Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

Arrangements are being made to lay a
cable from Nassau 20 Jupiter Inlet, on the
coast of Florida.
The biggest orange tree in America is
claimed to be in Terrebonne, La. 1t is tif-
teen feet in circumference and forty feet
high. The yield this year is expected to be
10000 oranges.
4 recent eruption on the suns face was
photographed aud lasted for fully fifteen
minutes. Its angular height showed it to
be disturbance causing the vapors to as
cend fully $4,000 miles.
The little folks will be rejoiced to learn
that pineapple juice is remedy for sore
throat, pronounced infallible in Louisiana.
Mothers will undoubtedly hear good deal
now of attacks of that disease. An agree
able medicine is one of the things for which
we have longed.
Trying to interview the Prince of Wales
is difficult job as trying to pick Yale
lock with toothpick. He is not to be got
at by the willing scribe, and the American
syndicate which offers $500 for an interview
with him Incident be in a hurry to buy
draft for the amount
1t was long thought that the water from
melted snow was the purest of all water.
This idea has been proved incorrect, as the
IcNtESc Is Jut CdSc. IOuUW Is TtdIly puIl-
fer of the atmosphere, attracting from 1t,
as it falls, various impurities, and these
are found in the snow water.
The heaviest charged words in our Ian
guage are those briefest ones, eyes" and
No" One stands for the surrender of the
will, the other for denial; one stands for
qualification, the other for character \
stout 'No'' means a stout character; the
ready ''Yes' a weak one, gid it as we may.
A remarkable example of the enduring
qualities of the daguerrotype is to be found
in the old graveyard at Waterford, Conn.
In the headstone that marks the grave of a
woman who died more than forty years ago
her portrait is inlaid, covered with nova
bic metal shield. The picture is almost as
perfect as when it was taken.
Enormous sacks have been placed in the
Kazan cathedral. ST. Petersburg, Russia,
for the receipt of scraps of food,
which will be sent to the famine
of bread not larger than a radish,
which had been toasted by the contributors,
were found among the donations.
A widow with two girls married wild
over with two boys, and had q second
family by her new husband. When terri
bic rumpus was heard in the nursery one
day the nervous husband shouted upstairs:
Whatever is the matter2" The little wife
answered sweetly over the balusters: ''lt's
only my children and your children having
a row with our children. DEAR
Canada gives to its geological survey only
100000 year, while the various geological
surveys in our country absorb nearly one
million dollars annually. Yet Canada
makes a fine showing with this modest
sum. The annual geological records are III
part records of original discovery and re-
search, and with their fine maps and photo
gravures are as interesting as many books
of travel. Canada contains the largest I'M
known areas of the American continent.
Carroll D. Wright says: at is probable
that the time has arrived when every per-
son the United States who desires re-
munerative employment can not find it.
Five hundred thousand people must com
pete for 100000 places. What l am saying
has nothing to do with the great army of
the unemployed. which through all ages
has hung upon the outskirts Of civilization.
l am dealing simply with currents in the
way of occupation"