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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau,
wishes to have her name changed to
Howe.
Norvin Green, the president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
not many years ago rode through
Kentucky as d country doctor, carry
ing his medicines in his saddle-bags
behind him.
Mrs. Fair is said to feel keenly the
unenviable notoriety forced upon her
in the recent divorce proceedings.
She makes her home with her children
in a large dwelling in San Francisco,
while Senator Fair lives at a hotel.
When the smallpox threatened to
bring the life of Prince William of
Orange to an end, nothing, the doctor
said, could save the patient unless
some healthy young man became his
bed-fellow, and, by EMBEDDING him
closely in his arms, should impart suf-
ficIent heat to his body to force the
obstinate disease to breake out. Will
liam's page, Bentnick, volunteered
for the dangerous office. The exper-
iment succeeded, and the faithful
youth escaped unframed to share his
masters rising fortune, became Prime
Minister of England and founded a
ducal house in the land Of his adop-
ton.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

|. DIR. ASHBEL SMITH tried to create
the impression at Galveston that Re
had been baffied in attempts to put in
operation the medical branch of the
university. The STATESMAN ven
lures the assertion that DIR. Smith
has never made an effort to establish
the medical branch of the university 1t
has been the universal sentiment of
the board that the main university
and the branch cannot both be sue
cessfully established at this time, and
DR.. Smith has no doubt shared in
this opinion. He has at least never
made IAN effort" to establish the med
icialschool. and his gratuitious thrust
at the Austin member of the board of
regents is frivolous. The remarks
were made at a dinner table, in the
presence of a newspaper reporter.
Probably wine was being used. DIR.
Roberts and DR.. Smith were dining
together.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05


"IF THE various countries main
tain their present rate of increase,
says Mr.. Gosselin, secretary of en-
bassy at Berlin, fifty years hence the
United States will have population
of 100000, Russia approximately
153,0OOOO0, Germany 100000, the
United Kingdom 100000, Austria,
Hungary and Italy both 100000,
France only 100000. Germany has
already in round numbers 100000
more inhabitants than France; but in
this reckoning Algeria is not taken
into account" For war purposes,
however, it is observed that the bal
ance is not so heavy against France
for whereas in Germany there are
only 800 males to every 1000 females,
in France there are 991. Germany
has, therefore, only 100000 more
than France.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE preliminary announcement, -
under examinations for entrance
fixes the requisites for en-
tering for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, in the school of an
cient languages, as grammar, ele-
nlentary exercises in translating from
English into Greek any two books of
Xenophon's Anabasis. and any two
books of Xenophon's Memorabilia. %
1t is a pity that some one ac-
quainted with the commonest rules
of punctuation had not been
entrusted with the work of
preparing the preliminary announce
nlent for publication and reading the
printers proof-sheets of the same.
Young students who read this an
nouncement may translate it liber-
ANY, and know they will not really be
called upon to write whole books of
Greek. exactly conforming to the
composition of the chaste and scholar
II Xenophon. The information in
teaded to be conveyed is that the
h5oks named must be translated from
>ek into English.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

MR.. LEVY, the owner of Month
cello, the old Jefferson homestead,
tells why the unwilling of the monu-
ment over the remains of the great
statesman was postponed. The Fourth
of July had been fixed upon as the
day for the ceremonies at Monticello,
and June 28th as the time for the
laying of the corner stone of the Lee
monument at Lexington. Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee submitted to the militia of
Virginia whether they should attend
the former or the latter. AS between
Lee and Jefferson the Virginians de-
cided to honor Lee, and the Month
cello monument will remain yelled
until next autumn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

