The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-02-27
For the Ladies.

rage bells chime regularly at every
wedding.
a Broadway store makes speciality in
renting out beautiful wedding pres
euts."
A New York bell recently displayed
at the marriage ceremony an eight th.us-
aud dollar robe.
Ga dit, that Mr. DeDille, the Danish
Minister, will soon lead to the alter
young lady Of New Jers y.
The daughters Of i prominent New
York city official say they received three
hundred calls on new years day.
Mrs. Grant will not, in ali probabili-
ty, have more than two or three general
receptions during the season.
James Robb, the we'll known banker,
is to be married early in February to the
widely known and accomplished Mrs.
Stanard, of Richmond Virginia.
A popular New York organists charges
SlOo for performing at weddings. Fash
ionables readily engage him.
One OF those tiresome six year engage
ments terminated last week in New
York in a wedding at homo. No cards,
no festivities, etc.
Iu New York, seven Murray Hill
young ladies have organized dancing
class, to which they invite seven young
gentlemen friends at each meeting
The juvenile ball annually given BY
Mrs. August Belmont will probably take,
place during the present month.
The drawing rooms of an aristocrat;c
New York residence on Madison avenue
are furnished entirely with gilt furniture.
1t is said that well-known West
Fourteenth street New York bell bears
likeness to Menken She wears simi-
lar coi57iu,e to the late Adah Isaacs
The next style of bonnet is to be bead
and two inches Of ribbon, fastened with
a hair pin.
Corresponding in violet ink is now the
rage among young ladies and school
girls.
Seal skin jackets worn by some ladies
on promenade are generally conceded to
be pretty and stylish.
Beautiful fans of white lace over col
ored silk are now in vogue. They are
expensive, but that's nothing.
Monogram kid gloves are in vogue.
At the ball of the 'sJohn Morrissy Coz,
terie," Mrs. J. Nj. appeared in pink
silk trined with black lace, en- panier
and trail, with very costly diamonds.
1t is no longer ''genteeP' for young
lady to accept an invitation for Delmon-
ico's at the conclusion of theatrical per-
formance. Mrs. Grundy says it is "fear-
fully common"
Ex-Judge Mitchell's neice, who was
recently married at Flushing e.. ID. re-
ceived wedding gifts amounting in value
to $4,000.
AT the M-dinner recently given at
the Hoffman Home, New York, the bills
of fare were found in gold nut at the
plate of each guest. All in nutshell.
ABOUT NEwspApERs.-The are
FIVE thousand newspapers published in
the United States New York has the
largest number OF any State, and Utah
the least. Only one hundred in the
country have a circulation of ten thous
and. There is no daily paper west of
New York that has bona .fde circula-
ton of twenty thousand copies It is es-
timated that one publisher in four tells
the truth about his circulation. In ad-
vertising, mercantile firms generally pre-
fer dailies aud patent medicin men week
lies. Chicago, Bellcville, and St Louis
are Cow furnishing country publishers
with paper upon which the ..outside" of
their edition is already printed-Repu
lican. Democratic, or Conservative in SEN
timent-with the name of the paper,
| date, volumn, publishers card, terms,
etc, and any desired size. The New
| Hampshire Gazette is the Oldest paper
in the United States, having been estab-
lished in 1856, Git has changed editors
| and publishers since then,) and The
F! Chronicle and Sentinel, published at
Agusta, Georgia, was established in 1874.
The jacksonville (Alabama) Republican
has been edited forty-six years by James
Freeman Grant, practical printer, and
| cousin of the President elect. The Alb
,ngton Trginian has been conducted by
its present editors twenty-six years. The
| Lycoming Gazette published at Williams
port, Pa, was established in 1901; The
| Christian Observer, Richnond, Va, in
1913, (Which makes it the oldest reliy-
ious paper in America,) and the Lynch
burg VIyinion was established in 1903.
In the Pahranagat District, which lies
| In the southeastern part of the State OF
| Nevada, about one hundred and eighty
miles southeast of Austin, is remarkable
mountain of pure salt. In small pieces
it is quite transparent, and SO remarkabiy
hard as to require blasting. It is five
miles in length. six hundred feet in hight
and Of an unknown depth.
Chicago has had race between ,
street car and velocipede. The latter
upset and threw its rider into the gutter
SO that the car won the race on s.foul.'
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