The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-10-07
Miscellaneous Items.

taste creep Ill by accident or otherwise,
and one hears from it from every quar-
ter.
The average age of women. when
they marry, is 25.I6 yeirs :and, of one
hundred who reach this age twenty
one will never marry. With men it
fares differently; for, strange rs it may
seem, more women than men get mar
ried, and. of Que hundred of the latter
who reach the marriage age Of 29.5
years, twenty-two viii die Bachelors.
Thus, about oAe-fifth of our people are
doomed to die uilwreltled, whether they
prefer it or not.
Peter Cooper, In speaking of his ef-
forts IN life, gives the following tribute
to his wife
. Providence did bless my efforts;
and this Institution is the result, never
lost sight of during a business career of
nearly sixty years in which | was
cheered, comforted, sustained and en-
couriged by the gTtE,le>t OF human
faithful, and affeetiOnate Wife
A prominent Government official at
Washington, recently wrote to IA friend
in New York, inluiring az to the po
sition, financially, or otherwise, OF Il
resident OF that city. q an, happy to
inform you that Mr.->tlnds at the
very top of ,respectability here. He
owns u fast horse, a New York Judge,
and Intends to steal the first railroad
he sees lying around loose
Dio Lewis declares that the present
system Of employing doctors, is wrong,
and advises the people to make con-
tracts with them at 800 Il year for
each family, and deduction of 81 for
each case of sica<Esess-
A piano that is played with the feet
is the latest musical invention an
noiinced in England 1t hts sixty
eigh3 keys which are cnbical blocks of
wood. and each one strikes a chord of
four notes. The inventor wears slip
pers when playing aud while he per-
forms upon the piano with his feet he
plays the flute with his mouth and
fingers.
The other day, in town in Yer
mont, two women, mother and tlaugflt-
er, alleged to be guilty of immoral
practices, were taken from their dwell
ing and subjected to a coat of tar and
feathers. A male offender found on
the premises was ornamented with a
crown of feathers, and a jug was tied
neck, i'm which condition he was para
dcd through the town to his residence,
and made to acknowledge to his wife
his marital derclictions. He was then
notified to leave the town within tweIl-
ty-four hours, or suffer the penalties of
an adhesive coat and ride on the
wooden horse.
We caution parents particularly not
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| i'm the mornings let nature wake them
| up; she will not tlo it prenlat,irely
/ bit have care that they go to bed at
an early hour let it be earlier and
earlier, until it is found that they wake
up themselves in full time to dress for
breakfast. Being walked up early and
allowed to engage in difficult or any
studies late, and just before retiring,
has given many beautiful and prom
ising child brain fever, or determined
ordinary ailments to the production OF
water. Oh the br7lin.-.Df. Hdl.
/ According to a French statistician,
taking the mean of many counts. a mar
fifty years of age has slept 6, 900 days,
worked $500 days. walked 500 days,
amused himself 4, 900 days, was eating
1.5OO days. was sick 500, etc He ate
1900 pounds of bread, 16, 600 pounds
of meat, 4, ZOO pounds of vegetables
eggs and fish, and drank 1000 gallons
of liquid, namely: water, coffee, tea,
beer, wine, etc, all together. This
would make a respectable lake of BOZ
square feet surface and three deep,
ON which a small steamer could navi
gate.
An exchange says ssOne of tht
greatest nuisanees of a hotel is hand
some man. He is a bore to all the la
dies of good sense in the house. Ii W.
might be allowed q suggestion, We
would advise every flther who il
threatened with a handsome son IN the
family, just to take clothes pounds
and batter his nose to a .pumice. Fo
some cause or other, nine out out @
ten of the handsome men you meet arr
eonceited jackflaws. They cultivat4
their hair and complexion so mucl
that they have no time to think of thei
brains. By the time they reach thirty
their heads and hands are equal,
soft. y s' -
The oldest tree on record in Europe
Is asserted to be the cypress of Somnla
= in Lombarlia, Italy, This tree is be
ieved to have been in existance at tn
time of Julius CRsarg forty-two year
before Christ, and is therefore 191
years old. 1t is log feet i'm height, ain
20 feet IN circumference, at one foe
! from the ground. :. Napoleon, whe
flaying down his plan for the great roa,
over the SiInplon, !: diverged from
straight line to avoid injurfng this tree
Il A French chenlest asserts that if tie
be ground like coffee before hot waite
is poured upon It, # WI yield uearl
} double the amOunfaOf its exhilaratin
Lalaiities. Anot5eEI: writer says: 81
, you put piece df lnmp sugar the siz
, Of a walnut unto q tea pot you wi
make the tea infuse IN half the time.
Persons who have tried this last e1
i pertinent, say that the result is yer
, satisfactory. a @ 3 E
ff4 s8s
The Khedive Of Egypt has the grea
: est private purse of any one in tt
world. His personal wealth Is said |
amount to $500, ,OO0, 90. He lives in
new palace, which cost him 81 5, 600
. 600, and spent $26, ,00O, 600 entertain
j ing sixty thousand European guests