The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

Florida expects that her incoming
orange crop will be the largest in her
history.
A Nevada negro has seen pair of
drum sticks in the sun, and predicts
war and oceans of blood.
The Norwegian population grows
so rapidly that the immense emigra-
ton fails to deplete the country.
Dozens of young ladies in New
York are writing plays for the Madl-
son Square Theatre. The Madison
Square Theatre has very capacious
waste basket.
The most surprising feature about
the robbery of William III. English's
house in Indianapolis, the other night,
says the Chicago News, was the fact
that the robbers got away without
losing anything.
Prof. Ray Lancaster says that one
of the most remarkable results of the
fisheries exhibition has been the con-
clusion arrived at that they knew
next to nothing of the habits of the
most important fishes.
Some Springfield physicians are
specializing upon the influence of the
telephone upon the sense of hearing.
They have found several cases where
in disease of the ear is said to have
been aggravated by using it.
A Dublin, Ireland, barber has hit
upon the plan of giving his customers
a glass of whisky with each shave,
and many of them that used to shave
but twice week now "take scrape''
every day. With hair dut he gives
full bottle of stout.
Prof. Kedric, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, is making expert
ments that thus far show that grow
| ing plants in a close room are not in
| furious to human life. He says that
the notion that is unhealthy to sleep
in room containing plants is sheer
nonsense.
Dubuque has boys fraternity, the
members of which are divided into
four classes. The first demands only
pledge against intoxicating drink
the second adds tobacco, the third pro-
family, and the fourth everything in
the shape of vice or crime. The oath
of the latter class is elaborate and ter
rible.
A Chicago man wanted a divorce
because his wife persisted in singing
hims. The court just laughed al
him, and he would have lost his case
had not his lawyer summoned the
wife to the witness stand and started
her singing. AT the end of the fifth
verse the court threwup the sponge
and the divorce was granted.
In Paris the police arrest over sever
men to one woman. Does not this
furnish the basis for establishing g
ratio Of sexual goodness? Certainly
we may fairly infer that FrenchmeI
are seven times worse than French
women; and if it be admitted thai
seven devils sometimes get into ont
woman, it follows that forty-nine may
possess one man.
In Washington the workingmeI
are organizing to protect working
girls from street insults. The idea il
good one. Policemen are entirely
useless, except to arrest drunken men
and have been known to stare impu
IDENTIFY at women on their own &C
count. A few hard-fsted laborine
men might do good by knocking out
loafing dudes who annoy girl clerks
and working women on the streets.
Chicago Herald: "Mgr. Capel was
asked what struck him most forcibly
in this country, and he replied: THE
precociousness of children He says
that while in Baltimore the Arch
bishop took him to call on lady
While making the visit boy aged
four years came in the room, and his
mother said, My son, speak to the
Archbishop He obeyed readily. and
holding out his hand, said: How do
Arch ?"
Matthew Arnold, who is now on his
way to America, presents the curious
spectacle of an Atheist who believes
that the Episcopal church ought to
be sustained in England. Although
he does not believe in Christianity
and, in fact, denies the existence of a
God, he holds that the vulgar popu-
lace are being kept in better order by
believing in Supreme Ruler. He
believes in culture" not as remedy
for crime, but as a general elevator
| for the masses.
Seated upon the hearse with the
driver in a Philadelphia Chinese
| funeral procession was an official who
carried an immense banner, which he
| now and then waved as warning to
the demonds to keep respectful dis
lance from the coffin. Another man
flung abroad strips of paper written
over with mystic puzzles intended to
excite the curiosity of the demons, and
keep them so busy with picking them
up and trying to read then mat
they would forget what they came
for, and let the pale sleeper in the
coffin alone. On arriving at the open
grave the bearer of the banner waved
it vigorously to keep the demons
back while the grave was filed.