The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

J Baltimore has population of about
5 $4,000, and a total church member.
ship of 177,689.
lightweight Swiss converts contain
, o46 male and 1920 female inmates. The
aggregate wealth is 100000 francs
, Gambetta ate so much that he could
not be healed. He might better have
been called Gormbetta than Gambetta.
Miss Mary Barrett, eldest daughter
OF Lawrence Barrett, is engaged to
marry the Baron Won Roeder. of Stuff
CART.
4, Another Panic in Church." says
headline. Somebody must have
started to pass around the contribu-
ton box.
| Moody and Sankey meet with n
much cooler reception in England
now than was accorded them on their
first visit.
The Herald informs Bro. Barnes
that. the clergymen of New York are
amply able to care for their own con-
gregations.
The Office seekers are giving Gov.
Cleveland, of New York, no little
trouble. There are more applicants
than offices.
The Mormon recruits that have ar
rived in New York from the Old
World during the past year number
more than 1000.
The London Spectator admits. in
the matter of Christmas cards. that
England has been fairly beaten out of
the field by America.
| HaIiDo Docho 10 IL, 4
paper in Egypt, backed by a wealthy
princess. 1t appears that the prin-
cess has the money and Hahn the ex-
perince.
A Missouri quack not only promises
to cure nasal catarrh at one sitting,
but makes the astounding statement
that he will remove the catarrh and
place it on saucer"
Arnoru, an African king, who died
short time ago, leaves 700 widows
and seyenty-seven children. His eld-
est son has 400 wives. King Solomon
was greater man than he.
Three thousand London policemen
followed the remains of one of their
number to the grave one day recently.
The London force now consists of 12,-
600 men, not counting special officers.
DR.. Murrell, an English physician,
confesSes that he once nearly lost
patient by giving him one-fiftieth of
grain OF nitro-glycerine. Ithas been
used in much larger doses in angina,
neuralgia, etc.
The value of the Girard estate in
Philadelphia is given at 100000,
but the real value must be much
greater, as the income last year was
81 ,O22,877. The college now supports
and educates HOO boys.
Rev. A. J. Ryan, the poet-priest, has
accepted an invitation from the liter
AIRY societies of the University of Vir-
ginia to deliver the grafton before the
joint societies at the annual COM
menncer1ent III une next.
For many ages after the creation of
the world the sun shone regularly and
brightly every day and the full moon
every night, 50 thaI u point Of light
there was little difference between the
night and day.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
On Monday, just twenty years from
the proclamation of emancipation, a
Washington horse-car was filed with
negro laborers, who sat on the seats
while three justices of the supreme
court stood up and hung on the
straps.-Waifs.
A subterranean telegraph wire is
being laid between Paris and Mar
se1lles. Nearly three hundred work
men are employed on the undertaking,
which will cost $8,O00OO0. The wire
is to be connected with the Atlantic
and Mediterranean cables.
A Louisville gentleman says that
the good old fashion of wearing night
caps is coming back; that they protect
the wearer from colds, coughs and
consumption, and that they are indIs-
pensable in a cold bedroom. A cap
of red flannel or silk will do.
There are more complaints of peni-
tertiary severity, With "moral sua-
sion" in school and no government at
home, it is scarcely remarkable that
young America, arriving at the peni-
tertiary age, discovers that prison
discipline does not agree with Linn.
Old Tennessee's good, honest folk
Bewail the deeds of NJ. T. Polk.
For pleasure he
The treasury
Did surreptitiously NJ. Il.
Alasl it is no common jolk
On TenneSSee's good, honest folk.
Sir Tatton Sykes, who has recently
gone over to the Catholic church, and
will build cathedral in Westminster,
is strict vegetarian. and restricts his
personal expenditures to the narrow
est possible limits, not because of par
simony, but for the sake of generosity
in charities.
The academy of sciences decides
that raw meat is easier of digestion
than that which is cooked. In pre-
scribing it, preference should be given
to flesh that has been frozen, as very
low temperatures destroy the eggs of
many parasites which often infest
meats of all kinds.
Charges of the collision of police
men with thieves and gamblers are
springing up all along the line. Re
former Comstock undertook to raid
gambling establishment in New York |
Saturday with squad of police, but
policeman ran ahead and gave the
gamblers timely warning.
Judge Gresham, of the United
States district court at Indianapolis,
has set aside the last will of George
Thompson, of New Albany, Indiana,
who disinherited his son and left his
estate to Mrs. Amanda G. Hawkes..
spiritualist, who had influenced the
testator while in his dotage.
The valuation of the real estate in
New York for 1888, just returned by
the tax commissioner, is $1,O80,879,-
403, an increase of $45, 580,587 COM
pared with the previous year. Only
two wards show a decrease, whilst |
one ward shows an increase of over
81 600 600 and another of $6,OO0O00.
The following item is taken from a |
paper published in the Queens do
minion = the Kingston, Ontario,
News: "Meanness is said to charac-
terize the treatment of privates in |
the British army. A dying gunner
in the last campaign had his misera-
BILE pittance stopped to pay for his
coffin"
According to statistics, the annual
meat product of the United States is
in round numbers: Dressed hogs,
100000, weighing 5,120O00,O 600
pounds; beeves, 6,250OOO, weighing
3,124, 100000 pounds; veals, 100000,
weighing 275,O00,O00 pounds; mutton,
100000, weighing 350,000,OOO pounds;
lambs, 100000, weighing 100000 900
pounds.
Jennie June writes that there il a