The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
Items of Interest Cleaned From var


Items of Interest Cleaned From variou:
Sources.
! Upwards of 100000 pounds of beet
sugar from European countries enter.
! ed our ports last year.
Between July l and September Is
! 5000 barrels Of flour were exported
from San Francisco to China and
Japan.
American beef in English markets
is now sold as Scotch, and as such
brings four cents mole per pound than
under its true name.
1t is stated that a field ten miles
square will hold the population of the
earth, and that one twenty miles
square would seat them all.
The largest prune orchard in the
world is near Saratoga, Santa Clara
county, Cal. It contains 10000 trees,
and recently sold for $1,000.
Pulmonary consumption is the
cause OF one death in twelve in New
York state, state of affairs which
the board of health attributes to badly
ventilated school rooms.
A bill before the Vermont legislat-
ure provides bounty of from sc
cents to 81 80 per bushel for grass
hoppers, according to the season in
which they are killed.
A mucilage which seems to keep for
a very long time is prepared by precip-
ltating dissolved gum with strong al
cohol, expressing and drying. The
mass is perfectly white and easily sol.
uble in water.
The Indians of Omaha have always
been accustomed to work on land in
severalty. They do not possess the
notion of ownership in land. Under
the law of 1882, however, every head
of family was allotted 100 acres, and
954 allotments have been made.
a well-regulated garden cannot be
considered complete unless it contains
a selection of some of the principal
varieties of sweet aromatic herbs for
soups and other dishes. Some of them
are really indispensable, and almost all
herbs are serviceable in various Gull
nary operatiods.
A deaf family in New Hampshire
has been traced back to the fourteenth
century in England. and in all that
time has regularly shown succession
Of deaf mutes. In Maine there is a
family in which there are ninety-fiye
deaf mutes, all Of them connected by
blood or marriage.
The rage for Indian relics connected
with the western mounds is such that
factories are now in operation for
their production by white people, aud
not less than 1000 stone axes have been
made in Philadelphia alone during the
past year. These are sent out west to
be discovered" and then sold to inno-
cent purchasers.
A fifteel-year-old lad lately died in
England from the effects of looking at
trying to see which could gaze longest
upon the blazing orb. He soon COM
planned OF intense pain in his eyes and
head, which increased to such an eX-
tent that he died in great agony with
in a few hours of making the trial.
Paper bottles are now largely man
ufactured in Germany and Austria.
They are made of rags, wood pulp and
straw, and are coated On both sides
with defbrinated blood, lime and alu-
nina. They are manufactured in two
parts and submitted to high pressure
When completed they viii hold spirits,
acids, etc, and are not easily broken.
Their cost is very low.
All grocers should instruct their
customers who use canned goods to
pour out the contents of the can as
Socn as it Is cut, says the st. Louis
Grocer. Il will not do to wait fifteen
or twenty minutes. The can should
be emptied at once. a few minutes
exposure to the air while in the can
will give the contents q metallic taste
that is not at all agreeable.
Lord TenDyson will be obliged to
revise famous couplet IN the next
edition of his poem,
Every minute dies man,
Every minute one is born.
Statisticians who have been com
putting the mortality OF the globe
estimate the number of deaths per
minute on this terrestrial sphere at
81.
Securing of diarrhea is chiefly con-
fined to pigs only week or two old,
and often results in death. The cause.
generally, is poor quality of theSoW'S
milk. When litter is attacked with
scour5 always change the soW's diet
as is of good quality. The pen should
also be thoroughly cleansed and sprink.
led with weak solution of corbolic
acid.
The new Japan naples are now
creating a good deal of interest as
hardy plants for lawns. They are
perfectly hardy and grow to a height
Of from six to nine feet. They possess
not only the extraordinary merit of
having their foliage covered with the
hues of autumn the entire season, but
the delicate formation of their leaves
gives many of them the appearance of
the most fantastic ferns. Nearly ev-
cry known shade of color is found IN
the leaYes.
Plants require food of two distinct
kinds; food Tor their organic part and
food for their inorganic or mineral
part. From the stores existing in the
atmosphere, in the form of carbonic
acid and ammonia they receive part
ly the food which nourishes their Or
ganic part and partly from the Or
ganic matter in the soil. That which
part comes solely from the soil. Til
1d&S OpCTGG1OuS lCllu W lllCICdoO p1ctnG
food in the soil.
Not long ago it dawned upon the
butterine men that there was less
weight of water in their product than
the real butter. This was, of course,
kind of self cheating which could
not be profitably INDUCED in. So the
use of calclc chloride was resorted to,
as it has the greatImerit,i in this ascot
being able to take up 10 per ct Mt. of
water without in the least showing it..
Starch or flour is also used for the
same purpose. The latest substance
employed by the butterine makers to
add weight by absorbing water is
gelatine, which is said to work nicely.
GIycerine is being considerably used
to add flavor to the compound. A
woman has recently obtained a patent
on the use of the yelk of eggs and
milk in the butter manufacture, but
it is difficult to see how they can be
profitably used National stockman.
BLAINE AND "MY DEAR