The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
All Sorts.
laW-Touch and 60.

CANON law-Touch and go.
THE receipts of all England's railways
are 81 millions per week.
THERE are about half million Scan
dinavians in the United States.
Low LANGUAGE is good enough argu-
ment for the man who uses it.
THERE is no accounting for it, but
four women out of five stick the postage
stamp on the left-hand corner of the en-.
velope.
The Church OF England now has in
that country 12,200 benefces, II, 900
parsonages, 30, ,694 clergymen, and 59, 900
curates.
THE British railroad companies are
required, under penalty of e20 for
each omission, to report every case of
accident.
CALIFORNIA now holds the Yosemite
valley in trust for the nation, and has
paid $50, 900 to settle the pre-emption
claims of the persons who colonized
there.
PENNSYLVANIA has 1876 blast furnaces,
13O rolling mills, 16 rail mills, 18 steel
works. and 81 bloomaries. All the
other States put together do not contain
so many.
EASTERN papers ridicule Western
names, but they have not yet heard of
Sardine Muzzy, farmer in Dane coun-
ty, Wis, and a prominent member of
Marshal Grange, No. "a.
NOTICE has been given of new Rus
sian loan. This has been an annual
event since 1869, inclusive. The total
of the Russian loan now amounts
to ESQ, 100000.
THE total cost of the 1900 miles of
railroad in Vermont has been nearly
$50, ,O00,O 600 and the Railroad Commits
sioner of the State thinks it should no
longer be exempt, as it now is, from
taxation.
The Meteorological Committee of the
Royal Society report that in 1873 a
fraction over seventy-nine out of every
hundred of the English weather warn
ings were correct forecasts of the weather
which actually ensued.
A COOK on Detroit tugboat, having
fallen heir to $50, 900, instead of imme-
diately leaving, gave her employer a
full weeks notice of her contemplated
departure. Rebecca Stohn is woman
of principle if she did work on q tug
boat.
WHILE the clergy of the United
States annually cost s12, 900, 900, intod-
eating drinks, 1T is said, cost s., ,487, ,O00,-
600; and there are 400, 900 more per-
sons engaged in the liquor business than
in preaching the gospel and teaching
school.
In photographing the sun, the intens-
ity of the light renders it necessary
that the exposure of the plate should
be extremely brief and we learn from a
lecture by Prof. S. P. Langley that the
time usually occupied is only 1-150th of
| a second.
THE cage-birds of the United States
consume about It's, 900 bushels of seed
in year, of which more than two-thirds
is canary seed, the rest being hemp
seed, rapeseed, millet, cracked wheat,
ETC., to the value of more than 50, 600. 600
annuallv.
THE Shah of Persia, during his recent
European trip, it appears, kept diary,
which has been published. It is re-
ported to be a very dull, stupid book,
! full of trivialities, endless in its express
sions of wonder at everything, and thor
oughly uninteresting, as have been all
books of royal birth. There is only one
piece of information in the book which
is new, and this is very startling. The
| Shah says !: ''The people of London
think very much of their police any
one who shows disrespect to the police
must be killed.