The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Bartlett is definitely fixed to take
place in October. though the exact
day is kept secret.
The municipality of Paris levies
q duty on almost everything which
enters the city; that of London on
scarcely anything but Goals, which
furnish a large revenue.
EreTy Erening, an excellent
Wilmington, Delaware, paper, ex-
plains its reason for purity-mar-
riage notices free. while death no.
tees are charged for. 1t desires to
encourage marriages, while it will
do nothing whatever.in the interest
of death.
An English journal SAYS that
.'the Princess of Wales. when at San
dringhem, has little tea parties. for
which she herself makes the butter
in a silver churn and spreads it on
slices of bread with her own hands.
Somebody ought to give her IL but
ter knife.
"A new process Tor using up Old
steel has lately been patented in
England. BY it Il new metal of eX-
traOrdinary strength and ductilIty is
alleged TO be introduced. which is
expected to prove of great value.
Steel remade on this plan has sold
readily at 1928 ton.
The language of inscriptions on
ancient Irish monuments is. contra
nv to the custom in other countries
at the saInr date, Irish, and Irish
can claim to be one of the oldest
written languages eXtant in Europe.
1t is still spoken by several thousand
persons. but their number decreases
every year.
AT length the long history of the
United States by Mr.. George Ban
croft Is drawing to completion. The
author set to work upon this Op"S
mdgIlUm so far back as 1929. and has,
with little intermissiOn. been labor
ing on it ever since. Mr.. Bancroft
has selected Sampson, Low 4 Son
as his London publishers. The last
volume of the book will, according
to literary Journals, be out at the
end of the year.
Tents have been wholly thrown
aside by the German infantry. At
the last Berlin re .ieW the regiments
filed by in heavy marching order
without tents or complexities, each
soldier carrying part of the compa-
nv kitchen appliances. Quarters in
villages when the enemy is at dis
lance and biyouac in the open air
when he is near is to be hereafter
the rule in the German army. The
tented field, like cold steel and lot
of other mill airy myths, is to be a
thing of the past. The change re-
duces greatly the length of the army
train and the weight carried by each
soldier.
Among the biundeFs Of the
wires, probably the best yet reported
was one that occurred i'll the case OF
st. Louis merchant, who, while in
New York, received u telegram in
forming him that his wife was ill.
He sent a message 10 his family
doctor, asking the nature ofthe sick
ness and if there was any danger
and received promptly the answer
mo danger. Ynnr wife has had Il
child. If we can keep her from hay
ing another tonight she will do
well. The justification of the agi-
tated husband WINS not removed I'M
til second inquiry revealed the
fact that his indispOsed lady had had
Chill"
An anecdote is told'of IL physi-
clan who was called to u foreign
family to prescribe for case of in
cipient consumption. He gave them
n prescription for pills, and wrote
the direction: "One pill to be taken
three times a day. in any convenient
vehicle" The family looked in the
dictionary to get ut the meaning OF
the prescription. They got on
well until they got to the word
vehicle. They found ''cart
wagon, carriage. buggy. wheelbar-
row." After grave consideration
they came To the conclusion that the
doctor meant the patient should ride
| out, and while in the vehicle lac
| should take the pill. He followed
the advice To the letter, and in few
weeks the fresh air and exercise
secured the advantage which other
wise might not have come.
According TO accounts, China
has learned something i'll military
matters since the English and French
invasion in 1S59-60. The Chinese
military forces were then armed
| with bows. lances. sabres and flint
guns. and the generals were without
tactics. The lesson of war they
learned then was applied, and since
they had the Europeans TO light
they engaged Europeans to Instruct
them in The art and science o.
war. Upon Russian authority.C Chine
has Il standing army of 100000 mel
armed mostly with the latest i'm
provements in rifles and many Euro
pcan officers to drill them in modern
tactics. They have built many solid
fortifications, and up to 1879 KrupI
had sent to China $50 heavy gun,
and 275 field guns. China has still
an insignificant fleet. composed Of
gunboats built in England and most.
~ commanded by English officers
Recently the government got from
England eight iron-clads armed with
guns of the largest calibre,
On the 25th of August last terri
BILE discovery was made by the pro-
fessor of Latin and the harp, at the
Wilson Female Seminary at Red
field. Mass. The professor, who had
been engaged in giving private in
struction in the art of sitting on the
front plaza to an estimable young
lady of the village, was passing
through the corridor to his room at
a late hour, when he heard a distant
sound of revelry in room No. IL.
At first he thought it might he a
hilarious burglar, but he soon
heard the unmistakable sound
of feminine voices. Approach
ing the door softly he lis
tened, in the strict performance OF
his duty, and in addition to hearing
the sound of voices, he smelled the
odor of tobacco. In these circum-
stances he could not but suspect the
presence of surreptious male cous-
ins, and in his alarm of the possibil-
ity of such an invasion of the sane
tity of the seminary, he took the
extreme course of placing chair
near the door, climbing upon il, and
looking through what is popularity
called the fanlight. He saw no cous-
ms. but, TO his intense horror, he
found that feminine orgie of the
most reprehensiblc nature was in
progress.
Among the articles to export Ia
Europe which help To keep the bal
ance of trade in favor of the United
States the item OF apples holds q
more conspicuous place than most