The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-01-14
VARIOUS IrEMs.

shake it off. ax
The guileless are usually without aus
picion, but the dishonest man always
suspects others. NJ s so
Garments of beauty may cover but
they can never impart worth to abandon
ed characters.
! Men are often warned against Ole
1 prejudices; let them also be warned
against new conceits.
A New York Judge committed a cross
! eyed woman for contempt of court because
shc didn't look at him when told to.
"A new idea for duelists is to both take
strychnine and then play draw-poker sfor
the first pull at the stomach pump. This
will reduce dueling to science.
I Lady - Before l engage you, I should
like to know what your religion is
Cook.-aOh, ma'am, always feel il
| my duty to be the same religion as the
family I'm in
I A sixteen year old damsel awaits trial
in the hartford, Wisconsin, jail, for hoise-
stealing. s avss sAl
A St Paul millionaire makes himself
popular with the lower classes by eating
$40 greenbacks when he is drunk, r
Edmund Abuut's peace article in the
Paris Soir is used as Campaign"
document by Bismarck. What is Ed
mund about?
Prairie chickens are so numerous in
Illinois this season that numbers are
killed by flying against the telegraph
wires. ts t@
There are two rea1ons why some people
don't mind their own business. One is
that they haven't any business, and the
second is that they have no mind.
One Youssce, at Monticello, Iowa, gives
| everybody notice that he has made his
wife "frce gift of s5,000," and nobody
need send him any Of her bills, for he
won't pay them.
1t is stated that no one now in Paris
and at Tours is in favor of holding the
elec.ious All desire that the war should
90 on to the end. The probabilities are
very strong that twill. s'fHsH
The New Orleans Republican of late
date devotes nearly a column TO descrip-
tion of public drinking fountain of
unique desigr, about to be erected in one
Of the streets of the Crescent city.
Ladies in Paris are now said to gaze
in butcher-shops with the same curiosity
as they used to peep at ribbons and laces
for sale. N
At the commencement of the war the
French had 139 regiments of regulars.
| Only 10 are left The Germans have
also captured SOC, 900 Chassepot guns and
5000 cannon. ~
There is mounted at Mont Valericp,
one of the French defenses, the most
| formidable siege gun now in France. It
is called Marie Jeanne, and throws shot
of $50 pounds six miles.
The Herald of Health declares that
sleep after dinner is unhealthy and that
ten minutes. doze befo-o eating is the
thing. -..s
! Concerning the late Woman Suffrage
| Convention "Mrs Howe accused some
of the men oftrying TO bully the ladies,
but some of the men seemed to feel that
she, and some other women, were trying
| to COW them"
| A strong earthen barricade has been
erected before the cages of the lions,
leopards, tigers and panthers in the Jat-i
din des Plantes, at Paris, to prevent their
escape in the event of prejectile destroy
ing the bars of their cages. ssH
The Shah of Persia, who is pilgrim
to the holy shrine of Korbela, lately
passed through Bagdad accompanied by
a suite Of 10, 600 persons. The horses
and other beasts of burden composing
this caravan, numbered upward of l5,-
900. ss
Queen Victoria has now nine grand
sons and eight daughters, together seven
teen grand children, of whom the Crown
Prince of Prussia gives Eve, Gone died in
! 1869 the Prince Of Wales five, the Prin-
cess Alice Eve, and the Princess Helena
two And the Queen has still fve un-
/ msirried children. p
4 child was recently born at Montague
without arms, but with appendages like
the wings Of bird, with thumb and
| forefnger on each wing. In all other
respects it was a we'll developed male
child. 1t lived twelve days and weighed
twenty four pounds
Here is novel cure for a balky horse.
Fill his mouth with dry loose dirt,
take hold of the bit, and he will 60 If
there is any go in him. sass
There was the liveliest stomach-pumpA
matinee on record at st. Louis the other
uay. IOFty DOdt uSAS III - VIE AsNoA A0SsO~
ry were fed on arsenic designed for the
rats. but were pumped out before death
closed the scene. Il,
An Omaha man bought q piano in
Chicago, and, after getting it home, he
wrote back, blowing up the firm that
sold it to him, because he had hunted all
over it and couldn't find any key hols to-
wind the thing up so it would .sPleyss
Here is rural simplicity for you. Tho
key-hole should be forwarded BY mail.
st. Anus Catholic Church, on Eighth
street, near Fourth avenue, New York,
was sold, December Sd, to Mr. A. T.
Stewart. the dry goods millionaire, for
$130, 900. !,
Samuel Grubb, Of Memphis, announ-
ces himself as = candidate for tax ssceiver,
sshaving no other means Of support =