The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07
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A New Yorker complains that it
costs IS, 600 year to dres his daugh-
ter.
Queen Victoria s signature is beau
tifully formed, with each letter clear
ly cut.
Mrs. Alderdice is Methodist lady
from Ireland now preaching in New
York.
A woman in lie Suer county, MIMI.
has applied for divorce from her
sixth husband.
A precocious eight-year-old girl
Intentionally shot herself in Savan-
nah the other day.
In Colorado when lady wears
much iewelry she is described as
being well "Saltsd."
Fort Wayne, Ind, gentlemen
charge the partners of their bosoms
with red-hot pokers.
The coming poetess of America
is Miss Emma Lazarus, of New York,
dark-eyed Hebrew maiden.
Where is the young lady who can
pack up her own boxes and not leave
half her "things behind her?"
Wisconsin husbands who absent
themselves from home seven years
are to be considered legally dead.
When "Othello" admitted that he
"did take away this old mans daugh-
ter" he pleaded guilty to grand lar
ceny.
A New Orleans lady, while stand
ing in her doorway, was struck in
the leg by q ball from a Christmas
pistol.
A woman in Mazeppa. Mimi, won
hundred dollar wager recently. by
eating five quarts of oysters in fifteen
minutes.
Two American female physicians,
DR.. \. E. Blackmar and Mary Blinn,
both from Chicago, are practic;ng in
Edinburgh.
Susan Dickinson, Annals sister,
says the reason she does not lecture
is that she is not as pretty as Apna.
Poor Susan.
The new "cast-iron dish cloth" are
said to be far better for dressing
down a refractory man than the
broom-handle.
The daughter of General Birney.
having learned to set type in Massa-
chusetts, is regarded as competent to
edit Florida paper.
Two boys have been expelled from
the Normal School, at Brockport,
y. Y, for cutting a curl of hair
from a young lady's head.
AnIndianapolis lady is getting out
side of aquail day for thirty days on a
wager. She has worried down eigh-
tel of the birds, and cries for more.
Garibaldi's second wife is 35 years
old, and is described as a dark. hand
some woman, with fierce eyes and
thick hair parted at the side of the
head.
The Boston papers want the little
girls in the public schools to learn
the art of sewing, but are troubled
to know what modern lady can teach
them.
Count Kissitoff is dead. He was
terror to modest virgins, who. were
always unwilling to pronounce his
name for fear he would take them at
their word.
Ohio has law by which any hus-
band who opens his wife's letter can
be made 10 pay right smart for it.
It isn't a good State for a jealous
man to live in.
Mrs. Mary E. Grammer of Nash
vile, the actress, better known as
Miss Bette Gilbert Gray, wants a
divorce from her husband on account
OF errors in Grammar.
-Four girls in Augusta, Me-, were
married about eighteen months ago
at the same house. Two have since
separated from their, husbands and
the other two want divorces.
A Western editors statement,
"We are living at this moment un-
der absolute despotism, is explained
by his contemporaries by the fact
that he had lately been married.
Thirty years ago Mrs. Lydia Will
son of Raisin, Mich, stuck a willow
riding whip into the ground. It now
measures ten feet in circumference
and spreads over eighty-four feet.
A couple were married, at Milton,
at the death bed of the brides
mother, at her request. The bride
caught cold at the funeral, and died
within week. of typhus pneumonia.
A man and his wife, named Wilson,
respectively 81 and SO years old,
died within a few hours of each 9TH
er at Americus lind. the other day,
and were buried in the same grave.
After life of peculiar vicissitudes,
commended as circus rider and
eliminating as princess, the Prin-
cess Salm-Salm closes her romantic
career as nun in convent at Inns.
bruck, in the Tyrol.
Harriet Hosmer has completed an
exquisite work-a statue of the ex-
queen of Naples, who is presented as
about to apply match to cannon,
a fitting representation of woman
who so bravely defended Gaeta.
Miss Mary Babson died in Man.
chester, n. f., Sunday morning, al
the age of 80 years. Miss Bobson
was born in Hopkinton, and was
a granddaughter. of General Stark
of Revolutionary fame, with whom
she resided during the later years Of
his life.
An old lady in Ottawa. Mich, was