The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS. go u

weighs 1O,COO tons.
The Northern Pacific railway has
killed 1000 Cinnamon.
Spain will not oppose a tunnel IN
der the straits Of Gibraltar.
A Binghampton bank is loaded
with 10000 of the So cent dollars.
An Indiana man was lately di-
vorced from his wife and has just
married her mother.
A Reading man attempted to learn
the entire Bible by heart. He has re-
Gently died in an asylum.
Henlen, of Troy. was the first
woman who wanted to go to Paris
and leave her husband at home.
THE bad men get into court some
time or other" remarked the philoSo-
pher, "either as criminals or lawyers"
A seat in the New York stock ex-
change has been sold recently for
$4,000. The last previous sale was
at $4,000.
The receipts of the patent office for
the current year will exceed 81 100000
according to the estimates of Commits
sioner Marble.
An Englishman bequeathed his two
daughters their weight in FL bank
notes. One of the girls received g54,-
200 and the other 959,344.
A Hartford girl. twelve years old,
being asked how far she was adj
vanced at school, replied that she was
Gin geography on the second floor"
More than $4,000 were lately found
in the room of a man in Paris, who
had for twenty-five years lived miser-
ly, and who died in charity hos
pital,
The house of commons now consists
of 639 members. OF these 335 are
Liberals, 241 Conservatives, 30 Par
nellities, and 33 modern Home
Rulers,
Jury trials in Colorado are now
practically abolished, an especially de-
manded jury having to be paid for in
advance and to be picked up on the
streets.
An Iowa tramp showed his graft
tude recently by leaving the small
poX in house where he had been
given a dinner OF course the family
are to be pitted.
About $4,000 glasses of ice water
are dispensed in day at the drinking
fountain erected in front of the New
York postotfice by the Business Mems
Moderation society.
A New Orleans physician assures
the citizens who are dreading the ap-
proach of the cholera that the safest
place in the world against the dis
ease is the piny woods.
The viceregal carriage, with its cav
airy escort, the officer riding by the
door with his drawn sword, and the
car of detectives following, is a fa-
miliar sight in Dublin.
A New Haven, Conn.,, woman
joined the salvation army recently,
leaving her neighbors to look out for
the salvation of two small children
tied to chair in her yard.
They thought they heard burglars
in the house last week, and in going
down stairs to investigate he said to
his wife: "You go first; it's mean
man that would shoot woman"
According to Mr.. Nimmo, chief of
the bureau of statistics, the home con-
sumption of agricultural products is
six times as great as the exports of
the same, large as are the latter.
1t has been found that copper ex-
lists in all plants, and especially in
wheat. 1t does not, therefore, prove
that bread is adulterated because
traces of copper are detected in it.
In Dahomey one of the sacrifices
frequently offered to one of their
TO- ri ho Of 10
is fastened to stake imbedded in the
river mud, and left for the croco-
diles.
A real estate agent of Louisville
says he could rent 500 new cottages
right now. But it is no trouble to
rent 500 cottages at any time. 1t is
collecting the rent that produces gray
hairs.
The Chinese have law that if the
elder brother in a family should have
no children when fifty years of age,
he may claim the eldest son OF any OF
his younger brothers and make him
his heir.
A good Cremona violin has fifty
eight divisions. The back. neck, sides
and circles are of sycamore; the belly,
base-bar. sounding-pOst, and six
blocks of deal; the finger-board and
tail-piece of ebony.
The telegraphers have the oldest
secret insurance society in the United
States. 1t was formed in 1868, five
years before the Knights of Honor,
and admits ladies as well as gentle
men to membership.
The price of gas in English and
Irish cities, per 1000 feet, is as fol-
lows: Dublin, 80 cents; Belfast, 80
cents; Plymouth, 60 cents; Leeds, A
cents; Carlisle, 60 cents; Manchester,
Ga cents; Birmingham, Sc cents.
A Western firm is manufacturing
horse shoes, which are placed under
the waters of the lime springs in the
Yellowstone park and kept there
until covered with crystalline deposits.
They are then sold as ornaments.
The thirst of this country in 1881
required and consumed over 10000
600 gallons of beer. England now
heads the roll of beer-drinking ma
lions, but, at the present rate of in
crease, we shall distance her in a very
few years.
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stalactite caves in the Yosemite is
called Stygian Cave. Birds drop dead
flying over its mouth, and small ami
mails entering perish at once. 1t is
filled with crystalline pendants of a
deep emerald hue.
Ruskin says: "There is in every
animals eye ; dim image and CLEAN
of humanity, flash of strange light,
through which their life looks out and
up to our great mystery of command
over them, and claims the fellow
ship of the creature if not of the
SOUL"
Merchants at Memphis and in the
surrounding towns report more
actual cash paid for purchases this
summer than for a generation. All
classes of citizens, including many
colored farmers, are showing the
prosperous results of thrift and in
dustry.
Among the lower races the belief
that the world was created by animals
is almost universal; but there is great
variety of belief as to what the ami
NAL was. In West Africa spiders are
supposed to be the makers of the
t.