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The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
The Treatment of Maud s. Turf, Field and Farm.

r Maud $. is highly bred mare, and wants to be humored. Her heart is won by kindness. She will not stand harsh treatment, will not prove obedient under rough usage. Both Bair and his wife made much of Maud S. They petted her and treated her to apples and Jumps of sugar. The result is that she will eagerly respond to theie call. When jogging on the track at Chester Park the presence of Mrs. Bair near the rail at any time would cause Maud to turn in that direction. All last winter the mare ran in a roomy box. In April she was put in front ofa break cart, and Mir. Bair drove her about the streets of Clifton and Cincinnati, and thus got her accrls- toned to the noise and hustle of the toiling world. He also harnessed her double and taught her to drive on either side. She does not like blinds to her bridle, but will trot with any kind of bit in her mouth. All she asks is that the driver shall not pull on the bit. She stands l5,2! forward. and is plump Is hands behind. Her weight is 960 pounds. In her races this year she has been driven to fifty-one pound sulky, but Bar is having made for her a sulky weighing forty-hVe pounds. She wears a fifteen and half ounce shoe forward and nine ounce shoe behind. She also carries four ounce'tce weights. For two weeks after her arrival at the Queen City she will be turned at 5 every even- ing into a six-acre grass lot, and be allowed to run until 9 o'clock. This will keep her from fading under the suns rays, and will cool her out thoroughly. After two weeks run at grass she will be led every day for two weeks behind break cart, so padded that she can not hurt herself. She will then be in condition to order a short notice for a fast mile, should Mir. Vanderbilt desire to see one on his return. Bair says he had hoped to give her record of 2:09l before the close of the season. At Rochester she trotted solely on her courage, He thinks she can go to the half-mile pole in l:03.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
You can see, gentlemen, she was

You can see, gentlemen, she was a level-headed gal arter all. Then she turns, as cool as cowcum- Der, to Charley. an she says: T know why you an your friend wanted to git me. As it stands now, you tried to fool me, an I had to return the compliment"
 An now Jed's fooled you pretty good" said Charley, laffin. Then they all got a-laffin, an Jed caved an Charley caved, an all went into the minister's, Charley actin as witness.
 Jest as they went out, Sam drew up, with his hoss lame in three legs. He looked pretty sour when Jed introduced Jennie as Mrs. Billings.
 Jennie was taken to her aunts a-fiyin, an Charley followed at two mile-an. hour gait, with Sam's horse hitched on Charley's buggy to keep him up, an Sam walkin' aside of him to jest stim- merlate him up, now and then.
 The lawyers made it all right between 'em on the way home, an in the mornin' the old Judge found lem both dead corned with some of his old Otard.
 The perticlers didn't leak out till long arter the church weddin', and then there was some big fun over it.
 Everybody knows now that Jed's made that new stock farm O his pay like blazes, an Jennie's as quiet and stiddy as the Mulbrytown guide-post, an good deal more charitable.
 When old Judge Parker died, Sam took his practice, an then sold out to Charley an went West. Charley has married likely gal on the creek, for love, an is a-doin' we'll
 But how was it, asked one of the listeners. that Jed managed 10 be on hand in time?"
 It was this way, gentlemen, said the old granger, sipping hls night-cap. Jed was a-fxin' leak in the roof of his barn, when Sam Parker drove us to the crossroads that night, an he recognized the old glg. When 1t stopped and let Charley down an then went hipin' up the back road, Jed thought somethin' was up. So he crep' alongside the stone wall, an before long he was watchin' Charley, instead O Charley a-watchin' him. Then, when Charley got sick of his job an then went down to the direc- tion of the livery stable, Jed jest chucked his hoss in his buggy-an' there ain't no better piece O hoss-hesh between here an Greenfield-an' follered him up.
 But Charley he'd a good start; so Jed got to Eatonville about ten minutes arter the couple he'd left for Starboro'. He got all the perticlers at Eatonville from the hostlers, and didn't see Sam, who was up stairs a-ponderin what to do. Then he set his hoss to steamin' an he arriv'.
 Well, that hoss is old now, an no use; but they say he winks at Jed, now an then, as much as to say: ''I pulled you through on that S10,000 business. eh, old man?" Then Jed winks, an the hoss IS satisfied. Jed would take no money for him to-day.
 Are Jed an Jennie happy in their present connubial relations?" furtively inquired the schoolmaster.
 Can't say, replied the old granger, You're married an you oughter know how it is yourself.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
A Revived Art of Conversation.


