The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-21
WAYS OF THE WORLD.
VERBuM sap-maple sugar.


 FIRST Freshy, incredulous- what are ye given me?" Second Freshly "I'm givin' ye straight goods, that's what Pm givin' ye."
 LONDON newspapers are adopting the American paragraphic system gradually. That is, they sometimes have two articles on page.-Neo Hacen Register.
 THE New Haven Register informs us that ssome men are like dried apples" In the name of humanity, we protest against any such being sent as mission aries to the South Sea Islands. Boston Post.
 WHEN car is accidentally put off the track nowadays, it is said to be de railed," We presume that when man is accidentally put off the car, he may be said to be de rided. Just so.-Bdlimore Every Saturday.
 AN exchange prints an article headed How Oilcloth is Made." We have read it through carefully, but have failed to fined the information we seek, which is how oilcloth is always made so alfred cold.-Rome Sentinel
 CINCINNATI Saturday Night: Last sum- mer she was eating green corn by gnaw- ing it from cob, when her teeth became entangled with corn silk. "Oh, dear," said she, impatiently, T wish when they get corn made they would pull out the basting threads!''
 PROVERBS translated from a German column: What with the heart is written should not with the senses be read. In the cold region of politeness it is the truth hard itself naked to show. Itgives for us more under people and over peo- pie than fellowmen.
 BOSTON Post: A Maryland man was kicked by mule just in time to get him out of the way of a stroke of lightning. Some men would have seen a special cursed that the lightning didn't strike him in time to get him out of the way of the mule:
 THIS naughty story appears in the Fond du Lac Reporter: q am convinced that the world is daily growing better" remarked reverend gentleman to a brother clergyman; "my congregation is constantly increasing" "Yes" replied the other who happened to be a peniten- tiary chaplain, "and so is mine"
 Norristown Herald: A woman may be as homely as drove of camels, and as uninteresting as counterfeit detector, but as soon as her husband is elected to Congress and they take up their residence in Washington and give receptions she becomes handsome and fascinating"-in the newspapers. There are no blanks.
 How do the gilded youth of both sexes like this from the lips of an old beau of the old regime? "The femme comme il faut of my youth is extinct as the dodo. Language is slang, society is mob, dress is display, amusement is not; people are let into society who have no other claim to be there but money and impudence, and are ignorant as maids and grooms, and more so."
 ScRNE-The gambling-table at Monte Carlo. Person@-Young English lady with little sister and gentleman whose acquaintance they have made at the ho- tel. Young lady-"Oh, say, shall put five-franc piece on the number of my agew-putting one on the figure eighteen. The number twenty eight wins. Little Sister-"What funl Now, if you had really put it on your right age, sis, you would have won, wouldn't you?'
 OUR friend Wales was doing some lith- ographic work for an illustrated paper. One morning a messenger was sent for the long expected drawing. Hell them that Pm sick-a-bed," said Wales. Two days later the same messenger returns, but the lithographer is not yet ready. Say I'm dead" answers the artist. On the following day the messenger again put in appearance. "Mr. Wales," said he, "The managing editor sends me to say that if you are dead will you at least kindly send back the lithographic stone" "The stonew howled Wales, "Tell him it is on my grave."-Nym Crirlkle.
 IN Southwestern Russia. between the Baltic and the Black seas, the sunhower is universally cultivated in fields, gar dens and borders, and every part of the plant is turned to practical account. A hundred pounds of the seeds yield forty pounds of oil, and the pressed residue forms wholesome food for cattle as also do the leaves and the green stalks, cut up small, all being eagerly eaten. The fresh flowers when little short of full bloom, furnish dish for the table which bears favorable comparison with the artichoke. They contain large quantity of honey, and so prove an at traction to bees. The seeds are valua- ble food for poultry; ground into floor pastry and cakes can be made from them, and boiled in alum water they yield blue coloring matter.
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