The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-19

theatre.
Buffalo are becoming numerous
again in the Black Hills. A drove
OF about 10000 was recently seen
there.
More than 100000 telephones are
now in use in the United States, and
about 5000 are added to the number
every month.
When the slant-eyed heather de-
sires to make visit to the Flowery
Kingdom he will be known, under
the new law, as "a certified China
man."
AT Oakland, California, the cost of
feeding. the prisoners at the city
prison Is thirteen and a half cents
per day, or four and half cents per
meal.
Haley, Idaho, town so small that
it has no place i'll geography, finds
notoriety as the place in which nine
men are locked up for as many muir
ders.
An exchange says that "Henry
Irving, the actor, has two sons who
will beat him on the stage" Henry
should have them bound over to
keep the peace.
People who wonder why mems
hair turns gray before their whis-
kers, should reflect that there is
about twenty years. difference in
their respective ages.
A Missouri book agent piled ties
across the railroad track, ran ahead
and "saved" passenger train, and
took 120 orders from the grateful
passengers without a change of
countenance.
A noted lapidary OF London, in
making a comparison of the various
diamond markets, says that the Uni
ted States is the largest in the world.
Its trade has increased % per cent in
the last ten years.
"Are you certain of securing the
diadem |" asked the minister Of the
dying man. And when the man
sand he "didn't want to diadem bit"
the minister and the doctor few,
and as a natural consequence, the
man got better.
An Egyptian correspondent pub
fishes a tradition that barley beer
was made at Pelusium, on the Nile,
400 b. 9. The writer is evidently an
enemy of Germany and desires to
belittle the virtues of the late la
mented Gambrinus.
Last week an internal revenue
agent made his appearance in Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana, aud quietly worked
up large number of cases against
saloon keepers and cigarmakers tor
violation of the law compelling deal
ers to destroy stamps on cigar boxes
and beer kegs.
There is dismay among the Metho-
dist ministers at Louisville, Ken
lucky. The bishop of the conference
tells them all that since they have
been there for years they must leave
in a body and let some OF the coun-
try preachers have a show. The
bishop believes in rotation in Office.
AT the dinner of the Atzec club, in
New York, the other evening, a
majority of the members of which
are veterans of the Mexican war, the
menu was painted on pieces of color
ed silk representing some bit Of
Mexican scenery, which recalled the
war of l848. They formed very
beautiful souvenirs.
"What do you mean p exclaimed
an Arkansas man, arising in church
and shaking his fist at the minister.
"What do mean by what, sirp "By
fliDgin' kiss at my wife," 81 didn't
throw a kiss, sir. was simply maxi
ing a gesture" "That's all right
then. If it wasn't kiss you flung, 20
ahead with your rat killin'. / live
out beyant the forks of the road my
SELF"
Louise Chandler Moulton, in an
article on after Marriage" in the
last number of Our Continent. says:
"The very ideal of marriage has
been realized by that old judge who
had knelt for so many years to say
last prayer at night beside his wife,
that when at last she had left him,
his lips were dumb, and without her
he could not even open his heart TO
God"
1t is said that Boston company
is about to organize with the object
of building up Brunswick, Georgia.
The corporation is to be known as
the Brunswick Land Improvement
and Colonization company. The
company proposes to improve lands
in the vicinity of the town and to
erect wharves, docks, etc. 1t is said
that there is an immense sum of
British capital at the back of the
enterprise.
A minister entered his horse for
the races at the Oneida county fair,
New York, and not only entered 1t
er drivers ran his horse and passed
him on the back-stretch, the parson
went into the judges stand and
made as grand a "kick" as any old
driver. Another man who drove in
one of the OF her races was a Melho-
dist, and when the other drivers
tried to crowd him to the fence he
made their spokes rattle, AID one Of
them got his wheel "disned."
A frog was found frozen in the
middle of a 250-pound cake of ice
by Icemen of New London, Con-
necticut, one day last week, and af-
ter being cut out was put into pail
of water. After few moments 1t
showed signs of life, and soon was
as lively as any other frog. The
pail containing the frog was hung
up in a shed over night, but the
next morning it was gone. The ice
in which the frog was imprisoned
was cut last February, SO that 1t
must have been frozen for nearly
seven months.
Miss Elizabeth Drinkhouse, the
daughter OF a revolutionary soldier,
was buried last week at Pottstown,
Pennsylvania. In her younger days
she was engaged to q rising young
man of the place named Joseph
Minturn. But before the wedding
day arrived her sweetheart died, and
she made VOW that she
would never marry, aud this
vow she has faithfully kept
for three-quarters of a cen
tury. Throughout her life she has
cherished among her keepsakes her
gold engagement ring, and her dy-
ing request was that this be placed
on her finger and buried with her.
BROAD WAGON TIREs.-A writer
says that years experience with
broad wagon.wheels is conclusive as
to their valae. A four-inch tire will
carry two tons over soft ground
with greater ease 10 the team than q
two-and-a-half inch tire will carry
one ton. The wheels are not so
much strained by stones and rough