Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22
borers exclusively. The heat is so intense
that even negroes are unable TO bear it.

borers exclusively. The heat is so intense
that even negroes are unable TO bear it.
| Continental rules for lawn tennis, which
| is becoming popular. are very rigid In re-
| gard to costume. At Weisbaden . man
cannot play without collar TO his shirt
Bare arms are looked upon with disfavor,
| and ball that accidentally flies out Of
| ground and hits spectator Is sure to raise
tremendous Indignation.
There is never any mercy shown the
thief. and his lot is made as dangerous and
tions, but no announcements A new kind
of cash register, which lops off the fingers
of those who attempt to rob it, is in opera
ton in Wilmington, Del, where thief
left deposit of one Of his fingers the other
night in one OF them.
A Boston man who has Just failed in BUSH
ness with liabilities of $500, 0OO evidently
wants to give his creditors chance, though
it is small one. He offers to settle with
them for mill on the dollar. which he de-
clares is as much as his assets can Say.
The Boston papers believe that this is the
smallest offer ever made in the case Of a
failure, and they are probably right
A woman bought fifteen buttons in Cir
ard dry goods store at a cent apiece the
other day. Next day she stopped in for
some skirt braid, costing cents, and for
payment presented three of the buttons
bought on the previous day and cent
The Storekeeper says that he has had thirty
years experience in the business, but this
kind of legal tender is absolutely new to
him.
The Spanish reciprocity treaty makes
such large reduction in the duty on -four
shipped to CUBA that American exporters
are preparing for rushing trade. Indeed,
New York correspondent says they have
received Cuban orders for 800, 600 barrels Of
-four, to be delivered during January next.
The present duty is 81. 20 a barrel, but when
the reduction goes into effect it will be
only 81.
The civilized nations of the earth have
agreed to cooperate in taking a photo
graphic chart of the heavens. Some twenty
telescopes are to work four years, and will
result. in mapping probably twenty-five
millions of stars: with longer exposures
probably two thousand millions could be
photographed. 1t is an achievement the
thought of which fills US with awe and
wonder. Yet il serves to remind Us of our
inSignifiCance, when we remember that
were our instruments placed upon some dis
tant star, our earth would not even figure
rs one of those two thousand million points
of light that tell US something of the won
ders of the heavens. Westminster
Review.
Professor }. L. Ray OF Ashland, Va, who
has been studying the moon through tele-
scope. says there has recently been extrn.
ordinary volcanic action on the planet EH
says that on the night of June 20 tremen-
dous energy over the whole surface pre-
sented itself. II saw that what of late
have been considered great gray plains are
in reality great seas or else molten mass,
as | saw immense sheets, seemingly of
water. thrown through the lunarian atmos-
phere and find a resting place at least
Thousand miles from where they formerly
were. | saw several great mountains sink
the whole moon swayed to and fro, and
everything in the lunar heavens was in the
widest confusion. gazed with inteD,est
awe upon this awful spectacle for hours.
until the confusion finally subsidized, and
there seemed to be a dead calm as before.
| feel fully confident that the moon was i,
thrown several degrees out of her course,
and she is also perreptible nearer, perhaps
10000 miles. No other astronomer appears
to have noticed these disturbances.