The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-01-15

mans to go to Utah and make their /
wives support them, rather than Sc I
cure divorces at home.
\ writer in Longman's Magazine |
rec 2mmendS TO the faculty for investi- |
CATION the therapeutic influences of
ballOoniDg, as Glaisher aflirms
that on one occf = he went up with
a bad influenza and came down
cured. He thinks future generations
OF valetudinarians will probably re-
pair each summer to well-regulated
balloon int1rmary as they now do to
the Waters OF AK or Burton or the
baths Of Brighton md Biarritz.
The London Times for December Is
gives good deal of attention TO the
New O!leanS Fair, containing not only
telegraphic dispatch of a column and
a half, but an editorial article recog-
nizing the event rs one OF conspicuous
interest in the annals of the great re-
public" TIE Times thinks, also, that
the exhibition will symbolic thecom-
plete reconciliation between the north
and south.
Cremation advocates have managed
! to get in the thin end of the wedge in
| France. Hitherto the cremation So
! ciety has striVen vainly for four years
10 obtain permission for furnace, and
| now the Paris authorities have con-
scented to build a crematory on the
Italian system to consume the I'M
claimed dead IN ts Frrs pitt;i'!sS- the
remains Of thos elected to disSecs
ton.
Among the ancient Greeks deaf
"3l.j.5, We're looked upon as a disgrace
20 hnn'ayiy and under the barbarous
IaHs 81 y Ursus they were exposed to
,:.";tH. NJ was highly cultured
Athens les cruel than Sparta toward
these Hr!Gr- innate creatures. Deaf
! mute cbi,dgtu were pitilessiy sacrificed
Wi.hn'.' % voice being heard on their
feha!f. Aristotle declared congenital
deaf mljtts to be incapable of in
Strucii0n. and this was the universal
opinion Of classical antiquity. The
Romans treated the unfortunates with
the same cruelty as the Greeks. AS
soon as child was found to be deaf
and dumb it was sacrificed to the
Tiber. OILY those escaped whom the
waves washed back to the shore OF
whom the natural love Of their parent:
kept hidden from the eyes of tht
world.
King Humbert lost twenty pounds
in weight by his labors in behalf
of the cholera sufferers.
Sergt. Long, one Of the Greele!
survivors, was married to Miss Dor;
Weller in Brooklyn few day
ago,
: Count Polokoff paid 100000 TO
, the Basilewski collection of Limo
ges ware, furniture, etc. and theI
gave it to the cZar as new year
present.
European gossip has it that Jane
Gordon Bennett had unsuccessful
sought Miss Mackey's hand in mar
: riage before she promised to Wet
+ Prince Colonna.
3 Gen. John S. Marmaduke, the demo
{ cratic governor of Missouri,
one of the plainest and most simple
hammered of men, but has a franFnes
> and diTectness, as well as persona
dignity and soldierly bearing, that al
= ways commands attention.
l A Hartford insurance man, MI
: julius Catiin, has been smoker of fin
+ cigars for sixty-seven years. TIL
cost of his cigars, including interes
on the money spent for them, amount
to 100000, and he is still smoker.
Mr.. Vail, the cattle king" of Ne
= vada, began business twenty year
t ago with a capital of $500. He pal
g the $500 for a Durham cow and from
, that COW he has sold $4,000 worth o
high-bred calves.
q Mrs. Chambers, the widow of tn
late George T. Chambers. of New
York. was married on New Year
ave to her steps0n, Harold Chamber;
: at the brides home in that city. TIL
I | groom is q years old and the bride Al
! It IS Mrs. Chambers third marriage
l She is worth half a million dollars.
! John AIcLean's gift to his bride Of
the eveof his departure f; ON Cincin
4 natl for the east was a necklace o
: diamonds that cost $4,000. The Ola
monds ara forty one in number. Tn
centre stone weighs five karats, an
costs 5000. The twenty gems O.
g either side gradually decrease in siz
+ to the clasp, which is composed of 81,
small diamonds of rare brilliancy.
, With the exception of Gen. Harri
son, who was in Office only one month
: all our presidents have had blue eyes