The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

A boy can pull four times more
weight in boys on sled than he can
in coal from the back yard.
The single eyeglass is worn by the
dude. The theory is that he can see
more with one eye than he can COM
prehend.
There are at the present time in
this country $1,000 Jersey cattle. OF
these from 1000 to 5000 are imported
animals.
The total expense of the coronation
OF the car of Russia, apart from the
remission of taxes, is estimated at
12,5OO,OO0 roubles.
Longfellow said: "In this world a
man must be either anvil or hammer"
He thought nothing of the poor fell
low between the two.
Michigan has new law providing
for the instruction of all pupils in
the public schools as to the effects of
alcohol on the human system.
1t is reported that the effort to dis
cover who fatally poisoned six insane
inmates of the asylum at Staunton,
Va, has been abandoned as hopeless.
The assessed valuation OF property
in the city of New York this year is
estimated to be $1,270,00O0O0, of
which $195,O00,000 is on personal
estate.
The Baltimore school board has
under consideration proposition to
make the tenure of school teachers
ten years, in order to take the schools
out of politics.
The states that brew no beer are
Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi
and Vermont. Last year Alabama
produced only eight barrels and North
Carolina thirty-one.
A Memphis man visited seven diff
ferent doctors, and no two could agree
us to what allied him. The eighth ask
ed him if anything at all was the mat
ter, and was promptly told no.
A piano firm in Berlin has bought
the oaken piles which have Just been
taken out of the Rhine at Mayence,
and which are said to be the original
timbers of the bridge which julius
Caesar constructed.
The principal stakeholder in five
Connecticut cotton mills declares that
they are running at an actual loss,
and would be shut if the companies
did not dislike to stop their employees
means of livelihood.
According to official reports, railroad
accidents are increasing in number
and fatality throughout the United
States. Cut this out, paste it in your
hat and show it to the people who
ask why you don't take summer va
cation.
Hundreds of fresh lawyers are being
turned out by the colleges, al hun
dreds of new shingles will soon be put
forth. And yet it does not appear how
in the world these young men are to
squeeze into the profession and make
a living.
The movement in favor of woman
suffrage in England appears to be
gaining strength. A memorial to the
prime minister is signed by one
hundred and eight liberal members,
| including the "moSt cautious wings
and most gushing radicals" by a
dozen members of the administration,
and by Sir Stafford Northcote and
several conservatives.
1t is asserted that 100000 of
English capital was invested in Amer
lean cattle ranches last year. There
are now in the west agents from sew
rral large institutions in England and
Holland buying up water privileges,
and it may be safely estimated that
an equal amount will be invested this
year in the same way. Already the
largest ranches in the country are
controlled by foreign capital.
Chillicothe, Mo-, is the point selected
for the next meeting of the National
Anti-Horse Thief Association, to be
held September 26, 1883. The first
constitution and bylaws for the Grand
Order A. III. L. A. were formed in
Luray. Clarke county, Mo-, and the
organization of the Grand Order of
the A. H. T. A. of Missouri and sister
states was completed October %, 1868.
The organization of the national and
state orders was in 1881