Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
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OF the twenty-seven royal families OF
| Europe two-thirds are Germans.
| The United States imports more gum for
making varnish than any other country.
There are 2O5O generals in the British
army, which is probably the reason Eng
| land is 81 shy about going to war.
| Rio Janeiro's principal street is thirty
| feet wide, only half mile long, and no
| carriages are allowed to enter it.
The prospect that Baby Mckee may have
| a little Democratic rival has caused pro-
| found sensation in political circles.
The accommodations of the Vatican may
be imagined when the pope put 22G0 beds at
the disposal of the French pilgrims, free of
| charge.
An officer of the law from away out in
Oregon is hunting around for Kansas man
who stole a drug store and shipped it to
Holton, Kan.
The figures are bewildering, says the
Omaha Bee. Instead of crop of 50,00o,
900 bushels of corn, Nebraska is dead GER
tain of go, 100000 bushels.
Germany will not only have great dis
play OF her arts and industries at the
Worlds fair, but will have special exhibit
in German village, on which over 300, 900
is to be expended.
From a single stalk of iimson weed inf
North Lawrence, Kan, ninety-one burns
were picked. The seeds of one burr were
counted and found TO number 70S, making
the total number of seeds for the one stalk
65 1876. -
People who think they have swallowed
some animal will be encouraged by the eX-
perience of a Wisconsin farmer. An emetic
rafn 1.,&
swallowed while asleep in his barn three
weeks ago.
The postal service of our big cities is
better than it ever was before, but accord
ing 10 Mr.. Depew it is far behind thei post
Office system in the city Of London. He
says you can reach any point in the city by
letter in twenty minutes, and get your.
answer in twenty more.
Brazil's first electric railroad will soon be
in operation in the city of Bahai. 1t will
be narrow-gauge passenger road one aud
a half miles long. The whole plant and
equipment were made in this country and
shipped q short time ago. 1t is a sample
installment. and if the Brazilians de
pleased with the electric method of tranS>,
portation much longer road will be built.
The news from Rome that at the ap-
preaching consistory six or seven Italians
anu OuC VI UNO EuIUDBiuS Will Dc
elevated to the rank of cardinal, indicates
the futility of the fiuttsr occasionally made
about the possibility of any other than an
Italian being elected pope. The Italians
are already in a large majority in the
Sacred college. and the new cardinals will
add to their majority.
A man in New York who says he repre-
sents company with 81 ,000, 900 capital and
no shares to sell, has an aluminium plate
which, if inserted in a mans mouth, will
change thin voice into one with metallic
sound. He says he has put one of the
plates into the mouth of tenor singer now
in New York, who has been enable to re-
hearse for week without experiencing
any strains upon his voice.
A New York manufacturer of corsets has
declared war against the apostles of dress
reform. His proposed campaign is worthy
of Gen. Bouffe of opera bouffe memory. He
has hired five handsome and attractive
young women, who are to go about the
country wearing fashionable and expensive
clothing. stopping at leading hotels and
travelling in drawingroom cars and carria-
geS with iveried coachmen. The towns of
the United States will be visited and daily
lectures will be given, filed with ''quota-
tons from medical authorities tending to
prove that corsets are conductive to good
health"
Russia is adding to her navy with all pos
sible dispatch. At the Baltic works the
immense cruiser Rurik, of 10000 tons ca
pacity, and capable of steaming twenty
knots an hour, is being built, and at the
Franco-Russian works an ironclad, the
Navarino, of 9476 tons capacity, is on the
stocks. Another ironclad is being built at
the New Admiralty wharf at St. Peters
burg. At the Nevsky works an iron cor
yette and large ice-breaker are on the
stocks, while at the Pvotieloff works two
sea-going monitors are under construction.
In all, twenty-five ships of war are in
course of construction. This looks as
though Russia is getting ready for war
vi. b q naval nnyyar