The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Only woman's hair,
Binding the now 10 the past.
Only single thread,
Too frail TO last.
Only q wOman's hair
Threading tear and sigh,
Only wOman's hair
Found to-day In the pie.
According to the Reichs- Medicinal
kalender, there are in the German
empire 1881 physicians, and 4457
apothecaries.
General Butler was honored with
the degree of LID. by Williams
college in 1864. He is also a very
good doctor of politics.
The speculative sharps of New
York have organized a rubber ring.
The flats will cut their teeth on it,
New Orleans Plcayune.
at least three men on the average
jury feel bound 10 disagree with the
rest to show that they've got minds
of their own.-Boston Post.
1t was Cincinnati young lady
who, when presented with a pair Of
opera-glasses, asked how in the
world she was to keep them on.
To ordinary mortals who are de
pressed by the consciousness Of
torpid liver, by the lengh of butch
ers' bills, by the discord of street
music, or by any other of the una
voidable ills of life, there is some
thing exasperating in the contem-
plation of uniailing high Spirits
London Academy.
A preacher, raising his eyes from
his desk In the midst of his sermon,
was paralyzed with amazement to
see his rude boy in the gallery pelt-
ing the hearers in the pews below
with horse chestnuts. But while
the good man was preparing frown
of reprooI, the young hopeful cried
out: "You tend TO your preaching,
daddy Pll keep 'em awake"
A French scientist is at work upon
a balloon to be driven by electricity.
1t Is to have a lifting capacity Of
three and a half tons and is to be
able to support a toms weight of
passengers besides the batteries and
machine necessary for its locomotion.
In calm atmosphere its speed will
be, the inventor thinks, from twelve
to fifteen miles per hour, and in It
he expects to make voyages over and
around Paris.
The Australian Medical Journal
tells OF man portion of whose
skull, measuring three and one-half
inches by one-quarter inch, had been
carried away by a circular saw. His
wound healed easily in twenty-seven
I'm . Ia .al1 L. a
with much equinamity. The paper
describes him as being of "a placid
and dnexcitable temperament,r and
he surgeons seem 10 think he was
somewhat amused by the accident.
AT a conference of the free church
society, in Boston, clergymen of
various denominations urged the
abolition of seat-selling, on grounds
of both right and expediency but
the Rev. Edward Abbott, of Cam
bridge, spoke on the other side OF
the question. The rich needed the
gospel as much as the poor, he
thought, and many families would
not go TO church at all ii they could
not have the seats they wanted. His
opinion was decidedly that more
than half the congregations would
be destroyed il tree seats should be-
come general.
An Indiana girl decided to change
her manner OF life from good to bad,
desired that all who knew her might
believe her dead, while she came
east under an assumed name. She
wrote letter saying that she was
about to commit suicide by drown
ing in the Ohio river. Then she
LETT some Of her clothes on the bank
and made her escape at night. But
railroad conductor recognized her,
yelled and muffled though she was,
and her scheme, therefore, did not
deceive, though all searcn has tailed
to find her.