The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

Three things to womankind belong.
This universe OF ours all over,
And from their use, or right or wrong,
Not all the universe may move her.
The first. 10 tease her faithful lover;
The second, 10 cOquette; the third
And that which we Ott'nest discover
To argue points the most absurd,
And, right or wrong, TO have the latest word.
The Irish in the British army are
slightly more than one-twelfth OF the
entire force.
Fashion note: Allgood clothes come
high, except ball dresses. This season
these costumes are lower than usual.
Lilies no longer adorn the corsage
of society ladies. The Jersey Lily"
has proven too much for fashions de-
vOteeS.
1t will afford Miss Kate Field
some consolation to know that CO.
operative associations always fail
sooner or later.
ClingstOne trousers are going out of
style. They were a dead giVe-awaY
on the calves, and now nothing re-
mains for the fashionable but to give
away the pants.
The New York Herald gives IAN
Intelligent Citizen and Lifelong Re
publican" over two columns of its
space in which to fling the banner of
Chester a. Arthur to the brieezes of
1884.
At Leicester, England, three weeks
ago, the auction OF goods seized for
nOn-payment of fines for neglect of
vaccination, occasioned almost riot,
and forty police could scarcely keep
order.
Not more than one time in fifty
does a Clergyman give out hymn
without adding that such and such
verse will be omitted. Why not have
shorter hymns and sing them clear
through
a man was recently lynched at
American Falls, Washington terrific
ry, for murder. In the absence of
trees and telegraph poles, the vigi-
lantes used two-wheeled rOad-scrap-
ers for gallows.
The new gas company in New York
agrees to furnish gas to the public at
Sl.75 Eer lOOO cubic feet and to pay
the city ~ cents for each lneal foot
OF mains laid. The street lamps are to
De lighted for Sf2 each year.
The paster of the Second Baptist
church of Fall River, Mississippi, has
resigned because one OF the deacons
in the church there has taken upon
himself wife who had been legally
out not scripturally divorced.
Senator Frye thinks the Pendleton
civil service bill does not go far
enough. 1T should establish fixed
tenure of office, and, as to the officers
mentioned IN 1t, an absolute divorce
between them and congressional in
auence."
Georgia prisoners are made to work
out of uOorS, and in a gang of 81 at
work in the streets of Atlanta the
other day .27 were women, and the
New York Star says they have reason
TO be thankful they are not confined
IN Sing Sing.
Madagascar is rather larger than
France. a belt of almost virgin tOr-
est runs around the island. The pOpu-
lation is about 4,UUOOOU, and the soil
will easily support &lUthlIG inufI
principal export. The
wealth is enormous.
The questions used in the examina-
tions for teachers in the public schools 4
of Indiana have been so generally |
stolen by persons who sold them to |
the competitors that the state super
intendent has asked the state legls-
Iature to make the fraud criminal
Two English girls are romping with
boisterous laughter in a hotel at Nee.
Then comes the shocked matTOn.
" For heavens sake, Mabel, don't.
They'll take you for one OF those nor
rid American girls" One of this
sweetly designated class, CHANGING to
overhear, says gently: Il guess not,
with those aWtully big feet"
No less than Az unhappy Husbands
and wives have appealed to the 'ldi-
cial tribunals of Philadelphia or a
severance OF the marital bonds within
the year Just closing. The iJured
wives exceed the nHmber o. COM
planning husbands, there bein 29o OF
the former and 1S2 of the lattr.