Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-30
NEWS AND NOTES.

There are 10000 women in American col
leges.
There are 16, 600, 900 cows in the United
States.
There are 10000 words in the Japanese
language.
In Prussia there are 100000 more women
THAN men.
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 estimated that to collect one pound
of honey from clover, so, 900 heads of clover
must be deprived of nectar, and 3,75O,OO0
visits must be made by the bees.
All that at present exists of the famous
tin-plate works" at Piqua, Ohio, where
Mckinley dipped piece of roofing steel
into pot OF hot lead, is an old iron kettle
with little cold lead in it, housed in
leau-to No fire under the kettle, no
worhnen, no tin.
The Stockton (Cal.) Republican points
out the fact that wherever there is icriga-
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
Woman suffrage is not prospecting in
Massachusetts. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
who has been conducting campaign there,
says she is deeply panied to see that the
women do not vote even on the school
question more than they do. The fact is,
the women would rather talk than vote.
A ledge of stone has been discovered at
Checto, Ore, which as yet no one has been
able to identify. The rock is of a sandstone
formation, having greasy touch, and IS
susceptible of a high polish. 1t can be
sawed or shaved with knife, but when eX-
posed TO the action OF fire becomes hard.
Artificial bitter almonds are now pro-
duced at a trifling cost, and with such de-
ceptive skill that they can scarcely be de-
tected when used as an adulterant of the
genuine. They consist chiefly of grape su-
gar This is favored with a very small
quantity of nitrobenZole, and when pressed
in molds the product is made to resemble
the natural seeds very closely.
If an Arab woman who has lost her hus-
band decides to marry again she visits the
grave of her husband the night before her
second marriage and prays him not to be
offended. AS, however, she feels that he
will be offended she takes with her don
key laden with two goat-skins filed with
water. The prayer ended she proceeds to
pour the water on the grave to keep the
first husband cool under the circumstances
about to take place, and having well satu-
rated him, departs.
It has just been ascertained that the
method of writing mentioned in the book
of Job is still practiced by some of the ma
tives of Ceylon. ''O,'' says the patriarch,
that my words were now written! o,
that they were printed in Il book! that they
were craven with anSiroropen." 1t is the
I.+ NJ 1,bin ic hIr ba
Ceylonese. 1t is guided by notch cut in
the thumb nail, and the marks so engraved
are rendered plain by being rubbed with
dark dye extracted from the juice of the
palm.
The growth of::the Argentine Republic in
the past thirty years has been remarkable.
According to recent statistics the population
of the republic is now 1000, 900, as against
1,350000 in 1861. There are now 1000, 600
acres under cultivation, where in 1861 there
were 100000, and while in that year there
We're but eighteen miles of railroad in the
country there are now over 5000 miles in
operation and COCO more, including the great
transcontinental route, in course of con-
struction. The public debt has grown
pretty vigorously, too, however. 1t has
increased from 81, 00O,0 to s613, 100000.
The last Indian census shows that in the
past ten years the natural growth of 1ndia's
population has been 27.500,000. The popu-
iation now numbers 2S6 900, 600. 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 a popula-
ton 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.
The travelling salesman of Chicago i'm
plement house has just returned from the
island of Madagascar, where he attempted
to sell mining machinery. He says that it
is useless to try to sell labor-saving nipple
ments in a country where labor is so much
cheaper than tools. The superintendent of
a mine laughed in his face when he named
the price of a drill. and said that he could
hire a whole gang of men for lifetime for
that amount of money. Laborers in that
country receive only from to 10 cents
day for fourteen hours work.