The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-11-17
SCFSSORINGs.

One county in Tennessee has pro-
duced 400, 900 bushels of peanuts.
Weddings at churchi in the evening
are now the fashionable idea
A runaway horse in New Orleans
dashed into church.
Butter is ninety-fve sents pound
in Colorado. N
The cattle in Kansas are dying of
Spanish fever.
. The Wright county (Minnesota)
Poor House has a living skeleton who
drinks two buckets of water a day.
At Wilton, New Hampshire, recent
", sixty-ssFen old saws and a junk
lbottle' were found in bale of cotton.
i Among the'frst articles forwarded
to Chicago last week were iron fire
and burGlaT-proof safes-t
At an Indiana wedding last week,
both bride and groom were on the
shady side of seventy.
). The announcement comes from Ger
many of the marriage of couple
rafter forty years courtship-
!; The subscriptions for the Chicago
Fund are believed to now aggregate
81 500 900. 'ss
;. Some one has discovered that mice
ere used as an article Of food IN Louis
:rille, kentucky ~ II
Twogsrls, ten and twelve years old
pot int0ia fight at Charleston, ard
oneiwas killed. ia.
The King of Siam offered Mr.. Sew
ard an elephant during his visit to
that country. He was forced, though
reluctantly, to decline the present
Accounts from Chicago report that
the fire. with its glare, heat, cinders,
setc., has had damaging effects upon
the eyes of the population.
A. T. Stewart, the New York pa
pers isay, will tender the Grand
Duke Alexis grand banquet in his
new marble palace on Fifth Avenue.
An Indiana groom kissed the bride
so-loudly as to extort round of
applause from the assembled audi
ence at the wedding.
Some of the Easter journals are
discussing such edifying conundrums
as 'Who destroyed Chicago?" rs
God an Inceneiary ?" and the like.
Andrew Stephens. aged nineteen,
who was charged with breach of prom
Use of marriage, committed suicide by
taking prussic acid in New York, the
other day.
In Sheffield, England, a single
manufacturing establishment uses
631 tons of steel annually in making
pens, the product averaging 1.000,-
900 pens to the ton. ~
The matrons of Leavenworth, Kan
sas, have erected an illuminated
clock, in order that their husbands
may have no excuse for mot thinking
1t was SO late. y
1t is not well to question gift mo-
tiyes; but we really wonder what
could have induced lady to contrib
ute parasol to the destitute in Chi
cago. =
A citizen of Cincinnati recently
applied for marriage license, bat
being entirely unable to recall his
intended's name he did not obtain
the document.,r a.
Grasshoppers are prematurely
chewing the. tobacco in Connecticut,
and the other chewersi talk'of hold
ing a meeting to denounc& the chop
pers" for immortality. *
reThe father and mother of the Cum
mings Sirlat Elko, who accused her
father Of incest, broke down her accuse
ton by testifyiRg that she is COM
mon liar and prostitute.
Miss Carrie 'Monfort of Boston,
known asathe "Fat Girl" recently
died of disease of the heart. She was
1ine years old, and weighed nearly
400pounds.
John Harper, the owner Of Long
fellow says he will never run anoth
er.horse. Grief for the murder O
his brother and sister has brongh
him to that decision.
There is one county in Iowa tina
for two years has had a woman tt
superintend their school. Now twt
other counties have followed thi
example, and nominated women TO
cface. IL ~.