The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
Editorial Notes.

Editorial Notes.
The Petersburg Va.) Isdez says the
increase Of insanity among the colored
people has been very marked during
the past few years.
Iowa farmers are reported working
night, day and Sundays to get in their
crops, while the State is flooded with
tTsmps who refuse even as high as
$3.50 day and board.
The tIotting horse Rarus has the
fastest record known. At Cleveland,
Obi6, July %, he trotsed three consec-
utiye heats in 2.14 1.2, 2. 10 and 2.14.
At Buffalo. August 8, he made one
mile in 2.1S1.3i
The popular heart is invited by the
Republican campaign managers at the
North to throb IN this month of Au-
gust, 1873, over the probability that
JEFF. Davis will be elected to the
United States Senate to succeed the ne
gro Bruce, whose term expires on the
fourth Of March, 1881.
The Princess Salm-Salm Is reported
dead. She was born IN 1910, and was
noted circus equestrienne. She mar
ried Prince Salm-Salm in 1862, and
was with him during the Union war,
and with Macmillan in Mexico. The
Prince, major in the Prussian Grena-
Adiers of the guard, was killed in 1870,
az the beginning Of the war with
France.
The season of strengthening is at
hand, and to know how best to pre-
pare wool for market is what many
sheep .raisers have to learn. Each may
think his way the best, and whether it
10 or not, If the buyer cannot be made
TO think so, it is of little avail. A
fleece Of wool should be in such con-
dltion that it may be unrol led or spread
out like a piece Of cloth for examina-
ton. 1t should go to market clean
and white and we'll tied up, showing
no tears or ragged edges. A dirty,
carelessly-handled lot of wool can new
er be made to bring what 1t would sell
for il care and skill were exercised in
its preparation for market. There has
been tendency in the past to find
some excuse for sending wool to mar
ket in an unclaimed state, but we
think the mistake. has been discovered,
and the wool crop beginning to receive
the attention it did thirty years ago.
Give your wool the greatest attention
If you expect the best offers, see that it
IS cleaned free from all dirt by wash
ing, either on the sleeps back or after
shearing, and every fleece put up in
good style. When this is done, the
full value of the article will be paid
you by the purchaser, and no discount.
---RuraL World.
The question of mixed marriages is
a subject of controversy at present
among the Jewish community at Vic
toria. 1t seems that few Jews in the
colony have contracted marriages with
Christian women. In such cases not |
only are the wives and children born |
OF such marriages considered outside |
the Judaic pale, but the husbands are
looked upon as renegades from the |
faith of their forefathers. Two of |
these renegades " a short time ago |
applied to DR.. Adler, the chief rabbi in
London, for the purpose of securing
his sanction to the Judaization of their
families. The chief rabbi intimated
his willingness to accede to the request
made to him, and it theFeupon rested
with the synagogues of the colony to
give effect to his views. The East
Melbourne synagogue, however, after a
warm discussion, passed, by MAORI
~, resolution antagonistic to the ad-
mission of Christians or Gentiles into
the Jewish fold. On the other hand,
the Bourke street synagogue, which is
the principal synagogue in Victoria, is
ready to give effect to the chief rabbits
views; but only in respect to the exist
ing cases of mixed marriages. Gener-
ally, however, according to the Mel
bourne Argus, the Bourke street con-
gregation are as unwilling to remove
the Impediments in the way OF prosely-
fizstion as their brethren in East Mel
bourne.
A letter from Saratoga says that an
iconoclast IN the person of rigorous
and tasteful hairdresser is needed to
demolish and reform the hideous pyra-
mids and coils which spoil the heads /:
of neatly every female slave ta-kne pre-.
vailing fashion. The style of hair
dressing here amounts in most cases to
positive deformity, and the most
ridiculous phase of the style is the
-sSaratoga spit twist" This consists
in series of old fashioned "beau-
catchersn plastered against the FORE
head from ear to ear. Some women
wear thirty or forty of them. Worn
AZ such numbers they look like chain
cables or gives, and having in every
instance the effect to neutralize beauty, 6
gives to some visages the expression of
State prison conviets or escaped IN s
mates from houses of correction for l
dissipated females. 1t is sad to say it, {
but il is the truth, that there are few I
beautiful women here this summer.
Especially there is a dearth of beauti-
iul girls. Where are they 1 wonder9
When you ask this question somebody
answers, "Oh, they will bs here in
good time. The bellies have not all
gone to Europe, never fear" sus- I
pect the rarest girls must be staying at
home, for everybody who has made
the round of the watering places this
season says there are fewe- young beau ,
lies among the tourists than they have
observed any previous year. As rule,
The round of midsummer dissipatlons :
has not been healthful for anybody's
but the follIes of Saratoga
are not st present demoralizing. They I
Are simply diverting. The worst that I
Is going on would never be suspected q
by the innocents.
bob Ingersoll,a Last.