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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

send you by mail large and most beauti 'ul
shell thas l would IKE to have you name and.
il not too much trouble. return. Several OF
your young readers are interested in it.
Austin, Tex. SCHOOL GIRL.
Shell a univslve of the periwinkleD
shape, 'periH inkle'' being the common
name usually given to al the longest.
univalves found in our fresh water
streams. This is a land shell, however.
Size, near two inches in length aui one
inch in diameter at the thckest point.
Very thin and highly polished. General
shade, cream color, but marked with
darker stripes tending to brown.
The name affixed 10 this species by
scientists is Orihalicus zebra. Common
in Mexico, though We have never set
met with specimen in Texas. You
don 4 say where the specimen was found.
We'd expect 10 see it sparssly repre-
seated all along our Southwestern bor-
der, and possibly as far east as Austin.
closely allied species was collected by
US ten years ago in the neighborhool of
san Antonio.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

lines six feet apart and short sticks set
in these lines seven feet from each other
The sticks should be so placed as to al
ternate each other in the adjacent rows.
This arrangement Will throw the plants
seven feet apart.
At each stake G hole should be dug two
feet in diameter and eighteen inches
deep. Fill the hole with loose surface
soil having intermixef with it some WE'LL
decom posed stable manure. Fresh ma
nure should never be used. Sc, three
plants in the center OF each hole, few
inches apart. aud press the ii firmly
arount them. II the season of
setting out be dry q little water should
be given. When the vines begin TO run
they should be stuck with poles ten or
twelve feet long. All weeds and grass
should be kept down and the ground
worked shallow TO prevent baking.
The plants will bear some hops the first
year. but scarcely enough to pay for
picking over the fill.
The old vines killed By frost in winter
must be cut away the next spring, ana
wheD the new growth has started only
three or four should be alloyal 10 go up
each pole. The plants will come into
full bearing the second year, aud con-
iinue on indefinitely.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
4 Good Dairy CnntrlYance.

In the course of a recent conversation
Fort Worth dairy that gentleman
gold US of very simple contrivauce en-
pIoyed 10y HIM in the winter season for
hurryiug his milk into readiness for the
chuTu. Ii appears 10 be coutrivaucs
peculiarly his own, though il is not pat
euted. He makes n tight wooden box &,
sny, fer the sake of understanding the
case, four feet square and eighteen
inches deep. OF course the needed size
OF the box would be governed by the
quaint of milk TO be handled; depth
the same in any case. The box is bot
toned with u sheet of galvanized iron.
Six inches above the bottom of the box
is placed q second bottom of lattice or
wire work. To prevent sagging of this
second bottom q sufficiently heavy piece
of wood may be placed across the top of
the box and supporting wire extended
down from it to the lattice or wire work
i'll the middle of the box. To the outer
side of The box uprghts are nailed, not
projecting above the top, but extending
below 10 fern legs that will hold II above
the floor sufficiently TO admit of working
beneath, Kerosene lamp. Mr.. Sawyer
uses an ordinary Kerosene stove with the
upper works taken off.
To put II into use, the box is filled with
water and the milk vessels placed into it :,
resting upon this second bottom. of
course. The lamp is then placed in the
middle, underneath, which soon brings
the water up to the proper temperature
for souring the milk. When the desired
temperature has been attained, as shown
by Thermometer, II may be so held by
simply turning up or down the wick Of
the heating lamp, as the case may call
for. Once the correct height of the wick
has been arrived at, the coutrivance de-
mands Little further attention, other
than to fill the lamp as occasion requires.
By an employment of this arrangement,
MIR. sawyer can sour his milk as quickly
as it would sour OF itself, in the warmest
summer weather.
The dairyman, conducting operations
on q larss scale, has his milk room
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
Street Trees.

