Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-15
NEWS AND NOTES.


road fare, and thinks that every body
else ought to follow his example.
The male and female bufaloes now at
| the Union stockyards, South st. Paul,
will be shipped to New York state to
breed with Polled Angus cattle.
It is calculated that if everybody who
uses ten pounds of sugar viii economic
enough to make nine pounds take the
place of ten. the reduction in consump-
/ ton Will put the sugar trust to its
! trumps. Let US economize.
An authority upon provisions estimates
! that half pound of butter a week Is a
| good allowance for each person; half q
| pound of coffee week and a pound and
a quarter of sugar for each person make
! liberal allowances. Families are apt to
! differ in these respects.
The Russians are increasing the use of
naphtha refuse as fuel. Manufacturers
! and railways are adopting it, and it is
even used fer domestic purposes in stoves
! specially constructed for it. 1t is 80 per
! cent. cheaper than wood or coal and oc-
! cupies much less space in storage.
! Within few weeks $40 400 have been
| subscribed at Jacksonville, Fla. for es-
! tablishing cotton factory there. 1t is
required to make the factory an assured
fact. viii be subscribed in short time
and work on the building commenced at
an early day.
The sultan of Turkey maintains 474
/! carriages, which incur an expense of
2 800 900 francs a year. Most of these
| carriages are of French make. A few
made in Turkey show cleverness in con-
struetlon. The sultan personally has
need for only about four of the vehicles
referred to.
Mrs George Pendleton Bowler, a
wealthy lady of Cincinnati, who spends
most of her time in European fashionable
resorts, is reported as captured by ban
dts ia Italy and held for a ransom. She
has q son and daughter who usually
travel with her, but the brief notice. of
capture Goes not state whether the boy
and girl are also prisoners.
About five hundred veterinary sur
geons in Great Britain have signed
paper cOndemning the overhead check
rein as painful to horses and productive
of disease. 1t distorts the windpipe and
is liable to cause paralysis of the muscles
Of the face, apopleXy, coma and infam-
nation of the brain. all these resulting
III shortening the life of the horse.
Five kinds of poison have been discov-
cred in cigarette-the oil in the paper,
the oil of nicotine, saltpetre TO preserve
the tobacco, opium to make it mild, and
the oil in fiaYoring. That is not enough,
however, to discourage its use. The
analyst must do better than that. The
cigarette habit is like some other habits
bound to hang on until it ultimately
kills the patient.
The street cars at Lyons, in France,
are hereafter to be operated by a system
of compressed air which has been fonnd
to work satisfactorily in Nantes and
other French cities The cars are said
to run smoothly and with but little noise,
while the machinery is simple and does
not require skilled mechanic to super
intend it. The cost is less than with
horses, steam or electricity.
Canada has 124 ,5S9 Indians, of whom
81 ,944 are liz British Columbia, 90 1868 in
Manitoba and the Northwestern Terri
tory II ZOO in Ontario, y ,465 in Quebec,
5000 in Athabaska, 1000 in the Macllen-
zie district, 40lG in East Rupert's Land
1000 on the Arctic coasts, Pas in New
Scotland, 2O3S III the Reace river dist
rriet, 1884 in New Brunswick, 1000 in the
interior of Labrador an1 3l9 in Prince
Edward Island.
Jeremiah Wilcox of Lebanon, Conn.
is ninety years old, his wife seventy
three, and both are well. Mrs. Wilcox
is spryer than her husband One day
last week she slipped the bail of six
quart tin pail over her arm, climbed the
family cherry tree to the top of it, and
picked the measure full of cherries. She
ddtn t need ladder. Mrs. Wilcox de-
seconded, went into the house, and made
cherry pie in quick time.
The report of the commissioner of in
ternaI revenue shows thar last year taxes
were collected on cigarettes to the num-
Der of 2 isl ,515 $50, which is an increase
of 2S9 ,7S9 ,260 oyer the preceding fiscal
year. The number taxed is a pretty !
good indication of the consumption. The |
number of cigars taxed during the last |
fiscal year was 8 1867 1886 GAO, an increase
of % ,65S 800, showing that the con-
sumption of cigarettes is increasing more !
rapidly than that of cigars.
The South viii be represented by but |
one negro in the next congress, Henry p |
Cheatham of North Carolina. He was
born a slave, but he was made free at |
the age of fourteen years, and immedi- |
ately entered the public schools, where |
he prepared himself for college, His |
means were NOT as great as MS amDltlon, |
however. His capabilities were recog- /
nized, and after he had been III the Shaw |
university at Raleigh single session he |
was appointed teacher in the Williams
boro, n. c., schools, in which position
he earned and saved money enough to
complete his education at the university, |
and be graduated with honors in 1888.
The savage who has recently been dis
covered in the depths of Africa proudly |
wearing in the lobe of his right ear a
bishop that had strayed or been stolen
from a set of chess men is doubtless de-
termined TO utilize all the resources of
civilization that come within reach. A
while ago an African chief was making
silver watch case do duty as
a tobacco pouch, and another
wore around his neck as
his chief ornament the gilded knob of an
explorer IS tent pole. Even trousers can
be utilized by the most scantily dressed
natives, as was recently shown by
chief TO whom pair was presented with
the request that he wear them. de ap-
peared in public soon after with the gar
ment carefully arranged over his shout
ders.