CLEARLY the new city charter went
into effect, under the operation of the
emergency clause, as soon as it was
signed bv the governor. The record
governs the matter, and this appears
to he plain. The emergency clause is
clear, and that settles the dispute.
In fact, it is folly to talk about doubt
covering the question. Therefore the
city council has been proceeding,
from the day the bill was signed, I'M
der dead letter authority; its acts since
then being null and void, if contested.
1t matters not what the author of the
bill may say as to its original writ
ing. The emergency clause is there
and the legislative record, as far as
examined, does not show that it was
not placed there properly during leg
islative consideration. The enrolled
bill, on file in the secretary of state;
office, should be consulted, and the alb
sence of the emergency clause in thai
document is all that may offer relic
from the perplexing situation.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

DIR. ROBERTS desires to make the
degree of Bachelor of Law easy of
attainment. "a fair English educa-
ton, embracing a reasonable famil-
iarity with the history of the United
States and England, will alone be re-
quired." With this foundation, it is
announced two years of study only
will be required to confer the
degree. Nothing is said about stand
ard of scholarship and proficiency,
but it really would be unwise to say
anything about this in considering
the two years course of legal study,
based upon such literary foundation.
Certainly this announcement made
for the school of law is ex cathedra.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05


IT Is SAID that already one half the
shipments between New York and
San Francisco are over the Southern
Pacific. Freight is carried over the
entire line in sixteen days, while the
old lines require thirty days. Not
only is the time shorter than by any
other route, but the cost of transpor-
tation is much less. The route from
st. Louis over the Union Pacific is
about the same as from New Orleans
over the Southern Pacific, but
the Huntington steamers carry
freight from New York to New Or
leans thirty per cent cheaper than
the railroads carry it to st. Louis.
Hence there is very marked advan-
tage in favor of the southern line as
to both time and cost of Transports
ton. The outlook for New Orleans
is brilliant, and with the depth of
water secured at the mouth of the
Mississippi river there can be no rea-
son why it will not become one of the
greatest of American SeaportS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

WHEN the university regents
solemnly conclude in council that
their deliberations are not the proper
ty of newspapers, it is forgetfulness
of court etiquette, which DR.. Smith
Iealned at st. James, to commu-
nicate to strangers, at a public table
the secrets of such councils. But
after all, no one believes there are
such secrets, for never be-
fore has it been intimated
that at this time any purpose to Or
ganize the medical branch of the uni
versity has been under contemplation
by the board. 1t is understood that
what has already been provided for
would exhaust the current university
fund of the first year. The dinner, no
doubt; was good, and the doctor and
his companion, the learned law pro-
fessor, were, it may be, washing down
solids with a little something for di-
geStiOn sake.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Spots on the Sun.


Some very remarkable changes &C.
CURED between Tuesday and We'd
nesday in the groups of spots which
are now visible on the sun, and whose
existence can be detected with the
aid of no greater magnifying power
than that of an ordinary opera glass.
One of the groups which, on Tues
day, consisted of four conspicuous
black and Jagged holes in the shining
surface broke UP in a few hours into
great number of small spots, which
were arranged yesterday in the most
singular shapes, and spread over an
area far exceeding in extent the
whole surface of the earth. In an
other grJup enormous white bridges
were thrown across Il black central
chasm as broad as the Atlantic,
and in a third group a vast
depression, resembling a shadowy
veil drawn over the glowing
photosphere was developed around
cluster of dark pits. All around
these wonderful groups the glowing
surface of the sun appeared in the
telescope covered thick with white
specks like the tlaky particles in a
mass Of buttermilk, and here and
there appeared intensely brilliant
crinkling lines, marking the spots
where sprouts and jets and fiery by
drogen gas were bursting forth from
the suns interior. When will the
astronomers be able to tell what
causes these tremendous outbreaks,
which wax and wane in periods of
eleven years, and occasionally make
their power felt across ninety odd
millions of miles of space by setting
the earth's atmosphere aglow with
electric light and playing strange
freaks with the telegraph wires, now
sending magnetic torrent rushing
through them with the speed and
strength of lightning, and again
striking them powerleSsP
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
OhiO's Political Record.
[ Washington Post.

