The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

degrees in l7O2, and since that tim
has given them to Il, 939 individual:
exclusive of 923 honorary degrees.
tx Postmaster General Ma,
nard, of Tennessee, has been chosel
rs the orator at the unwilling of III,
Farragut statue, at Washington, oil
the 25th prOximo.
John Parnell, the brother of th,
agitator, owns the largest peach or
chard in the world. 1t is situate,
in Chambers county, Alabama, neaI
the Georgia line. 1t contains PSI
acres, and has yielded $4,000 wortl
of peaches.
M. Poirot recently stated TO tn,
French Academy that wormwood
proves remarkably effective as M
inseehfuge, driving away every kind
of insect. as well as rattlesnakes and
other serpents.
"A Second Advent congregation
at Greenwood, Kansas, have lost
confidence in their pastor because
while publicly avowing belief that
the world would come to an end in
1881. he secretly took note for five
years on loan of $1,000, and de-
manded IL per cent. interest with
ample security.
1t is the formulated OPINION OF
the Chicago Socialistic Society that
the welfare of the human race de-
mands mot only the. destruction OF
the ears, emperors, kings, Bis
marcks and other oppressors, but
also the destruction of the system OF
society that breeds them and makes
their tyranny possible"
| The recent French loan is said to
have been rendered necessary BY the
great scheme for internal improve
ments begun by De Freycinct and
voted in 1879, which is expected to
absorb $100O00,000 a year for years
to come. The correspondents at
Paris say that the loan will be known
as the electoral" loan, not to meet
any real deficit, but to placate a
large and industrious class by offer
ing an outlet for small savings.
The Republican anxiety con-
cerning-the health and wishes of the
Confederate brIgadier, Malone, is
exceedingly cheering to the rebels
aud traitors who were with him at
the "crater," near Petersburg. They
feel that the hands offriendship and
love have been clasped in forgetful-
ness over even that bloody chasm.
The bond of union is becoming sub
stantial, and when the people of the
South follow Mahone's illustrious
example, betray the trusts confided
in them and join the Republican
host, there will be n love-feast such
as was never heard of before, and
joyful anthems will swell forth from
the Threats ofthe Republican angels.
The newspapers have described
fully the rigors and harCshirs of
the western winter, but the most
palpable illustration of what the
snow-drifts have accomplished in
the way of blockades is furnished
by the SiOUr Valley (Dak.) NelcS in
its edition for March IL, Paper ran
out but invention came in and the
result is an excellent impression on
white cotton cloth. A copy of the
Ne1cS for that date reached this Of
flee yesterday in wrapper to
match. During the war southern
journals were occasionally printed
on wall paper, but it remained fer a
snow blockade in time of peace to
bring cloth into requisitiOn for this
purpose.
President Grant, Washington
gossip said four years ago, asked
President Hayes as personal favor
to keep his old aid-de-camp, Adam
Badeau. IN office as consul-general
at London, and his brother-in-law,
M. j. Cramer, at his post as minister
convention, rs is well known, Gen.
Grant refused to see his defeated
competitor, James G. Blaine. 1t is,
of course, only the merest coinci-
dence in the world that the "promo-
ton" of Adam Badeau from q place
said to be worth $4,000 or $4,000 n
year at London to n place worth
$4,000 at Copenhagen transfers, and
Cramer to another place at Berne of
the same grade.
According to the estimate of
the State Vinticultural Commits
sioners, the vintage of California
for 1880 was over ten and half mil
lion gallons. OF this 100000 gal
Ions were dry wines, 100000 sweet
wines and 100000 brandy. Includ-
ing grape and raisin sales, the grape
culture of the state during the past
year is believed to have yielded
about $3,500,000. Twenty years ago
any one predicting that we should
within that period enter into serious
competition with France as a pro-
Queer of wines, would have been
laughed at as mere enthusiast; yet
such is the fact. The ravages of
phylloXera in French vineyards have
so reduced the yield as to cause the
importation of American wines into
France.
The Philadelphia papers an
nounce that Col. Thomas A. Scott,
late president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, on Monday last endowed
the chair of mathematics in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, now Occu-
pied by Prof. Kendall, with $4,000.
At the same time he gave $4,000 to
the Jefferson College, $4,000 to the
Orthopedie Hospital and $4,000 to
the childrens' department of the
Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia.
The money is now at the disposal of
the institutions named, and the three
gifts last mentioned are uncondi-
tional The North AMERICAN states
that it has also knowledge of anOth-
err gift of $4,000 TO an educational
institution in the South, OF which
authoritative statement will be made
in few days.
The fault that scholars will be
most likely to find with tine new
Worcester's Dictionary" is that into
it has been admitted, though under
cover of an apology, n considerable
number of slang words, which can
not, even on sufferance, be accepted
as part of the language. "Bliz-
zard." "bonanZa,n "boss," 'bull-
doZe,' "boom," corner" "crank"
and the like may in time come to be
accepted by good writers and
speakers. Not less dlstasteiul in the
appearance-thOugh the compilers
are not wholly to blame-ot the
monstrous words of Greek and Lat
in or other foreign extraction for
which we have admirably simple
equivalents in our own good Saxon.
Thus from the Greek we have Zach
romatopsy" in place of "color-blind;"
from the Latin "adnubilated" for
"clouded,r and from the French
"acierage" for "steeling.n Except
humorously and derislvely, the use
of words of this cumbrous sort is