The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-03-05
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coming society bellies birthday is
very unwise, and may lead to awk-
ward complia, tons.
a new method of driving horses. by
Inc feet instead of the hands, has been
Invented in England. This will enable
a man to put his hands in his pockets
while drlVing.-New York Tribune.
Prairie chickens are more abundant
IN Minnesota now than formerly, but
the race is changed; their legs are
feathered and their flesh, from feeding
IN the whaet-felds, has become del
icate white.
There are now 1000 tons of siyler
stored IN the San Francisco mint, and
II is estimated that it would cost
SlOo,OOO to have it transported to the
treasury at Washington.
Dr. bartholomew said recently, in
clinical lecture, that, "as rule, the
criminal classes have an imperfect ear
development. especially hereditary
criminals. A full, distinct, well-de-
yeloped lobe indicates high mental
development"
II the state of New Y ork can buy the
land On the American side of Niagara
Falls for the sum named in the ap-
praisers' report, 81 1888, 429, there ought
to be little delay III communicating the
bargain. Private ownership of all
the approaches to this greatest of
natural wonders has become a public
disgrace.
Prince Bismarck's idea of the best
government apparently involves the
pYtInRfInn nj n
1t is impossible otherwise to account
for his lnsistance upon an increase in
the duty on wheat to a figure
beyond that which in England was
held by wOrkingmen to be sufficient
cause for the corn-law riots.
Recently man had leg amputated
in a Washington hospital, and, upon
visiting the capital some months af-
terward, discovered the member pre-
served in alcohol. He was shocked
and demanded it that he might bury
it. The demand was refused, but
upon bringing suit in repleyin, the
case was decided in his favor, and he
was given possession of his own leg.
An English higienist says that the
pure Londoner of the third generation
is pitiable object, short in stature,
narrow-cheSted and scrofulous. ,Ac-
cording to the same authority there is
very seldom a fourth generation of
Londoners, the unhealthful condition
of the city serving to eXterminate the
hardest race before the fourth gene
ration is reached.
A mortgage for $4,000, which Geo.
j. Storms, of Dobbs Ferry, n. Y e,
gave his wife to secure her against
abuse on her rejoining him after a
separation, has been pronounced valid,
and as the wife now complains of ill
treatment, a foreclosure suit is to be
brought. If she is successful, the re-
suit will be landmark for enterpris-
ing brides who dnring the honeymoon
may desire to provide against distant
contingencies.
The barbed wire fences by which
millions of acres of the public land
are enclosed will now have to go
down under act of congress. When
the fences around the large enclosures
are pulled down there will be no more
need of barbed wire for enclosing the
small tracts of homestead settlers
who are now driven off the public
lands.
A case of cruelty, resulting in the
death of stepchild in London, is ca
bled to the New York Herald on &C.
count of the contrast is affords be-
tween English law and our own. In
the case in question only three weeks
elapsed between the death of the child
and the sentence of the wretched
father and stepmother, and yet all the
rights of defense were admitted and
employed. The circumstance is worth
making a note of.
The British ministry is preparing
for an expenditure of forty million
| dollars for its Egyptian war. This is
the first cost of glory and revenge
Other items are to follow. If it was
proposed to spend forty or fifty mil
lions extra year to relieve misery
i, Danish ignorance and improve morals
the cabinet would probably be swept
from power and confined in asy1ums
| as dangerous maniacs.
The New York Sun, in the inter.
ests of reform in English Gas she is
spoke" demands that the word posi-
ton" shall not be used to designate
Office or employment. A position,
materially considered, is standing
point, q place. In an intellectual sense
it May be used to express the mental
standing ground of the thinker. 1t
behooves us these days to carry our
Murray around with US.
In Barbados. one Sunday, the cap
tain of vessel from New York saw
very important colored lady, gloved,
shoed and parasoled, walking to
church with a bare-footed cOlored
servant carrying her bag and prayer
book. He was astonished at the lady
of color being able to keep up so much
state, but was told that the couple
were sisters, and that if he would
only wait until next Sunday he would
see the situation reversed.
From the record of foundations
which have for ages been the scourge
of Holland, it would appear that dur
ing the thirteen centuries one of the
larger floods has occurred on an ave-
rage, once in seven years. About six
hundred years ago the sea broke
through its restraining dykes, and
eighty thousand persons are said to
have persisted. In a single night in
1921, seventy-two villages and one
hundred thousand human beings were
swept away.
Prof. Fischer, of Munich, is said to
white, crystalline powder which, in its
action on the system, can not be dis
tinguished from quinine. Its efficacy
in reducing fever-heat is thought to be
remarkable, though New York
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