The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER AND
THINGS,

Kansas last year produced 167 $50
pounds of cotton, valued at $1,000.
Mr.. Phineas T. Barnum is going to
publish affidavits from the highest
Burmese ecclesiastical authority to
prove that his new elephant is very
sacred, ii it is not very white.
An enterprising New Orleans man
is boring an arteslan well for the pur- |
pose OF getting sufficient water power /
to run light machinery. He has no !
doubt that he will be successful.
The charge against a California
judge is of frivolity, and the specitici-
ton is that he puts his hair in papers
every night, woman fashion, to make
it curl when he is on the bench next
day.
French commerce is seriously i'm
perilled. Twenty-seven men at Green's
burg, Pa, have bound themselves by
a horrible oath not to purchase any
thing produced or manufactured IN
France until that country removes
the embargo on American pork.
Turkish customs officials recently
seized copy of the Koran which had
been in the family of the owner for
500 years. He had been otferd 10000
for it, and is, it is needless to say,
somewhat enraged at his loss, which
the government blandly refuses to
make good to him.
| North Carolina has been considered
by many as quite poor state. There
is no doubt now, however, about it
having the "tin" \ valuable deposit
of tin ore is said to have recently been
discovered in Cleveland county. Few
traces of tin have been heretofore
found in the United States.
A painter made contract to fresco
the interior Of a church i'll Michigan.
The design was left to his own taste,
which proved unsound, for he covered
the walls with NEUROLOGICAL and idol
atrous pictures. The trustees not
only refused to pay him, but demand
ed that he remove his work.
A new-fashioned Dook'cover has APP
| peared. 1t is apparently solid oak
beautifully grained and carved with
a pattern in low relief. The solid ap.
pearance of the oak is delusion, the
} wood being about the thickness OF
drawing paper, softened SO as to re
3 ceive the impression of stamped
E pattern, and then folded over bind
ing of cardboard.
Another case of death resulting
from arsenical poisoning in the effor
of a naturally beautiful young lad.
: to improve her complexion is reported
= from Waterbury, Conn. Miss Mar!
\ Stevens, the victim, on her death be-
8 confessed the cause of her death
v Young ladies who are ambitious t.
: become unnaturally beautiful, SHOULD
n take warning by her fate and beWar
: of arsenic.
y A farmer from Pocahontas county
: West Virginia,sappeared in Stauntol
o the other day searching for an auction
: block and an auctioneer. He wa
e dumbfounded when told that ther
y were no slave auctions in Virginia
q He returned to his mountain HON
y unable to sell the two slaves that h
e desired to sell. He had cultivated nj
farm all these years in ignorance o
t the emancipation proclamation.
/ The charges made by the Boston pa
4 pers that the bodies Of the victims o
e the Gay Head disaster were Stripe
l. and robbed by wreckers in Martha
q VINEYARD and so stOutly denied b
y some of the Inhabitants of the islan(
: ought to be thoroughly investigated
a No doubt seems to exist that Will
many of the people Of Gay Head act
II ed nobly on the occasion of the wreck
many depredations were committed
i 1t is due to justice, as well as tn
:, reputation of the better people of th
L vicinity, that the real culpritS ShOul
e not only be exposed, but punished.
s A strange sort of festivity too
,, place on January II at the Hospits
q St. Louis, in Paris. A comic opera
I written and composed by the youD
= surgeons attached to the establish
d ment, was performed Tor the amuse
5 ; ment of the patients Fifty, xsars ag
VI Charles Fourier, the celebrated phi
/ losopher, who used to say man woul
e only be perfect had he tail with a
e eye at the end, wrote: "One day med
y cal science will endeavor to overcom
q the sufferings of patients by amusin
. their minds. Hospitals will be file
e with flowers, and music and plays wi
!, be performed there"