The Russellville Democrat., 1879-12-04
THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.

Far West that the eve of the exoduster is fixed.
 PROF. STONE and AIr. Howe, of the Cincinnati observatory, report for the past six months 2,275 observations of double stars.
 \ NEW YORK tailor stared at lady in d street car, and the husband gave the tailor such cane-wolloping that he can't get outdoors.
 DR. SCHMoELE, professer at Bonn University, says that he has discovered that human life can be vastly prolonged by eating lemons.
 A WOMAN goes about Grand Rapids at night, with lantern, declaring that she is q bride of heaven and exhorting sim ncrs to repentance.
 THE number of convicts in 1873 in all the State Prisons of the Union was 29,- l97, of whom S,1S6 were employed in mechanical industries.
 JOSEPH WHITE, over 90 years of age, and resident of Detroit, claims to be the first man in thls country to take up a sign reading: "Shut this door,"
 IoRsE-RAc1NG has declined in France of late, the authorities of the Republic failing to give it the encouragement it received under Louis Napoleon. Sa, a' .e P
 THERE is said to be very little sick ness in Dakota Territory. This is prob ably because there are not enough fences to advertise patent medicines on, ,. sa.
 TIE political Kindergarten, after an exceptionally fine season, has been tenn porarily closed, to open in 1880, with an entirely new set of object lessons. e 7
 THE Indians at Yankton are organiz- ing brass band and bass drum has just been shipped to them. We may look for an Indian uprising at Yankton.
 MEETINGS exclusively for women are a peculiarity of the present Moody and Sankey revival at Cleveland, the two cyangclists being the only men ad- mitted
 Mss YocuM, a school teacherof Kittias valley, Oregon, has taken up land claim, fenced it, built house, and this year raised 812 bushels of grain, besides teaching her school. .v+ff.w
 TRANSFERS along the Gila river, Arizo- na, complain of the large herds of, wild camels that have of late taken posses sion of the main roads to the consterna- tion of horses and mules. %. sE
 PARADISE is the name of lively town in Nevada, which has neither church nor preacher. However, it keeps dih- gent doctor employed in extracting bull lets and sewing up wounds.
 AN embarrassed actor bounded on the stage of a San Francisco theatre, in a scene depicting robbery in Iaf hotel office, and shouted, "Gag the safe. while blow open the night clerkw
 A CORRESPONDENT says that nowadays every woman of social position in New York models or paints, or photographs or translates, or carves or chisels, or reads Sanscrit or political economy,
 ThE Duchess of Montrose is pictur- esquely described by the London World as sitting on three-legged stool in a brilliant peignoir, and in business-like manner milking a beautiful Alderney COW.
 CYRUS SHAVER, of Waterbury, Vt, was possessed by the idea that he must set fire to building every Wednesday or die. He burned dwellings on three successive Wednesdays before he was caught.
 TIE number of foreign firms engaged in commerce in China is 35l, and the total foreign population 3,S14. The pop ulation of the treaty ports is estimated at 100000. The American residents number 420.
 CETYwAYo says there were only ten of his men present when the Prince lmper- ial was killed. A bold stand would have saved his life, if the Zulu king is to be believed, and the fate of an empire might have been changed. Rrs
 GINSENG is being gathered on the mountains in Clinton county, Pa, and sold to firm in New York at from 90 cents to Sl.25 per pound. It is said that the root is shipped to China and made into an article for the women of that country to smoke.
 TmE old trick of getting up a sham fight Tn the gallery of theatre, and then throwing. the stuffed figure of man over, was successfully tried in Leadville. The excitement in the lower part of the house caused panic, and an actress tainted on the stage.
 EIGHTEEN of the States have civil dam- age liquor laws. Their provisions are substantially the same. making dealers responsible pecuniarily for all harm resulting from the sale of alcoholic bey- eages. New York, Maine, Massachu- chusetts and Illinois have statutes cx- actly alike