The Russellville Democrat., 1878-10-10

stronger, till, after using all the "by- words you are on the brink of swearing, although, when you first began, you had no idea of such a thing. The habitual use of slang phrases should be classed with in- temperance, and is generally found with It, as are also a great many other vices. Boys quickly form the
 ahit of hearing their elders. Even the oabe just learning to talk repeats them, and by some one is thought smart or cunning, and is even en- couraged in it. In after life would not the parent have given worlds to have instructed that child differently.
 There is man in Pittsburg who is so thin that window glass com pauy have hired him to cut glass with his elbow-joint.
 A skeleton of an enormous ami nal has been dug up in Texas. It is fifty four feet long from the root of the tail to the joint of the neck. a
 A rolling pin gathers no velocity, if let alone; bat let woman swing it three times and then let it fly, and all the science in the dodgiug arI IS useless. n
 This is the season of the year when everybody has cold, but that makes no difference to the girls who still insit on doing their courting at the front gate. h4+
 Don't call me mister" said an af- fected lover to his package of sweet ness, "give me some sweet sounding, cheering name." And she called him ''gay- -Lute."
 Some sojourner at one of the Alum springs in West Va. publishes in a local paper, "An ode to the springs" Of course it's alum ode-Yonkers Gazettee.
 Science says that it took millions of years to evolve man. from the oys- ter; observation shows that it takes .ess than a minute to transfer the oyster to the man.
 The father of Tom Thumb is q pauper in the Chicago poor house. Tom quarreled with him when 8 boy, and has never visited him since. He has If sons and daughters in all, several of whom are wealthy.
 It was wish of Bryant, they say, that he might die in June. We nev CT thought seriously enougt on the subject to insist on a time: so far as we have any preference, we always thought we would like to die on the 30th of February Hawkeye.
 "Water," said Prof. Wortman, wagishly, "is not vegetable, d. though it leaves in the summer" ''No," added the new smart boy, who came in this term, rum is not Q a vegetable, although rum blossoms" And then the professor said the class would confne it's remarks to the text book.
 In the last century there was in the British Navy a frlgate named Vengeance, of which Captaln Death was in command, William Devil was first officer and John Ghost the sur geon. This combination of names was what Mir. Mantiliai terms "dem- nition unpleasant" 3 fi2t
 Nothing is so discouraglrg to young lawyer just as he waxes elo- quent about angels tears, weeping willows and tomb stones, as to be interrupted by the cold blooded jus ticc with: "You're off your nest, bub; this is a case of hog stealing"
 A professor in Leipsic university asked student what the Aurora Boreahs was. Putting lis finger to the side of his head and looking wise, the student said, 'I know very well, but forget just now what it is." "There." said the professor, "we are in a fix. The only man in the world who ever knew what the Aurora is, has forgotten"
 An exchange says; Lightning struck man, out on State Street, the other day, bounded off struck again. splintered, gathered itself up, aud took good look, discovered that it had tackled the man who goes to the newspaper offices and asks for notices Entertainments that hayn't been advertised, howled with dis gust, and went of down town, and
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