The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-06
Editorial RoIEs.


Of North Carolina have been Imu-
sually large.
Mayor Grace, of New York, pro-
poses to reduce the expenses of the
city S20,O00,OOO.
Nevada allows no nonsense with
its game laws. \ party of seven
men who went fishing in Pyramid
lake had TO pay fines amounting TO
$1,000.
-Thirty-One states Of thiriy-eight
in the Union now have biennial ses-
sions Of their legislatures. and TWEEN
ty-eight Of the State legislatures
will meet next month.
During the past year there has
been expended in Memphis S183,0S6
for sewerage, $3.50, 269 for new pave
ments, S30,26S for wharf improve
ments, SS5,l08 for the board of
health, and abont 100000 by citi-
zens in private way for various
sanitary work.
The committee appointed TO re-
port on the general plan of inaugu-
raj decorations at Washington have
concluded their work and recon-
mend, among many other things,
a series of thirty-eight light arches
of gas pipes over Pennsylvania ave-
nue., with appropriate decorations,
representing each state in the Union.
i'm Germany, including the free
cities, about IS per cent. of the pop
ulation have incomes under 800 !;
in Berlin, Hamberg and Bremen,
14.6 per cent. have incomes from
$500 TO Sl5OO. and one-fifth of per
cent, that is TO say, about 5000 per-
SONS in the three cities taken to-
gether have incomes exceeding
$4,000 per annum. This does not
give one a great idea of the great
idea OF the wealth of Germany.
Nearly every English paper con-
tains some allusiOn tO"the three Ess"
for winch the Irish Land Leaguers
are fighting, but very few people III
this country understand what this
means. The "three Fs" are fair
rent, iixity Of tenure and free sale.
The Land Leaguers protest against
excessive rents, against the tenant
being evicted when the landlord de-
sires 1t, and insist that the tenant
shall have fight to purchase the
land whSse resources he has deYel-
oped.
"A new spOt-cycle is now in full
action. Portions of the huge blaz-
ing surface of the sun are dotted
with spots. They throng the solar
territories, appearing in rows, or
groups, or more frequently the large
spots are surrounded by families of
small ones. They are of enormous
Dimensions. Some are so large that
our whole globe might be rolled into
the seeming cavern, and Our largest
while many are so small that they
can be seen only i'll telescopes of
higher power. Some of these
spots will continue for months,
others will quickly disappear, and
others will break up into small
ones, while new ones will more than
fill the deserted places, and give
variety to the ever-changing exhibit
| ton.
The largest library in the United
States is the library OF Congress. at
Washington, which contained 23l,-
| 600 volumes in 1874, and in thar
year, the British Museum and the
Imperial Library at ST. Peters COM
prised 100000 volumes each. The
largest library in the world is the
National Library ut Paris, which, i'll
1874, contained 100000 printed
books, and $50, 900 manuscripts.
| Bell the inventor of the telephone
Is described by Gath" as thirty-twO
| years cid. 1t is added that Mr.. Bell
"receiyed large round sum for his
invention, besides shares i'll the COM
pany as consolidated and he has a
salary of $25,0O0 Il year as an cleo
trician. His father-in-law. Mr.. Hub
bard, of Boston. sold his property
and embarked money in the tele-
| phone, and deserves the chief credit
as the business spirit of the inven-
ton. He has made a million or two
out of it, and is now in London,
where number of prominent
English associates will join in CON-
panies for Egypt, India, China and
Japan" . s..-.
The dilapidated keeper of Il
Chatham street gin mill and shoot
ing gallery in New York went into
the William Tell business with un-
favorable results. He allowed his
customers to fire at his hat, which
he placed on his head for the pur-
pose of making it a target. By long
continued use this piece of head
gear became pierced until it was
more like a eolander than a hat
This was risky business, especially
when the customers were little un.
steady byreason of gin pot, and Sc
came the shot which proved to be
just the one shot too much. Instead
of merely penetrating the hat, the
ball entered the skull and embedded
itself in the fellows brain. The
man who fired the shotwas arrested
His plea is that he shot, not at the
man. but ut the mans hat, and that
il had long been common usage tO
do so. Ii is also urged in his behalf
that the shot was fired by the vie
Tins consent previously given. as
well as for q pecuniary considera'
ton. Should the man die, the case
will be a somewhat complicated
one, and there will be considerable
amount of legal skill involved in
determining ot exactly what degree
of manslaughteF the shooter should
be found guilty.