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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
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The miraculous berry Of ".
Africa is covered externally with 80.
sweet pulp, which imparts to the nol..
a sensation that renders it possible e
paTtake of sour substances. and even y. =.
tartario acid, lime juice and vince
and to give to them flavor OF absTIr.I
sweetness
The practical results of the anrIioa.s,-
of electricity 90 tempering steel ara sou
to be very satisfactory, both in regard -
the cost and also uniformity OF the r-,
duet. as well as its application to tenn.
ing lower grades of steel into good sp-ir,
steel.
There Is every probability that lana,
will soon become entirely indppeuI4rt -
other countries as regards its coal sunrl~
vast coal fields having been recentIr his
covered on the islands OF Kiusio ans
Yesso.
Lime has Of late been used to draw
frost out of the ground. 1t is wet sliphrr
and covered over with blankets and atbs-
non-cOnducting materials.
At the new shooting grounds i'm Brg,.
sells electricity has been introduced To r..
cord the results of shots at the difTsrpn.
ranges
Extensive experiments are about to 10
begun for the precipitation OF sewage bv
electricity.
The number of telegraph stations in
the world was increased last year by
1900.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
EEWS IND NOTES.

There are about a hundred species Of
mosquito in the world.
The baby king of Spain had fourteen
doctors the last time he was sick.
The Russian papers report that some
exceedingly rich veins of gold have been
struck in the Chinese gold diggings at
Yeltuga or Mokho.
Several of the large landowners of
Scotland have imported Il number of
reindeer from Norway and turned them
out in the hope that they may become
acclimated and increase.
The Burmese believe that the ruby
ripens like fruit. They say that a ruby
in It's crude state is cOlorless and as it
grows older turns yellow, then green j,
then blue and, lastly, brilliant red.
Three months ago the postmaster of
Chico, CAL. 8, gave a pet dog to a friend
who was leaving for Oregon TO settle
Two weeks ago the dog reappeared at the
house of his old master, nearly starved,
but delighted TO see him.
Good work, beyond doubt, must be
credited to the medical missionary So
ciety of China In Canton during the
past year the society attended to 80 ,442
eases and performed 1888 surgical op-
erations, at an expense of only S4637.
A letter box has been placed in the
topmost stage of the Biffel tower at the
Paris exhibition, and postal cards sold
there bear printed Indication of the
height at which they are posted. Hun
dreds OF persons write to their friends
from this lofty perch daily.
The hundreds OF drivers of fast trot-
ting horses in New York are enrape(1 Mt
the possibility of the construction of a
surface railroad on Jerome avenue.
Millions Of dollars have been invested in
fine trotters, and now the only suitable
driving road Is to be ruined.
A lady pedestrians club Is a novelty at
Paw Paw, Mich When at work they
carry canes ornamented with yellow
bows. Each member is bound by an
oath just as solemn as can be to report
ready for a dozen nile jaunt each
Wednesday and Saturday morning.
The railway up Mount Vesuvius has
been reopened for trade. Six months
ago it was nearly destroyed by the
malicious Vesuvius guides, who found
that the funicular line considerably
diminished their profits. However, the
road and stock have been thoroughly re-
paired. and fresh engines and accom-
modations added.
A company of 300 artists have left
Madrid fer Paris, where they will CO.
operate in the tableaux at the Spanish
festivities. large corps de ballet. the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
GROWING DEMOCRACY

