The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-25
EDITORIAL Notes.

N NAeAJ "a = AOuIS VI EVIL
shine.
The Emperor of Germany has ap-
proved the project of a WORLDS fair at
Berlin in 1885.
Senator Wade Hampton aud Wade
Hampton, Jr., snd bride, are at the
Warm Springs, Virginia.
The reception given by Hon. W. s.
Groesbeck, IN cincinnati, Fndsy even
ing, to President hayes, was an elegant
affair.
Senator Wade Hampton has been
presented WITH gourd, from which to
drink. Most of the Senators would
prefer flask.
In the higher public schools of Italy,
Greek, LItin and mathematics have
been superseded by the study of mod
ern languages.
Mile. Aimee msde her positively last
appearance" on the opera bouffe stage in
America at the Fifth Avenue Theatre,
New York, Saturday evening.
Mr.. D. D. Galway, of Selma, Ala,
canvassed that city one day last week
aud succeeded In raising $500 for the
fund for the children of the late Gen.
Hood.
An Illinois farmer astonishes Decatur
by going into that place with train of
six wagons, laden with 375 bushels of
barley, and drawn by a steam road To-
connective of his own invention.
The German government has dissoly-
ed the three gymnastic societies at
Strasbourg because they took part in
the fetes at Nancy on the occasion of
the unwilling of the Timers monument.
Four days after the Prince Imperial's
death Cetewsyo sent the Princes sword
to Lord Chelmsford with q letter, say
ing he returned it because he heard
that it had belonged to an English
prince.
A young Japanese lately played a
game of billiards against three of the
bes players, united, at Moscow. The
game was 5000 points at carrom for 10
900 rubles. The Jap's frat Sun was
1853 points. The game lasted fourteen
hours, and he won by three points.
A man was found dead at Viewpoint,
IND. with bullet in his head. A hint
at the manner of his death was given
by the evidences of an interrupted
game of poker. In his hand were four
kings, while four queens lay near by,
having probably been dropped by his
exasperated antagonist and murderer.
Sunday evening concerts of a devo-
tional cast continue to flourish in New
York. At the one given last Sunday
evening at the Madison Square Garden,
Mile. Aimee sang the drinking song
from "Girofe-Girofs." There Is a
stern Puritanism about New York that
leaves the original Puritans, down in
New England, ell out In the cold.
The A. T. Stewart of Cincinnati died
on Wednesday last. John Shillito,
born at Greensburg, Penn, on the
twenty-fourth day of November, 1908,
started as a clerk in Cincinnati, fifty
five years ago, and gradually acquired
immense wealth in the dry goods trade.
Mr.. Shillito left an estate worth several
millions of dollars. He abstained from
interference IN politics, was close in his
attention to BUSINESS, and liberal in
his donations to worthy charitable OBJ
Jects.
The cables linking Metz snd Stras-
bourg, the work on which Moltke has
been so long engaged, are completed.
They both pass through Metz, diverg-
ing thence side by side to Strssbourg,
so that the two greatest fortresses in
Europe, for which Germany may be
said to have fought the way of 1901,
are now enabled to exchange instanta-
neous communications, and are also
placed en- rapport with the huge palace
of ruddy stone on the Koningsplatz,
where the first of living strstegists sits
in his cosy little corner room directing
the movements of the mightiest military
machine ever yet invented and perfect
ed by human ingenuity.
Not very long ago there appeared in
several German papers an advertise
msnt, emanating from a sol diSant doc
tor at Geneva, offering, in considera-
ton of the small sum of two francs, to
give a receipt for the radical cure OF
corns. For while the trick answered,
aud the man did flourisning business
until the chief of the Geneva police,
getting wind of it through lady al
Berlin, who was not precisely satisfied
with the value she had received for her
two francs, put summary stop to his
proceedings. His ''cure" consisted in
the prompt amputation of the suffering
toe for which purpose he recommend
ed saw of his own invention, gusran-
teed to perform the operation without
pain to the patient.
Matrimonial fairs are still kept up in
the south of Ireland, where all the
"likely boys and girls" in the parish
are on view, and all the "matches" in
the year are made. For days before
there is quite a stir in the neighbor.
hood, and a twItter runs through the
entire female population. There is q
universal stitching and buying of rib.
bons; every girl you meet on the road
holds out her hand for sixpence, and
you can't speak to domestic servant
without her hanging out signals of DIS
tress. Ga the day of the ''Shrsfting'
the girls stand in row on the village
green, while 'the boys" as they are
called, cluster together at little dis.
lance, dressed in their best, but looking
as sheepish as possible. The real bust
ness of the occasion, however, is done
by the parent on both sides.
One of the most remarkable spots
that has ever appeared on the streaked
disk of Jupiter can can now be seen
with telescopes of moderate power. 1t
is in shape a very eccentric ellipse, be
ing seven or eight times broader thar
long, and it lies south of the southern
equatorial belt, making sharp CONTRAST
with the white expanse around IT,
This spot made its appearance severa
months ago. A close inspection reveals
some remarkable things about it. Ii
the first place ITS color, light maroon,
differs strikIngly from that of any Other
part of the dick, although resembling
the purplish hue of the northern belt
This color is so pronounced that it I'm.
mediately strikes the eye even Of ONT
who is unaccustomed to the use of 9
telescope. 1t 10 not fiery, but some.
what resembles the red glow observed
in clots of molten metal when cooling
The position of the spot Is hardly Less
remarkable than its color. There Is 9
striking difference in the tints of the
TWO equatorial belts, the northern be.
ing of u reddish purple, and the south
ern gray. Curiously enough the greai
spot adjoins the southern belt instead
Of the one that it most resembles il
color, and this gives it striking sp.
pesrance of isolation. 1t Is as il piect
of the northern belt had been carried