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The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
The Initiative Russian.
The Countries of the World.


 The Russian peasant is not an inven- tor, but he has genius for initiating. He has only to be told to go and do so and so, and in time it will be done. He will in this manner become blacksmith, engineer or lapidary, provided he is only gwen time enough. He will watch the next workman to him using his saw, chiseI or file; then he will cautiously initiate him, doing little at tune and nothing rashly. Next day he will show more skill, until in few weeks he be- comes a sufficiently skillful workman to be entrusted with tasks requiring great judgment and even knowlege to execute. In the Grauiloi Fabrik, in Ekaterinburg, for example, the visitor is astonished to find men not above the rank of peasant and in all likehood convicts under sur veillance executing the most wonderful engravings on beryl, ameth st, topaz or emeralds, or carvings on jasper and DOT phyry vases, with q skill which could not be exceeded, if equaled, in the great centers of fine art workmen of Europe.
 Yet such intelligent laborers are-or were at all events in Erman'a day, fifty years ago-not paid more than 90 cents per month, with rations of few pounds of black bread. Yet they are quite con tent with their lot, and to make fortunes for the rich mine owners. who live in great state in fine mansions. Even the master workmen or overseers are only paid some S55 or $60 per annum, but they, like the ordinary laborers, have their perquisites in the unrecognized offerings which they can manage to effect among the treasure they handle.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
FOR THE LADIES.

PoNoER silks are again fashionable. HEADED trimmings are in great vogue.
 GRAPE fabrics of every kind are very fashionable.
 SOME of the new suits are founced to the waist.
 LINEN collars will never go entirely out of fashion.
 CoLoRED laces are imported, but not yet in demand.
 CoIFFUREs of married women are high and elaborate.
 PHEASANT brown IS one of the most fashionable colors.
 GOLDEN hair is now less fashionable than ashy blonde.
 WHITE toilets will be very fashionable again this summer.
 EVERYTHING odd, everything quaint is considered stylish.
 SPANISH colors and Spanish designs are popular this spring.
 LINEN cuffs are worn frequetly when the collar is discarded.
 TURBANs and small directories are the leading early spring bonnets.
 LANGUEDoC lace of the dark ecru tint, called Isabelle, is much sought for.
 THE fashionable hat of the summer will be broad-brimmed Tuscan straw.
 EASTER bonnets are profussly decor ated with delicate sprays of yellow flow CTS.
 SOFT Persian ribbons edged with Lan- guedoc lace are shown for sashes and ties.
 THE wearing of white or colored spen- cers with black or dark skirts is re. vived.
 MERcUTro plumes and Prince of Wales tips will be the feathers worn this sea- son..
 NEW breakfast caps are of Persian silk, twisted into turbans and trimmed with lace.
 FULL fraises of lace, worn high in the neck, are more fashionable than linen collars.
 TIE newest head-dress fer evening consists of three Greek baudeaux made of flowers.
 THE newest Breton lace has the design darned in with silk instead of linen floss.
 THE full sleeve, gathered into cuff at the wrist, is revived for spring house dresses.
 BUTTONS are engraved, painted and en- ameled to the most fanciful colors and designs.
 TURKEY red is revived in the form of the Turkey red oil calicoes worn forty years ago.
 TIE latest importations of French buntings are of fine and thin texture, and have crape finish.
 FULL mourning bonnets are made of crape, arranged in flat folds upon close fitting turban frames.
 NEW ribbons are of satin on both sides and irregularly dotted in rich coiors on a contrasting ground,
 SOME of the new ribbons have the colors and designs of old tapestries, and are called Gobelin ribbons.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
FEMININITiES.

