The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-04-25
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Indiana expresses herself troubled
with tramps.
Masquerade weddings have been
introduced in India.
The home circuit-walking about
with the baby at midnight.
An old adage says. Truth lies
at the bottom of the well" which is
very good place for it to do its
lying.
The Kentucky legislature has tri-
umphed over an action of the Roman
Senate. 1t has passed law to fine
and imprison baggage smashers.
There is no tin made in this
country-think of that when you
throw an oyster can away, or pitch an
empty sardine box over in your neigh
bors back yard.
Memphis consumes 200. bushels
OF, chewing gum annually, most of
which is pressed between the jaws of
young girls who have nothing else to
love nor caress.
Indianapolis does not encourage
tradesmen who try to recover debts.
A grocer in that city who published
u list of non-paying customers has
been sued for libel.
A Chicago boy made very hand
some snowman, about seven feet
high, on Saturday, and robed it with
his mothers $50 Paisley shawl. He
is saddest when he sits.
At recent meeting of the guard
ians of the poor of Philadelphia. it
was reported that 4 ,024 persons were
IN the almshouse: larger number
than ever before known.
The Worcester Gazette heroically
comes to the defense of mothers-in-
law. But the question is, why do
methers-in-law need defense? What
is the matter with them?
A North Carolina paper has been
fooliDg its colored readers into read
ing the Presidents Message by affix-
ing Sylvanus Cobb's name, and pub
fishing small dose weekly.
The editor of the Moorhead ID. c. }
Star says: ''We offer especial in
ducements to our subscribers who
club together and send in any little
matter of eatables, as it were. -
an ingenious Wisconsin tenant has
kept the wind out of his house and
increased internal warmth by pouring
water over the outside until he had
made an impervious coating of ice..
i Silver City miner remarked
after attending prayer meeting, a
few days ago, that it ''was the first
time he had heern the Word of God
handled for close on to forty years. -
a Kansas liquor dealer tacks up
his business cards in the rews of the
churches, and inserts them In the
bym- books and other localities where
they will catch the eyes of the people.
Postal cards have been received
with great favor IN France, 1881 ,60g
at two cents and 4,4S1, ,100 at three
cents were sold in ten days, and the
circulation of letters has not diminish
cd.
a fond husband boasted to friend
'Tom, the old woman came near
SflA44He1 me bOIiSt ldSI HSSh- DlI
she, Bill? What did she say? "She
said, We'll, old Beeswax, come to
supper.
a Michigan editor has learned how
to avoid the pangs of hunger. He
bought an elastic rope of a health-lift
man and tied it around his waist,
giving il an extra twist now and then,
when the attack was q severe one.
A clairvoyant trio, two women and
a man, have been travelling in the
South, pretending to cure epizootic
by the ''laying on Of hands" They
practiced on a mule in Kentucky the
other dav, and the firm has since
dissolved.
Onions are SIC barrel in New
Orleans, and when a woman whose
husband refuses her a new dress,
wants to indulge in good cry. she
is compelled (unless wealthy to fall
back on common horse-radish.