The Philadelphia Record, always
thoughtful and logical, is particularly so
when speaking of the tariff or other eco
nomic questions. And it has rarely
spoken more to the point than in the fol-
lowing:
So far as the issue of the presidential cam
paign OF 1888 is concerned, the positions of the
two great political parties of the country remain
unchanged. Both parties stand in their old
tracks-the Republicans resolved to prevent any
substantial revision of the tariff; the Democrats
more united and determined than ever in the
demand for free raw materials and for reduo-
ton of the oppressive duties upon the necessa-
ries of American households.
In New England the workingmen in the shops
and factories have not ceased agitation, even in
midsummer, but are making active preparations
for discussion in the coming fall and winter,
when the opponents of tariff reform will be in
vited to defend their views.
Leading Eastern manufacturers have issued
circulars in which they demonstrate the detri-
mental influences of taxes on raw materials,
especially upon the wooden and iron interests.
In numerous cities and towns of Massachusetts
''Question Clubs'' have been formed for the
purpose of making inquiries relative to the
operation of the tariff, and some Of these ques-
tions have proved extremely embarrassing to
the statesmen TO whom they have been sent.
AS the great object of discussion is TO elicit the
truth, these methods of agitation in a season
when party passions and preiudices lulled,
cannot but prove advantageous to the cause of
tariff reform.
In the fury of a partisan conflict
there is neither time nor opportunity
for a calm consideration of economical
questions. The best arguments are unheeded
or their meaning perverted by the ''speIl-
binders, - whose chief task is to misrep-
resent the issues OF the campaign. But in quiet
times, when the people have leisure to reflect,
the cant phrases of tsrif-mongers have slight
influence, especially when illustrated by daily
reductions of wages in the most highly protected
industries The forged extracts from English
newspapers. the pay envelope legends. and sim
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
BY ONE MAN.
A Wisconsin Central Passenger Train Held Up
and Robbed.

A Wisconsin Central Passenger Train Held Up
and Robbed.
MINNEAPoLIS, MINI, Aug. S.-The
Wisconsin Central passenger train from
Chicago, which passed Chippawa Falls,
Wis.,, at this morning, was held up and
robbed by a single man between Chip
pewa Falls and Abbot Fort, half an
hour before. At the hour named a man
entered one of the sleeping cars, COM
manded the conductor and porter to
throw up their hands and then proceeded
to go through them taking all they had .
One passenger was also robbed. a shot
or two was fired at the porter, but no one
was hurt. The robber pulled the bell
rope as soon as he had committed the
robbery, and when the train came to a
stop he jumped off and escaped. No at
tempt was made to follow him. The
man is described as having the appear
ance of a woodsman. He wore SLOUGH
hat and carried big knife in a belt. He
took from the conductor $50 and a silver
watch, and from the porter gold watch
and small amount of money, and from
the passenger money and watch.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
MENARDYILLE.

Brought Back from Arkansas to Answer for
Horse Theft-Irrigation Ditch Repaired.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
MENARDvILLE, TEX. Aug. Sheriff
Russell returned to-day with Jim Morgan
whom he arrested in Polk county, Ark. .
Jim Morgan is Indicted for horse theft
and has been evading the officers for two
years.
We are having the hottest weather for
the last few days of the season. Wig
gins, the weather prophet, has certainly
hit 1t correctly one time in regard to hot
weather.
The irrigation ditch company have
about repaired damages to the ditch from
the late flood and it is good thing, as
crops are beginning to need water or rain
very much.
Our tax assessor has completed his
rolls for 1889, and they are certainly a
neat set of rolls.
Threshing is the order of the day at
present.
DR.. J. T. Virgins & Co., druggists Of
this place, have moved their stock of
drugs to Mason, Tex.
Menardvllle will soon have a newspa-
per. We wish it abundant success.
Mr.. E. A. Siekes of our place has been
appointed deputy inspector of oil for this
district better appointment could not
have been made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

entire orchestra of the Theater Royal at
Madrid, $50 picked Andalusians in their
national costumes, guitarists, mandolin
lists, students and others are among
them.
While some gentlemen of Crawford
vile, Fla, were out in the bay fishing a
few days ago large gray eagle suddenly
swooped down upon them, striking di-
rectly at one of the party and missing
his head only by hair breadth. The
ferocious bird made several other at
taeks, but was beaten off with fishing
poles.
For several years past learned, or ap-
paTently learned, arguments have APP
peared in western newspapers to the eff
feet that the level OF the great lakes is
lowering, and that a period of low water
is beginning. These theories have been
upset the last month by a rise of the level
of the lakes and the passage over shallow
places OF large vessels conveying big car
goes. One propeller, the Corsica, has
Just passed through the lakes carrying
the heaviest cargo ever shipped on lake
vessel.
According to the Lewiston Journal,
some years ago a city physician settled in
county. Me. In the spring he heard his
neighbors tell of making sap sugar. Pre-
pairing himself with the necessary appar-
atus, he started for the woods. Being
entirely unacquainted with the business,
he tapped every tree he came to. After
wards, in speaking of the matter, the
doctor said that according to his expert
ence the sap from the spruce, fir and
hemlock did not produce so much sugar
as that from the maple, but that he
thought it of superior quality.
Slowly the great falls of the Niagara
river are changing in shape, through the
eating away of the shale rock which un-
deTlies the hard rock that forms the bed
of the rapids. 1t Is almost a misn Omer
now to speak of the Canadian portion of
the great cataract as the " Horseshoe
Falls, - and within week this deslgna-
ton has become more than ever mis-
placed in consequence of the fall of
large section of the bed rock in the very
center Of the falls. So much rock fell
that an eddy below the falls near the
Canadian side of the river has been mar
rowed more than half, and the little
steamer Maid of the Mist has less diff
Guilty than before in running into the
curve Of the falls.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
Dangers OF "a Nap on the Grass.
London Standard.

