The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-09-10

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beautiful young ladies-a goddess O
Texas beauty"
The Greenville Herald has disc0v
cred why nurse girls don't marry
The Herald thinks it is because theI,
are no more men that are really wortl
marrying.
The San Marcos Free Press come
out under the management of DAME
Watson, who salutes the public grace
fully and believes that it is hustling
that builds up newspaper.
The Galveston Tribune condenses ;
volume or two into this brief para
graph: "In unity there is strength
and when Galvestonians p Ill togethel
even the gods give way"
The Canton Telephones anniversary
edition, issued on its ninth birthday
was so pretty that all the gang have
had something nice to say about it
and Editor Foster is happy.
No weekly in the state has i'm.
proved more rapidly than the Co.
manche Chief, which now greets its
readers, enlarged to Il nine column
folio, all home print and brim full OF
news.
The Midland Gazette is abroad
again, after delay of five or SIX
weeks by fire. Such a little thing as
burning out its entire plant doesn't
seriously discommode a Texas news
paper.
The Montague Democratic, not to
be left behind, announces that it will
inaugurate Il voting contest for the
ugliest young man in Montague coun-
ty, and will send the winner to the
Worlds fair.
The erstWhile Brazoria Independ-
ent is now the Velasco World, with
Editor Nation singing paans of joy
about deep water. The next issue OF
the World will be printed on new
press and decked in new suit.
The San Antonio Express is in favor
OF electrocutiOn; not for Texas, be-
cause our soft-hearted juries never go
the length of advocating capital pun
ishment, but for other states, where
criminals are better looked after.
The Yoakum Graphic believes that
whatever energy and enterprise there
may be in town will be reflected in
the columns of the local paper; and
adds complacently: "Just take u p the
graphic and look at it's rosy cheeks"
The Cherokee Herald man cruelty
alludes to Harry Tracy as "The po-
litical Dolly Warden of TeXas,n from
which one would infer that Mr. Tracy
was very sweet, bright, coquettish
politician indeed.
The Eagle Pass Guide has rounded
off its third year, and commenced Oh
volume four, number one, with fine
prospects ahead. The Guide is a five
column quarto, all home print, and a
marvel of beauty and neatness.
The genial philosopher of the Green
vile Herald sits in his sanctum and
watches the vain world racing along
outside, and remarks: "Men who
cover themselves with glory some
times find that they are, after all,
very thinly clad"
The Breckenridge Texian scornfully
declines to drop a nickel in the slot
for the state fair. 1t says: 1.-THE
Cheap john managers of the Dallas
Fair have so far failed to secure any
free advertising in the TeXian. Sea-
son tickets are not received as curren-
cy at this office"
The cynic of the San Antonio Ex-
press takes a gloomy view of the con-
dition of things at Houston. He says:
"With goat races attracting five thou
sand spectators and "crapsn sup
planting the game of draw in it's up
per circles, Houston is booming along
the path of social progress"
The Canyon City Echo modestly
hopes that Governor Hogg will inter
vene for the protection of country edi-
tors and other poorly clad people. 1t
says: eff Governor Hogg has care
for the great Panhandle country he
will send somebody up to choke Off
that man Foster, the weather maker.
A little more and the guy would have
had froze to death editor in Canyon
last Wednesday,"
Editor Fastening, of the Del Rio
Record, is tired of piping to people
who decline to dance. He says:
"With this issue of the Record we
drop from our exchange list all papers
whose columns give evidence that
their editors habitnally fail to read
lJipCl' ITO 10 ilOU lOl
a threat, but for information. We
want you to read our paper as we do
yours, thoroughly"
The Cherokee Herald says of one of
it's neighbours: "If there is a week ly
in Texas that is doing bet
ter work for the democracy pure and
simple than the Crockett Economist,
the Herald is unable to call the name
Of that paper to mind. The Econo-
mist does its work without buster
Dr. bragadocio, but it does it most eff
fectually, all the same. Editors Cause
and Aldrich are educated and expert
enced writer's, and are democrats
from the ground up"
The Fort Worth Gazette wants to
know who are Texans before it joins
in the chorus, "TeXas for Texans" 1t
asks whether the Texans are: "The
men who came with their money and
railroads, the men who
came later with their money and built
the men who came and occu-
pied waste lands, or the men who