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

A railroad tunnel being built under the
city of Baltimore is to cost upward OF
Sc, 000,0 600.
Though the Fifty-second congress has
not yet held a session. seven members of it
have died.
Fashionable men in Paris anasEondon
are now using electricity as a cure for ex-
cessive tipping.
A cubic foot of newly-fallen snow weighs
five and one-half pounds and has twelve
times the bulk of an equal weight of water.
A bear walking on his hind feet and car
rying porcupine in his front paws was
seen by resident of Copper Falls, Mich,
few days ago. q =
Five hundred theatersF have been burned
down all the world over in the last ono hun
dred years, entailing = loss Of about four
thousand lives. ~ b
Florida will reproduce Fort Masfen of St
Augustine for its headquartSfs at the
Worlds fair, and West VirginH will erect
a building of the old colonial tfpe.
Phosphorus is now being made by cleo
tricity The principal mdnufactory is in
England, where it is anticipated fully one
thousand tons will be made annually.
South Dakota is being well supplied with
artesian wells. They range from six hun
dfed to two thousand feet in depth, and
throw water from fifty to one hundred feet
high.
a New York journal reports that the sur
face ROADS of that city carry more paSSen-
gers annually than are carried by the COM
bined steam railroads of the state in the
same time.
Last year there was potato famine.
This year, in one California district near
Sacramento, 60, 600 bushels of potatoes were
not dug up because it would not pay to mar
ket them.
The Corinth (NIiss) Herald tells of a man
IN its state named Philip Henson who had
beard ten feet long, but who found it so in
convenient and uncomfortable that recently
he cut it off.
An electric insect-killer is the latest nov
city in that line. 1t is formed by a cover of
wire gauze, which is placed over lighted
candle. The gauze is an electric circuit,
and when insects touch it they are killed.
The Socialists of Germany are boasting
that, though the anti-Socialist laws have
been abolished by the decree of the kaiser,
the disturbances that were predicted as the
consequence OF his action have not taken
place.
A Dundee IN. W sleep-walker keeps
treadmill beside his bed where he will step
on it the minute he gets up. He can then
walk in his sleep all night without being in
danger Of tumbling down well or of a
roof.
Ice one and one-half inches thick will sup
port man, four inches thick will support
cavalry, five inches thick an eighty-four-
pound cannon, ten inches thick will sup
port a multitude and eighteen inches thick
will support a railroad train.
A Newbury (NIich) man named Bolton
nearly cut tree down, and was advised to
finish the job, but put it off. A few days
after his wife was digging potatoes in the
field and stopped under the tree to tie her
shoe, when the old birch, without warn
ing, fell, killing her instantly.
Very delicate and beautiful knitting-worl,
has been produced by the women of the
Shetland islands. A long shawl that
weighed only two ounces and three-quar-
tiers was sold last year for SIS. The finest
wool is obtained by rueing-pulling out the
fleece by the root from the live sheep.
Some packing houses which preserve. in--
stead of canning their peaches, are taking
advantage of the unusual crop to barrel i'm
mense quantities Of half cooked frlit, which
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Peaches treated in this way viii keep foe,
several years and then work fup into ufef
serves, jam and marmalade. NJ
It is said that fully $4,000 deaths Ncur-
red in one of the recent epidemics QESmall-
pox in Guatemala, but Notwithstanding this
frightful mortality and the frequency of
smallpox scourges, the government has
taken no pains to introduce any scheme of
vaccination, and the state is without any
vaccination law at all
Convent hair'' is an article well known
to the trade and highly priced When
young woman takes the veil in the Roman
Catholic church her hair is cut OF and the
tresses are sold for the benefit Of the con-
vent As the hair is cut pretty close to the
head, the tresses are usually long. and thus
convent hair" has special value.
The Vienna congress Of analytical chem
lists appointed a COMMITTEES to consider
whether sanitary control ought not to be
extended to hair-dressers' shops and pub
lie baths, and whether the daily disinfec-
ton of combs and brushes used in shops
and public places ought not to be made OBJ.
igatory by legislation.
monographs are to be used in Mexican
postofaces for the benefit of those who can
not read or write. The Witerate Mexican
win 70 to the postoface, talk his message
into the receiver Of the photograph, and
when the cylinder reaches its destination
tAs perssn addressed will b sent for and
ths Aasssgs VII baxspaAtedt - him from
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