The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A correspondent of the New York
World discusses the cost of digging De
Lessep's Isthmus canal and goes into
the smallest particulars, estimating the
lowest cost at (which each cubic metre
of dirt can be removed and each cubic
metre of rock blown away. He is un-
able to make the cost of the canal fall
below 1886, 440, 900.
A London paper, in treating the
mode in which 122 of the titled fsmi-
lies of England have acquired lands,
states that scarcely dozen of the
number got them by professional or
commercial pursuits. The writer as
serts that not one-tenth of the $780,
900 acres possessed by the 1879 was &C.
quirea for value received.
The people of Virginia are determln-
ed that the name and fame of Stone
wall Jackson shall not pass out of the
public mind. A new county has Just
been formed to which the name of
Stonewall has been gwen and that of
Jackson fixed upon for the county seat.
Thus monument more enduring than
brass is erected to the memory of the
great soldier.
1t is said to be fact that the 1-2
miles long st. Gothard Tunnel has
been bored for less than $40, 600, 900,
while the boring of the ga miles long
Hoosac Tunnel cost Massachusetts 3d.
900, 600. This great difference in the
cost of construction can probably be
accounted for on the ground that the
Hoosac had to be engineered through
several sessions of the Legislature.
The Westminster Reoieto reckons the
public debts of the world at the pres
emit time at $24, 900, 600, 900. The rail-
way indebtedness has been estimated
at Sc, 600, 600, 900, and municipal debts
at So, 900, 900, 900, thus bringing the
public indebtedness of the world up
to the vast sum of $50, 900, 900, 600. It
is not expected that this will ever be
paid, but 1t constitutes an annual lien
on the industry of the world of 81, 700,-
900, 600.
The work of piercing the Mount st.
Gothard was finished on the twenty
ninth of February, and Germany, Swift
zerland and Italy will soon be more
thoroughly connected by rail through
the great tunnel. The tunnel and rail-
road are constructed at the cost of the
three countries. This will place the
railroad system of Germany IN direct
connection with Southern Europe, and
will prove of great value to the COM
merce of that country, by whose Chan
cellor it has been fostered.
An attempt to rob the sub-treasury
at Philadelphia, though made nearly
year ago, has just been diYulged by the
officisls, who mistakenly supposed that
silence would lead to the detection of
the thieves. A wall more than two
feet thick was dug through but the
vault containing $40, 600, 600 in gold
resisted the attack, and the burglars Sc
cured only few dollars worth of pen
MES. Five wstchmen in the building
declared that they heard nothing,
During the past i've years 1858, 01S,-
$50 worth of property has been de-
stroyed in this country by fire. In 1875
the loss was $7S, 102, 2S5; IN 1875, $64. =
csc, 600; in 1877, SOS, 200, 500; in 1878,
$64, 3l5, 900, ahd in 1879, $74, 703, 700.
or the States, New York leads in b; Q
figures. Her loss in 1875 was $14, $780,
900; in 1877, $11, 456 400; in 1878. So
.397, 600, and in 1879, $15, 793, zoe.
Pennsylvania comes next with q total
loss IN the four years of $2s, 1913, 500.
According. to the last statistics pub
lished by the French Minister of Agri-
culture and Commerce, the population
of the Republic is 81. 600, 600, of whom
12, 600, 900 live in cities and the remain
der in the country. There are in
France 210, 900 individuals who have
no SPECIAL professor, II, 800 beggars
and tramps, 1851, 600 professional
men, 3. $50, 600 persons engaged IN nav
igation and commerce, 9, 81, 900 trades
men, and working men, 1,151, 900
boadholders snd Is, 96s, 900 persons
engaged In agricultural pursuits. OF
the latter. 10 600, 600 are land owners,
about 9, 200, 900 tenants, while 9, 000,-
600 are market gardeners, viticultur-
lists, and the like.
A woman who is a close observer of
round dancing in Washington writes to
the Springfield RepHbioan as follows:sIt
has become the fashion for girls to wear
bunch OF Jscoueminct roses low IN
the eorssge. Many OF these roses shed
their dye when touched or rubbed, and
50 upon the snow-white shirt bosoms,
eneased in low~cut vests Of dancing
men. il often to be seen = delicate
blush which gives . touch OF color to
their sweetiy simple costume. In. this
way there are some girls ct l6 st who
imprint themselves not only upon tie
ks>eor~no ~ khosr rowo~. k..& r,r,r,w khnoa
Of many other men. Is it not charm
ing ideafn
The Philadelphia Record says: ssEr.
John +. Dickson. of Marshall, Texas,
formerly superintendent OF the Texas
Pacific railway, has expressed himself
with great deal Of good sense upon
The subject Of Currie. the murderer of
Porter, the sctor. he thinks il unfair
for the peonle OF the North to bear 50
hard upon Texas for the commission Of