The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

NOpIt " no idlk OI inc eGtraNh-
ganee OF the United States in over
offering the army and navy should
contemplate the military establish.
ment of our sister Republic Bolivia
The standing army numbers 200C
men, of whom eight are generals and
1913 officers of lesser importance, 50
that there is rather more than one
officer to every private.
Corsica is. the only French de-
partment in which the DEGREES for
the expulsion OF the secular orders
have not yet been executed. There
are sixteen. converts ON the island
belonging to the Oblate Fathers, the
Capuchins, the Redemptorists and
the Dominicans, but almost all OF
them are occupied by monks of Ital-
ian nationality, supported by sub
vention from their own government
The fear of international complica-
lions has protected them up to the
present from the enforcement of the
DEGREES.
The London journals account for
what they call "the Sarah Bernhardt
craze" by saying that; the New
Workers are morethan half Partisan.
They like England's Old World rel
les and antiquities, cathedrals, riv-
ers and Standardization, but
Paris has their heart. They visit
the tomb Of Shakespeare and wander
about the haunts of Dickens and
Thackeray, but il is from Paris the
American lady gets her dresses, and
the millionaire his furniture, decor
atoms and pictures.
The Rev. A. j. Ryan, the priest,
of Mobile, Alabama, is at work on
an epic entitled Their Story Run
meth Thus He Is q native of Nor
folk, Virginia, fourty-one years old,
and is described as -compactly built,
with STOPPING shoulders, high fore
head. dark brown hair pushed care
lessly back-dreamy, grayish-blne
eyes, and q face meditative and
somewhat sad; quiet in manner, he
is fluent of speech, chooses his words
well and makes but few gestures,
though graceful ones.
Mr.. Louis Jennings telegraphs
TO the New York World that Mr..
Gladstone will speedily be forced to
follow the example of Earls Russell
and Beaconstield and retire into the
House of Lords. The strain of lead
ership in the House of Commons is
more than his nervous system can
bear in his present poor state of
health. and his physician has per-
emptorily demanded his Withdrawal
from The scene ofso many of his vic
tories and triumphs before the be-
ginning of the arduous labors of the
coming exciting session. The lead
ership will, probably, pass to the
Marquis Of Salisbury, Gladstonc's
efficient colleague in the settlement
of the Berlin treaty.
is water famine on the North
American Continent in the ages to
come probability A writer in
an Iowa paper calls attention to the
fact that the volume of water in the
rivers and streams in that state, and
they are reported so everywhere, is
much smaller than it was when the
territory was first settled. He states
that formerly steamers made regu-
lar trips from the Mississippi river
to Des Moines, and that one went
up as far as Fort Dodge. AT pres
ent a first class pickerel can scarcely
make a trip. AT that time Boone
river was stream of considerable
magnitude, but now it is scarcely
more than a creek. Twenty-thrce
years ago rocks that were COW
cred with water, except in very dry
times, are now boulders several
yards from the bank of the river.
The water in the streams has not
diminished on account of the de
struction of the native forests, for
there were none to destroy. As
with open streams, so with those
that are hidden under the crust OF
the earth, and where water is only
reached by sinking wells. Every
decade it is necessary to 90 deeper
for water. In localities where civ.
ing" water was reached at distance
of twelve feet from the surface when
the country was first settled, it is
now necessary to dig at least twenty
feet to obtain it.