The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-07-22
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
London has but two penmanship ex~
perts.
A Texas widow of fifteen has married
again.
There are 552 windows in Stewards
UPTOWN store.
Wyoming women won't vote now they
have chance.
Forty thousand negroes will vote in
Kentucky this year.
Nets for the hair made of bullion thread
are just introduced.
Soroais women declare they won't
wear dresses any longer
Detroit has Il colored base ball club
called the :. Waving Lilies"
\ colored ice cream peddlcr at Nash>
vile is named SNOWFALL Frost
1t is proposed to bold National
Police Cooyention" at ST. Louis
Decatur, Ills, expects to have ten
railroads and be the capital some day.
Chicago has health officer who actu~
ally condemns meat and vegetables.
A North Carolina man has worn a
Leghorn hat for 35 years and still calls
It good.
An Atlanta German has so many chill :.
dren that he can't remember their
| names.
Pitt Ross. son of Senator Ross, is the
champion bill poster of Lawrence, Kan
sas.
Oswego, New York, claims the dis
covery in that neighborhood of remark
able mineral springs.
The proper maine of the potato bug is
dorynora decemlinitta What's its sur
name?
Twenty-six Thousand veterans of 1872
have sp:lied for pensions They are
coning in at The rate of l76 daily.
A Rocky Point, Rhode Island, dining
room serves 1000 people with CLAIMS at
one time.
The graduating class at Yale numbers
100 members. The average for ten years
has been 1904.
There is report that college for
women is to be established at Cambridge
University, in England.
The Troy Wig says it was three
pape, collars warmer there on Sund ay
than it was on Saturday.
The Louisville Ledger calls the Jail of
that place the municipal oven, insane
asylum and architectura. fraud.'
A contemporary says, 9 The first
| printers were Titans.' There are a
| good many tight uns' among them still
/ They captured ut Charleston, South
/ Carolina, recently, FROM the wharves, a
shark eleven feet two inches long.
Nearly $4,000 female property owners
in Massachusetts pay taxes on Sl3l ,6S4,
1893 worth of property.
| Ii is proposed III Indiana to divide the
State, proposition which the Chicago
| 7rttaae combats vigorously.
| A worker in a Pittsburgh factory
accidentally jumped into caldron OF
molten metal ou Saturday. and was hor-
ribly burned.
| A Clergyman in Cairo, Ills, recently
forbade his congregation putting into
the contribution box any sum less than
| five cents
Chiuamen are employed as miners in
| Nebraska, and have aiready penetrated
seven hundred feet GU their nearest way
| home.
The Revolution says, "a parlor orna-
ment made of flesh aud blood is a costly
thug to keep" The lady editors eyi
denly know how il is themselves.
Experiments in the army bakery.
Washington, have shown Il at one barrel
of -four will make 8U2 !. aves Of bread,
weighing one pound each.
Que OF the papers contains 40 adver-
tisement: .'Lost-A large black silk
umbrella belonging 10 gentleman with
a curiously carved head.
Locomotive No. 8, OF the Now jersey
Railroad Company is said to be he fast
est locomotive in the United States, hav-
ing uade SO miles in one hour.
A Boston street car company runs an
oarly morning car during the season OF
dandelion greens, TO accommodate the
women who bring them TO market.
A lady offered prayer TO st. Ignatius
for the conversion of her husband. A
few days afterwards the man died.
What good saint is our Ignatius Z
exclaimed the disconsolnte widow, .hs
bestows on as more benefits than Wc ask
for r.
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