The habit in country parts of stretch
ing ones self out on the ground for the
purpose of taking a nap is common
enough in the summer time, but from
case that is reported from a village IN
the DOrdogne, in France, nap on the
grass is not unattended with danger. 4
farmer residing near the village tired
with the heat of the day and with bis
work recently laid himself down to rest
beneath the shade of an OAK tree III
meadow. He was suddenly reused from
his repose by Il sharp twinge Of pain IL
one of his ears, the pain increasing to
such an extent that before the poor tel
low reached his home he was half beside
himself. For several days he suffered
the greatest agony, which neither doe
tors nor the remedies they prescribed
could allay. and the patient was broGgh.
to such pass that he made up his minl
that he must die. Il CHANGED however
that a neighbor had the fehcitous idea
as the sequel proved, of pouring little
tuTpentine into his ear, the immediate
effect of which was to make the pd-.eh-
fall back insensible on his pillow. OE
recovering consciousness he TemaTheL
that he experienced q strange feeling Oh
relief, the cause OF which was soon eA-
planned by the exit from the ear OF an
enormous worm, which had taken up Us
quarters there during the farmer 5 sleep
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
Predicament of an Ex- President of New York
Ferry RallrCad Company


Ferry Railroad Company.
NEW YORK, Aug. S.-Ebon s. Allen,
until few days ago president of the
Forty-second and Grand street ferry rail-
road company, was brought from police
headquarters to the Tombs police court
this morning. Allen is charged with
forgery in issuing u certificate check of the
company to the amount of S110, 600.
Alter some delay the accused was held in
500 900 bail and in default he was locked
up. Allen seemed very cool and chatted
With his accusers while the clerk was busy
drawing up the complaint. He admitted
issuing 700 shares of stock and getting
benefit from 1t, but he denied forging
the signatures of John Green and Charles
Curtis, former presidents of the CON-
pany. When the charge of oyer-issue of
stock was read TO Allen, he replied that
he was guilty of the charge. He denied
however, that he committed forgery
Allen states that his partner in the iron
company, Ferdinand H0efie, was in no
way connected with his guilty transact
tons
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
A Modern Fable.
Puck.

There was once a Long Headed Man,
who invented n Household Utensil of
such general Utility that instead of CIV
ing it a Name, setting forth an Intelligi-
BILE Idea of its Character, he called it
simply Good Thing. SO Proud was he
of his Good Thing that ne would not
make its Existence known in the Press.
elf People will not come IN and ask for
the Good Thing he would say, 81
don t Propose to go to the Trouble of
Telling Them about It. If People don t
Know 1t when they see It, they must
Suffer the Consequences of their Blind
ness When a Mortgage was Fore
closed on him Little Later, the Success
full Bidder Advertised the Good Thing in
Several Papers, and he had Difficulty in
Employing q Sufficient number of men
to Fill the Red Wagons that Backed Up
ct his Door. The Moral of this Fable is
in the Possession of our Advertising
Agent, who viii Disclose it in all its Va
riega ted Beauty to all inquirers on re-
ceipt of Stamp for Return Postage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
PAINTED IT

