The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-04-02
NEWS ITEMS.

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About half the currency at Denver is
Chinese coin.
Texas is reveling in ripe strawberries
four inches in circumference.
A Kansas farmer sowed six acres Of
wheat on the 11th of January.
Queen Victoria is said to have become,
by strict economy, almost as rich as AT.
Stewart.
Statistics show that more than 70 per
cent. of the children born in Rome are
illegitimate.
A man with Commission from Paul
to preach" is holding forth in the towns
of Vermont.
In France there is 1 Israelite to 240
OF the population; in England, to 728;
and in Austria, to 81.
A Berlin professor has found out that
all children are born with blue eyes, the
darker haes come later
Several ladies in Detroit have petition
ed the city council to appoint Lucy NJ.
Arnold, NJ. D., city physician.
The Russians are actively pushing the
culture of tea plant in Turkestan with
very satisfactory results.
Statistics show that the Quakers in
Pennsylvania, hitherto the stronghold of
the sect, are decreasing in numbers.
Canada is talking of issuing fractional
notes as part of its scheme to rid the
country of foreign silver coin.
ED. MULLER of Nevada City has re-
ceived an order for silk worm eggs from
Missouri.
TELEGRAMs notice earthquake shocks
at Calistoga and Healdsburg on the I'd
inst.
A WHALE drifted ashore at San Diego
last week, and yielded $4,000 worth of
OIL
Which is the worst enemy of society
the family that keeps parrot or the
one whose son is learning to play the
bugle?
One Pittsburg man las pounded an
other for looking at his wife through an
opera glass.
ment, Nevada will have 250 colored vot-
ers
A boaster the other day Wanting his
knowledge of the world. was asked by a
wag at his elbow if he had ever been in
Algebra. ''Oh, yes" said he, Il once
passed it on top of stage-coach."
you've destroyed my peace of mind, ;"
said despondins lover to a young lass.
at can't do you much harm, John, for
twas an amazing small piece you had any
way" was the quick reply.
''Don't cry for slap-if she's angry,
withdraw; you know, my dear child she's
your mother-in- law"
"Yes papa, that know" little Emil ly
said; s'but. dear papa, why was that law
ever made?"
Some rich men have pledged large
sum for the establishment OF d new uni
versity on the line Of the Pacific Rail-
road, somewhere east of the Rocky Noun
tains, and have selected Rev III. r.
Timlow, of East Cambridge, Mass, to
locate it, and then to preside over it.
A Chicago milliner has been transmit
ting female matter, in the shape of furs,
&c, through the post office, done up in
newspaper wrappers. She probably
thought that if paper could be sent as
fur as she chose for two cents, there was
no reason why the fur shouldn't be sent
as paper.
A California paper says that there is
no difficulty in finding, either in Califor-
MIA, Oregon or Washington Territory,
farming districts now unoccupied, which
must become valuable and populous, and
it thinks these are the places which Ia
borers out of employment should seek.
The Board of Overseers of Har lard
University have voted that there should
be increased requirements in mathemat-
les in examinations for admission, and
that this study should hereafter be elect
i've in the whole College course.
The mixed jury, six women and six
men, at Laramie, in the Howie murder
case, made another night of it. They
could not agree, and consequently were
locked up again, making it over fifty
hours. Poor husbands!
A Cincinnati woman, who had received
from the Relief Union an questionable
pair of boots for her daughter, promptly
returned them with the request "Please
give me finer pair, and the tops high,
for my daughter wears her dress short"
The Boston doctors have been holding
an inquest upon their "original Cardiff
giant" minority report affirming its an
tiquity, while the majority regard it as
the worst specimen OF modern sculpture
ever exhibited-even in Boston.
The quantity of gold produced in Nova
Scotia from the date of the first discovery
of the precious metal to the end of 1868,
a period Of eight years, amounts to 16O,
900 ounces The best year was 1867,
when the yield amounted to 10000
ounces.