Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

! The new French army law extends the
! age of liability to service from forty FIVE
to fifty years.
| 4 Russian scientist has gathered facts
| which show that it takes on the average
{ 20.9 minutes to fall asleep.
It is expected that between ten thou
! sand and twelve thousand singers will sing
| simultaneously some of the popular num-
| bers of the singing festival at Vienna.
Stage realism is taking another and
| more lifelike form. In play soon to be
! produced in New York there will be no
| tank filled with real water, or q brace of
| bona fide burglars, but rooster that
| knows when to crow. A competent COM
! pany has been engaged to support the
! bird.
There were numerous casualties during
! the erection of the Paris exposition build
ings. 1t is estimated that 800 woTkmen
hurt their legs, 260 received severe in
! juries in the eyes from projecting TIM
/ bers or bars of iron, ia were scalded or
severely burned and fifty had their fn-
gers cut off. The deaths from falls are
! put down at twenty-four.
| Professor Sayce, who spent last winter
| in Egypt investigating some newly dis
covered archives, says that from these
records we learn that more than fourteen
hundred years before Christ, and cen
fury before the exodus of the Jews from
Egypt, there was active literary inter-
course between Babylon, Egypt, Pales-
tine, Syria, MesopOtimi and Eastern
Cappadocia This intercourse was carried
on through the BabYloniau language and
the complicated BabylOnianscript, show
iv,rr hot oil no Cir
must have been libraries and schools
where this language and literature were
taught.
Electricity has often been applied to
designing, and the possibilities OF the
incandescent light for decorative art
are well understood. One of the latest
and most successful accomplishments in
this line is that OF the freezing of the
tglow' light in ice. which was ex-
hibited by an Indianapolis electric COM
pany at the Cincinnati Industrial
exposition, and which attracted
so much attention as an IN
geniOus novelty. During the process
of freezing various colored aniIine dyes
were inwrought. the result of which was
some strillingly brilliant effects and
formations in connection with the famil-
lar glass bulb and its thread-like wire
these flashing and glowing with the cleo
tTic current at the operators Will. The
possibilities of this beautiful art present
a fertile field for study and experiment.
The business of the Eiffel tower is
large. NJ. Eiffel calculated that when
everything was in working order the
gate money would be $4,000 a day Since
the lifts have been in operation he is
thought 10 have averaged more than
this. 1t costs a franc TO enter the tower.
two francs 20 go up in the lift 70 the
second floor, and four francs to the top.
On any one of the ordinary full
price days more than twenty thousand
people have paid admission, and1
with the increased prices for those uslRk
the elevator, the entire receipts ex
eeeded ten thousand dollars The original
cost of the Eiffel tower, all included ,waS
a little less than one million dollars. The
proprietor has TO keep it in repair and.
hand over One-fourth of his gate monee
to the exhibition. it is estimated that
it will be half paid for when the exhibit
i ton closes, and then it will remain GER
ta5aly three years, and perhaS&tsn
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