PAINTED IT.
'"The Angelus, bought at the Sccre-
tan sale by NJ AntOnin Proust, has been
secured for America without possibility
of q slip, by the payment to that gentle
man of $50 $50 francs. A firm of Amer
lean bankers, representing the American
art association, completed the tTansac-
ton, which adds another great picture 20
our artistic possession, and one which
cost more than any other we have. The
price originally paid to the artist for
''The Angelus was only 1900 francs.
A franc, it viii be remembered, is
worth about nineteen cents. Millet S great
picture is reproduced III so many ways
that it needs no description. The peas
ant figures in the open field bowling their
heads in prayer constitute a subject
unique and readily recalled to memory.
Millet was born at Gruchy, q village
in Normandy France, in October, 1874.
He was the eldest of nine children. The
first eighteen years of his life were spent
in the hamlet where he was born. H9
then went TO Cherbourg 30 study art. AZ
twenty-fo four he married q dressmakeT OK
that town, who died IN consumption
within year from her marriage. The
bereaved artist went to Paris, where ne
did not stay long. He married a second
time and made his home at BarbizOn,
where he died in 1875. MiiIet was the
painter of French peasant life.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
THE largest $oolen mill in Conne6tffsll

THE largest >Seolen mill in ConrecffsIf
failed last week. The American Wool
Reporter 1aments the cause as follows: !.
Hepetjs the situation ia+ia NUTSHELL: oFhf
American wool manufa cturer to-day is in po-
sition where the most that he cares about is to
be permitted to make a living. Worried by
wealthy wool grOwersj choked, cheated and
cramped by the commission house system OF
selling his goods, and tormented by trusts
among makers of card clothing, packers of tea
sells, and dealers in nearly every variety of mill
supply, the condition of the domestic wooden
mill owner has become pitiable in the extreme.
The wonder is, not that we are called upon to
chronicle SO many failures among wooden mills
in New England and Philadelphia of late. but
rather that there have not been more of them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

JUDGE YELLAT of the Third Maryland
district has retired from the bench after
thirty years service. He Is known for
his remark to noisy lawyer, who, in
an argument, addressed him III loud
voice as s'Yellat, - instead of :" Your
Honor. - "Fined $50 for contempt, ,"
cried the judge. ''You must not yell at
this court >,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

Es5%AH letters or communications for THE
GAZETTE, achether on business or for
publication, should be addressed to THE
GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUBLISH
ING CO., Fort Worth, Ter. and NOT
TO ANY INDIVIDUAL.
1sBc communications intended for pabJicd-
ton n5lts@ be accompanied by the a0riter s
name and oddzses-''ot for publtcattO'-b1t
as an eridence Of Coos. faith.
Parties scrtttng to- TEE GAZETTE on
business personal to themselves ,etH please
iRc7ose stamp for reply.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

THE GAZETTE is in receipt of circular
setting forth the objects of the proposed
press convention called to meet at Hen
rietta next Monday The letter which
accompanied the circular says that the
object of the meeting is to discuss plans
whereby the press may become of more
service in adding to the material prosper
ity of Northwest Texas. The movement
is certainly good one, and should be at
tended and encouraged by every news
paper publisher in the section indicated.
The press is power in any community,
and an intelligent and united effort upon
the part of all the papers published in
Northwest Texas will not only prove the
means of urging the people now living in
that section to renewed yigor and in
creased enterprise, but VIII also aid in
bringing in new people to add to the
wealth and Importance of the state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

been consummated by o. N. Tovns, 2
New York city. forfeit of $50 .066 u
been put up to bind the trade P Is
property Is to be operated by svnd;a- ls
Of New York, Kansas City and To-n
capitalists. It is proposed to erert ~ t'-a
smelling works and an electric pIant g
great power to operate the macbfr.lOI
and light the mines. The planr -!
probably be the most extensive +, ~
state. '1a
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
The Law Must be Respected.


They were sitting at the supper table
last night, when the husband said: '.Ihe
census clerk was in to-day, dear. be
demanded the age Of each of the family,
and was Obliged to give him yours. II
was the law, he said, -
''You did, you brute! Law? what
do l care for law? John Henry, did you
presume to tell that man my age; s19
demanded, Indignantly.
Eyes, John Henry replied diplomat
ically. al told him you were twenty
four -
FOh, - John Henry 5 wife said beam
ingly, as the rushing of the wings Of the
dove of peace were heard in the room:
al suppose the law has to be respected.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

