The Russellville Democrat., 1882-06-29

RIDGE, Of Jefferson
 One Brosius, of local fame, has been nominated for Congressman at large on the Cameron ticketin Penn.
 A tablet to the memory of Balfe, lrelands greatest musical composer, is 10 be placed in Westminster Ab- by,
 Atlanta papers have already been called upon to return thanks for wa tcrmelons laid upon the editorial ta- blc.
 James R. Pcttigrcw, of Fayette- vile, has been confirmed by the Sen ate as q member of the Utah Com mission.
 Just before his accession to powor in Egypt, Arabi Bey was a pretty cmploye of a Cattani firm, where his duties consisted merely in selecting supplies of fodder.
 MT Edmond Gosse has discovered fresh facts bearing on the fife of the poet GraY-faets which he has em bodied in his monograph on Gray, This is to be the next volume of the "Enghsh Men of Letters series.
 Warren Chipp, the father of Lieut.. Chipp, who is among the Jeanette's S missing, lives at Kingston, N. Y. Al terralIing upon Lieut.. Danenhower, the other day, MT. Chipp said that he still had hopes of his sons escape.
 The Lancet says that Jumbo is not mad, adding; As q matter of fact, there is not the smallest ground for supposing that elephants are prone to insanity. What Jumbo needs for the next year or two is to live among his kind"
 Gen, Sherman wrote in letter to the author of book upon American inventions in small arms the other da. When war comes again, as it will in due time," etc. The veteran evidently believes that the world is not yet sufficiently civilized to pre- vent wars, ana that this country is likely to be drawn into one of them.
 We all know says London Truth, lit is not good form to look a gift horse in the mouth, but doubt if Kaiser Wilhelm will do otherwise when he learns that two of the four horses which the Emperor of Russia has just given him are the very iden. tica ones that drew the late Car $ carriage when he was assassinated '
 The May or of Philadelphia has un- dcrtakeu anew the job of closing the gambling heIi' of that city, and with more than u,uM success, as the po- lice are wholly under his control. and therefore are in danger of re. hloyal if they do not procure eyi, dcuce against the gamblers. The owners of pgoutrty, too, are being proceeded against.
 The Illinois Board of Health has decided that the diploma of a medical college will not entitle the bearer to practice iA the State unless the college has a three years course, requires dissection through two years, has clinics for two terms in each year, eniorces attendance on eIght,tonths of its lecture S, and con fcrs degrees only after examination.
 Certain Oriental scholars are much puzzled over a recently discovered Babylouian tablet, said to be dated iu the reign of ArtaXcrXcs, which k inscribed in q character hitherto un, known, but compared to which the euneiio:m is simplicity itself All sorts If theories are likely to be ad- ynnccd about this inscription except the ohHous and wholly satisfactory ouc that lt is the work of some news. paper editor of the period, who was to the Bahlioniau press what Horace Greedy Was to that or this country.
 Appropos of the riiculously far fetched title of a recent simple book of travel an English critic recalls q story which used to be told ut Cam. bridge about the celebrated Mir Si- mcou. One or his pupils was read ing to him a sermon perhaps the first that he had ever composed, in the course of which to tine following passage Amid this tunult the son of Amram stood unmoyed" Whom do you mean by the son of Amram?' inquired the divine. "Ir you please, sir l mean Moses Then, if you mean Mpope why do yp1 mt Aav