The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Odds and Ends of Current Newspa-
per Literature.

IS MlSCELLAN EOOS.
o The Odds and Ends of Current Newsps
f per literature.
f Berlin has monthly devoted
b cremation.
New York turns out 100000
d cigars every year.
4 A mill built in 1850 is running il
{ New London, Conn.
7 There are 5000 miles of overhead
wires in Philadelphia.
! England's East India trade is show
) ing signs of falling off.
3 The Cuban filibusters are buying {;
: stock of nitro glycerine.
Butler will be sixty-slx years of age
} the day after the election.
Massachusetts, has a clear title tc
the HooSac tunnel at last.
Commerce in the Black sea is seri
ously interrupted by pirates.
The Chinese consul at Victoria, B.
O., was stoned by boys recently.
Italy is keenly alive to the advan-
tageS of South American trade.
High-ball poker is the most flour
OA OAO L GbN1uC COdSG.
The full strength of England's
armed force in Ireland is $4,000 men.
Many machines, pumps and engines
OF American make are seen in Egypt.
There are 10000 tons of sugar in
New York and Brooklyn warehouses.
If not overloaded, Esquimaux dogs
will easily draw sledge sixty miles a
day.
A dog swimming match was a re-
cent sporting novelty at Harlem,
New York.
Six inches of hail fell in ten min
,, utes at Lone Tree valley, Colorado,
recently.
1t costs annually $1.2OO,OOO for links
and pins for the freight cars in this
country,
Germany and Russia are both push
ing forward experiments in flying
machines for use in war.
According to corset maker the
highest laced girls in the world are on
the American continent.
Japan is extending its commerce
with great deal of enthusiasm, into
every accessible country.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, will wait until
the national election is over before
Incorporating as city.
English capitalists continue to in
vest in mineral lands and manufacture
ing sites in this country.
The elephant Emperor, only two
inches less in stature than Jumbo, has
been sold by auction in England for
$500.
Cincinnati is to have an odd monu-
ment, in the form of ruin, built from
the broken pillars and fragments of
the court house burned during the |
riot.
The country girl gets even with her
city cousin when she writes: "Pa has |
got the house full of paying boarders, |
you know, else we should like to have |
you all here spending the summer"
The following is an analysis, from
DR.. Percy's work on "fuel," of a coal |
from the Newcastle district: Carbon,
81.41; hydrogen, 5.83; oxygen, 7.90; nj |
trogen, 2.O5; sulphur, O.704; ash, 2.O7.
When Blinks heard the ten COM
claimed: "Humphl One of the party
things amount to? Nobody lives up
to them"
The wife of a Methodist preacher in
Georgia takes turns with him at
When his parishioners see
the old gentlemanl dig9ing worms in
the backyard they i-neW that it is bis
day off.
In going to any place, bees seem to
be guided by direction rather than
sight. Thus if we move hive, but
for one or two feet, the bees will, for
days, descend to the old position, and
then turn abruptly to the hive.
Two ladies had had little tiff, and
one of them remarked as she departed:
well, as I told my husband this
1 shouldn't care to be in
your shoes" 81 imagine not" the
other one responded. "You would
find them painfully close fitting"
So you think John is becoming a
great man in the city ?" said farmer,
speaking of his absent son to a COM
panion of the youth. "Great man! 1
should say so. Why there amt bar
keeper in the city hardly that he don't
call by his first name"
81 hear Gail Fisher, who left here a
few months ago, is married and living
in Indianapolis. Did he marry well? ?"
sob, yes, he married well. He was
well when he married" mo joking.
mean did he get good start by mar
ryingw Oh, yes, he got good start
he married a widow with seven
children"
Off the gulf coast of Texas is the
Padre island, containing $4,000 acres,
and owned by no man knows whom.
There are scores of claimants to the
title, some of whom have already in
1uced credulous Englishmen to sink
100000 IN ideal schemes of improve
nent.
It is generally understood in Balti-
more that the the telegraphic pooling
between the Bankers
and Merchants Baltimore and Ohio,
and the Postal Telegraph companies
have come to sudden termination by
the Bankers and Merchants company
"May have the pleasure of seeing
you homer" bashfully asked report
er. Certainly" she graciously re-
piled. "There is high hill just in
front of the house, or, if you prefer
it, you can climb big tree in a cow
lot. Go anywhere where you can get
a good view"
Deseronto, Canada, is lighted by gas
made out of sawdust. 1t is claimed
that the works show product of 30O,-
600 feet of gas out of 80 tons of saw
dust at a cost of $106, with by
products of an aggregate value of
SOL, making the net cost of the gas
So or 1.66 cents thousand feet.
Discussing the violence of a vaeu-
um, the Scientific American says it is
evident that no matter what the con-
ditions under which steam is used in |
an engine, the work done by conden-
sation cannot exceed in value that |
which wouldlbe performed by the at
mosphere if it were admitted to the
cylinder.
The small prices obtained at the
Liverpool sale OF wild beasts have
created something like a. panic on the
continent. The Monde Illustre an
nounces it as new horror-"le krasch
des faunes." What seems to have
specially alarmed the French financial
mind is the fact that tiger which
had eaten two keepers was sold for
1,2O0 francs = "only 600 francs
keeper!"
The poisonous properties of stock
ings died with the brilliant aniline
DIVES are rendered harmless by dipping
tho articles in q hath Of rubber dis