The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

About $4,000 bottles of beer will
be given away at the coronation of
the car.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has issued 10000
tickets of admission TO his art gal
lery this winter.
The net increase over last year in
taxable values throughout Ndw Jer-
sey was $8,016,654.
A British officer, who wasl four
minutes under fire in Egypt, got four.
medals after his return.
Henry G. Macquand, of New YorEv
has given Little Rock, Arkansas,
5000 to start free library. -
April will be the 4OOth anniEerz
sary of Raphael's birthday. All Eu-t
rope is preparing to do honor to the
event.
The recently deposed deacons of the
First Baptist church of Cincinnati
have asked the courts for a mandamus
to compel their restoration to church
membership.
A Pittsburg man undertook the
other day to thaw out a can of frozen
dynamite. The lesson of the expert
ment was entirely lost upon him, so
far as this world is concerned.
Tourgee thinks that the negroes
will be in the control of the south
long before A. ID. 1880. Fred Doug
las says in $50 years the pure negro
race will be extinct in the south.
In paying out 500 in wages to his
workmen manufacturer at Mar
settles, Illinois, privately marked all
the bills. Within two weeks $342
of it was deposited in the local bank
by saloon keepers.
The Riverside, California, Press
says the orange crop is slightly dam
aged, the lemon crop is seriously DAM
aged, and the lime crop is ruined by
the frost. Small trees are seriously
hurt in places, while large orange
trees are not hurt at all, and large
lemon trees are hurt but little.
While Englishmen are being agi-
tated by the antiVaccination society
in favor of abandoning vaccinati IN
altogether, the French are urged by
Pasteur to make incubation of dogs
with the virus of hydrophobia COM
pulsory. He says that the dogs that
survive enjoy immunity from sec
ond attack.
Wisconsin legislators propose that
every railroad doing business in that
state whose gross earnings exceed
5000 mile per year shall not charge
more than two and half cents a
mile for passenger travel. and that
companies shall sell 500-mile tickets
at the same rate, which shall be trans
ferable.
Mr.. George X. Duckworth has con-
scented to become a candidate for
mayor of Cincinnati on the Demo-
cratic ticket, Mayor Means having
declined a reelection. Mr.. Duckworth
is a wealthy distiller. from whom the
Duckworth club derived its name.
He is very popular, and his election is
generally conceded, should he be
nominated.
From an examination by DIR. Fran
Zins of the teeth of $50 soldiers in
Russia, it appeared that the teeth In
persons of fair complexion and hair
are less durable than in those of dark
complexion and hair. Stature has a
manifest influence on the durability
of teeth, which increases with de
crease of height, and vice versa. The
right teeth show a greater vitality
than the left.
According to Les Mondes the con-
sumption of Tobacco in Russia.
France and England amounts to one
pound yearly for each inhabitant. In
Italy it is ~, in Austria 2 2-5 and In
Germany pounds. In Belgium the
amount rises to As, while Holland
takes the highest place with 81
pounds. In the United States the
amount per head is pounds.