Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-16


their houses, and that all staireases must
have an odd number of steps.
The output of American copper mines
for 1888 was "a ,275 tons of mineral against
Il ,633 in 1887.
There is one school district in Douglas
county, Kan. in which the people refuse
to have grammar taught.
Twenty-Five legislatures are at work
this month and on the Doth the Alabama
legislature viii be ut it again.
Asphalt pavement is very injurious to
trees, rs it prevents water from pene-
trating to their roots. The shade trees
of Brooklyn, N. Y, have suffered from
the asphalt pavement there.
One of the largest private land-hold-
ings in the world is the Higgings s Carr
ranch, IN California. 1t contains 400, :
900 acres, covers $40 square miles, and is
over twenty-five miles square.
There is a boy in Iowa who has lost
both hands, both feet, both ears and
most of his nose by frost bites, and, as
he has nothing else to lose, he is having
lots of fun outdoors this winter.
The greatest monopoly in France is
that enjoyed in the Vichy mineral water
company 1t pays 90 per cent to its
shareholders and only 25 per cent. to
the state, from which it secured the or
iginaI grant of the mineral springs.
Shares of the stock that were originally
$50 francs are now 400 francs.
stammering is the latest reported re-
suit of gazette smoking. "A young
miner of San Diego, Cal, was relieved
from bad attack of dyslalia by absti-
no bo ifjn haf
treatment with bromides and valerian =
There may be cases where an impeachment
in speech would be a positive beneft-to
the friends OF the victim
Perhaps nowhere in any gas belt is
there so great popularity as exists in the
flow of gas in Montpelier, Ind. SIX hours
out of every twenty the gas runs
down to minimum, and six hours out of
the day the gas reaches maximum. When
the supply is at low ebb the valves are
turned wide open to get sufficient sup
ply. When the gas is at highest the
smallest turn of the key is enough to sup.
ply the demand That the movements
are constant with the ocean tides is evil
dent, but whether or not the same in
huences are the cause can only be a mat
ter of conjecture.
Georgia large gray bugs have become
common. They are called electric bugs.
The other evening John Mclaughlin of
Savannah, was sitting by an open window
and one of these bugs about two inches
long flew in and striking the wall, fell to
the floor. Mclaughlin picked it up to
throw it out of the window and the bug
sunk its claws into his hand He said
the sensation was as though several fish
hooks were being pulled through his arm.
his hand began to swell,
and small pimpIes appeared on his hand,
arm and face within twenty-four hours.
For over a week the hand and arm were
very sore, and at one time the case looked
dangerous.
The advocates of woman suffrage in
college feel much elated at the
result of Il debate given at the Harvard
union. The alternatives were from the
freshman class; the opponents were a
senior and a member of the law school
Many of the best men of the college were
present. The first vote was on the
merits of the question. 1t was taken
before the debate, and stood 20 in favor
and % against suffrage for women. After
the debate, vote was taken upon the
merits Of the debate, as presented by the
leaders, in which 81 were given for
suffrage and 80 for the opposition. The
debate was then thrown open to the
house. Eight members spoke for it and
five against it. One said he had come
there opposed, but had been convinced
by the affirmative side. The final vote
was taken upon the merits of the debate
as q whole, and stood 81 to 10 in favor of
giving women the ballot