The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-08-12
EDITORIAL. >ors>.
NEndowments made by the A. L.
Stewart estate, amount to SS.000.O 600.

0Endowments made hv the a. L.
Stewart estate, amount To $4,000, 600.
1t seems pretty clearly estab-
lished that the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. against the adYicr and pro-
tests of those who claim 10 he her
friends l. To be married To Mr.. \ sh-
mead Bartlett. The lady i sixty
six years old. the gentleman not vet
twenty-ninc. BY her marriage The
baroness win lose about half a mil
lion dollars OF her annual income.
but will still be one of the wealthiest
women In the world.
According to Virginia newspa-
per, the great Dismal Swamp i by
no means a dismal place, but rather
charming and healthhll retreat.
Ii is not low bog. sunk into the
ground, but. ON the contrary, is bv
actual survey, fifteen or twenty feet
above the level ground. Ii is an inn
mense reservoir that. in its vast
sponge like bulk, gathers the waters
that fall and pourS them into five
different rivers. The swamp is en-
tirely of green timber. Trees which
fall, instead of rotting. turn into
peat. There lie nothing To create
miasma; all is fresh and sweet. The
air Is pure, and the water tinctured
with juniper, is potent medicinal
drink. Formerly the planters sent
their slaves into the swamp 10 work
on account Of its healthtulness.
Napoleon HIS widow derives
| her revenue from three sources
the product of savings and specula-
tions, the assurances on the Emper-
or's life, and the real estate which
the Empress bought in her own name
when She was on the throne. Nomi-
nal sales have been made since she
came to. Chiselhurst. as well IA two
genuine ones. The Empress disposed
OF, for aconsiderable sum, theproperty
in the Rue d'Alba and the house in
which Nj. Rouher used to live free. at
the corner of the Rue d'Alysse. The
purchaser of this estate was Baron
Hirsch, " the Turkish railroad king
There are. besides. estates in Spain,
Switzerland and Hungary. The
Hungarian property was acquired in
| the present year. and is adjacent 10
the domain OF Count Zichy. Under
her sons will the Empress acquires
properties near Trieste and in Tus
cany, as well as houses and grounds
in Toulouse.
1t is not strange that 1900 dent
lists find employment i'll the United
States. DIR. j. \. Farrar. of New
York, states in an article published
in the Dental Laboratory that not
less than half ION of pure gold.
| costing about S500000. Is annually
packed away i'll the mouths of Amer
leans. and, in addition to this. there
is probably four times a much
cheaper material, such as silver.
platina, etc. used i'll filling cavities
in teeth. lie makes the curious and
Interesting estimate that only 800
years would be required TO bury the
amount of gold coin now in circula-
ton in the country (S150,000.000 in
the graveyards. The magnitude of
American neutrality-suspicious. is shown
by the statement that about 3,000.000
artificial or porcelain teeth, mounted
on various kinds of plates, are made
every year. DR.. Farrar supplements
these figures with the important
statement. based on statistics COM
piled with painstaking labor, that
out of an average of eighty people
of all classes, only one can be found
with perfect dental organs. The
other seventy-nine require dentists
care.