THE necessity of an honest official food
inspection in cities has just had start
ling illustration in Zurich. At a festival
600 persons partook of a meat mess, and
Immediately after 300 of them sickened
with typhoid fever, and 378 who partook
of the same meat elsewhere were also
affected, and forty-nine were infected
secondariIy by contact with the first
CATION proved that one Of the animals
slaughtered was already moribund from
disease, and its meat was distributed in
the mass of viands, carrying infection to
those who partook of it. Inquiry among
those who ate it and escaped sickness
proved that they drank heavily of wine
with their food, some of them to such
excess as to induce vomiting, thus
voiding the contents of their
stomachs. The period of incubation
of the disease was very short, and
it was characterized by more than the
usual disturbance in the alimentary
tract. This experience is of very great
interest. We believe that heretofore
the origin of typhoid fever has not been
ascribed to infected food so much as to
water poisoned by ordure or carron and
to breathing air contaminated by the
exhalations of filth. The communica-
ton Of the poison by food, and espec-
tally by impure meat, viii account for
many cases that have been difficult to
trace to either of the other sources.
We learn by current experience the
wisdom of the sanitary practice of the
Israelites, who so feared the effects of
impure meat that none was eaten that
was not ''Kosher. - These practices
must be referred to to account for the
physical preservation of that race as a
distinct people, ages after the cotempo-
rary races have disappeared from the
face of the earth
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

THE present constitution of Texas
stands in the way of the material pro-
gress OF the state, and should give place
to new one. Texas is enterprlsing and
progressive, with magnificent climate
and Honderful resources, and il is
shame that her advancement should be
retaraedBy her organic law. Boom the
constitutional convention. $.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

THE silk operatives at Patterson, N.
J., went out on a strike, but HAD to
yield. Their pay envelopes last year said
the tariff would save them, but when ap-
pealed to in the time Of necessity it
seemed to have lost lis efficacy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
> rnnntr rreasnrer -.

VINTON, Iowa, Aug. S.-Au cyan,
nation of County Treasurer Steadr,.,
books shows a shortage of SII go
covering a period of eight years. Trs..
urer Steadman was retired from his n
sition few months ago, peudiar -
investigation. He ALWAYS stood b;-t
with the people of Benton county
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
Croekett,s First Bale of Cotton.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CROCKETT, TEX, Aug. THE first
bale of cotton for this season was sold
here to-day for IL cents. It was raised
by Messrs. Protest and Farmer, three
miles east of here and classed middlirg.
The northern potion of the county was
visited by copious rains on the 9TH, but
the greater part is needing rain badly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

THE appointment Of Yarmouth as col
Iector of the port Of New Orleans goes a
long way toward illustrating Harrison s
Southern policy. It seems to be his idea
to give the whites the offices and let the
negroes have the policy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

ALFRED TBSNYSON, POET LAUREATE.
The reader noticed the absence of
verses from the pen of the poet laureate
on the occasion of the marriage of the
Princess Louise to the earl of Fife.
Probably the old bard is past the ability
to make poetry to order, for Alfred Ten
nyson was born at Somerby; Lincolnshire,
England, as long ago as August, 1909,
and is therefore just eighty years cd.
He was educated at Trinity college. Cam
bridge, and won the chancellor IS medal
with the prize poem ''TimbuctoO, when
he was twenty. Tennyson was made poet
laureate in 1850, when Wordsworth died.
In 1866 he was given the degree Of
d. G.. L. by The University of Oxford.
Queen Victoria created him Baron Ten
nyson q 'Eyncourt Of Aldworth in 1888.
The first volume of poems bearing his
name was the work of his elder brother,
Charles, and himself. 1t was published
in 1927. Three years after, 'Poems,
Chiefly Lyrical, appeared, the eXclu-
sive work of Alfred, and the bright
dawn OF his glorious success as a poet.
BY many critics his In Memoriam is
regarded as the greatest poem of the
century. His works comprise q great
variety, including several dramas which
are better read than acted. Perhaps
his Arthurian poetry is the most read.
Tennyson is master mind and a con-
summate artist. No recent poet can be
said to share pre-eminence with him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
Lend Mining Deal

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 8.-A big
lead mining deal, involving more than
one million dollars and embracing 10 900
acres of mineral land in and around Jop-
liza and Webb City, this state. has Just