The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

England imports annually eggs,
butter and cheese t. the amount of
e2O,0O0,OOO.
1t is estimated that the oleomar-
garine manufacturer has added
about 81 to the value of OK slaught-
cred.
The population of Liverpool,
according TO the late census returns,
is 64S,9SS, being an increase since
1871 of 32,083.
Herbert Bismarck has abandon
ed the young wife with whom he
ran away, and she is lying nigh unto
death at n Vienna hotel. The man
goes back to his old place and posi-
ton and acceptance in Berlin Not
even a duel is to follow.
Senator Wade Hampton has IN
his possession a German Bible which
was printed at Strasburg in 1915. 1t
was conjectured by some Lutheran
minister, whose translation of the
manuscript accompanies it, that it
was written by Luther himself or
was copied writings.
When Abraham Lincoln wa
assassinated, Queen Victoria wrote
q four-page letter to Mrs. Lincoln.
1t was the unrestrained out-pouring
of sympathy from a full heart. 1t
has never been published, as the
Lincoln family regarded it a viola
ton of propriety to do so. .t
:-.An old Long Island sportsman
says that horses frequently die CT
broken hearts, because they travel
the same road every day and become
tired ofseeing the same objects. He
says that the best way 10 restore a
horse to health is to take him off on
a new road and let him shy little.
| James Melville, the famous bare
back rider, says he has twice broken
one of his arms, an ankle has been
knocked out ofjoInt, he has sprained
his legs, ankles and arms many
times, and he. says he has more dents
on his head than a skillet has holes.
He says one of his earliest associates
in a circus was q brother of Arch
bishop McClosky (; he was clown
From statistics recently publish
ed the English are considered to be
the worst dairy farming people in the
world. Great Britain, with pOpu-
lation of 34,000,O00, has only 4,0O0,-
900 of COWS; France 100000, with
| 100000 of COWS America, 50,000,-
600, with 33,500,Q00 of cows; Holland,
with population under 4,000,O OO0,
has 1.500,00 of cows. If Britain had
cows in proportion TO her population
| in comparison with France, she
should have 100000 of cows in
proportion 10 America she should
have 22,0O0,0O0, and in proportion to
Holland, 12,0O0,000.
| The Russian government was
credited with too much considera-
ton for the condemned regicldes
when the logging of the hangman
was attributed to his bungling over
the executions. 1t now turns out
that the $50 lashes were infict-
ed because 'the last finisher of the
law" sold the ropes that bound the
| criminals, which had been cut up
into thousands of pieces and dispos-
ed of among the people, who treas
ure them as precious relics. Truly
the man was right who said: "You
can do anything with bayonets ex-
cept sit on them"
The approaching transit of
Venus, which is to occur in 1882, will
be regarded with q degree of inter-
est which hardly any other astrono-
mical event has ever excited, mas
much as no recurrence of the phe-
nomenon will happen for the long
space of 1924 years. or the 1000,
100000 of inhabitants of this globe
living on that day, it may be safe to
say that scarce one mortal soul, al
though born simultaneously with
that event, can possibly live to the
period of another transit. Practi-
cally, therefore, so far as the present
human race is concerned, this orb
will have persisted and passed into
eternity.
The Graniteville and Vaucluse
factories, near Augusta, Georgia
have Just had their annual meeting
They are under, one management
and show net earnings of fifteen pei
cent. A dividend of per cent. was
declared, carrying $40, 893.45 to the
profit and loss account. The COM
pany now have q surplus fund OF
| $168,373.21. They constitute one OF
the most compact and one of the
strongest manufacturing enterprises
in the land. Vaucluse has 10000
spindles and 800 looms, while Gran.
iteville has 24,064 spindles and $50
looms. During the past year isis
bales of cotton were consumed. .,-
An idea of the amount of food
consumed annually in Paris may be
gained from the report for the
month of. january. The quantity Of
butchers meat brought into that
city was over 81, 800 cwt., there being
three times as much beef and twice
as much veal as mutton. There
were 1885 sucking pigs and 81
lambs, while the game comprised
1873 wild boars, 1895 deers, 10000
hares, $4,000 rabbits, $4,000 wild
| ducks, 5000 woodcock and 5000 snipe
The poultry comprised 63.338 tur.
keys and 1926 geese; while under
the head of miscellaneous came $50,
600 larks and 1900 blackbirds and
thrushes. The fish consumed IN
Paris weighed 100000 lbs; the con'
sumption of oysters was 100000
of eggs, 100000 of butter, 2,000,.
900 lbs; of fruit and vegetables
100000 lbs; of cheese, $4,000 lbs
| "A correspondent writing from
Paris SAYS: "A significant feature
| of fashion is the constantly increas.
ing imitation OF the tournures. Al.
ready crinolines. are talked of
though they are postponed unit
next winter. For the moment only
the tournure is in question, but hith.
erto this has been worn inside, un.
der the dress. At present it is worn
both aCacler and OpeI' the skirt. Quite
lately certain modistes have taken
the fancy to substitute for poufs and
draperies five huge loopsand single
end, all made of the same material
as the dress, and from twenty tC
twenty-four inches wide; these are
lined with a contrasting color, and
arranged IN such a manner as en-.
tirely to cover the back breadth @
| the skirt from the belt to the hem
forming a tournure or bustle,. and
that of the most voluminous kind