The Russellville Democrat., 1877-03-29
FACTS AND RANCHES.

1 CARDINAL rcd parasols will be worn next summer, and it will be difficult to
 distinguish woman from a meteor three | blocks way.--Haokeye.
 MASSACHUSETTS pays $18,000 year | for the encouragement of horse trotting,
 dividing the money among thirty so-
 called agricultural societies. WHEN Vermont editor gets up and refers to Wisconsin man as Wiscon-
 sinner, the latter simply telegraphs back
 that he wants nothing more to do with q
 Vermontstrosity.
 DUCKS, geese and chickens are ship ped from Tennessee to supply the Jack
 sonville, Fla, market. One thousand
 and seven hundred head were shipped in
 one day.
 A YOUNG Madagascar brought into France inquired ii all Frenchmen are doctors. Asked why he thought so, he replied that they all took his hand and
 asked after his health.
 "AT Florence, Arizona. there isa res
 taurant kept bya Chinaman, with Mexican wife, negro cook, and white
 woman for waiter" Hash with any
 hind of hair-dressing promptly served. THE peach buds are uninjured, tho
 wheat is all right, cotton is fine, tobacco
 promises we'll, and if we knew who would
 be elected in 1880, we'd feel like going
 ahead and laying out capital.-New York Mail.
 SAN FRANCIsCo has over thirty mil lionaires. One of them, Peter Donohue,
 or "Uncle Peter," as he is called, owns railroad ninety miles in length, built with his own money, and has not penny of stock or bond out. WHILE we are erecting tombstones
 over dead martyrs and placing laurel
 wreaths on the brows of living heroes,
 don't let's forget to drop tear on the grave of the man who conceived the idea
 of putting a potato on the snout of a kerosene can.
 IT was refreshing variation from the
 general run of speeches at temperance
 meetings when man got up in Pitts
 burg the other day and remarked:
 "Ladies and gentlemen, to bring my nose to this state of blooming perfection
 has cost me at the least BIC, ,O00." WHEN MT. Evarts writes sentence,
 he rolls it up like bedchord, and winds the end half dozen times around the middle, and then tucks it underneath, so
 that nobody can find it, and it won't un-
 ravel. It is as simple and easy to under
 stand as sliding down the ragged edge
 of a cross-cut saw.
 THE Key of the Gulf says: The sponge fleet, under the direction of the admiral, have returned into port with a full cargo of the best sponge seen for years. Some
 six thousand dollars was paid out last
 week, and perhaps double that amount is nearly ready for sale. Admiral Skel- ton is the only master who can detect
 the sex among spengcs.
 GALVESTON (Texas) News: A. Mill lett, of Baylor county, with his brother, own three or four ranches, on which they
 have about 5000 head of cattle. Cattle are in fine condition, and prices range from six dollars to twelve dollars, herds selling in round lots at about ten dollars n head. Land is worth frem one dollar to two dollars an acre, and the best has already been taken up or located. The
 country is beautiful, and abounds with
 game. Sa to his clergy that no music taken or
 adapted from the theatre, the opera or
 concerts, or which has become familiar
 through secular usage, shall be sung at mass or benediction or used as voluntaries or interludes, and that the music used i shall be as congregational as possible. He has also banished ladies from his
 choirs so thoroughly that not female
 voice is heard in any of the churches
 under his jurisdiction.
 AFTER all the talk about frivolous
 and immoral" France, it appears that
 there are mere illegitimate births in Germany. In France the illegitimate births are but seventy in one thousand,
 while in Prussia, out of one thousand
 births, one hundred and twenty are il-
 iegitimate; and in southern Germany
 two hundred out of one thousand are
 illegitimate. In lower Austria this pro
 portion runs up to two hundred and five,
 and in Corinthia nearly every other Il