The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS ANn
THINGS.

udlly III American mills. IL was a
imported thirty years ago.
The hair of the dog" etc. Cor
Juice brings on kidney disease, an
corn silk is used as kidney remedy
The English have portable pape
houses. They do not resist dynaIiit
any better than the old style of build
ings.
The average age of United State
senators is tifty-four. Only one O
them was born west of the Missis
sippi.
In Saline county, Missouri, ft2(
acres of raw prairie were lately sole
in eighty-acre tracts at an average Of
$40.67.
Bismarck's income is $4,000. How
much of this he secretly squanders on
American pork is known to very few
in Deutschland.
Newfoundland, although it has
never been visited by President Ar
thur, ranks as the most important
fishery of the world.
1t is said that man breathes eigh-
teen times minute. Gentlemen who
chew tobacco will now understand
what they are giving us.
A man in Ireland was recently CON
fined in jail ten weeks for blasphem-
ing the Queen. Bradlaugh, for bias
ing the Deity, was acquitted.
Chicago dealers are said to be car
rylng stocks of flour, grain, pork,
lard, meats, lumber, coal, seeds, wool
and hides aggregating $50,O00000.
AS persons wishing to send mutt
lated currency to be redeemed must
now do so at their own expense, they
will have better opinion of silver.
The diamond mines of Brazil were
first opened in 1927. 1t is estimated
that since that time they have pro-
duced at least two tons of diamonds.
what becomes of the clothes
pins? ?" is the newest household con-
undrum. That's easy; they "get three.
sheets in the wind" and 'go off-o6 a
tear"
When New York girl is "launch-
ed into society" every marriageable
man within the circle of her mothers
acquaintance is invited to the enter
tainment.
The next time you see a lady ex-
hibiting rather generously her ankles,
look into her face and you will rec
ognize that nature has not been kind
to her there.
The largest aerolite in the world is
in the British Musem. 1t weighs
nearly two tons. The largest one in
the Smithsonian, at Washington,
weighs less than one ton.
The cattle OF the Pampas are COM
puted at 20,000,000. They are the de-
scendants of bull and eight cows
which were brought there by two
Portuguese brothers in 1868.
A Spanish magistrate threatens to
confiscate all adulterated food and
distribute it among charitable insti-
tutions. Spain, it will be seen, is rap
idly absorbing American ideas.
There are only two Irish dukes, but
the race will not probably soon be-
come extinct, for Que of then, ,-1efBT-
corn, has tifty-seven grandchildren
and five great great-grandchildren.
After while lady lawyers will not
throw glasses at the judges. The
habit of throwing dishes, acquired in
domestic life, will leave the sex after
a few generations of legal practice.
The Chicago Times looks upon Car
ter Harrison as the Democratic Flan-
nigan. "What are we here for" cried
Mr.. Flanagan, in the Republican ma
tional convention, ''if it is not for the
offices? ?"
There are thoughtless people who
are always denouncing the railroads.
They do not think to ask themselves
how the secretary of the United
States navy would travel if there were
no railroads.
The iron and steel interests of the
country are still in a depressed lespdi-
tion, and several Pennsylvania blast
furnaces of the Cleveland rolling mill
company have been shut down for
want Of orders.
Sufficient rains have fallen in Cali
fornia to insure the well doing of the
wheat crop in that state, and those
who are wise in such matters are
now predicting large surplus for ex-
port at the close of the season.
Atlanta Constitution: There are no
dudes in Cincinnati. The wealthiest-
and most refined young man in the
town will stand up and drink seven
schoonerS of beer with the humblest
citizen, provided the humblest citizen
pays for the beer.
Mr.. Macker, one OF the Nevada
state senator's, fiourishing a pitchfolk,
in Reno, the other day, tried to face
bull. The beast, which had killed a
Chinaman not long before, bounded
upon Mr. Macker and gored him so
badly that his life hangs in the bal
ance.
Captain Ead's home papers declare
that his ship canal project has not
been abandoned, but is certain Of sue
cess. They say the road will be built
from ocean to ocean long before De
Lesseps' Panama canal is opened.
We do not look for either event in the
near future.
1t having been said, in the new
book of etiquette, that eating soup
from the point Of a spoon is not ETH
quettical, many young men, finding it
inconyenient to take it in from the
side of the spoon, have resolved to
consume no more soup of any sort,
but to order pie sE-the start.
Table rrappings aud kindred
manifestations have taken sucn hold
on the popular imagination of Boz
hemia that it has been found necessa-
ry to announce under episcopal au-
thority, that whoever persists in spir-
itualistic devices will be refused abso-
lution,- even after confession.
AS two hundred and fifty thousand
more people enter Russia every year
than leave it, the fact is plain that
Europeans like to be oppressed. This
is bound to be the case in lands where
there are never any ward meetings,
and where there are no elections at
which freemen may turn out and
paint their noses.
Tiffany, in New York, had among
his treasures a diamond valued at
$4,000 A country editor. who call
ed at the store the other day to ptlr-
chase the bauble for birthday pres
ent for his wife, was informed by
Mr. Tiffany that it had been sold to a
Pullman palace car porter-one of
those "fifty-cents-all-around" fellows.
Last year there were 314 divorces
granted in New Hampshire, and not
One-fourth of them was for adultery.
The other New England states are
setting bad example. InneW Hamp
shire, the worst feature of the record,
of eighty proven cases of adlil-
terry, only two of the offenders were
subject to punishment under the laws
af the state.
An Italian paper has satiricm
sketch, suggested by the Cars CORD
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