 Is there no great principle which can be laid down as the basis of revived art of conversation? We think there IS, and we will proceed to oevelop it with the modesty that should ever grace the an- nouncement of new discovery, how ever important. And, first of all, 1t is hopeless to endeavor to revive the past If conversation ever really fourished and we almost doubt it, the conditions which produced this vigorous growth have passed away. What success it had was certainly owing to the men of genius who devoted their lives to 1t. Nowadays men of genius have other things to do. There are never very many of them, and they are not allowed to waste thei. time. If talk is to be revived at all, it must be popularized, like every thing else, and brought within the capacity of commonplace people. Now there is one way by which even the stupidest of us may make his utteranees invariably in- teresting and often amusing, it is-here comes the great discovery-by telling the truth.
 The reason that the conversation of fools is so barren is that it is never their own; 1t is repetition of what they have heard or read last, and always spoilt in the retellinc. If they would only tell us their own minds, their real thoughts opinions, their likes and dislikes, their principles and their weaknesses, we should not be left in such hopeless ignor- ance of wfither the world is tending; for, after all, the fools are the most inn portant class; the clever men may preach and write and work, but with an their effort they can only slightly divert the course of the great solid block or ignor- ance and prejudice that rolls on so steadily throughout the ages. If the wise could enly understand the foolish they might make the world go their own way; but the foolish echo the words of the wise and keep their thoughts to themselves.
 And how good thing would it be if women would only speak their minds. There is nothing that honest men desire more than to understand that mysterl- ous race that is so like them and yet so unlik, who sEare their homes but not their thoughts, who are so shcewd, so practical aud so irrational The poor men yearn to break down the invisible barrier and see into the real life of those
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
The Oyster.

According to Frank Buckland, great deal has to be said in physiological view in favor of the oyster us an article of food. There is an average of about two and a half ounces of meat to every F ounces of shell in each oyster, and it's constituents include much phosphate of iron and ozmazone, or creative matter similar to essence of meat, and also a certain quantity of gelatine or mucllagi- nous matter and another material of which phosphorus is the main ingredi- ent. It Is the principal brain giving food that can be taken. and hence is SO largely used by those fond of literary pursuits, and in this manner has become an almost essential element of diet to intellectual men. The annals of the University of Paris shadow forth that when scholastic disputations were more than unusually rife and boisterous the students were in the habit of rehearsing their debates over oyster suppers. Louis VIII, who died in l226, loved oysters so well and thought so much of his cook for the savory manner in which he furnished them up for the royal tab let, that he invested the chef dc cuisine with patent Of nobility and made him a handsome annual allowance. The members of the College of the Sorbonne were invited by Louis XI to come once every year to feast upon oysters. until on one occasion distinguished theolo- gian came to an untinely end by drown ing in the River Seine after the ayrnpo- sium had concluded
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
Scintiliations of Science.

