The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

In London, children caught throw
inc stones at railway trains are
whipped by public officials.
The author of "See that my grave
is kept green" and when the leaves
begin to turn" is an inmate of the In
diana state prison. He tried to raise
another kind of note than musical
one.
If the Cape Cod canal, the Florida
canal, and Jordan valley canal, and
the irrigating canal to the desert of
Sahara were all opened at once, the
Gulf Stream and tides would be so
fused up that physical geography
would have to be rewritten.
Prof. Huxley, on hearing recently
that there were many houses in the
best parts of London which had no
connection with the main sewers, re-
marked that he hoped the London
Sanitary Protection association might
soon obtain powers from parliament
to hang few builders.
The Atheneum says that the heroes
OF American novels are prigs. Per-
haps it arises from the fact that no
other young man in an English novel
has had more influence on young
writer's of fiction in this country than
Henry Esmond, whom Thackeray
himself regarded as prig.
The longest bridge in the world is
in China. Its roadway is seventy feet
wide and seventy feet high. There
are 500 arches, and each of the pillars,
which are seventy-fve feet apart,
bears pedestal on which is the figure
of lion twenty-one feet long and
made out of one block of marble.
An English syndicate, worth $4O,-
100000, has bought 1000 acres north
of Omaha. which they propose to lay
out as suburban city, much like
Pullman, near Chicago. The new
city will be called New Edinburgh,
and immense stock-yards and can
ming establishments are to be it's chief
industry.
In Pike county, Pa, there is revo-
lutionary brass cannon 200 years old
Thirty-tive years ago it was left IN
charge of six prominent Democrats,
on condition that it should never be
used in Republican jollifcation.
The last of these six Democrats is now
dead, but the old gun is still Demo-
cratic and under careful charge.
Within the last year the women of
the United Statos have given the sum
OF $6OO,OOO for the spread of the Cos
pei to heather lands. OF this amount
the Presbyterians gave nearly $780,
600, the Baptists $4,000, the Con-
gregationalists $4,000, the Northern
Methodists $108,000, and the women
of the Methodist Church South $685.
ITO.
The rising generation in Virginia is
evidently not made of the stern stuff
OF which their patriotic forefathers
were so proud. Two Richmond
young girl whom both loved, and a
resort to pistols was agreed on to set
tie the difficulty. When the sun
shed its rays over the spot where they
were to fight, however, it found no
love-sick youths. They had both
failed to come to time.
In view of the approaching winter,
photographers are beginning to start
their stories of cold weather on their
annual rounds. Here is one from the
Whitehall Times: "a Clark cou ty
liar has been awarded the surcingle.
He tells of a winter so severe that the
springs in mems watches were all
frozen. We know a man who has
such cold-looking eye that it once
froze a cataract that appeared on his
eye-ball."
An exchange says: ga man was
driving an old OK, when he became
angry and kicked him, hitting his
iaw-bone with such force as to break
his leg. And we have been fairly
wild ever since we read the paper to
know who or which got angry at
whom or what, and ii the OK kicked
the mans jaw with such force as to
break the oX's leg, or how it is? Or
did the man kick the OK in the jaw
bone with such force as to break the
ox's leg and if so, which leg? It's one
of those things which no man can
find out, save only the man who
kicked or was being kicked, as the
case NAV be.
: The Swiss Gewerbe Blatt recon-.
mends a remedy for an evil which
/ diapers and other shop-keepers have
long experienced, namely, the fading
or bleaching of many kinds of colored
articles when exposed in the shoI
windows. The authority quoted saws
this fading or bleaching is brought
about only by the white rays of the
| suns light, and where it occurs il
. shows that the glass is more or less
/ perfectly colorless. 1t is found that
t If, instead of colorless glass, the win
: dow panes consist of glass which i.
( slightly yellow, the bleaching or fad
. ing process is prevented. Where the
: glass is colorless and cannot be re
placed by slightly yellowish tinted