-" Before the war"-Courtship
 -Parlor Misunderstanding in the drawing-room.
 It is said the Vassar College girl who caught cold by drinking water from a damp tumbler is convalescent.
 A Michigan girl has been arrested for carrying revolver. This is right No female should be allowed to wear bangs in her hip pocket.
 A young woman in church in England got up and forbade the banns of a country couple. Her reason was, she said, "I-I-want him myself"
 Victor Hugo ayers that woman is a conundrum. And that is why the best women stay most at home. Like good oonundrums, they are hard to find out.
 Two Kentucky maidens have opened a blacksmith shop, and it's an interest ing sight to see mule blush when the girls accidentally tickle him while put ting on his new shoes.
 Kate Field proposes to organize a cooperative millinery establishment in New York, with a capital of $250,000. Ten of the forthcoming new spring bon nets will represent the entire capital.
 A case of domestic scandal was under discussion at tea-table. "Well, let us think the best we can," said an elderly spinster. "Yes," said another, "and say the worst"
 A gentleman presented lace collar to the object of his adoration, and in jocular way said: Do not let any one else rumple it." "No, dear," said the lady, "I will be careful to take it off"
 Ut may interest American dancers to learn that the Liverpool lurch" and the "Boston dip" are no longer the fashion, having been replaced by the Brighton grip" and the "Southsea cuddle."
 They were inspecting group of statuary, and she asked him who that female figure was. He said he wasn't certain about it, but he thought it must be a bust of Sahara-at least it was barren waist.
 The ballots for the ladies who vote at the next election will probably be cut on the bias or scolloped. It will not be at all strange if we hear them exclaim Her ballot is old fashioned; it doesn't look fit to be seen."
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
If He Only Would.

Among the crowd, says the Rochester Democrat, thatsurged forward to the gates as the St. Louis express rumbled into the Central Depot last evening was little old woman dressed in black, with little white face just visible beneath rusty old bonnet and above a great comforter wound high around the neck. Jostled this way and that by the hurrying throng she was about to pass through the gate, when the gateman stopped her by mo tion of the hand and a demand for her ticket,
 ''I am not going away" she replied II did not buy ticket"
 "Then you can't othrough here; against orders you know"
 But, sir, my son is coming, and"
 Cant help it," was the hurried reply. Stay here and he will come to you quick enough"
 An, sir, if he only would" was the re- ply, and the tremblein the little woman's voice arrested the impatient murmur of those behind: 'Oh, sir, if he only would but he died in Cleveland last week and now they are bringing my boy home in coffin. He was the only one had-oh, thank you, sir"
 The gate was thrown wide open, an unknown friendly hand assisted her on, and in moment the sad face of the little old woman in black was lost in the crowd.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
A Colorado Glacier.
Leadville Herald.

A gentlemen who has during the last two years traversed the mountains around Leadville and penetrated almost every one of the secret recesses informs a Herald reporter that there is within twenty-five miles of this city one of the most interesting curiosities of nature-a veritable glacier, presenting all the char acteristics of the glaciers of Switzerland. both in magnitude and motion, it's pro- gress being gradually down the gulch. The scene of this curiosity is located in the Mosquito range, about fifteen miles north of the pass. Our informant saws that he first discovered it about three
 years ago, while on prospecting tour. It was then about mile Tn length, and at the bottom of the gulch presented a sheer prescipice of ice, not less than l5O
 feet in height. Some time later in the season the place was visited again, and
 1t was found that the great mass of ice had melted away until at it's face it was not more than 100 feet high, the loss rom it's surface reducing it's length to about half mile. Again, early the following year the place was visited and the glacier was found to have regained it's bulk, showing that the accumulation Of ice and snow during the winter was about one-third it's gross bulk. The rocks on the side of this immense mass of ice show the marks of atirition, prov ing, beyond all controversy, that the glacier is in motion Indeed the earth at the foot of the glacier, heaved up in great masses, shows it IS gradually mov- ing down into the valley. During the summers large stream of water flows
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
A G ulf of Lawyers.
N. O. Democrat.

