Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10
SANGER BROS.
DALLAS, TEX.
MISSING LINKS.
London has 65,oOO Germans.


Uncle Sam has 1905 paupers.
The Esquimaux wear reindeer skins for
clothing
A quart of milk may contain as many as
600, 600. 900 bacteria.
A girl in Norway must be able to bake
bread before she can have beau.
A Philadelphia owns thirty-three finger
rings aud thirty-four suits of clothes.
Wars during the last thirty-three years
have cost 2,5O0,000 men and $1,000, 100000
BY actual experience it costs one-half a
cent minute to smoke an Egyptian cigar
cite.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of $4,000 square
miles.
The bulk of the Japanese revenue is de-
rived from the railroads and telegraph lines
which it owns.
It isa matter OF record that S19,570 were
coined in 1904, yet only eight samples are
known to exist
A white woman named Brown was mar
ried few days ago to negro named Green
at Ironton. Ohio.
II is estimated that at least $50, 900, 600 Of
the goIernment's paper money has been
lost or destroyed.
A live manatee or sea COW was caught in
Biseayne bay few days ago, reports the
Eustis Lake, Fla, Region.
During the past four months more than
$4,000 900 in gold has been brought to the
United States from Australia
The single tribe OF the Betsi Fangs, in
the Congo country, according to DeBrazza,
numbers over two million souls.
A blacksmith's tools of the present day
are almost identical with those used in the
same trade over three hundred years ago.
The Oldest liquor in any New York club
cellar is supposed to be some Sayillao
brandy Of the vintage of 1903 at the Union
club.
A floor painted in various colors in gesso
has been unearthed at Telel Armama, in
the palace of Amenophis ", the king Of
Egypt.
Many Belgisns mourn the death of Gen
Baron Chazal, ex-minister Of war, which
occurred at one of his castles in Southern
Europe.
A large banquet given by the New York
ers association at Kalamazoo, in Michigan,
was conducted entirely by women, who also
made all the speeches.
The common house-fy makes 600 strokes
per second when in the act of ordinary
flight, that number of strokes causing an adj
vance movement of twenty-five feet.
In old times, rhinoceros horns were en-
ployed for drinking cups by royal person
ages the notion being that poison put into
them would show itself by bubbling.
Zadkiel, the English planet reader, in his
sixty-second annual almanac, just issued,
has found a message somewhere in his stel-
lar readings to the effect that in November
Of next year there viii be "a death of an
empress or queen"
The English are said to eat more butter
than the people of any other nation, the
consumption averaging thirteen pounds
year for every man, woman and child
1t is computed by well-informed persons
that Maine has wood enough to make 2S,-
coo, 600 tons Of pulp. or sixty years supply
for all the pulp mills now running in the
country.
According to trustworthy correspond.
ent of the London Times, the average village
priest of the Russo-Greek church is often
drunkard, always uneultured, uneducated
and uurefned.
The extent to which basebaIls are manu-
featured in this country is indicated in the
information that two Philadelphia factories
use 100 horsehides week TO make into
baseball covers.
The wreck, ffty-fve years ago. on ths
coast Of Maine of the steamship Ro yal Tar
which carried menagerie, has been re-
called by the finding Of several hippopotar
mus teeth near Rockland.
Nestor Gianaclis is a bright young Greek
who some years ago moved to Cairo and en-
gagged small army of dark-skinned Egyp-
tian men, women and children to make
cigarettes for Americans to smoke
During the early part Of this century and
previously the Official tax gatherers on the
island of Hawaii, in the Sandwich group, I
did all their accounts on . rome 2400 feet
long, which was divided into lengths, each
corresponding to district.