The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Madame Nilsson, who is coming
over to America, will actas her own
manager.
The evidence in San Francisco
divorce suit was all found in a diary
which the defendant kept.
-Pere Hyacinthe will sail FOR the
United States in September, having
been invited by members of differ
ent churches to give series of con-
ferences in the larger cities of
America. Nine. Loyson accompa-
MES him.
The widow of the late Frank
Leslie has regained possession other
husbands property, having paid the
creditors iifty-five per cent. of their
claims. She-will in the future con-
duct the business of Frank Leslie's
publishing house.
Prof. Dolbeare, ofTuft's College,
one of the original inventors of the
telephone, whose rights were bought
by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, has now invented an en-
tirely new telephone, through which
it is claimed conversation can be
heard over any length of wire.
The new aesthetic craze, says the
London WOrld, has been great blow
to the Young curates of the period.
Instead of embroidering slippers and
decorating churches, maiden ladies,
elderly and otherwise. now devote
their spare time to the pursuit of the
intensely intense" and the "too ut
terly utter"
Governor Cornell has vetoed a
bill recently passed by the New
York legislature to compel people
dealing in the article to call Oleomar-
garine Limitation butter" The gov
ernor declares it a "wholly lndefen
sible measure because it endeavors
to deprive citizen of rights which
are guaranteed by the constitution
and laws of the United States
through the patent Office"
So great did Queen Victoria adj
mire the wedding dress of Lady
Brooks (thc beautiful Miss Maynard,
just married to the Earl of War
wick's sony that she insisted on her
dining at Windsor Castle, and, after
dinner, told the bride to walk about,
that she might see it better-the re-
suit of these peripatetic movements
being that her ladyship was "cOm-
manded to be photographed there
in"
-Stephanie and Rudolph are de-
lighting their royal subjects by their
kind and pleasant ways. The Princes
cleverness. and his easy and manly
manner make him a favorite with
all classes, while his pretty little
bride is much commended for the
fashion in which she performs her
public duties. She looks thorough
queen, and plays her part as if she
had been long accustomed to it, and
had not just left the nursery.
Gen. Ignatieff, the Cars new
minister, belongs to the. lower and
poorer class of Russian nobility, and
has been the architect of his own
fortunes. His marriage with a
Princess Galitzim brought him into
higher society, and at tWenty-eight
he was made general, and four
years later went as ambassador to
Turkey. The Turkish diplomatists
hate him and still call him The "Black
Fox" He is now forty-nine years
old.
The Grand Duke Nicolai Con-
stantivich has been transferred from
Pavlovsk, where he has been in con-
finement since his arrest q few weeks
ago. to the fortress of Dunaburg, in
which stronghold his imperial cousin
has decreed that he shall pass the
remainder ofhis days. This unfor-
tunate young gentleman's eccentrici-
ties have been the. source of much
disquietude and distress to his family
for some years past. Abundant
proofs have been furnished to the
Car that his kinsman has propagat-
ed Nihilistic doctrines among the
workmen employed in certain man
ufactories situated upon his own es-
tate, and moreover that, disguised
under an assumed name, and in the
company of a recently arrested colo
mel of gendarmerie, he has upon
more than one occasion attended Sc
cret meetings of disseminated opera
tIves, at which he has pronounced
harangues melting his hearers to
open revolt against the state.
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