The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-22
VARIOUS ITEMS

1ow travelling. ,
Maryland's convicts cost her twenty |
eight cents each per day
Women's Christian Associations are
forming in many Western States.
Why are good resolutions like ladies
Because they want carrying out.
Winnie Ream, the sculptoress, is about
to execute bust of James Fisk, Jr.
Happy James.
An Egyptian dromedary, during re-
cent race, made a mile in 1:43.
A Pennsylvania chemist proposes to
evolve diamonds from petroleum.
The city of Paris contains trifie over
ST 900 houses.
The city of London has police force
numbering 5000.
"Well, there is somthing in that" as
the man said when he tried to put his
boot on with kitten in it.
Why do girls kiss each other and men
do not !? Because girls have nothing bet
ter to kiss, and men have.
An old lady in New Jersey has given
up snuff, and sends the savings to the
American Board Of Fmeign Missions.
A negro on being examined. was
asked if his master was true Christian.
'sNo, sir, he is politician" was the
reply.
| Fanny Ellslef the once famous dancer
is not only still alive, but quite vigorous
in health, and enjoys the luxuries her
large fortune yields her.
Mrs Swisshelm told Chicago audi
ence that lying was characteristic of
women, but then, of course it was all the
fault of man.
Some one asserts on good authority
that the 'early bird caught cold instead
of q worm.
Doubtless the reason why the Jews
caught their fish mostly by nets, was
because Moses expressly stated to them
before they could not have any Moa-bites
there.
Bret Harte's most popular story, the
.sLuck of Roaring Camp" came near
being excluded from the Overland Month
~ because the young woman employed as
proof reader pronounced it ''unfit fer a
lady to read
The ''Besieged Resident" an Eng
lishnan, says: '.The Partisan is not a
coward but his individuality is SO strong
ly developed that he objects to that
individuality being destroyed by some
stray shot.
Albert r. Wells, who died few days
ago at Springfield Mo J, stated that he
assisted to build the first brick house
erected in Chicago-and he was little
, over so.
The Archduchcss Sophia, mother oi
Francis Joseph of Austria, is declared te
be monomaniac on the subject of dress
| She spends most Of her time in her pri
: vate apartments, trying on gowns.
Princess Metternich must be an ener
: getic elenosynary agent. She collected
S in Vienna, in fortnight, 100, 900 form
i 60 ,0o0) for the French Relief Fund
d and is still employed in the charitable
J. mission.
c Madame AIirande, the noted fortune
teller of Paris, according to a correspond
cut, prophesied to Eugene, who went t
consult her, last Spring, the Napoleonit
dynasty would end during the month
r. OF September, 1870.
a The unusual celebration-a pear
d wedaing-took place In Bergen (N.J.,
&c short time ago. Mr. and Mrs. Georg
is Tice were the bridegroom and bride
10 the former 81 years old, and the latte
is 81. They have fifty nine living de
e sccndants-
l. A shoemaker was fitting custome
lie with a pair of boots, when the buye
e. observed that he had but one objectio
a to them which was the soles were littl
: too thick. IF that is ail,'' replied tn
IS shoemaker, ''put on the boots, and tn
], objections will gradually wear away"
70 An English constable arrested thrt
!, men, thinking thev were deserters. II
said he inferred The fact fro:n their ina
tial bearing" and when asked what J
d meant by that replied: 'srhey were vel
IF free with their money, were drunk. swor
1t great deal, and wanted to fight"
,n Indians at Puget Sound are becomin
lie so far civilized as to use umbrellas.
J. Sir Samuel Bakers party have disco
he cred hitherto unknown confiuent of Il
he Nile; and it being the youngest child
e, "Father Nile,'' the jokers propose that
ID be set down on the maps as the Juv,
Nile.
In a remote part of Germany, a fa
!! mer recently turned up with his plo
he $4,000 Roman coins, OF an unkn III
r talic composition. They are thislrssaT
r heavy, and date back to MapSAnton
&c Hadrian and Commodus .Yhe heads a
OF finely done, and the inscrip ption unusual
lie plain.
II At Chesterfield, Massachusetts, m;
- who married wife several weeks az
ar recently deserted her, on the fimsy pr
!. text that she wasen't stylish enough Fl
: him, taking every article of furn iture fro
j, the house. and leaving her sitting on IL
- floor. The Chesterfield boys rallied
70 ride him cut of town on a rail, but
= made quick time out of the back doc
~ and escaped the mob.
en- A good story is told of Richard Mu
Ill caster, who, several centuries ago, WI
ia in the habit OF endorsing the prccept
D. of the wise King upon the lngenlol