The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

The east is beginning to feel tn,
effects of the rivalry of southern cot
ton mills.
President Arthur dislikes to say
mo" to office-seekers, and therein he
resembles Garfield.
81 never go to a temperance hotel,
once said Artemus Ward, "they sell
such poor liquor there"
Ladies who have the inclination of
flirting with other ladies' husbands
are now called in London husband
snatchers."
| New York has population three
times as large as that of Boston, vet
its newspaper circulation is only
twice as large.
The legislature of Missouri has re-
celved 1921 petitions and 1851 re-
monstrances on the question of sub
uniting a prohibitory amendment to
the people, and will take no action in
the matter.
Little Arthur has been to church.
How did you like the sermon 2"
asked his sister. pretty well" re-
sponded the youthful critic. "The
beginning was very good and so was
the end, but it had too much middle"
There is general belief among the
steamboat agents of New York that
the foreign Immigration this year will
be considerably less than last year.
Mr.. Richard, of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line, estimates the falling off at
20 per cent.
Three senatorial excursions are get
ting ready 10 travel. One will inYes-
tlgate the Mississippi river, the sec
ond will inquire further into the re-
lations between capital and labor, and
the third wants to examine into the
condition of the Yellowstone park.
Showmen state that the external
application of stale beer produces the
growth of hair seen on the heads of
"Clrcassian girls" How fortunate it
is that the internal application of
beer has not this effect. Half the able
bodied men would have to wear bricks
or paper weights in their hats to keep
their hair down.
The first thing city man does
when he becomes rich is to buy a
farm, move into the country and
bankrupt himself trying to raise
enough to keep him from starving.
A rich countryman, on the other
hand, buys a fine house in the city
and becomes interested in stocks and
such things, with like results.
A southern correspondent of the
Hartford, Connecticut, Times says
that there are three seasons in Flor
ida-the orange, vegetable and invalid
season-and that the last pays the
best. Somebody had said before him
that in the summer the natives of
Florida live on sweet potatoes and
sugar-cane, and in the winter on the
yankees.
A little girl in New York, who was
saying, Now | lay me-" the other
night, came to the line, "If l should
die before l wake" paused moment,
and then, instead of concluding as
usual, added, "what a rumpus there
would be in the house," The love
of sensation evidently conquers all
apprehension about her future state
in that little girls heart.
A drill master at the naval acade-
my was a determined sufferer. One
day he was drilling squad of cadets
who were marching toward the Sew
ern. AS they neared the sea-wall the
lieutenant attempted to halt them.
The word hung fire. Overheard the
mischievous cadets went. The lieu
tenant took the precaution to tell his
men the next time he did not get
halt" out. they needn't go overheard.
A man was arrested in Boston for
drunkenness. He gave a recogni-
zance to appear before the court. He
then went Immediately to Brooklyn,
and was again arrested, being still
drunk. He gave another recogni-
zance. Being found guilty by the
court in Boston, he pleaded before the
court in Brooklyn that he had already
been convicted of the same intoxica-
ton. The court held the case under
advisemeut.
Vermont papers are printing an ex-
tract from letter written by Senator
Edmunds in reference to the corpora
ton tax law, in which he says:
when state processes. under it's
own constitution TO tax property as
property, according to its value, it
cannot constitutionally say that prop
erty owned by one man or one corpo-
ration shall be taxed at a greater rate
than property owned by another man
or another corporation"
The Hartford clergymen, with little
distinction of sect, believe that people
are getting tired of extemporaneous
and unconsidered prayers at funerals,
(which are half petition, half exhorta-
ton, seasoned with complimentary
notices of the brother in the coffin"
They propose, hereafter, to use the
burial service of the Episcopal church,
and to omit the funeral sermon which
often depicts stingy men as philan-
thropists, tyrants as lovely ornaments
of Christian homes. and graceless
scamps as the embodiment of all that
is lovely and good report" They
might omit the preaching of such dis
courses, and get 1eave to print" as
congressman do their undelivered
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