The alacrity-anxiety almost-with which young men fly to law would lead the uninitiated to suppose that that pur- suit, above all others, was the safe, sure road to fortune. Parents seem in ter riple plight nowadays in regard to em- ployment for their sons. But their per- plexity does not last very long, and on some fine day, all of a sudden, a decision has been reached to send their boy to a law office. To do what? We answer: To spend a few years earning pittance barely sufficient to provide him with suitable clothing and shoes. During his clerkship he acquires, it is true, title knowledge of law, but, being poor with out friends, he encounters untold hard ships when he starts out for himself. It is otherwise, however, if this new lamb of the law happens to be the son of a wealthy parents. Then he can bide his time and give himself no anxiety about office rent and other necessary expenses. And then, when the young aspirant is fully fedged, in his own opinion, for the loftiest flights of oratory, how often his first effort at the bar proves to be mis- erable failurs, and he finds-when, alas! it is too late-that he has mistaken his mission in life. that he would have figured better as street car driver or a waiter in restaurant. The privations and straits of hundreds of members of the legal profession would hardily be credited if told ill detail. Yet, in spite of this, and of the supply greatly exceeding the demand, the burning de- sire to join the ranks of the profession is so great as to entitle it to be termed fanatical. Parents and guardians should despise agriculture and mechanical pur- suits no longer. There, at least, their children can earn a decent livelihood and be respected and honored just as much, nay, more, than the half-starved shyster.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
Smokers in Spain = How They Roll the
 Cigarette.
Madrid Correspondence Chicago Time

Cigarette.
 Madrid Correspondence Chicago Times
 The Spaniards of both sexes smoke. Boys from the tenderest age have the habit. Women smoke cigarettes, as in fact do the men. Cigars are rarely seen. They are the luxuries of the rich. This enlivens the trade III matches sold by small boys, who twist in and out of the throngs, selling incredible quantities of the small waxen matches, which are al- most the only sort in use in continental Europe. Even the management of these bits of wax has something of curiosity for uninitiated. It isn't every one that can get them to alight in the open air, particularly if there be slight breeze. The Spaniards have solved the problem, however-just as they have solved the problem ot making a cigarette in such a fashion that it will hold good until smoked to the end. This is mystery, unimporGant as it may seem, unknown outside of Spain. The French cigarette Is pasted and the smoker relieved of the trouble of putting it in shape to smoke. In Spain it is only rolled, and as soon as 1t is lighted has tendency to open and let the tobacco drop out. The Spaniard takes the bit of paper and sQueezes the tobacco between the outstretched fingers. and gives the paper twist and the thing IS as firm as though pasted, and much more agreeable to the smoker, since the unwholesome composition of the mucilage doesn't mingle with the paper and tobacco. The lighting of the match in breeze is hardly less of a feat. The bit of wax is taken and bent just below the sulphur end. Then it is worked until 1t is ill strands of the body of threads. This when reached by the flame which happens just as soon as the sulpur is absorbed, presents so many strands for the fire to spread upon that the wind only increases the flame in- stead of extinguishing it, as would inev. itably be the case if there was but one strand. l have seen cigarettes lighted in this fashion on the windy top of an omnibus. The trick is called "a wind match" Are these small details to pick out of travellers note book? They il- lustrate, in their way, the life of this magnanimous people. They are as ser viceable in establishing the real charac- ter of the people as the more impossible details.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
At n Funny Lecture.
Burdett in the Hawkeye

While l was featuring at Washington saw lady with an intelligent, pretty face, and bright, eloquent eyes, that were rarely lifted towards the speaker, and then only for flash of time. They were bent upon her husbands hands almost constantly, Brilliant and accomplished. a few years ago, she had gone down in the world of voIceless silence, and now all the music and all the speech that comes into her life comes through the tender devotion of her husband, and as 1 talked l watched him telling off the lecture on his nimble fingers, while her eager eyes glanced from them to his sympathetic face. 1t was a pretty pie ture of devotion. They were so young to have this cloud shadow the morning skies of their lives, but as I glanced from the voiceless wife to her husband I thought how beautifully the sunlight of his devotion was breaking through these clouds and tinting even their afflictions with tender radience. This discipline of attending upon suffering is good thing for man. It rounds out his life; 1t developes his nobler qualities: it makes his heart brave and tender and strong as a woman's.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
Coffee In Typhoid Fever.

