The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-03-19
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES OF THE DAY.
The city of London puts upon the mar
ket in one year over $10,O0OOOO worth
of umbrellas alone.
Postmaster Bartlett of Suncook, n.
H., has a Continental So bill, payable
in gold, and dated 1776.
Denver is the only city with natural
streams of water flowing through the
cutters in the streets.
is so cheap that all public and domes-
tic work is done with it's aid.
The Anthony MOI Bulletin has an
Office crib to accommodate readers who
wish to pay their subscriptions in corn.
Lines are more easily seen than small
squares. A line 1-4900th of an inch
| thick can be easily seen by an unaided
eye.
At the battle of Gettysburg the aver
age age of the soldiers of the Federal
army, including the officers was %
years.
Although 4OO,OOO,OOO passengers have
been carried by the trains of the Brook
Ign bridge, only one fatal accident has
occurred.
The foundation of a church at San
Como, Guatemala, has been shifted
seven inches by the growth of two large
white gum trees.
There is a shellfish in the Mediterra-
mean which produces good quality of
silk. Fabrics have been manufactured
from it, but only as curiosities.
st. Moritz Switzerland, has the cham
pion toboggan slide. 1t is three-quar-
tiers of mile long and has been de-
scended in a whiz of II seconds.
Bamboo pens have been used ii india
for over 1000 years. They are made
like the. ordinary quill pen, and for a
few hours writing are very seryicea-
bic.
An Arctic owl, measuring little
more than three feet from tip to tip of
its wings, was shot on one of the islands
in the harbor of Portland, Me-. few
days ago.
An English gazetteer of the world is
authority for the statement that the
Venezuelan army consists of 5000 to
10000 men (besides, in 1880, some 1000
generals"
In London recently occurred the first
public sale of frozen salmon from Van
couver, comprising some Alb boxes, the
total weight of which was 40 tons. If
all goes well, the shipments will be made
the year round, and Londoners will find
salmon available for their tables at all
seasons.
There has not been a lawyer in the
town of Bedford, Mass, a place of 1000
OF more inhabitants, in several years.
and last week the one lone policeman
comprising the towns force was dis
charged. The town is said to be in ex-
cellent financial condition and bust
ling community.
A Dundee whaler, the Active, which
caught nine whales, yielding four and
one-half tons of bone, cleared $4,000
by the trip, which gave $50 per cent
dividends, the largest profit made in the
business in Dundee in 90 years. Whale
bone is worth $4,000 a ton in England.
Inc Berumdas depend for their pros
perlty on the vegetable crop. Onions.
potatoes and tomatoes comprise almost
the entire. production of the islands, and
give employment to the g"aater propor-
tlon OF the inhabitants, enabling them
TO i've comfortably on their compara
lHeiy small portions of ground
Inc war in Cuba is hurting a num-
per OF people up in Maine. Because
of much of the sugar crop in the island
being burned and little or no sugar he.
ing made this season, the bottom has
cropped clean out of the hogshead' hoop
business, which is usually flourishinr
industry in many Maine towns.
Ihere is apparently to be revival
OF the old-fashioned method of carving
a lady upon pillion. On horseback
me lady was compelled to ride behind
her escort. On the bicycle she is In
RIDE in front. A recent English inyeno
Ilon provides for seat before the han
uig rI par, Just above the steering wheel
Inc Melbourne postoffce authorities
Keep scrap book into which thew nnt
everything that is unusual. One of tbe
NOS. ..R recent acquisitions is the follow;no.
Dear Slr-l am requested by Miss w.
10 return you the contents of this nack-
v, Sme naIlhg given you up for another
Tours truly, The Other"
a. dealers in bicycles are authority for
ofe State,ment that the business nsnect
Oh ane bicycle trade has materially
otfio +h during the past year. Instead
inc in 'n '.;. nam business consisting in deal
t rs WIN mems wheels. quite the con
th[aiy Is true. Dealers are now doing
women "'iiiost 10 attract the eye of the
conn., Am old deed has been found in tbo
TJt H. clerks office at Jamaica. T, '
of M vas: given by the chief of the tr;hc
nart tn uf mat formerly inhabited that
p poa rs Vi , long Island. 1t is fully 100
gr"nfo G'I LEI inan the patent to the land
S wanted by the English ruler The , docl
Wn ler. WI WAS discovered by Counselor Van
pbiioIo,pn,tIlin insane asylum, saws tho
hn Hi,."u dt Bulletin, is a patient whose
tnro onU VICES color with her tempero-
hair i nen she is cool and quiet her
restless u ilght yellow, but when she is
In ot5or anu excited it becomes auburn
dnr oiner words, this is a sort of human
i;tm u,op,neht OF those little blue and nini
nct rs paper hgures which are sold tn