The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

1t is said that in London every
fourth person receives gratuitous
medical attendance.
Work has been resumed on the
Hudson river tunnel, on the New
York side of the river.
The steamship Nemesis recently
passed through the Mississippi jetties
drawing twenty-five feet eleven
inches. This vessel measures 3452
tons gross.
A neat cemetery has been laid out
at Tel-el-Kebir, and the bodies of all
the English soldiers who were killed
in the Egyptian campaign have been
collected and buried there.
The Farnesina palace at Rome,
famous for the "Galatea" and the
Cupid and Psyche frescoes by Raphael,
is to be opened again to the public
after being closed for some years.
1t is popularity supposed that the
only wall papers to be feared on ac-
count of the arsenic which they may
contain are of a green color. The
drug is freely used, however, in many
of the red, fawn, and other papers of
recent fashionable shades.
The quality and beauty of coloring
and finish of the caShmeres this season
entitle them to the popularity which
they have attained, the finer grades
being combined not only with silks
and satins, but with the more ex-
pensive brocades and velvets of the
most elegant qualities.
The cattle of the pampas are com
puted at 100000. They are descend
ants of bull and eight cows which
were brought there by two Portu
guese brothers in 1858. 1t Is only
near Buenos Ayres that they have
been crossed with finer stock. The
old herds are ill-shaped and ugly.
Russian florists have arrived at San
Reno and Ventimlglia, and are con-
tracing for the purchase of all the
flowers in the principal gardens for
the festivities in Moscow. The flow
ers, which will be forwarded every
/ morning to Moscow by a special train
of refrigerating cars, are destined, in
great part, for the decoration of the
| Kremlin.
The sanitary inspectors of Paris
lately stumbled over an establishment
where operators were busily engaged
in manufacturing ground acorns and
burned wheat into stiff paste, which
was stamped into coffee beans. These
were then colored with an. alcoholic
solution Of colophone "to give them
a rich Mocha color" and packed in
bags for sale.
Ernestina Cloos has begun suit in
the court of common pleas, New
York, by her father as guardian,
against David w. Bruce, proprietor OF
a type foundry in New York, claim
ing $4,000 for breach of promise of
marriage. Plaintiff alleges that the
defendant ruined her, while the de-
PENDANT AYERS that the character of
plaintiff was not above suspicion.
The weight of horse is an impor-
tant item in estimating his value for
draft purposes. The fine-boned horse
with well-developed muscle may do
as much work as the heavier one for
short time, and it is even better for
road purpose. But in blowing or other
heavy, steady drawing the light
weight horse quickly wears out and
becomes useless.
In all the royal palaces i'll England
most careful distinction is made be-
tween state property. which descends
from one sovereign to another, and
private property. AT present almost
everything at Balmoral and Osborne
belongs to the queen herself, but ex-
cepting few pictures and statues,
she has no personal property at either
Windsor or buckingham palace.
The surgeons in one of the Vienna
hospitals report a remarkable case of
man in whose brain rusty nail
was found, which, from all appear
anceS, had been there since early child
hood of the subject. The man was
'forty-tive years old, book-binder,
and was considered an unusually in
telligent person; the nail in his brain
did not seem to affect his powers in
the least degree.
/ j. S. Moore, enables the feeceli
American to see through the 121 per
cent. tax on plate glass, by putting
the matter in this shape: Needing
$4,000 cases of plate glass, our mer-
chant would have to charter three
ships in Europe to procure for him
the desired glass. First, vessel car
rying $1,000 cases of plate glass,
which he needs; second, similar yes
sci, carrying $1,000 cases; and, in adj
dition thereto, Il smaller vessel carry
ing 10,500 cases plate glass. One of
the larger vessels or contents, he
would keep, and tender to hegovern-
ment the contents of the other large
vessel and the small one as toll for
the privilege Of allowing the use of
$4,000 boxes of plate glass. That is
the meaning of 121 per cent" That
is also the size of the toll Americans
have been paying for many years to
/. the patriotic Indianian. who claims to
be running his works solely for the
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