The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-06
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

The browning of the Gar piled
$15,000,000 on the Russian national
debt.
london covers 200 square miles. has
more than 100000 houses and nearly
100000 inhabitants.
Cats are bobtailed in Japan, but
they take their walks abroad after
shutdown all the same.
Malta has one of the finest opera
houses in the world. and its orchestra
is said to be unsurpassed.
Sat IN, through his agent, the snake.
succeeded in Matchmaking the road
leading out of Paradise.-New Or
Jeans Picayune.
Fifty millions Of people in this
country use on an average FIVE match
es per day. This makes $50 900 day
for matches. or $27, 1896, 600 u year.
Schools for deformed children ara
institutions of TuniS and Milan. The
exercises require caref III adjustment
to the different cases; ut the system
is found very successful
In West Virginia tn y have I'M
earthed a human skull having a cir
conference of forty inches above the
eyes. Physicians say its owner must
have been fifteen feet high.
The cable announces the death of
an editor by starvation in Servia. The
public should take caution in time and
see that the rural editors are properly
revictualled against the prospective
hard times.
DIR. Werner Siemens has domon-
stated by experiment that intensely
hot gasas do not emit light, and that
consequently all light given by heated
gas must come from solid impurities,
and not from the gas itself.
Prof. Youmaus SAYS that the study
of dead languages has been the one
pre-eminent and historic failure of So
called liberal education. There is more
hatred of it than of any other kind of
study, mathematics not excepted.
An Iowa man has figured out that
the dog of that state eat enough an
nually to feed 100000 workmen; and
cost $9000000, counting the sheep
they kill. The education of the chill
dren of the state costs 100000.
The ebony tree grows to be fifteen
feet in circumference. The outer
wood is pure and white, the heart only
being perfectly black. The tree evil
IDENTIFY got its pattern from watching
the habits of certain members of the
human race.
Mexico has "a school of arts and
trades for women, numbering 36S pu-
pills, ranging from children OF twelve
wears TO women of middle age. Sew
ing and ali work suitable for women
are taught, as we'll as drawing, paint
ing music.
An enterprising FrenchmRn has in
vented baby which no ordinary tIav-
eler could distinguish from the usual
infant. 1t cries at any moment desired
without the aid of pins or collie, and is
used by women desiring to have a
railway carriage all to themselves.
The largest and finest bridge span in
America is at Cabin John Bridge, SIX
miles from Washington, over the
Aqueduct road. The name of the
Secretary of War is left blank on the
inscription. 1t was Jefferson Davis.
Why history should be mutilated to
aVlige somebody's prejudice is hard to
see.
There seems a probability that Frank
James will not get off very easily on
his next trial. He is out of money,
aad no longer enjoys the luXurleS ms
cell was formerly supplied with He
has come down to the prison fare of
an ordinary criminal, and he is begin
ming to find out that when poverty
comes in at the door, friends are apt
TO ind more congenial quarters else
where.
Rev. Allen Allenswolth, colored
Baptist minister of Bowling Green,
Ky. has issued an address to the col
o-ed ministers of the gospel of all de
nominations throughout the United
s: ates. suggesting a general conyen-
zion of colorrd men in Louisville to
present to the world documentary ev-
fdenca and statistical data of the NOR
VI. religious and financial progress OF
ihe colored people
The new Vanderbilt mausolenm in
the Moyavian cemetery at New Dorp,
Staten Island. is intended to be very
costly affair. though as yet the design
las not been finally fixed upon. The
site is on the summit of a hill in the
centre of the burial ground and COW
ers nine acres. Besides the money he
win spend on his own plot, Mr.. Van
derbilt intends 90 make the cemetery
one of the finest in the country.
The three brothers, solomon. Jacot