The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-19

Violets went grow in Chicago. The gIadiola and the fuchsia talk it over in Memphis
 The hollyhock is only happy in the front yards of St. Louis.
 The century plant doesn't like Phila- delphia, but manages 10 grow there. Seaweed dies on approaching Cincin nati aud southern vegetation withers at 1 Somerset. Russians, Poles, Servians and Rou- manians have littleey Lager is SO lively that it comes in hops whenever you call it. The British national penny bank an- nounces S2000 GOO deposits.
 The sunfower fights nobly at Indian apolis, and the pigweed strives by the union depot.
 The English Quakers have become re- l duced to about 17,000 persons, from 6O,000 century ago. l There are in this country nineteen l libraries containing each 50,000 or more volumes.
 Fig culture in Florida, which has been so greatly neglected during the war, is now attracting the attention of capital ists.
 A quart of peaches for every man, wo- man and child in the country, is the esti- mated crop from Delaware alone this season.
 The military authorities in Paris are enumerating the horses and mules which could, in case of need, be pressed into their service.
 A twenty-four pound turtle recently captured near Norfolk, Conn.,. was strong | enough to move about from place to place while bearing on his back a man weigh ing two hundred pounds.
 It has been discovered in Paris that the little yellow marks on certain brands of Havana cigars, which cause them ts be greatly prized by smokers, are created by the sprinkling of acid. Thirty years ago Shebsygan Wis, school teacher struck boy on the head with ruler. One day recently the boy, now man of forty, met the teacher and 1 pounded him. The wheel of time never stops.
 Glass bottles were first made in En- land about 1858. The art of making bottles and drinking glasses was known to the Romans eighteen hundred years ago, as they have been found among the ruins of Pompeii.
 To-day Berlin is covered with the wrecks of speculative credulity. Many of the millienaries of few years ago are | in a state verging on absolute poverty. Over production and over speculation have caused the crisis.
 They tell us of Kentucky schoolmas- ter who had his wife for a pupil, and found it necessary to chastise her one day. Next day notice appeared on the door, saying: School closed for one week schoolmaster is ill. y
 The little town of Salem, N. C., with two thousand inhabitants, has gathered and sent to market during the past three years moro than three million pounds of blackberries, for which the gatherers re- ceived nearly half million dollars. | War helps great many trades. A paper concern in Ohio has an order for 250 tons of paper for cartridges for Tur- key, and Pennsylvania town is shipping six hundred tons of spelter to Europe as fast as it can be made, for cartridges.
 THE flower loving citizen, who has spent all his leisure time this season in laying out flower beds and fostering the same, will have his reward this summer, when his daughters beaux will carry of l his choicest varieties for button-hole bouquets.
 A farm laborer near Seilhac, in F.ance, | while ploughing somewhat deeper than usual, found his blow arrested by what he thought a stump It proved to be an OK hide filled with gold pieces # the reign of Francis |, worth $60,00O for their weight alone, without reckoning their special value as rare coins.
 The German government is preparing the organization and equipment of the | Land,turm, which comprises all able bodied men from seventeen to fifty years of age not belonging to the Line, Re serve, or I4andwehr. The Landsturm has not been summoned since ISIS.
 The full capacity of the salmon curing factories in Oregon, on the Columbia river, for one season, is 54,Sl0,000 cans. This amount will not be reached this summer If matching stations are not established, this season, says the Oregon Historian, will be the last profitable one. A Russian charges s5 to print one hundred visiting cards. This is about ten times as much as the American prin- ters charge for similar job. But then | it takes the former ten times as long 10 set up Russirn namt, and although the card is two feet long he is sometimes obliged to run few syllables of the jaw breaker on the other side.