The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS,

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a granite monument is to be erect
ed at Andersonville, Georgia. in men,
DRY OF the federal soldiers who are
buried there.
In Yazoo county, Mississippi, COW
died with hydrophobia from eating
the hay on which mad dog had been
lying.
True love is shown by acts, not by
actions. You can. therefore, tell how
much your wife loves you 10y the care
she takes in keeping the buttons
sewed on your shirt.
The railroads in New York and
Massachusetts are making strong eff
forts to get their stocks and bonds in
cluded in the securities in which saw
ings banks can invest.
The estimated expenditure of the
dominion of Canada for the financial
year ended June 30, 1884, is $45, 504,-
l45. The amount voted the present
year, ended June 30 next, was $54,-
S77,964.
Last year, during the dog-killing
season, it cost Vicksburg $50 per
month for carts to remove the car
casses of the defunct ours, but this
year they are fed to the catfish and
the city saves $50 per month.
Virginia is about to build college
for colored youth within stones
throw of the spot of the Crater fight,
just out from Petersburg. In the
struggle at the Crater hundreds of
colored troops were slaughtered.
Another human figure has been
found buried in the ashes at Pompeii.
1T was that of man. From the
cheek bones downward the face is
very perfect, and the open lips permit
five upper and five lower teeth, white
and equal, to be seen.
Prof. Blackie, in a recent lecture on
Luxury in London, pronounced the
modern dinner "a magnificent spread
OF anlmaliSm and an admirable call to
self-denial." lie declared himself no
ascetic, but advised his audience to
say mo to every second dish.
Last year the Philadelphia society
for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails superintended the killing of over
5000 dogs, making $4,000 since the
construction of the asphyXiating pen
eight years ago. A soap manufac-
turer pays $75 a year for the car
casses.
Look heah, Thomas Jefferson, dis
heah's nice time fo' you to be get
tin home" growled Aunt Polly, as
her boy came in long after midnight.
"Oh, g'lOngw retorted Thomas, "you
dunno muffin. Hadn't you nebbeI
hearn dat de darkey's hour is jes befo
day ?-AnOn.
AmerigO Vespucci, who gave the
name of America to the western hem
isphere, are now begging that the
pension of ten crowns per month
which was assigned to their family
by the republic of France in 1890, be
restored to them.
A Georgia paper says that at The
outbreak of the war two companies
from that state, the Cobb infantry
and the Gilmore Blues, started out
with the same number of men, had
the same number killed, the same
number wounded, the same number
dead from natural causes and the
same number dead from wounds.
The Dunkards, who are the est
farmers in Virginia, are selling their
lands in the Shenandoah valley at
from $50 to $3.50 an acre, and then
buying farms in the tide-water cOun-
ties, the exhausted tobacco lands, Of
Sc to SIS per acre. The Dunkards
went to Virginia from Pennsylvania
before the revolutionary wal.
A Hamburg correspondent writes
to Nuremberg paper that the divers
who have been down into the steam
ship Cimbria report that there are
over 300 corpSes in the wrecked YES
sci, in every imaginable attitude OF
sudden agony; the action of the
water causes them all to sway to and
fro in the most CHASTITY manner, SO
that the scene is one of inconceivable
horror.
There is a little island, only ten
miles in circumference, lying almost
in the middle of the South Pacific
ocean, which will be in May next the
chief centre of scientific interest on
the globe. This is because it is the
only available spot of land whence a
perfect view of the eclipse of the sun
ON May can be obtained. Astrono-
mers from every civilized country
will meet there. The view of the
eclspse will last six minutes.
Miss Clinton Gray was unable to
rally from the shock inflicted upon
her during the sinking of the. City of
YaZOo, and so died at Bonnet Care,
Louisiana, last week. Miss Gray's
father once owned 1900 slaves, and his
plantation was the largest in the
southwest. The only survivor of the
family, Harrison Gray, is worth about
$500.0OO. Just before the disaster to
the City of YazOO the brother and
sister each sent checks for $1,000 to
the flood sufferers at Lousvi
The work of demoliS!l; he ruins
of the Tuileries goes a. ard slowly
in spite of the eighty l. en- employed
on it. Reports say hat the palace
turns out to have bC en- built in very
shabby manner. Except the facade,
the stone work is found, much to the
disappointment of the contractor who
bought the materials, to be "of the
most rubbish.like description" The
interior columns, which were be-
lieved to be solid, turn out to be
holdings over rough blocks. The
most interesting object yet found is
an old bunch of hundred keys.
The Missouri senate has passed a
bill which is intended to diVest the
youth of the state Of the ornaments
now regarded too often us part of
their outfit. 1t prohibits, under a
penalty of a fine of $25 to $500, the
selling, giving, loaning, hiring, or
barter, or the offering to sell, give,
loan, hire or barter, Ito any minor any
pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie
knife, or other deadly weapon of like
character, or any toy pistol designed
to shoot caps, or cartridges of any
kind, or to be loaded with powder"
A young physician who had long
worshiped at distance was one day
suddenly called to attend her. He
found her suffering from no particu-
larly dangerous malady. but she
wanted him to prescribe for her
nevertheless; SO he took her hand
and said impresslvely: "Well, l
should-prescribe-I should prescribe
= that you = get = married" "Oh,
goodnessp said the interesting invalid,
"who would marry me, L wonder -
81 would" snapped the doctor, with
all the vOracity of siX-foot pickerel.
Your exclaimed the maiden. "Y es. +"
"Well, doctor, if that is the fearful
alternative, you can go away and let
me die in peace. "-Wrightsville (Ga.)
Recorder.
Mt. Etna, now in eruption, is stu
ated in the northwestern part of the
Isle of Sicily, near the coast, and but a
short distance from the hourishing
town of Catania. Its summit is TO-