The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-17
HERE AND THERE.
1t is said that New York modiste has pait
$170,000 for house ON Fifth avenue.

. IL is Stilu UulU u view 4 OTk pttlu
$40, 900 for a house on Fifth avenue.
An Ohio lad has just shot companion who
stood near his target by trying Ito see how
near he could miss him"
A Chicago firm has already sold 10000
drums this year-presumably in anticipation
of the presidential campaign.
A young man in Maine is accused of hav.
ing voted thirteen times at one election, and
he is in a fair way to be convinced that the
number is unlucky
A British shipmaster at New Orleans re-
ports that while off the coast of Patagonia
butterflies were blown aboard his vessel at
distance of $50 miles from the land
At the New York water color exhibition
the picture of a red headed girl, by Miss
NOVEL;, hangs on the wall, and near it one
of Zogbaum's cavalrymen on white horse
The lumber export from Ottawa, Canada,
to the United States during january, Feb
ruary and March was valued at $500, 902, an
increase of 81 per cent. over the same months
of 1887
The managers of the Cincinnati exposition
have obtained number of gondolas from
Venice, and propose to have them on exhibit
ton on small lake attached to the fair
grounds.
woman's invention is baby wagon for
the house, thoroughly padded, in which the
baby cannot be hurt, even if it tips over. The
wagon can be turned into cradle and made
into swing.
The word Birmingham, SO common in
naming towns and cities, is composed Of
Oh ga l.
which is the home of the broom" small
English tree.
1t is said that Perry county, Pa, has a man
who deals out whisky in a saloon licensed by
himself He is one of the associate judges of
the county, and his place of business is in the
borough of Blaine
The water in the Great Lakes is now the
lowest it has been in forty years. Shipping
is crippled by it. What makes it high or
low is question the experts have not yet
been able to solve
The introduction OF An 'i"an watches into
England has reduced the number of gold
cases marked at the London assay office from
81 ,S44 in 1876 to 20 ,4l6 in 1886, and of silver
cases from ll9,304 in 1876 to 95, 708 in 1886 :
AS an evidence of the progress that mod
ern ideas are making in Japan, it is stated
that that country is now building thirty four
new railroads at cost of over $50 000, 900,
and it has hundreds of miles of railroad al
ready built
| A Nashville minister said in his Sunday
sermon that ''the woman who will occupy
two seats in a street car. in violation of her
neighbours rights may be respectable, but
can have little claim to either religion or
good breeding"
Edward and Mary Stetson, aged respec
lively II and y years, have made the journey
safe from Damariscutta. Me-, to Seattle on
the Pacific coast, with no other guardian
than that special providence that is said to
care for children.
In a recent fire near Tower. d T., girl
barely l6 saved the lives of two small chill
dren by rushing through flames to their bed
| side, and dragging them to where she could
throw them TO the earth without danger, and
herself leaping after
Two prominent st. Louis men have en-
gagged in litigation over the ownership of
duck valued at twenty-five cents. The pre-
liminary suit made costs, III addition to the
attorney fees, SIS, and now the case has been
taken to the circuit court.
A London jeweler recommends diamond
cutting and polishing as an excellent EN-
ployment for women, saying that he believes
that any woman or girl with quick intell
gence could learn to polish diamond Every
fairly in six months" He says the qualities
necessary in this art are great honesty, good
education, quick Intelligence, great patience
and good eyesight"