Two stations for scientific and hospital purposes are to be established by the French section of the International African Association. One of them is to be at Oussagara, under the direction of Capt. Bloyet, and the other on some tributary of the Ogooue river, near the French colony of the Gaboon, under the charge of M. Nixon.
 The Scientifc American reports that portions of a mastodon of gigantic size were discovered recently in Wicker's Park, Chicago, in excavating for sewer. The indications are that the huge ami nal perished in an ancient marsh or quagmire, and there is hope of the re- covery of the rest of the skeleton. The curved tusks are about seven feet long.
 How closely Japan is following in the footsteps of the West may be seen in the fact that the Japanese workmen have adopted trades-union system. In in the Province of Mino, where rice has tained, so that carpenter who was paid 25 sen now gets 30 sen, and the laborer who was paid Is sen rin, now gets 20 sen.
 Dr. Arthur Mitchell defines ciyiliza- tion as sort of bond or compact to defeat the action of natural selection, and the degree of success attained in the struggle is the measure of civilization reached in each case; and he holds that it is just as probable that savages are degraded forms of humanity as that the civilized man IS an elevated form. His recent treatise, entitled "The Past in the Present." has created quite a flutter among the placid disciples of the Darwinian school of anthropologists.
 It seems that Vienna is exporting lalge numbers of false turquoises closely resembling genuine ones. The backs of every specimen are pecked out, and the holes filled with black cement to initiate the matrix of La Vieille Roche. The spurious are little lighter than the real turquoises, but the specific gravity test is not to be altogether relied upon. An expert in gems advises purchasers to scrape off the matrix, and if the speci- men is spurious the artificial perforations will be revealed.
 A mixture of sulphur and grease has been in use for some time as lubricant for the bearings of heavy shafting Su1--' phur alone, as is well known, has the effect, when properly introduced, of cooling hot bearing. But why sulphur should so act has not been well under stood. Won Heeren offers this explana- ton: Fine metallic dust is formed when a journal becomes hot, and this dust combining with the sulphur produces soft and greasy compound of a decidedly anti-frictional character.
 M. Rust welds cast steel at tempera- ture between the yellow red and the white by using flux composed of 4.5 l. ..1 -l. of sodium or common salt, 125 to 26 parts of ferrocyanide of potassium. 76 parts of colophonum, and to 5 parts of dry carbonate of soda. The film of oxi- dized iron on the surfaces to be united is made quite fluid by tbe boric acid, and the object of the ferrocyanide is to restore to the steel the carbon and nitro gen of which it was deprived during the process of heating.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
NO. 39.

The Emperor and the most distinguished statesmen of Brazil are known to be heartily in favor of abolition with the least practicable delay. But the aboli- tion ot slavery in Brazil, if it is to take place peacefully and i'll normal man. ner, must encounter obstacles of very grave character. Slavery exists through out the whole empire, rnd the slaves comprise nearly half of the total pop ulation. The whole system of productive industry is bound up with the ''peculiar institution" and must inevitably un- dergo severe crisis by it's disappear ance. Nevertheless, there is every reason for philanthropists to rejoice at the rapid growth of anti-slavery senti- ment in Brazil and at the certainty that abolition is now a question of few years more or less.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.
 New York Herald.

The latest advices from Rio Janeiro show that the perennial slavery question had once more become burning issue in the Brazilian Parliament The Bra gillian Wilberforce, Senhor Nabuco, had announced his intention to bring blll definitely abolishing slavery in the year 1890, at the same time withholding all compensation to the holders of African born slaves whose age showed they had been surreptitiously imported since 1882, when the slave trade was prohibited. The Minister of Agriculture, iu reply, admitted that slavery in Brazil could not outlast the century, and stated that the government was earnestly engaged in furthering its abolition by the indirect methods alreadyin force, by the creation of land bank and the encouragement of European and Chinese laborers
 As is we'll known, beginning was made in the direction of abolition sew eral years ago by declaring the freedom of all children born after certain date, and considerable sums were appropri- ated from the public treasury for buying the liberty of certain classes ot slaves
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
{, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2l ls8o

they love so well; but the loved ones smile and chatter ans5. sss pretty things, and Ingeninns things, and things they
 have borrowed from men and improved in the borrowing, but never one word of the real thoughts that are working in their busy brains. So the men fatter and lie because they think the women like it, and the women accent it because they think it is 2 mans nature; and the men think women are empty-headed angels; and the women think men are fine, intelligent brutes; and the two classes go on loving and despising one another accordingly, and all for the want of little truthfulness in conver- sation.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
A Fashionable EngIishwomsn.

