The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.
The nimble lie

Ilu IL mas reacDe0 the goal.
Statistics show that there are three
girls born to every two boys.
The only Peruvian town known to
the American mule-Iquique.
The City of Mexico enjoys the in
MIGRATING altitude of 1880 feet above
the sea level. q
The country would be glad to see
Dorsey and Brady made commits
sioners to the coronation at Moscow
and call it square.
Many newspaper writers write "a
couple of instead of putting it simply
"two." Brain power has to have
some kind of a vent.
Sunset Cox is still telling about the
negro's toast: Here's to Gen. But
Ter, who, though he has a white skin,
bless God, has black heart"
If the old-time school teachers, who
taught from 800 a. m. to 400 p. M,
were teaching in Louisville they
would think they had picnic.
The Chinese minister won't let any
of the inquisitive and meddlesome
females of Washington visit his wife,
to the great disgust of the /. and m. f.
The bishop of Bohemia is alarmed
at the rapid spread of spiritualism,
and has declared that any one profess
sing belief in spiritualism is guilty
of heresy.
The resistance of Danes in Schles-
wig to the demands for service in
the Prussian army is stronger than
ever. Thirty of them have Just been
nXDellpd from tho country
Yesterday Judge Romad, Of Section
A, criminal district court, overruled
the motion for a new trial in the case
of Oscar and Lawson Carlo, convicted
of killing Patrick j. O'Brien.
1t is said that the first street rail-
way in the world was that which ran
between Canal street, New Orleans,
and the foot of Jackson street, La
fayette. 1t was built in 1845.
Lucy Hooper says that a great
many Americans who want to "see
Naples and die" do see Naples and
die, the Italian malarial fever carry
ing them off with astonishing prompt
ness. n
\ Washington editor writes of
"Hon. A. H. Stevens religious be-
lief" Mr.. Stephens would not feel
religious if he could see his name
spelled with a "v" SO very soon after
his death.
A Vermont student is puzzled be-
cause biennial means once in two
years, triennial means once in fbree
years and bi-weekly means once in
two weeks, while tri-weekly means
three times week.
A London magazine for 1894 con-
tains the following almost unique
death announcements: in childbed
of her Both child, the wife of Mr..
Joseph Sims, at the Bell inn, Cam
bridge, county Gloucester"
The Southern telegraph company,
which was organized in New York
last year with a capital of 100000,
is constructing lines with great rapid
ity, and will connect Washington and
New Orleans about Semptember.
Seven million rabbits have been
killed in Australia in less than a year,
and yet the rabbits do not seem to
| decrease in numbers. They may yet
drive out the British, as Lord Rose
berry says they once did for Heligo-
land.
British peerages to the number of
thirty-seyen, one-tenth of the whole
number, became extinct in the last
fifteen years; 300 peers and 234 peer
eSses died at ages from two to three
times greater than the average of the
community.
Pneumonia and kindred diseases
caused nearly one-fifth of the deaths
in Philadelphia and other seaboard
cities during the middle of March, a
a share nearly half again as large as
the usual proportions of deaths from
| these causes.
| A new French gun is twenty-nine
feet six inches long, weighs fifty tons
and costs $120,O00. 1t is wire wound
| and is expected to put ball through
fifteen inches of armor, heavier than
any on our monitors, at a distance of
seven and half miles.
Massachusetts,, according to the
census, has contributed 267, $50 people
to the other states, and has taken
| from other states 251 ,020. To Cali
fornia she has given 19,145 citizens.
The others are scattered all over the
Union, New York getting the largest
number-45,501.
The artists in Paris presented each
an original painting or piece of sculp-
ture, 112 in all, to Nine. Adams tom
bola or rattle week or so ago, to aid
| the sufferers by the foundations in
Alsace-Lorraine. One thousand tick
cts were sold at 800 each, realizing a
handsome sum.
Statistics of crime in seven of the
largest cities of the Union, compiled
| at New York and based upon popu-
lation, show that San Francisco leads
IN the number of homicides, followed
in order of mention by Cincinnati,
| Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Boston.
The bacilli claimed by Pasteur and
Koch to be the cause of consumption
are now deprived Of this honor, as
they are found in the same quantities
in healthy organisms. according to a
pamphlet just issued by the Expert
mental Medical institute connected
with the university at Vienna.
Recent experiments with stringed
| instruments have shown that much
more SOnorous tone can be obtained
with metal strings than with those
now in use, although the labor OF
play lug upOn OllCiu 10 O11OopOl1O1ABAy
increased. Steel wires plated with
silver or copper gave the best results
J In lecture in New York Friday
night, Lille DevereuX Blake said;
"In this republic it is a crime to he a
| woman; and she is punished for her
sex. If woman makes mistake it
is telegraphed all over the country.
If the plumbers of men were treated
in the same manner, the papers would
be full of nothing else"
Day begins at sunset with the Jews
Athenians, Chinese, MOhammedans
Italians, Austrians and Bohemians;
at sunrise with the Babylonians, Syri.
ans, Persians and modern Greeks; al
noon with ancient Egyptians and
modern astronomers, and at midnight
with the English, French, Dutch,
Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese and
Americans.
Ordinance of a town in India
Resolved, "That, as the loose mon.
keys in the town have become ex.
ceedingly troublesome. by attacking
women and children, carrying eat
ables and overturning the tiles of the
roofs of houses in the town, these
animals be caught and sent out into
the iungles, and that arrangements
be made that monkeys may not re.
ceive any injury while being seized
1t costs money to be a Christian
after the manner of the salvation
army. A brothers" uniform, lnclud-
| inc a helmet costs S15 ~ The over