The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-03
Editorial Notes.

mere mas Deen frequent instances OF
poisoning by carbolic acid when local
~ applied too freely, or injected by
potentially.
Nsturalists have been discussing the
question whether moths, and certain
other insects, possess the senses OF
smell and hearing.
A paper exhibition has been opened
in Berlin. 1t is nomInally international,
but really German and Austrian.
Among the six hundred exhibitors is
the firm of which Prince Bismarck is q
partner Of Coslin and Varzin.
Among the international congresses
at Paris, one on alcoholism opened on
the thirteenth INST. The subjects to
be discussed include the effect of
Drunkenness on the physical and moral
condition Of the population, and the
Legislative and fiscal means Of prevent
ing or REFRESHING it.
The idea that overcrowding ia the
chief cause of mortality among the
poor in cities, was denied by the Brit
ish architects at general conference
held lately. They reached the conclu-
sion ''that the health of community
is much more dependent upon food,
clothing and personal habits, than up
on the arrangement and construction
OF dwellings or workshops; for how
ever perfect may be the arrangement
and construction, they may be entirely
neutralized If the food is bad, the
clothing deficient and the personal
habits filthy"
Few people have anything like a
correct idea of the bulk of all the gold
in the world, if all that precious metal
were melted into one ingot. The value
OF cubic yard of solid gold is estima-
ted at so, 900, 900 in round numbers,
and ID. A. Wells, in his Things Not
Generally Known" declares that all
the gold in the world melted into solid
ingots might be contained in a cellar
twenty-four feet square and nine feet
deep. According to the same author
ity, the contributions of the people for
sanctuary in the time of David ex-
eeeded $S4, 600, 900. The immense
treasure David is said to have collected
for the sanctuary amounted to 81, 495, =
900, 600. the gold with which Solo
mon oveTlaid the ''most holy place, a
room only thirty feet square, amounted
20 over $3.50, 900, 900.
The mines of Santa Eulalla, in Chi
huAhua, and there are many others in
the same vicinity as rich, according to
the records still preserved in Chihua-
hua, produced upwards OF $434, 000,
600, upon which they actually paid a
royalty Of six and a quarter per cent.
to the crown of Spain. The famous
mines of Prieta, Taja, La Luna and
Jesus Maria, in the district of HIdalgo,
produced over $40, 900, 900. The
mines of San Miguel, San Bartola and
Santa Anna, near chihuahua, pro-
duced, it is said, over 500, 900, 900.
The mines of Banipilas produced
many millions of dollars under the
o. dKings of Bdstamente, who pre-
fented to the crown of Spain SO, 900, =
600, and, az an acknowledgment of
the present, he had bestowed upon
him the title of marquis" He sent
TO Spain one single specimen of ''na-
tive silver" weighing over 500 pounds,
and another weighing 2750 pouRds.
No other country in the world has pro-
duced native silver in such large
quantities.
The fact that good hen will lay
annually one hundred and twenty to
one hundred and fifty eggs, while it
can only hatch thirty or thirty-two of
them, had led to many attempts at ar
tihcial Matching. According to NM.
Grunhaldt, of Dresden, the cause of
= the indifferent success of most of these
efforts was that while they have vari-
oualy aimed at producing and regulst-
ing the required heat, they have not
had regard to the mode of communlca-
ton of this heat = Gal Matching
' the heat is transfe.e,. from
abo by close contact Of the IL
be- and this is required by the stu
- e of the egg, in which the germinal
eslcle always floats at the top, what
tu<er the position of the egg. In view
of this Cantelo Gin England) has sue
ceasfully Matched eggs by means of
glass plates put over them, and bathed
gith warm wateL A further step Is
that OF -Baumeyef who replaces the
plates with tubes. through which warm
water at forty degrees F. circulates.
NM. Gunhaldt, says the English Ne.
ekusic, have worked on this system for
several years, and vanously improved
Il. Their small Matching apparatus
consists of an elegant chest for seven
ty-two eggs. It is heated with a smoke
lefs petroleum lamp, and is furnished
With an automatic regulator Of heat, so
that personal attendance is reduced to
= minimum Of FIVE to fifteen minutes
daily. ~
''Broadbrimn writes from Paris that
there Il one characteristic which dis
finguishes the United States depart
nient more than another, it is the prac-
heal every day utility of everything
ep see. To the European who has
died Brother Jonathan through the
medium of Sam Slick or the broad carl
calures Of Yankee Hill, it is a some
what startling revelation that the young
man who was once Brother Jonathan,
but has now become Uncle Sam, is one
Of the most ornamental and aesthetic
Of all ornamental and aesthetic per-
sons. His Kentucky jeans which
used 10 reach half way between
his ankle and his knee are changed
for the finest OF cassimeres, his neck
tie OF blue or yellow or green is re-
placed by the most immaculate of
ohokers. He never wears an Alexsn-
der larger than six and three quarters,
md the set of his superb swallow-tail
- the wonder and delight of all The
Young bloods along the boulevards.
Brother Jonathan is not what he was,
and Sister Jonathan is not what she
vas. ''0ur Gal, as pictured by Mrs.
Williams few years ago, who walked
around in blue pinafore with the
meat absurd knot on the top Of her
head. and was constantly kicking up
hor heels to the tune of "Bobbing
Around, can scarcely be found in
Paris. All througlfthe exhibition you
realize the change that has taken place
- everything American in the last
thirty years.