London GloDt.
 England can produce some of the prettiest faces ever a Frenchman set eyes on; but is thousand pities that few French milliners, dress-makers, and boot-makers cannot be sent across the channel to tone down some of the ex- travagances which mar the beauty of the misses blondes
 An English lady who was over at Trouyille last year and surprised every one with the strangeness of her cos tunes, has returned with, some say thirty-six dresses, and some say more. She has been awarded the palm for eccentricity of costume, She gladdens the hearts of the Parisians sitting at the corner of the beach; but she is rather proud than otherwise ol the notice she attracts with her curious dresses and strange trimming. She wears white mice and all kinds of out-of-the-way animals on her hat. and her waist is en- circled by a gold chain from which hangs an enormous chatelaine, with a mirror, a thimble-case, and host ot odds and ends, including, some say, gold stewpans, pots and kettles, etc, which she has brought with her for her culin.l ary arrangements, as she is not satisnedt with the cooking of the natives.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
A Defense of Cleopatra.

Chicago Times's Long Branch Letter.
 Allow me to inquire here parenthetic- ally. how it happens that the queen of Egypt has come to be regarded as an ex. ample of extreme inconsistency. She has been grocely misrepresented. His tory tells us that she was married to her brother, Ptolemy XII, by the will of her father after his death. The union was merely an arrangement of state; had no binding force, and was not probably, ever consummated, as the couple were minors. Pompey was appointed their guai dlan, and it has been intimated that he was her lover. There was no authority whatever for this, indeed everything points to the contrary. He was not merely chaste, he was almost passionless, as Cicero has testified. When Caesar had invaded the country, and Pompey had been murdered, he was fascinated by her, and she became his mistress, more from love than interest. Then, in order to give weight to her sovereignty, she was given i'll marriage to her second brother, child of seven years-her other brother, Ptolemy XII, having been drowned-and the formost man of all the world lived with her un- til he returned to Rome, carrying with him the woman who was the most splen- did part of hissplendld conquest. When he went tohis last campaign in Hispania, she saw him for the last time.
 At Anthony's meeting with her, Cesar had been dead nine years; so that her relation to him was no disloyalty to her former protector. They were the only men of whom she ever pretended to be fond, and she was devoted to them in mind, heart and soul. The opinion that she accepted Augustus (Octavius) Caesar has no basis. Shakespeare gives thls im- pression, but merely as poetic license. Cleopatra, therefore, instead oi being an incarnation of disloyalty, was model of loyalty, especially for that time.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
TO-DAY AND TOMORROW.

IfFortune with a smiling face.
 Strew roses on our way, When shall we stoop to pick them up?
 To-day, my love, today But should she frown with face of care
 And talk of coming sorrow, When we shall grieve, if grieve we must? Tomorrow, love, tomorrow! Iftbose who've wronged us own their faulis And kindly pity prey, When shall we listen and forgive?
 To-day, my love, to-dayl But fl stern justice urge rebuke, r And warmth from mem'ry borrow, When shall we chide if chide we must? Tomorrow, love, to-morrow
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
RECIPES.
Our Postofices Compared with the English
 Department.


 Following the example of the English Postoffice Department, the department at Washington has made an attempt by counting the mall matter for one week to get a rude guess of the number of pieces annually mailed by the United States. The first seven days in Novem- Der was the week selected, and the re- turn then made multiplied by 52, gives the total mail of the country for one year at 2,2l7 7,06S,1 ,129 pieces. The En- glish postal system IS simpler than ours, affording only three varieties ot postal matter; a comparison between the re- turn now made for the "origInal" post office business in this country and that in England, for the year ending March 3l, 1879, is as follows:
 postai-cards,.. 276,A6,7ll iilOoo.ooo Newspapers and print
 ed matter .........~..1 0i9, ,i9S,3s0 S2s,000,0oo Ina last item in this county, besides newspapers and magazines, includes, under "hooks, circulars and miscellane. ous printed matter" 300, ,S45 ,4S0 pieces, of which much the largest share are circulars, reckoned in the English return as letters is about the same in the two countries. The return of mail matter for the United States includes, in addition to the items given above, articles of merchandise" to the amount of 22,634,- 456. The ten states in which the largest amount of mail matter originated are as follows:
 New York, 53s, ,95O, ,724; Pennsylva mia, 207, ,l96,0 ,0S0; Ohio, l6S S,565,5 800; Illinois, l67 ,944;S6S; Massa chusetts, 145,973, ,364; Missouri, 92,057 ,5S0; Michigan, 64, ,753,- 364; Iowa, 57,297 $50; Indiana, 5l,922,- POS; and Wisconsin, 47,943,064. Nearly 90 per cent. of the mail matter reported "originated' in the fifty principl cities of the country.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21