Dr. Guillasse, of tbs French navy In a recent paper on typhoid fever says: Coffee has given us unhoped for satis- faction; after having dispensed ,t, we find, to our great surprise, that it's action is as prompt as decisive. No sooner have our patient taken few tablespoon fuls of it than their features become re- faxed and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement is such that we are tempted to look upon the coffee as a specific against typhoid fever. Un- der its influence the stupor is dispelled, and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency Tn which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon eonvalesence." Dr. Guif- lasse gives to an adult two or three table spoonfuls of strong black coffee every two hours, alternated with one or two teaspoonfuls of elaret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia should be taken daily, and after while quinine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral symptoms appear first, the doctor regards typhoid fever as a nervous disease, and the coffee acting upon the nerver is peculiarly indicated in the early stages before local complications arise
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08

eats heavily of underdone meat. She has, too, strong liking of garlic soup, which has been invented especially for her by an ingenous cook. On days when she sings Ia Patti breakfasts at eleven on eggs and meat with Bordeaux wine and seltzer water. This is the only serious meal she eats until after the perform. &nce, when she sups. On her singing days ia Patti does not dine. After break fast she retires to her room and sleeps for couple of hours. About four o'clock she dresses, takes ride, then returns home and practices on the piano for an hour. Before going to the theater she drinks clear consomme. This hygienic system is scrupouslv observed by la Patti. We may add another detail. She never opens her mouth until she has taken chocolate; she then tries her voice by calling Caro-, her chambermaid, with all her might.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
A Piute's Fight with a Rig Bear.

rFom tne iruckee kNeVJ hepuD1can.
 Indian Jim came to town Thursday bringing portions of large bear. He brought the paws to sell to the Chinese, and sold ham to one of our citizens. The ham weighed nearly forty pounds, so that it's original possessor must have weighed nearly 800 pounds, although, from Jim's description of the animal, we should believe it weighed twice as much. He would have brought it all to Truckee, but had no means of transportation. It was killed on the other side of Lake Ta- hoe, near the headwaters of the Ameri- can river. Jim says that in capturing it he had a pretty close call He discov- cred the bear in brush thicket near dark, and came close upon him before he knew of his presence, He fired at him, but, it being near dark, made a bad shot, and hit him back of the heart, only wounding him. Mir. Bruin then made rush for MT. Injun, who took to his heels, and found retreat up small pine tree. The tree being so small around that the bear could not climb it, he immediately set to work to gnaw and tear it down. While in this precarious situation, the Indian made another shot, with telling effect, the ball going through the bears hesd, killing him instantly.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
RUssELLvLE COUNTY ARKANSAS THURSDAY APRIL sso
to the farmhouse again?" said Mrs. Mar

to the farmhouse again?" said Mrs. Mar chell.
 "Yes, shalll" cried Phoebe. q shall be your own Phoebe still, if only you'll let me practice in the garret once in awhile"
 You shall practice all over the housel" cried Mrs. Marchell.
 Didn't I tell you, mother" said tri- umphant Charley, "that you'd see some thing to surprise you? But you'll be still more surprised when"
 Charley, don't" cried out Phoebe growing rosier than ever.
 You needn't" said Mrs. Marchell, looking brightly from one to the other. T can guess"
 "She's such little darling, mother" said the young man.
 And Phoebe threw both her arms around the elder woman's neck, and whispered, softly:
 "MotherP'--sSelected.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08

AGHAsrLY story ofhouse burglary comes from the English town of Abingon. A farmer discovered, fortnight ago, that quantity of uncooked meat had been stolen from a cupboard in his house A search was made, and farm laborer was found lying on his back in the yard, qnite dead, holding claspknife in his hand A piece of raw beef, resembling that which had been stolen, lay an his chest, and the appearance of the body left no doubt whatever that the unfortunate man had been choked while eating the meat he had taken.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
LOVE YOU YET.

e hate him. and shall always hate
 Oh would ne'er had seen his facel Oh will this heart-ache ne'er abate3
 Will pain no more to ease give placer" And hard I've striven to forget;
 But ah, l find love you yet. You thought your hour of triumph near; Long had you sought, and waited, too; But one fell stroke fate made it clear,
 And left you nothing more to do. You thought! Why can not forget?
 Why must l find love you yet? You thought me crushed, ne'er more to rise; IL was not worth your while to save, Fen fl you could, the one whose skies seemed hung OCT naught but misery's wave But cen while bitter mem'ries fret
 find with shame love you yet Oh, could know worthy love
 Had thus ta en deep root in my heart, To tear it out ne'er had l strove-
 It should have been of life part But now 1 would I could forget;
 But oh, find l love you yet.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
A Spanish City that Makes Plans tor the
 Future.


