The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

All Sorts.

FIVE misses at Cornell University are
practicing rowing.
IL Finland the people of whole vi
lage have dubbed together to buy mod
ern agricultural implements.
VIcroRIA's boy Leopold is to have
salary of $s75, 900 a year for doing moth
ing. Who wouldn't be prince?
Boss TWEED doesn't think the treat
ment at the penitentiary very benign
On the contrary he thinks it is 7x9.
g Tom, what in the world put matri-
mony into your head ?'' g Well, the
fact is, was getting short of shirts
THE woman who writes the addresses
of her letters catticorncred,' is the
especial tormentor of postofice clerks.
AS a general rule of farming it is
good economy to apply the most ma
nure to the crop which requires the most
labor.
THE late DIR. Livingstone said there
was no more majesty about lion in a
forest then there is about a poodle in
parlor.
The London Times dispatch from
India says the prospects of the crops are
most favorable, Notwithstanding the re
cent floods.
San FRANcIsCo is happy in the pos
session of nineteen-year old fairy who
kicks the beam, figuratively speaking,
at 400 pounds.
In round numbers it costs the British
people S3, 000,0 900 annually to support
the royal family, and one princess yet to
be married off.
ru1c.ro I,o1,n,o, a1.o,.1 : NJ
Yorker $29 for an hours work, and
rather than have any fuss about it came
down to So IS.
MISS LAURA REDDISG, Howard
Glyndon !" of the New York Mail, was
born deaf mute, but can now articulate
quite distinctly and not unpleasantly.
COLORADO is fine place for spec1.l,.-
Fions. pauper recently escaped from
the Poor-House there and made 81 800
in land speculations before he could be
recaptured.
ACCIDENTALLY shot . is getting to
be altogether too common heading in
our exchanges. How would it work to
have some of the shootists accidentally
imprisoned or hanged?
IT is not generally known that the
system of transportation by pipes or
tubes has for number Of years been in
use in France, in conveying beet juice
from the field to the sugaries.
THE English papers says that Belew
! fell victim to the severity of the
American climate. This is great libel
upon a country where forty millions of
people live till they die of old age.
TIE estimated population of Boston,
based on assessors returns, is 357, ,254
THIS includes Charlestown, West Rox.
bury ard Brighton. The same territory
had, by the census of 1870, a population
of 292, 406.
4 LITTLE New Bedford girl, who
! wanted tG get some cancelled executive
postage stamps, wrote to the President
and told him SO, and now reioices over
letter from him, inclosing full set of
uncanceled stamps and his photograph.
HELEN NJ KNowLToN & Co. are the
/ editors and publishers of the Worcester
/ (Mass.) Palladium The company is
sister Of Miss Helen, and the firm is
! composed OF the daughters of the found
er Of the paper, which was established in
/ 1891
| WATER DRINKING between meals should
/ be according to thirst. It is mistake
/ to load a weak stomach with water on
I
| it is welt to take tumb'er or part oil
/ one, OF pure soft water, after dressing
/ in the morning.
/ OMAHA has a mysterious and ghostly
ssWoman in White She frequents
back, asks where her children are, and
sinks into grave She has been fred
at twice without effect, and the sexton
talks CT resigning.
A KENTUCKY wife was altogether toe
obedient. When her drunken husband
ordered her take ashammer and nail and
knock out all his teeth, she seized the
implements and cheerfully obeyed.
When he got sober he mumbled SO in
his swearing that it didn't scare her.
SAN FRANcIsco fishermen capture
their fish by exploding under water a
cartridge of giant powder, which is
simply nitro -glycerine with an absorb
ent earthly powder. An exchange says
that the ''concussion kills all the ii 81
within radius of forty or fifty yards. .
LAURA BERRY fell fa:nting in the
scho ol-room at Carson, New, recently.
! She had within three weeks committed
to memory 800 pages of history and
200 of natural philosophy. The night
before she and classmate had not gone
to bed at all but studied through the
night and until nine that morning That
was all the reason she tainted.
AMONG the visitors at Santa Cruz Ga
| California watering place. is a San
Francisco lady, the wife of q prominent
stock broker, who has made herself con.
spicuous by wearing hileous mask oil
chamois leather. It is said she envel.
ops herself in leather TO ss.ve singu-
larly beautiful complexion. She is allud
ed to in town as the woman in the yel.
low mask.
AN alleged lunatic was consigned to
an asylum by his wife and friends. A
gentleman said to lady who doubted
the victims insanity: . What do you
think, madam, of his lying on his back
in the barn yard and permitting the
hens to feed off his body ?" '' Why,
nothing more" responded the lady,
than that like many other married
men, he was henpecked.
AN anti-tobacconist, in addressing a
company of sailors, warned them
against chewing and smoking, and de-