The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
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NEARLY 500 trains day arrive and
depart from st. Louis.
BosToN's s August was the coolest for
fifty years, barring 1886.
THE cotton crop, it is said, will
amount to 3,7O0,0 900 bales.
ONE hundred thousand men make
living out of the oyster trade.
THE books in the library belonging
to the British Museum occupy twelve
miles of shelving.
AN apple, said to be the largest ever
ripened in the United States, has been
picked in Nebraska. It weighs 294
ounces.
A CALIFORNIA newspaper tells rather
a leathery story of a striped squirrel
which was seen leading blind rattle
snake to his hole in the ground.
THE people of Omaha complain with
a little show of justice) that they are
mentioned by outsiders as 'tOmahogs,"
/" Omahosses, and :" Omahorribles.
A WOMAN in West Chester, Pa, re-
Gently testified that during a profess
sional career of nineteen years she had
prepared for the tomb Lot fewer than
1900 bodies.
IT is estimated that Kentucky dogs
kill 500, 600 worth of Kentucky sheep
every year !; but what would Kentucky
hearth-stone be without ten dogs group.
ed around it Z?
A NICE young gentleman has at
tracted attention in the streets of st.
Paul. He is 18 years old, seven feet
high, four feet across the shoulders,
and weighs 500 pounds.
A MAN and his wife, he 81 years old
and she 95, were fined for drunkenness
in Oakland, Cal, the other day. Such
people should be cared for until they
come to years of discretion.
whose branches measure l05 feet across
at the trunk. One of the limbs is go
feet long, and four feet from the ground
the tree is four feet through.
GEN. BUTLER is considered one of the
most methodical men living. He per-
sonally supervises and pigeon-holes
every letter he receives, and dictates a
reply to his Photographic secretary.
BISHOP WH1TEHoUsE disposes of $780,
600 by his will, of which $4,000 is
in personal effects, SO, ZOO in books and
pictures, $50, 900 in real estate in Chi
cago, and $3.50, 600 in real estate in Vir-
g1nla.
FROM the stomach of Capt Otis Rog-
ers, of Marshfield, Mass, has been ex-
tracted an animal five inches long,
which he thinks he swallowed while
drinking from pool in South Carolina
during the war.
THE Supreme Court of New York has
decided that Shanks, the city editor of
the Tribune, was guilty of contempt in
refusing to divulge the name of the au
thor of an article entitled, "The Brook
lyn Ring Method"
THE late forest fires in New Jersey
destroyed many thousands of mosqui-
toes, and the farmers are busy gathering
| the skeletons and reducing them to
| bone-dust for manuring purposes
Brooklyn Argus.
ARPIN, the younger, the famous
French wrestler, has just died from the
rupture of a blood vessel, caused while
| he was practicing with a weight of
forty kilogrammes. He wrestled ], 1,O13
| times in public and was thrown only 81.
In Harrisburgh, Virginia, Mrs.
Nancy Doughtery, age 20 years, has
during the last year built herself cab
in, cleared u acres of land. and fenced
it, and, using only a hoe, raised 200
bushels of corn. Honor to the free old
Granger
A RATS nest was recently discovered
| in piano in the house of lady living
near Brighton, Eug. It contained five
young ones. The old rat flew at the lady
who made the discovery, and she was
seized with fit, and in the excitement
of the moment the rat escaped. The
nest, with its contents, was secured.
We raise annually here in the United
States nearly 10000, 600 bushels of
potatoes. representing a money value of
about 800, 900, 900 to the customers.
! As an article of food it has greater val
ue to us than any other that we call
root crop. Twenty-Five per cent. of the
weight of the potato is solid dry sub
stance, and of this 62.5 per cent. is
starch.
A SWIMMING match was recently ar
ranged to take place at Fastbourne,
Eng, between fisherman and 81 dog.
| The latter, when in the water, supposed
his duty was to save the mans life, and
persisted in his efforts to keep him
af1oat by thrusting his head under the
| fisherman's chin, much to the dlsap-
| pointment of those who had assembled
to see the race.
THE coast of North America, for
], ZOO miles from Virginia to the Mis-
sissippi, is fringed with pine barrens
$50 miles wide, and when the trees are
cut down for the expectation of their
infammable products from the port OF
Wilmington, zines may spring again ON
the vest of the bad soils but in gen
eral the scrub oak is the succession
plant. Towards the outfall of the river,
where magnificent mixed forests Of
iquidamber, elm, ash, white and RED req
oak, cherry, magnolia, mulberry and
wild grape have been felled, and the
land scorged by corn and cotton and
tLen abandoned to nature, the pine an0
scrub oak, trees of poor soils, nave
sprung up. But when the land was lett
unscorged, the mixed forest again
| clothed the bare earth.
Origin Of Typhoid Fever.