The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-11-20
Chr Albany 2egister.
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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\ lady in Rhode Island subscribed for
n Newport paper, the other day, to be
sent to a neighbor who worried her by
borrowing her own.
y Michigan paper wants to know,
"Will the coming woman be a man ?'
Probably not, but she will be as near a
man as she can without damage-to man.
There are 130 Mormon settlements in
Utah, and the adherents of Brigham
Young are estimated at 10000.
There have been sixteen cases of sui
eide in Lowell, Massachusetts,, within
eight months, mostly of young girls
Whenever the city authorities of Bos-
ton want something to eat, they get up
picnic excursion to some graveyard.
Dumb girls, at New Haven Asylum,
are going off rapidly in marriage. Some
men know their business when thoy
marry.
An Irishman says he can see no earthly
reason why women should net be allowed
to become medical men.
What becomes of all the pins that are
dropped upon the ground They be-
come terrapins, of course.
Mrs. Yell cowhided SIR. Lay for not
performing promise to marry. As he
wouldn't make. her Lay, sho made HIM
Yell
In some parts of Wisconsin the whole
population is at work gathering cranber-
ries, and, strange to say, they are doing
it for sauce
The mistress of mud cabin in Sioux
City refused to buy her daughter piano
because such things are getting alto
Sether too common"
A young lady who went out with
rather timid young beau, one evening,
complacently remarked to him that she
mover went out bat she got chaps on her
lips. The young man took the hint and
ehapped.
A Chicagoan, describing the sensation
of bathing in Salt Lake, says it renders
one uncertain whether he is " Chicago
traveller or a big air bladder" A wicked
California editor remarks, Where's the
difference, anyhow ?"
While the " Rev" John jackson of
Ledbury, Herfordshire. England, was
preaching a few weeks ago, his former
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aisle, with a young baby, and told the
congregation that it was the rector's.
Bourcicault kindly sent word to the
Princess of Wales that she had better not
attend the presentation of his latest play,
in her present state Of health, as lit con-
tanned a scene somewhat more startling
than usual. She replied that he could
not frighten her.
For many days the cheap papers of
Paris have been filed with the details of
the Pantin tragedy. The Petit Journal
sold 4O3,950 copies in one day. Some
contemporaries who boast of the largest
circulation in the world should make a
note of this.
Catherine Beecher, the oldest member
of the Beecher family, is 60 years old.
She was betrothed early in youth to a
very brilliant scholar, who is still remem-
bered-Prof Fisher, of Yale College
and he having been lost at sea, Miss
Beecher remained single all her life.
A Chicago wife could not endure the
thought that her husband shonld have ac-
cess with herself to the pantry, and there
fore has obtained divorce
Mosby wants to fight his duel because
sheriff Boyd, of Fauquier county, Vir
ginia, called him 'shighway robber"
Mosby is too particular, altogether.
Connecticut farmers are astonished at
pickerel having been found in their corn
fields after the recent storm, while out
West fields are measured by the perch.
DR. Cummings asks the Pope how it is
that the Catholic priests are celbates
while Peter was married. The Pope will
probaly answer that the custom has peter
ed out.
A man without $500 of his own made
S25, 900 iu Wall street last week by gold
gambling.
ONE of Joe Smiths sons has written
for passes over the Union Pacific Rail-
road for two hundred women who are
sick of Utah.
The Chicago rogues' gallery has S64
portraits. The rest of the population
hasen't yet been photographed.
A man in Boston makes good living
by manufacturing dolls shoes. He made
fifty thousand pairs last year.
Dr. Nelaton. Napoleon's sawbones,
sometimes has between three and four
hundred professional callers in day
Pere Hyacinthe's letter had the very
unusual compliment of being telegraphed
in full to all the European capitals
The New York Times, in an elaborate
exposition of the operations of the great
gold gambling conspiracy, says: A let
ter purporting to be from Mrs. Grant is
published, saying th at Corbin had sought
to involve her by purchasing gold on her
account and carrying it for her profit;
but the letter only shows that the Presi-
dent, hearing of it, had requested it to
be stopped The Times account also
says that {" $50, 900 worth of gewgaws
were forwarded to Washington By these
same scandalous operators" and
q thrown from the White House at mid
night"
Maryland is now one of the most
hopeless of Democratic States-haviDg
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