Since 1861, the state of Ohio, has, in
nearly all the sharply contested cleo
tions, gone Republican. In 1862 the
Democrats carried the state on secre-
tary of state by 5577 majority. In
1868, the year preceding the presi-
Dental election, Mr.. Vallan6igham was
the Democratic and Mr.. Brough the
Republican candidate for governor.
The vote that year was Vallandig-
ham (Dem.), 1852; Brough Rep.)
288, 1861, or 101, 099 Republican MAORI.
ty. In the presid initial election of
1864 Mr.. Lincoln's majority was So
$50. In the election of the succeed
ing year the Republicans carried the
state by 1886 majority for Cox over
Morgan for governor. In 1867, the
year previous to Gen. Grants first
election, the Republicans elected
Hayes over Thurman by majority
of more than 2OOO In 1868. Grants
majority was 41,428. In 1869, Hayes
was reelected by 1918 majority. In
1870 the Democrats carried the state
on minor state officers, the
vote being Democratic, POI, 765;
Republican, 200, 748. The next
year Mr.. Noyes was the Rupub-
lican nominee for governor against
General McCook. The vote stood:
Noyes, 248,273; McCook, 218, 1O5.
This was the year preceding the pres
idential election, and Grants MAJOR
ity over Greeley in 1872 was 1881. In
1873 the Democrats elected William
Allen for governor by 817 majority.
The Democrats were victorious in
1874 by 1900 majority. The next
year being, as this is, in the year pre-
ceding the presidential election, the
Republicans put forth extra efforts
and made it presidential contest.
William Allen was the Democratic
and r. B. Hayes the Republican can
didate for governor. The vote was:
Allen, 292,364; Hayes. 297,S13, or
5514 Republican majority. The
vote in 1876 stood: Hayes, (Rep)
33O,698; Tilden, Oem.), 323, 1872. The
Democrats carried the state again on
governor in 1877, the vote being:
Democratic, 571,625; Republican,
249.105. Since then the state has
gone Republican at every election,
until last fall, by 1854 majority in
1878; II, 129 in 1879; 81, 227 for presi-
dent in 1880, and q, 800 for Foster for
governor in 1880. The election of
1882 was for secretary of state and
other state officers. The vote stood:
Newman, Democrat, 1854; Towns
end, Republican, 297, 759,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

IT was said of Samuel Johnson, in
illustrating the force of his argu-
ments, that if his pistol failed to fire
he would knock you down with its
butt. So it is with Ben Butler. The
literary minds of Massachusetts
watch him closely, and when he
makes an error in quoting history or
in grammar or in bellies lettres, he
turnsa round upon his criticisers and
knocks them down with the butt end
of an argument. He is great old
Ben. but his greatness will never
make him president of these United
States, though it has made him a
Democrat.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

ENGLAND, with 100000 of in
habitants, has only 10000 residents
OF foreign birth; Germany, with As
100000, only 100000, while France,
with 81, 100000. has more than 1000,
900. In France there has been an in
crease of 100000 in the last five years.
The United States, with population
of 100000, has nearly 100000 in
habitants of foreign birth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
ONp of tbe stinnIat;ons in

ONE of the stipulations in conces-
sions made to the Mexican Central
railway is that all employees of the
company become Mexicans, so far at
least as they do business in Mexico.
The board of directors make this rule
a condition to employment, and it is
held that it will keep down such I'M
pleasant differences as the one that
has lately occurred on the Mexican
National railway.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

According to Ingersoll, all the pro-
gress that has been made in medicine
has been owing to patients who dis
regarded the Instructions of physi-
clans, but this is paradox which its
utterer did not mean to be taken lit
orally. Nevertheless, there are few
things so well established III medi-
cine that, even in the profession, men
will not rise up to deny and contra
dict. An interesting illustration is
found in the case of certain physi-
clans of Toronto, who have written
to newspaper to say that the dan
gers of tight 1acing by ladies are
greatly exaggerated, and that as
women breathe largely in the upper
chest, compression of the waist is not
likely to be very injurious. This is
an attempt to upset proposition
to which all the leading medical au-
thorities have given their assent, and
it will need more argument than the
Toronto scientists have yet brought
forward to make out their case
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

