The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-10-19
PER AND SCISSORS.

PER AND SCISSORS.
Ali are not hunters that blow the
horn.
The "heathen Chinese" in this
country number $4,000.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is to
open book store in Chicago.
Better be understood by ten than
admired by ten thou8and.-[ Edwards.
Mrs. Fair, having "got religion"
declares she will never shoot to kill
again.
A Burlington young lady says the
armless woman of Barnum's show,
"writes very good foot.
The aggregate amount involved in
pending tax suits against the Fed
eral Government is $2,800,000.
The drought throughout the West,
especially in Illinois, has not been
equalled for twenty-five years.
The strike for nine hour system Of
labor is to be extended throughout
the North Of England.
The Papal infallibility doctrine is
being strongly opposed in Germany.
An international Congress on
prison reform will be held in London
early in 1872.
Three thousand miles of territory
have been burned over in Wiscon-
sin.
Under the census returns of the
State of Alabama, it only lacks
eight persons CT an even million of
inhabitants.
Another poor girl has died in Vir-
GINA from the use OF tobacco, at the
age Of one hundred. She was an
orphan.
The State Of Sonora has raised
''scalp fund of $50, 900, to be used
in gathering the topknots Of the
Apaches.
Louisiana is soon to have tax
payers Convention, similar to the
one recently held in Austin.
1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made hap-
Ply.
English experience is said to show
that out of every thirty colts from
thoroughbred stock but one proves
fast.
Victoria has been in Ireland but
ten days in a reign of thirty four
years, but has spent one third of her
life in Scotland.
Eve was the only woman who never
threatened to 60 and live with mama.
And Adam was the only man who
never tartalized his wife about "the
way mother used to cook -
There are in the United States
153 monasteries, or religious houses
for men leading the monastic life of
the Roman Catholic Church, and 1876
converts or cloisters for women.
Brigham Young advises his disci.
pies to trust in the Lord and keep
their powder dry. lie is severe in
his denunciatiOn Of the i. States.
4 French chemist asserts, that if
tea be ground like coffee before hot
water is poured upon it, it will yield
double the amount Of its celebrating
qualities.
4 rruit-packing establishment in
Baltimore now employs 500 persons,
and puts mp 500 cases of canned !
peaches, and 100 cases Of tomatoes
daily.
Since the decentralization of France
began, glove making in England has
largely increased, and there arc
seventy thousadd persons row en-
gagged in that industry over the
kingdom.
The New Orleans Typographical
Union will contribute five hundred
dollars to aid the Chicago sufferers
by the fire. The money will be sent !
to the Chicago Union.
An enterprising Yankee is travels
ing around among the negroes in
Florida, selling them a peculiar kind
Of oil, warranted to make their hair
grow foot in length, aud as straight
as a white mans.
One of "our young girls" at an
examination in grammar, the other
day, when asked why the noun
"bachelor" was singular, blushingly
answered, because it is very singG-
lar they don't get married" She
went up to the head.
Mr.. William Ink, of New Hamp,
shire, Is now one hundred and three |
years old. If his parents ever
dreamed that he was going to be so !
hard to rub out, they would doubt
less have named him Indelible.
The people of West Virginia will
hold an election on Thursday, Octo-
Der %, for members of the Constitu-
tional Convention, members of the f.
Legislature, County Superintendents
of Free Schools, and township off
GERS.