The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-23
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

 l FIrTY-oNE banks do business at the Boston Clearing House. MAINE realizes about five million dol lars on it's annual ice crop.
 'TIs rough on the locomotive engineer when his wife rails at him.
 TIE present population of Athens is 68,677 In 1870 it was only 48,107.
 THERE is nothing that velocipedist tumbles to so easily as uneven ground.
 DANIEL DEFoE was past fifty-seven years of age when he wrote his first novel.
 THE druggist who advertised Eau de Cologne water" prided himself on his French.
 THERE'S bright future for Mexico, if her people let present "good enough" we'll alone.
 TWENTY-FIVE years ago 1t was said that at least six per cent. of the population of England lived by crime.
 REV. Adirondack" Murray is doing a big commission business in Liverpool, and is saving to pay his debts.
 CLAvINDA: No, the Declaration of In- dependence was not written by old Jef- fers himself, but by Jeffers' son. PROT SWIFT writes that the old intel lectual giants of Boston have degener- ated into little parior essayists.0
 THE Empress of Austria is good l fencer. She ought to go out west where there is lots of fencing to be done. 1 CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, the cele- brated writer is making tour down the Delaware Valley on horseback:
 You can't take everything into "con- sideration," Inasmuch as the word only contains ten letters of the alphabet.
 THERE is an armless man in London who plays the violin with his toes. He is probably bow legged.-.Seh Spicer. :.
 THE Empress of Austria, in addition to her skill as horsewoman, is said to handle the foils well and gracefully.
 JUDGE BLACK does not find sojourn in Europe agreeable to him, and few weeks will see him again in America.
 AN Indiana peddler, sixty-one years old, has just run away with his third wife. While there's life there's slope.
 THE total value of the petroleum pro- duct for the past year of this country, in round numbers, amounted to the sum of $34000,000.
 TROUBLESOME DAUGHTERS" will appear in the next Leisure Hour series of nov els The troublesomes will do we'll for leisure hours.
 AGAIN the King of Siam will visit this country and the aged and infirm puns about "just as Siam," will soon have to hobble around again.
 THE duke of Portland has a site pre- pared on one of his English estates for a beaver village for number of beavers imported from Canada.
 THE two urchins who played "escap- ing from the wreck" by using their mothers holiday dough-trough for life boat, were lashed together.
 THEODORE THOMAS will travel through the country with his orchestra next sea- son, accompanied by Wilhelmj, the vio- lInist, and Joseffy, the pianist.
 TIE daughter of Arbuckle, the knight of the cornet, will be soprano of the Ar has probably been her tooter.
 SENATOR CoNKLINa and Gen. Chester A. Arthur are very intimate, and often take trip together The last one was on Tuesday to Manhattan Beach.
 THE new religious sect which has made it's appearance in Russia is called the Kolikorsyaya. Here is one more chance for Beecher to turn his coat.
 To short-sighted person the mildest- visaged clerk looks, with penholder held amidshlps in his mouth, like the bloody buccaneer of dime novel noto- riety.
 MR. MAX MARETzEK has received an invitation from the board of directors of the College of Music in Cincinnati to &C., cept an important position at that insti- ute.
 DR. GUNN, one of Tanners watchers, says in his book on the subject that the New York Herald's independent watch cost that journal between $l 500 and $1,700.
 W. H. SMITH, M. P, late First Lord of the English Admiralty, has bought a mansion in Grosvenor Place, London, for $195,000. Sir Joseph Porter will be well lodged.
 "BY their fruits ye shall know them," was not spoken of the men who sell rot ting peaches and pears. Few people would care to know them enough to buy their fruits.
 TIE Prussian Government is contem- plating further purchases of railways. In short time the entire railway svs- tenn of Germany will, to all intents and purposes. be government one.
 THE Belgian expedition to reinforce Stanley on the Congo is composed of three Belgian lieutenants, Belgian naval officer and an employe of the de. pertinent of roads and bridges.
 Jog JEFFERSON, the actor, who has been passing part of lis vacation in Burlington, Vt, has purchased herd of twelve short-horn cattle to improve the stock on his farm at New Iberia, La.
 AMONG the miscellanies of British commerce are carved peach and cherry stones. the seeds of Australian peaches used for the mounting of scarf-pins-- and palm fruit hollowed to serve as snuff boxes
 IT was Elizabeth Stuart Phelps who, being asked if she was not afraid to be on the beach in the storm, when it was deserted, replied that she preferred the voice of God to that of the summer boarder."
 THERE is no telling what church choirs will do if left to their own way. The one which does the singing in the Pres bvterian church in Penn Yam, N. Y. clashes a pair of cymbals as part of its performance.
 TIE last words spoken by F.. L. Dav enport were the first words of the Lord'l prayer. They will be inscribed on tn,