The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-05-23

scxSSoRiaGs.
Fort Wayne, Ind, gentlemen
charge the partners of their bosoms
with red-hot pokers.
A woman in lie Suer county,
Mimi, has applied for divorce
from her sixth husband.
Wisconsin husbands who absent
themselves from home seven years
are TO be considered legally dead.
When '.Othello" admitted that he
.did take away the old mans daugh-
ter" be pleaded guilty to grand
lasseny.
The new sscast-iron dish cloths"
are said to be far better for dressing
down a refractory man than the
broom handle.
Mrs. Fitzhugh of Virginia claims
from Congress 1850, 600 for wood cut
off her land by the. Union army
during the war.
A lady who is not thoroughly post
ed in natural history asked a friend
who was going to Utah to bring her
couple of Mormons for her aquari-
um.
Garibaldi's second wife is 35 years
old, and is described as dark, hand
some woman, with fierce eyes and
thick hair parted at the side of the
head. 4
Ohio has law by which any hus-
band who opens his wife's letter can
be made to pay right smart for it.
1t isn't good State for jealous
man to live in.
The plate stolen from the Palace of
the Legion of Honor. in Paris. during
the Commune. was recently discov-
cred in the possession of woman at
Geneva, Switzerland.
Mrs. Mary E. Grammar of Nash
vile, the actress, better known as
Miss Bette Gilbert Gray, wants a
divorce from her husband on account
of errors in Grammar.
A Western editors statement. 1--WE
are living at this moment under ab-
solute despotism,'' is explained by
his contemporaries by the fact that
he has been lately married.
Four girls in Augusta Me-, were
married about eighteen months ago
at the same hour. Two have since
separated from their husbands and
the other two want divorces.
Fortune plays strange freaks. A
Toledo editor went through the wal
without scratch but stuck the sheers
in his eye the other day. Wicked
ness brings IT'S own retribution.
A couple were lately married oil
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.
Miss Lena CLARK is cashier at q
bank at Newton, Iowa. Last weel
she missed train, and, determined
to fill an appointment, walked sever
miles when the mercury was thirty
degrees below zero.
a Nashville washerwoInan, finding
in lot OF dirty clothes q new-fash,
ioned shirt opening at the back
sewed itsnp, cut open the bosom an6
sewed on buttons, to the intense dis
gust of her customer.
4 poor fellow was brought before
one of the police Justices recently
charged with being intoxicated
"Well, why did you get drunk?'
"See here. was the reply. uttered
; in c-cough and accent of drunk
en- man, ''what did you give licens,
for?"
The poet of the Lynchburg Ne,r
hasn't been particularly lucky. Il
an ode to his girl he says: 'Keel
isyoursorrow but keener is my grief.
The compositor, who lost his under
most nickle on the top row the nigh
before, set up, ''but keno is m,
grief"
aMrs. jerks" said little d-heade,
girl with a pug nose and bare feet
s'mother says will you obleege her b.
lendin' her stick of fire wood, fl
this cruet with vinegar, put littl
soft soap in this pan, and please no
let your turkey gobblers roost on on
fence
The jury have declared innocen
Jennie Droz, the Cleveland girl VIII
shot Mayor Fisk two years ago. Sh
has all along pleaded guilty, bu
what is young girl supposed t
know about such an important mai
ter compared with the ''twelve goo
men and true?'
Mrs. Oliver, living in Charlestowr
Ind, attempted suicide by jumpin
into cistern, but the prospect {
such q successful suicide so frighter
ed her that she called loudly for helr
Her little son. about FIVE years ole
gave the alarm and the neighbol
rescued the foolish woman.
A lady of Zurich, Madame Eggel
Honnegger. who il interested in e.
tending the sphere of labor, has III
dertaken to instruct a number of CIR
as compositors The Topographic;
Society of Zurich looks jealously VI
on this attempt to introduce femal
compositors and thwarts it as far q
possible.
The Evanston Wyoming Territor,
4ge says: "a general preparatio
for the great ball at Downs & Til
dale's new ball is going -on. Ou
girl is getting her shoes half-solee
If the weather remains pleasant s
that the shoemaker can work on thei
out doors. they will be done in time
Look out for her; she's q stunne
and no mistake"