The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-12-20
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The Exposition building at Vienna
is to be 700 by 1000 feet.
Thin sheets of metal are now used
as a substitute for wall paper.
A new cordial. extravagently boast
ed of, has been invented in France.
There are 50, 500 600 worth of
wild animals in the various American
menageries.
The champagne vintage this year is
said to be only one-third of the aver
age yield.
The Danes are busy fortifying,
their national Capital, Copenhagen,
and its approaches.
A young hippopotamus was born IN
the London Geological Gardens No
vember 18th.
William 81. Parks of Brooklyn has
given $4,000 for a three-year-old
black colt named "Prospero-
The boots worn by President
Lincoln at the time of the assassina-
ton are in the possession of q man
at Lynn, Mass
During the year ending the 30th
of June last, 5000, COZ acres of
Government land were disposed of
in various ways.
A Kansas physician lately swal-
lowed dose of chloral to show q
patient that it was possible to do SO,
and died of the dose.
Another cat show is to take place
at the Crystal Palace, London,
among the competitors being tabbies
valued at So ,0e0 each.
The iron production of France is
steadily increasing, and there, as
elsewhere, the ironmasters have ad-
vanced their prices.
A single iron company in West
phalia. Germany, produces annually
so 900 coo tons of steel and 250, 900
tons of iron in various forms.
A st. Paul druggist was astonished
the other day by the appearance of
japanese, who bought an ounce of
laudanum and drank it off.
The Peter The Great, iron-clad,
according to MIR. Reed, ex-Chief
Constructor of the English Navy,
is the most powerful iron-clad in the
world.
A young man who presented the
young lady of his cnoice with q
SPLENDID tippet. was pierced. to his
hearts core on observing a rival
young man wearing the same.
Both in this country and England
the reading of books has got down
to the minimum. The question is
asked by an English paper, ''How
can any one ind time to read nova
days?" Life in London seems to
have no room for books.
Uncle L.: "Now, Sammy, tell
me, have you read the beautiful story
of Joseph?" Sam: .s0h, yes,
uncle" Uncle: ''Well, then what
wrong did they do when they sold
their brother?'' Sam: "Taey sold
him too cheap, uncle, I think"
There is law in Austria by which
the Government may take possession
of any railroad which is not kept in
cook condition for travel and traffic,
and manage it at the expense of the
owners, and under this provision,
the Lernburg Czernovitz railway has
recently been seized.
The Duluth Tribune, wishing to
compliment the grocery wares of
resident of that little town, does it
in this style: HE has splendid
article of cracked wheat. or grisz,'
which, as an article of diyf, can't be
beaten. The grocery man at once
countermanded the order to send a
sack to the editors house.
Ship building is gradually reviv-
ing in Maine, although there is as ct
little or no oindication of anything Ikea
return of the former prospects. But
at Columbia, Bath. Piscataqua and
#othes ports, vessels are now on the
stocks. and it is hoped that the for
mer utter stagnation has terminated
once for all. At Piscataqua the keels
+were recently laid for two vessels Of
! 100 tons Ssah and c1s ~ TOO tons.