The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1872-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
great cOmposer-sleep.

4 great composer-sleep-
Knight of the Bath-Saturday.
Common scents-musk and ver-
bena.
IMMIGRANTs-Our streets are
constantly filled with immigrants and
parties looking at the country with a
view to selecting homes. We have
never known as many persons here
before on this business as has been
for the past week or two, Many are
purchasing land here, while others
continue the search, intent On, seeing
more of the country before perma-
nently locating.-GainsVilie Gazette.
An editor commenting upon the
Importance of small things, says he
does not even slight straw-ifit
has sherry cobler at one end.
The California election is omitted
this year. The State elects con-
gressmen in November.
A. gentleman, anxious for the wel~
fare of the country, suggests that
the rights of citizenship ought to be
governed by the capacity Of the ap-
plicant to earn his living.
In Denver, Colorado, there is one
saloon to every seven of the inhab-
itants.
There are 1000 young ladies in
Nantucket, and only 100 young men
poor fellows.
The corn crop'of Illinois is ra
ted as the finest ever known.
1t is reported that pure gold has
been found at Pittsfeld, Mass.
A Kentucky stock raiser boasts
mule 49, hands high, and not done
growing yet.
There are four negro Senators in
the new Senate of North Carolina.
The amount of sweet potatoes
raised in Bexar county this year is
larger than ever before.
St. Louis claims 346,0 900 inhabi-
tants and q railroads.
Set together by the ears--sheaves
Of wheat.
els your house a warm one, land
lord?" asked man in search of a
tenement. "It ought to be; the
painter gave it two coats recently"
was the reply.
A Fort Wayne man who has IN
vented new recipe for cleaning
clothes, parades it on his advertise.
ments under the standing head of
Every Man His Own WasherwO-
man!
A number of people out West are
said to be losing their hair through
eating diseased rye, which gives rise
to many rye bald jokes at their ex>
pense.
Editing a newspaper is very much
like raking a fre-every one thinks
he can perform the operation better
than the man who has hold of the
! poker.
The Vicksburg Times and Repub-
lican the only daily paper in Missis-
sippi, will be sold to the highest bid
der tomorrow. A stock company
has been organized to keep it in the
hands of Republicans.
A gentleman who has been enjoy
ing the Comforts" of country
clearinghouse says that his bed
constantly reminded him of Richard
III. because it was "defOrmed, I'M
Finished" and "scarce half made
up"
The Trinity University,Iof Tehau,
cana, Texas, is said to be in most
fourishing condition, having matric-
ulated, as the Signet says, 333
students during the last collegiate
year. This is very large number
for a new institution.
A gentleman in the vicinity Of
this city recently lost his wife,
and u young miss of six who
came to the funeral said to his little
daughter of about the same age
Your pa will marry again, won't
he ?" "Oh! yes" was the reply,
shut not until after the funeral.
The best game of bluff in Sar
Francisco is played by a young CIR
of eighteen She has been known tc
"raiSe" her opponent $4,000 on a
single pair, and is worth a quarter
of a million. the proceeds of her
"poker" performances.
A constable in Ohio lately testified
in court as follows: 81 know nothing
of her but what the neighbors say
and, in nay opinion, what one women
says of another is not worthy of be-
lief"
Eight car loads of tea passed
through Omaha for the East last
week.
At Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
recently, a club of girls played Q
game of base ball against the "second
nine" Of that village, and beat them
So says local paper.
A Radical orator of Ohio, named
Sherwood, said in speech the other
day: 81 would like to put all the
Dutch of this country on raft and
ship them back to Germany, where
they belong"
An Iowa woman has realized $50,
900 from the insurance on the live!
of two husbands, and they weren'
very good husbands either.
A medical individual writes tina
| he has seen a dead child in excellent