But Charley put on steam an talked away to her at tremendous rate on ac- count of Sam's bein' behind 'em, Then tke gal got all broken up again in the narves, an while she was a-cryin' and wringin' her hands, the other wagon drew up.
 But the man that jumped out wasn't Sam Parker. It was Jed Billlngs-Jed Billings, gentlemen, as good felier as l ever met an the best man with pitch fork in the two counties,
 Then the gal strengthened up an went right into Jed's arm, as straight as a chipmonk slips into holler tree.
 Of course this was war, an after a lovin' embrace, Jed lets her down on the ministers steps, an prepares to go for Charley.
 "Ill teach you. you young pettifog- ger" said he, "to play tricks like these" '" an he was a-haulin' off in that dynamite style of his, when Jennie jest stepped up atwixt them.
 Now, gentlemen, like the famale ele- ment myself, as l suppose the hull on ye does, an l appreciate 'em as angeels and peace makers an all that; but it must be allowed that Jennie did spile what would hev been the go,iambdest fight that ever took place in Squigg county. Mind yer, the stakes were Slo000. an Charley had good deal of standby in him. if he was fortune hunter; an as for Jed, everybody knows he's got hogsheadful O pluck allus on hand. It's shame, gentlemen, the mIll didn't come of; for, to this day, whenever a man gets little hard cider in him about here he wrastles his tongue with somebody as to which would hev licked. But Jed an Charley only laffs about it now, an wouldn't muss for anything
 Only a drop or two, Jonas-there, that's about right. Where was F Oh, yes. Well, Jennie stepped atwixt 'em an says;
 "It was all my fault, Jed--it was all my fault, an only did 1t to see if you'd be jealous. I'm cruel, hateIul, wicked girl, an il you won't fight, dear Jed, I'll % into the minister's with you now, provided you'll get me home before my aunt's up in the mornin, an then I'll marry in church as soon as l kin git ready proper love yon, Jed, an if you love me you won't want to do anythin' to hey this business talked about 'till afterwards
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21
Ten Years Progress.

The London Times makes this state ment of the progress of Great Britain and Ireland in the last ten years:
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-21

HE rested his hot brow upon bis hand and sighed, Three months ago shf vowed that she would never, never marry me, and now she IS suing me io'. breach ol promise M
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-04
A DREAM.

AFTER SUFFER- OF h1NCE-PIE AND COFFEE.
Methought that through an orchard 1 was
strolling,
Eating the apples a. along sped:
ACROSS the sky the thunder-ciouds were roll
ing,
And streaks Of lightning flashed about my
And suddenly hear shout behind me:
turn to look. and Oh what meets my vtewr
The orchard owner! He's come out to lind me.
And with atwelve-legged dog doth rue pur-
sue.
Quite frightened at the awful creatures howl
ing,
start to run and to the forest Zee.
just rs the woods gain. hear growliuA-
A bear with nineteen heads confronteth me.
Swift up a tree climb, and there am met by
A monkey with Illuminated nose;
He jumps, twixt me and earth, and can't &c.
To reach the ground again. I'm nearly
By icy wind that through the branches
Unjust have kicked the clothes on by that
The bear then goes to peltine me with mis-
siles.
The monkey makes up faces until I'm
Quite wild with rage and loathe the brute sim
cerely:
Then comes the worst: A speaker talks that
day
Within that county, and hear him clearly,
Although he's nearly twenty miles away.
That's more than can stand. take u flying
Leap from the tree and land upon my head,
And that must have tumbled out of bed.