The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The debate in the house YESTERDAY
developed quite a variety of opinions
:. IN regard to the 'children's grass
Many of the ideas were crude and
|. shows that many legislators speak
only from what they have heard, and
not from active knowledge of the
nature and situation of the school
lands.
Messrs. Browning and Scott fndulg-
, ed in little personal spat, in discus
sing the land bill, but the gentleman
from Wheeler" set himself right with
the gentleman from Kerr bv asking
that the house give the gentleman
from Kerr further time to finish his
speech.
/ Many of the friends of the land bill
now before the house, are dissatisfied
with that part OF the bill that permits
the actual settler in addition to his
purchase of lands already leased, to
lease from under the original lessee
four sections contiguous to his pur.
chase.
The bill making changes in the judi
cial district composed of Washington,
Burleson and other counties, was
passed through the house under the |
OSASPShOAOa VI IA1O 4OASo OO-Ochy' hO |
original bill was vetoed by the gov |
ernor becausei it omitted the provision
of two terms of court in BurleSon
county. 1t was said to have been
clerical error.
The French are fond of lotteries.
When the city of Paris issues loan
there is a lottery attached, by which
the purchaser of bond of l 900 francs
may draw 100000 francs. The lottery
principle is to be engrafted upon the
approaching Salon of 1885. There are
to be 10000 tickets sold at l franc
each. Ofthis amount $4,000 are to
be distributed in eleven lots of differ
ent sums. The possessor Of a prize
can then purchase of the artist any
the amount which his ticket repre-
sents.
JAPANESE CHILDREN.
Japanese children have their heads :
shaved, with the exception of four lit 6
lie tufts-one before, one behind and $
)ne on each side. They wear bright +
md many-colored clothes, their loose :
ackets having very long sleeves,
eaching almost to the ground,
n each of which there is a 1
pocket. They are odd little mites,
ometimes going about in clogs, with !
heir little bald heads shining IN the l
un. Some wear short stockings, but 7
lot all, and these are made like nit 1
en-, with one division for the big toe, =
ound which the sandals of the clog !:
re fastened. Custom requires that j
hese clogs be removed before the Y
hid is taken into room. 4
A MYSTERIOUS CAVERN. n
Territorial Enterprise: At Thre n
forks, Montana, a silver mine ha tt
atelY been opened, and very strange o
henomenon connected with it is that
f assure cut into in working which
GEMS bottomleSS. Stones thrown into r,
seemed to fall and keep falling
Without any end, as was shown by
ontinuous sounds which returned. ~
1t times a gaseous steam issues from L
MS cavity and drives the workmen y
rom the mine. The deposits of ore u
re made on the walls of the cavity by Il
ne steam and are all sulphates. There d
also periodical rumbling, which y
assemblies distant thunder, supposed .
} be caused somewhere in the "inter- "
al regions" II
GERMAN TRADE IN AFRICA. a
Brooklyn Eagle: The German Off o.
Ial reports which have just been COM e,
lunicated to the sreichstag upon the Ii
xtent and character of German trade Fl
nth Africa, completely, though NEST n
satisfactorily explain the resistance b
Thich German diplomacy offered to Fl
ne British attempts at the Berlin a
difference to restrain the traffic in Al
drink on the African o.
casts. The total value of German Of
gports to Africa amounts to some t,
I, 100000 Of this total no less than 4
], 100000 represents the traffic in m
niger brandy" and 'nigger rum" "
lone. Next in Impotence to intoxi- fl
ating drink among the German ex-
Orts is the scarcely more pleasing
ommodity of guns and gunpowder. =.
erman trade is, in fact, almost in Il