The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

NllSNLLlIAN EOO0 IN tGleo AND
THINGS.
The California wine crop has nearly
doubled in value in four years.
The dude is defined to be gentle
man" without brains or industry.
A pretty woman's age never goes
beyond five and thirty-especialiy
thirty.
Americans are estimated to spend
hundred millions annually in foreign
travel.
O'Donovan Rosa is such fearful
explosive that he is liable to go off at
any, time.
Elderly maideDs wear false teeth
and paint their faces to make up for
lost time.
The vice-president of the New
York coffee exchange has been expel-
led for violating the rules.
The constant topper Is a man of
steady habits, although his gait may
occasionally become rickety.
A man offered $4,000 for a license
to sell liquors at wholesale in West
field,' Massachusetts,, for five years,
but the authorities refused.
Three factories in the United
States consume nearly 100000 eggs a
year in making peculiar kind of
paper used by photographers.
A southern man who during the
height of the craze named his son
"Pinafore" hopes he'll die before the
boy gets big enough to lick him.
An old Georgia lady, of great expe-
rience, says that children born on the
decrease of the moon are more than
apt to be girls and those on the full
moon are BOYS.
The New York legislature has in
creased the license fee of pawnbrok-
ers from $50 to $500 and the bonds
shops as deal chiefly in stolen proper
ty will have to stand aside.
The past season in Jacksonville,
Fla, though rather short, has been
the most prosperous in the city's his
tory. A careful investigation shows
that "A, 1877 tourists have visited the
city during the past winter.
An island in Vermillion Bay. on the
coast of Louisiana, has solid mass
of rock at a depth of twenty feet, so
hard that it requires to be mined
| with dynamite and ground in steam
mills. About 200 tons day are taken
out.
The new diamond mines In south
ern Bahia are said to be the richest in
Brazil. The latest reports from there
tell of great sickness and mortality
among the miners, of a superabun-
dance of dirt, filth and all the vices
customary at such places.
"Is the consumption of whisky fall
ing off, or what is the matter" in
quires the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. Practically the consumption
of whisky is falling off. The best in
formed distillerS and dealers say that
| the gross amount consumed in this
| country is just about what it was
when our population was 2o,OOO,OOO. q
Papier mache may be made to imi-
tato the rareSt marbles, as it takes a
polish superior even to slate, and costs
not even as much as the preparation
of plaster of paris, known as scagliola,
while it is infinitely stronger. Pedes-
tails, columns. newelposts, vases,
clocks and multifarious other articles
are made of it in elegant and durable
!. forms.
The committee having charge of
the proposed monument to the late
President Garfield have agreed upon
the plan for the statute. 1t will be a
natural size standing bronZ figure of
Gen. Garfield as he appeared in the
house of representatives with his
right hand resting on his desk. 1t
i has not yet been determined where
the monument will be located, but
probably in the grounds south f the
executive mansion. Congress will be
asked to contribute a suitable pedes-
tai and site for the monument, but all
other expenses will be met by funds
raised by the committee.
The formal opening of the Brook
lyn bridge on'the oath inst. will be
made the occasion of big display.
President Arthur, Gov. Cleveland,
Gen. Grant and "a half dozen or so
mayors will be present, and two regi-
the structure. The main streets in
New York and Brooklyn leading
to the bridge, as well as
will be dressed with flags,
anu dC nlgHC grand lllunlndGlOn
with electric and other lights will
take place, the whole winding up
with pyrotechnic display from the
bridge. Hon. Abram S. Hewitt will
deliver the Grafton. The invited
guests and city officials will march at
noon in a body from the city hall in
New York and cross the bridge,
where President Kingsley will deliver
the structure to the mayors of the
two cities.