The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-15
VOL. VI.
THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.
A SENSES taker-whisky.

GaruOIDOl sctu.
 CAN the doors of tombs be unlocked with skeleton keys.
 EVERY church sexton considers him. self lord of the aisles.
 ENGLISH statesmen will now have to put their bar'ls on tap.
 MR. THOMAS should have stayed. It is a big thing to be an Ohio man.
 ST LoUls to Chicago: Better have large feet than q small understanding.
 RECEIPT for making your own eye water-Stick your finger in 1t.
 TIE darkest hour is generally just after the gas company sends in its bill.
 A LAPEER, MICH, factory has built a phaeton for Birmingham, England
 A CHICAGO belle has satin toilet of wild-rese hue, draped with white gauge. HAS any one remarked that Coming Through the Rye" is not Bourbon balladW
 THE porters who handle kegs of silver in the treasury department are rolling in wealth.
 HAMBuRRG, GERMANY, has now 496 sea-going vessels, 125 of which are steamers.
 WHEN young men idolize young ladies they aIe very apt to tell a great many idle lies.
 THE London Truth says that in the last ten years there have been 2,352 strikes in England.
 SHE looks. down into the churn and softly sings: This is the whey 1 long have sought"
 IT is given out in the tobocco regions that the plant this year will be nearly double that of last.
 EDIsoNs photograph has played out, or rather talked out, and none are being manufscture now.
 A MAN who had a bad cold said he had just set up rig of his own. It was a lit- tie hearse and hack.
 HONE, home, sweet home, there is no place like home"-even when it was mortgaged for twice its value.
 THERE is great suffering in Northern Scotland, but the Scotch, like the Ulster Irish, try to conceal their woe.
 WHEN man utters barefaced false hood you feel shocked, but when he tells another the effect is to pair O lies.
 NJ. DE LEssEps is dined so much in this country that his alimentary canal is be- ing subjected to the severest tests.
 SIX young women, armed with shot, guns, recently accompanied as many young men on rabbit hunt, in Georgia. No one was hurt.
 THE London Grdphac has commissioned most of the leading artists of the day to paint head fulfilling the painters ideal of female beauty.
 THE Michigan university has l 1897 students--the largest number of any American college. Columbia pays it's professors the largest salaries.
 4 WAITER in hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was displeased with an order given him by a guest, and, procuring pistol, shot him fatally at the table.
 AT Berne, Switzerland, a society whose members bind themselves never to salute by taking off their hats, even were a lady m the case, has been organized.
 AN octogenarian married couple in Merrywether Co.,, Ga, who have lived happily together over half century and reared family of children, have at last quarreled and separated.
 MANAGER STETsoN, of the Grand Trunk railway, imported six thoroughbred mares in the steamer Quebec. When the steamer arrived at Portland the other day every mare was dead.
 IT is astonishing how full four women can fill church pew made to accommo- date six, when woman they don't like comes along down the aisle inquiringly looking for place to sit down.
 OWING to the difficulty in obtaining a loan, the Russian government is contem- plating reduction of pensions, and a stipulation that forty years service must be gwen before pension can be granted. THE master of the rolls (Ireland) has ordered that the box containing several hundred gold coins lately found by a workman in house in Dublin is to be delivered to Lord Longford, as represen- tatiye of the former owner of the house. ble bay. Its whole length will be about seven miles and half, and the estimated cost is between $2,000,000 and s, ,000, 900. If the work is pushed to completion the advantages to commerce and naviga- tion will be very great, while in human itarian point of view its benefits promise to beincalculable.
 AN old London, Ont, farmer has re- gently deposited in local savings bank 800 0sovereigns he brought with him from England seventeen years ago, and has since hid on the rafters of his dwelling His son found the money and induced the father to deposit it in place oi safety.
 A SOUTHERN city is said to boast of a colored lodge, part of whose title is The Grand Council of the Grand Ancient Order of the Sons and Daughters, Broth. CTS and Sisters of Moses, of the United States and World at Large" The secret grip James a man fer SIX months.--Chi cG9o Tribune.
 A ScoTCH preacher says that while apparently preaching without notes he is really reading from manuscript which he sees mentally before him. He see' even the stops. This use of the faculty of visual representation occurs when h' has written a sermon and read 1t care fully before going into the pulpit.
 SOME people are bound to make blum ders. The story is told that at German watering place, at the close of the season when the money box affixed to the wal outside the Kursaal by the local benevo lent society was opened, it was founC void of money, but full of the letters O an American visitor to his family a home.
 Two Mexicans fought a duel with lassoi at AtOka, Indian Territory. Each wal mounted on q strong horse and armed with a lasso, or rope with slip moose a one end such as is used in catching wilC