The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.


DIR. Deems does not believe in indis-
criminate alms-giving to street beg
gars, who are often frauds and stool
pigeons.
A cousin of Mr.. Gladstone, prime
minister of Great Britain committed
suicide at Liverpool. He was engaged
in mercantile pursuits.
New York, according to the census
report, owns $210, 1854 $50 of the regis
tered bonds of the United States, and
Massachusetts S45, 1875
The New York Sun states that
gambling houses thrive in New York
unmolested. and were never doing a
bigger business than now.
An Indiana state temperance con-
vention has once more declared
against both the political parties and
resolved to do great things alone.
German, French and Spanish
steamers are picking up the trade on
the coast of South America, hereto
fore monopolized by the English.
The largest vessels in the English
navy cost million and a quarter to
build, and nearly thousand dollars q
day TO keep them at sea afterward.
Fred Wagner, brother of the late
palace car magnate of New Y ork, has
been found murdered in Colorado.
He had been missing ever since last
fall.
A Gibraltar dispatch says that four
slaves were sold on the public street
of Tangiers, near the British legation.
Europeans there are very indignant
over it.
The resolutions passed by the New
York legislature on the death of Pc
ter Cooper open as follows: Whereas,
it has pleased Almighty God at the
age of 49,"
Minnesota has had a good lumber
winter; Wisconsin has not, and Maine
has cut more timber than it can saw.
Minnesota has cut 100000 feet and
Wisconsin 159,5OO,0OO.
Prof. Child, of Harvard, in illus
trating the follies of modern scientific
warfare, says it costs as much to build
and equip an ironclad as it would to
literally endOw university.
Pope Leo XIII is tall, spare man
with deeply-lined face. He is al
ways grave. His life is remarkable
for its austerity, and his health,
though delicate, receives no care.
A little chap in Gallatin, Tennessee,
son of prominent turfman, was
asked by his school teacher to define
good breeding" "a mare with two
Lexington crosses" was the instant
reply.
The governor of Nebraska makes
proclamation of a tree-planting day
for the state on the 18th of this
month. There have been governors
proclamations about less Important
matters of state.
At recent execution in Japan it
took thirteen strokes of the sword to
decapitate the criminal. The edge of
the instrument had been purpoSely
dulled, in order to make the death ag-
ony as great as possible.
The highest sum realized by George
Eliot for any one of her later works
was $4,000, while the lowest she re-
ceived was $4,000. Scott obtained
only $500 for "Waverly," while Miss
Burney was paid only 800 for Eve
lima"
The official returns give the value
of the tobacco consumed in France in
1882 at 1868 ,5OO,OOOf. Cigars show a
total of 6O,5OO,OOOf; cigarettes, 16,0O0,-
600; and chewing tobacco 100000.
The heaviest amount, 278,0O0,O00f.,
was for ordinary smoking tobacco.
Mr.. Horatio Allen of New York
has invented what he calls "sun,
planet and star instrument" 1t con-
sists of brass stand with steel arms
and a large white disc, representing
the sun, at its top, and by its use, ac-
cording to the inventor, the distance
and relative position of any one of
the nearer fixed stars can be easily
computed, and the movement of the
planets explained to young students.
Gunnison, Col, is to be the site of
big steel works, built by New York
and st. Louis capitalists; who have
bought 1000 acres of land at Crystal
Butte, 20 miles from Gunnison, the
tract containing large and valuable
deposits of iron and of anthracite
coal. The iron is said to be equal to
the best in Missouri, and the coal
superior to the best in Pennsylvania.
The mill, when finished, is to employ
several thousand hands.
Gen. Sherman recently had some
shirts made at a furnishing store in
Washington, and the cutter, a few
weeks later, met the general with
friend walking down the avenue.
The general remembered the face but
could not locate him, and the cutter
greeted him with: "Good morning,
General. How are you to-day?" The
general stopped, shook hands, and the
cutter, seeing the generals mind
needed refreshing, said quietly:
'Made your Shirts "Oh! l beg par
don," said the general quickly, and
turning to the gentleman with whom
he was walking he said: "Ahl Col.
-, allow me to introduce you to