The Russellville Democrat., 1877-12-20
NO. 46.

The spat of single oyster is suf- ficient to populate an acre.
 Elephants live to the age of 100 years and upwards, as general rule
 Tryon B. Jolly is the rather cheer ful cognomen of Canadian. drover.
 Physicians say that promiscuous kissing among ladies spreads disease
 A new York man refuses to live with his wife, because, as he says, she prays too much.
 Counting out the number lost In the present war. Russia has still some 70.000,000 men left.
 Twenty women were adver tised in recent issue of Chicago paper as about to preach aLd con- duct religious services on the follow ing Sunday.
 In wedding at Athol, Mass, the groom was IS years old, and had been previously married tour times. The bride was IT.
 An elegant casket has been sent from India to England, containing the address drawn up by the Parsees congratulating Queen Victoria on becoming Empress of India.
 A New York fruit store displays Bartlett pears made of india rubber, properly colored and filed with air. Theso serve admirably for samples, as they are always found soft by GUS toners, and bear lots of pinching.
 One Indian chased another tllro' street after street in Umatilla, Ore. gon, for over two hours. The resi- dents looked on in amazement, and at last saw the fleeing savage over taken and soupdly beaten. This was revenge for the loss of squaw.
 A French convict ship, the Maya rino, recently sailed for New Gale donia with 400 convicts on board. But the conditions of the voyage are so fatal that the number will doubt less be much diminished before the vessel reaches her destination.
 The paper manufacturers of Holy oke, Mass, except the firm that has the postal card contract, are unani- mously of the opinion that the ex- lensive use of the cards by the pub lie is an exhibition of niggardliness. They believe, too, that the Govern ment ought to let any body make the cards, and then require the aflix- ing of ordinary one-cent stamps.
 Wash Atkinson, the colored man who dangerously wounded MT. Ridgeway, of Philadelphia, last week, was on Wednesday night taken from jail by unknown parties and lynched by being hung to cross-piece of the railroad bridge over the Ouachita.
 Richard and Sarah Gregory of Union County, Ky, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of thelr mar riage the other day, and said they didn't recollect ever to have spoken cross word to each other.
 Prof, Hitchcock, the geologist,. found at Wethersfield Cove, Conn, four fossil bird tracks measuring foot from heel to toe, and propor- tionately wide, which kc thinks must have been made by bird at least twelve feet high.
 Two men traded horses on meet ing Tn tae road in Newburyport,, Mass, and while making the ex- change one of the horses fell down and died. Then both claimed the live horse, and they had a fight about it, with law suit to follow.
 Mir. Bargis cowhided MT. Walther in Richmond, Ind, and was fined $l0. Then Mir. Walther cowhidod Mir. Bargis, and was fined S20. The inference is that Mir. Walther, in the judgment of the Justice, was the, hardest whipper.
 It IS current belief among the peasantry of Normaney that if a girl treads upon the tail or the claw of cat her chances of matrimony are materially diminished, and if she treads on both at the same time 1t is an infallible sign that she will not be married for at least four years. - .