The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-04-06
AT RANDOM.

Not a single man OF letters was present
at the funeral of Harrison Ainsworth.
The photographs of Carlyle are said to
bear strong resemblance to Richard
Henry Stoddard.
Philip Bourke Marston is considered
by Rosetti to take the leading place
among the younger English poets.
The Philadelphia ChrOniele- Herald says
that the favOrite visiting card in Chicago
is the seven spot.
the Whitehall Rerietc, sis the number,
not of its diners, but of its habitues."
Tobacco killed boy of 10 at Blair, Ne
braska. He not only chewed great guam
titles of the weed, but swallowed the
juice.
A verdict of $500 has been found by a
jury against Edmund Yates, of the Lon
don World, for libel on Mr.. Prichard, o
veterinary surgeon.
The Slavs, says the London Spectator,
are 20, 900 900 and full of anti-Jewish feel
ings, because Jewish journalists of Ger
many have called them savages.
A BRIDES travelling dress is of dark
ruby velvet. Another Is of gendarme
blue cloth, fastened with steel buttons
and looped on one side with bows of
satin sublime.
Northampton is the center of the En-
glish boot and shoe trade aud one OF the
principal manufacturers says that Ire
land, proportionally. is buying more
boots and shoes than England.
A letter from Queen Victoria, written
after one of the earliest attempts upon
her life, has been revived. In il she de-
clares that these outrages will be contin-
ued so long as the assailants are indicted
for high treason. The Importance thus
gwen them insures renewed attempts.
An insane woman was recently taken
from Browns station, Nevada, to the asy-
lum at Stockton, California. She was in
sane on the question OF the Chinese and
Irish. she thought her social mission
was ito reconcile these antagonisuc
races.
The Britton family has for four genera
tons lived on charity in Germantown.
Pennsylvania. The progenitor, who died
few years ago, aged 90. had been a pro-
fessional beggar seventy years. The
youngest members are now toddling
from door to door with scrap baskets.
A Boston man seeing another man
with fine umbrella raised over his head
during a shower, and thinking that he
was friend, ran up to him, and for a
joke, said, ..rll take that umbrella,
please, The victom proved to be a
stranger, but he Immediately handed it
over, and said, ss0h, it's yours, is it ~
and broke away.
A large white swan was shot In Grand
tiver, near gainesville, Ohio, few days
ago that measured seven feet from tip to
tip of wing. Through one of its wings
was about ten inches OF u copper-pointed
bone arrow, which is unlike any ever
seen in this part of the country aud is
supposed to be kind used by some of
the Northwestern Indians The flesh
had grown firmly around il.
The entire rice product Of the United
States in 1879 as shown by the census OF
1880 was lilo, l31 1913 pounds. The average
yield per acre was 6S2 pounds. South
Carolina was the largest producers OF rice,
| the crop of that state amounting to 81,
| or. bl5 pounds. The whole rice crop was
worth something over $7,000,000. The
product OF the same crop, as shoTn BY
the census of 1870, was at that time 70,
$50 ,02l pounds. The increase in the de-
cade was therefore over 30 per cent. un-
der all the dlscouragements OF the sitHa-
ton.