The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Garnered from Many Sources for Hurried
Morning Readers.

Morning Readers.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain recent
ly won 10000 franks on horse race.
Mr.. Eiffel is expected in Quebec
shortly to build a 100000 bridge
across the ST. Lawrence.
Aten foot rattlesnake was killed by
Capt. Frank Wyatt, of Charleston,
S. c., the other day.
Paper hangers are about the only
men who succeed 10 business by
going to the wall.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Eastern capitalists are talking of
starting factory for making con-
densed milk and cheese in Los An
geles Cal.
The cargo of salmon and wheat
taken to Liverpool from Astoria, Cal,
last Monday by the ship Lord Cam
ing was invoiced at $l6S, 900.
Two Pennsylvania state prison con-
victs have finished model of fire.
engine house sixteen inches high,
with engine, hose cart, horses and
every detail complete.
A great many girls are bound to
show their feet at a picnic, even if
they have to. swing for it-Boston Ga
zette.
Canadian and American capitalists
have applied to the Canadian parlia-
ment for charter for a railroad from
the Canadian 500 to Hudson Bay.
Cardinal Gibbons laid the corner
stone of st. Stanislaus' Polish Church
at Baltimore last Sunday.
Several arrests of anarchists have
been made in Switzerland.
The enthusiastic welcome accorded
ex-Queen Natalie in Belgrade has
alarmed the government.
The Louisville Courier-Journal wants
a Walter Scott to write up the Ken
lucky Highlanders. A frst-class po-
lice reporter would make more
elegantly finished job OF it.-Washing-
ton Capital
Thirteen thousand gallons of water
per minute are being flung down the
shaft of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal company's blazing colliery at
Olyphant, which has been on fire for
some days.
Rev. John Farnham, of Charlotte,
N. c., wears a number 354 shoe, which
requires a sole 20 inches long and 7
inches broad.
R, M. Van Auken, OF Leadville, Col,
has invented device which, he
claims, will do away wholly with but
tons and buttonholes.
More than twenty counties in Kan
sas have each this year raised larger
corn crop than all the New England
states combined.
All the tea ships that arrive at
Puget sound from Japan bring brick
as ballast. They are of superior quail
i4y, and sell readily for $2O,50 thous-
and.
The school children of Sitka, Alaska,
manage to combine business with in
struction. This summer the boys
have caught and sailed nineteen bar
rels of salmon.
J. M. Ogle has a field of potatoes
near Puyallup, Wash, that he claims
will yield 1000 bushels to the acre.
He has arranged to have a committee
present to measure the crop and to
verify the yield.
There is a spot in Siberia about
thirty miles square where the ground
has not thawed out for the last 100
years, and where it is frozen to depth
of sixty feet.
A tree bearing peaches of an I'M
known variety and of prodigous size
some OF them ten inches in diameter
grows in the yard of Christian
Stouffer at Chambersburg, Pa.
The foreign delegates to the Pan
American congress are to be treated
to a trip through the country. Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 for their
entertainment and this is to be spent
in a special train Which will go
through the northern states, and
even as far south as Kentucky.
A movement is on foot in st. Peters
burg for observing Sunday as it is
understood in the United States and
Great Britain. 1t is SAID that 1000
st. Petersburg merchants have al
ready declared themselves willing to
keep their places of business closed
on the first day of the week.
Pita, the new remedy for hydropho-
bia recently discovered in Spain, seems
to be a name given to the flower
stalk of the aloe, plant common in
some parts of Spain. The story goes
that its virtues were discovered acct
dentally by a man in a fit of hydro
phobia falling upon an aloe plant
and unconsciously biting the stem.
APPEALING FOR AID.