The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-09-18
VARIOUS ITEMS.

John Tyler, Jr., son of ex-President
Tyler, is writing for Pomeroy's Demo
cfat.
Eugene is said ia be really coming to
this country, next Summer.
f. O. Pollard is writing for the New
York Times.
Jefferson Davis and Charles Mackay
are travelling together in Scotland.
The Gear has decreed that no girl
shall be compelled to marry any fellow
she doesn't want to. HUI czar.
Miss. Olive Logan is publishing
through sir. f. w Carleton a character
-istic volume called "NYomen and Thea
tres"
Mrs Julia Ward Howe recently
preached sermon on woman suffrage
in the Unitarian church in Newport, r.
/.
A Name editor is eighty years old, but
has never seen train of cars, and but
one steamboat since Fulton's original.
postage stamps. It gives her rebellious
subjects an opportunity to punch it.
a C rnerlotlin Cincinnati, which was
sold in 1898 for S., was lately sold at
auction for the sum of S120, 500.
The jersey City officials declare their
locality to be entirely free from loose
women. 1t always has plenty of tight
men on hand.
Mrs Stanton and Mrs Pauline Davis
have been at Newport. arranging for the
forthcoming Woman Suffrage Conven-
tion there
A Boston critic, in speaking of dan
seuse, thus exhibits his lunacy Truly
her limbs mellowed into her heart. as
with melliHuous motion she waved her
combinations.
The young man Of the period says,
there is one particularly good point in
voyage across the ocean, which is, that
one can get as tight as he plcases every
day, and everybody thinks he's only sea-
sick.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says the whisky destroyed by the late
Philadelphia fire would have made sixty
one millions of ''straight drinks, which,
at fifteen cents glass, would amount TO
eight-hundred millions of dollars, more
than one third of the national debt. 90
\ man passed through Allentown, Pa,
the other day, pushing wheelbarrow, in
which was seated his wife unable to walk,
from rheumatism, and who had been
trundled all the way there from Illinois.
Two little children of the pair tramped
by the side Of the father the entire dis
tance.
Fanny Fern says: '.if one half the
girls knew the previous lives of the men
they marry, the list of old maids would
be wonderfully increased Whereupon
the Boston Post asks s'If the men knew
what their future lives were to be,
wouldn't it increase the list of old maids
still further p
The Rev DR. Punshon, who has visit
ed both cities, says that sat Chicago
everybody seems to be going to some
place; at Cincinnati they look as though
they had been there and returned.
A little boy in Iowa rolled down hill
with rattlesnake clinging to him. Be
fore he died his body was the perfect
color of the reptile.
The water in Philadelphia is entirely
out, at last, and consequently the great
Baptist revival has been reduced to the
necessity of giving its note at 80 days to
new converts.
The individual who reached conclu-
sion has an arm three feet four inches
IN length.
Pectoral Aver aspires to Congress.
Does he ex-pectoral-ly enough voters +?
'sOne Night in Ten Bar-rooms, is a
forthcoming drama by Mark Twain.
Madame Anna Bishop has got to Chica-
go in her voyage around the world.
Chandler will visit Cologne. His
breath will furnish the city with another
smell.
Stockingless ladies is the latest ago
ny. l-.a
Lydia Thompson is performing at Ell
mira.
The Wizard oil troupe are at Schenec-
tady.
Anna E. Dickinson has been attending