Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-06
EDITED BY M. B. JOHNSON.

workingmen will be able to visit the Column
/ bian exposition next year at reasonable
cost.
London has 1900 letter carriers.
Great Britain has 10000 landlords.
Memphis has eighteenlabor unions.
Luminous paint is popular in Germany.
New Orleans has &c, 0UO working girls.
Less than 800 persons own half the soil OF
Ireland.
Florida has less labor unions than any
other state.
Cabinets last less than year in France,
on the average.
Nearly 900, 900 grown English people can
neither read nor write.
st. Louis labor men are agitating the
question of public baths.
Atlanta working girls are organizing a
Woman's debating society.
Unemployment of women as compositors
in England is making rapid Roadway.
Candidates for parliament are about this
time the most affable men in England.
Galveston printers viii soon establish a
trades journal to be known as 'sThe Texas
Printer"
Mrs. Guerny an English lady of means,
IS going to make special effort to convert
policemen.
Sir Charles Russell is counsel for London
Socialists, who have been denied the right
OF public meeting.
In Vienna the labor question is assuming
q grave aspect. The winter has been ex-
ceptionally severe, and thousands of work
men are on the verge of starvation.
Interviews with English persons inter-
ested in the United States copyright law
- 4. liz - i
care and printers and book manufac turers
hate it.
Women dentists have proved so popular
in Sweden that a scholarship has been
founded for the purpose of rendering to
women without means assistance i'll the
study of dentistry.
In Dresden, Germany. laborer was SEN
fenced to four months Imprisonment for
stealing a crocodile from a menagerie. The
creature was brought into court as the
chief witness against him.
Samuel R. Freeman of Birmingham,
Third district organizer of the Inter-
national Typographical union, has resigned,
and George A. Steck of Charleston, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
In Copenhagen woman's society has re-
Gently been opened, which, among its other
good WORKS, supplies sewing-room for
poor girls. Here they can meet after work
hours and mend their own clothes, and
they are taught darning and patching free
of charge.
Begging seems to pay fairly well if you
keep at 1t long enough. A country parson
in England has written l25,00O begging
letters His wife has sent as many as
1l,000, and his children a few thousand
more. About one person in fifty res pended,
one to the amount of SIS, 900.
'Immigrants are herded worse than cat
tle,' says one of the New York inspectors
in his report, land 1 doubt very much
whether any perion who owns dog would
give it such quarters as are at present as
signed human beings by transatlantic
steamship companies"
To give an example of the great poverty
in London, in an East-end board school with
an average attendance of 100 children, the
schoolmaster says that roo come without
having had any breakfast, and with small
prospect of any dinner or tea either.
Organized labor in Massachusetts is circu-
lating petitions asking the legislature of
that state to adopt the referendum system,
as in vogue in Switzerland, by which legis-
lative acts must be submitted to a general
vote of the people for approval or rejection.
The carpenters of London, England, have
settled thir strike by arbitration, which
comedies them a small advance in wages,
but they did not succeed in getting the
eight hour day. Fully $500 of the men,
have secured the eight hour day
and the advance in wages. And there are
good prospects of the change becoming gen
eral this spring. The men were out seven
months and spent over S750,000 in their
strike