The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
 There are rumors of Cabinet change in Mexico.
 The cost of running the govern msnt printing office is $l0, 900 day.
 There are one thousand more men than women teaching school 1n Ohio.
 Rev. Irl R. Hicks, the weather prophet. has succeeded in getting married.
 Mrs. John L. Sullivan will be baptized under the auspices of the Salvation Army.
 Lieutenant Totten of New Haven says the end of the world will come in March. 1899.
 Apportionmsnt matters are at tracting . great deal of interest in Illinois legislative circles.
 The abominable grippe" is re- ported on the wane in Chicago but is proving more fatal in New York.
 A fire at Chicago Saturday night caused $78S,000 loss, and was at tended by many exciting incidents.
 Mrs. James K. Polk owes $2,00O taxes on her Nashville residence, and the house IS advertised for sale to meet them.
 The beet sugar industry is being worked up in central Kansas by a German syndicate, with capital ol ten millions.
 The story that Edwin Booth has determined to permanently retire from the stage is denied by the great dramatist.
 Twice as many crimes arc commit ted Tn Paris by persons between fiji teen and twenty years of age as by those from twenty to forty.
 A delegation of negroes has asked the president to appoint Worlds Fair commissioner and judge on the circuit bench from their race.
 The African continent has been crossed sixteen times--twice before 1850. six times between that and 1880 and eight times since 1880. It is proposed to form co opera tive colony in Kansas on the plan of MT. Edward Bsllamy. It is to com prise about five hundred people al | first.
 | Alaska is now the roomiest of ouI territories. It contains eighteen square miles for each inhabitant. Its population consists of 22, ,l35 natives 4,419 whites, 2,125 Chinese, 3a black and ,568 half breeds. The Maine house of representa- tive has passed bill providing fol $500 fine or two years imprison ment for preventing, by intimida tioa or force, any person from enter ing or remaining in any mans em ploy.
 The fittieth birthday of the New York Tribune was commemorateC by ajubiIee at the Metropolitan Op era House. Speeches by some O the leading statesmen of the csunty were made and letters from host o public men were read. 1 Orders have been issued from Gen. Merrltt's headquarters in St Louis to begin enhsting Indians il the regular army. The Indians ar. to be enlisted for five years and re cleve the same pay as the whltel and blacks now in the service. | The Delewarc House of Represent atives has passed the senate bil providing that ali tramps in Dele ware may be arrested and set t' work for sixty days breaking ston' for mending roads. They are f work eight hours day. and If re factory be put in solitary contine ment on bread and water. In the course of debate on bil appropriating money for an sxhibi at the Worlds Fair. South Dakoti legislator said Fl move as a suh ! stitute that we erect 6xS sod shan ty. with one window 2x4, one dool made Of shilpap, floor made 0 mother earth, and to be papere
 with three per cent mortgages sn' notes
 The Russian exhibit in the com r ing Worlds Fair at Chicago vii