The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-23
sCIssORINGs.

at four, telling him he had two hours
longer to sleep.
t'I will preach from dat portion
of the Scripture, dis evening"" said
a colored dominic, "where de sPostle
Paul pints his 'Pistle at the 'phe-
sians.'"
The Virginia Legislature has
passed bill repudiating one third of
the old State debt, that being the
amount which was apportioned to
West Virginia.
It is stated that upward of three
thousand women are now employed
in the departments at Washington
as clerks, printers, librarians, copy
lists, and the like.
Miss Amanda Way, has been IL
censed to preach by the Methodist
Church in Winchester, Indiana, and
delivered her first sermon in that city
q few Sabbaths ago.
There are twenty family physi-
clans in Berlin who are justly entitled
to be called famous practitioners.
They have amassed individually
ample pecuniary means, it is said.
A blind woman in Iowa has learned
to thread cambria needle with her
teeth and tongue, and a contempara-
ry asks: "Is their anything in the
world that woman's tongue cannot
do or undo?"
All the liquor shops of Washington
are closed on Sunday. The only
place where you can get q drink on
that day is at the White House, and
then it Is to your advantage to be a
brother-in-law or cousin.
''Mrs. Muffin" said a visitor,
s'Emma has your features, but think
she has got her fathers hair "Oh,
now I see," said the "deer little
Emma" s'It's because have fathers
hair that he has to wear wig"
One of Baltimore's loveliest bellies
had runaway match, TO the intense
delight of the gossipers. A sympa-
thizing chronicler says that the bride
cleft disconsolate little poodle to
mourn the pangs of unrequited love. !"
Douglas Jerrold said: "Eve eat
the apple that she might indulge in
dress" Little did she realize the
cost of fig leaves in the nineteenth
century, or how much it would worry
her poor daughter to get even a ballet
dress.
An archaeological correspondent
adduces as evidence of the antiquity
of the game of euchre the passage in
the New Testament which relates
how the priest and the Levite
<'passed' and the good Samaritan
assisted"
Two Quaker girls were ironing on
the same table. One asked the other
what side she would take, the right
or left? She answered promptly:
cit will be right for me to take the
left; and then it will be left for thee to
take the right.
The first woman admitted to prac-
tice as lawyer in tho Courts of the
District of Columbia, is a young,
colored woman, Charlotte E. Ray, a
graduate of Howard Institute. She
was admitted to the Bar last Friday,
under the new rules of. the Court.
A eolored mail-carrier in Virginia
was recently well shaken by a man
for kicking his dog. "Look here,
massa," said he, ''you'd better be
keerful how you shakes dis chile; cos
when you. shakes me you shakes de
whole of de United States; I carries
de mails
a man who went to the Hartford
menagerie, the other day, remarked
to a person standing near: "How I
would love to see one of those noble
animals" meaning the tigers, "roam-
ing the feresti How quick I would
get up in treet' The man means
just what he said.
A curious confirmation of the truth
OF Thackerays assertion that lady
could not write a letter without
underscoring some OF the words was
shown in Queen Victoria's recent let
ter to the people, acknowledging her
qualification at the enthusiastic recep-
ton with which she was greeted. In
it three words are underscored.
TESTING SILVER PLATING.-It is
sometimes matter of interest to be
able to determine, by means of SIM
pie test, the nature of a silver coat
ing to metal, whether it be pure
silver or some other substance. This
is said to be readily accomplished by
the use of cold saturated solution of
bichromate of potash in pure nitric
acid of one and two-tenths specific
gravity. The surface of the article
to be tested is to be first washed
with strong alcohol, SO as to remove
any lacquering, and then a drop of
the solution applied by means of a
glass rod, the place affected being
immediatly rinsed off with water.
Ii the substance in questisn be silver,
a distinct blood-red spot of chro-
mate of silver will be perceived.
The stop is brown on German silver,
and after rinsing shows no trace of red.
With Britannia composed of tin and
a little copper), black spot will be
discovered, but no effect will be seen
with platinum. Upon a surface
amalgamated with mercury a red
dish-brown deposit will be perceived,
which is completely washed away on
rinsing. With lead and 'bismuth a
yellow deposit remains. Zinc be-
comes strongly etched, the liquid,
however, disappearing completely on
washing. Tin is attacked also
very decidedly, but the test liquid
imparts a broWnish color. and an