The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The announcement that two ships
of 5000 tons burden are to be built to
accommodate the passenger travel
between Liverpool and New York is
a proof that there is much money to
be made in the business. Unfortu-
nately none of the profit comes to this
country, which furnishes one-half of
the business. Indeed, the statement
nisnes three-fourths of the business
and gets none of the profits.
Caviare is wrongly eaten every
where out of Russia at the end of
dinner, instead of the beginning,
when its consumption should be, ac-
cording to Russian custom, accompa-
MED by dram of spirits. "Caviare
has then some purport or signifi
cance," says an expert eater in the
London Telegraph. 1T serves the
purpose of whet or stimulus to the
appetite. Eaten at the close of a re-
past, it has absolutely no kind of gas
tronomic meaning whatsoever, and is
clearly unwholesome."
The Vienna Press shows, by care
full figuring, how far more fatal dis
ease usually is to the soldier in war
than wounds. In the Crimea 1000
out of 10000 English succumbed to
diseases; in the RuSSo-TurkiSh war
whole divisions were swept off by
cholera. In 1865 the Prussian army
lost 6427 men from cholera against
4450 on the field. In 1901 the Ger
mans lost 1900 men by disease, less
than those who fell in battle, but the
sanitary arrangements had never been
so good.
The value of blood has at last been
determined by the court of justice, in
the case of Edward Banks VS.. Oxen
burg. Banks total bill for blood fur
nished Mr.. Okenburg for the purpose
of reviving that gentleman after he
had become asphyxiated through
blowing out the gas in his bedroom
was for 81 ounces, or 25C0 drops,
which at 10 cents, made $3.50. Judge
Kelly, after careful revision of the
estimate, awarded Mr.. Banks $3.50
and $12 costs. Banks, who is colored
porter in the Hotel st. Andre, per-
mitted 80 ounces of his blood to be
infused into the circulation of Mr..
Okenburg February II last, thereby
saying his life.
Bishop Knudson, of Utah, has just
been arrested. charged with placing
dynamite under a bed and blowing
up his two wives. The particulars
of the extraordinary occurrence have
not been received, but it is very
evident that the bishop married the
wrong two. The "extreme measure"
of marital discipline only shows to
what man may be forced by two
wives. Dynamite as a peace-maker
may not be an advisable engine, but
is probably an effective one, and is al
together preferable as a masculine
measure to the feminine vitriol. We
expect to hear presently that the I'M
married or only moderately married
men of Utah have lynched the bishop.
J.J. Newell recently filed a docu-
ment in the Interior Department at
Washington, in the matter of the APP
plication for the land grant OF the
Texas Pacific road. The statement
was printed diary, which was al
legged to have been made at the time
that the la Incorporating the Texas
Pacific road was passed. The docu-
ment contained some extraordinary
charges against many persons who
have been prominent in public life.
Newell has apparently, on second
thought, come to the conclusion that
he was a little too precipitate, and
now asks Secretary Teller to return
his document to him, as he desires to
withdraw all the charges he has