The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-01
MIsCELLANEOUs.


SOME ladies use paint as fddlers
do rosin, to aid them in drawing a
beau.
A Boston lady's pins, when she
is fully dressed, are said to number
300.
EUGENE is, said to be negotiating
for the sale of her diamonds, valued
at So, 100000.
PRINCE NAPOLEON thinks of coming
to America to spend his "a, 600, 600
and his days.
YOU'VE women should set good
examples, for the young men are
always following them.
THERE are six millions of real es-
tate owners in the United States, the
farmers being four millions of the
number.
A CITIZEN of Montreal is under
arrest for refusing to tell census
enumerator the ages of his two I'M
married daughters. -
"HENpEcK," is the name of
post. Office in Alexandria county, Il
linois. 1t does a small business.
The males avoid it.
The month of May in Germany
this year was very cold, bringing
snow and ice. 1t is usually beau
tiful month there, and is called the
month of bliss.
VERY PossIBLE.-A young lady
pianist, who has been practicing "Let
me Kiss him for his Mother says
the more she tries the better she
likes it.
ARKANSAS is fearfully excited
over a large hole. A tract of about
hundred acres of Clinton mountain
has sunk, carrying big trees entirely
out of sight, and the hole continues
to enlarge its borders.
Massey intended to call his baby
Anna Dickinson. Nature interVened
to protect the helpless innocent,
however. 1t wasn't the right sort
of a baby for that purpose.
HERE is a matrimonial advertise
ment cut from contemporary: ga
young lady of exterior and pleasant
appearance, wishes to marry gen
tleman of just the same way of
thinking"
THE girls still go in swimming be-
fore nightfall down at Bedford's
Island. Mrs. NeVersuiter says sits
no such thing, it's them pesky boys"
She knows; she has got a spyglass.
Lafayette Courier.
EVERY well regulated family
ought to be little theater and con-
cert.room to itself. Let US teach
our sons and daughters to sing,
read, recite and declaim. And after
little discipline they will make the
evening the brightest part Of the
day.
Mrs. SARAH HAND, whose death
at the advanced age of ninety>three
took place recently at Cape May,
was the last survivor of the company
of young ladies who streWed flowers
in Washington's path during his tri>
umphal passage through Trenton in
1889.
THE completest pun in the records
of literature is produced in the fol-
lowing words, which were inscribed
on a tea chest: stu doces," which
is the second person singular, pres
ent tense, of the Latin verb dOceO, l
teach, and when literally translated,
becomes "thou teschest."
TERRIBLE accounts are still re-
ceived of the famine in Persia. At
Yezd some fifty children have been
killed and eaten by the starving
Mohammedan population. So severe
is the famine in certain parts that not
only have the dates and sugar of
caravans been sliced and eaten by
the starving inhabitants of villages
through which they passed, but the
pack mules were greedily devoured
as well.
AT certain hotel in Ohio a large
mirror is placed at the entrace of
the dining hall, which is so con-
structed that you see yourself a thin,
cadaverous, hungry person, but when
you come out from the table, and
look again in. the glass, your body is
distended to the extremity of cor
pulency. So pleasant is the illusion
that you go away satisfied with your
well-fed, sleek condition, even if you
rise hungry from the table.
The Titusville PENN Herald
records the following ''sad case" as
a warning under similar circumstan'
ces: "Two well dressed, fne-look,
ing ladies instantly dislOcated THEN
necks while passing each other il
trying to discover what each had on
1t was cloudy; the speed at which
they were moving, and the delicate
shade of the dry goods worn by each
operated against them, and sudden
tack with all sail set against a stiff
breeze fetched them up too short
and they persisted.
LAGER BEER.-A gentleman dri
wing ito country inn, accosted :
youth thusly:
"My lad, extricate my quadrupet
from the vehicle, stabulate him, do
nate to him a sufficient supply o
nutritious aliment, and when TIT
aurora of morn shall again illuminate
the Oriental horizon, 1 will aware
you a pecuniary compensation fo