The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-06-13
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A Darby widow keeps the skull of
her husband in glass case.S She
once remarked to friend who was
viewing the remains, "Alas, how
often have / banged those bones with
o broomsticki"
The Wyandotte (Ky.) Poor House
shelters two sisters, but will not much
longer unless they raise the roof, the
elder of whom is six teet three inches
iu height, the younger six feet eight
ald still growing.
Holt county, Missouri, would be q
good field for an energetic mission
airy. The papers say that in some
parts of that county they have preach
ing once in six months and dancing
tix times week.
It may be worth while for scoun-
drels to know, in view of the coming
postal cards, that London man was
recently sentenced to pay heavy
fine aud go to prison for two years for
libeling young lady on one of those
cards.
The Danbury News is inclined to
believe that women are going for the
polls in dead earnest, from the fact
that, of seven married men talking
politics in Danbury grocery on Sat-
urday evening, nine were entirely
bald"
There is no accounting for the va
carries of the law. A man was hang
ed in Massachusetts,. week before last,
for taking life, and last week o man
was sent to the State Prison three
years and half for committing the
same crime.
The Greek reporter of the Indian
apolis Sentinel saws: ''This search
after knowledge by the hoi polloi was
constant source of annoyance to
the reporters, {" and the .'hoi polloi"
says it will put head on the reporter
who wrote that.
A young woman in Cumberland.
England, lately threw herself in front
OF railway train and was killed.
Her conduct was attributed to q love
quarrel. Two weeks later her suitor
followed her example and was killed
in the same way
At the recent wedding of Bava-
1ian army officer, 1S1 of his brother
officers claimed the right to kiss the
bride. She responded to each smack,
and wasn't tired the least bit. How
different from this are the pale, sick.
ly American girls.
children NAV never have.
wealth, observed neighboring cler.
gyman to his congregation, "but
when they grow up it viii be some-
thing for them to boast of that their,
fathers were not members of the
Forty-Second Congress.
A worthy old lady offers the fol-
lowing advice to girls: "Wbenever
a fellow pops the question, don't
blush and stare at YOUR foot. just
throw YOUR arms around his neck,
look him full in the face and COM
lnence talking about tie furniture. 81
In naming the Anchor line of
steamships only sixteen letters of the
alphabet have been left ont of the
names of the thirty-four vessels of
the fleet commencing with A and
ending with V. In marine circles tie
liae is known. as the alphabetical
line"
A fond father recently wrote: "It
generally takes twenty years of train
ing to eradicate the word nice from
a womans vocabulary. The Falls of
Niagara, the Psalms of David and
the progress of the human race were
all nice to my eldest till she got
married"
A beautiful young girl was married |
in San Francisco last week, and at
the conclusion of the marriage cere-
mony she turned to her husband and
said, George, kiss me, am DYING. ..
The husband complied with the re-
quest, and at that moment the youDg
bride fell dead.
The State of Ohio is to enter. the
lobby at Washington with So. QUO
cash in hand to plead. for the pay
ment of the Morgan Raid Claims.
The raid is to be transferred to
Washington. tbs raid upon the
Treasury. Morgan's rail was light
amusement compared with this. \ +
a German, from Berlin, has been
for some time at Panama. butterfly
hunting. !, His first remittance was
eI0J worth of butterflies. He catch
IS them in his hat, and is so spry on
his hoofs that he will give the health
est of butterflies rod the start and
catch him on the second bound.
A gentleman whose memory is not 4
iuite SO good as it used to be, wbent
,e has anything particular to remem-
Der next morning, makes a practice
If turning one of the pictures in bis s
bedroom with the face to. the wall I
lie finds it very amusing next day I
rying to recoliect what he turned It
or. Is
The most original spelling we have
'yer seen is the following. It beats /
'honetics.-80 you be-a tub. so IL
ID! pea-a top. Be S0-bat. See T
'O-cat. Pea 8''-pas. Are s0-rat. {
zee OH double you-cow. See you
See bee-cab. Be, YOU
louble tea-butt. See double a
'll-eall. 8
That was q good though q rather
eyere pun which was made by q stu
lent in one four theological semi.
aries, (and ha wac NOT ono oe a.