The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.


The editor of an Irish journal hiss
been arrested in Tyrone for melting
Orangemen 70 hostile acts against Ma
tionalists.
LynhurSt, the home Of Reverdy !
johnson, near Baltimore, was offered /,
at auction, but was Withdrawn be-
cause only $4,000 WIS bid.
Some of the steamers from New
York sell round trip tickets to Liver
pool for Si00, which is pretty cheap
for the trip over and back.
The same christening robe OF drap
d'argent which was worn by the
crown prince OF Germany has served
for all the christenings in the family.
Gov. Buffers old war charger, lit
tie Phil, is thirty years old, and is still
Il lively buckskin. The governor
bought the animal when it was six
years old.
The old proverb goes that a still
tongue makes a wise head-when the
very logic Of the situation proves
! that it is wise head which makes a
still tongue.
Never interrupt a woman when she
is Scolding. A broken rail has Gften
been known to wreck train. and II
you break her rail it will certainly in
terrupt her train of thought.
\ water famine is feared IN the
northern counties OF New Ork the
coming winter Unless heavy rains
should fall before settled cold weather
comes. Wells and streams are very
low.
Why is it that insane folks always
happen to be found in intimate COM
panionship with the ever-ready muir
derous revolver? Some son of a
gun" will have to figure out the an
sWer.
The local pension list, recently pu b.
lished at WATERFOWL, n. J., showed
that several pensioners had been deat
: for a wear or more, and that woman
J drew money in the hame OF her deat
mother.
: Kicking Horse Pass, in Minnesota
has always been thought lmpenetra
; BILE; but an engineering party has JUS
gone through it, and on their report
T railroad is to be built. 1t will COS
!; fully 100000 per mile.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says
: There are unmistakable signs tina
the coming season will be whoonn!
! good season for the gamblers in Chi
. cago." Yes, loose sleeves are coming
: into fashion for one thing.
t Ten persons engaged in the hotel O
D restaurant business at Vinita, l. l., TO
: which there is DO provision except b.
= permits, have been served with nc
e tices to remove within ten days be
s yond the limits of the nation.
e "Nooks and Corners of New Eng
t land" is the title Of a new book.
i good many gushing, spooney girls ar
e all anxious TO become acquainted wit
some of the hooks and corners. Bu
6 they want nice young man to COZ
a ner them.
o In Armenia girls are married g
= twelve and thirteen. If they are lei
$ unmarried at sixteen they are nkel
d to remain old maids, but there is hoF
. for them till the nineteenth birthda,
l. After that they are called LOT
II weed or useless plant.
~ In richness and extent, according
y dispatches from Montana, no NIL
~ eral discoveries in tn. Western State
or territories have exceeded those
the Cour dAleHe mountains. FrOl
S25 to $40 per day is being pannt
h out by each man IN The gulch, viii
e 800 per day is taken from the I'll
D rock.
g, One night, in the early days of Sa
n Francisco, a party of men were win
E. ing up a spree in saloon, when Oh
aS of the members dashed the Hqut
y from his glass and said: 81 dash
II away forever" From this lncidel
Id the Dashaway Society was forme
W and it did incalculable good in Il
lie cause of temperance and charity.
r The Insurance Chronicle sums I
IL the showing of quantity Of statistl
" on the subject thus: Suicide occu
u, fifteen times as. otter, relatiYel
"a among holders of life insurance 70
d cies as among the general populatio
:, this ratio is subject to increase, al
n n insanity, although generally indeiin
" BILE, is rapidly growing and mu
~ largely contribute to the number
~ suicides among the insured"
at A correspondent of the Lancet
to scribes the following as the meth
he employed in China for determinil
paternity: A basin or cup of Gle
IS. water is obtained; the suppos
W. fathers finger is cut and then put
W to water till some blood trickles; tn
3 the child's finger is cut and placed
,r- water. and if the two bloods imme
S. ately unite, the proof is compile
II. The magistrate is sometimes brlb
let and the water tempered with.