The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-21

dren into the higher grammar school
proauced only momentary selsa-
tion, and even that has subsidized.
English medical officers who
serve on the west coast Of Africa,
suffer greatly from the climate, al
though they are allowed a years
leave at home for every year spent
in Africa. They contract levers
from which they rarely recover.
Out of an European population Of
ninety-eight at Sierra Leone, over
twenty died last year.
Minnesota papers give many ter
rible incidents connected with the
late storms. Ole party, engaged
in clearing the railroad track, eight
miles below st. Peter, discovered,
nearly buried in the SHOW, a double
team Of horses and a sleigh in which
were seated two men wrapped in
robes and enclosed III buffalo coats,
and frozen stiff. The neil sat per-
iectly upright, and were within two
hundred years Of the station build
ing.
Somebody has been summing up
the fate Of Kings and Emperors as
follows: Out Of two thousand five
hundred and forty Emperors or
Kings over sixty-tour nations, two
hundred and ninety-one were de-
throned, sixty-tour abdicated, twen-
ty committed suicide, eleven went
mad, one hundred died on the bat
tie field, one hundred and twenty
three were made prisoners, twenty
five were pronounced martyrs and
saints, one hundred and ffty-one
were assaSsinated, sixty-two poison
ed, and one hundred and eight were
sentenced to death. Total, nine
hundred and sixty-three.
Vast numbers of animals are al
ready arriving for Mr.. Barnum
from eyery direction and from every
cline. Among these is fairy ele-
plant, so dainty and small that it
can be carried about upon the
shoulder Of any man who has an
inclination to try. 1t comes from
the East Indies and weighs about
140 pounds.
For the last fiscal year there
passed through the Postotfce 4,641
letters without any address what
ever upon them; 62,3O7 were mis-
directed, some necessary part of the
address being omitted and 312,-
SAG were detained for postage, not
being prepaid as required by law.
There are now II bridges across
the Mississippi, viz: al Braiuard,
St. Paul, Hastings, Winoua, Dubu-
que, Clinton, Rock Island, Burling-
ton, Keokuk, Quincy and Hannibal,
and in a year or so there will be a
finished bridge at st. Louis, while
another is projected at Carondelet.
indianapolis does not encourage
tradesmen who try to recover debts.
4 grocer in that city who published
a list Of non-payiLg customers has
been sued for libel,
Jane Bell, a deaf mute of Madi-
sou county, ILL.,, has just married
blind man. They can be Of great
assistance to each other, to he sure,
but how did they do their courtlng?
An Omaha bride was married
barefoot because her lovers kinstolk
dressed that way, and she did not
wish to seem proud.
The Emperor of Austria is said
to be making a collection of the
skulls Of remarkable criminals who
have been executed.
1t is estimated that China will
be a market for Amerh an butter
and cheese to the amount Of 5000
tons annually.
Louis Bois, Canadian farmer,
has just baptized his thirtieth child.
Twenty-six are living, aud all
"Bols."
The English navy is about to
discard the open-neck shirts, which
from time immemorial have given
British sailors the bronchitis.
Professor Pepper, the lecturer Oh
scientific Subjects IL ai1ad in his