The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-12
Odd ana Queer.

The tears of a hypocritical penitent
are from the lackremorse glands.
The mau who stoops from age has
been endorsed on the back by time.
William Tell once asked pretty
Swiss maiden for kiss. "Yes. kiss
but never Tell"
Victor Hugo's dsfioition of Paradise
'.The parents always young and the
children always little"
A dumb waiter will often attend to
a mans wants quicker than one with q
lively tongue and big ears.
The president of the Central Pacific
Railroad few months ago purchased
for his wife diamond necklace fol
$40. 900.
E iitor Storey, of the Chicago Times,
insists that there seems to be nothing
that q woman will not do in Paris-ex
cept to behaYe herself.
The man who is not afraid of wal
aid yellow fever is generally afraid tc
take out q paper of tobacco in the
presence Of crowd.
Mr.. Edison told Cincinnati Time,
reporter that he is engaged in applying
electric power to air ships, and that be
believes the thing will work.
Ex Gov. Ames, Of Mississippi, SON.
in-law of Gen. Butler, has had his fill
of politics, and has gone into the but
ter and cheese business In New York.
He was twitted of his badness and
retorted sharply: "Well, there Is two
things you never saw in this world, 9
red headed negro or a bald-headed
fool"
The Icarian commuoity of French
Socialists in Iowa is reported failure,
and three trustees have been appointed
to wind up the affairs of the commu
nifty.
The yellow fever, now raging in sec
tions of the South, has had disas
trous effect on the fall trade. New
York merchants report the counter
manaing of many large orders.
A fat woman, of Corinth, Miss.
drank ash-bark tea to make her lean
and she skipped for the better liant
| Just two hours ahead of lean woman
who was eating gum arabic to max
her fat.
A we'll known dr4mttist can ga
rude things. Some one said to hiu
last week: ''You want new hat.
"Yes, that's quite true" he replied
shut why say lIl | never told you 20
wanted q new head"
Tourgueneff says: "In a cehtur
there won't be king in Europe, ex
cept, perhaps, in England, and there h
will be nothing but \ pageant--s po
litical mummy shown to the populac
at so much head.
When -four advances ten cents pc
barrel the man who buys seventy-fv
cents worth of beer and two shilling
worth of flour can hardly stand sti
through his great indignation over tn
corruption of capital.
A Nebraska man asks people to b,
lieve that his dog deliberately wake
in front of a railroad train, laid b
head on the rail and was killed, bI
cause of sorrow for the death of chill
for whom it had shown strong a
tachment.
Liszt was recently asked concernin
a certain pianist in Paris, 'Is he a ms
of talentg" Ee is charitable man,
was the reply, ''for it can be
in no sense of the word does 4isl4
hand know what his left hand Is d.
ing.
What a yo'ume OF domestic mise
d, these two little lines contain: ''S
million bottles of hair restoratives we
sold in the United States last year
,, But as long as the birds make nests '
|, suppose people will love and take 4
I consequences.
l George Eliot, the novelist, is OF m
0 dium size and OF slight figure. She b
g long, pale, and not at all handsor
, face, and small, sensitive mout
= She composes very slowly, and VIII
2 she has completed book is complets
I worn out, and has to seek lmmedii
= recreation.
I, A clergyman writes to the Manch'
l ter Guardian to say that ''Jingo" is
n Basque word for "God," and was il
d ported by profane Basque sailors
T their nautical Impressions. Hen'
o those who say 'sBy Jingo" are mere
e swearing under the cover Of forei
+ language.
: 1t is queer fact that the great
J. opposition to the Chinese IN San Fra
8 cisco comes from foreign-born citizeI
e A table compiled by Register Kapla
e of that city, shows that the native-bo
J citizens number but 1858, while {
o foreign-born numb.r 21.097. or {
q latter 10000 are Irish, $3.50 Germ
n and 1899 English.