The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-06-27
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There are SIS miles of narrow
gage railways in the United States.
Tie fashion of elaborately trimmed
bonnets is said to be dying out -
They we're more e-ribboned last year.
Young ladies are wearing bright
co'ored sashes looped far down on
the left side over black silk dresses.
A pair of boots in Iowa costs just
tw1 loads of potatoes, and to raise
the potatoes just wears out pair of
boots.
Louisville is unusually quiet, but
the people do not know whether to
give credit to the recent hanging or
the police.
There were in the United States
in 1870, 14,3l4 drug stores. Tho
daily average OF prescriptions was
twenty-one.
Some one remarked, not long since
that ''thirty years more of the pew
system in New York will give US a
race of infidels.
Spanish wells are being much worn
-fastened in the hair with the bright
red rose, wbic. is indispensable in
an Andalusian toilet.
Weighing paper with sugar is IN
offence which renders grocers CON-
mitting 1t liable to prosecution and
severe fines M England.
If anger arise in the breast. in
stantly seal up thy lips and let it not
go forth; for like fire, when it has no
vent, it surpresses itself.
From Jaffa to Jerusalem by rail
will soon be the order of things,
where David and Solomon used to
travel with horses and camels,
The following sentence of only
thirty-four letters contains all the
letters in the alphabet: John quick
ly extemporized five tow bags.
Twelve million dollars is annually
lost by failure of means to make the
debris of the cities of the United
States source of commercial value.
None of the skaters have been
drowned at ST. Paul this year. When
there is little danger of going through
it.
Spurgeon dislikes the prefix "Rev. {"
and has informed his friends that he
will send to the dead letter effice all
letters 10 himself having it in the
address.
The mouth of the Mississippi
River, especially that of the South
west pass, is filling up with mud so
rs to be absolutely inn ossibie for
shipping.
The bellies of the Anglo Saxons
made no changes in style for three
hundred years, while the men of
that period were continually chang
ing fashion.
The man who has heen condemned
to read the Credit Mobilier inv sti-
CATION through has petitioned for a
commutation of the sentence to i'm
prisonment for life.
The shot with which LAURA Fair
killed Crittenden. almos. as sudden
ly turned white the hair of daugh-
ter of the deceased. The young la
dy is but twenty years old.
Brick Pomeroy has this 10 saw
about patent onisides: I'VE have got
so now that when we come 10 a paper
with patent oniside we Just get up,
put on our hat and coat anil go home
Before we get back the boy has used
that patent outside TO make the fire" +"
They have arrested Mr.. Apple
gate out IL Nebraska merely for bav-
ing three wives, stealing nire horses,
forging a note and setting fire to
Earn! If Nebraska is going 10 allow
man absolutely no liberties Mt all,
how does she expect to attract i'm
migration to her shores.
a little boy in Detroit the other
day gave a little rap on his little
drum. and farmers team got ~ q
little runaway, and little bill with
the wagon maker The farmer got q
thump on his head. his boy was Sc
verely bruised. and the little boy
went off to beat his drum elsewhere.
A good story is told of college
president, who, on meeting on the
cars student whose character of so
briefly was not good. and whose ap-
pearance evinced o cent del,auch.
approached him. and solemnlv and
regretfulIy said: Been on drunk?"
So have I. was the Immediate re-
ply.
A recent invitation 70 a party had
at tlie bottom the initials "R S. v.
p (being abbreviations of French
words meaning "Answer If you
please Inquiry being made al TO
the significance of the cabalist'c
signs, a hungry man suggested they
meant Refreshments served very
promptly"
Alleging the inability of cultivated
gentlemen like Charles Francis
Adams to lead the masses, the Louis
vile Courier journal saws: I'VE need
a brilliantly educated rnffian "a be-
oric. statesman-like. high minded
end honest blackgnard-- blather-
skite. with courage and real genius
or public business.
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