The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-11


30,OOO,000 acres would bring $1.200000
per annum; no one could be found to
lease these lands-result, the school fund
has lost $1,200,000.
Galveston News.
1t looks as if every taxpayer in this
country would have to carry u pensioner
one of these days.
Gold-hunting in Honduras will not be
much more risky than searching for the
north pole.
The newspapers of Texas seem to be
eagerly looking for Il acknowledgement
for the state. What's the matter with John
Young Gooch?
Fort Worth Mail.
Women to-day ask no favors in bust
ness on the score of sex. They stand or
fall on their own business merits, but be-
cause this is true is no reason why wO-
man should be treated with any less cour-
tesy than she gets to-day, when she be-
HAYES herself.-Texas and st. Louis
| News.
The women or girls who are struggling
for an honest living in positions formerly
assigned to men and boys, among work
ingmen are freer from discourtesies and
perils than working women are where they
are congregated and confined to woman's
work.
Is IT BASE LIBEL
Denson News.
A Colorado woman ran away with an
other man while her husband was taking
bath, and now there isn't cleaner set of
men to be fonnd in the world than Colo
RADIO boasts of.
1T WILL BE FINISHED, BROTHER, GOOD
MAN is PUSHING IT.
| The Star-V indcator.
If the new hotel, now being erected in
Austin, on Pecan street, is finished in
time, the STAR indicator would favor the
Capital city as the place for holding the
state convention otherwise it would pre-
fer San Antonio.
HUGE PENCIL FOR THE "GRAND OLD
MAN"
The Mountain Echo.
Mr.. Gladstone is the owner of what is
probably the longest pencil ever made.
A manufacturer at Keswick has sent him
a walking stick thirty-nine inches long
made of cedar, and forming large pen
Gil, with lead nearly half an inch square
running through it. The curious pencil
has solid silver band bearing an in
scription i'll verse.
San Antonio Light
Denison is to have a Mardi-Gras cele-
bration this season, and San Antonio Is
going to have "nix," neither Mardi-Gras
nor semi-centennial Alamo celebration.
CATTLEMEN, READ THIS!
The attention of ranchmen and farmers
is called to the Rescue grass that now
looks so fresh and green all over this city.
1t is the winter grass for this country; a
perfect bonanza for a calving and lamb
ing pasture. In fat and muscle making
properties it is richer than either johnson
or Bermuda grass, and is self-seeding
Brennan Banner.
1t is said there are twice as many pro-
fessional actors in America as five years
ago.
A petrifed potato was recently unearth'
ed on farm in Chester county, Pennsyl
, vania.
} scientific journal in England esti
= mates that it would take capital of So,
1 OOO,O0O,00O to successfully divert the vas
power of Niagara Falls to useful pur
} poses.
POOLING LUMBER INTERESTS.
The lumber manufacturers between
Mineola and jefferson and those on thu
Galveston, Sabine d. st. Louis railroad
have formed an association with head
quarters at Longview. Their intention is
to pool the lumber so that dealers may bt
supplied promptly.
MERCHANTS MAKE THE APPLICATION.
San Angelo Standard.
Ask some men for an advertisement
, and they will say they don't believe in adj
vertising, as papers are seldom read Ii
one of these men is caught kissing his
neighbours wife, or engages In warm
political discussion, and gets black eye
\ he will climb to the top of fourteen
n story building, if the printing office hap
pens to be located in it, to beg the editor
not to mention it in the paper.
Dallas Daily Times.
The convention of lumbermen at Tex
- - arkana met and adjourned without asking
~ for ''free timber" If one of them chop
u a tree on public land the law quickl,
e takes him in its embrace, but if tn
= = bullionairie feeds his herds ON the gras
II in the public lands, it is all right TIL
- lumbermen must meet oftener, wea
: heavier watch chains and pop their cham
70 payne louder if they expect to keep u
with the procession.
l. Waco Examiner.
IF Texas is more prosperous than she ha
It ever before been. If the promise of tn
d season, as it now exists, is fully realized
the people of Texas will be rich, indeed
next fall.
# THE WORST IS TOO GOOD FOR THEM.
5, We understand that the authorities O
l. the Missouri Pacific are preparing t
IS prosecute to the bitter end the Hill count
: men who perpetrated the great outrag
J. on one of their trains Sunday morning
e They propose to spare neither money nc
If effort to penitentiary the whole keboodl'
l. San Antonio Express.
y Among the scientific works" purcha!
10 ed on government account for the sign;
d, service were Mark Twain's "Innocent
At Abroad" and "Roughing It."
~ Massachusetts turns up her nose at tn
y waywardness of the people of Texa
II, ~ There was one divorce to every fourtee
:: marriages in Massachusetts last year.