Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-31
NEWS IND NOTES.

A curiosity in Wallingford, Conn. is a
dog with three tails.
There are more than four thousand peo-
pie in the United States who are over one
hundred years OF age.
''Electric prostration - is the latest
new disease. Modern conveniences have
their drawbacks.
y member Of the Maine legislature says
his town is all ready for the Australian
system of voting, for the polling place
is Il barn, and the stalls could be used at
once.
The newly issued FFRussian kalendar''
gives the statistics of the population of
the empire for 1885, the latest year for
which they are available. According to
them the total population of Russia III
Europe and Asia is los ,7S7 ,265. OF the
population 81 1925, l85 belongs to Russia
III Europe, 1850 ,304 to Poland, . ,I76,-
42l to Finland, ,2S4 ,527 to Caucasia,
4 1913 $50 to Siberia and 5 1927 ,09S to
Russia IN Central Asia.
The latest nickel and slot device is a
sort of big stereoscOpe which has been in
vented and manufactured i'll Paris. You
drop in your nickel and you apply your
eyes to pair of protuberances like the
eye pieces OF an opera glass. Pictures
are then displayed in rapid succession,
one picture lasting seven seconds, until
the contents of the box are all exhibited.
The pictures are shown in the glare of an
electric light, which Is extinguished
when one has had his cents worth.
A French sayant, in a curious investi-
CATION, has discovered that red has been
the most prominent color i'll literature
from the time of Lucian to the present
day. Writers show Il marked tendency
TO discover red things, for the reason
that ''blue in nature is not very con-
spicuous, and yellow, though more COM
mon in flowers, has a tendency to lose its
individuality IN whiteness; but red is so
conspicuous because of its contrast to
green, which is the predominatlng color
in nature. -
There are two ways Of splitting a piece
of paper. One is to lay the sheet of pa
per on a piece of glass, soak it thoroughly
with water and then press it smoothly all
over the glass. With a little care the
under half of the sheet can be peeled off,
leaving the upper half on the glass. Let
this dry and it will come off the glass
very easily; of course the glass must be
perfectly clean. The second way is a
better one, but it requires some good
practice. Paste piece of cloth or strong
paper on each side of the sheet to be
split. When it is thoroughly dried pull
the two pieces of cloth apart suddenly
and violently. The paste can then be
softened with water ana the two halves
of the sheet easily taken off the clothes
A new scheme of card kilograms is
being tried in Hungary for use IN dis
tricts having a postoffice but without a
service. Cards are sold at
the postoff1ce ut the price of 80 kreutzers
for five words, excess to be paid for by
additional postage stamps TO be affixed at
the corner. The telegram can be put in
any letter box, and is forwarded TO the
nearest telegraph office, and from there
it is dispatched without further delay or
charge. 1t is not so generally known to
the public as it might be that in England
letters can be posted at any pillar box
and viii be sent on from the nearest tel
agraph office Some such scheme of
special forms for this purpose, in the
shape of card kilograms, might render
this of great practical utility, and the
example of Hungary is worthy of the at
tention of the postofffce authorities.