The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14

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who had carefully watched the civil
lied style of dress the Indian women
had observed that only few |
years ago they used to comb their
hair over on the forehead, and then
chop it off over their eyebrows. Now,
she said, they wear their hair combed
back like civilized ladies. Mr.. Viii
Hanson said: II did not say word |
did not tell him how | hated bangs, |
but it made me wonder us to who |
were the most advanced in civiliZa- |
tion-some of our Baltimore banged |
ladies or the Indian women who have |
long since dropped the bangs" The
congregation smiled, and several of
the young ladies looked like they
wanted to pull their hats down over
their bangs.
The appointment Of the Duke of
Connaught to the command of a bri-
gade in India is understood to be in
tended to introduce him to the Indian
service, and to open the way to his ul-
innate appointment as viceroy Of In
dia. Her majesty wished, it is under
stood, to have him made at once the
successor of the marquis of Ripon,
but to that Mr.. Gladstone objected
strongly, and feared that parliament
would refuse to sanction the appoint
| ment until the duke had secured
| greater experience in public affairs.
| The duke will be accompanied only.
| by his wife to his Indian post, and by
no others of his family.
| A week or more ago, when it be-
came known that serious trouble was
threatened in Madagascar. a British
war vessel, then in the Indian Ocean,
was ordered to go at once to the scene
of disturbance. As there was some
American property n danger there,
1t was proper that this country should
be represented also. and accordingly
it is now intimated that the steamer
Nipsic, now at New Y ork, will proba-
bly, go to Madagascar after finishing
an errand to Brazil The war will
probably be ancient history by the
time she founders half way around
the globe,
An interesting series. Of expert
meQts with Soap-bubbleS were made
in Philadelphia few evenings since
A lantern microscope. was used, and
the sympathetic effect of musical
| tones upon the films of the bubbles
was show. The scale of sold Hun.
dred" being played produced the re-
lection of succession Of dull drabs
, and browns upon the curtain. "Com,
ing Thro' the Rye" produced q beau.
! tiful crimson blossom and a fine
healthy purple, while the glohuleS
. showed mauVeS and enleraldS at the
dreaming of Angels" by a fine
soprano, A French gray and charm
ing terra Gotta were the results OF
, LA Rossignol," from the same
source. 1t is calculated that post
, horn obligato, by-Levy, on a soap
> bubble would make a hall look as il
it had been caught DAT in a cyclone Of
rainbOWs.
, The details of the treaty of peace be
t tween Chill and Peru show that the
, Peruvians, or the portion of them adj
herring TO Gen. Iglesias, cede the whole
province OF Tarapaea, where the great
} nitre deposits are, Internationally tC
r Chilli, a fact which was not mentioned
in the first dispatches. africa an(
| Tacua are to be occupied by Chilli FOL
five years, at the end of which time
/ the inhabitants will vote and decide
whether they will be loyal to Peru o.
3 Chill. Peru is to reduce her army
and navy strength for a term of years
and, as nothing is said on the subject
5 of cash war indemnity, it is pre-
e sumable that-the Chilians will keel
: all the millions they collected by tax
alton during their occupancy of PERI
l as well as all the books and picture:
f they captured when they took Lima
e DR.. Tanner, whose reputation i.
: mostly due to his long last in New
/ York city, is now residing in James
: town, New York, His present hobb!
5 is electricity. Tanner contends thai
: the human organism is a machine rul
t by force. That force he assumes tt
:, be electricity Hefurther claims thai
= this subtle motor, force, is the ener
e giving principle in food; that it i
a contained also in the water we drinl
: and in the atmosphere we breathe
r He assumes, also, that electricity i
t the cohesive power that holds all par
r ticles of matter together, mineral a
: well as vegetable and animal. He be
/ lieves that the time will soon COM
: when the minerals will be utilized TO
: food, that is, this energising princi
t pie in metals will be evolved by man
0 ipulations and made subservient TO
4 good by supplying MAN with tn
s most potent of all forces in nature.
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