AS stated by ua in several article.
appearing in these columns, nothing &C
contributes to the good appearance of a
city as correctlv-chosau street trees.
A city without street trees looks dreary
and uDinritiug, and city with trees not
in harmony with Its pretentions aud
aspirations looks worse than city with
no trees at all. 1t is hard matter to
get the people of q city to working to-
gether IN the selection of their trees. A
mau owns the realty upon which he
lives, aud If he happens TO want some
trees on his grounds, he feels that the
selection OF kinds rests solely with him
selt-his choice is his own business and
that of nobody else. As a consequence
be goes to the most convenient forest
and makes his own selection, often with
out any particular regard to the general
effect.
This would seem all correct enough at
first thought, vet there are cities in
this free country of ours which take a
different view Of the ease. They main
tain tina, the general effect is something
in which all the people OF the place have
n common interest, aud that, therefore,
the authorities have as much right TO
Iass lu"s elipultlllig inH hluu Oh trees
10 be planted, or not TO be planted, as
they have to pass laws STIMULATING the
kind of buildings that may be put up,
or the kind of roofs that may or NAV not
be placed upon buildings. AS conse-
qutuce several Florida towns have orii-
nunces governing the tree planting mat
ter. And Florida does not seem TO
stand as the only section of our common
81 n yri far
ence to town trees. The editor OF the
Prairie Farmer, Chicago, ILL.,, has
latelv been making . tour of the Eastern
states. In his 'editorial correspon-
dence' from AiLauy, n. Y, he Iuti-
mates that there had long existed in
that city disposition TO pant cotton
wood trees. II sprung from two causes,
perhaps: The tree was easily obtained,
aud it made an exceedingly rapid
growth. But II gave bad appearance
TO the city, and so, after every effect of
moral sEasion 10 stop the people from
planting cottouwoods bad been exhausted
without results, the city authorities took
the matter in hand and made the plant
ing of cottonwood tree anywhere
within the corporate limits misie-
meau0r, punishable By three months IN
the Albany peniteItiary. OF course
this has put an end to the planting of
cottonwoods in Albany.
We don't expect any town in Texas to
copy after either Florida or New York
towns in this matter OF street trees-we
could not favor any such thing-yet a
report of what those other regions have
done in that particular direction is of in-
terest rs showing the special Importance
they attach 10 street trees, so fur as re-
lates TO their character.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

have been much interested in what
you have lately BEEN saying through THE GA
zETTE concerning the possibility of making the
hop cron a great success in Texas. There is on
my place hop vine that mas been growing for
fifteen years and bearing heavily every year.
Never in m lie saw anv hing NOSE vigorous.
Please. at your earliest convenience, favor us
with something more on the no. an its cu.-
ture. B. B. TowLE.
Kimble county, Tex.
The botanical name Of the cultivated
hop Is Humuius lupulus. 1t is peren-
NAL plant, supposed to be a native of
Europe, though the extent to which it is
found growing wild IN many portions OF
North America leads not a few botanists
to believe that il is native to the Western
hemisphere also. A writer for the pat
ent office report of 1854, page 354, says it
requires in cultivation q deep rich soil
with dry subsoil-an open rock subsoil
suits it best. 1t may be propageted BY
seeds or by a division of the roots-:he
most common plan of propagation is to
set GU, young shoots which rise from the
base of old plants in spring.
The ground, having been deeply pre-
pared for planting, Is laid of in parallel
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

This table shows that there is nothing
injurious to human health about the
parsuip.
The parsnip likes rich sandy loan,
and will not succeed to its best on stiff
clay lands. Our black sandy land would
suit it to perfection, especially if liber-
ally fertilIzrd with decomposed stable
manure. 1t needs vegetable matter.
There is u wild parsuip growing on the
rich lands of the South (Heracleum
lanatum). said TO be somewhat poison
Gus, though medical scientists do no; re-
gard it in that light. But it may be
easily told from the cultivated parsnip
(Pastinaca sativa), for the latter has
smooth and very light-colored leaves
while the leaves of the former are OF
much darker green. and are more or less
covered with short hairs.
Discovers Phosphates.
Can you give me some simple method for
knowing phosphate rock when 1 see II have
foun something in this county that strongly
SUSPECT of being real phosphate rock, like that
of South Carolina. Please answer throu gh The
GAZETTE. NAMELEss.
II is not ut all probable that your rock
ia what you suspect it to be, as you are
not in the right kind of region for phos-
nearer the sea, and on newer formations
than you have i'll Llano We couldn't
think that you stand in any danger of
soon having your wild range tramped out
by throngs of people running over your
territory prospecting for phosphates.
However, We have no objections TO CIV
ing you simple method for identifying
phosphate rocks, as recommended by
Professor Eugene A. Smith, state geoio-
gjst of Alabama. The Carolina phos-
phate rocks usually appear in the form
OF irregular no .ules OF q rty-yellOwish
color, varying III size from that of
hulled black walnut Texas s:aniard) to
that of Il peck measure. When you find
a rock OF this character break il and
brsklv rub the freshly broken surfaces
together for minute or two, then ex-
pose the rubbed surfaces to the sense of
smell. If they give of n strong and
agreeable i4hy odOr the chances IRE
that you have a phosphate noduIe.
Don t mistake tine bituninous odor COM
mon to The limestone of Llano for fishy
odor.
The most commonly accepted theory of
the present day accounting for the origin
of phosphate deposits is that they are
the ''fossilZed - excremeut OF seu biriss
left upon island in shallow seas of tho
Tertiary age. If Llauo county wns ever
in position to offer the proper condi-
tious for making phosphate rocks on this
plan. all the deposits. with their under
lying formations, have long since been
worn away
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
"The brotherhood Of Earnersp

