The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
Foreign NOlea.

A CIVIL service cOllege mas been estaO-
Gshed at Constantinople at the instance
and under the patronage of the Sultan.
Mussulmans and others will be admit
ted without distinction. 1t is intended
as a training college for future civil
servants, including diplomstists.
Among the many objects of interest
at Hatfield House, the seat Of Lord
Salisbury, is the bed occupied by Qneen
Elizabeth when she visited his ances-
tor, Lord BurleIgh, her prime minis
ter. The furniture of the room, in
GLIDING the carpet upon which she |
trod, is also preserved.
The various German potentates re-
Gently united to presen: q joint sou
venir to the Emperor William upon his |
eightieth birthday. The eccentric
King of Bavaria refused at first 20 par
ticipate, and was induced to do so only
by the urgent remonstrsnces of his
friend, the Grand Duke of Baden.
A writer in the London Lancet wants
to know why the physician and sur
gson of the present day in England &C.
cepts as an hOnOrarium the same amount
as was accepted by their grandfathers,
while butchers, bakers, ETC., have
raised their charges, and the cost of
house and horse has doubled or
trebled.
Millals gets more money for his PIC
lures than any other artist in England.
He was born poor boy in the Island
OF Jersey, and began his artistic work
with an employer who gave him his
board at .$125 week. Now he re
ceives 10, 900 or more for painting one
portrait. He is little over fifty years
old. He has a superb new house with
marble stairway and fountains and
carved doorways.
The Emperor William is an unusu
ally strong and stalwart old man. On
the occasit of his birthday, recently,
he had to receive all day long congrat-
ulstions, Populations and addresses.
At there was state dinner, and at
and until II a concert at the Castle.
All this festivity his Majesty survived,
and next morning he was at work in
his library long before his young court
attendants were stirring.
The increase of the population of
Berlin is very remarkable. On the
twenty-elghth of February last cen.
sus gave the whole number of inhab-
itants at 1000 300. Berlin Is now the
fourth city in Europe in point of pop
ulatlon, and ninth in the world.
Twenty-Five years ago Berlin was the
ninth most populous city of Europe
and twenty-seventh of the world.
The will of Baron de II. r., who
died last month in Paris, says: 81
leave all my fortune, consisting of 800
900 francs, to the bold man who wi |,
in presence of a notary and another
witness, administer to my wife fifty
blows with a stick. In case no one
should fulfil these conditions, devise
my property to the State for charitable
uses. In order to avoid trickery on
the part of my eventual heir, l declare
the legacy void in case he should es-
pouse my wife" The will will be con-
tested by the Baroness as the work of
lunatic, although her husband was of
apparent sound mind in making it.
On the walls of certain quarters of
Paris may be seen just now large
placsrd, with map in the center, ad-
vertising for sale by auction the his
torical domain of Malmaison. The
| whole estate may be purchased at one
bid, or that failing, which is most
probable, the ground will be sold for
building purposes. Strange destiny.
1t was the residence of Napoleon and
the Empress Josephine, who embel
lished the grounds and built the pavil
ion in which her husband is said to
have planned his later campaigns. Ma
poleon III bought the property of
Queen Christina. Neglected and de-
serted since it was the scene of par
tial engagements during the siege
of 1870, 1t is now likely to be occupied
by cockney villas for Parisians, who
are fond of possessing summer re
treat near the capital.
The English r 'ualists have taken an
extraordinary way out of their accumu
lating difficulties with the State, If the
Whitehall (Eng.) RerieW may be be-
lIeved. Instead of going to Rome, as
Newman, Manning and Faber did, they
are going to Sc. up a rival Anglican
Communlon-a style of independently
never before thought of. They propose
to get brand-new archbishop and
pair of suffragan bishops consecrated,
by one or more foreign prelates, of
what communion is not stated, but
probably Old Catholics, as certainly no
Roman Catholic ecclesiastic could lend
his aid to this hereto eccentricity. In
order to prevent conflict with existing
church jurisdictions, of the Established
or Roman Church, conservation of these
new prelates will take place on the
formularies of the new body have al
ready been drawn up, and are based on
dogmas and rites of both the Latin and
Greek churches.
A curious case was tried in Dublin
the other day. A Miss Conner sum-
moned a DR.. Lynch for having dam
aged silk dress. she saws she had
few days ago been bridesmaid to
COUSIN, and the defendant was one of
the wedding guests. He several times
attempted to kiss her, and in their
/ struggles her dress was torn. He also
accidentally spilled some tea on it.
The dress was worth "a, and he prom
Used to replace it, but did not. She
said she complained of his conduct to
her aunt, who only laughed, and said
"she should get used to it." For the
defense it was pleaded that he oaly
took the recognized liberties with a
bridesmaid; but the magistrate, Mr..
O'Donel, said that, not being best man,
he was not privileged. The case Gre
ated roars of laughter, and the magis-
trate's judgment was thoroughly Hi
bernisn, for he told all the parties to
Ego away out of that"
Balloon observations are made daily
from the Pont Neuf in Paris by an OPP
tician named Secretan, who each noon
sends up regularly small balloons made
of. india rubber, filled with pure by
drogen, for the purpose of ascertaining
the direction of the various streams of
air and the height of the clouds. The
results are daily published in the Petit
MoRiteuT. The mean velocity of ele
walton is about thirteen feet per sec
ond. Hence to obtain the altitude of
the clouds, it is sufficient to observe