The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-05
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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| pict. ures.
Buggy umbrellas" are advertised for
sale in New Haven. Use insect powder
on them.
The water courses of Connecticut are
said to be SO dry that the mills are
being run by cider.
"What little child y said friend.
"Ah," replied Hood, his parents never
made much of him.
The handsome Cardinal Bonapart,
nephew of the first Napoleon, has, the
reputation of being great ascetic.
Mrs Ramsey, wife of the Minnesota
gentleman of that name, is said to be the
most beautiful of all the Senatorcsses.
A female prisoner at the Allen County
| Gndiana) Jail, has persistently refused
to either talk or eat for nearly two weeks.
Admirals Selfridge and Poor have been
appointed members of the Naval Retiring
Board.
A train carrying seventy tons of tea
recently passed over the railways from
Boston to Montreal.
The State debt of New Hampshire
will be reduced some S400, 900 before the
close of the present year.
An Iowa woman advertises for hus-
band, ''money no object, but must be
healthy and willing to work.
According to German authority the
first daily newspaper in the world was
the Frankfort Journal, which was foun-
dcd by Wenot Enmel in 1915.
1t is the opinion of the doctor that the
lawyer gets his living by plumber, while
the lawyer knows the doctor gets his by
pillage.
A man named Charles Lopcr was re-
Gently cured of lock-jaw at Hampstead,
Long Island, after having suffered from
it for three weeks.
A man named Dennis Kelley was re.
Gently murdered at New Orleans in pres
ence of bis wife, who was SO horror
stricken that she failed to make an outcry.
The only gambling house at Worches-
} ter (Mass. J, was recently broken up and
the proprietor and five of his dupcs taken
to the Police Station.
Ex- President Pierccs estate is estimat-
ed at 81 900, 900, the bulk of which will
probably go to a nephew. who is being
educated at Princeton College.
: Shclburn Falls, Vermont, has citizen
who claims to be the champion horse
snapper" He is 40 years of age, and
has traded horses over 600 times.
The Examiner is quite fearful, through
two columns, that disgrace and destruc
ton are coming upon the Democracy O
!, San Francisco End that State. Correct
A woman, in Wyoming, last year, bea
her husband in the nomination for q 10
/, cal Office, and they went home perfect,
satisfied that the office was to be in tn,
:. family.
, The model husband lives in Lewiston
Me. He takes the baby with its nursin,
bottle to his place of business, leavin,
his invalid wife to take her ease at home
A young lady being asked by q. ricl
old bachelor, s.If not Yourself, who woul
. you be ?" replied sweetly and modestly
). "Yours, truly"
$. \ wealthy citizen of Cincinnati, nam
ed Strong, recently endeavored to prov
his sanity by showing that he had Gu
down dentists bill. His wife desire
to undertake the management of hi
81 property.
" 1t appears from the message of tn
q Governor of Vermont, that S149.0 900 {
81 the temrorarysand permanent debt of til
81 State has been paid off during the pre-
ent year. The total debt at present
] 81 ,002, 500.
8 The Philadelphia Press, which doesn
g want the wages of labor lowered by con
s petition, logically asserts that sit is be
ter to have the mechanics and work in
= men Of England here than to have ther
y in England, and receive the products G
y their labor.
Five dollars per minute is the incom
= of one of the fortunate owners of O
n wells in Pennsylvania. An offset pei
haps could be found among the 500
% men who wake up in various places j
e., the morning; without knowing wher
.S their dinner is to come from, who ono
- had large possessions in oil wells.
20 A singular accident occurred at Baxte
{, Kansas, last week. Mr. Samuels and hi
20 clerk, Max Horn, were unpack ing good
when their motions shook down doubl
g. barreled gun, which was discharged i
10 the fall. killing them both instantly
"a A fendish negro of ST. Louis recent
drove knife through the spine of
!. young girl of his own color, who had r
fused to marry him. 1t was with gre
difficulty that the knife could be extrac
ed from the wound. The girl Is not e
r pected to recover. >:a 7sst
An attorney, about to finish a bin
costs, was requested by his client,
ker, to make it as light as be scoul
"Ah 2 replied the attorney, s.that
80 what you may say to. your forema
. but ats not the way make bread"
A married man who clopeds from nj is
lssippi with another woman, has in