It is suggested by the Farme r's Home
journal that the present tendency of
things in the United States would seem
to indicate that the day may eventually
come when farmers will have to go be-
fore an examining board and obtain a
certificate of qualification, and license
to carry on, the same as do doctors, law
yers, steamboat engineers, locomotive
engineers. and 30 on. sWhy
not?'' asks the Journal. tls not
the business quite as important as either
OF those named, and many others?' OF
course there would be hosts of persons, ,
now living by agricultural pursuits, who
would be unable to pass the examination;
what would become OF them2 The Jour-
nal points to a remedy for their trouble
as follows: "lgnorant men may work
as farm Iaborers, under au overseer, but
are unfit for farmers. We have no
comments TO add.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

of arsenic carried by it that, in the form
of London purple, it is employed as sn
insecticide for destroying the cotton
worm. Under all these circumstances it
seems TO US that the Vermont legislature
might just Is we'll have gone one step
further TO the enacting that certain
wholesome articles of food should
not be sold In the state unless first adul-
ternted with gas tar. This would have
been the plain English of the act as lately
passed, and coming, Us 1t would then
have done, within the clear conprehen-
sion of the masses, there might not have
existed the danger of injury 10 the people
from use of the gas tarred goods that
may exist as the case now stands.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

have heard and read great deal about al
faifa. therefore would like to ask you a few
questions with reference to it. to be answered
through The GAZETTE. LIST. VIII alfalfa spread
of ITSELF and can il be killed out when the land
is wanted for something else; or is it liz John
son grass, veritaole pest9 Where can l get
Alfalfa seed, and at what figures does it Sc 1?
Caido, Texas. G. S. ROBINSON.
Under favorable conditions alfalfa
may spread to slight extent, but it is
not pest. Turning under with pillow
promptly destroys 1t, the same as turn
ing under red clover puts an end to that
growth. We can cite you to no one ut
present who has alfalfa seed for sale,
though we have been told that there is
plenty OF It in the country. Do not
know what the seed would cost.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
About the Parsnip.

never see the parsnip under cultivation in
the South, and parties mere have tod ne that it
wall not 10 to article OF too if grown
IN 4 south IN elm it, being p0isoIoIS. There
may be Somethiu in this, as we never use it at
thu North until after it has been exposed to
severe frost il tha ground. II NAV be possible
that fresZiu,, W Iich YOU DO not have, is neces-
siry To destroy its poisonous properties. How
Is il ES-ILLISoIsAN.
Fort Worth, Texas.
The parsnip is grown TO some extent in
the Southern states, but not to the eX-
tent characterizIng its production at the
North. Freezing greatly improves il,
but is not necessary so far rs relates to
the removal OF any poisonous properties.
For lack of severe freezing liz the lower
South, parsuips are better NJ the North
than they are here; then, another thing
against its culture with US lies in the fact
that We have other root crops capable OF
standing out through the winter that we
like better. Toe parsnp is the only
root, save horst-rndish, which last is
simply n condiinent that can stand out
in the Northern garden through winter.
Up there we have heard the parsnip
called 'the lazy mans crop
No. the parsnip is not poisonous in the
Southern states. Analysis made of it in
central Georgia, not fur from the lati-
tude of Fort Worth, gives its chemical
fpllnJvs.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering such
wiich may be of general information. Inquiries
of personal character that require answer by
mail should always have stamps inclosed. Please
ton to any such signature as subscriber or
"A. G. D.. - not tor publication, but to enable
Us to communicate promptly with the inquirer.
lamp Tor return postage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

Cal Brice, with a painful recollection
of the fatality Of his friendship sA..
when asked as to the probable effect d
the late election upon the next pFss.lTI-
tial contest: 'That is u matter an
not prepared to discuss until after Inc
election of 1891. While l am cha.rina-
of the national Democratic COMMITTEES
don I propose to indorse any cauiIIAts'
IL l should decide to make known NV
preference l should Immediately resign
nv position on the committee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

Old Groggs pounding the table II
you ever want to amount to anythiHs
take that butter-dIsh out of your e!'
and drop that club yon are carrying w
side down. Young Grosgs 60 h!mseH.
%, gwacious! That should evaw hs''
to inhewit fawtune fwom such IL"
Their as this! ~ Munssy's Weekly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

Ben Butler is one of the picturesque
figures of Boston, but he is seldom seen
save in the quiet locality OF AshOuf'o I
place, or when he drives up to the uoy-
Of the courthouse aud steps cautou7H
out and ascenus the steps little LABOR.
ously. When he does this a little SHo'
OF spectators Instantly gathers, for eVe'!
one knows the general by sight, anu l's
presence always exeites unusual lnEefe''
among the passers-6y.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

heated from a furnace, or in some other
way, and therefore would stand in no
need of such a coutrivance as the one
employed by MIR. Sawyer, but the email
dairyman will, in our opinion, find it
working greatly to his advantage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
A NICE XMAS PRESENT.

