The Russellville Democrat., 1878-02-21
Items of Interest.

treated because they call it obeiisk 1 instead of .hobelisk." l The Pawnee Indians imagine they can tell pnre gold by the smell. They are all head scenters. Georgia had only l03 business failures last year. and she feels just l ly clated Ut the smallness or the fig ures.
 l Gen. Sherman has hls hours when he forgets that he runs this whole country, but they are few and far between.
 When any one offered Horace Greeley half price for lecturing he wrote in answer that he wouldn't divide his body. Bierdstadt, the artist, once propes ed to Dr. Mary Walker. He propos ed that she get out of his studio, and she agreed.
 Cheese before religion is the motto in Minnesota, and they have an average of 10 cheese factories to l church.
 The Shah of Persia is going to make another tour. He likes to be De away from home as much as pos sible.
 The Laplander never rebels nor cousplres. Give him his riendeers and whisky and he cares not what happens Tn the outside world.
 It is no feather in the cap of an astronomer to discover new planet. What the world wants is more cer tain cure for toothache. The snow in the Black Hills is a great disappointment to many who imagined that it would be twenty l five feet deep. It is only eighteen.
 A postmaster may be a fourth class P. NJ. and still be pretty con spicuous official. No lawyer can even be one -horso and make de- cent living.
 Coat buttons are now made to screw on through the cloth, but along about election time candidates will pull them of the same as any others.
 1 It is said of the Chicago banks that thirteen out of eighteen are op- posed to silver. Silver is too bulky to run away with. 1 The French have demonstrated that the hot tar poured over new wood pavement is more of an injury than benefit, but it helps to hide poor work.
 The Turkish newspapers declare that their country can never have confidence in England again, and Queen Victoria feels as if her heart would break.
 A Rhode Island girl claims to be ''the hundsomest female in Ameri- ca," and will wager 50 dollars that | she is. Sweet Singer of Michigan, will you take thats
 A Boston bank paid ah unsigned check for $500. All you have to do to get money in that city is to throw out blank checks and say how much money you want.
 The New York Commercial Adver- tiser advises Julia A. Moore, to get her chopplng all done before the March winds send the sap down to the roots of trees.
 Lafayette, Indiana, has discovered that the smallest yagrant can put away the most soup. A boy of twelve will generally eat one third more than man.
 Old Mir. Lord IS perfectly sane. He engaged reporter to do fifty dollars worth of writing and paid him four dollars for the job. That is the way all sane men do.
 A snow drift 13 feet high, and a half mile long, is the best Michigan can do this year. Another winter things will be fixed to show up some thing worth six line notice.
 No man ever knows how it feels to be passed by every old nag on the street after having told your girl that you had horse that could kick 2:4o behind him in . cutter. Boston is queer town. After the storm the other day, ''the snow va ried from ten feet to ten inches deep, A dinner there must vary from stale pork to quail on toast.
 Kentucky beats them all. She