The Russellville Democrat., 1879-11-06
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

Stylish young ladies are called canvas belted ducks AUTUMN leaves arc abundant now from the summer hotels,
 BALLooN1xG will not be perfectly safe until Lake Michigan is abolished. ADVICE to the boy with a lot of old nails on hand-sell.- l.-Boston Transcript. A TROUT could never be baseball player. Too many go out on a fly Ptck.
 IF poverty is disgrace mended stock ings are a darned shame.-NeW Orleans Pieayue.
 TIE proprietors of bucket shops" have suddenly turned pail.-Boston Transcript.
 SIX HUNDRED free tickets to the Utah fair have been issued to the poor of Salt Llke City.
 THE earnings in the Sing Sing prison over the expenditures during September were 4,500.
 THE Northern Pacific is carrying l2O carloads, or 60,O0O bushels, of wheat to Duluth daily.
 A LOUISVILLE woman, wearing S4,oOO worth of diamonds, was arrested for drunkenness.
 NEVADA continues to contribute large ly to the demand for fat beef cattle Tn san Francisco.
 THE Chicago Times takes a great in. terest in discovering painless methods oi hanging people.
 A HUNDRED thousand dollars worth oi hazel-nuts are shipped yearly from Tur- key to England.
 TIE Whitehall Times doubts if sam son, with all his strength, was able to lift big mortgage.
 FoRrY-FIvE thousand American house doors were shipped to England the other day on one steamer.
 IT is asserted that more than fifty per centum of this years cotton crop was raised by white labor.
 GEN. GRANT has accepted 0maha's in vitation to receive the freedom of the city done up in boom.
 PROF. WIsE's first ascension was made in Philadelphia May 2, 1885; his last at St. Louis, Sept. 2S, lS79
 FIFTEEN pounds of butter have been made every week all summer from one COW in Lebanon county, Pa.
 TIE census shows that more than 40,- 900 women III Massachusetts still have to button their own gaiters.
 IT is estimated that there are nearly 100000 railway men in England who are obliged to work on Sunday.
 HAMBURGER cheese now made in this country is said to be superior in every respect to that produced in Germany.
 THE Detroit Free Press thinks it has been sufficiently demonstrated that Lake Michigan is not navigable for an air ship.
 Ara recent auction sale of ostriches in Cape Land the lowest price paid for pair was 5000, and the highest S1425.
 TIE Sultan has wisely used half a mil lion dollars of his recent loan in decorat- ing his yacht and fixing up his fish ponds.
 WOMEN would never do for. assessors One couldn't be induced to rate her neighbor's new grand piano as worth oyer two dollars Boston Post.
 TIE expenses of the Indian service since the beginning of the Government have been SlSl 100000. The estimated number of Indians now living is 300, ,000
 HE tOmlntrClal AuNcGtlSeF CttllS upon Herbert Spencer or some other philoso- pher to tell us why it is that ladies pre-. fer to sit on the floor while unbuttoniug their shoes.
 A TRAVELLER remarks that passengers who cross the ocean are sea-sick the first three days The last three are devoted to heavy-eating, novel-reading and plan ming to beat custOm-house officers.
 TIE man who appears on the outside of an almanac in a nude condition, anC suffering from hari-kari is about to get into tronble. The New York Commer cial says Anthony Comstock is aftel him.
 Ar Kennebcc, Me, considerable treas ure has been discovered buried on tho shores of the river The man who i' supposed to have a right 10 the money says that his grandfather, named Gran ger, was a crony of Captain Kidd, anC that he had possession of papers ant maps showing where millions of money are buried.