The Russellville Democrat., 1886-02-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A Birmingham (Conn.) factory
eqneezes ont two thousand corsets per
day. Hartford Post.
New York has a citizen, an enamel
er by trade, named Julius Cesar. IN.
r. Times.
The sweet singer Of Michigan has q
turned-up nose So have some of the
people who read her alleged poetry.
ST. Louis Post.
An oculist tells Boston reporter
that every yard Of dotted veil that is
sold is at least twenty dollars in the
pockets of his brethren Boston Jour
nal.
Joe Howard says that William IA
Vanderbilt would give SIC, 900, 900 for .
new nose and SIC, ,O00, 900 more to have
the curl taken out of his fat lips. IN 7.
Tribune.
Lawrence Sullivan, porter at a
New York hotel, has saved the lives Of
fifty persons whom he found unconscious
in their rooms from the effects OF
escaping gas.--M 7. Sun
Nearly all London is built on lease
hold land, and at the end Of a certain
term the land on which the buildings
are erected. as also the buildings them
selves, becomes the property of the
ground landlord.
Our American nabob no sooner gets
the powev OF the purse than he treats it
like AIaddin's lamp, and calls for all
sorts of unheard-of extravagances. We
do not say that it is wrong. We only
raise The question whether every Amer
lean is prince in disguise. -. Chicago
Nescs.
I'm rchearsing the many advantages
of Minitoba for immigrants, Canadian
paper gives these statistics: The average
Weld per acre Of wheat in Manitoba
during the past five years was over
twenty mine bushels; barley, thirty-seven
bushels; oats, fifty-four bushels, pota-
toes. two hundred and eighty bushels.
Rev. c. F. FELTON,, Of Baltimore,
says: 1T is objected that our system
of voting is so corrupt that woman
would be degraded by contact there
with. NV opinion is that her presence
would purify the system, and the voting
would be likely to take place in some
front parlor window, instead of q saloon
or next door to it. =
Nobody has right to forget in an
effusion OF sentimental emotion that
there is no greater wrong to honest la
Dor than TO reward idleness and swim
ding. Ignorant alms-giying. which is
s;sply indolepi self-indulgence, teaches
,'.aS skillinl lying and laziness can get
more money in a day than honest labor.
- Horper's Weekty.
Concord, N. H., has five cranks, who
banded themselves together forty years
ago as the mystic five.r aud agreed to
meet once a year and answer any ques-
tons any one of the band chose to ask.
TIE answers were all recorded liz q
book, said to be zone Of the most re-
markable in existence The five also
swore off on liquor and cards, and when
any of them die the others are to act as
bearers at the funeral. Boston Tran
script.
"A Chinese woman OF San Francisco.
whose husband was desirous of eniight-
ening his opium-colored room by the
advent of 'sChinese gal," after many
unsuccessful attempts at purchasing
finally found young white mother who
was in distressed circumstances and Of
fered her forty dollars for her little
"glal." The white woman accepted
the offer, and gave up forever the pos
session OF her cbild.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The smallest savings bank in the
world, the directors of which are the
smallest directors in the world, is a
penny savings bank, OF Brooklyn, n.
Y, established in public school No. 3.
1t has, according 10 its, last annual
report, one hundred and forty-four ac-
counts, and the total amount in the
bank on December was $267.33. The
bank paws four per cent. interest on
sums over five dollars. Each depositor
has tiny bank-book. The officers oi
the bank are boys and girls. The ac-
trustees of the school. The bank re-
ccives one-cent deposits. = Brooklyn
Eagle.
During the performance of thrill
ing play in Norwalk, Conn, a we'll
known physician Of the town, who
seldom entered the theater, was among
the audience. When the part came where
the heroine swallowed the poison, is
diving, and her lover and friends are
wringing their hands and crving. help.
lesslv: s.What can be done" the
doctor was seen to be laboring under
considerable excitement. At last the
terrible scene was too much for him,
and forgetting where he was, he jumped
to his feet and shouted: "Giye heI
coffee, you---fools: give her coffeev'
Then friendly hand pulled him back
into his seat. and the surprised actors
went on with the play. Hartford Post
The President Of the United States
Cremation Society says that there are
five thousand persons in this
country pledged to have thciI
bodies burned. There il ~
vet but one crematory-- at Wash
I ington. Pa; but the plans are drawr
for another, and the society Is raising
the money TO build it. Fifteen thousand
dollars have been subscribed. The
building will. besides the furnace, con
tain room for the resuscita;ion of per
Sons who would Otherwise be burned ol
buried alive; saother for the keeping
of bodies by refrigeration until the ar
rival of distant mourners. who NIGH
wish to take part in funeral ceremonies
and third in which any desired rites
may be held. Philadelphia Press.
The following anecdote Is related o.
General Butler in Washington: The
( General was once engaged as counsel fol
I the defendant In q case where tht
J .,risaror yvas nccusc1 of manslauvhter