The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Howgate expedition to the
Polar seas has been abandoned for
the present season.
p. 7. Barnum, now seventy
one years old, has entered into new
circus partnership Of which the ar
ticles are drawn for ninety-nine
years.
The construction company of
the American Union Telegraph line
will have about S2,0OO,000 to be
used in extensions and new enter
prises on the receipt of the final pay
ment, to be made on the twenty-titth
instant, and the earning of the
American Union Company will be
largely increased.
I'm Walker county, Ga, Robert
Woods and Joseph Colquitt agreed
to exchange wives. The women
were at once informed Of the trade,
and Mrs. Colquitt expressed the ut
most satisfaction with the arrange
ment. Mrs. Woods, however, indig-
nantly refused the caresses OF Col
quit, and when violence would have
been used 10 compel her acquies-
cence. fed to her friends.
The heir apparent to the Ha-
waiian throne is the sister OF King
Kalakaua, and wife of Governor
Dominis, an American, who, in the
event of his wife becoming queen,
will be Prince John, and the first
American who ever enjoyed that
rank; and such an event is quite
likely, as the king is frequently
threatened with apoxplexy-or in
other words, he is 'too fond of his
tod"
The art of dressing in the COM
monest materials, and yet looking
superior to other women, is studied
by fashionable Parisians. Fourteen
ladies recently entered into compe-
tition, and the prize was awarded
to dress which was made
of that coarse sacking used for
packing purposes, trimmed some
what anonymously with Valen-
ciennes lace and floral embroidery
on gold ground, parasol and shoes
to match. The experiment, how
ever, was decidedly expensive, for
though the dress itself cost mere
nothing, the lace was worth $500.
and the handle of the parasol cost
1920 and the embroidery $3.50, not
to speak of the shoes.
The appearance i'll any Of the
principal saloons of candidate for
office is, any time in the evening,
the signal for q general rush to the
bar. The daring candidate may
peep in at the door and see only one
man present besides the barkeeper.
He goes in to treat the man, when.
10! the saloon instantly becomes full
of men. They drop in at the front
door, they enter from the side, they
come forward from the rear, and
swarm down the stairs. They all
slap the candidate on the back in
turn and inquire how he's doing
Then the shout goes up: who's q
treatin'?" desperate smile fits over
the candidates face-like CLEAN OF
sunshine on a wintry landscape
and be says: "Boys, what're We go
in to have?' Then the "boys" fall
into line before the bar-a dozen oil
two of them-and when all the
glasses are charged there's half:
drowned murmur of "'Ere's to ye,'
and the candidate PUSHES wildly out
into the night.
Among the reasons which have
been urged for and against the in
teroceanic canal project is the q eat
er percentage of calms and variable
winds at the termini of the one route
az compared with those of the other
In reply TO an inquiry from Rear
Admiral Ammen, Capt. De Krotft
the photographer to the bureau o.
navigation, makes report in which
he saws: "From total OF 1885 OBJ
servations in the bay OF Panama anC
of 1873 observations on the coast o.
Nicaragua in the vicinity of Briton
and in each case covering roughly
about the same extent Of ocean, i
appears that the calms and variable
winds at the former locality amount
to eleven per cent. Of the whole
number of observations, while a
the latter they amount to five pei
cent. In order to reach the region
of the trade winds sailing vessell
from Panama bound to India, Japan
California or the Northwest coast
in coming out of the bay, and after
wards making the necessary north
ing, will be obliged to make 6Ot
miles, through variable winds anC
vexatious calms, before finding them
selves in as good position to maxi
their westing AZ the vessels leavin!
the coast of Nicaragua.