The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-01-01
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Dante has been translated into He
Drew.
The vclocipede has reached East
Africa.
The Emperor of China is fifteen years
Did
The tallest men in the United States
are said to come from Georgia.
Brazil has lost so 900 men in her four
years war with Paraguay.
Medical diplomas are worth $50 apiece
in Philadelphia.
It is stated that Winnie Ream is learn
ing to cut stone in a foreign language.
They always hang murderers in Brazil,
which spoils the decapitation story.
A bad cigar is worth $3.50 in Hayti-
in Haytien currency.
They say now the Cardiff giant was
made in Chicago.
A New York democrat scalped his
wife to celebrate Thanksgiving day.
Brooklyn fat-melters are being "tried''
and found wanting.
Philadelphia has gilded stoves for
drawing room use.
Four thousand seven hundred and
thirty cafes in Paris.
Louis diversion.
Ellen Wood is the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's short hand secretary.
All the American Presidents are to be
busted-up in Central Park.
James L. Wilson's declination of the
Iowa Senatorship is positive and final.
The Nevada City Debating Club has
decided not to remove the National Cap
ital.
Only seven of the active members of
the Philadelphia press of 1910 are now
alive
Sixty-two years ago, October 9, the
first steamer was launched in the United
States.
OF eleven newspapers published in
New Hampshire in 1910, five are still
alive.
The Rhode Island cotton mills en-
ploy 10000 operatives, and run l00, 900
spindles.
Susan B. Anthony received one vote
for Governor in the fifteenth Ward in
Philadelphia.
Where Seward is now, Mansanillo,o ,one
can live on dollar month.
Over a million of Goldfish have been
brought to San Francisco from Ochotsh
this season.
A Kentuckian, who has twenty
children, is in favor of protection for
home production.
The Italian brigands send a prisoners
nose to his friends to let them know that
greenbacks are wanted.
Louis Reille, the chief of the Red
River rebellion, was clerk in St. Paul
grocery few days ago.
4 Roman nobleman is reported to have
given engagement tokens to Miss Ream.
The six young lions of Central Park
eat sixty pounds of meat daily for their
dinner.
A resolution to exclude the bible from
the public schools of Louisville has been
voted down-17 to 5.
Jennie June says that men should pay
their wives for household work the same
as they would any one else.
The amount of entries made on Treas
urer Spinner's books during his term of
Office, eight years and a half, is over
S44 100000 900
Twenty-one babies were burned to
. death, lately, in the village of Radozin.
Hungary Their mothers were at work
in the fields when fire broke cut that
consumed 125 houses.
A late issue of the London Times con-
tanned $1,000 advertisements from as
many different persons.
1t is predicted in Washington circles
that the approaching session of Congl ess
will be very long and exciting one.
A fruit grower in Bartlett, Tenn, fol-
! lowed the advice given in "Ten Acres
Enough" and covered his peach trees
for few inches above the ground with
tar to keep off bores, &c. Result-an
equal number of dead trees.
| Forty-seven men who were drawn as
| jurors for one county of Georgia were
excused from service on account of hav-
ing young babies at home, and the court
adjourned "till baby season is over
A. policeman having saved a New
Jersey lady, at Elizabeth, from insult,
she has given him $4,000.
The United States works z20 200
threshing machines, exclusive of school
teachers, parents and guardians.
A Boston paper has a curious state
ment in regard to the effect of railroads
upon climate. It says The opinion
seems to be gaining strength that the
Pacific Railroad is working a great
change in the climate of the Plains.
Instead of continuous drouths, all along
the railroad rain now falls in refreshing
abundance. This result has been re-
marked up in other sections of the West
In central Ohio, for example, it is said
the climate has been completely revolu-
tionized since iron rails have formed a
net work all over that region. Instead
of the destructive drouths formerly suf-
fered there, for some four or five years
there has been rain in abundance-even
more than enough to satisfy all the wants
of the farmers. The theory upon
which these facts are accounted for is
that the iron rails, which touch each
other, act as conductors of electricity
the great agent in the production Of
climatic changes. The currents being
equalized and more uniform in strength.
of course, the sections affected, will have
more uniform rains and fewer electric