The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
Foreign Notes.

Ar Healy, the American artist, has |
left Paris for Berlin to paint portrait |
of Prince Bismarck.
In point of railroad mileage Germany |
heads European countries. In proper |
ton to area, Belgium.
Mrs. Bravo, the English lady who |
was suspected of poisoning her last hus-
band, has now secured third. Bravo |
for him.
The appropriation for the Paris ex-
hibition, intended to cover the whole
cost, is 50, 313, 900 francs, or over
s., 900, 900. The receipts are estima-
ted at 10, 200, 900 francs.
Toussaint L'Ouvertue, the leading
negro mind in the first Haytien insur-
rection, was born upon the plantation
of the Count de Noe, better known as
the great French caricaturist, "Chsm."
Gymuasiums are being provided at
all the large barracks in Great Britain.
That of Tipperary cost e2SjO. The
British soldier OF to-day is looked after
and INDUCED in manner which would
have astounded his cat-o'-nine-tailed
grandfather.
An English factory inspector says
that cleaning machinery in motion
continues to lead to very numerous and
painful mutilaiions." In the half year
ending April, 1876, 1875 persons were
killed in England by factory accidents,
4Sl amputations were necessary, 260
fractures of limbs or bones, and 2103
other injuIies-In all 2497 males and
100 females.
The births in France during 1875,
| according to late returns to the French
Bureau of Statistics, numbered $50, 075,
besides 43, S34 of stilIborn. The deaths
we're $40, 062, and the consequent in
crease of population was 105, 913. The
male children were 453, 092 legitimate,
and 81, 189 illegitimare. The females
were All, COZ Legitimate, and 80, G78 il
Legitimate.
"And you say that drinking bottle
of absi1the would be enough to kill
one?" French workman named Van
dergh asked of comrade. II think
there are many who would pass away
at the half BOTTLE" was the answer.
And Vandergh, who had used up his
last sou, bought bottle of absinthe on
credit, went home, and drank it all.
They buried him the next day.
A Paris telegram says: "The diff
Guilty between Adelina Patti and her
husband, the Marquis de Caux, is the
universal topic in society, and is dis
cuSsed in the cafes with the zest which
only Frenchman can bring to the de-
tails of scandal with queen of the
opera among the leading characters.
The Marquis has begun a counter suit
for separation, and the malignant Cos
sips lay particular stress on the an
nouncement that the principal witness
is to be Nine. Nicolini, the wife of the
tenor who figures SO largely IN the
case"
The English manufacturers find,
daily, such confirmation of what the
centennial exhibition taught them of
the forwardness of American manu-
features that the British mind "runs
on the subject" a good deal. The
London Times tells Its countrymen
that they ought to make better show
at Paris than they did at Philadelphia,
where american manufactures indi-
cate the presence of presiding into
lectual process and revealing more ap-
plication OF brains than England's man.
ufactures command" The same jour
nal is struck by the fact that Turkey
comes to America for her arms, and
gets, at every turn, an alarming i'm
preston of 'the vast fund of wakeful
intelligence" at the command of the
United States. Common schools have
accomplished something, after all.
Mohammedanism is making very
raped strides in many of the distant
provinces of China, says French mis-
sionary. Not only, too, is the religion
itself spreading thus suddenly, but the
Chinese followers of the Prophet seem
, ripe for an instruction, and 1t is feared
that the entire provinces of Kansuh,
Shensi and KweItchow may ere long
be in condition of open revolt. 1t
, is reported that Tso Tsungtkan, their
governor, is in severe straits, and
threatens to resign his command I'M
less he receives very considerable rein
forcements without delay. Tso is 8
man of great ability. courageous as a
soldier. an excellent tactician, and
i fully competent to dlrec. military oper-
!, atoms. He labors, however, under the
disadvantage of having his troops
equipped with condemned rifles. eX-
plosive firearms and almost non-explo-
sive gunpowder.
Lady Smith, who, had she lived
= three months longer, would have COM
pleted her one hundred and fourth
= year, died in Lowestoft, England, on
: February 8. At the age of twenty
, three she was married to Sir James Ed
= ward Smith, who was then young
: physician OF limited means, but had
a the courage to purchase on his respon.
sibility the collections of Linp@us, and
thus became the founder and first pres.
: ident of the Linn9us Society. He
died in 1928, so that Lady Smith, after
thirty-two years of wedlock, lived in
r widowhood for nearly half a century.
She had remarkable constitution.
: She hardly knew what illness was until
/ within the last three ears. She had
D preserved nearly all her teeth, and
her cyesight was good enough to ena-
I bic her to read the newspapers. Al
: the age of one hundred she preserved
S many traits of her beauty, and her I'm
S dimmed eyes and fresh color called
: forth the admiration of all who saw