The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-01
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Not a miss-a pretty widow.
Always behind hand-the wrist.
Play-bills were first printed in
1868.
Command to the charitable-pres-
ent aims.
A Michigan baby bit his tongueand
bled to death.
The last cup Of a frolic is general
~ the hic-cup.
When is q bow not a bow? When
it is a bow-knot.
Tooth and nail brushes-Fights
between woman.
Self-made men are very apt to
worship the maker.
Alexis gets about s25, 600 a year
for being a duke, etc.
All girls in Indiana are called Sissy
unless they weigh It's.
Partisan ladies now use orange col
or underneath their eyes.
A Maryl nd woman has received a
contract for building a railroad.
An Iowa girl, aged seventeen, beat
all the boys and got the equestrian
prize at a fair.
The BARRIERS duty is two-fold. He
is a brusher of whiskers and q whis-
-kers of brushes.
Mrs. Lynda Sexton, who is about
10 years old. is the champion of the
Kansas State Prison.
VIM. Gording, in 1929, was the
first person on whom the title of
Doctor was bestowed.
Cunning, at best, only duz the dir
ty work ov wisdom, therefore I dis
Pie it.-Josh Billings.
A schoolboys aspiration.-"'Oh,
how / wish I was a fountain, for then
I could always be playing"
P~oliteness is like an air-cushion;
there may be nothing in it, but it
eases u jolts wonderfully.
In Manila, 2 5000 women and
girls work at cigar-making at average
wages of seren cents per day.
Let a young oma take the de-
gree of A. B.-that is, a bride-and
she may hope In due time to be emit
tied to that of A. III.
Fifty young widows reside in the
small town of C~enterville, Ind, and
it is unsafe for an unprotected man
to pass through there.
In Ohio, a few Sabbaths ago, a col
orcd female preacher immersed a
number of persons. The woman is
pastor of a colored church at Oberlin.
A little girl of thirteen out West
has been presented by herfather with
a small patch of 1000 acres in a cor
ner of his back yard to play at gar
dening.
Sir Robert de Coverly observed
that January commences in the Joy
Gus eason just after Christmas, and
adds "that it could not take place al
a better time"
A letter writer, describing a ball
says the feature which made tn.
deepest impression on Kim was ths
"unusual number of very plum1
women foaming oyer the tops O
their dresses"
Mrs Wallace of Minnesotarecentl,
broke her leg, but refused to let he
husband hear of it, as it wouldinter
rupt a political stumping tour he wa
on. Say after that women are no
interested In politicsl
A mean Norwich man has met wit
W but just punishment. He re
fused to give anything for the Chica
go sufferers, and within two hour
hears thai his mother-in law had com
to stay a month with him.
An English journal contains th
following brisk advertisement: "No
tice-If my husband, who left Bristo
four years ago, does notreturn within
three months to his wife from thi
date, she intends to get married"
At the annual examination recent
of a certain school not more thai
fifteen miles from Boston, the maste
asked one of the scholars. "Wha
the Pilgrims came over to Americ
in?" and had his e~quanimity some
what disturbed by the reply: "Tw
steamersl" Turning to anothe
scholar he endeavored to set the ma
ter right by asking "When th
Pilgrims landed?" and was agai
foored by the answer: 1880"