The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
They talk a out woman's sphere
AS though it had limit;
There's rot place in earth or heaven,
There's not a task of mankind given,
There g not a blessing or a wee,
There's not a whisper, yes or no.
There's not life, or death, or birth,
That has feathers weight OF worth

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There's not task of mankind given,
1here.s not a blessing or wee,
There's not whisper, yes or no.
There's not a life or death, or Dlrtn,
That has feathers weight OF WoIth
Without a womaa in 1t.
The spiritualists of Boston are erect
ing temple which is to cost $2oO,OOO
A worm which thirty years ago
destroyed many of the pine trees in
North Carolina, is again making havoc
this season.
Seven or eight persons have been
frozen to death in the northern woods
of Wisconsin this year, and winter has
not yet begun.
The most fashionable evening cos
tune, according to an exchange, is
bracelet OF violets worn above the ell
bow. We are glad that tho need of
more adequate clothing is beginning
to be felt.
The most costly season tn p is that
from San Francisco to Yokohama
$3.50. The company declare that it is
the best they can do, the Chinese pro
hibition having destroyed their former
profitable business.
A little boy in one of the city
schools, while engaged IN defining
words, a few days since, made mis-
take which was not mistake. He
said: ga demagogue is vessel that
holds beer, wine, gin, whisky, or any
other kind Of intoxicating liquor"
Kate Field told the Mormons before
she left that she would not be respon-
sible for ANYTHING about them that
did not appear over her own sigma
ture. They are rather particular
about what is said about them, and as
they treated her pretty well she is
careful not to hurt their feelings.
81 understand, Professor, that you
are opposed to admitting women to a
college course" ''That is my position
exactly" "Have you any objections
to giving your reasons p "None in
the least; they are all embraced in
one" What is that ?" II married a
lady with collegiate education"
During the last thirty years. cover
ing the period since the revision of
the city charter, the population of
Boston has increased from 10000 to
about 100000, or 100 per cent. The
valuation of real and personal prop
erty shas increased from 1927 100000
to $685., ass, GOO, or 200 per cent. The
expenditures OF the Guy nave increased
from $2,135,000 to $i2,000.0o0, or 45C
per cent.
The sdrop game" has been played
again upon supplemented Philadel-
phlan, with important financial re.
suits. The simple-minded Philadel-
phian was counting two-thousand
dollar package OF bills, when a polite
stranger called his attention to a five,
dollar bill that was lying on the fool
at his feet and that he had presumably
, dropped. The simple-minded Phiadel
phian stopped to pick it up
} and soon afterward he founc
i the polite stranger missing
: and his pile $1,000 short. Let us adj
wise auy other simple minded Phila
delphians who may find themselYe.
{ approached by polite strangers, under
t similar circumstances. to adopt very
= simple line of action: Put your foo
7 on the bill on the floor, and thank tn,
/ polite stranger. It will be amusing
/ to see him skip airily out of the door
e his coat-,aiis dying behind him in ;
r state of rigid tension, and you win b.
9 the bill ahead.