What more useful or aprroIrI-.9
Christmas present than q nice l!sGt run
ming sewing machine. GAZETTE sIn-
scriberI can get just such u machine lpe
only $40. Thoss whaAse nor su Bseribers
cay, gst the ma hfaa III ths price nHmsi
by7 subscribing to either the Daily, >1H-
day or Weekly GAZETTE for one yea.'
Sample machine can Ue seen Ut lA7
GAZETTE counting room.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The Noon and saturn-RailroaIs and the For
ests- ac,era-A Cold wave-1he Worlds
Greatest Water Powrr-.ome Won
ders OF Electricity.

On Thursday night. December 4, the
moon will rise little before midnight
in close conjunction with the planet
Saturn. There are, for the week, no
other astronomical phenomena worthy of
mention.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

According to the Scientific American q
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

At last electricity has got INTO n,7.,.
It has no, been practically applied M ~,
art of music heretofore, except, psrls-.
in the operating mechanism OF chm. :
organs. George Breed OF the T..,.t
States navy has devised q wr.tql -
which the passage of broken rlrrs-.
over d conductor In a magnetic field ~
ducrs musical notes OF varying p.,.. an,
volume. The discovery is looked NJ
as one likely to cut an important r.....,
in the pear future
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-21

Have you lost, found or want
ANYTHING? If so. advertise in the DAILY
LIGHT. and it will be made known.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-21
PHASES OF ADVERTISING

Every kind of an institution, sacred
and profane, has at some time been
used for advertising. The use OF
charity in this way is very old, and
sometimes very commendable. One
New York clothing firm distin-
guished itself about two years ago
by offering 1000 evercoats at twenty
five cents apiece, the entire
proceeds to 60 to any charity the
mayor might select; rival firm, not
to be outdone, offered 900 quarters
to 1000 boys to get the overcoats.
The crowd which collected at
the time of the distribution amour ted
to q mob. There has been moth
ing of late so startling, but
there have been charitable do
natione of which the advertising
spirit has been quite as pronounced.
The newspaper subscriptions to the
Worlds fair were of this description.
In the domain of art much valuable
public education has been carried on
by some of our great advertisers. The
Picture of Bubbles" which a noted
English soap company bought of Sir
John E. Millais for $4,000 and spent
e1S,000 in reproducing, is being chat
tered over two continents, and is in
every way a beautiful and valuable
work, even inlts cheaper productions.
An American insurance company a
couple of months since entered the
field of political science, publishing a
five-volume edition of the works of
Walter Bagehot; it showed excellent
judgment IN the author whom it
selected, for he was man
whose views are no less valuable
to a business man than to a scholar,
since he was both. The issue of this
edition suggested to the Commercial
Advertiser that it was possible that
in the end soul would be developed
in corporations through the CONNER
cial instinct, and that after while
we might have our streets lighted to
advertise some great railway COM
pany, or our streets cleaned to bring
into prominence some aspiring manu-
facturer of soap.-Chr istian Union.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-21

The advertisements of reliable
business firms will be found In the LIGHT.
They are worthy of your patronage.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-21
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.
Laredo has had fine rain.
Salado has had a glorious rain.
The Texas vets. are arriving in the
Pan ther City.
There is not vacant business or
dwelling house at WeatherfOrd.
The electric light system at Sher-
man is being improved.
The main lines of the Austin street
car Co. are to be doubled.
Immigrants are daily arriving at
Childress.
Real estate has gone up at Arson
on account of the glorious rain.
The First National bank of Athens
has commenced operations.
"n Hon. John Cardwel, has died
at Whartoii,
The contract tor building the NJ. X.
& T. at Sherman is signed.
The Southern Pacific is making inn
provements at Beeville.
The city authorities at Gainesville
are making it unhealthy for the
gamblers.
Fires are lit and overcoats brought
out again at Canton in consequence of
norther.
One of the heaviest rains ever
known in that section has fallen at
Huntsville.
The long drouth on the Rio Grande
is broken by big rain at Browns
Vile.
1t is said Jay Gould will build a
branch of the 1. Il G. n. from Pales-
tue to Terrell.
A convict attempting to escape at
Garrett was shot by the guara and
seriously wounded.
Chris. Holt of Paris, charged with
Lee Connor's murder, is granted bail
in the sum of SIS, 500.
The Southern House Building and
Loan association has organized a
local board at Paris.
Seven ty-five delegates have ar
rived at Marshall to the Y. NJ. G. A.
convention, others are expected.
Joe Dilpers, an italian, employed
on the Cotton Belt at Texarkana, was
run over and had both his legs
crushed.
During the past few weeks, Texas
hogs have formed quite respectable
item in the receipts at the st. Louis
national stockyards.
1t is definitely stated that the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe will next week
put surveying corps to lay out a
line from Alvin to Velasco at the
BraZos mouth.