The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

A reputation Tor good judgment
fair dealing, truth and rectitude, Is
itself fortune. IL. ". Beecher.
Enthusiasm hourishes in adversely
kindles in the hour of danger, and
awakens to deeds of renown. Chalmers
1t is as easy to deceive ones self
without perceiving it as it is hard to
deceive others without their finding
it out-Rochefoucald.
In the sugar corn the conversion OF
sugar into starch is arrested at par
ticular point in the growth, the grain
does not ill out, and is consequently
shr;yelcd.
The blood flows almost as freely
through the bones as through the flesh
of very young children, but as age
comes on, the blood vessels in the bones
are almost filed with matter.
Popcorn pops because the essential
oil in the corn is converted into gas by
heat, and thus an explosion occurs
which tears the kernel open and causes
a singular inversion of its contents.
Hobbies was luxurious in his eating
tastes. When told on one occasion that
philosopher should be abstemious, he
said he was not philosopher enough to
deny his stomach anything it wanted.
Cicero ate very little, and of The
plainest food. He had a theory that
any disease could be overcome by fast
ing, and often abstained from fool TO,
days at time, drinking only water
Through the vain webs which puz-
zle sophists' skill, plain sense and
honest meaning work their way; Sc
sink the varying clouds upon the hill
when the clear dawning brightens into
day.-Dr Watts.
In Siam, when funeral is passing,
the women take down their hair and
unfasten their beads. and the men
tumble around in their pockets for a
little piece of metal to hold between
their teeth.
In France very good gas is made
from the fatty materials contained in
the soapsuds, after washing woods and
yarns. The wash-water of a wooden
mill with 10000 spindles will annually
yield enough of this substance to pro.
duce 100000 feet of gas
-Lottie-"Before Ethel married that
young literary man she told me one day
that her union with him was going to
raise her to a higher life" Tottie-
'And did it?" Lottie-''Yes; they are
living in an attic now."-Somerville
Journal.
Superintendent Byrnes reports that
his estimate of the number of men who
regularly sleep in cheap lodging houses
of New York City varies from 10000 to
$4,000 throughout the year. At least
1900 moro sleep every night In tho po-
lice station houses. These are Of q
more degraded class than the others
Petroleum is found in Sicily, the
north Of Italy. in many volcanic isles
In the Mediterranean, Mt Bal1u on the
Caspian, on the slopes of the Caucasus,
at Rangoon in Burmah, in the island of
Trinidad, in Ontario, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Cali
fornia, in Siberia, Tartary, China and
in several places in Africa.
Club life among women holds a
much more important place in London
than in New York. One of the most
typical, the Pioneer club, has luxurious
quarters, including a comfortable
smoking room, to which only women
are admitted. Although tobacco is al.
lowed, liquors of all kinds are taboocd.
Mrs. Massingberd, Of temperance fame,
is the president, and there are 40 mem
bers, who are more or less noted
Harper's Bazaar.
"A new carpet for the Waterloo
chamber at Windsor castle, said to be
the largest ever manufactured, has
been woven in the jail of Agra, in
India, by prisoners undergoing penal
servitude. They hope to obtain re-
mission of sentence for their diligence
in completing the task, which has
taken them fourteen months Twenty
eight convicts were engaged on the
work, the carpet measuring n feet by
40 and containing So, $40, 900 stitches.
In the London Guildhall Liner
NhSAhOl ahuOA uLiI 10 pdIdSIupu, III
Latin, which Mr.. Arthur W. Hogg has
translated as follows, "And because
of the great noise in the city by some
players of large footballs, thrown in
the meadows of the people, from which
evils might arise, which God forbid:
We command and forbid on behalf of
the king, under pain of Imprisonment,
such game to be used in the city for
the future" This was dated April Is
1914, in the reign of Edward II.
A private letter from st. Petersbur.
mentions the mysterious disappearance,
of a valuable diamond from the crown
of jewels. 1t is well known that the
imperial crown of the Russian car is
set with great number of very fine
and large diamonds. During the late
cars funeral procession this crown
was carried by high dignitary from
the Nicolajevski railroad station to the
Castle of Peter and Paul, and during
this time it is thought the jewel was
lost. Great secrecy is observed by the
officials, but still the rumor has spread.
An inquiry is known to have been
ordered. A prominent jeweler expresses
the opinion that the stone NAV have
been crushed into the interior by care
lessness and might be found between
the metal rim and the purple velvet