The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-04-09
MEMS ITEMS.


during the year 1868, S12,310 in the
way of bounties to the slayers thereof.
An American author of eminence re-
Gently called on Carlyle, armed with /
letter of introduction from Emerson, and
the urbane Thomas slammed the door In
his visitors face.
A Nevada editor was presented on
Christmas with a bible, and bottle OF
whisky was added to induce him to ac-
celt the gift.
A boy FIVE years of age, having stolen
can of milk, his mother took him to
task with moral suasion, and wound up
her discourse by exclaiming: "What in
the world were you going to do with the
milk, any how?" II was going to steal
little dog to drink it, was the crushing
reply.
"Why is the name of George Wash
ington any more respected aud honored
than mine?" SAID teacher to pupil.
because he never told lie" was the
discriminating, but not over compliment
tary reply.
A gentleman named John Alexander,
of Belfast, Maine, has forty nine feet of
sons, who weigh | $50 pounds. He has,
besides, two daughters, who do honor to
the physical proportions of the family.
The moustache and goatee were first
worn in Spain to distinguish Christians
froEl Moors, this being as nearly the form
of cross as the beard can be cut.
A recent English traveller on the
plains on the Argentine Confederation
speaks of certain Cacique Nabidrigist,
+l, of
horse, WELD a lance, and go into the bat
tle-field with as much apparent vigor as
hundred years before"
A gentleman of Houston, Texas, was
awakened by strange sourds the other
night, and going out to his garden found
three negroes busily engaged, two in dig
ging and the third in reading aloud from
the Bible. They were after the pirate
Laftte's gold.
Oil cake is continually increasing in
demand. Milkmen are said to find it the
most valuable food for their milch cows !;
by its use both the richness and quality
of the milk being greatly increased
A New Orleans husband, arrested for
improper behavior in Il concert saloon,
went to prison rather than accept his re-
itttSC oiI SOUuIttbi VI lSjLliise Ills iiC W uul
company he was taken in.
Miss Robertson is the leader of the
woman suffrage movement in Ireland,
where 0,00G persons have petitioned for
woman suffrage.
1t was DR. Holmes, we believe, who
said that easy crying widows take new
husbands soonest There Is nothing like
wet weather for'trans- planting.
According TO the RccoJ,atoa, there is a
faro bank on Fourteenth street, Washing
ton, kept by woman, where the women
clerks Of the Treasusy 50 to gamble their
salaries away.
y nice little game has been stopped at
; the New York Custom House. Some of
the men have been accustomed to wear
stomach canteens,' fitting about the
body under the coat, into which they
2 would syphon Of liquor from the casks
unloading, carry it away, empty it safely
: and return.
A Newburyport man recently placed
seventeen open barrels in row, and
jumped from one into the other, withon,
stopping, through the whole number
This Is feat hard to beat.
About 800 900 bales of cotton are re-
ceived in Boston annually, or l 200 bales
every business day in the year. About
r $40, ,000, GOO in value of cotton, and near
/ / ly one-eighth of the entire crop of this
country, is received at that port. 1t is
said that Boston, after Liverpool, is the
greatest consuming port, for cotton, in
the world.
Angelina having said that she was
!: twenty five years old, Augustus expressed
great surprise, remarking. GLOW can
that possibly be, Angelina | was born
on the same day with yourself, and, being
twenty nine, it must DO" '1Ah but
remember, Augustus, that you have
lived much faster than |. =
James Fisk, Jr., is reported to be am
bilious Of building a more magnificent
depot in New York than Vanderbilt S
monster station He has offered $780,
900 for site on Ninth Avenue.
An Irishman that was very near sight
ed, about to fight a duel, insisted that he
should stand six PAGES nearer his antago-
mist than the other did him.
The strongest newspaper articles yet
written against the women suffrage move
ment are said to be from the pens of
women.
On the complaint book of the ST Louis
city engineer there is the following epis-
tolary curiosity:
.'Herr Inspector Sir Ter ist Elm tam
pad blase in der Seitvo k (sidewalk) in
der Franklin Ebenu Streets vor mein
Hans unit | vanthim fz quick, at yon-
strals mein vrow unit der Kinder-she
fall in dem, and now | gifts tam doctar
bill 20 bay"