The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-02
Editorial Notes.


his works is about $50, 900.
Ex-senator Lyman Trumbuli is said
to be convert On to the the P5esdasRt's 81 Rsql Rsql
on that basis.
The desire to study the question OF
strikes will cause demand for Charles
Reade's famous novel, "Pat Yourself
IN His Place"
Thinncss is an objectionable fault in
Turkish women, and is considered as
good ground for divorce as snoring
or grinding the teeth in sleep.
II you want to turn pennies into
guineas exchange the pennies for eggs,
and persuade hen to hatch them.
Be careful to select guinea eggs.
The exiled Modocs are living peace
fully on their reservation in Kansas,
aud occasionally turn penny by sell
ing bows, arrows and Indian notions
to the whites.
Cinnamon are to be imported into
Havana by a stock company recently
Organized to supply the planters with
laborers. The capital is fixed at 81,
900, 900, half of which is subscribed.
Over 6000 horses, GAS asses and 35
mules were eaten in France last year.
The first horse abattoir was established
in 1865, and the consumption has since
increased yearly. A healthy carcass
is worth $40.
A German correspondent states that
Herr Ehrbar, the well.known piano
maker at Vienna, has invented me-
chanism rendering 1t possible to pro-
long the sound of each note at the will
| Of the player.
There is land round the South Pole
estimated at double the size of Europe.
But of this next to nothing is known
| 1t is closed in eternal ice, without men
and women, apparently without life,
and all but inaccessible.
The Guadalupe Council General hai
offered q premium of $50, 900 to the
inventor of q new process for extract
ing sugar cane juice which will giv'
at least IA per cent. The EXPERIMENT.
are to be made for four years, termi
mating June 80, 1880.
It may be very presumptuous, aut
reasonable and revolutionary in then
to say so, but the Ohio and Mississippi
brakemen make bold to assert tha
they cannot exc cut q subsistence OF
twenty-five dollars q month, and they
don't propose TO starve to death jus
to accommodate the railroad company
Fifty Jewish houses in Cincinnati
representing over $40, 0o0, 900 Of capi
tai, have published q card in the Gin
cinnati papers pledging themselves Il
entertain no business relations what
ever with the house OF A. T. Stewar
& Co. Among them are several hesv.
clothing houses.
Seyenty-five trains an hour pas
Clapban Junction, about four mile
from London, during the busiest par
Of the day: while taking the twenty
four hours of2 pa,s. Thirteen line
there converge, and the Southwester
Railroad alone has thirty five sets @
points and thirty signals worked fror
one signal box, from which four diI
tinct sets Of traffic are controlled.
The selection Of ex.Congressma
George F. Hoar TO preside at tb
Massachusetts, Republican Conyentio
u interpreted ss q pretty sure indies
ton that the Presidents course wi
be indorsed by that body. Mr. Hos
10 an enthusiastic supporter Of Oh
President, and 90 10 the chairman q
the State committee, who chose hiI
for the position, and who will drai
the platform
The Allgemeine ZeitsR9 says that !
the huts Of the Montenegrin Chri
tians over the hearths may often I
seen long strings Of smoked heads {
Turks, which are preserved As hei
looms from generation 10 generation
When . bridegroom would offer moi
acceptable present 10 his beloved, ;
givss her Turks head; or, II tn
cannot be obtained, an ear or nos'
Heads are plentiful now.
In all the comment on the great strik
ana in the expressions Of sympathy 4
the moysuaent, pothing seems 10 site