The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-06-15
CURRENT MATTERS.

frlnce l-enry, son OF the PrussiaI
crown prince. is to visit Am erica.
The Washington monument. al
Washington, is now 270 feet high
1t has grown 20 feet since May 1st
Ex-President Hayes is named as
among the speakers for the coming
reunion of the army of the Potomac
at Detroit.
A child five years of age was
found lying on the sidewalk in New
York, the other night, imsensible
from liquor.
Praise from the star route thieves
thinks the Washington Star, would
place any judge, prosecutor, or jury
under the suspicion of all ronest
men.
American horses on the English
and French turf, this season, are
falling to sustain the putation
made by IroquOis and Fox hall last
year.
The papal organ says Garibaldi
was zone of the most determined
bnt also the frankest ofo adversa-
rles." The municipal council at
Rome have asked that Garibaldi's
heart be placed in the Pantheon.
Mr.. III. M. Stanley, the discoverer
of Livingston, is now in command
of the Belgian West African expedi-
ton. He has again surmounted the
Congo falls and reached Stanley
pool, where he is building Belgian
station.
The city of Springfield, Mass, has
contracted for sixteen electric street
lamps, TO burn from dark until mid
night, for $4,000 year. payable in
monthly installments. The compa-
ny offers to continue burning the
lamps till 3 o'clock a. m. for $699 ad-
ditional.
A minerologist who has been ex-
ploring Georgia, gives the result of
his discoveries as follows: Gold
is found in thirty-six counties in this
state, silver in three, copper in thir-
teen, iron in forty-three, diamonds
i'll twenty-six and whisky in all of
them, and the last gets away with
all the rest"
Governor Cornell has signed the
bill passed by the New York legis-
lature prohibiting the use of any
article Tor the coloring of oleomar-
garine. 1t is claimed that the en-
forcemenL of tins law will be ample
protection to buyers of genuine
butter, as the butter color cannot be
given the spurious article except by
the use of the forbidden substances
embraced in the bill.
A Berlin newspaper mentions the
case of boy who fell sick and was
found, after futile treatment for a
long period, to have some worms in
one of his lungs that had unques-
tionably come from a pet dog which
he had been accustomed to fondle.
Two dangerous surgical operations
were necessary for the removal of
the parasite, and the lad barely sur
vived them. The journal advised
parents generally to take note of
this case, and not to allow their
children to kiss their pet animals or
fondle them too freely.
A large lot of letters and manu-
scripts in the handwriting of Daniel
Webster has been discovered in an
old junk shop in the lower part of
Boston. The bale of old paper stock
in which they were discovered came
from New Bedford, and among the
papers are nine foolscap pages, on
which, in Mr.. Webster's own hand,
IS the opening portion of Millard
Flllmore's inaugural. There is also
the original copy of his famous
Fourth of July oratlon at Salisbury,
N. LII. The papers will be given into
the custody OF the Smithsonian in
stitute.
Bismarck seems to have faith both
in allOpathy and homeopathy. At
one of the summer resorts that he
freqnents he is treated by DR.. Cohn,
of Hamburg, an aIlopathist: at Kis-
sengen another allopathic physician
handles him, aud at Berlin a noted
homeopathic has been his phy-
sician since 1870. At times he has
both allOpathic and homeopathic
schools together in consultation,
being evidently determined to be on
the right side any way. lie has a
troublesome nervous affection. 1t
was glory enough for homeopathy
when at the Berlin conference both
Reaconsfield and bismarck had
medical advisers of that school.
And still the Italian government re-
fuses to aid homeopathic colleges,
on the ground that the theory of in
finitesimal, like-by-like, doses, "is
the negation of all science" But
what would the great German
statesman do about consultation
were he seeking new lease on life
in Austin?