The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

African society has been plunged
into depths of amaZement by the alb
dicatien of his dusky majesty of
Ashantee.
The Hindoos believe it was Adam
who sinned and led Eve astray. The
Hindoos should be provided with BIZ
bles at once.
Rubbing warts night and morning
with moistened piece of muriate of
ammonia is said to cause their disap-
pearance without pain or scar.
Lard is placed inside of country
butter and sold at thirty-five cents a
pound, to shrewd housekeepers who
never will eat oleomargarine.
The Minnesota pineries have been
depleted during the past winter to
the tune of 450,000OO0 feet, or So
100000 more than in any former year.
The question is asked us if there is
anything that will bring youth to
women? Yes, there is. An income
of say $1,000 will bring any number
Of them.
ITO add one mile an hour to the
speed of an ocean steamship, you
must almost double your consump-
ton of COAL says an old Cunard COM
mander.
Chicagoans say ''fasset" for faucet"
tunnel for funnel" and want to"
for fought to" or should" The
Chicagoans have right smart to
learn yet.
Atlanta has nearly 100000 in
vested in manufactures, and over
$2.5OO,0OO is paid out annually as
wages to the hands employed in these
industries.
French policemen in Paris are paid
rewards of 81 to So for making ar
rests and capturing offenders, and the
minister of justice has decided to in
crease these by one-third.
The old capitol of New York cost
$1O7, 900, and did service for seventy
years. The new one will cost-but
that is what the New York taxpayers
would much like to know.
The postoffice department has I'M
der consideration the printing of a
Accent postage stamp, to take the
place of the Scent stamp in the pay
ment of double letter postage.
The Key West sponge fleet, num-
bering seventy vessels and six hun
dred men, is out on cruise. A sue
cessful catch of sponge for the fleet
brings about 100000 into that city.
The champagne crop for 1882 has
proved dead failure, as last fall was
too cold for grapes to get sweet; but
the champagne cellars hold 100000
bottles of earlier VintageS to supply
the lack.
On account of the demand for ALI
gators, a Florida man has begun to
cultivate them, and has 1900 of the
reptiles ready for shipment. They
are to be sent to all parts of the
country.
President Arthur always lets the
correspondents tell how many fishes
he catches, never saying anything
himself. The president has great
confidence in the capacity Of the cor
respondents.
A member of the Milwaukee cham
| Der Of commerce estimates the dam
age to the growing winter wheat in
the fifteen principal states at twenty
per cent, or 10O,OOO,OOO bushels short
of last years crop.
The past season in Jacksonville,
Florida, though rather short, has been
the most prosperous in the city's his
tory. A careful investigation shows
that 44,167 tourists have visited the
city during the past winter.
The Capital City club of Atlanta
has leased the residence of ex-senator
Miller for $500 year for four years,
and have set aside $4,000 for furnish
ing it. 1t will import French cook.
The membership is now about 100.
The Ripley, Mississippi, Sentinel
says that common scrub COWS which
sold a few years ago in that vicinity
at from So to $12 are now bringing
$25 to $50, with the demand greater
than the supply. Texas wants them.
With a population of nearly 5000,
600, and with over 100000 h"uses,
London finds that an allowance of
two policemen to every 1000 inhabi-
tants, or fourteen to every 1000
houses, is sufficient to maintain law
and order.
"Are your domestic relations agree
able?" was the question put to an
nhappy-looking specimen of human
ty. '.Oh, my domestic relations are
all right was the reply, sit is my
wife's relations that are causing all
the trouble"
The first fatality of the base ball
season occurred at Big Rapids, Michi-
gan, where William Collins was
struck on the back of the neck 10y a
ball, Friday, causing conclusion of
the brain, from which he did yester-
day morning.
Vincenzo Robandi, an Italian SOL
dier, is the poet of single song. He
wrote both the words and music of
"La Stella Confidente," song which
achieved both immediate and i'm
mense popularity, and has become a
national song of Italy.
A lecturer, discoursing on the sub
ject of Health" inquired: What
use can man make of his time while
waiting for a doctor ?" Before he
could begin his answer to his own
inquiry, some one in the audience
cried out: HE can make his will
The sum of $1,000, which might
probably be multiplied ten times, has
been offered by M. Paul to the French
ACADEMY of medicine, to found a
prize for the discovery of cure for
diphtheria, the competition to be open
to the world, and not confined to the
medical circle.
One of the American missionaries
| in Armenia had lot of Moody and
Sankey hymn-books come through the
mails, but the eagle-eyed inspector OF
the Turkish postoffice decided that
Hold the Fort" was intended to en-
courage rebellion and expurgated that
inoffensive lyric from every copy.
1t is stated that paper made from
strong fibers, such as linen, can now
be made compressed into substance
so hald that it can not be scratched
by anything but diamond. In view
of this fact, it is thought that before
long great variety of house furni-
ture will be made of paper instead of
wood.
A snow-storm of great severity oc-
CURED Saturday in Wyoming and
western Nebraska. Telegraph lines
were Frustrated, the trains on the
Union Pacific railway were block
AIDED. The snow is passing away rap
idly, and it is hoped stock will not
suffer greatly in consequence of the
snow.
1t is thought that President Moon
ey, of the Irish land league of the
| United States, will, by a literal con-
struction OF the rules of the associa-
ton, suppress all discussion in the
! convention which meets in Philadel-
phia on Wednesday of the question
of the use of dynamite against Eng
| liSh interests.
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