Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

| NEWS AND NO Is.
There are 10000 women in American col
leges.
There are 10000 900 cows in the United
States.
There are 10000 words in the japanese
| language.
In Prussia there are 5000 more women
than men.
Moonstones actually figure among dress
| trimmings.
Saturn's ring has disappeared for the first
| time in fifteen years?
The newest patent shoe has device OF
| springs in the heel which lessons the jar to
| the body.s
| 1t takes million pounds of ink every
| year to print Uncle Sans paper money and
| revenue stamps.
There is said to be spring IN Mendocino
county, Cal, from which rises such obnox-
ious gases that one Whit of it will extin-
guish life.
The first thing Japanese does in the
morning is to take down the entire front of
his building, leaving the whole interior
open TO view.
The marble capitol building at Hartford,
Conn, is 300 feet long, and the engineers
declare that it IS three inches longer in
summer than in winter.
1t is said that during the attempt to cut a
canal through the Isthmus of Panama POO,
900 ounces of Qunine were used annually in
combating malarial fever.
The Notre Dame cathedral Montreal, has
the largest bell in America. 1t weighs ~
$50 pounds, is eight feet seven inches in
diameter, and six feet high.
1t is estimated that to collect one pound
OF honey from clover, 62, 600 heads of clover
must be deprived of nectar, and 3, $50, 600
visits must be made by the bees.
A Sedgwick county Kansas) farmer who
didn't have enough ready money to go to
the circus bought sack of flour for 81. 30
on trust, sold it for cash for 81 and got into
the show that way.
In person and attire the scrupulous clean
illness of the Malay woman is proverbial
throughout the Orient. Twice daily she
bathes, changes her garments and washes
and rinses her luxuriant black hair
The greatest manicures in the world ap-
pear to be the Sakanis of the Congo region.
Among their tribal customs is the pairing
of the nails down to the quick with an in
pose.
Smoke is finding its champions in Eng
land, Notwithstanding the efforts made to
prevent its diffusion in the atmosphere. 1t
is claimed that the carbon in the smoke is
apowerful deodorizer and, as such, is
blessing rather than a nuisance.
The costliest dresses in the world are
worn by the women of Sumatra. They are
made Of pure gold and silver. After the
metal is mined and smelted it is formed
into fine wire, which is woven into cloth
and afterward made into dresses.
The remains of about hundred elephants
have been found at Mont-Dall, in Brittany,
where they are gathered on a surface of
about 1900 square meters. All the bones
are broken, and it is thought that the ami
mails must have been eaten by prehistoric
men.
If it were possible for man to construct a
globe 500 feet in diameter and to place upon
any part of its surface an atom 1-43S0 inch
in diameter and 1-120 inch in height it
would correctly denote the proportion a
man bears to the earth upon which he
stands.
In sinking plumb lines down shafts the
accuracy of the work is often seriously i'm
paired by spiders attaching their webs to
the lines and drawing them towards the
wall, often with sufficient tension to intro
duce material errors in the position of the
plumb hobs.
All that at present exists of the famous
tin-plate works at Piqua, Ohio, where
Mckinley dipped a piece of roofing steel
into pot of hot lead, is an old iron kettle
with little cold lead in it, housed in
lean-to. No fire under the kettle, no
workmen, no tin.
The Stockton (Cal) Republican points
out the fact that wherever there is irriga-
ton there is need of looking closely to the
drainage. If this be adequate there need
be no malaria, but without means, natural
or provided, for carrying off the surplus
water ill must result
A novel cure for nervous diseases is be-
ing practiced at Worisholen, Bavaria. The
treatment is the outcome of the study of an
old priest and consists chiefly in spraying
water over the body in various places, dress
ing at once without drying and brisk walk
ing Immediately afterward.
Woman suffrage is not prospecting in
Massachusetts,. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
who has been conducting a campaign there,
says she is deeply panied to see that the
women do not vote even on the school
.uestion more than they do. The fact is,
the women would rather talk than vote.
ledge OF stone mas been discovered at
Checto. Ore, which as yet no one has been
able to identify. The rock is of sandstone
formation, having a greasy touch, and is
susceptible of high polish. 1t can be
sawed or shaved with knife, but when ex-
posed to the aston of fire becomes hard.
According to DR.. Hermann Wagner, the
best authority on population, the worlds
inhabitants now number 1,4I9 729, 400
This is over As O0O. 900 more than the esti-
mate in 1882, indicating an annual increase
of o, 200, 900. These figures, however, are
only guesses. as there is no means of ascer-
tanning the true figures on nearly one-haf
of the earth's surface.
1t was the dream Of topper that brought
about the discovery of the shot-tower pro-
cess Of making shot. Before then sheets of
lead were rolled thin, punched out into little
cubes and these in turn were rolled in a
barrel until they became spheroidal The
spending an evening with boon companions