The Russellville Democrat., 1879-10-30
THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.

VERMONT boasts of wife and mother, aged twelve, who has eloped.
 THE New York State Woman Suffrage Convention, will be heldat Poughkeepsie, | October 24
 THERE are sermons in everything in nature. Take the flowers, for instance they never shoot off their pistils, no even when the bumblebee loafs around with his pocket-knife drawn.
 A pole, a line, hook, bit of bait, and ever, is an entirely different science. We know nothing about it.-N. r. Register.
 A NEW institution has been opened in Paris for women and children. It con- sists of a ground floor occupied by kit chens, a large waiting-room, furnished with chairs and tables, a wash-house and bathrooms. Upstairs are the sleeping rooms, with comfortable beds for the sick.
 | TIE golden haired maiden that rose up in church, in order to be married to Munson, the Adventist, has recovered from her delusion since it has been dis covered that he has another wife living. | She admits that she loved him, but says he magnetized her with his personal presence.
 | CALIFORNIA farms that have been con | tinually cultivated in wheat are said to l be rapidly deteriorating, and there has been great decrease in the wheat yield from such lands during the past season. In Montana farmers should profit by California's experience and give their wheat lands rest and manure.
 A FRIENDLY Zulu" writes to the Lon- don Echo: Seeing that Cetywayo has been captured, 1 would suggest that he be brought without delay to this country, crowned with the Turnereli wreath, and shown to the public at the rate ofone shilling head, the proceeds to be de- voetd to defraying the cost of the Zulu campaign.
 THE substance of late interview with Sarah Bernhardt is that she will come | to,this "great country" 'the terrestial paradise of artists" if she can make a contract that will suit her fancy as to the value of her services, and secure the con sent of the administrator general of the | Comedie Franchise. She chooses to re- pudiate her first contract
 A DuTcHMAN, the proprietor of line stage, was collecting two dollars apiece from the passengers by way of fare. All had been paid except one, and he draw ing large revolver, pointed it at the head of the collector, and hoarsely asked Wont that pass mel" Perfectly un- moved, the Dutchman replied, "Oh no, we eats dem tings here. Two dollars, please.
 LET two young men of equal natural ability be instructed for the same length of time; one on the principle that knowl- edge is the chief end of education, and the other that the great end is to form right habits by vigorous training, and then let them be left to make their way in the world. Though possessing less information at first, you will soon see the latter distancing the former ill the race of life.
 THE king and queen of the Sandwich Islands had swimming race while on recent excursion. The party could not land from their steamer for reason of the breakers. The king said that all ought to swim to the shore. The queen assented, and the pair jumped overheard together. They buffeted the waves with skill and soon reached land. They not only went where no boat could go, but braved another danger, for the place is alive with sharks.
 A WOMAN in the almshouse at Dublin, Ga, who is sixty-five years old presents remarkable condition. Her skull bones for years have been gradually gap ing open, both at the longitudinal and the traverse suteres, leaving the brain unprotected save by the skin of the head. By placing the finger in the Assure the throbbing of the brain may be plainly felt. The woman keeps handkerchief bound tightly around her head, com planning of great pain and dread that it will burst open when the band is remov- ed for short time. In spite of all this she is very cheerful and ac.ive.
 A VALUABLE bed of anthracite has just been prospected and begun to be worked at Ching-men Chow, near Ichang, on the banks of the Yang-tze-kiang. The coal district extends for seventy-fve square miles, and possesses ten beds of coal, one of them (the Worzukow bed) being estimated to contain 100000 tons, and being only 100 feet below the surface. The coal is of excellent quality and par ticularly suitable for smelting, and as the pfONlnCt Ol liupti, III Niiicu tiiS pasii ID situated, is known to possess some yalu- able iron ores, it is not improbable that an iron industry may rise up of vast inn portance to China.
 LA GRANJA, the summer residence of the Spanish kings, is the Guadarama mountains, $500 feet above the level of the sea, l,470 feet above Madrid, and thirty-six feet higher than the top of Vesuvius. Philip V. built here palace and laid out the gardens in imitation of Versailles, employing his time from 17l9 to TAG with such disregard of the cost that the gardens alone caused an outlay of 45,000,000 of piastres (S45, 5,000,000). In return for this enormous expense the King had, as he was heard to say This quarter of an hours amusement" and the satisfaction of boasting royal hab- itation higher up in the air and nearer heaven than any other sovereign in Europe.