Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-11


Mo-. Its name is Julia and it is thirty-six
| years of age, and its voice is in perfect
state Of preservation.
A syndicate has offered to buy the Wash
ington monument for 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 of1icer OF
| OF the great Methodist council which meets
| In Washington. There will be few men
| there who can fill it.
| A process has recently been discovered
| for making -four of bananas. Chemical ex-
perlments show that this -four contains
more nutriment than rice, and that when
| eaten with beans, corn or sage, it forms q
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
are about one-half as many in Great
Britain.
An electrical journal tells of the construc-
ton of an electric walking-stick, of which
the knob consists of small electric lamp in
thick glass bulb, the battery being two
cells of peculiar shape down the can itself.
The lamp gives sufficient light to read 4
newspaper in a train, OF to light the bearer
upstairs at night.
The first piece of stee; manufactured in
this country of which there is any record
was made by Samuel Highley of Simsbury,
Conn, in June, 1725. Although patent
was granted him and Joseph Dewey of He
oron, 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 to the
government following the business of buy
ing either gold or silver. He wants it to
cease being trader, to cease bulling or
bearing the silver market to go out of i
business that belongs solely to individuals,
singly or aggregated. and to confne itself
strictly to the functions created for it by
the Denver News.
The battered hull of Nelson's famous flag
ship, the Victory, which will be exhibited
at the Worlds fair, is 126 years old. The
exact spot where Nelson fell is marked on
Der of Nine. Tussaud's wax figures repre-
sentlng in realistic way the death of the
admiral surrounded by his officers
Various governments pay their chief as
follows: The United States, $4,000 year;
Persia, S3O,OOo,0O0; Russia, Sl0,000,000;
Siam, SO, 000,0 600; Spain, $780, 600; Italy,
s3,O0O,000; Great Britain, $1,000 600;
Morocco. 2,5O0,0O0; Japan, $500 900;
Egypt, Sl.515, 600; Germany, sl,0OO,C0O;
S1x- D.,
Brazil, each s600,000; France. 100000;
Hayti, 1000; Switzerland, $4,000.
A remarkable weather change is reported
to nave occurred at Orenburg, Russia, on
November 9 last. After temperature of
36 dogs. with heavy rain there was a fall
to IL dogs. below zero in twenty minutes.
Some thirty kirghises who We're returning
to Orenburg were drenched with the rain.
then frozen on their horses. Ten of them |
had been found. and the others were being
sought for. Many horses and other ami !
malS Succumbed to the cold.
The eminent electrical authority of Trim |
inty college, Dublin, Prof. Wigham, is re-
ported to have said that electricity can |
never take the place of oil in lighthouses. |
Oil lights, it seems, are visible at 4 useful |
distance in foggy weather, while the cleo
trio light is invisible, and therefore useless
when most needed. The London shipmas-
ters' society indorses the correctness Of the
professors statement.
A New York merchant, in the hearing of
a newspaper man, made a calculation OF the
number of stitches in a shirt, for which a
customer thought 80 cents too high price
He found: There are four rows of stitching
in the collar 1900 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. 6s; buttonholes in wristbands,
14S; hemming Sits, 264; gathering the
sleeves, $40; setting on wristbands, 1868;
stitching on shoulder straps, 1850; hemming
the bosom, 1893; sewing in sleeves and max
ing gussets, 3050; sewing up seams of
sleeves, 1854; cording the bosom, 11O4;
other seams and setting the side gussets,
l272 Twenty-one thousand stitches in all