The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-12
plgEsY POINTS.
Summer is waning. It is getting cooler.

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 Acorn in the woods is worth ten on the feet.
 A hard ease-The hide of q rhinoeer- os.
 Milk-punch machine -A. dasher churn.
 Is not every Congressman q capitol ist?
 A lumber exchange-trading base ball bats
 vop.an's sphere-A mouse is wo- mag. fear.
 The tidy wave seems to have struck this country. An oS-handed matter-Trying to fin ger buzz-saw i'll motion.
 Some editors own real estate, have lots of fun, that is.
 A man with ''cast'' in his eye The stage manager.
 The barefooted boy will soon be try ing to pocket his feet.
 "Win you love me when I mould ?" as the loaf of bread said to the baker.
 "yyhen the swallow-tails omeward fly, then we know the fall is nigh.
 One of the "silent watches Of the night'-A policeman asleep on his beat at midnight.
 Apples are only eight cents per bush el In New England-worm holes thrown in.
 '.rhe best laid plans of mice and men -" Mice do not reason and can have no plans
 Half million dollars would be trif- le for the North to send to the yellow fever sufferers.
 Brass is more prized in Africa than gold. A Chicago drummer would bring $950 by dead weight.
 The boy who doesn't save his coppers for the ',last circus" will have reason to feel bad all winter.
 Money can be sent by mail as well as boots and shoes, though perhaps lit- tie more liable to peg out.
 This is the time of the year when the question with the housewife is, can l, or can I not?
 If many more dories cross the Atlan- tic it will show that Neptune hates to destroy a fool.
 That was fine met-a-Y brick display when Hamlet discovered the skull of the dead jester.
 If the hills would only lift their wales, what what a plain continuance nature would present.
 With our ear to the tclepone we hear a crust-y voice, with q bad cold, snap t-.'dough :"
 A grocer advertises in the following terse mannert ''Hams and cigars, smoked and unsmoked."
 The Sheriff who turns family out doors for non-payment of rent does not argue that that one good turn deserves another.
 Delaware can ship 700, ,000 baskets of peaches this year and have plenty let at home. They were Killed last spring, you know.
 The citizens of Lockpoyt, N. Y., have such mama for walking that husbands walk out after supper and do not return until midnight. .
 Inc Memphis Avalanch is now issu- ed on half sheet, and the editors don t propose so leave the town even if the last compositor departs.
 The man who plays it long enough will be certain to discover the difer- euce between old siclge and new sledge. He will get well-hammered.
 The church which drops the heathen business and collects money for the fe- ver-striken peodIe of the South, will display both sense and religion.
 Seven St. Louis steamboat captains have made afildafit that they have seen mosquitoes this year which could draw blood through buckskin glove.
 Tine honey-bce which has any care foI the future of hot biscuits will at once cease loaflng around and put in his sweetest work from now to cold wealth CT.
 Senator sharon's second daughter ha: made her debut into soc!ety. We knew that something was keeping the worlt from revolving with steady motion.
 We never knew but one man who hat absolute faith in humanity, and he ad vertised for lost umbrella in q pa per last week.
 When the Chicago Times said tha campmeeting people are canvas-backeC chri3tains did it have any idea tha tents are made of duck?
 Of course they do not apply for chance to farmers who placed on tn gate leading to the kitchen door Tramps wanted as a top-dressing fo winter wheat"
 September is a stirring time
 When every heart with joy stirs,