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

New Orleans cotton mill girls have
struck against going to work before
daylight.
Canadian inventors petition for the
adoption of the American patent law
entries.
Among the journals recently started
ln!Germany is a comic paper called
Mixed Pickles.
The British Columbia assembly pro-
poses law limiting the amount of |
land that one man own to GAO acres.
Gold nuggets are being found in |
the mountains near Marshall, Ark.
The New Orleans lumber exchange
has adopted the plan of selling fu-
lures.
An exhibition illustrative of the art
of cookery opened at Vienna on Feb
ruary 7under the presidency of Count
kinsky, chief OF the kitchen depart
ment of the court.
The Munich Academy of the Fine
Arts include among its 512 pupils for
the winter course, forty-two from the
United States, a larger number than
from any country save Prussia.
The ground on which an Iowa man
asks for divorce is that his wife is
a drunkard, and the popularity OF
| the complaint is its specification that
she acquired the habit of intemper-
ance whilea tending Tar in his own
| saloon.
| A man in Nebraska city is actively
promoting starvation by giving away
flour to the poor. lie distributes in
sacks, one to every purchaser of 100
drinks at his bar, and, under the cir
cumstancCs, the winners are bound to
be losers.
II a razor, after being exposed to
the cold, be placed under a strong
magnifying glass. it is said that the
edge would seem Ikea saw. Dipping
it in hot water throws the little paIti-
cles back into place and makes the
edge smooth.
An Iowa boy. aged fifteen, worked
a month for the ply stefan of the
neighborhOod, and was given, instead
of the $40 which he expected, a re-
ceipted bill for professional services
which the doctor had rendered on the
occasion Of his birth.
The king of Italy intends to form at
the Quirinal a Victor Emanuel mu-
scum, in which shall be gathered to-
gether all records of the eminent man,
such as the Illuminated documents,
! crowns, banners and other objects
/ presented to him by the pilgrims, cit
, les and provinces.
J, An Illinois philanthr0pistS wishes
to benefit the poor by teaching them
to eat their bread and butter with the
: butter side down. He says that the
of facfa is most lpIIta IN the
tonge. and that very small amount
of butter is satisfactory if put in the
obviously right spot.
} One thing can be said in palliation
t of George Alfred Townsend's (Gath's)
| lies-they are comparatively harmless
, as lew people believe them. This has
been decided by the jury in the SUI
, preme court of New York, which
, placed the damages at $50 instead OF
$4,000, as sued for.
Several smokers swOre off in Lisbon
Dakota, on New Years day, and
pledged themselves to give the church
1925 every time they smoke this year.
And now the good deacoDs of Lisbon
go around with their pockets full OF
7 cigars, which they offer gratis to the
men who are under pledge.
Traces of human footprints have
been discovered in rock fifteen feet
under ground in Nicaragua, which are
estimated to be $4,000 years Old, aid
e yet scientists, who can imagine almost
: any kind of depression in rocks to
be tracks or footprints, doubt whether
E the maker of these tracks was the
{ oldest inhabitant.
= 1t would be eminently appropriate
for the Marquis of QueensOerrY to
y follow up his recent suggestions of 3
D change in the marriage service by for
= mulating a set of rules for domestic
encounters for instance, that no hus'
band or wife shall pull hair, gougt
| eyes, or use any weapon more dan
+ gerous than a fire poker or broom
stick.
O Gov. Sherman, of Iowa, appears tC
have dropped his candy. He dilated
T at considerable length in his message
= to the legislature on the prevalence OF
pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle OF
that state. Now the veterinary sur.
!. geon Of the state agricultural college
I says that there is not now and has
4 not been any such disease among the
1 cattle of Iowa.
F Standard time, it is reported, has
proved to be so inconvenient in Co
lumbus and Cleveland that the coun.
l ellis of those Ohio cities have voted JC
; return to the local standard of solar
, time. Local time still prevails in
Cincinnati and Chicago, and the au.
!, tt critics of Louisville are daily i'm
1 portuned to reinstate solar time, by
!. which most OF the factories of that
l city continue to run.
In the first leap year ball in Phila.
. delphia the other night the ladies
! wore postillion dress coats, vests,
: elaborate shirt-fronts and high stand
; ing collars, while many of the men
wore wigs, low neck and short sleeves
earrings, necklaces and corsage bou-
} quets, and all the men wore sashes
The ball was given by Thomas Nc
Kean, grandson of the Mexican Of the
first American Congress. It was highly
enjoyed by the dudes.
/, Committees from the legislatures of
.. Virginia and Maryland are now in
, conference in Richmond. 1t is thought
basis Of settlement of the oyster diff
, ficulties between the two states will
be agreed on. 1t is likely the Mary
landers will be allowed to tong for
oysters in the Pocomoke, but not be
permitted to use the dredge, and that
the Potomac will be open from Octo-
Der to March to the citizens of both