Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
ALL SORTS.

The last stone Of the base of the Wa
terIoO memorial ut Brussels was placed in
position last week, and COmte jacques
de Lalaing's mathematical figure which
is to crown II Is now in the caster 3
hand s. II is colossal in size, and repre-
SCENTS Britannia OH her travels lowering
her flag at the tomb of Waterloo heroes.
Clot Bey, the founder Of modern medi-
cine in Egypt, says it requires as much
surgery to kill one Egyptian as seven
Europeans, and there is no doubt that
Egyptians bear surgical operations with
extraordinary pluck and success. A
man in native hospital who has had his
thigh amputated at O'Clock is sitting
up aud quite lively at 6.
A hill 400 feet high, composed Of cop
per silver ard gold has been discovered in
the Mexican state of Chiaras. A river
flowing on one side of the hill has largely
uncovered the deposit, and many thou
sand tons Of ore are in sight. The ore
assays from three to four ounces of gold
and forty to sixty ounces Of silver per
ton, with from % 10 25 per cent. of cop
per.
prominent English scientist. on hear
ing the news of the sudden death OF the
late Joseph Bigger. said that the famous
freshman might be still alive If he had
happened TO have at the time of his at
tack dose of uitro-glycerine in his pos
session. Nitro glyCerine, taken in small
doses. will ward off a severe attack of
angina pectOris, OF which Mr.. Bigger
died.
French court has just refused to
recognize the American citizenship of
young man who, at the age of twenty
one, had taken out his naturalization
papers in this country and then returned
10 France to reside. He has been ar
rested, and will be tried by military
court for breaking the law which re-
quires every Frenchman to serve so many
years under the flag.
The great Bear River canal In Utah,
for the construction of which 81 900 900
has been provided. is expected to be one
of the most extensive irrigation works in
this country. 1t will irrigate 200, 900
acres in Salt Lake valley and 6 900 900
on Bear river, increasing the value Of the
land to $50 an acre. Bear Lake is in
Eastern Idaho. The reservoir for the
canal covers $50 square miles.
It seems that the African elephant is
in danger of being as thoroughly exter-
minated as has been the American bison.
Elephants not many years ago roamed
the dark continent in countless herds,
but the demand for ivory has caused
them to be reientlessly hunted, and they
have become so scarce that the supply OF
ivory has greatly decreased, and its
price has advanced in proportion.
A fourteen boy living at
Hookstown, Pa, went to trap he had
set for fox, and found wildcat in it.
TaI 4n1 Iii 81,
with club. but Il sprang at him with
such force that 1t broke the chain by
which tho trap was anchored and landed
square with its fore paws on the boys
chest, tearing the clothing away aud
sinking its claws in the little fellows
flesh. The boy stood his ground and
killed the animal with club.
According to q recent official return
the length of the telegraph lines on the
globe is at present about 600, 900 miles,
or twenty-six times its cirruIn ference at
the equator. The length OF wire is -
68S, $50 miles, or eighty times the length
of the equator. Europe has telegraph
lines measuring 232 .270 miles; America,
l76 1854; Asia. so .375; Australia, Ut, O53,
and Africa 1928. These are the land
lines. There are, besides, $50 sub
marine cables of total length of lI2 soc
nautical miles.
Aaron Harrison, seventy-year-old
Jew of Rochester, n. Y. writes from
Jerusalem that he wants a collection
taken up to enable him to return home.
With $1,000 he had received for injuries
sustained in jumping from the second
story of burning -four mill in which he
was employed he went to Jerusalem, he
liPving that one day that city would be
the center of the Jewish population on
earth. He had consumed five months in
reaching his destination and spent I'LL his
money.