The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-09-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Garnered from Man Sources for Hurried
Morning Readers.


Morning Readers.
w. X. Vanderbilt has discharged his
$4,000 chef.
Professor" Virgins, of Ottawa,
predicts an open winter.
On Nine. Modjeska's farm in Cali
fornia are 500 hives of Italian bees.
The emperor OF China recently or
dered prayers for rain. Rain came.
Michigan's new $500 liquor tax law
begins to operate on October l.
Mrs. Grumpy: 1t is never we'll to
look professional politician too
closely in the morals.
The surest way to please is to for
get ones self and think only of 9TH
ers.
Just as you are pleased at finding
faults you are displeased at finding
perfection.
Belva Lockwood considers the prince
of Wales Extremely handsome"
DR.. Brown-Sequard, according to a
good authority, has been married
three times, twice to American girls.
When you are parting with an ac-
quaintance and he says, "Oh! by the
way" get out your pocketbook.-
Boston Courier.
The mouth of Calumet river, emp
tying into Lake Michigan, has moved
east $500 feet since 1886.
Twenty-Five of the artists connected
with Harper's periodicals have received
awards at the Paris exposition.
Workmen taking out sawed lumber
on Ransom's island, near Williams
port, Pa, came upon petrifed log
sixty feet long, which they could not
lift.
Two flocks of sparrows at Mounds
vile, w. Va, engaged in a pitched
battle, and when they finished eight
birds lay dead upon the ground,
The man who wants to get ahead of
time when going for train should
use the spur of the moment.
The reason some men can't make
both ends meet is because they are too
busily engaged in making one end
drink.
America is the only country in the
world where one day in each year is
set apart in honor Of labor.
The New York Worlds new build
ing is to be 1873 feet or Ii stories high
and is to cost 81 100000.
Mr.. Henry Shaw, the late million
aire of St. Louis, made number of
requests to charitable institutions,
and his famous gardens and park are
left to the city.
George A. Killmer, who was boat
swain in "Pinafore" company once,
and now sings in Brooklyn choir, is
suing his wife for divorce, making a
former friend the chief correspondent.
aren't you ashamed to be seen
fighting with that brutal Jenkins boy
on the street," asked Johnnie's irate
"AshamedW repeated John
ME in surprise. ASHAMED? No;
why should / be? / licked him.
Journal.
Galveston does not want the worlds
fair or any other big thing until all
her principal streets shall have been
paved with permanent stuff.
L. F. Starks, farmer, residing in
Harper county, Kan, recently made
oath to the statement that "he is run
ming steam thresher, and that dur
ing the past six weeks he has threshed
$4,000 bushels of wheat, and that
the lowest yield was twenty-four and
the largest thirty-eight bushels per
acre."
Lee F. Wilson. member of the In
diana legislature from Shelby county
and Jane Fox, of Cynthia. Ind, are
under arrest at Indianapolis for violat-
ing the pension law. Wilson made
certain affidavits in a woman's behalf
which are found to be absolutely
Wealthy Old Gent-"Whatl Marry
my daughterl You are being supported
by your father" Suitor-"Yes, sir,
but my father is tired of supporting
me, and / thought I'd better get into
another family."-New York Weekly.
One of the fastest runs ever made
on the New York Central railroad was
that of last Saturday, by engine No.
l4S, in charge of Engineer Steenber-
ger, of Bath. She started from Al
bany thirty-two minutes late, and
Syracuse, 148 miles, in three
hours and three minutes.