The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
Iowa State University has had dur

Iowa State University has had dur
ing the past year $50 students. OF the |
twenty-five academIcsl graduates Eve |
were women; of the law class of l0S, |
two were women and of the medical |
class oil seventy zine, two were women. !
An emphatic denial is given by the |
spanish authorities in Havana to the |
late reports Of patriot victories, Since |
the beginning of the revolution Spain |
has Iever admitted q defeat, and there |
Is no reason why she should do so now.
We read that "Mars will, ON Sep-
TENDER 3, be only So, 600, 900 miles
from the earth" How TO prevent a
collision on that day between Mars and
the fashionable shirt collar is the prob
lem now sgitsting Richmond philoso-
piers.
It is said that one out Of every four
real invalids who go to Denver, Col,
to recover health never return to the
East or South excepting as q corpse.
The undertakers, next to the hotel
keepers, have the most profitable bust
ness.
A peculiar way OF discharging prin-
tiers exists in Dayton, Ohio, offices.
Each compositor has nail to hang his
coat on, and when the foreman con-
clHdes to dispense with the services of
one of the hands he takes hammer
and drives the nail in to the head.
tbs significant of the sparseness with
which decorations are bestowed in
England, while foreign ministers
breasts are covered with them, that
Mr.. Gladstone and Lords Beaconsfeld,
Derby and Salisbury have not single
one between them.
A business man in Trenton, New
Jersey, says that the women Of that
city own all the real estate, and their
husbands do all the running in debt
and beating their bills. He announces
that he will not trust any husband
without a written order from his wife.
According'to the report of the chair.
man of the Grand Trunk Railway that
road has lost 81, $50, 900 in two and 9
quarter years from competition. and
railways in America have lost "a, 600,
900 in the same time from the same
cause.
Professor Heir. the well-kuowr
German mathematician and friend ol
Alexander Won Humboldt-upon whose
recommendation he was appointed reg
ular professor of astronomy and mathe
mates in the academy at Bombed
at Munster, June 80, in his seventy
second year.
A new method Of preserving thu
bodies of the dead has just been ex
hibited in Berlin. 1t is the invention
of Mr.. Tominetti, of Hamburg, an'
,, consists In thorough drying of thu
, tissues by means of an injected gas
which sbsorbs the moistures and drive
! it out through the pores.
!, French trade has benefited from tn
; Auglo-FreDch treaty of 1860 far NOR
than England has. In fifteen years tn
: annual imports into France from Grea
Britain have only risen from f21 900,
900 to SPA 900 900, while those from
France to Great Britain have rise
from $40, 900, 600 to Gao, 600, 900.
Mr.. Seligmsn is pretty shrewd. H
SAYS that il Christ were to appear o
o earth again, under Judge Hilton
rules he would be excluded froI
the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga
This has the more force, as JndSScS III
ton is said to be 5c,Iever in the lii
It eral sec"r", coming.
= "Feh me, We winged winds, thu
round my pathway roar do ye kno
n | hor
q Some lone and pleasant dell, son
'holler' in the ground, where babi
never yell, and cradles are not founC
y The wind blew into my face, an
Is snickered as it answered 'naty place.
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone AT
III new stump speaker for female 81
re frage, Miss Leila L. Partridge, are
Is conduct the campaign in Colorado th
year, to secure the ratification Of CO
M ballot ON women
IN War between rival railroads result
In cutting dowx rates to such an Q
N tent that all sides lose money. Th
ut money must be replaced, and the usu
~ process is to cut down the salaries al
wages of employees. This cuttil
a down results in strikes.
h The question of fixing the capital
" West Virginia at some point perm
nently will be voted upon by the pc
q, pie August z. Msrtinsburg, CLARK
~ burg, Wheeling and Charleston a
~ competitors for the honor, with Il
i advantages Of location rather in fav,
of Charleston.
N Gen. Joe Johnston is at White gu
Is pb1r Springs, and is said to be so
ir dierly, dignifed, modest gentleman,
thorough Union man, and an interei
As ing talker on all topics except polite
- which be as scrupulously avoids
IA though he had signed total sbstinen
pledge.
E. The number of dentists IN the I'm
sr ted States is about 12, 900. They u
a up annually half a ton of pure gol
st besides four times as much cheap
material. Three millions of artifici
N teeth are manufactured yearly. In tn
:, country the proportion Of persons hs
:, ing sound teeth is only one in eight
= A farmer living at Limington, NJ
named NJ. Gould, after picking q lot
" potato bugs from his vines the 9th
day, went in to supper and ate free
!. of bread and milk, crumbling up Il
y bread with unwashed hands. It
- supposed some OF the poison juice
the bugs got into the bowl, as he die
y before the next morning.
J. DIR. Erasmus Wilson, the first a,
!. thority in England on cutaneous di
orders, has been investigating Il
number of hairs in a square inch
= the human head, and estimates that
'e contains on ansverage about 1868. Ia
y ing the superficial area OF the head
n 120 square inches, this gives abol
1873, 900 hair for the entire head.
" The Cabinet has been discussing Il
IS advisability OF organizing governnel
Il clerks into companies for the prote
u ton Of government property. II Il
Treasury Department girls were
q turn out under arms, there is no doul
J. they would do better service than Il
!, infantrymen of Philadelphia.
l. The trial of Burton, the Mormc
murderer. will conclusively show OF
b thing-whether it is possible to obta
Ie conviction of Mormon criminal u
II der the present jury system OF the TIE
n ritory. II he escapes justice will be
mere mockery, and Congress must |