Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29

1-500 of an inch in diameter, much finer
of course, than the hair on ones head. This
| wonderful wire is used in making the re-
| ceiving instruments of ocean cables, the
galvanometers used in testing cables, etc.
| The ruins of Bluebeard's castle are said
to still remain in lonely mountain road
near 1nterlaken, Switzerland
The smallest church in the world is at st.
| Lawrence, near Ventnor, Isle of Wight. It
has seating capacity of twelve persons.
The number of postofices in the United
States is officially stated to be 81, 391, show
ing an increase of 1000 over last year at this
time.
The highest form of obituary eulogy in
Kansas now is to say: mo man ever heard
him complain" Growers are despised and
rejected of men.
In the 10000 letters that reached the
dead-letter Office last year there was money
amounting to SIS, 642, and checks and notes
of the value of 81 Al ST..
An interesting journalistic oenterprise in
New York is an American paper called the
Ararad. It was formerly published at
Constantinople, but was suppressed for po-
litical reasons in 1876 by the Turkish gov
eminent and the editor was beaten TO death.
Its publication has been resumed here by
Mr.. p. NJ. Ayvad, the son OF the murdered
editor.
A new machine for cutting shingles is
described as cutting q, 900 in a ten-hours'
run. The wood is steamed for five hours
before being placed under knife that runs
at 40 strokes minutes, at which rate the
shingles are cut smooth and ready for treat
ment in the ordinary course. The steam
ing drives the sap out of the wood and pre-
vents warping.
A well-digger at work near Genessee,
Idaho, discovered an underground lake at
depth of sixteen feet beneath the surface.
When he struck the water it poured into
the well so fast that he had trouple in get
ting out. The water rose rapidly until it
ran out over the surface of the ground, and
after awhile Slightly subsidized. The water
is clear and pure, and the overflow brought
eyeless fish to the surface.
Nearly all the nations have taken their
censuses in the last year or two. and it is,
therefore, possible to give the total popula-
ton of the globe. This has just been done
by two distinguished German statiSts, Pro-
fessors Wagner and Supan, whose work,
just published, contains the result of all the
latest counts. They give the total popula-
ton of the globe at l ,4SO, 600, 900. of which
Europe has 35I0000O0. Asia S26, DOC, 900,
Africa 64,000,000, America 122, 900, 600,
Australia 5000. 000 the Oceanic islands
100000. More than one-fOurth of the hui
man race is found in China and Japan, the
former counting 350,00O,0 600 and the latter
40, 900, 900; more than one-fifth is in India,
1924 000, 900, of which 2S6, 100000 belong to
British India. Comparing the chief Euro
pean states with ours, the only one that ex-
ceeds our 5000, 600 is Russia, SO, 600, 600.
The others range as follows: The German
empire 49, 000,C00 Austria-Hungary 4l.000,-
900, France 3S.000,O00 Great Britain and
ireland 3S,000,0 600, Italy 30, 600, 900 and Spain
100000.
The density of population is greatest in
Europe, which averages thirty-seven per
square kilometer, or ninety-seven per square
mile, while it is nineteen per square kilo-
meter in Asia, five in Africa and three in
America. The comparative density of pop
ulation of the principal countries is as fol-
lows. "a kil0meter being 1855, or tive-thir-
teenths of a square Inile): Belgium 207 to
the square kilometer, the kingdom of the
Netherlands 1873, Great Britain and Ireland
1874, Italy 105, Japan los, the German en-
pire 81, China 80, British India as, Switzer-
land ~, France Il, Austria &c, Denmark 81,
Portugal As, Spain 35, West Indies %
United States {. Among the German states
Saxony stands even ahead of Belgium, with
with England second if separated from the
rest of the United Kingdom, with 200.
Rhode Island is first among the American
States in density OF population. with LOG;
Next Massachusetts with l04, ranging about
even with Italy and Japan; next is New
Jersey, Il, the same as France and Switzer-
land Connecticut 81, the same as Denmark;
New York Al and Pennsylvania 40, little
less than Portugal.