The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Sweet are the uses OF adversely, but
most people prefer sugar.
The revival at Rochester, n. Y. has
been conducted with such warmth
that the ice has been broken and con-
verts have consented to be baptised N
the cold water underneath.
The exhibition of the noting of the
Kelley motor has been again post
poned and unless there is objection
regular business will proceed as usual.
In Morocco schools, the Koran
only is taught, and the pedagogue re-
| ceiveS fifteen cents month for teach
ing it, But that is probably ali it is
worth.
The sea of Galilee SWarmS with piS-
catorial life, as in ancient times, but
the fishing industry has greatly run
down, there being but one sailing
craft on the lake.
The London Daily Telegraph nets
$4,000 week, but the sole survivor
of the four men who founded it earns
| a scantY living on provincial week
ly, Another of the founders died in
the poorhouse.
West Virginia is in an uproar be-
cause a 45-year old man has married
an l1-year old girl. 1t is stated that
the bride was bought from her father,
and that the marriage is not only void,
| but that the father and husband can
be imprisoned, or even hanged under
the laws OF that state.
Ten years ago Calvin Fletcher,
| when On a visit to Orange, Los Ange-
les county, CAL, stuck his stick into
heground. The cane took root, and
is now a stately sycamore trea fifty,
| feet high, with wide-spreading
| branches, and it's base three and one
| half feet in circumference.
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Paul are hav-
| ing lively discussion over the forma-
ton of a state fair ground an state
| park half way between the two cities,
each to contain 200 acres, and the lat
| ter to embrace the famous Falls of
| were fifteen miles apart. Now the
park, If formed, will be the only neu-
trail ground between them.
The Injunction granted some time
ago restraining Miss Devy or her pub.
| fishers from publishing the letters of
the late Lord Lytton to his wife OF
the letters written by the plaintiff, the
present Lord Lytton, to his mother,
and from parting with them for the
purpose of publication, has haen made
perpetual by the court of chancery by
consent of all parties.
The great value which tilIing adds
| to land is shown in the case of the
onion tract at Chester, in orange coun-
ty, n. Y. which once was worthless
| piece Of ground, but is now said to be
worth $1,000 Der acre. Last season
! 10000 bushels of onions were grown
| on these meadows, and were sold, it is
stated, for more than $4,000. This
sea"on's crop is expected to be larger
The town of Westboro. Mass. did
not have a fire during the year 1884.
| The fire department was called out
once to put out fire in freight car en-
route through the town. which was
stopped for that purpose. Another
time thu firemen answered an alarm
caused by bonfire started by mis-
chievous boys. but not dollar has the
| town suffered from fires in the past
year.
In Vermont, while only SIS of Ia
boring mans wages are exempt from
process, a farmer may hold tens OF
| thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty and never pay cent of his debts.
In recent case farmer paid two
| cents on the dollar, and the courts al
lowed him to keep ten sheep exempt
from attachment which were worth
$4,000. while in am Their case a calf
worth $500 was held to be exempt.
There was an impressive scene in
| the Florida legislature the other day.
An anti railroad orator had the floor.
"And why" he asked, as he reached a
climax, 'and why do our railroads
dare do this ?" Rising three seats in
front of him, the information-cheer-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES drew from
his pocket handful of free passes,
| and shaking them at him, said: "This
is whyw This is better way than
furnishing a diagram along with an
nYO1aUQt0rV argument