The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-07-11

10 tne museum % So1npaIutiSe Ao-
ology.
Carthage, N. Y, comes forward
with woman who, at the age Of one
hundred and one, jumps rope and
plays at "leap frog" Next
\ A fellow who said "Strike. but
hear" goes about with his head
bandaged, and wished that he had
said, "Strike, but not here"
It is now claimed that the architect
of the great wall of China ives wo-
man, but woman wouldn't do any
thing to keep men out in that way.
An Irishman puts this question:
"Would you rather go through gid
dy waltz with pretty girl than go
through pretty waltz with q giddy
girl ?" %..-S
Vice President Wilson has had a
severe attack of partial paralysis.
which has injured his eye-sight and
hearing. He is thought to be recov-
-ering.
Says the Boston Globe: "What is
the nse of living If seventeen female
lecturers are 10 be turned loose to
alright and desolate the land next
season." I
A brakeman, who was injured in a
railroad accident awhile. ago, is so
far recovered that he wants to have
the door slammed little while every
afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Wadsworth, NJ. D., q
female physician who emigrated from
New Hampshire to Turkey, was re-
Gently married to Russian surgeon
named Bassin.
ssYour behaviour is most singular,
Sir" said a young lady to a gentle
man who had just stolen kiss. eff
that is all. said he, ST wall soon
make it plural"
A Sunday school teacher who had
given to one of her pupils this text
for recitation at the next concert,
Feed my lambs.-John xxi: 15. was
astonished to hear her recite, Feed
my lambs, JOHN
Mrs. Brown of Burlington sings
her Hush My Babe, to her infant
son William, who measures twelve
months one way and one hundred
pounds the other. She spanks him
with pile driver"
A certain professor of physiology,
who believes In pure air, has a habit
of asking some member of the senior
class to "please open the window
just back of you 10 let out the re-
mains of the last junior class"
Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, in behalf
of the widow. of his son, the late
Captain Thomas, killed in the Mo-
"aI, nas IAade application for a
pension. This is the first application
growing out of the Modoc war
Says New Orleans paper: tA
girl of this city recently ate box of
CASTLE soap to get rid of freckles.
The mourners remarked q very
peaceful expression about the mouth,
at the funeral, but the freckles were
as numerous as ever"
The life of the Murdered Mortimer
is to be republished at the East by
his brother, with such parts of his
confession as were omitted in the Cal
ifornia edition in Difference to the
feelings of certain officers with whom
the deceased had dealings.
A German lecturer thinks women
had better take some part in politics,
because the further they keep them
8 Ives from politics the more jealous
ly do they mix themselves In relig-
ious questions, and introduce into
them all the love and hate of which
their nature is capable.
Alady who made pretensions 20
the most refined feelings went to her
butcher TO remonstrate with him on
his cruel practices. aHow can you
be SO barbarous as to put little inno-
cent lambs to death?' "Why mad
am,' said the butcher, 'syou surely
wouldn't eat them alive, would you?"
Miss Alice johnson, pretty young
girl, having started barber shop in
a Kansas city, local paper states
that all the wives in town seemed
moved by a common impulse to pre-
sent their husbands with some little
love token. Bya remarkable COIN
eidence they all selected razors and
brushes and mugs.
Rev. DIR. Goodspeed, of Chicago,
said in the course of his last Sundays
tThe devil understood what
was necessary to blast Eden, when
be led the woman to be false to God.
to herself, and to her husband. A
bad woman, an untrue woman, is the
prime corrupter of society, and the
destroyer of its peace.
We read of a young woman in
Missouri who when a certain good
lime comes will probably be mem
Der OF Congress. Before eloping with
Z darling of her heart, she had an ,
interview with her fathers bureau
drawer, and voted herself an increase
Of back pay to the extent of $1,000.
She would have nobly taken more.
but that was all there was to take.
A rope-dancer lately applied to
the magistrate of a little town in
Switzerland for permission to per-
form within his Jurisdiction. The .
refused, observing that
the country was oyerrun with mount
ebanks. "But," said the dancer, ST
am not one of the common class;
here is a proof of my superiority.
With these words he leaped COM
pletely over the head of the magis-
trate, and this feat of agility gained
him the indulgence he applied for.
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