The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-11-09
PEN AND SCISSORS.
Five churches in Mansfield Mass,
have women preachers.

baltimore IS now tue nOule OI EA-
President Jefferson Davis.
The "Heathen Chinee" has been
set to music for the gong.
"Saffron>hued angel of death is
the Mississippi name for yellow fever.
Why is an umbrella in wet weather
like a wornout horse? Because it is
used up.
Charles Lamb says, GA laugh is
worth hundred groans in any state
of the market"
Mace and Coburn was to have a
prize fight somewhere about New
Orleans on the Both November.
What did that young lady mean
when she said to her lover, "You may
be too late for the cars, but you can
take buss."
Kids are somewhat cheaper, con-
sequontly addressed kids are no Ion
ger to be considered fashionable for
street wear.
A condensed PHILOSOPHY of farm
ing" Feed your land before it is hun
cry rest it before it is weary: and
weed it before it is foul.
Young ladies in New Haven are
learning to play the violin. The idea
of having four strings to their bow is
fascinating.
Swedenborg gives dreary account
of the highest heaven. He says wo-
men up there are just like they are
down here. Don't believe it.
Caseyville, near Salt Lake, con-
tains seventy>three husbands, who
have, in the aggregate three hundred
and forty-seven wives and five hun
dred and twenty-five children.
A ingenious baker accounts for the
high price of his loaves by saying
that he has it on the authority of an
eminent naturalist that the dough be-
longs to the dear tribe.
Anew kind ofrouge has just made
its appearance, called Japanese
paste" which is bright green color,
but turns delicate rose color when
it is applied to the face or lips.
We do not remember ever to have
seen the singular fact in print, that
six students in the Office of Chancellor
Wythe, of Virginia, became after
wards Presidents of tho United
Stats.
Same one wrot Horace Greeley
inquiring if guano was good to put on
potatoes. He said it might do for
those whose tastes had become vita
ted with tobacco and rum, but he
preferred gravy or butter.
Mrs. Stanton charges tnat women
stimulate mems passions with their
dress, their dances, bare arms, bare
necks, and then make terrible upo
rore when they come to suffer the con-
sequence Of their own immodesty.
"You never saw such a happy lot
of people as we had yesterday" said
a landlady in Indiana to a newly ar
rived guest "there were thirteen
couples of them" "What, thirteen
couples just married ?" ooh, no, no,
sir; thirteen couples just divorced"
Miss Kane, of Baltimore, set out
to write list of the wrongs of wo-
men, but found so many of them
that she was driven to the conclusion
that women suffer a wrong in being
born at all. This disposes of the
whole question in a nutshell.
The Donaldsonville "Chief," con-
tributes this sugar item:
Thirteen hogsheads of new first
quality sugar were shipped on the
St. John, from the St. James estate.
on the sixteenth instant. Tho cane
on this plantation is yielding a hogs
head and half to the acre.
A safety driving apparatus has
been invented by J. L. Arnold, of
South Carolina, which is considered
quite a success. 1t is intended to
detach horse from a buggy. At
tached to the bit and harness is
cord that can be used to unhitch the
horse; and in case Of necessity, the
driver can retain his seatin the buggy
and detach the horse from the vehi-
Gle in an instant, at the same time
controlling the shafts and stopping
the vehicle. 1t has been tested
thoroughly, and has given entire sat
isfaction to every person who has ex-
aminedit.
During the closing hours of the
Episcopal convention at Baltimore,
Judge Rhefey submitted a motion
that the cannon on trial be made the
special order, and be continued until
disposed of.
Rev. Mr.. Rogers, of Texas, said
that the motion was an outrage on
Christ's kingdom. In these closing
hours of the session, when their was
so much of the real work to do, was
the time to be taken up in play, in
discussing what kind of clothes a
clergyman is to wear He was about
right, but the convention gave most
of its time to lust such matters.
The German Democrats.
At meeting Of the General Com
mittee of the German Democratic
Union organization of the city, the
other evening IL RaS rnsnlved that