Gov FOSTER admits that the Ger
mans of Ohio have bid a final adieu
to the Republican party. He
hopes, however. against hope, when
thinks the Democrats may be de-
feated in the coming state election.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

TREATMENT OF PREMATURE
BALDNEss.-In the Berliner Kiln.
Wochen schrift, April Is, 1888,
DR.. Lassar discusses the etio-
logy and treatment of early
badness. or alopecia premature.
From observation and experiment
upon animals it was found that the
disease is contagious, and occurs in
dependently of any general affection
or the state of health of the patient.
The method of treatment recon-
mended is as follows: The scalp is to
be washed every day with tar soap,
or soft glycerine soap, or with soap
containing sodium iodide; the soap is
to be thoroughly applied, and rubbed
into the scalp for fifteen minutes.
Following this is a warm douche;
then by the application of a corrosive
sublimate Gwo parts per one thou
sand) the hair is dried, and half per
cent spirit-solution Of napthaline is
rubbed into the affected por-
tions. Carbolic or Balicylic acid
may also be employed if desired.
If this treatment be adopted in the
early stage, when the hair is just be-
ginning to fall, it has usually proved
successful, but it must be kept up for
eight weeks or more. The fact that
this disease is due to a communicable
morbid principle has been brought up
in order to show its conveyance by
the brush and comb of the barber.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

COPIES of the preliminary an
nouncement" made in behalf of the
university ought to be called in, and
the professors invited to present
something Ineligible to the public.
1t is not difficult problem to decide
therefrom the names of the profess
sors, but it becomes a perplexing
thing to understand from it to what
schools they are to be assigned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

The following is one explanation
of the cause of demand for Confeder-
ate bonds: parties abroad, who had
business transactions with the South
ern Confederacy, have credits to the
account of the Confederacy, and are
securing the maturing bonds to be
held as an offset, and square the
account, thus relieving consciences of
the weight of an Indebtedness for
which there is no satisfactory re-
ceiver to settle with"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

WHAT Chairman Barnum did say
about the Massachusetts, gubernato-
rial prodigy was: Personally am
not very strong Butler man. Still
the fact cannot be disguised that he
is very strong candidate. Down in
the New England states it is a for
gone conclusion that Ben Butler will
be the next president of the United
States. His state administration is
popular among the people. He would
carry all the New England states ex-
cept Vermont and Rhode Island. l
think the Republican nominee for
president will be either James G..
Blaine or Senator Edmunds. Blaine
is wonderfully popular in New En-
gland, as well as in New York and
Pennsylvania"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, Va, has turned out 124l
graduates, OF which 200 were killed in
battle, rs have become professors
135 mining and civil engineers, 12C
merchants, "a farmers and planters
so physicians, so clergymen and 19
bankers. The institute is supported
by the state, and is conducted upon
the same principle as West Point.
The present graduating class num-
bers 81.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE supreme court judges in a
lump are worth $l5,oO00oO. Judge
Blatchford is worth at least $13,0O0,-
600, and has no children; nobody but
his wife and self; Judge Mathews is
worth at very low estimate $780,
COZ: Wood, $4,000; Waite, $780,
900: Field. $4,000; Judge Gray,
$4,000, and he is an old bachelor;
Bradley. $4,000. Judges Miller and
Harlan are both poor men. Their
only income their salary.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

a good egg will sink in water. A
boiled egg which is done will dry
quickly on the shell when taken from
the kettle. The boiled eggs which adj
here to the shell are fresh laid. After
an egg has been laid day or more
the shell comes off easily when boiled.
n fresh egg has d lime-like surface to
it's shell. Stale eggs are CLASSY and
smooth of shell. Eggs which have
been packed in lime look stained and
show the action OF the lime on the
surface. Eggs packed in bran for a
long time smell and taste musty. With
the aid of the hands, piece of paper
rolled in funnel shape and held to-
wards the light, the human eye can
look through an egg, shell and all
If an egg is clear and golden in ap-
pearance when held to the light it is
good: if dark and spotted it is bad
The badness of an egg may sometimes
he told by shaking it near the holders
ear, but the test is dangerous one.
Thin shells are caused by lack OF
gravel, etc, among the laying hens.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

