The Russellville Democrat., 1879-11-13

 much more intelligence than Dennis Kearney, and should have his salary cut down two-thirds. Such casualty in the spring, when the circus is just starting out, would be thousands of dollars in the proprietors pocket.-R0n,e Sentinel.
 SOMETHING NoBLER.
 What is nobler than man wrestling and wringing his bread from the stub born soil by the sweat of his brow and 2 the break of his backP" asks philoso- pIs,r. We don't recall anything at this m5ment, but we know what is q blamed sight more popular-hiring some other fellow to do it while you sit on the fence and superintend him.-Keok7,k Gate Gty.
 AN EDITORS DAUGHTER.
 A Western town has a mystery. "A young lady belonging to the family of an editor here recently went shopping, and has not yet returned" We suspect she can't find bonnet to please her. The editor should have given her more than dollar and half to make such a pur- chase. Corn and cabbage have come down, but bonnets cost just as much as eyer and sometimes more, too.-Norris- iopn Herald.
 POETS SONG.
 |. A poetess sings, ''I love thee every hour.n That's right. Girls who only love fellow only four or five hours out of the twenty-four, and be stow their af- fections upon several other chaps during the remaining hours of the day, are what the New York customs officers would call frauds in silk They should love him every hour or not at all.-B,rlington Harkeye.
 SALLY SWAN.
 Sally Swan, of Granite, New, seized bear by the hind legs and held him un- til her father arrived" And then he was kicked off the front step, we presume. Young bucks should not make geese of themselves by going to see Miss Swan syithout having an invitation from the lady herself. It lowers gentleman's dignity to be seized by the hind legs by q girl and held until her old man arrives. Norristo,cn Herdld.
 LEARNING TO WAIT.
 When a young man has learned to wait" says the Boston Journal, ''he has upon the Rockland Courier gives 1t as its opinion that indeed he has, and this truth is particularly applicable when the young man has called to take his girl riding, and she keeps him waiting two solid hours while she fixes upo Keeps him waiting in the stable with team which costs dollar an hour.
 He inquired at asaloon for little lager .and the bartender, who was only en- igaged during the fair, handed him out a gimlet, with the remark that that was the only little auger they Norathon h. dependem.
 There is one advantage about the tele- phone that has not come to be fully ap- preciatcd yet You can carry on a con yersation with party who has been eating onions without any unpleasant effect. The telephone will not transmit a smell, however loud it may be.
 Southern poetsare writing poetry about the yellow fever plague. Now that vel low fever has got into poetry, editors cannot be too careful, and this office will maintain quarantine against poetry un- til the weather gets colder. The cases he only sporadic thus far, but we can't tell how soon such poetry may become epidemic.
 Anew sentimental song is entitled Tell Me to Live in Your Soul, Love-" We'll do it. There's nothing mean about us. Come right along and live in it. High stoop, stone front, basement dining room, hot and cold water on every floor, anda telephone in the sitting room. Rent, S2S a month, invariably in advance; refer ences. But why did you leave your last