The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

1neTe IS Butler and Thurman
antl-noncpoly Glib in San Francisco,
Cal.
The sou venir of last we: Ks festi, i
ties in Montreal IS Il medal with a
Canadian thistle On one side and Il
Canadian goose on the o.hcr.
1t is reported thai the French gov
eminent is about to l-y further |
length Of 4530 miles of underground |
telegraph wires. the cost OF which will |
be about 100000.
The Boston Congrega 'inna'ist sug-
gests that a clergyman who takes IA
gloomy view of the word may well
pause and consider whe' her he is in a
hitting frame of mind to preach glad
t1dlngs" to men Who need inspiration
to hope, never to believe, courage to
rejoice.
One Anna L., who lives near Wen
IA, recently made certain remarks
| concerning pet dog that were not in
| the nature of a compliment. \ few
days later one OF the Vienna papers
printed the following statement over
her name: II hereby retract the in
sulting language used against Agar,
| the pet dog Of Baroness Won X, and
declare said Agar to be a Well-behaved
canine"
An English journal reports that
retired Snowman has been making
public some of the secrets of his trade
notably the secret of fat women. He
says that in the case of these women
a hollow needle is made to penetrate
the adipose to the areoiar tissue, air
being then forced through until the
woman is distended TO her full limit.
What is commonly taken for fat is
therefore largely wind.
From the opening of the last session
of Parliament, in 1883, to the opening
of the present one there have been
twenty-five elections. Ten of these
have been in Ireland, in which the
Parnellites have gained four seats
MallOw, Sligo county, Monaghan
county and Limerick city. OF the tif-
teen English and Scotch, the Con-
Sc. vative5 have gained two, South
ampton and York, and the Liberals
one, Ipswich.
The New Orleans Times-DemOcrat
of the 9Th inst. says: investigations
made in st. Mary's and other parishes
shows that the cane has not suffered
the least damage from the cold. There
|
stubble and seed are in unusually
good and promising condition, and
with favorable season the crop will
be large. In this city and vicinity
, the crop of oranges has been cut short,
but the trees themselves, except the
] very young and tender ones, are I'M
, injured
A believer 10 the chameIeon's diet
| To- to- II 10 -,
live on next TO nothing, and then COM
planned that when he had reduced the
: daily dietary to single straw the
: awkward quadruped spoiled the ex-
pertinent by dying. DR.. Ve5smayer,
an English vegetarian enthusiast OF
Belfort House, Sydenham, has been
) afflicted by a kindred disa appointment
This amiable theorist maintained the
doctrine Of living on regimen repre-
senting a penny farthing a day, and
had the honesty to try it On himself
He began toward the end Of NoYem-
Der, and after the first week published
an excellent account of the wonderful
intellectual clearness and sense of
: physical lightness and elasticity pro,
: duced. But his penny farthing para.
disc turned out an illusion. He is now
at deaths door, with three regular NJ
) DIS attending him.
, The North German Gazette reports
, that the valuable library Of the khe.
dive, which until recently was one OF
the largest and best arranged in the
East, is being quietly disposed of by
the Pashas. For many years the diStin-
guished German scholar Spita Bey
had the library under his complete
| nNnfrn on6 6I1rinOr hiC 1ihrnri NJ oh y
; t>he succeeded not only in reducing the
: chaos OF books and manuscripts to adj,
mirable order, but also in acquiring &
large numRer of splendid copies of the
Koran and of ancient commentaries
upon it. When Arabs revolution
2 broke out. however, the rebel leaders
charged Herr Spita with having desc
Grated sacred volumes, and dismissed
him from his pest. He thereupon
quilted Egypt in disgust, and since
his departure the library has fallen.
actually if not nominally, into the
hands of a set of ignorant men.
Until they read in the newspapers
} of their brave and humane conduct al
the wreck of the City of Columbus
Head Indians, They were originally
| Gays OllO DOOIO1 l. Oob, Gllll OCCh OilDt-
of Indians in Massachusetts,. Unlike
, all other tribes, the Gay Head Indians
have not materially decreased, and
, they now number about 200 souls,
counting men, women and children.
The Gay Heads are above the average
in morals, natural ability and educa-
ton. They inhabit that part Of the
westerly end of the Island of Martha's
Vineyard which is known as Gay
Head, and which is divided into three
peninsulas, Nashaquista, Squibnocket
and Gay Head. Probably there is no
Indian of pure aboriginal blood now
resident in the commonwealth, it hav-
ing long been the practice among
them to inter-marry with the whites
and those of African descent. AT last
accounts the several tribes in MaSsa-
chusetts numbered about as follows:
ChippaQuiddicks, so; Gay Heads, 200;
Mashpees, 800; Herring Ponds, 90;
Dudleys, 60. Members of other Tribes
are scattered, and number less than
400 persons all told.
A. r. Spofford, librarian of Con-
gress, Saturday submitted to the joint
committee on the library, and through
it to Congress, his annual report. The
counting of the library was completed
in January, showing 513,441 volumes
and ABOUT 10000 pamphlets. The in
crease in the number of volumes dur
ing the year 1883 was 1886. The
number of copyright entries during
the year was 25,274, an increase Of
1864, as compared with 1882. Copy
right publications were received dur
ing the year to the number of 3,438
of which 1854 were volumes of
books, 4, 452 periodicals, 11,101 must
cal compositions, 7241 engravings, and
other works of graphic art. The re-
port contains reference of about
5000 volumes Of bound newspapers
American and foreign-of great his
torical, commercial and political value,
transferred to the library from the
state department. The Congressional
library is the largest collection of the
kind in the country, and there are
only six larger in the world It is re-
ceiving additions at more rapid rate
than any other library except the
British museum.