Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-02

OF different species OF pestiferous weeds
which hang In the schoolroom, where
the children can see them as long as
they go to school, They are coiored
plates OF weeds In all stages OF growth,
and also the way In which they scatter
their seeds and propagate themselves,
1t is said that a certain swedish
copper mine has been worked without
interruption for 500 years and Is esti-
mated to have hid total yield in
eight centuries OF 100000 tons, WORTH
NJ the average value OF rs pounds per
ton-more than 80, 900, 900 pounds A
record Of Its production shows that the
output was 1886 metric tons in 1883,
reaching maximum OF 2i55 tons Ia
1861. and slowly decreasing since 1890
being 2Ii tons In 1891.
Geneva ciockmakcr has invented n
speaking watch. II Is an application
or the photograph 10 the oid-fashtonod
repeater, whose springs and hammers
have been replaced by a disc OF yul-
canised india rubber. As the point
moves over the surface II emits articu-
late sounds, indicating the hour. being
an exact reproduction OF those pro.
duced on cylinder by the human
Voice, and which can be heard In an
adjoining room.
probably few people in this vicinity
realize the proportion which the baked
nean industry has assumed In BOSTON.
one establishment on Shawmut avenue.
known as the Boston Baked Roam
company" has daily bake OF 1900 pots.
holding from two 10 eight quarts OF
beans. The bake begins at 2 D. M.
ana at 4;SV u. m. the ateaminR post arc
loaded upon wagons and delivered ia
hotels aud residences In all parts OF
the "Hub,"-Phlladelphl Record.
young man and a young woman in
riding costume boarded a broadway
car yesterday morning. As they took
thelr seats the young woman opened
her purse and, with the most matter
ot-taot air. said, ~ have the change
right here, Mr.. Blank" "Oh, no; let
me pay" observed the young man,
"eS, no; III do It," returned the girl,
and as the conductor came along she
handed him Decent piece with the
remark Two" so far as any chiy-
alrous obligation was concerned, there
was none. The whole afiair might have
neen between two men or two girls.
Tho rest OF the passengers wondered
II the little episode was ona OF the signs
OF the approach OF the NEW woman.''--
New York Evening sun.
Muxim's cavalry gun. which flres ZOO
shots minute, weighs but thirty
PVhHuH hHu Gun nc carried Htrnpped 10
soldiers back, The gun he made for
the sultan Of Turkey fires 40 shnts a
minute, but II Is a ilold piece on wheels.
Sir Robert Bail. the astronomer royal
for Ireland. is said TO believe that the
time Is approaching when posterlty
Will be able to construct machinery that
viii he operated with heat obtained by
the direct action OF tho SUMS raya.
A st. Louis man has Invented u ma
chine that stamps steel engraved bank
notes by steam. the FIRST of ita kind IN
the world. The process. while more
costly than the old process by hand,
turns out ten times az many noteB In
the tame length OF time.
A suburban bcadle whose charge IL
near Glasgow has been roprimhnded
by his kirk session FOR taking the cop
per collections OF the plate" to a neigh
boring pub on the Monday and getting
silver exchange prior to lodging the
offertory In the bank.
On May 4, the anniversary OF the
entrance OF Martin Luther into the
Wartburg nj Eisenach, II monument TO
TO memory of the roformer was un-
yelled In that city. II was the work
OF Doundorf OF Stuttgart.
The best tea in Japan is raised in dis
trlc;s whore snow often falls to tho
caves OF the houses. Mnny plants will
survive under such snow that ARE not
hardy even IN the Southern states, By