The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-07
PEN AND SCISSORS.

Q
it.
The rainy season in New Orleans
which has lasted forty days, is now
probably over.
Ohio Radical organs say ''let all
collateral questions 60 and save the
party" Things are weakening up
there.
The wife of a Michigan farmer
has ''gone off with q handsOmer
man" who is a negro.
The richest nan in Sacramento
was once a vagrant' and may be a
vagrant again.
1t cost just 1895, 100000 to run
Grants government for the year
ending June Both, 1871.
The Chicago Tribune makes
correction. 1t says, ''for setter
pup read 'letter press b."
Boston wants better paVements.
The impression has long been abroad
that her ways are not as good as
they should be.
The best bank is a bank of earth.
1t never refuses to discount to honest
labor. The best shares, on which
dividends are always liberal.
Barley four feet high, with 600
stalks from a single seed, grown on
Sherman Island Sacramento river,
is on exhibition at San Francisco.
Cincinnati has stopped the Sun.
day beer traffic, the folks cross the
river on that day to do their drink
ing. They call it "crOsaing the
Rhine.
A credulous writer says poverty
is blessing in disguise" If it is
blessing at all, it is SO we'll disguised
that its best friend could never recog-
nize it.
We read of man who plants his
cabbage seed in hills in May as he
does beans, and thus secures larger
crops of better quality than when he
sransplants.
The Diario Official says that there
is a difference of thirty-three minutes
time between the City of Mexico
time and that of Matamoros. A
dispatch sent from the City of Mexi-
co at 8 o'clock reached Matamoros
at 1888.
The largest Hebrew library in the
world, collected in Amsterdam, Hol-
land, has been purchased by the
congregation of the Jewish temple on
Fifth Avenue, New York, for the
Jewish seminary.
The Huntsville Independent says:
ga man or a woman well-shod, is
half dressed" 1t is reasonable to
suppose then that the other half is a
pair of kid gloves. Such toilet
would no doubt prove attractive.
The New York Sun exclaims:
Honor the brave and faithful
statesman" Point him out, and
the people will delight in hOnOring
him. That kind of statesmen are
scarce outside the Democratic party.
Miss Lydia Nye of Vermont, has
gone nigh to equal Weston by walk
ing thirty miles over billy road
inside of eight hours. To carry out
the parallel, she is a damsel, and
some sporting critics say that he is
too.
Solomon was right, after all.
There is no new thing under the sun.
A papyrus just placed among the
treasures of the British Museum
contains receipts for pills and sooth.
ing syrup, and the writing is as old
as CheOp'S the pyramid builder.
"Open the door for the children
is the first line of a poem that ii
going the rounds of the press. 1
the winter had ever had any expert
: ence with the children, he or sht
would have written about the neces
. sity Of shutting the door after tn,
: children.
The Norwich (Ohio) Reflector
, says: GA lady, whose name we vii
not mention, caught her husband il
,, the act of kissing the hired girl
The doctor thinks his face can b.
patched up so that he will be recog
nized by his friends, but he will B,
! baldheaded."
The everlasting chronic grumble
, about the degeneracy of the times
r was silenced by friend who replied
! "What you say is undoubtedly true
for 1 remember that when 1 was
: boy I heard my father say that, whel
) he was boy, he heard my grand
father say the same thing"
1 In the obituary notice of lady
t the editor wrote: cit is fearet
| that her husband will not be able t.
bear her demise" (which the careles
: compositOr, with but a change or tw
t of letters, transformed to: cit
/ feard that her husband will be able t.
r wear her chemise. :" The horror o
S the editor, of the bereaved husband
: and the mourning relatives, may b
s imagined.
THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECAN
ICAL COLLEGE.-Col. Forshey in.
forms US that the land near Bryan
= for the location of this State inst
4 tuition, has been secured, and an un
incumbered title vested in the Stat
j to the 2814 acres donated by tn
: liberal sitizens of Bryan and it
d vicinity. Col. Forshey has locate
t the cite for the buildings, and tn
@ various incidentals to them. II