The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
CURIOUS PICKUPS.
Short Items That You VIII Find Interesting
This Morning.

Short Items That You VIII Find Interesting
This Morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch will
make their future home in New York.
George Vanderbilt's ambition is to
collect the finest library in America.
Lieutenant General Newdegate of
Bermuda, is at the Clarendon hotel,
New York.
Pipes for gas, water and electric
cables made of paper have recently APP
peared at Vienna.
The Berlin fire department has
lately received an engine Constructed
entirely of papier mache."
An Oil City milliner has novelty
in the shape of broom made from
the wings of the English sparrow.
According to the report of the Mer-
chants Protective association the
"dead beats" in Reading, Pa, number
sol, and owe over $4,000.
John Seebrecht, who sued former
friend for $4,000 for alternating the
affections of his wife, was awarded
$4,000 in Baltimore court last
week.
Boston means that the monument
to John Boyle O'Reilly shall be so fine
that it will cost $4,000.
Professor Francis w. Newman is
writing a work on the early life of his
brother, John Henry, the cardinal.
All America sympathizes with Eu-
gene Field in the death at school Of
his young son after short illness.
Baron de Hirsch has sent $4,000
to Montreal, to be applied to the ben
eft of the refugee Russian Hebrews
in Canada.
Some miners near Yakima, WASH,
threw a lot of dynamite into field
near their cabin recently. Some cows
browsed in the same place, and fifteen
died suddenly.
The New York Ladies' club has a
membership close to 400. The dues
are $50 year, initiation $50, and the
social advantages on par with the
masculine club.
Rev. David Kaufman is reported to
have awakened great interest in the
vicinity of the Gap, in Lancaster
county, Pa, by preaching three hour
sermons in his sleep.
While political meeting was i'm
patiently listening to speech in Ala
bama last week, somebody got away
with the meat and drink with which
the rally was to wind up.
A new method of storing grain is
being introduced. Steel tanks are
filled with grain, and by suction
pump the air is partly exhausted and
a quantity of carbonic acid gas ad-
mitted.
A sparrow hawk makes his home in
the cupalo of the court house at Mex
leo, Mo-, and is worshiped by the peo-
pie as sort of tutelar deity. The way
he cleans out the sparrows is exhilar-
ating.
A poor widow OF Newark, N. j.,
found roll of bills amount ting to $500
early last week, and by reporting the
find to the police succeeded in finding
the owner, too. He gave her $3.50 for
her honesty.
Iron Mountain, Mich, has a COW
club. On joining each COW owner
pays into the treasury rs cents for
each COW in his possession, and when
members cow dies an assessment is
made and $40 is paid to the loser.
The miracle working wells of CAL
goeze, in the district OF Pressburg,
Hungary, are attracting so many
thousands of pilgrims from the sur
rounding country that the authorities
have been forced to call in the mill
tary to keep order.
Nature produces the light given by
the FREELY at about or e-lourhundTedth
part of the cost of the energy which
is expended in the candle fame, and
at an insignificant fraction of the
cost Of electric light or the most
economical light which has yet been
devised.
M. Eiffel has invented form OF
bridge capable OF being used in time
of war for temporary service, as well
as for permanent nse in peace times.
1t is composed wholly OF pieces Of
steel that can easily be put together
without machinery and by unskilled