The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

There are 5000 locomotives in the
world.
Never put off to-day what you can
wear until tomorrow, if it be flannel.
Canada is having a larger immigra-
ton this year than last, the United
States less.
a. national bank about to be estab-
lished at Meridian, will be the second
one thus far opened in Mississippi.
Wilkie Collins is not a very rapid
worker, and seldom writes more than
ten pages of manuscript day.
Mr.. Bright maintains that since the
beginning of the century e4,414, 0OO,-
600 have been spent by Great Britain
upon war.
A couple of ostriches in Califor-
MIA zoo got into a fight recently,
during which they knocked the fence
children, injuring several of them
severely.
The total land area of the United
States, not including Alaska, is 1,9OO.-
$4,000 and the total amount of farms,
according to the last census, 536, 081, :
835 acres. The number of acres
owned by the government at the time
that census was taken was 1878, 1885,
438.
A boy of eight years, in one of the
Massachusetts schools, was asked by
his teacher where the zenith was. He
replied: 1.-The spot in the heavens
directly over ones head" To test his
knowledge further the teacher asked:
Can two persons have the same
zenith at the same time?" "They
can" "How? ?" IF one should stand
on the others head"
When Jay Gould's yacht is ready
for sea she will be manned as follows:
Zone captain, two mates, four quar-
termasters, two bOatSwainS, eighteen
seamen, one chief engineer, two assis-
tant engineers, three oilers, six fire.
men, three coal passers, one steward,
three cooks and six servants-in all,
fifty-two men," In addition, Mr..
Gould will take along clergyman
and a physician, with other guests
who are expected to accept an invita-
ton to partake of his Inequalities.
To find the horse power of an en-
CINE, multiply the area of the pistons
by the average pressure in pounds,
less five pounds per square inch for
friction; then multiply the product by
the number of feet the piston travels
per minute; then divide by $4,000.
This will give the the horse power of
the engine. Another rule is this:
Multiply the area of the piston by the
boiler pressure, and this product by
the travel Of the piston in feet per
minute; divide this last product by
$4,000; then deduct Is per cent for
friction and condensation.
Capt. Holstein, of the Danish army,
\ has invented, for the use of the infan-
| try soldiers, a shield, which, though
weighing only seven pounds, is bullet
proof and handy. 1t is of steel, TWEEN
ty inches long and eighteen broad.
Two spikes at the bottom enable the
soldier to fix it firmly in the ground,
and hollow at the top can be used as
a rest for his rifle. The experiments
that were made with the shield at
Copenhagen a short time ago was
deemed highly satisfactory, but will
be repeated on larger scale before
the Danish government decides as to
its adoption by the army.
A new remedy for the headache
ueto UCCA IOuuu ny LII. I1d1Oy, dill
Australian physician, who says that
for some years past he has found
minimum doses of iodide of potas-
SUM of great service in frontal head
ache; that is, heavy, dull headache,
situated over the brow, AMI accompa-
MED by languor, chllliness, and a feel
ing of general discomfort, with dis
taste for food, which sometimes ap-
proaches to nausea, can be completely
removed by two grain dose dis
solved in half wineglassful of water,
and this quietly slipped, the whole
quantity being taken in about ten
minutes. In many cases, he adds, the
effect of these small doses has been
simply wonderful, as, for instance, a
person who quarter of an hour be-
fore was feeling most miserable, and
refused all food, wishing only for qui-
etness, would now take a good meal
and resume his wonted cheerfulness
If this cure of DR.. Haley's is in real
ity practical one, he will merit fol
the discovery the gratitude of suffer.
ing millions.