 Barcelona not only has many theaters for the poor, but possesses two magnifi- cent theatrical establishments, one of which, the Llceo, is said to be the largest in the world. It can contain 5000 spec tators, and does often enough, for Barce- Iona is place where thousands of per sons make money easily and spend it in the same fashion. The city authorities evidently have a taste for laboring for the future. The new town is laid out on broad, breezy plan like some of our more important Western cities. Square succeeds square: promenade follows upon promenade; the best features of Vienna and Paris have been taken. and to them have been added much that neither of these places can hope for because of the harshness of their climate. It will take half century and population of million to bring Barcelona up to the level of the plan which the present citi- zens have imagined. Here we see an immense vacant space religiously pre- served from the invasion of brick and mortar, and we ask what is to be placed there. "The Hippodrome," cries citi- zen of Barcelona with enthusiasm, and then proceeds to give us an idea of the magnificent plan of this institution, before which the hippodromes of Pacis and London fade into insignificance. But when will it be buiit?" "Quien sabe?' is the answer, accompanied by that shrug which means so much, but which cannot be translated into words in any language. Another similar space is left for a hospital on scale fit for town of million inhabitants. Events may prove that this is the highest kind of wisdom. The business men show great fondness for suburban residences, which is such an essential in a hot eli mate, and there are as many lines of cars and omnibusses as in Boston.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08

from the icy cliff. Our informant is of the opinion that the glacier, as it pro gresses out of the deep gorge in which it was formed, will slowly melt away, and that it will not last many years. 1t is out of the way of ordinary travel, and the route to the scene is exceedingly difficult, so that it is not likely to be visited except by prospectors and hunt CTS.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-08
Effects of Tea Upon the Chinese Habits. Prof. s. Wells Williams Lecture Before the Shef
 field Scientific School

Prof. s. Wells Williams Lecture Before the Shef-
 field Scientific School.
 If the sanitary effects of tea upon the system are so great and wholesome, its effects since it's general introduction among the Occidentals can not be over looked. The domestic, quiet life and habits of the Chinese owe much of their strength to the constant use of this bev- craze, for the weak infusion which they sip allows them to spend all the time they choose at the tea-table. If they were in the habit of slipping even their weak whisky in the same way, misery, poverty, quarrels and sickness would take the place of thrift, quiet and in dustry. The general temperance seen among them is owing to the tea much more than any other cause. One who remembers the carrousing described in Seott's novels, and compares those scenes with what would now be con- sidered good so ,iety, will acknowledge an improvement, and tea has had much to do with it. One of Wilson's stories in Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life," of the same date, about eighty years ago, makes one of the characters lay great stress on the complete disuse VI eOsa do ouC ol tiiC pliluc iucsiiS Ol SuC- cess in life. But it has won it's way more and more, till in the present gener- ation the associations that cluster around the tea-table form an integral part of the social life among English-speaking people. ug
 One of the most likely means to re- strict the use of spirits among them is 10 substitute the use of warm beverages of all kinds by those whose system has not become vitiated. l think tea is one of the greatest benefits to the Chinese, Jap anese and M )ngols, and it's universal use fer at least fifteen centuries, throughout their territories, has proven its satifac- ton as a nervine, stimulent and bev- erage. If one passing through the streets of Pekin, Canton or Ohosaka, and seeing the good-natured hilarity of the groups of laborers and loiterers around the cl,a- k,0aus and the chr-yas of those cities, doubts the value of tea as harmonizer and satisfer of human wants and passions it must be taken as proof of his own un- satisfied cravings.