The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1868-12-05
NEWS PAR PEFS.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The war in Northern India has ended.
There are 60 1000 Baptsts in Missouri.
South American soundings since the
earthquake are much shallower.
ssGod save the Qaeen'' was Kissed in a
Quebec theatre the other evening.
Philadelphia proposes TO bridge the
Delaware with an arch 4.490 feet long
With the Parisian, Saturday is the IA
vcrite Gay for marrying.
Paris has schools where the use of the
vclocipede is taught.
The Duke of Nassau recently invested
S2,000,000 in Z. S. bonds
Kangaroo sausayes are new being made
up in Australia for English Epicures.
Yellow fever has again made its ap-
pear:nce in Lima.
Quite large area of coal land has
been discovered in humboldt, Nevada.
A volume of Artc mus Wards unrub-
fshed jokes is preparing for the press
1900 forms have been collected for
amonument to be erected to the late
Emperor MaAimilian, at Trieste.
The stock of wheat on hand IN San
Francisco last mouth. was estimated at
one million centals
DIR. Holland thinks the English are
larger and homelier than the American
ladies.
The Swedish Count, Adelsvaerd re-
fused SO 700, 900 for one of his copper
mines.
Poor Carlotta is quite prostrated. and
revives only at intervals, when she utters
agonizlns cries.
Lonis Phillippe's son urges N. Henri
Rochefnrt to dwell with him at his villa
in Twickenham, England.
The Gar of Russia has issued ukase,
abolishing nine tenths of the drinking
saloons in his empire
A London Journal reports that Queen
Victoria and Disraeli have become con-
verts to the doctrine of womeu's voting
The campaign artillery of the French
army consists of 1900 cannons, tic trains
and horses Of which are all complete aud
ready for any emergency.
If 5ou are truly benevolent and cha:i
table, perhaps you will. when you
neighbor in distress, ask some other
neishbor to help him.
Mrs. E. Cady Stanton reports that, as
a baby, Anna Dickinsnn ..was cross,
sleep!ess, restless, and crying continually
with loud voice"
The English Catholic Archbishop fa-
vors the passage of {: prohibitory law, if
no other means can be devised for extir-
pating drunkenness.
NJ Go,o or TralLx>
cred spur ing sulphur spring in the
cellar OF his house, whereby the village
Is expected to rival Saratoga
The election of Daniel Fox, as Mayor
OF Philadelphia, is beirg contested. 1t
IS alleged that the true vote was 59,199
tor Tyndale, and 57,toO for Fox.
A Vienna woman makes money by
training goldfnches to draw numbers
from small bowl. Gamblers, believing
them lucky, pay large prices for them.
A Mrs. Brown. of Glen Springs. S. c.,
who has suffered for years with dropsy in
the abdomen, had drawn from her ten
gallons Of water short time since.
Colonel Drake, who sunk the first oil
well on Oil Creek, and gave the world
the benefit of his discovery. is at Titus
vile, living in extreme destitution.
Signor Manzoli, an Italian journalist,
writing on female beauty says Boston
bears off the palm in the United States.
The Signor did not visit Oregon.
Guizot receives 500 francs for each
of his articles in the Recus des Deur
Nondes. The remuneration ordinarily
paid is about So SO il. gold per page.
A Frenchman has invented kind of
safe. which, when frtindulently opened.
/, will kindle brilliant. Bengal light, aud
assemble crowd.
IL is proposed in England to try the
experiment of cheap fares on railroads,
passengers to he carried to their dcstina-
tions at a uniform rate, irrespective of
distance.
France thinks of constructing "ma-
rine canal Of the two seas from Adgc
to Bordeaux and Rochefort, at an ex-
pense Of four hundred and ffty million
francs
A twenty-year- old Connecticut youth
has lately married blooming widow OF
fifty, who has seven children, the oldest
Of whom Is six years older than his new
papa