The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-18
!, THE WAYS oF THE WORLD.

THE WAYS oF THE WORLD. ~ h A STITCH in time frequently saves the entire garment.
 IT is reported that Lydia Thompson has raked in a good deal of money on one pair. ec, r. s e....f f,,,., .a+ +,.,..,. 1 Or the twenty inmates ct the Rhode Island State Aims House only six are Americans. bHs i499 gsi9BfWT WHEN schooner of beer is cruising the bar there is always somebody ready tspilot in. af'f yfpJ lok. .o2il4 "A HUNDRED thousand dollars, worth of hazel nuts are shipped yearly from Tur- key to England.
 LITTLE Buttercup IS ruined now. The Paris Times speaks ofher as "a sort of old she-sutler."
 Ir is impossible for everybody to be famous and have his name posted on old fences and dead trees as the greatest liy- ing pedestrian, .gn,i, .s. a.,s or r ACCORDING to the Cincinnati Saturday Night, in Zululand young folks fight and get married In this country they get married and fight. .-..
 FROM the votes at. recent elections on the Pacific Slope itis estimated that the population there is 1,266, 900, as com pared with ss2l 900 when the N last t census s s' was taken.
 TIE greatest tax payer in the United States is Mir. Blackwell, the North Caro- lima tobacco manufacturer, who pays a tax of s520, 900 a year, 10000 q week, or over S1 APO day. ifag t6 bEs .hao1 f EMMA ABBOT does not think that get ting married spells good singers. Nei- ther does Max Strakosch, who evoi1 goes so far as to say that married prime dome are the best singers ,ft ei aas qay..
 TIE grand jury of the Superior Court of Greenfield, Mass, has indicted the in habitants of a New Salem school district for failure to provide suitable school house for the children.
 TIE Empress of Russia recently re- ceived dress from Paris, the cost of which was S5,000. Probably the Emper- or will have his heavy boots half-soled and wear the same old ulster. .sr rt A CINCINNATI paper remarks that when a new dramatic company takes the road" they should see that the road is kept in good repair, for the chances are that they will need it to walk home on.
 JAY GOULD now controls the policy of fourteen Western roads, aggregating 5,075 miles of track, provided the rumor is true that he has secured control of the St. Louis and San Francisco rail- road. '' sst 51+ " 'iN- "e' @Np .ThE reading room of the British Mu- scum contains three miles of bookcases eight feet high. The dome whence the electric light irradiates the vast room is next to that of the Pantheon at Rome, the largest extant. f.4 .Fr
 THE Sutro Independent tells how a lady of that place won five-dollar bet by riding block and q half through the principal street in q wheelbarrow, and concluded that it paid better than keep ing boarding house. ls,. qef tt, o..,at
 Mss ANNA DICKINSON is working qui- etly upon several plays, ono of which is designed for a distinguished performer. The positive merits of Miss Dickinson's first play encourage the belief that she will still win a place as vigorous writer for the stage. raio yaa faQm n
 Sro. DAMo MAzzKI, ,stenographer to the Italian Senate, has invented . machine
 
 ordinary printed characters as rapidly as it is spoken, sword of several syllables being recorded by single touch of the keys. 3. ffiG 96l l) nai5ao adg ~ HE male members of the Keokuk bar showed no jealousy when Miss Mamie Smith was admitted to practice. The presiding Judge descended from the bench to shake hands with her, and the lawyers subsequently, gave her a ban quet. .ftn5f 4sft ad3 agps 3JQos
 THERE is another new work by Charles Dickens, and the last one we shall ever have from him. It Is his own letters in 1.-two volumes, edited by his daughter, Miss Mamie Dickens, and by his wife's sister, Miss Hogarth, and published in this country by Charles Scribners sons.
 TIE cast-steel manufactury at Essen, Prussia, has existed since 1910. It has been conducted by its present owner, Herr Alfred Krupp, since 1926. There are in these works 1,64S furnaces, 77 steam hammers, IS trains of rolls and 4,063 machine tools, The number of workmen employed amounted in 1877 to $500.
 DURING the first six months of the | present year regular tides have been ob' served in the snbterranean waters of the Fortschritt mine in Bohemia. This strange phenomenon has attracted the attention of the Academies of Science ol Berlin and Vienna, but as yet no ade- quate explanation of it has been pro posed. llg kA L sstsisa7s5 S.3ff
 GIVE fowls plenty of dust and coal ! al, n Lat1 a1a 1 gravel, together with proper food such raw,a r<}nl l.xt x,rnfstahln l,wIa