Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-22

account OF Its location.
According to an Australian papar 500 Chi
namen make an excellent living in Sydney
as professional gamblers. their gains being
SO considerable that they are able regularly
to remit large sums to China.
A correspondent in London writes that
oysters. natives" are very dear, selling
at three shillirgs and sixpercc dozen, or
threepence half penny apiece. In our
money a single English oyster is worth Z
cents.
According to Herr Japing the hourly rate
of water falling over Niagara Falls is l0O,-
0900C0 tons, representing l6,000O00 horse
power, and the total daily production of
coal in the world would just about suffice to
pump the water back again.
On each ballot to be cast. according to the
provisions of the new election law in Ohio,
are to be these Distinguishing devices that
have been adopted by the parties: Repub-
licau, eagle; Democratic. rooster; Prohibl-
tion, rose: Peoples, pillow and hammer.
Fifty English sparrows were carried to
Australia in 1850. They have multiplied
until they now number countless millions.
At first they lived entirely on insects. The
later birds prefer fruit, vegetables and
grain, and have ruined hundreds Of farmers
and gardeners.
1t is said that gun has been invented
for firing under water, and that one is In
course Of construction at Bethlehem, Pa,
for the United States ship Destroyer. THE
gun will be thirty five feet long, and js ex-
pected to throw projectile twenty-five
feet long, charged with 400 pounds ofhitro-
glycerine, 1000 feet through the water, !
According to the last reports. thereof
at present on the Federal pension roll $50. 0U0
otk y .,s~-
there were enlisted in the Federal army
5000 600 soldiers. The war lasted four
years, and the Confederate forces num-
bered in the aggregate 650.0W Where the
fighting came in is easily seen.
The Chicago Herald says that Mr. Yerkes,
the street car magnate there, has ordered
the construction of double-decked cars,
such as are used in nearly all European
cities. For summer use such cars are very
pleasant. but it is doubtful if they will be
used much during Chicago winter, though
they would have the merit of nearly dOu-
bling the capacity.
An ingot of nickel steel weighing more
than twenty-five tons has been cast in the
Homestead steel works, and it is to be
rolled into a single armor plate for tn;
monitor Monterey. 1t is the largest of the
nickel steel ingots yet cast in the mill, but
an effort is to be made to cast an ingot to
weigh more than fifty tons.
According to census bulletin No. 100 there
are 45l0 nurseries in the United States,
covering l12, sos acres of land and represent
ing an investment of $50, 425. Gag. In Penn
sylvania there are 81 nurseries, occupying
659S acres. valued at Si,2!0,S05. The total
value of the yearly product of the nurseries
is upward of 100000, 600, if sold at market
rates. but 20 per cent Of the product is
wasted.
1t has been ascertained by actual meas
urement that Niagara Falls since 1872 has
receded 6S-l0O inches annually, while
there has been an average yearly recession
of the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls of 2
feet lG-l0O inches. or in forty years the
American falls has receded 80 10 100 feet,
and the Canadian falls in the same time
l0+.5l feet. From this it is inferred that
the falls will eventually disappear.
F'rog-hunting in the swamp districts of
Southeast Missouri is getting to be lucra-
tive and important industry. The frogs
come mostly from New Madrid county,
where the crop is now being harvested. At
the French market in St. Louis Saturday
filled two barrels. A half dozen men with
pinchers were pulling the breeches of the
green, old, original greenbacks. They are
esteemed great delicacy.
The news comes from Philadelphia of
great change in the manners and customs
of the Quakers. The women have discarded
their little black bonnets and sedate black
dresses with white collars for more modern
costumes, and their thou" and ''thee' of
addresses are as unfamiliar as their old
style Of dress. Many of the orthodox Qua
kers have begun to show preference for
the Hicks doctrine. 1t is mainly in the
South now that the Quakers follow in the
footsteps of their old leaders.
The micro5e can't live in idleness in this
Industrious world. Science has fixed her
that it can be used in the preparation of
fax fiber. Heretofore it has taken several
months to rot the straw so that the fiber
could be separated. 1t is now discovered
that the rotting is brought about by mi
crobes, and that they can be artificially
bred for this purpose in vast numbers, so
that enough microbes can be turned on the
fiber to do the business in few hours
This discovery, it is said. will soon make
linen as cheap US cotton.
The last Indian census shows that in the
past ten years the natural growth of India's
population has been 27.500.00 The popu-
lation now numbers 2S6,000, 900. One can
hardly appreciate what these figures mean
except by comparison. India contains more
people than all Europe, exclusive of Russia
Its provinces are as populous as great Eu-
ropean states. Bengal contains popula-
lion larger than that Of the United States
and all British North America. and fully
one-fifth of the entire human race lives
upon this little peninsula jutting out from
the coast of Asia into the Indian ocean.
New York Sun.
The Atlanta Herald, after making the
statement that the Alliance of Georgia is
made up of Republicans as well as Demo
Gratis, asks: is it right for Republican
to votes for delegates TO Democratic con-
ventions2 The Herald is unalterably OPP
posed to such an outrage, and the fact that
he IS an Allianceman doesn't affect the prin-
ciple in the slightest. The next Democratic
held in Georgia. must be held
with due regard to the old-time Democratic
usage" The Mobile Register, quoting
this. declares that a worse state of things
prevails in that state, that in many of the
northern counties the Republicans and In
are tantamount to Republican
and are entitled to no respect
from the Democratic party"
handy little Continuance that will be of
great value to the postal service has been
invented by William A. Smith, private sec.
rotary of Postmaster Field OF Philadelphia,
and will soon be put into USE The machine
Is called thumb stamp, because it IS SO
small and easily worked that q clelk can
put it on his thumb or finger and handle
mail matter with as much dexterity as if
his hands are free. BY means of minia-
ture typewriter ribbon and type the stamp
will imprint its mark upon every letter or
parcel which passes through its wearer's