The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Three hundred arrests have been
made in connection with tie latest
plot to murder the Gar.
A lady, joking about her nose, said:
Il had nothing to do with shaping it.
ltWas birthday present"
There are over 5000 miles of over
head wires in New York city; and 122
miles of street are defaced by them.
1t may not be generally known that
the disability law against Catholics
still exists in New Hampshire. No
Catholic can hold office in that state
Chicago News.
The Glasgow Herald thinks that if
Americans would substitute oatmeal
for pies and hot cakes they would be
calmer, less lively, less speculative,
less bombastic, and happier.
Mexican merchants complain that
they are constantly victimiZed by re-
ceividg goods from the United States
which are much inferior to the
samples displayed by drummers.
An electric light has been intro.
duced into a lighthouse at the en-
trance to the outer harbor of Rio de
Janeiro. 1t is of 1000 candle power
miles.
A census of boarding-school Ct
forty EIGHT girls showed that one
could make bread, one knew how to
fry oysters, three knew how to broil
beefsteak, forty eight could embroider
and forty-seven dance.
The Buckeye school teacher whipped
one of his scholars severely, because
| the youngster said Chicago was in
Ohio. The teacher said he did not
feel so bad about the scholars igno-
rance as he did about the libel in the
statement.
The height of houses in Paris is
governed by municipal regulations.
The width of the street furnishes the
Standard. In streets between seven
and eight metres wide, twelve metres
is the maximum elevation.
A Virginia policeman, though eat
| ing heartily, grew weaker and thin
ner. Then he threw up a lizard and
got well. Policemen who wake up
and go the midnight restaurant can
not be too careful as to see that there
are no lizards in the oysters.
In recent committees report pre-
sented by the Philadelphia city faith
ers, street was spelled "sthreete," res
olution "risollusion," and whereas
"whareass." The Philadelphia coun-
Gilman is evidently determined that
his constituents shall never call him a
dude.
New Orleans has been terribly both
cred by the swarms of little red bugs
that the north wind has blown into
the city. The Orleanists might have
known that they would, sooner or la
ter, be punished for the defeat of
that inoffensive patriot, Mr.. VIM. 2
Kellogg.
The latest indignity offered to the
memory of Carlyle is to credit him
with having invented the word
dude" In his journal on July 10
1885, he wrote: 81 seldom read any
dud of book, novel or the like, where
the writing seems to flow along like
talk, without a certain pain, a certain
envy"
The first railway built in the United
States was three miles in length, ey
tending from the granite quarfies Il
q Iincy, Mass, to the Neponset river
1t was commenced in 1926 and CON-
pleted in 1927. The gauge was five
feet. The rails were pine foot deep
covered with an oak plate, and these
with fiat oars of iron.
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any Other
country, and the consequence is that
they are tame and familiar. A resident
of Sweden says that every morning
fiocks of sprrrows come into the room
while he is eating breakfast and run
about the room picking up crumbs, Oh
washing themselves in basins.
The discovery of natural gas il
large quantities still continues to bt
made in and around Pittsburg, Pa
The latest large "fnd" was struck a
the depth of 1000 feet, and when 'icht
ed the flame shot upward for "a u-ots,nc,
of thirty feet. The use of this natura
gas as fuel not only reduces the cos
of that item, but lessons the numbe,
of workmen required. In one shoI
alone the saving in this respect is sai(
to be $28,0OO year.