Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
This year is $685. in the Hebrew faith.

This year is $685. in the Hebrew faith.
The weight of $1,000, OOO,OOO is equal tc
that of ,645 American men.
The Oldest mule in the United States is a
venerable object of interest in Ray county
Mo. Its name is Julia and it is thirty-six
years of age, and its voice is in q perfect
state of preservation.
A syndicate has offered TO buy the Wash
ington monument for q shot tower
New York city annually consumes about
five hundred thousand bushels of peanuts.
The school boys of Maiden, Mass, will
hereafter be taught to sew during school
hours.
One hundred million bushels of grain
were received in Buffalo this year up to
September 80.
A large chair which John Wesley sat in
in bygone days has been brought across the
water for the use of the presiding officer of
of the great Methodist council which meets
in Washington. There will be few men
there who can fill it.
4 process has recently been discovered
for making flour of bananas. Chemical eX-
pcriments show that this -four contains
more nutrimcnt than rice, and that when
eaten with beans corn or sage, it forms a
very palatable and nourishing diet.
There are now in this country ten Epis-
copal clergymen who can minister to the
deaf and dumb, and four of these are them
selves deaf mutes. In this country about
10000 persons are totally deaf, and there
are about one-half as many in Greass
Britain. ..~sssssssss
An electrical journal sss,s'etft he construc-
Of a. ~
the knob cogsjsss 81 small electric lamp in
thick gSsss bulb, the battery being two
cellsaeaed peculiar shape deWa the can itself.
~ lamp gives .stfficfent 1iSfiit % rsza a
ia train, OF to light the bearer
upstairs at night.
The first piece of steel manufactured in
this country of which there is any record
was made by Samuel Highley of Simsbury
Conn, in June, 1925. Although a patent
was granted him and Joseph Dewey of He
bron, Conn, by the state court, they did
not take advantage Of it and did not con-
tinue the business.
The free coinage man is opposed Eto4the
government following the business'of buy
ing either gold or silver. He wants it 10
s Ssar;D being fhs sv trader a, to
business thatsXlengs solsly tesindividuals,
sGgly or aggregated, and t9S1onfine itself
STRICTLY to Up functions crsEfed for it by
the constitution. Il Denyer Jews.
s. Thesbatterea hull of Nels5n's famous flag
'shipathe Victory,s~hich Will be EXHIBITED
at ,the World STAR is 126 Years ed. Tug
exact aposwhere Nelson feffsis marked IN
the deck. and in the cockpit will be a num-
Der of Nine. Tussaud's wax figures repre-
senting in realistic way the death of the
admiral surrounded by his officers.
Various governments pay their chief as
follows: The United States, $50, 600 year;
Persia, s30,000,OOO; Russia, $4,000 900;
Siam, $4,000, goo; Spain. $500, 900; Italy
s3,Oc0,0OO; Great Britain, s3.OOO,OO0;
Egypt, sl,575,OO0; Germany, $1,000, 600;
Saxony, s100,O00; Portugal, Sweden and
Brazil, each s60O.O00; France 5000, 1000;
Hayti, 1000; Switzerland, $1,000.
A remarkable weather change is reported
to have occurred at Orenburg, Russia, on
November 9 last. After temperature of
81 dogs. with heavy rain there was fall
to l6 dogs. below zero in twenty minutes.
Some thirty Kirghises who were returning
to Orenburg were drenched with the rain,
had been found. and the others were being
sought for. Many horses and other ami
N ais Succumbed TO the cold.
The eminent electrical authority of Trim
inty college, Dublin, Prof. Wignam, is re-
ported to have said that electricity can
never take the place of oil in lighthouses.
Oil lights, it seems. are visible at useful
distance in foggy weather, while the cleo
trio light is invisible. and therefore useless
when most needed. The London shipmas-
ters' society Endorses the correctness Of the
professors statement
A New York merchant, in the hearing Of
a newspaper man, made calculation of the
number Of stitches in shirt, for which a
customer thought 80 cents too high price.
He found: There are four rows Of stitching
in the collar 300 stitches; cross ends of the
collar, $50; button and button-hole, $50;
Gathering the neck and sewing on the collar,
1905; stitching wristbands, 1928; ends of
the same. IS; buttonholes in wristbands,
14S; hemming Sits, 264; gathering tine
sleeves, $40; setting on wristbands, 1865;
stitching on shoulder straps, 1880; hemming
the bosom, 1893; sewing in sleeves and max
ing gussets, $3.50; sewing up seams of
sleeves, 2554: cording the bosom, 1I04;
tapping the sleeves. 1926; sewing up all
other seams and setting the side gussets,
l2Ta Twenty-one thousand stitches in all.