The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-08-08
PRIME PRESS PRUNINGs.

Hollow bricks are used in buildings in
eastern cities. They cost one-third less
than the solid brick, are considered proof
against fire, moisture and frost, being
warm in winter and cool in summer. The
bricks being set on end make the walls
hollow from bottom to top. In contrast
with beet solid brick in point of strength,
the new building material will stand the
pressure mp to 10000 pounds.-rexas
Iron News.
There are three strong inducements to
crime in this state. Oae ia the apathy
and indifference shown by iuries in failing
to convict. Another is the apparent
eagerness with which the court of appeals
turns criminals loose after they have been
convicted, on the slightest technical pre-
text, and third is the perfect ease with
which citizens can be induced to sign Pc
tition for pardon.-Brenhsm Banner.
The Banner is very ably edited journ-
al but it never said truer thing than the
above.
Inventive genius is exhaus.ing its re-
sources in the creation of everyt thing ex-
cept honest men. Every conceivable
their dues.--1emple Times.
For shame! Who has been trying to
defraud the Times?
The Denison Herald announces Denison
is to build a $4,000 chamber of COM
MERGE and already $1,000 of that amount
has been subscribed. Success to our
plucky little city in the north.
Here is a delightful story about the
Shah which has the additional merit of
being true. At social function where
Mr.. Gladstone was one of the guests some
one told the Persian monarch that the G.
o. NJ. was about to celebrate his golden
wedding. His golden weddiDg" ex-
claimed the dusky potentate. "What is
that?" 1t was pointed out to his Majesty
that when a man has lived with one wife
for fifty years he is said to have celebrated
his golden wedding. "Ah," observed
Nasr-ed DIN, evidently thinking of that
well-stoeked hsrem as Teheran, sit i.
better to live with one wife for fifty years
than with fifty wives for one yesr!'-
Dallas Times-Herald.
gentleman reports to the Mail that
while walking in the eastern part of the
city yesterday afternoon he saw acres of
weeds and grass growing upon the public
soil. Some of the weeds were four and
five feet high.-Fort Worth Mail
What terrible place Fort Worth must
be!
A Suspect" is what we want on the is,
land. We have Gen. Claiborne, tits true,
but he fails to meet present requirements,
since announcing that there is not an
Office within the gift of the people that he
would have.-Gslveston Tribune.
All corporations volun' Arily become the
creatures of the law for the benefits &C
cruing from their interpretations, and
there should be no constitutional limit to
this right of statutory regulation. Cor
porate power and arrogance will be
checked by legislative enactment or by
revolution, just as slavery was. We have
some strange freaks in legislation. Why
shouldn't the receivers of the Iuterna-
ii )nsl railroad be made felons for inter
rupting and mountaineering travel by the
hours delay at Taylor as much 80 as the
man who lays the tie on the railroad
trackf Some railroad corporations or
their managers are guilty of many abuses
or expressions, and the iron hand of the
law ought to be laid on them instead OF
appointing "dilly daily" expensive COM
mission to treat with them. The people
ought to have more and speediel
remedies against railroads, and the
Federal courtsSless power to ob'truot
| justice in the interest of corporal ons
There are great many things better and
more democratic and less expensive than g
commission. On this question there can
be no ompromise, such ss q commission
L. will prove no more effective than the
Missouri compromise did on slavery. The
issue from now on should be between "no
regulation, or specific statutory enact
ment," and it should be fought to finish
in every schoolhouse in Texas.-Barney
Gibbs Interview.
But how are you to get at the "regula-
toni" Complete ignorance of railroad
customs and methods was heard admitted
on all sides during the session of the last
legislature. Will it be any better in the
next? Will Mr.. Gibbs point out some
way in which Legislators may be so correctly
informed about railroads they can legislate
upon them intelligently and wisely
Would not this be the major part of the
work of commission?
1t is believed that Attorney-genersl Mil
Ter will be appointed to the place on the
supreme bench made vacant by th 9 death
of Stanley Mathews. II he is thus hon.
ored Mr.. Harrison will have demonstrated
that he is either no politician or that he
does not intend to aspire to a second
term. He has beautiful opportunity to
side track that other prominent Indiana
gentleman who has in him the very best
presidential timber, Judge Gresham. Tits
not at all improbable that the republican
party in 1892 will desire to show the peo-
pie that it is sorry for its past and intent
on doing better in the future by nomina-
| ting Gresham. II he we're on the btn Oh,
Harrison would naturally occur as the
man who could carry the doubtful state
Galveston News.
In answer to the oft propounded ques-
ton, does base ball pay! the Trade Re-
view of Waco prints the following Stats
ticsl statement of expense of the Texas
league, as reported by President l.. New
berg, showing where this money goes after
leaving the pockets OF those who pay to
witness the games:
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