The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EUllUhthL NUlES.
There are more than 5000, 900
women in England and Wales trying
to earn q living in the various trades
and industries.
Hon. David A. Wells, the noted
Connecticut writer On political econ
omy and finance, died October 81, AT
his home in Milford.
Sarah Bernhardt's first words
upon landing in America were: "If
Henry Ward Beecher or Roscoe
Conkling comes near me I'll scream
The census shows that the
United States has fifty billions OF
property, eight billions moro than
Great Britain and four more than
France.
Mr.. Moody's sermons have been
translated into Arabic. Protestant
missionaries in Syria read extracts
from them every Sunday to their
congregations.
"A French gymnast made bal
loon ascension near Paris, October
81, and when performing on the
trapeze 1000 metres above the earth.
he fell. making a hole two feet deep
in the ground, in which his body as
sumed the consistency of jelly.
The city council of Akron,
Ohio, have adopted the electric light
for street lighting purposes. The
estimated cost for the necessary ma
chinery and appurtenances is $500,
and net saving of S44OO will be eff
fectcd. Akron. we. believe, is the
first city in the country to adopt the
electrict light.
"A Georgia young man asked his
sweetheart whether she had ever
read Romeo and Julietr She re-
piled that she had read Romeo, but
she did not think she had ever read
Juliet. This reminds us of the
Texas Young lady who acknowl-
edged that she was fond of Dickens
works. but she thought anything
written by Boz abominable.
I'm France, horse flesh, brought
into fashion at the siege of Paris,
is gaining rather than losing favor.
Since 1876 the amount consumed
has risen from III, 800 pounds to
nearly 100000 pounds. In the
year 1870 there were consumed at
Marseilles 500 horses, in 1878 1881, in
1873 1888; at Nancy. in 1873, 1862; in
1876 $50. and in 1873 7O5. Similarly
in Rheims and Lyons the figures
have advanced year by year.
An English bachelor saw a
Acknowledgement young lady on
a Boston street, and was told that
she was the daughter of a wealthy
merchant. He became acquainted,
and the girl, knowing a woman who
watched the interests of an elegant
house whose owners were at the sea-
shore, was permitted by her to re-
ceive him there. She also gave him
dinners there, hiring walters. She
told him that her parents were in
Europe. He proposed. was accepted
and found that the wife he had won
was shop girl.
The Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, the
Baptist minister of Brooklyn who
has Just been elected congressman,
is certainly unorthodox and unmin-
isterial in his ideas of heaven, hell
and the hereafter generally. His
ideas about the future world and
the proportion of people who go TO
eternal damnation were given quite
succinctly in a sermon the other day.
in which he said: "They would have
us believe that. God creates 1,200,-
100000, human beings every genera
ton, picks out say l00O00,OOO to be
saved, and makes out a Niagara of
condemned souls of the other 1,100,-
100000. 1t is monstrous. 1t is not
in the Bible, and | should not be.
lieve it if it were there"
The Boston Public Library last
winter furnished to the principal of
the Wells School fifty copies of Mrs.
Whitney's "J4eslie Goldthwaite" and
Mr.. Fowier's "Pizarro," TO be re-
tanned at The school indefinitely.
The novel was first read snecessiyely
by three classes-abOut $50 girls,
The book was read at home, and O
certain amount of time was given at
the school to discuss it. Style, plot
and character were all analysed, and
the girls were thus given O standard
OF criticism which will always b" 9
help to them. The history followed
the novel, and was also thoroughly
discussed The experiment was so
successful that an application has
been made to the Public Librarian
TO provide more books upon this
plan. The principal of the school
SAYS: 81 have no doubt of its sue
cess in any school where the plan can
be fairly tried. The children arc
taught to read books more carefully,
and are interested in a purer class of
than usually falls into their
hands. Their gain in the use of
language is also very marked, and
must prove of inestimable yalHo TO
them"