The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

There are twenty-five copper fur
naces in Tennessee which turn out an
annual yield of 100000 pounds of
copper.
The Kansas City journal says that
within five terms, covering fifteen
months, st. Louis courts have granted
1000 divorces.
There is an extensive establishment
in New Orleans for the manufacture
of wine from imported raiSinS mixed
with dried currants.
The poor people of Mobile kick
against the cow ordinance of that
city, and say that it is an infringe
ment of their rights.
Although Russia has vast beds of
excellent coal, she imports nearly half
of what she uses-chiehy through the
lack of international communications.
A Canadian social scientist de-
clares that in long experience and OBJ
servation he finds that, with thus far
no exception, the applicants for di-
vorces are blondes.
1t is said that Nebraska has one
woman minister, one woman lawyer,
six women county superintendent,
and ten women physicians. Many
women are engaged in editorial work.
1t seems that machines, as well as
men, work harder here than in
Europe. The Railway Gazette says
that 100 locomotives here do as much
as 131 in Germany, 139 in Switzer-
land and 140 in Austro-Hungary.
Mr.. Berthold, of Breslau, Prussia,
used his railroad directors pass to
frank his wife and daughters bag
gage, and was condemned to weeks S
Imprisonment for obtaining fraudu-
lently $1.38 worth of accommodation.
He appealed but sentence was con-
tirmed.
A married woman, who has had
trouble with her female help, sends
this recipe to the press: PUT all your
old love letters in a paSte-board box
in the servant girls room. A supply
of old love-letters has been known to
keep girl contented in one place for
three months at time"
The unveiling of the Jefferson mon
ument at Monticello has been post
poned until next autumn. 1t was to
have occurred July 4, but the militia
of Virginia preferred to attend the
laying of the corner stone of the Lee
monument at Lexington, June %,
and the former had to be deferred.
Mr.. R. II. Wadlow, Brooklyn, Ga,
man, after three years hard work and
study, has finally invented and pat
ented new method of making shoes
The entire uppers of these shoes are
~ nil hot
touch the feet. They are made with
an adjustable instep and fastened with
buckles of his own invention.
There are in Ireland, says Justice
Mccarthy, about $1,000 houses with
only one room in each, and that of the
rudest and poorest kind. OF these
$1,000 one-roomed huts, most have
floors of rough, damp earth and roofs
of rotten thatch. Their walls are
without plaster, and hole in the ga
BILE serves them for chimney. Into
some of these cabins will be crowded
goat, a donkey, a pig, and several
fowls, along with the occupant and
his family.
According to the Milling World
Sackcloth or canvas can be made as
imperviouS to moisture as leather, by
sleeping it in a decoction of one
pound of oak bark with fourteen
pounds of boiling water. This guam
| tity is sufficient for eight yards OF
stuff. The cloth has to soak fol
twenty-four hours, when it is taken
out, passed through running water
and hung up to dry. The flax and
hemp fibers, IN absorbing the tannin
/ are at the same time better fitted tC
resist wear.