The Russellville Democrat., 1880-03-04
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 LIFE depending on fishing with nets is a good deal of drag.
 POSSIBLY light snow, is the best hold of the Weather Bureau
 WIDOW VAN Corr is having great sue cess in revival meetings in Philadel- phia.
 IT is not what an office. holder steals that makes him rich. It is what he saves.
 TENNYsoN, the poet, is worth sl ,000,- 900. There are few poets worth less. we believe.
 THEex-Khedive has tried in vain to ! get a Napolitan bank to advance S140,000 on some jewels.
 IT has been discovered that the Dutch baby cries for it's mudder and it's fodder at the same time.
 Mas. LoRILhARD, Mrs, Astor and other i New York ladies have organized Lem | ten skating-class.
 AN exchange softly says of d dlefaulter, 1 "He admits gap of S2,00o between him. i sell and creditors" ONLY one-half of the rural population of New England make use of any better i light than candies. 1 WHEN eggs drop from 90 cents 10 IS cents per dozen in two days it's pretty sign there's hen on. FLOOD, the bonanza king, has given i his daughter little present of S2,500,- GOO to help marry her of. i IS this country mean man has only to die to have every body praise him and nerlect the eood who live on
 ScHENcK, Prussian painter, residing In France, has made fame and fortune by painting sheep in snow-storms.
 YoUSa ladies unable to support hus- bands will not be likely to ask loafers to marry them, even if this is leap year,
 ONE of the Utes is so noted fo' covet. ing everything that he sees that he is known at the agency as Hanker-Chief
 MORE than forty Spanish editors have received the title of Marquis, and they value it but little. There's no money in it.
 WHEN two funerals meet at the cem- etry, it is embarrassing to have one un- dertaker call to the other, "How's busi- ness?"
 HANLAN will have shell made for sculling on the ice. It will have bottom hard enough to defy the handsaw of Courtney.
 THE New York Herald announces in its amusement column that Rev Tal- mage continues to occupy his rink on Sundays"
 TIE average English umbrella is so heavy that person must carry it in both hands and have no arm left to plikaround the girl.
 MITE sociables are not the most dismal forms of entertainments known, yet if they were mite more sociable they would be better. A
 TIE leader of the present Cuban in- surrection has only seven Christian names after his title of General" and he is very foolish to expect success.
 A FOND mother in Leadville speaks of her late son as having been born in Michigan, but raised in Colorado. The Vigilance Committee raised him.
 NJ. TMNE being asked for biographical "reminiscences, replied: q have worked, l cave married, and I have had child ren. That is the history of almost every body"
 0BERLIN, O., is. much excited over the opening of cigar store within its limits. Public meetings are being held to de- nounce it, and anti-tobacco pledges are being circulated.
 MR. GEORGE A. SABA makes the follow ing report on New York to the men who sent hIm there: "The streets of the Elm pire City arc, throughout the winter, in ah inconceivably neglected and filthy condition'
 HENRY JAMES, JR., has written a novel for The PdrisiGa. 1t is in form of letters written from a French pension, by an American girl from Bangor, Me, an En- glish girl, a German professor and q Frenchman.
 TIE shirt worn by Charles l. at his death and the sheet into which his head fell are preserved, together with his watch, in the church of Ashburnham, Sussex, where they are deposited with the communion plate.
 A FASHION writer says: "A long round bar with fine cone at each end makes pretty brooch, and costs lady S5." An other long bar with bottle of whisky at one end keg of beer at the other makes a brute of man and costs him a fortune.
 TIE Rev. Mir. Taylor, of Richmond, Ind, undertook to escort young lady from his church to her home, in order to protect her from the attentions of suitor who was disliked by her parents; but the suitor waylaid the clergyman, whipped him sayagely, and eloped with the young lady.