The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

London has $4,000 people who get
their living by appearing in public or
on the stage.
In Porto Rico an outlay of two dol
lars will clothe an entire family of
six persons for year.
In view of ii possible famine Of box
wood, glass is now utilized for the
wheels of roller skates,
The hens of this country must
need be Industrious. Forty-fiVe mil
lion eggs are consumed daily.
The Pullman family are making
trip to New Orleans in a car costing
$4,000.
The wife of the Lord Mayor of
LONDON sends to New York for her
perfumery.
Jefferson Davis is suffering from
rheumatism and from an unhealed
Mexican war wound.
Chauncey M. Depew pays the bills
Of one student every year at Y ale,
selecting the young man in his own
way.
Gel. Villas name is pronounced Vii
las, Villas, VI elias. Ver-lass and Vee-
lab. The last is en- regale, au fat and
1uul-I!-GttIll, q Id RADICALS.
Miss Cleveland is said never to
have used d switch when she was a
school-teacher, although she may
have INDUCED in bangs.
Rev. j. w. Bacbman, PRESBYTERIAN,
caused a stir In Chattanooga, by de-
nouncing progressive euchre." He
spoke from the pulpit.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, received 1875 persons into
his church, March l, most Of them
on pro feSsion of faith. This makes
the present membership 1895.
At recent public dinner clergy
mau asked his right hand neighbor of
what sect he was member? The re-
ply seemed to preclude further dis
cussion. 1t was: Il am reporter"
While Pennsylvania petroleum
yields 20 PER cent. of kerosene, with a
large residium of lubricating oil, the
Caspian product yields but % per
cent. kerosene, with Il refuse only fit
for fuel.
Matthew Arnold was asked to &C
cept the Merton professorship of
English literature, at Oxford, a post
worth 9900 year. He declined, how
ever, as he wishes to be free to devote
himself to his literary occupations.
In Rabun County, Ca, a Baptist
minister 101 years old, and blind, is
unable to go to church and preach,
and his congregation go to his home
every Sunday, where he holds SER
vices regularly.
E. l.. q Steele, a banker and large
sugar planter of the Sandwich Islands,
has been knighted by King Kalakaua
He and Claus Spreckeis enjoy the
unique distinction of being the only
white Kanaka knights.
George W. Williams, the colored
historian of the negro race, who was
appointed by ex-President Arthur
during the last week of his admins
tration as Minister TO Hayti, to sue
coed Mr.. John M. Langston, is i'll il
Washington.
Vice-President Hendricks is said to
have remarked the other day, on re-
ceiving a letter from David Davis, re-
questing the retention of an old mes
senger attached to the Vice-Presi-
dents room: 81 guess Judge Davis
must have meant this for the head of
the ticket"
A stage was upset at Apologize
Creek, in Southern Oregon, the other
day, by rush of salmon. The horses
were cut loose and the driver escaped
on their backs. The salmon crowded
the river from bank to bank and the
school was over a'mile long,.
81 am told" writes a New York
correspondent, "that General Grant
has recently received a letter of SYM
pathy from General Fitzhugh Lee. of
Virginia, who spoke for the Exon
federate soldiery in such a kindly
manner as to touch deeply the recip-
lent Of the letter.
Carl Schurz, Rollin M. Squier, HUI
bert o. Thompson and George Gould
are said to have formed a company,
with 100000 cash capital, to establish
in New York daily newspaper to be
called the Morning Telegraph. Such
a paper probably would be the organ
of the County Democracy.
The number of Methodist church
es in the United States is now 1905,
an increase of 324 during the last
year. The number of lay members is
in full connection, not counting the
$4,000 on probation, is 1904, 402, an
increase of 1892 during the last year.
The testimony of the clergy supple
ments that Of persons in every other
walk of life in regard to the virtues of
MishIer's Herb Bitters. Rev. Thomas
Starkweather, who was long affected
with a distressing cold, was told to use
the medicine: he didso without much
confidence in the preparation; but he
ADDS: az am bound to say the Bitters
cured me, and l own myself convert
to Its efficiency