Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

and, taking refuge in church tower, he
amused himself by looking down at the
glittering lead rain drops as they fell into
the moat below. The idea that molten lead
so dropped into water would become round
occurred to him. The next day he tried it
and the thing was done.
Artificial bitter almonds are now pro-
duced at a tritiing 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 SUI
gar. This is favored with very small
quantity of nitrobenzole, and when pressed
in molds the product is made to resemble
the natural seeds very closely.
The astronomer royal for Scotland states
that when the moon is half full its bril-
liancy is not nearly one-half as great as
when it is quite full. He attributes the
brightness of the full moon to the bright
streaks which are then seen over the lunar
surface, starting from the craterS. He
supposes these to be convex or concave, and
largely invisible under cross lights, and
brilliantly illuminated when the sun shines
full upon them.
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
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key laden with two goat-skins filled 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
1t 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. 60" says the patriarch,
''that my words were now written! O,
that they were printed in book! that they
were craven with ans:iron1pen." 1t is the
latter implement which is used by the
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.
Two hundred and sixty-one years ago
Boston first came into being. For years
before there had been few settlers on the
Charles, and the cows had wandered over
the peninsula in search of pasture and
water, making for themselves paths through
the bushes, which were subsequently de-
veloped into roads and then into the streets
of the modern city. That is how it came
about that the streets in the city proper are
SO crooked. Out in RoXbury, Dorchester
and the new districts the streets are broad
and straight, but in the heart of the city a
stranger Will lose NlulSe1 III SOlLp Two
blocks.
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 4, 200, 900. as against
1850, 900 in 1861. There are now 1000, 900
acres under cultivation, where in 1861 there
were 400. 900 and while in that year there
were but eighteen miles of railroad in the
country there are now over 5000 miles in
operation and 5000 more, including the great
transcontinental route, in course of con-
struction. The public debt has grown
pretty vigorously, too, however. 1t has
increased from SIT, 900, 900 to 1913, 100000.
The last Indian census shows that in the
past ten years the natural growth of midas
population has been 27,500, 600 The popu-
lation now numbers 2S6, 000,000. One can
hardly appreciate what these figures mean
except by comparison. India contains more
people than all Europe exclusive of Russia.
It's 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 |
Il mine laughed in his face when he named |
the price of a drill. and said that he could |
hire whole gang of men for lifetime for |
that amount of money. LaborerS in that |
country receive only from to 10 cents a |
day for fourteen hours work.