The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
Personal ana Other Notes.

servants snOGlu attcnu roll call When
bakers deliver bread.
Table talk ought to be something
uobler than grumblinG at grub.
The man who uses an alias makes a
name for himself in the world.
Brigham Young is quite low, and
there are fears that he cannot revive.
The colored boy who had eaten too
much boiled cane juice felt like a
sugar cured Ham.
times looks that way to persons VINO
do not understand the truth.
Did the Leathers family that had
their names changed in tn, New Hamp-
shire Legislature wish TO hide their
identityl
An exchange speaks Of the ''minori-
ty sickness" Reference is made prob
ably to the catarrh, as it is disease
of the nose.
A modest country editor says: sour
editorials have been crowded out this
week by pressure of interesting read
ing matter"
1t is estimated that the number of
ladies who cannot pass mirror with
out glanclng into it averages about
twelve to every dozen.
Science, through DR.. Schliemann,
enables an admiring world TO know
what jew0lry respectable corpses wors
hundreds of years ago.
Tupper's daughters are said to in
herit the talent of their father. This
judgment has been carefully accorded
them by Boston critic. ..,
Robert Collyer is in New York,
footing his reverend horn IN favor Of
early marriages. He does not promise
to put up any soup-houses for his VIC
tins.
Robert Buchanan's latest poem is en-
titled ''Balder the Beautiful" Wig
makers take no stock in the poem.
They can't see anything beautiful in
badness.
AS bsld-headed man King Lear
would have been much more effective.
The daughters who would not respect
gray hairs might have been touched
with polished Uranium roof.
An Irish pilot, being asked If he
knew the rocks in the harbor, replied
with confidence, ~ do, your honor,
livery wan of thin. That's wan," he
added calmly, as the ship struck it,
filed and sank.
Doctors say that out of twenty men
shampooed by BARRIERS at any season of
the year, fifteen will catch cold, and at
least two will die of pneumonia. Read
this to the barber who says you have
lots of dandruff.
The editor of the MarksvilIe Bulletin
says: 'We intend to run this paper
ft5Hstel.v in ta Hndg tsGgsssn f tne sc clear side
of independent journalism, and may
save his bacon.
The Russian authorities, the tele-
graph informs us, have ordered the ar
rest of a Turkish cavalry general named
Konduch. HIS Konducht has been
such as to provoke the wrath OF the
Russian government.
'The Bud" is the name OF a New.
Orleans saloon and the New York Com
merciGI AdUertiser says many mans
prospects have been ''nipped" in that
Bud. And another characteristic Of
that Bud is that 1t produces blossom
on the nose of its trequenter.
Minnie Myrtle, formerly wife of
Joaquin Miller, was married the other
day. She is thirty-one and her new
husband is nine years younger. His
name is Logan, and he has had the
smallpox, as his florid, pock marked
face shows. Mrs. Logan is handsome.
Many of New York's fashionable pew
holders are like ladies' bustles-in ar.
rears. 1t would greatly improve the
spiritual welfare Of New York fashion.
ables II cheaper and better religion
could be introduced among them. They
are now paying the very highest prices
for a chrome article.