The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Yellow Jack is having his own
way i'll Havana.
Admiral Seymour has started
pyramid o! Egyptian skulls.
The British deserter's little jest:
This Egypt shun business is just in
my line"
lbs impossible to silence Guiteau.
Even after death his articulation
gets into all the newspapers.
Northern Republican campaigns
and stories of southern outrages be-
gin simultaneously this season, as
usual.
1t would be good scheme to
/ sprinkle some carbolic acid i'll the
house when an Ohio congressman
starts his SPEECH.
Mr.. Halstead says it is painful TO
hear that the secretary of war is
candidate for the presidency; but
boys will be boys.
An English editor has died from
cracking joke, and nobody knows
whether ii is over him or over his
joke that his subscribers are weep
ing.
The vineyards in Gabriel Valley
Los Angeles county, some of the
vines OF whish are nearly one hun
dred years old, are yet very prolific
bearers.
Peter Cooper built the first loco
motive: and vet he has lived to see
over 100000 miles of track. 1t is
about time for Peter to be making
tracks himself.
| Auburn, Kentucky, live three
brothers, who three years ago mar
ried three sisters, and who now have
three children each.
President Grevy finds that a re-
public is the best form of govern
ment, just as he had supposed. He
has made money enough out of his
to bring him $250,000 year.
a black snake six feet long goes
into u New Hampshire mans potato
patch every day and eats the potato
bugs. New Hampshire saloons don't
close so early as they once did.
There Is great tribulation in all
Iowa, because no more whiskey is to
be sold i'll that benighted land. That
is an awful condition of things.
What will become of such a people
Governor Charley Fosters life is
made miserable by the number of
applications for pardon from his old
political friends and supporters. If
he gratifies all of them there will be
general Jail delivery.
A chambermaid in a Pennsylva-
mia hotel attempted to drive a nail
with the butt of n loaded revolver,
but stopped when a bullet went fly
ing through the sleeve OF her dress,
fortunately without wounding her.
An excursion car company in the
hunting parties for trips to any part
of the United States, Canada or
Mexico. These cars are furnished in
the most elaborate manner, and have
sleeping, dining and parlor rooms,
with kitchen and refrigerators, and
can be switched off at any station
for the convenience of the hunters
They have a porter along. and are
most handy for fishing and hunting
parties.
Gambetta is announced to be
about to make one of the greatest
oratorical efforts of Lis life. In the
French chambers he will shortly de-
liver speech upon EurOpe's duty
toward Egypt and TurkeY-a speech
which the whole political world is
told TO await with bated breath.
Few living statesmen can talk like
the ex-dictator. If st. Augustine
were around, he would denominate
Gambetta, as he did Cicero, "HLe
dppGnSOr ct meRSOT Ce1'bOTum
weigher and measurer of words.
Buffalo are very scarce in the
upper Missouri country. They are
all broken up and roam the hills
and valleys i'll small herds. This |
fact demonstrates their scarcity. |
When they were numerous they |
kept together in large herds, and |
were indifferent to the approach of |
a steamboat, but now they come to
the river singly, in pairs, but rarely |
in number to exceed a dozen, and |
upon the sight of a steamer they |
strike out like a auarter-horse for |
some unfrequented coulee or any
where out OF sight.
While ploughing in a field in
Faulkner county, Arkansas, recently, |
George Smith saw ravine which |
had been washed by a recent over |
flow of the Black Fork, and in which |
reposed a large number of human
skeletons, lying in natural positions,
together with several earthen bowls,
shells, arrows, leadan bullets, etc.
The skulls were all encased in YES
sells made of clay, while one, with
handsomely engraved ornaments,
denoted that the skull belonged to |
an unusually important parsonage.
The farm has been under cultiva-
ton over forty years, and relics de-
noting the existence there at one
time of a prehistoric race have been
frequently found.
A most valuable discovery flor our
government especially has been de-
veloped in southern Oregon. Nickel
ore in abundance exists in Piney
Mountain, Douglas county, eight
miles from Canyonville, and three
from the Oregon and California rail-
way. The ore is silicate of nickle
and magnesia, almost identical with
that OF New Caledonia, whence the
United States derives its chief sup
ply. The Oregon ore will realize in
practice III per cent of nickel pro-
toxide, rather more than Caledonia
ore. The Oregon ore is in larger
body, and it is much more cheaply
smelted. 1t is worth 800 ton on
the dump. This increase of supply
will greatly expand its uses.