The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30

get along better without him.
THE school law requires the census
Of each school to be taken and deliv-
cred by the first Monday in June of
each year to the county judge.
THKRg is a great deal said about
the manner in which Mr.. Cleveland
can stand off an office-seeker, just as
though he had not been one for good
long time himself.
Gov. CAMERON, Of Virginia, in con-
sequence of the late decision of the
Supreme Court, will call an extra
session of the legislature to consider
the State debt question.
THE disfavor in which the Admin
istration finds itself among "long-
headed politicians" is said to result
from the fact that In measuring heads,
length Of ears is included.
LIZ TWELVE months the Land
Board has cost the State, in absolute
losses, one million dollars. A similar
record for the second year is being
made, and it will not be many months
before the loss will be two millions OF
dollars.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND
decides that the Commissioner of Ag-
riculture has no authority to purchase
and slaughter cattle afflicted with
pleuro pneumonia or other contagious
diseases. This is a reversal of a former
opinion.
Mr.. ERAsTUs CORNING, it is said
will be the Democratic candidate fol
Governor OF New York. 1t may bt
that way until the convention puts
in its work, when Mr.. Corning viii
most probably be laid aside for Mr.
Hill, the present Governor, or Mr.
Flower, or some other political daisy
ADELINA PATTI has, through thu
advice of her physician, temporarily
retired from the stage. She has /
castle in Wales to which she will g
for rest and recuperation. She ha
been absolutely divorced from D.
Caux.
TURKEY is hastily fixing up tn,
batteries commanding the Dardan
Giles and proposes to pay the neutra
role. The Porte, however, may b.
forced by the logic of events, to as
sumo quite different position. Wa
changes the situation rapidly, sudden
ly and radically sometimes.
A PERIODICAL war craze seems tt
have broken out among the nations
Russia is now one vast military camp
and the people seem in the same hal
frenzitd condition as those of thi1
country just before the outbreak o.
the great war of 1861. A little bloo1
letting will cool them off just as il
did our people some twenty years ago
A CORRESPONDENT says: cit i!
wonderful to hear the Republicans
who come to Washington praise the
new administration" Outside the
men who want to subsist on public
offices, and a few disappointed organs
the new administration is satisfactory
to everybody, irrespective of past
party associations.
MOST experiments with the new
an@sthetic, .hydrochlorates of cocaine
have been confined to mucous sur
faces, like the eye and the mouth. BY
applying it under the akin. however
Mons. j. Grasset has found that II
may be made to produce local insen.
sibility in any part of the body, the
duration being sufficient for various
surgical operations.
WHEN Dick Hubbard gets over tt
Japan he will be apt to have his
corpus badly shaken up at times. In
consequence of the frequent skakings
to which the houses are subjected it is
said that the great city of Yeddo has
to be practically rebuilt OH an average
every seven years. Fire almost inva.
riably follows q great earthquake in
Japan.
TELEGRAPH companies print on
the back of their messages a notice
that they will not be responsible for
mistakes in transmission unless the
sender pay for having the dispatch
repeated. 1t has been judicially de-
cided that this notice is not a sufficient
one. The attention of the sender
must be particularly called to it in
order to relieve the company OF re-
sponsibility
CIvILITY In church is regarded as
one of the most valuable elements of
Christianity. Many a man has been
saved from treadfng the downward
path of perdition by some one timely
taking him by the hand and express
ing an interest in his welfare.
The religion that keeps people apart is
sham and delusion; that which
brings them together in one fold and
around one common altar is real and
genuine