The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

Two ancient pedagogueS might
properly be called tanned EN- team.
One day last week there was sold
ut Key West S9319.29 worth of sponge
The average elevation of North
Carolina is $40 feet above the sea
level.
A five-ton land roller passed over
an Indiana man without serious
results. He'd been married thirty-six
years.
The mania for adulteration is so
great that you can't buy quart of
sand and be sure that it is not half
sugar.
"a Florida man has an alligator
farm" says an exchange. By-and-by
the item will read: "A farm of ALI
gators has a Florida man."
There is nothing inconsistent about
a lawyer. He will whip his boy for
associating with a youth that swears,
and then walk and defend a man who
steals or kills.
A young bridegroom, who was
lately the victim of charivari, states
to us that the boys made regular
pandemonium of it-a tin pan-demO-
mum he meant, of course.
A rural visitor to Chicago, full of
suspicion that every city man was
robber, ran wildly out of a barber
shop and told a policeman that an at
tempt had been made to chloroform
! him. The barber had merely at
tempted to use an atomiZer.
The general synod of the Reformed
! Dutch church of America, has passed
resolutions denunciatory of Masonry
ard other Oath-bound orders, and eau
tioning all churches of the synod to
discourage their members from join
ing secret societies.
A traveller through the Merry oasis
discovered seven Jewish families who
have been established there for an un-
| known period of time, and who have
preserved intact the costume, religion
and language of their ancestors, who
were probably Chaldean.
The first corporation for the manu-
facture of cotton was established in
/ Waltham, Mass, among the principal
originatOrS being MeSsrS. Lowell and
Appleton, who had recently returned
! from Europe, where they had inspect
ed the manufactures of England and
! the continent.
/ n church in Bavaria, aDc1mmOda-
ting thousand people, has been al
most entirely built of paper-mache,
WHICH can be supplied at cost little
I above that of plaster. 1t can be made
/ to Initiate the finest marble, as it
takes IA polish superior to slate.
The army annual statistics for 1882
are not encouraging. There were
! 1919 cOHrts-martial, and l31 ,434 minor
punishments inflicted by command
| ing officers. This is an average of an
Offense and half for every officer and
man.
There are now fully $4,000 wheel
men in this country, and the popu
larity of the bicycle is increasing. In
England over 5000 bicycles are used
in the mail service, and there are
at least 250,O00 English wheelmen.
There are 1000 in Boston.
That there should be no negligence
possible as to her obsequies being all
she wished, Chicago widow had all
ready before her death. The coffin,
lined with silk velvet, cost $,14OO; the
gold plate on it $780,. Here is body
snatcher's prize.
A refrigerator car containing ten
thousand pounds of butter was ship
ped a few days ago from Shelbyville,
Ind, to New York, and it is expected
to ship ten thousand pounds every
two weeks. The same firm ship
car load Of poultry every two weeks.
A young woman named Martha
Cheney, who lives near Shelbyville,
Ind, came near being drowned a few
days ago while being immersed by a
Baptist minister. The officiating
minister also became entangled and
both had to be helped out Of the wa
ter. The young woman weighed 300
pounds, and was hard to handle.