The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-14
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Maine has produced 472 authors.
A liindoo edits the ablest paper in
India.
Fifteen New York actresses have
recently joined the church.
England exported over $40 400, 900
worth of ale aud beer last year.
The high old rooster of the Cleve-
land fowl exhibition sold for $3.50.
The Polonaise promises to con-
tinue being worn all through the
Spring.
One family have occupied the
throne in Japan for twenty-five GEN.
turies.
A Tolland Conn woman was born
aud married and died in the same
room.
English farmers import damaged
or otherwise aged American cheese
to fatten hogs.
A Pittsburg gentleman gave his
daughter two loaded coal barges as
wedding present.
A married couple of Switzerland
celebrated their golden wedding by
dying on the same day.
There was one divorce granted to
every fourteen and a half marriages
in Rhode Island in 1871.
Eastern thieves complain that they
have to pay detectives 65 per cent,
of their plunder to escape arrest.
An Indianapolis man has tele
graphed to Scotland and received an
answer in one hour and twenty min
utes.
Among ladies in London" writes
fashionable correspondent, There
is II perfect rage for black silk stock
ings.
An old lady describes genius as
ga man what knows more'n he can
find out, and spills yittles on his
clothes.
In Norfolk an old record has just
been published showing that in 1749
the preachers of Virginia were paid
in tobacco.
Mrs. Sarah A. Orau, widow of
soldier who died in the United States
service, has been elected State Ii
brarian of Indiana.
Wildcats are SO plenty at West
Hickory Penn. J. that young LADY
VINO mas not full set of ''catamouDt"
furs Is ashamed 10 go to church.
Lady Otwav. widow of the late
Colonel of the Eighty fourth British
Ie.iuent, who died recently, was q
lineal descendant of Edward III.
lydia Sherman is said to be review
ing her recent confession in order to
work IL a few more dead bodies that
she entirely forgot about before.
Minnesota clergymen propose to
place tie future abode OF the wicked
Z, tle North Pole, aud anticipate a
great awakening OF religious intere t.
The editor Of the Home Journal,
of Houston, Texas, Is discouraSing
matIiI1oay, by Offering to send his
paper free to all who marry during
the year
Mrs. Thomas McLain, living near
Fincastle, Campbell county, Tenn.
gave birth within year to five chill
dren, three in January and two more
III December.
A ladies' debating society at Paris,
Ky, lately decided that bachelors
are nuisance. We presume that
one OF the objects OF the society is to
abate the same.
The legal ignoramuses who drew
up the Indictment against Miss Susan
B. Anthony accuse her of being "a
person of the female SEX" Take
any shape but that"
A Chicago tailor encourages pre-
.cipitate matrimonial overtures by of
fering to furnish wedding outfits at
ten per cent. discount, If ordered
before the 1st of March.
i Savannah gentleman set a trap to
discover what became of his chickens,
aud vas awakened the next night by
the Cries of his mother in law, who
had come to visit the rocst.
a North Carolina man is having
copies of twenty old wills dated 1649
reproduced for the purpose of re-
claiming a large amount of property
in Prince. George county {Md.)
Eleven small but practical jokers
at Niles, Michigan, daubed the door
knob of a popular church with print
er's ink lately. The shops did a
lively trade in kid gloves next day,
which shows that Niles, Michigan, is
pious place.