The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Current Paragraphs.
New YoRK has $500 policemen

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NEW YORK has 9, 300 policemen,
AUBURN Prison contains 1,198 con.
victs.
The average car horse endures four
years.
FoREsTvnnE, Conn, turns out 1000
clocks daily.
The school population of Kansas has
doubled in five years.
In 1873 the population of Austria. ex-
elusive of Hungary, was 20, SIC, 900.
In st. Peter, Mimi, is pig only sir
months old and weighing 27O pounds.
INSCRIPTION on fence in Hardwicb
Mo-: Nobuddy hich hosses 2 this
fens."
Green, KY, has coat of red hair in
stead of feathers.
THERE is a musician in Cincinnati
who plays simultaneously Cor nearly so)
upon sixteen drums.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD boy is awaiting
trial at New York for stabbing a play.
mate of 10, who called him names.
The drought has been unprecedented
along the Rio Grande the past year. In
many places it has not rained for over a
year.
PATTI receives higher pay in London
than Nilsson; the former getting two
hundred guineas night and the latter
two hundred pounds.
THE King of the Friendly Islands is
licensed Methodist preacher, and his
/ "a Enr to&k 30 IL i E
the same denomination.
EACH thing lives according to it's
kind; the heart by love, the intellect
by truth, the higher nature of man by
intimate communion with God.
BEND1Go, formerly a noted pugilist,
is now Methodist preacher, devoting
his time to the spiritual interests of the
lower classes of Great Britain.
THE 'Army of the James," at it's re-
cent reunion, refused to join in the
movement to secure the re-opening of
the case of Gen. Fitzjohn Porter.
CHICAGO has figured up her fruit
trade and finds that it amounts to a
daily total of about $50, 1000, or over
81, OOO, 900 for the six months season.
PRoF. GOODWIN SMITH has introduced
at Cornell University one of Oxford's
genial customs, that of inviting the
senior class to dine with him at the
close of his lectures.
A LITTLE girl in Paris who was play
ing with a toy balloon drew in her
breath while initiating it, and the col
lapsed balloon went down her throat
and choked her to death.
THE explosive force o. the s fire
damp" which is the cause of so many
, accidents in coal mines, has been calcu-
lated TO be equal to 1865 atmospheres,
} or more than 1900 pounds to the inch.
ACCORDING to an official report, there
were no less than 433, 295 cases of chol-
, era in Hungary last year. OF this
number 237, 718 recovered, 49,, $40 died,
and the remainder were under treat
ment. The deaths we're therefore about
42 per cent.
THE statistical editor of the Times,
Grand Island, Neb., says 10000, OO0,-
900, 900, OOO, 900, 600, 0O0, 900, 600. 600. .OOO
grasshoppers, at least, passed over here
yesterday. There might have been q
, few more or less, as we did not count
them very closely.
A FRENCH writer declares that Tur-
key is in a muchA better financial con-
dition than France. The expenditures
are less per head than those of France,
; tie taxes 20 francs per head, against 81
in France, and the debt 174 francs pei
capita, against $40 in France
EVEN as the New York Tribune is to
, honor its founder by a full. figured
colossal statue at the doorway of its
new building, so the Louisville JournaI
: is to honor the man who made II
| Sto nf r
Prentice at the portals of it's recon.
! structed domicile.
A WONDERFUL clock has been in.
vented by German ieweler living IL
Norwich, Conn. The whole discern
ible mechanism is a transparent dial
plate and pair of black walnut hands
The latter turn loosely on a pivot, anc
: if whirled in different directions vii
Immediately readjust themselves to the
exact time.
! OUR English visitor, Mr.. Forster
finds himself surprised at the early
/ start our democracy takes, as shown il
, the public schools. He can't yet com
prehend it nor conceive it practicable
: that son of his could sit beside sol
! of coachman, and both graduate to
, gether through all the stages, from tn,
5 primary school to the university.
An interesting statement is made o
J the number of Protestant divinit7
! ! students in old Prussia the past twenty
three-years. In 1851 there were 6O4
which number had increased to /, ,180 il
1862. From this time forward the mum
Der has steadily diminished till it is nov
= represented by the same figures as il
= 1851, namely, 604. The total for tn
: : twenty-three years is 81, 40.
g The ss Horseshoe - Calculation.
d The results of some arthmetics
s problems are simply incredible till th