The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

pyramids of granite is TO be erected
on the spot where Maximilian. Mira
mon and Mejia were executed.
The New York Board of Alder
men have adopted resolution call
ing ON the board of health of that
city to chemically analyZe oleOmar-
| garine in order to ascertain whether
it is fit for use as an article of food
-Four directors of the London
and Northwestern railway will visit
the United States and travel over
all the principal trunk lines from
New York to San Francisco. Their
purpose is the introduction of de
sIrable reforms on their own road
-Forepaugh's beauty turns out to
be Miss Louisa Montague, native
of New York, and a well known va
riety actress. She claims to be TWEEN
ty-one years of age, and although
uncertain how she shall like riding
the elephant, she is very sure she
shall enjoy getting the money.
| The valuation of the real estate
| of California is placed at S466. 273,-
5S5, and its personal at $116, 304, 451.
The total bonded and floating county
| Indebtedness mot including uthe
debts of cities, townships and
school districts) is placed at $7,614,
I IA. The real estate of San Fran
cisco is assessed at $3.50, 382, 410, and
personal at 54,237, 450. % r.iiuI
1t is the custom in the United
Kingdom to present judge with a
pair of white gloves, whenever, at
the session OF his court, no criminal
cases come up. There have been
more instances of these presenta-
tions this year in Ireland than ever
before. AT Drogheda, Meath and
West Meath, white gloves were thus
[ presented. Evidently some of the
English stories about troubles in
Ireland are exaggerated. -
| "A bill has DCOn iHe-o1aaad in
the Rhode Island House, which pro-
hibits the sale of all intoxicating
beverages under penalty of fine
of $40 and ten days Imprisonment
for the first offense, $50 fine and
three months for the second offense
and fine of 800 and not exceeding
six months Imprisonment for the
third offense. Cider, domestic wines
and malt liquor may be manufacture
ed and sold in quantities not less
than one gallon. ....-...
| Mrs Della Stewart Parnell,
mother of Mr.. Charles S. Parnell,
who is in New York, is quoted as
saying that she had received many
letters from bankers in Ireland
speaking favorably of the financial
condition of the country, and hope
fully of the future Land League.
Mrs. Parnell said these people gave
her assurances that it was to their
interest to be in sympathy with the
land movement. Some of the recent
letters informed her that $15,000,00O
had been kept from the landlords
and the pockets of foreigners. That,
Mrs. Parnell says, means saving OF
$50, 100000 for Ireland. ..< p.
The Supreme Court OF Appeals
of West Virginia has decided that
the property of one railroad CON-
pany not in actual use and not neces-
sary for the proper exercise OF
the franchise of the company, may
be condemned for the purposes OF
another railroad company. In plain
words, they 60 back to the first
principles. If a mans private prop
erty, under the law of eminent do
main, can be condemned and taken
away from him, and given to anoth-
er, on condition of compensation for
the land condemned, the same rule
of law allows the property of one
railroad to be condemned for the
use of another. wherever and when
ever it is necessary for the public
good that it should be done.
In Persia they bottle up their
tears as OF old. This is done in the
following manner: AS the mourners
are sitting around and weeping, the
master of ceremonies presents each
one with piece of cotton wool with
which he wipes off his tears. This
cotton is afterward squeezed into q
bottle. and the tears are preserved
as a powerful and efficacious remedy
other means has failed. 1t is also
employed as charm against evil i'll
fluences. This custom is probably
alluded to in Psalm lvi. verse s.
'Put thou my tears into a bottle.''
The practice was once universal. as
is proved by the tear bottles which
are found in almost every ancient
| tomb, for the ancients buried them
with their dead as proof of their
| affection. 'ih $3.50
| An English newspaper declares
that men have been cruelty deceived
in the sewing machine. When it
was first patented they welcomed it
with delight as most economical
invention. "Here we have been
paying immense bills 10 sewing girls
for making dresses for our wives
and daughters" they said, "and here
came little machine that will do
all their work at one-tenth the cost"
Alas They knew not the feminine
mind. The sewing machine had
just the contrary effect. Sewing be-
came subsidiary question. 1t was
so easy to sew a fiOunce, or a bow,
or ribbon, or some similar super
fluffy on to dress, that the sim
plicity of the old fashions disap-
peared. dresses became richer in
fol-de-rOls than ever, and conse-
quently more expensive. Sewing
machines have doubled the MILL
ner's bills instead of lessening them.
AN amusing story is told of the
Grand Duke Constantine, who is
now Gin disgrace" because he is sus-
pected of Nihilism. AT Warsaw he
gave a dinner TO Il large number of
Polish MOBILES, to each of whom at
the close of the feast an ordinary
candle vaS sarva6.ou a nlofa IVba,,
his guests had been supplied with
these delicacies he arose and, taking
from his own plate an admirably
counterfeited candle of some sugary
substance, called upon the assembly
to enjoy with HIM a Russians great
est delicacy. Saying this, he took
a huge bite from his own candle,
whereupon his expression changed
to one of extreme disgust. One OF
the noblemen had succeeded in
transferring to the Grand Dukes
plate a genuine candle and had APP
propriated the imitation one to his
own use, eating it, as did the others,
with every manifestation of disgust,
and enjoying hugely The discomfit-
ure of the host, who thus was COM
PEELED to swallow about two inches
of genuine Russian tallow.
Since we began to discourage
influx of Chinese Immigrants to this
country, the Cinnamon have acquir-
ed a habit of going in other direc-
tions, and they may be found now
upon the Sandwich Islands and
other islands in the, Pacific, in the