Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26

sound to the ear in case the water is run
ming. In this way it can be determined
whether or not the water is shut off IL a
house without entering the house.
Arsenical wall paper is recommended
| as an application to the walls Of houses in
malarial districts.
Advertisements in London journals in
dictate that the purchase of cast-off court
suits, artificial teeth, ETC., ''for eX-
port, is quite a considerable business.
A single sheet of paper six feet wide
and seven and three-quarter miles in
length has been made at the WATERFOWL,
N. Y, paper works. 1t weighed 2207
pounds and was made and rolled entire
without q single break.
A New York farmer fired a shot at the
reflection of burglar in a mirror and
shivered the glass. When he came TO
replace the mirror he found a niche in
the wall back of it wherein his grand
father had secreted SIS, 900 in cash.
a new process of burning coal without
smoke has lately been discovered. 1t
consists in sprinkling water containing q
special preparation of resin over the coal,
and the result is that there is no smoke,
and the glow is as intense as coke. An
English company is to be formed to work
the new patent.
Lieut.. Schwatka estimates the number
of living cliff jewellers he has discovered
in Southern Chihuahua at from eight to
twelve thousand. They are very wild
and shy, and upon the approach of white
people fly to their caves or cliffs BY
notched sticks placed against the face of
the cliffs if too steep, although they as
cend vertical stone faces if there are the
slightest crevices for the fingers and
toes.
There is now running at the Paris ex-
position hydraulic train that consists
of four carriages and has room for about
one hundred passengers. The train
runs as smoothly as q boat on water.
There are no wheels, no steam, no cleo
tricity, apparently nothing to make it |
go. Yet it will go at a rate of I25 |
miles an hour, while as far as motion !
may be felt there is none. The passen- |
ger cannot tell by any vibration of the |
car that he is moving at ali.
The new smokeIess powder invented by |
an Austrian officer, and which has Just |
been successfully tested by the Austro-
government, is said TO exceed |
in carrying power the similar powder
adopted by the German army, but to be
slightly less ''smokeless. - In fact,
neither is entirely without smoke, but
the German article is so nearly so as to
be practically perfect. The Austrian
powder is sufficiently free from smoke to
make it nearly as effective as the other,
while its greater power in projection may
make it, on the whole, equally valuable.
At a recent meeting of the Dubois
[Ty,1
was passed: Resolved, that we
Ire in favor OF and ask that q thorough
course of instruction on the effects of
light lacing and painting the face with
INJURIOUS cosmetics be introduced in the
public schools, and that We as teachers,
lenOunce the custom of tight lacing, of
'hewiDg gum, of using wire, cotton and
awdust pads to deceive in regard to
beauty of form, and of bustles to occupy
room in every conveyance,
md render necessary the use Of much
Expensive material for dresses, and these
abits as not worthy of imitation By the
hildren of Eve, believing that nature
is most beautiful.
Statistics show that people live longer
a brick house than in stone, and that
Tooden houses are the healthiest. This
uggests the idea of using paint on ma
onrY. An authority states that 100
ears ago it was fashionable to paint
rick buildings white, and many charm
IL structures remain to attest the value
coat of paint in preserving the ma
Onry, and its pleasant, home-like effect
foil to the vines and shrubs with
hich even city houses are now common
: adorned. If it should prove, as might
q easily ascertained, that the painted
rick houses preserve their inhabitants
lore effeetually from sickness and pre- {
nature death than the implanted ones,
would be worth while to revive the an
ent fashion, and, with our greater re- !
'urces in the way of materials and
eas, exterior eoloring might become as !
nportant an accessory to the architect
re of the twentieth century as it was to
lat of the twelfth or thirteenth. 7