The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-02
WAYS OF THE WORLD.


 and of alkaii lies at the very root of. our chemical activity.
 Mss LETTA Guy, an Ohio lady, has developed great talent as whistler, and is about to travel on 1t. SENATOR BLAINE's youngest daughter, Miss Hattie, has pet-pony, which she has named Don Cameron.
 ONE of the Campbell girls who came out with theIr father, the Duke of Ar- gyll, to this country, has just been mar | ried
 ONE or two inches of snake and couple of rattles ought to be taken from that 14-foot and 4S-rattle snake killed in Texas.
 EVERY persons objection to the round dance holds good until he or she learns how to dance it. It is then very pleas ant dance.
 MORE than one-half of the steamboats running out of New York avoid the law regarding life-preseryers, and malicious ly avoid it.
 IT is thought in monolith circles that Barnum and Vanderbilt will eventually obtain possession of the obelisk for their new museum.
 l FUTILE dIC CAPCttOo " SO pSAhNW hSAN because they can go cheap. But they must pay for coming back. and need not all go at once.
 THERE are 400 musicians at Coney Is- | land, and the ocean has no chance to get it's work in through the music of | the sad sea waves.
 AN Ohio girl was struck by lightning while splitting wood ina thunder storm, | but her father, who sat reading a novel, scarcely felt the shock.
 THE Chinese are learning to chew fine cut tobacco, but they can never spit with an American gentleman while their eyes are so much on the bias. M
 WISCONSIN women are sharp. When they give their children matches to play l with and go of on visit they carry the insurance policies with them. ANTHONY CoMsrocK has accomplished some good things. but he is man who can't see the dividingline between go- ing far enough and not too far. | LOWELL, Mass, is also disappointed in l the census. She has several thousand more inhabitants than she counted on, and must therefore increase her poor | fund.
 INDIANA has woman that weighs 510 pounds, yet she ran a tramp over three | fences and across meadow and pounded him until he had to be taken away in a wagon.
 AN old angler says that fish does not suffer much pain from being hooked. Of 1 course not. It is the thought ot how his weight will be lied about that causes him anguish.
 YoUNG FARMER-"Aar you fond of beasts. Miss Gusherton?'' Miss Gusher- ton-"Oh, really, Mir. Pawker, If you mean that declaration, you mustspeak l to mamma" 8W& & 1E@I
 Gov. STANFORD and wife, of California, went to gee "The Danites" in London the other night, and Mrs. Stanford wore $10O,000 worth of diamonds. Republi- can simplicity.
 sELENA DoLeRA, the most finished, and in many respects the most admira. ble actress on the London stage, has signed an engagement for forty weeks | in this country.
 l JOHN RusKIN is selling number of hls books to get rid of them, his reason for selling any particular volume being, in most cases, that he has not read it and doesn't want it. l MIR. GLADSTONE has granted pensions from the civil list to Dr. Dunlor for his Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer" and to Miss Jackson for her Shropshire Word Book"
 IT is remarkable fact that of all the names beginning with "A, "in the liar yard class of '25, five Tn. number, and headed by c. F. Adams, not one of them appears in the catalogue marked with an asferisk, denoting death.
 JAY GOULD is said to be very fond of his son, whose name is George J. Gould, a bright lad, and he takes him with him wherever he goes, in order to educate him-that he may learn the ways of the men with whom he comes in contact. l THIS country is so far behind the old I world that an Egyptian obelisk is con sidered new thing in New York. If such things are to become fashionable, it is likely that the mummy business may revive and that something in that line may be imported. | A GERMAN philosopher says: Fear and selfishness are the bridges by which we return to the animal" This was ex- emplified by Minnesota farmer, who in his efforts to save his burning house forgot hls three children. and two of them were burned to death. CHUNG HAN, late Chinese Ambassador at St. Petersburg, who was condemned to death some time ago for having signed the Kuldscha Treaty without due au. I thorization from Pekin, will not be exc cuted for at least six months to come. December, it appears, IS considered a particularly suitable time of year for cut ting of peoples heads in the Flowery Realm, and Chung Hans decapitation has been postponed to that month m deference to the high rank of the doomed Mandarin.
 Gulzor, the French historian, in let- ter late.y published, addressed to one of his children, tells how, on his first visit to Windsor, he lost his way and opened a wrong door and beheld for a moment lady having her hair brushed. The next day the Queen (for 1t was shel joked him about it, and he says; II ended by asking her leave, if ever write my memoirs, like Sully or St. simon, to mention how at midnight l opened the door of the Queen of Englandl She gave permission, laughing merrily."
 A BETTER day is dawning in Aurora, New, for a gospel preacher IS wanted. The local editors soul is touched, and with vexed spirit he cries out; We are sorely in need of preacher; we ,. don't want any cheap trash. We want ! good musculsr Christian, who can , catch sinners by the scrun of the neck