Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-07
Brcyieies. |

Cyrus w. Field is reported to be
worth s5,0G0,000.
A lady in Cincinnati claims to have
hair ten feet long.
+ The San says, "Fishmongers are
sell fish men,"
Enough of Traupmann's hair has
been sold in Paris to make a mattrass.
The San says, "Where ignorance is
bliss, procrastination is the soul of busr
mess"
Virtuous Chicago has fned q barkeep-
er S25 for selling liquor to an aristocrat-
ic lady of l6.
The late Bishop Tompson, of the
Methdist Church, had made voyage
around the world.
A Georgian lately paid for bushel
of meal in gophers, and received three
mnd~turtles in change.
The Siamese Twins have contract
with the great German circus proprie-
tor, Renz, for IL 900 thalers monthly.
A Philadelphia German having fall
len heir TO princely fortune of $780,
gloriGed by getting drunk and shooting
man.
A Detroit student has thrashed hid
room-mate just because he put pound
of powder into the stove and went out
for the evening.
Seven merchants, all doing business
on the same street in Halifax, we're lost
in the steamer City of Boston. They
had gone out to purchase their spring
supply of goods.
A new parody and poem by Figaro
commences thus:
Woman, spare that tea
Touch not single drop
In youth it tempted thee,
But now, for Heavens sake, stop
In Germany. vhilo it is perfectly
proper for young lady to go home
alone through the streets in the eveG>
ing, it would be highly improper for "a
young gentleman to accompany her.
Good reports continue to come from
the japanese colony in Cslifornia, snd
they promise to exhibit at least ffe
chests of tea at the next State Fair, bi
this years growth, from the plants set
out last season.
A child shonld have its daily cxdr.
else in the open air, at~least after it is
q month old and it should never haFe
its face covered night or day SO that it
cannot breathe freely.
A Russian poet has not only be en-
able to dedicate volume of verse to
his mistress, but to furnish the bindiEg
from his own person. Having had a
leg anputated, he devoted the epidernl is
to the embelishment of his rhymes.
The Montreal Gazette says that one
of the French Canadian colpcrteurs re-
ports that the people he visits are muc ch
discouraged by the present low prides,
and that they are so poor he finds il
very difficult to sell or lend the Scrip
| lures.
Count Bismark has given the Uni.
yersity of Virginia valuable collec-
ton of Photographic and engraved de.
signs of recent Government works in
Germany, exhibiting the modern i'm,
provements applied to bridges, can ais,
railways and public buildings.
A female school teacher at Yales,
vile. Conn, foeged a boy for contl N.
acy and accidentally put out his eye.
The boys father sued for damages, and
got judgement for four hundred and
thirty one dollars. She could not bay,
and was put on the Jail limits, her faith.
er, who was able, refusing to pay the
fine.
A Boston writer comes to the de-
Tense of women against the current no
ton that they are peculiarly addicted
to gossip, alleging that in couu try
grocery store, among barrels of molas
ses and piles of salt fish, more gossip is
talked by men in one evening than il
heard in all the farm houses or the
town.
Persons curious about the wages of
royal folk abroad may find it conspla-
tory to know that there is paid to Alex
ander Ii. s8,250, 900 yearly. or $25 900
a day; Abdul Aziz $4,000, 900, or
$4,000 a day; Napoleon III, IS 900,
600, or $14,219 day Francis Joseph,
S4,000.000, or S10.050 day; Fred.
erick William l., $4,000, 900, or sSl210
day; Victor Emmanuel, $2,4OO, 900,
or s6,840 a day; Victoria, So .200, 900,
or s6,270 day; Leopold, 100000,
or 1,643 day. In addition to this
salary, each sovereign is furnished with
dozen or more FIRST class houses to
live in without any charge for rent.