The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-12-14
PEN AND SCISSORS.

az OASNOAouu, OHlOs
Cincinnati is to have union depot
that will be used by six railroad COM
panies.
Florida hopes next year to be able
to supply the entire country with
bananas.
Chicago is said to.be at present a
paradise for sign painters.
The prince of Lippe is the wealth
lest ruler in Germany.
Brigham Young never gave Grant
present in his life.
A deer-stalker and deer-park are
equally his lordship's doe>miniOn.
It is estimated that thick shoes
improved the health of women 25 per
cent.
The diamond miners use "cradle"
to produce their "rocks."
The New Workers are calling the
Duke Alexis "the invisible prince"
About 400 German immigrants
have lately settled in Texas.
The daily average of the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions is 1874 barrels.
The IA, 900 Cinnamon digging gold
in Victoria make long queue.
Victor Hugo is writing terrible
book on 'terrible year."
Two more of the Rothschilds have
married each other.
Camargo, ILL.,, has a population of
1000, and not a single young lady.
One quaff of the new Canada.this-
tie whiskey is said to prolong the
exhilaration for thirty hours.
Crinoline has been adopted by the
Madagascar queen.
The small pOx is appearing in the
West India islands.
Twenty-Five of the prisoners in
the Michigan penitentiary are named
Smith.
Sewing machines are soon to be
introduced in the public schools of
the State of North Carolina.
SNow.-Near two inches of snow
fell here lat Bastrop) Thursday night
Both November.
The Boston Gas Company has sunk
its artesian we'll 1920 feet, and is
still progressing at the rate of four
feet per day.
Three hundred dollars in gold coin
was used in gliding the ball on the
dome Of the California capitol.
The Boston Journal announces
that "Winter has come. The frog
pond on the common has frozen over.
The graduates of West Point will
erect monument to the memory of
their late preceptor, Prof Mahan.
Coroners' juries at La Crosse call
it 'Fprobable murder" when a person
is found with seven stabs in the
back.
A stock company with capital
of $4,000, is forming in Padcah,
KY, for the manufacture of tobacco.
Hon. Garrett Davis has just re-
ceived $4,000 for his services as law
yer for Kentucky in the Wolf Island
case.
Some Ohio man offered the gov
eminent $4,000 for the privilege of
advertising on the backs of the post
age stamps one year.
A farmer near Greenupsburg, KY,
has raised on eight acres of ground
this season, 904 bushels and thirty
pounds of corn being 113 bushels
to the acre.
Any hard steel tool, says the Bos-
ton Journal of Chemistry, will cut
glass with facility when kept freely
wet with camphor dissolved in tur-
pentlne.
The most striking instance on re-
cord of utter desperation at the loss
of a wife, is the case of Tennessee
widoWer, who has married his mother
in>law. Broken-hearted suicide is
nothing compared with such sacri-
fee.
DR.. johnson once silenced a no.
torious female backbiter, who was
condemning some of her friends for
painting their cheeks, by the remark
that cit is far less harmful thing
for lady to redden her complexion
than to blacken her neighbours char
ter"
A widow advertised in Chicago
asking "eVery Christian in the cit
to send her ten cents, as the amount
would not Cypress them, and the
collection would benefit her greatly.
For wonder, the class called upon
did contribute as requested, and the
widow realized the amount of twenty
cents.
Up in Boston-where they have a
prohibitory liquor law, and SO many
good people are total abstinents-
they are very fond of "tea punch"
The ingredients thereof are one bot
tie of champagne, one of whiskey,
one of rum, two of claret, lemon,
and tablespoonful of black tea.
The Indian who lassoed the loco>
motive and was thereby transported
to the happy hunting grounds has
lately had rival in a brother red
man, who, after. too free indul-
gence in "fre water" built his wigs
wan on the railroad near St. Paul,
Minnesota, but had most disastrous
luck in attempting to stop freight
train.