The Russellville Democrat., 1880-01-29
WAYS OF TIE WORLD.
TIE Astors own 400 dwellings in Ney Vori. C;tx-

WHEN man reels cOmDeiicu 10 make d statement he is in tight place.
 Ir is suggested that most of .he P.aiphs in Pinafore should be called Singbad the Sailor.
 SOWING wild oats and reaping missiles is better than sitting down and doing nothing.
 ENGLISH ladies have recently become interested in the game of football. This settles the narrow skirt business.
 TRAIN dress in the way it should go, and it will never be too forward in get ting under the feet of the weaier.
 TIE pen is mighticr than the sword, except in Paris, where the editors light duels to satisfy their outraged honor.
 "TuATs what beats me-" as the boy said when he saw hls father take the skate strap down from it's accustomed nail
 AN American would submit to being locked up in a railroad car just long enough to enable h Tn to kick the door down.
 THERE will be no war in Maine, but for years after this ncighbors will re- fuse to borrow tea and coffee of each other.
 Coop times arc upon us, yet Queen Victoria's wages are still kept down t. the hard pan figures of 5 ,000 day, with out board.
 Gov. CORNELL will be presented with a gold pen made from an Egyptian coin 4,000 years old. He will use 1t to sign official documents.
 SOME Philadelphia ladies have present. ed Mrs. Hayes a screen worth Sl,500, which she has placed in the Blue room of the White House.
 A MAN cannot expect to make hying out of the sale of his photographs unless he has been tried for murder or become a professional beauty.
 LET loose dat hash" is the suggestive way the colored walters roar their orders to the corlmissary department in res taurant in Chicago.
 GAIT. DURToN's History of the Sword is nearly ready. IL is said that i'll pre- pairing it he has ransacked every great collection of swords in Europe.
 TIE King and Queen of Italy propose to visit the island of Sicily in great pomp next spring, for the purpose of stirring up the Loyalty of the Sieilians.
 AN editor being asked, Do hogs pay?' says great many do not. They take the paper several years and then have the postmaster send it back refused"
 J. trott and B. Snow have arrived.- Trenton Slate GGsete. Also, - Ice; we forgot his front name, but you will think of it wheh you sit down very hard.
 WHEN you occupy the same bed at a hotel with q stranger, he is just as sus- picious as you are, and just as fearful of being robbed, so you might as well sleep soundly.
 TIE late Mrs. Charles Dickens was the granddaughter of Mir. George Thomp- son, who figures in the inner life of Burns as his correspondent on musical and other matters.
 NlR. EDWARD JENKINS, member of Par liamcnt, follow ing the example of Dick ems, will shortly give the English public an opportunity oi hearing his own in- depreciation of Ginx's baby.
 NORTH CAROLINA is the champion state for queer-named married couples. Mir. Cherry and Miss Flowers, and Mir. Woodpecker and Miss Possumare among the latest new domestic firms.
 IN the list of Georgia lawyers who have received big fees, the Atlanta (Ga.) ] Constitution puts Senator Ben Hill first. He received in one case fee of $l40,- GOO, of which 0,000 were paid in cash
 A coNToRrIoNIsT was performing in a New Haven variety show when the po- lice made a raid. He leaped over an officer, and from a window twenty-five feet from the ground, finally escaping.
 AN English woman has ordered from a New York jeweler a bang bracelet worth S40,000. Even with nothing on but her bracelet and one hairpin that woman would be expcnsively dressed.
 KING MTEsA, of Central Africa, has llb- erated his slaves, commanded the ob- seryance of the Christian Sunday ard forbidden the cooking of missionaries on the Sabbath day. Cold cuts only are allowed.
 TIE English arbitrary marriage reg,- lation which compels marriages to be solemnized before noon was introduced to prevent bibulous bachelors rom pre- senting themselves at the alter in an in- toxicated state.
 A WOMAN at Des Moines said she wouldn't give cent to the African heath- ems as long as there were ragged and starving children of her own city, and she has been called upon to give up her church pew.
 A YOUNG lady in Chicago, when asked by the officiating minister, "Will you love, honor and obey this man as your husband, and be to him true wife?' "Yes, if he does what he promised me financially"
 GAMBErTA is an admirable and digni- fed presiding officer, but the French Chamber of Deputies, according to a spectator, must be rather unruly. "They laugh, they jecr, they clap, they cheer and sheer and interrupt in every possi- ble way"
 TIE disturbed condition of the Rus. sian Empire predisposes the Czar to make friendly overturos to England. Similar motives induced England to meet hall way those amiable advances. Either natIon, under the present phases of do. mestic agit tion, plots, and conspiracies can well afford to avoid coming to an open rupture. A settlement of the difficulties in Asia, between Russia and England, will prob ably prevent a European war, anC superinducc a better understanding be tween those great powers that menace the tranquility of the old world.
 THOSE small South American Repub lies continue to create much trouble fol each other and occasionally annoy larger States in the family of nations An impending revolution at Venezuela