The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Gen. Howard is to lie court-martial-
ed.
Half Of the business portion OF
TlmntaSviile. Ga, has been burned.
RapireI SenuneS. of the pirate A'a-
b1,o q. attelhtd Il we'ltIil yin Newhury-
port. Mass. last Thur day. Owners
ot vessels DESTROYED by him were well
represented in the company. but rome
Of them seemed anxious for an intro
ducti0n.
For two years a Young PennsyIva-
uian lms been pursuing the seiurpr of
his si.tpr. Two weeks ago he caught
him in Lincoln. Neh.. and last week
he brought him back to answer for his
sin.
There are IN Chirago'S new hotel.
the Grand Pacific, 80 flight. of stairs.
q miles of wire. 909 windows. and
1910 doors.
Aud now they have gone to the
other extreme. Instead of high heel.
and slender Soles. the cInrniag Great
ureS amhle about in great wide box
looking boots. The broader the sole
the more stylish tn" boot.
A child with frogs head is the
latest reported Darwinian phenonlen-
on. 1t was born in Washington coun-
ty. VI.
Georgia has a penitpntiary convict
who has served thirty-fmir Years. and
the other day. when they talked of
turning him ont into the cold world,
he sat down and went.
A Young man twenty years old.
citizen of Augusta. hung himself the
otIler day because his coat wrinkle'l IN
the back. And he wasn't atall partic-
nlar, either.
A widow in Maine has lately worked
out her tax on the highway. and the
surveyor said she did her work better
than any man in the town.
A Minnesota paper asserts that
Kerosene lamp, 50 set that the rays Of
the SIN passed through il and came to
Il focus on a window curtain, set the
curtain on fire.
Jefferson Davis was in New York
on the 9th.
1t is said that while "beaux" are
permitted to 60 on in the way they
are bent, "belleS" are expected to
60 III the way they are told"
The bed to be avoided next to
an oniunbed, is probably the bed of
the riyer-unless one is partial to
sheets of water.
"Aii't it wicked to rob dis here
roost, JIM" "Dat'> a great moral
question, Gumbo; We amt got time
to argue it now. Hand down all
other pullet"
A Cincinnati man, who is going
to get married in September, sits
around boilerShops 50 as to get his
ears trained to it.
ParSon Brownlow never bought |
but one six hat, and that one he
has WON 10 thirteen years without
a cent for repairs.
A Pennsylvania man owns a
bible III years old that has never
had its leaves cut. It'Such careful
usage continues, the sacred volume
will answer for his descendants for
twice as many years 10 come.
Jealous lovers in Omaha, when
their adored one is being married
to another fellow, vent their passion
by sreaKing in the back door and
licking the inSides out Of the wedd- |
ilg.cake
NJ. Prudhomme, in the decline
of lite, was talking with hiSnephew,
to whome he related stories Of his
youth.
"But, uncle" suddenly exclaimed
the young man, "what struck you
most during your lite?"
"My dear boy, it was your aunt!'
A boarding house Gend tells the
story that in recent thunder storm
the warning OF tie elements was 50
awe inspiring that the hair in a dish
Of butter in the pantry turned com.
pletely white during the night.
A Monticello, Iowa, jury has
recently rendered written verdict,
the most beautiful specimen ofphon-
ogaphic spelling yet seen. 1t waa,
"kno cos Of axiom"
The steamship Wisconsin left
London on the ID rlst., with 750
Mormon emigrantS for America.
Young Walworth was taken
from the Tombs to Sing Sing on