The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
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Current Paragraphs.
THE distillation of rum froro Gran
berries is a new industry in South
Jersey.
The first ship load of grain sent di-
rect from Texas to Europe lately left
Galveston.
VICTOR HUao's paper has a larger
circulation than any other French paper
-9o.0 ZOO copies.
A CHICAGO man whose uncle died and
left him $4,000 broke his leg while
capering for JOY.
SOMEBODY has noticed that nineteen
out of every twenty newspaper men
have straigh noses.
THE value of land in Iowa has in
creased from $32, 100000 in 1854, to
$500, 900, 900 in 1874.
IT costs France Sc, 900, 900 a year to
protect the body polite from the raw
ages of the criminal classes.
Mrs. AUSTIN, of Alexandria, Va, has
lived in one neighborhood thirty eight
years and never borrowed her neigh
bor's hat-irons or cup of sugar.-De-
troit Free Press.
RED OAK, Iowa, has the champion
smoker of the State and probably the
nation, in the person of Henry Fisher,
who consumed in nine weeks 146 papers
of smoking tobacco.
IT is stated that the yellow fever has
never appeared in any climate at an ele-
vation of 800 feet above the sea level.
| The highest elevation it has visited in
the United States is 46O feet.
| IT,, Z L
publishing full details respecting its
finances. Its annual revenue is $780,
| 600, 900, and its expenses $45, 900, 600.
More than half the revenue is raised
from taxes on land.
AUSTRIA wants a great deal of artil-
| lery, and proposes to Krupp that it will
buy of him half what it wants if he will
divulge the secret of the composition of
his metal, SO that the other half can be
made in Austria. Krupp merely raises
his eyebrows.
SEVEN comets appedred in the heav-
ems in the year 1873, 1--WE of which were
| first seen from the observatory at Mar
seilles. The seventh was Coggia's
comet, which ornamented our northern
sky early IN the past summer, but was
first detected as a telescopic object on
the 10th of November, last year.
A ooLoRED man of immense size,
named Charles Cook, died lately at
Riverhead, L, I. Three weeks preced.
ing his death ne was in constant
struggle for breath, SO excessive was
the accumulation of fat around his
throat: Finally he could only get relief
| by resting on his hands and knees, and
in that posture he died. His weight
was 396 pounds.
The assertion that wallpapers COL
ored with arsenical pigments give rise
to poisonous exhalations has been veri-
fed at Stockholm, by DR.. Hamberg of
that city. The presence of the arsenic
in the atmosphere, however, had not
perceptibly affected the health of the
inmates of the house, although Dr.
Hamberg himself experienced unpleas
ant elects from it.
The English Postofice pays. The
receipts for 1873 amounted to $26, 74O,-
600, the expenditure at the same time
was $18, 965, 900, leaving surplus of no
less than 81, ,775, 900. There are 42, 600
persons employed in the department, of
whom many are women, this number
including $500 postmasters, 5000
clerks, and about 10000 sorters, car
riers and messengers.
A Mr.. LEVY FARNDoN has been pros
ecuted at Noting Hill, London, for
practicing as physician without being
registered. He pleaded degree of NJ
D. from Philadelphia, which is not
recognized. American graduates will
do well to remember that no one can
legally practice medicine or surgery in
Great Britain until duly registered by
the Medical Council.
THE Oldest clerk in the Interior De-
partment at Washington, Mr.. John D.
Wilson, has just died. He was ap-
pointed to the War Department on the
9Th of October, 1882. Forty-two years
in Office la small life time. One is al
most tempted to exclaim with Hood
| One more unfortunate
Weary of breath,
| Rashly importunate,
| Gone to his death.
THERE are over thousand religious
sects in the world. The adherents of
the principal sects, recounting the
whole population, are supposed to be
nearly thus The six other Oriental
churches, $500, 900; Roman Catholics,
195, 900, 900; Protestants, 81, 13O, 900
Mahommedans, 46O, 900, 600; Buddhists,
340, 100000 other Asiatic religions,
260, 200, 900; Pagans, 100000 ;
Jews, 6,000,O 900.
The following table will show the to-
tai shipment, in gross tons, from the
Lake Superior iron district for the
season of 1874, up to Sept. II:
| IRON ORE.
Gross TOMS
From Marquette. .396, ,O06 19,O64