IT Is VERY pointedly observed by
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
that while Americans will probably
agree that the exclusion of paupers
from our shores is the proper thing to
do, it seems a strange spectacle to S e
Irishmen opposing the immigration
of their pauperized countrymen,
whose only chance of relief from a
life of misery under an oppressive
government is, according to their own
accounts, to be found in transfer to
the more generous soil of America.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
A Job for the Season,

The penitentiary board might oc-
cupy itself to good advantage during
a few moments of the present hot
season by preparing for publication
an explanation of why the investiga-
ton of the recent charges of peniten-
TRY abuses was left to single mem
Der of the board. Viewing it with
out the light they might throw upon
the matter by such an explanation,
the so-called investigation bears very
strong resemblance to White-waShing
schemes we have in the past OBJ,
served.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

REPORTS from sixty-one different
points in Nebraska, received by the
Omaha Herald, show an acreage of
corn planted this spring fully one
quarter larger than that of last sea-
son, and the crop is generally in a
healthy condition. The prospect all
over the country is that hog and
hominy are going to be plentiful and
cham
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

A BALTIMORE paper, published
early in the century, mentions that
100 slaves had just been sold for the
benefit of the United States, and that
the proceeds, over 5000, were placed
in the treasury. Still, this is not a
singular case. Other slaves have been
sold to satisfy claims of the federal
government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

A NEW YORK paper says the
streets of that city are filled with
paupers, tramps and beggars, and that
still they continue to come across the
Atlantic by thousands. We have be-
fore held that it is the duty Of the
federal government to interfere in
this behalf, and to stop this influx of
dependent immigrants.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
THE Philadelphia Record is salts

THE Philadelphia Record is salts
fled Judge Hoadly will be the next
governor of Ohio. The Republicans
have been contending that as goes the
Buckeye state in 1883, so will go the
union in 1884. Well, they can have it
that way, but we prefer to make a
declaration on this point after the ap-
preaching election.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Origin of a Custom.
New York Life. I

INtW 1OTK LIIt.I
Why do we drinkers knock ouI
glasses together? 1t is an ancient
custom, gentle sot. 1t began in time
of the Borgias, and was intended to
show that the wine was not poisoned
the host mixing his wine with that
of his guest. But why inquire
Why, after knocking your glasses, &c
you, at 2 a. ~, make love to lamp
post? Why do you drop nickel in
to letter box, and then wait for the
red light in the distant drug store to
come up? Why do you try to unlock
your door with the butt end of cigar
Why the uncomfortable habit of GO
ing to bed on the floor with one boot
on? Let us not ask.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
THAT preliminary announcement"

THAT preliminary announcement"
fixes the time for taking literary de-
grees in the university at four years,
except in the case of master of arts.
which is fixed at six years. Here
crops out the college, not the univer-
sity. The professors should convene
at the earliest day possible and an
nounce in favor of the elective sys-
TEN, which is university necessity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

Now that Gen. Crook has got the
Apaches, there is prevailing trouble as
to how they shall be disposed of. They
are not wanted in the reservation,
where they have shown that they
cannot he depended upon to respect
obligations. How would it do to
quarter them upon Quaker commune
ties in Pennsylvania.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05

THE San Francisco Call publishes
two letters written by General Rose
cram, the one recommending the
bearer to the governor of California,
and the other, sent through mail, ex-
planning that the recommendation
was sent to get rid of an office-seeker
Letter writing is a curse to the anx-
ions pOlitician.