The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-04
miscellaneous Notes.

: d. SlOudry III 1lula, expresses the OBJ
mas ion that "for unmiXed wickedness a
utter moral depravitY no city of As
the could equal Chicago or New YorI
yht and that this continent has class
Villains ''lower and meaner than d
on lowest and meanest in India
of China"
esC Charles B. Poore, of Boise Cit
JIG Idaho Territory, claims to be ahead
Pastuer, the French chemist, in II
u u discovery of cure for hydrophobi
Gu ca He says that the New York Sun, i
iai une, 1882, published letter write
, by him, in which he advanced tn
= same method of a cure by III
~ oculatlon which this Frenchmaa ha
" SO newly made practical.
20 Minas Geraes, in the district O
; Dirty Water, Brazil, female mulat
+ TO, who is said to be 125 years old an,
who had lost her teeth forty years ago
- has recently got part of new set o.
p beautiful teeth, not from the hand Of
o dentist but from the hand of nature
and otliei teeth are still in the course
= OF formation. This fact is testified
to by DR.. Felix Dumont, of Bagagen.
, Minas Geraes.
: The Oldest and largest tree in the
world, so far as known, is the chest
= nut near the foot of Mount Etna. 1t
Is hollow and large enough to admit
Two carriages driving abreast through
1t. The circumference of the main
trunk is PIP feet. The Grizzly Giant,
monarch OF the Mariposa Grove,
measures go feet.
When cholera came to Italy direct
from Mecca in 1861, it carried off 49,
GOO that year; it almost died out in
the winter and spring, revived lutte
IN the autumn OF 1865, appeared to die
out once more in the winter following,
but in 1867, with no fresh Importation
from the east, it broke out so univers-
ally and so disastrously that 10000
people in Italy died of it.
Gayly the candidate
Seeketh the bar,
Where this sly citizens
| Throng from sfar,
| Singing: Sin search of thee
| Hither we come,
| Candidate, candidate,
Set up the rum"
| Hark! tits the candidate
Calls them by name,
up to the parapet
Swiftly they came
And still his songs heard.
All through the din.
"ThiZz time flZ ION me,
Se'mm muppagin!"
George Alfred Townsend Gath is
writing another novel, to be entitled |
''katy of Catocton."
Viscount Boyle, son of the Earl OF
Shannon, has bought a costly ranch
near Fort Mcleod, in the northwest,
Herbert II. Bancroft, the historian,
has gone with his family to Salt Lake
City to collect material for his volume
on Utah.
Lieut.. Greedy has been invited to
attend the meeting Of the British AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Science, to be held in Montreal.
M. Pasteur suffers from rabld pa
triotism. After the Franco German
war in 1871. he sent back to the uni
versity of Bonn an honorary decree
awarded him a few years previously.
Lieut.. Danenhower, of Arctic fame,
has been assigned to take charge of -,
the departments of electricity, meteor
ology and natural philosophy at the :
naval academy at Annapolis.
The New York World notes that I
beehives have taken the place of :
costly plants as window ornaments in
some of the fashionable Murray Hill
and wonders how the new
style will strike the paSSer-by when it
becomes general. If the bees them
selves strike the passer-by he will be
very apt to grumble at the vagaries of c
fashion. Y
Step by step the leading food prod }
ucts OF Europe are being reproduced l
in this country. Macaroni is made by {
Italians in New York, Neufchatel t
cheese by Swiss in New Jersey, 5
SchweitZer kase by Germans in Ohio, |
Albert biscuit by Englishmen in Al
bany, caviare by Russians in Harlem. t
Nearly all of these are exported to t
Europe, and there sold as domestic c
The wages of gang of italian Ia I
Oorers, near Saratoga, were recently :
cut down 10 cents day. Instead of L
striking they cut an inch off their S
shovel blades at night. The boss {
asked what it meant, and one OF the )
men replied: "Not so much pay, not v
so much dirt lift; all right, job last the v
more long; Italian no fool like Irish II
man; he no strike" S
1t is believed that artificial tails Y
nay be grown on animals, since the .
chinese have succeeded in raising gold
ish with exceedingly long caudal ap- -
1endages. 1t is possible that this .
rick was known to the prehistoric q
nan, and that Darwin's ancestors u u
we're only men, after all, with artifici- -
lily grown tails. :,
In an admirable paper on cremation 9,
md cholera, in the Pail Mall Gazette, n
edgar Sheppard, NJ. D., d. G. L., says :.
hat every great city should have a n
outside its walls, and a
hat its use should be enforced by law II
q ali cases of death by infectious dis fl
ase. In view of the threatened cpl f,
lemic of cholera, he considers this n
course as sanitary necessity. This is II
N argument that even the most senti- q
mental will find it difficult to answer. F. f,
Horses are not injured by labor any I
MOI ethan men, and it is only by expos. t;
Ire, over eXertion and neglect that T
hey become jaded out at time when a
hey should be in their best condition b
or usefulness. When men learn to il
humane for the blessings which come a
rom it, which is always paying in t.
yestment, in both the satisfaction it T
lffords and the money profit, there a
Will be less scrub horses in our coun- I
ry. A horse should not be sold until t
It is twenty at least, and, and there s
IRE many instances Where Chey nave a
Kept their vigor far beyond these v
years in the hands of careful masters. O
Liberal Use of Bank Funds in TiJue of v
Panic,
From the New York Tribune.
Among the wise things said at Sa- y
ratoga was the observation of PreSi-
lent Gage on the policy of liberal use '
Of the cash reserves in time of panic. !
Experience has conciusively shown !
that when the banks of the reserve
cities contract their loans in time of
their whole influence is
really exerted to aggravate the panic !
it should be their main function to =
prevent. Yet the liberal loan policy :
hat seldom been pursued save by the :
bank of England. though, as President
Gage says, the New York. banks oc-
cupy position analogous to that of !
the institution named, and if they do .
NOT rplipvn the DreSSura thew NAV in !