Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
The world uses daily 351O steel pens.

The world uses daily 35lO steel pens.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are the only
fish that never sleep.
Iceland contains neither prisons, police
! men nor watchmeu.
Cuba's sugar crop this year is 267, 900 tons
| greater than in 1850.
The wheelwright should be selected as
| spokesman for the trades unions.
The city marshal of Rich Hill, Mo-, bears
| the imposing name of Heterogeneous
Seventeen of the mummies in the Berlin
| museum were found to be fabricationS.
The number of swine in the United
States on January last were 50,O0O,0OO.
It is reported from ST. Petersburg that
| $4,000, 600 persons are unable to pay their
| taxes.
1t is estimated that $500 car loads of
oranges will be shipped from California
| this season.
It doesn't follow that man wants the
| earth because he takes the world as he
finds it.
The Polish Nationalists of Warsaw sent
q laurel wreath to be laid on the grave of
Parnell.
a Litchfield Comm man who is looked
up 10 stands seven feet seven inches in his
slippers.
Samuel Woodwork, the writer of 1.-The
Old Oaken Bucket, is buried in San Fran
cisco.
American quails are being introduced
into China for the benefit Of American and
English sportsmen.
The mail line between Halifax and En-
gland has just been discontinued for the
first time i'll fifty years.
The sufferers by the great Boston fire,
nineteen years ago, who still survive, were
paid $3.50 during the past year
Recent experiments in Queensland have
shown that mOther-of-pearl shells can be
made to produce pearls artiticially.
November ), 1851, the ice in the Missouri
river between Kansas and Missouri was
frozen so hard that teams crossed on it.
y. Gebauer of Bridgeport, Conn, has is
sued Il challenge to any person in the United
States to meet him in an egg-eating contest
A Connecticut man has invented ma
chine which automatically feeds his chick
ems at nj ht and morning. 1t is run by
clock work.
George Keenan, is said to have cleared
$4,000 from his writings and lectures on
the Russian exile system. Last season he |
travelled over ,000 miles on his lecture
tour and spoke 200 times.
More than one thousand of the chrysan-
themum plants shown at the Hampden |
county 4Mass) flower show in Springfield |
this week were grown and exhibited by |
school children of that section.
On the anniversary of Lord Nelson's |
death every October his flagship is elabo- |
rately decorated with evergreens, and the |
white ensig is freshly displayed as it was |
all the night long prior to the battle of |
Trafalgar.
James Parton, in a letter to friend writ
ten not long before the authors death, said
mo man should enter the literary life m
less he has a fortune or can live cOntentedly
on $1,000 a year. The best way is to make
fortune first and write afterward."
A special from Minnewaukan, n. D.,
says: 1T. Mahony claims a loss of 500
bushels OF wheat from his shocks by geese.
c. p. Prichard claims q loss of one-half his
crop. No person could believe the havoc
they are capable of or their countless num-
bers."
The wealthy people of Mexico are getting
more and more into the habit of travelling
in the United States rather than in Europe.
Up to the time of the completion of the
Mexican Central railway Mexican travel
ers were much more familiar with London
than with New York or Chicago.
The timber cut in one year in Florida
averages a little short of 200 900, 900 feet,
which Is over ) per cent of the whole
amount of mercantile timber standing III
her forests. At this rate in about thirty
Years Florida would be cleared of her tim
har. If there M natural incra9Ep