recent number of
the Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald for nom
payment of taxes.
A New York street car conductor COM
plains that ladies take especial pains 70
pay their fares in coppers, and that If he
gives them change in the same coin he is
greeted by an angry glare that makes
him feel like q culprit.
The police board of Boston has adopted
the new scale of liquor licenses, which in
creases the hotel licenses from $1,000 TO
$500, seeold-elass hotel licenses from
$500 to $1,000, and common Yictualers
licenses from $500 to $1,000. Licenses of
other classes are raised in proportion.
The women of Denmark, to the num-
Der of 20 900, have petitioned for the
right of suffrage. A 90 social and politi-
CALI school for women has recently been
opened at Copenhagen, where modern
history, constitutional and moral law,
and psychology are taught.
A curious phenomenon was discovered
last week in the hills of Dry Run, Ohio,
by fire-clay digger. He was digging,
and when about four or five feet below
the surface stream of hot air broke out
of the ground. The heat impaired was
sufficient to produce steam from cold
water
High license in Mississippi is really
high Kinds county, which includes the
last week, which resulted in a victory for
the "wets . Licenses will therefore be
granted for the sale of liquor in Jackson,
but they will be granted under a law
passed by the last legislature, which
fixes the fee in that city at $500 for gen.
eral saloons and $500 for malt liquors
Under this system the CITY, which has
a population of about 5000, win not have
more than three or four saloons.
Chill is maintaining her reputation as
the most enterprising nation in South
America Her latest progressive move
was to contract for 10 900 900 ties and a
large quantity of timber from the region
about Puget sound. This material is to
used in constructing & transcontinental
railro ad through Chill and the Argeu-
tine Republic, and for building several
new lines in the mining region and one
up the coast into Peru. To make sure
| that the work will be well done the gov
| eminent IS said to have engaged num-
| Der of American civil engineers and prac-
teal contractors. When the new lines
are completed they will connect the silver
| mines of the Andes and the business GEN.
! ters of Peru with the principal paths Of
| South American commerce.
A crudely constructed wool spinning
machine has made its appearance III New
| York. The inventor claims that he has
| solved the problem of continuous ring
spinning by positive draft or attenuation.
! Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
| been expended by capitalists in expert
ments and manufacturing machines in
! the Eastern states which have proven
| failures. The principle of the new in
vention lies in the use of three rollers,
| two of which rotate first in one direction
and then in another, and yet at all times
| draw the half-spuu wool from the feed
roll. The roller passes forward and
! backward and the twist in the thread is
not interfered with. The principle, the
inventor claims, is new one in me-
chanics. Wool is spun Oh the machine
daily. The inventor claims that his ma
chine will revolutionize wool spinning.