The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-03
PERSONAL.

Hot Springs are hotter-Blaine i.
bathing there.
A Washington correspondent writes
that Senator Ferry Is as cold as ice. as
hard AZ marble, and as dignifed as the
top grasshopper on head of cabbage.
An economical mother of aristocratiC
tendencies, on the Avenue, feeds heI
family every morning on oatmeal por-
ridge. She calls the breakfast table
d'oat.
A ridiculous Edinburgh woman re-
Gently ordered her blacksmith to shoe
her favorite mare with gold. Shoes
and nails were of this favored metal,
and the former weighed twelve ounces
each.
A German professor announces that
the little black specks on apples are
fungi, and produce whooping cough.
The professor should now be investI-
gated as to stock in an apple-paring
machine.
Miss Hamblin, who was cut of from
any share in her fathers 5000, 600, in
Somerset, Maryland, has broken his
will. He died at the age of ninety six,
after turning his daughter out of doors
at the bidding of a woman who had
gained control over him.
While Tripod and his wife were sit
ting in the theater lately, he nudged
her in the ribs and said, There comes
the reindeer" when she, with a
troubled look on her face, glanced at
her lavender colored silk dress, and
exclaimed. "and you didn't bring an
umbrella"
Farley, the new California Senator,
is not q silver man. He is very rich,
and one of the principal owners of the
great Amador quartz lode, which pro
duces nothing but gold. After deli
cate investigation of his conscience he
declared himself in favor of the single
standard.
Baltimore papers tell Of "a bird
that caused a divorce" 1t was a duck
(of bonnet probsbly.-NeaO York
Commercial A goose (of husband)
more likely.-Norristol0h Herald A
swallow (of whisky Worcester Press.
His mother-in-lsw crowed, and he
went out raven.
The New York courts have decided
that man must pay his wife's funeral
expenses out of his own pocket, even
if she leaves money enough to do it
with. If, however, the wife is not of q
religious denomination, he can charge
her estate the extras due to church
forms-such, for instance, as wakes.
The Ground dance" has another
earnest opponent in the Governor of
Panama, who allows no one to dance
without bis written permission. =
Chicago Journal. Unfortunately,
though, there are too many young Ia
dies who don't have to go to Pa-na-m
when they want to enjoy found
dance.
"Moody and Sankey," says the Paris
GaulOis, fare the founders of a new
religion which enjoys a certain vogue
10 the United States. Moody tells
stories by way of a sermon, and his
partner sings songs. In the United
States that is called a religion. In
Paris we should simply call 1t a concert
saloon"
Silk stockings should be washed in
cold water with white soap, rinsed In
cold water, laid fiat on fine towel,
rolled tightly until dry, and rubbed
with piece of flannel to restore the
gloss. York Herald. Don't for.
get to take them off, tirst.-Philadet
PhiG Bulletin. Don't forget to pay fol
the operation before buying q new
pair.
The day before Mrs. Emma Shelton
of Boston, was one hundred years ole
last week, she read, wrote and made
three pin cushions. She is native Of
Massachusetts,, and for twenty-ont
years has been an inmate of the HON,
for Aged Women. She WAS writer o.
talent, and at the age of ninety-sevel
composed poem in memory OF {
friend.