San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-15
EDITORIAL BREyITiES.

slain his mother-in-law because MS WHO
bore him daughter instead OF son.
The Burman monarch is unreasonably
bloodthirsty. The mother-in-law is I'M
doubtedly responsible for much domes-
tic trouble, but it seems hardly fair to
hold her to account for such family In
cidents as this. 1t is not easy to see
how she can be to blame for them.
In the higher walks of literature the
statistics seem to show that Poland has
far out stripped Russia. During the
five years ending with 1881 the total
number of works of belles-lettres pub
lished in the Polish language was 2O6.
The aggregate number of Polish-speak-
ing people is 13,OOO,OOO which gives
one book to every 1000. In Russia the
proportion is one to 10000; in Ger
many, one to $500; in Italy, one to
1900; in Holland, Denmark and Nor
way, one to 1,900;, in England, one to
1900; in France, one to 1,600. This
speaks pretty well for the literary at
tainments of down-trodden Poland.
A LONDON shoemaker recently ap.
piled to magistrate for legal redress
under the following circumstances: A
tailor whose shop is opposite to that OF
the shoemaker had lately exhibited
from his second-foor window after dark
large magic-lantern with moving
slides. This exhibition had been so
attractive that it causes number of
persons to congregate each night on
the walk in front of the shoemaker's
door, preventing the access of his
customers to his shop. He was told
that nothing could be done to prevent
this, but that if he chose he could re-
taliate by making crowd block up the
entrance of the tailor's shop. At last
accounts the shoemaker was looking
for o magic-lantern.
The Chinese, it is reported, are
greatly exercised over the big comet
which famed in the morning skies last
fall, and which sharp eye can still
detect under the Dog Star. The EN-
peror, it seems, thinks his officials have
been deceiving him, and he is much
deceived over the comets sudden ap-
pearance. If there are any official as
tronomers in China nowadays, whose
duty it is to look out for the approach
of comets, they would do we'll to re-
member the fate of their ancient pre-
decessors, Hi and Ho, who We're be-
headed because an eclipse, which they
should have foretold, occurred unan-
nounced, in consequence of their
having neglected their duties in riotous
living.
IT is related of Gustave Dore that
many years ago, while on tour in
Switzerland, he lost his passport. Ar
irving at Lucerne, he asked to be
allowed to speak to the Mayor, to whom
he gave his name. "You say that you
are M. Gustave Dore," replied the
Mayor, "and I believe you; but, pro-
ducing a pencil and piece of paper,
"you can easily prove it," Dore looked
around him and perceived some women
selling potatoes in the street. With a
few touches he cleverly reproduced the
homely scene, and. appendiug his
name to the sketch, presented it to the
Mayor. "Your passport is perfectly in
ORDER" remarked the official, "but you
must allow me to keep it as souvenir,
and to offer you in return one in the
ordinary form"
DURING the last epidemic of typhoid
fever the hospitals of Paris contained
from 1900 to 1000 patients, in whose
treatment sulphate of quinine was
largely employed by the advice of sew
eral prominent physicians. The result,
far from answering expectations, was
unsatisfactory in many cases, several of
the patients who took the sulphate of
quinine dying under the treatment.
These unlooked-for results led to q
careful examination of the sulphate
supplied, when a startling fact was as
certained. The boxes containing it in
closed layer of genuine sulphate of
quinine, but the rest Of the contents.
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