The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.
lin 1887, 1O,OOOpeople in England

Garcia has been captured. and sent
to Suain.
Gladstone Is slowly mending.
He will recover if he viii TanneriZe
for few weeks.
Over 2525 miles of new railroad
have been laid up to the first of
August this year.
Bad crops are reported from
Russia, which implies an increased
export of Americas surplus grain.
The Russian schoolmasters and
educational officials are to hold a
conference at st. Petersburg next
month.
Work was resumed on the
Washington national monument,
which viii not be completed in less
than four years.
Sir Herbert Sandford, British
Commissioner to the Philadelphia
Exposition, has been appointed to a
similar office at Melbourne.
Illinois threatens to go Demo-
cratic this year. Don't laugh, breth-
rem of the Republican persuasion
This is the ground-swell period.
1t was found in Manchester,
England, that the draining and paw
ing of twenty streets diminished the
mortality to the extent of 20 in ITO.
I'm France, since the abolition of
! the Empire, no oath has been adj
ministered to the Legislators. Nor
is there any formality as an equiva-
lent.
"A fire at Jaurieta, in the Prov
ince of Navarro, Spain, destroyed 80
out of the LOG houses which the vii
lage contained. Several persons were
injured.
There are about 200 cases of yell
low fever in Havana. For the week
ending July 81 there were 81 deaths
from yellow fever and thirteen from
small pOx.
Reports TO the department of
state from all quarters of the world
show that American food products
are growing in demand every day,
especially in Europe.
The planting of the eucalyptus
tree in the maIarious districts of Al
giers, Italy, and the south of France,
has rendered the neighbOrhOod
healthy in every case.
The property standing in the
name of the Northumberland of
the English court of chancery
amounted to 1850 to &, $4,000, in
1910 to G41 100000, and now reaches
a far greater sum.
Gen. Hancock has a very pleas
ant suburban home, thirty minutes
by railroad from ST. Lonis. The
house is spacious and is surrounded
by ample grounds which command
view of the Mississippi.
1t is intimated that New Or.
leans is taking advantage of the rate
war to unload its tramps. 1t only
costs 81 a head to ship them to St.
Louis, and that is much cheaper
than poor house can be run.
"A medical authority says
Laughter is one of the greatest
helps to digestion, and the custom of
our forefatners of exciting it at the
table by testers and buffoons was
founded on true medical princi-
pies"
-Abdurrahman Kahn shows eve
nv disposition to help the British.
Avoob Kahn is within one march of
Candahar. The London Times con-
siders that the evacuation of Cabul
would strengthen the Ameer's
hands and entail no loss of British
prestige.
The Hon. Armistead Burt has
shipped his portrait of Calhoun,
saved from the recent fire in Able
vile, to Charleston, at the request of
the ladies of the Calhoun Monu-
mental Association. 1t is a speaking
likeness, and one of the best pictures
of the great Carolina statesman now
extant.
"A section of the Jes4its expelled
from France has entered upon the
occupancy ofthe Corbet Hotel, AbeF-
dovey, Wales, large structure erect
ed at the time of the formation OF
the Cambrian railway. They have
secured the lease for twenty-one
wears, and intend utilizing the no.
tel as a large school.
Postal business of last year: Let
tiers 86S, 493, newspapers to subscrib-
ers and news agents 695, 175.624, mag
azines to subscribers and news
agents 53,472,276, books, circulars
and miscellaneous printed matter
SOC. S45, 400, articles of merchandise
%. 634. 456. grand total 2,2l5. l68, LA.
This matter all originated in this
country.
The electric light, like Noah's
ark, keeps Il movin'." A company
has been organized in Philadelphia
to Introduce the Sawyer lights into
houses. to take the place of gas. Ed
ison seems 60 be n little backward in
coming forward with his process,
but is still firm in his belief that ii
will ultimately achieve the results
claimed for IL.
The highest monument in Great
Britain, and possibly iH Europe, is
that erected by the tenaHtFy 10 the
First duke of Sutherland, on tbs
summif of Ben Vraggie, Sutherland
shire. 400 feet above the sea. Tho
pedestal is iO6 feet high; the statue,
from n model by Sir Francis Chan
trey. SO. II is n conspicuous land
mark on both sides of Moray Firth
Engineers are puzzled 90 know
lust how fhc Cleopatra's Needle.
which has been in New York harb0g
for three weeks, shall be transported
to Central Park. Commander Cor
ringe says that the way Of transports
| ING the obelisk on land which he
most fayors Is to build an immense
track and draw il from the river "a
its site by horses. This plan he viii
probably adopt.
Kentucky still indulgsS in bar
becues, which are attended By thou
sands of people. A venerable cob
ored man in Boone county has SUI
perihtended every one that has been
| held in his neighborhood these forty
wears. At the last one the roast con-
sisted of two beevcs, six hogs and
twenty-five sheep. After the feast
the people danced and listened to
political speakers.
Dean Stanley was not equal 10
his opportunities when he performed
the marriages ceremony of Professor
Tyndall. The dean should have
asked the groom; do YOU take this
anthropoid TO be yeRr coordinate
to love with your nerve aepters, "a
cherish with your whole celiptSF it's
sue, until final molecular distur-
bance shall resolve its organism into
its primitive atolnsf r
AN old CalifotRia prospector i
of the opinion that tins North Pole
is a solid mass of gold. he says il
can not be otherwise, for the reason
that all gold-bearing true assure
veins. in al parts Of the world, run
In the direction of the North Pole