The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-09-11

Tll;nois has 1900 idiots.

illinois nas Dt9O1 iui0sS
London Is FIVE times as large as
Paris
Early marriage brings toll and hard
ships.
Il costs 40 cents per bushel to
raise wheat.
Milton, in youth, was inclined to HI
larity in his cups
Every wealthy chess-player should
rive 4 check to the poor fund.
a hundred years Of fretting will
not pay half-penny Of debt
The President Of the Swiss Repub-
lie Gets a salary Of 80 ,0OO-
The commerce Of the Ohio River
foots up s7OO, 100000 annually.
Kentucky has lost over $500, ,00Oby
defaulting Sheriffs.
Ii is nothing for Georgia woman
to kill fifty snakes per week.
The opium crop in Persia has fail,
ed, owing to the excessive falls Of
snow.
1t is prophesied that chemistry will
extract beef-steak from cast-oh boots
The happy rich, the happy poor,
both quite possible. But "the hap
py mean oh, no7-impossible.
During the last twelve years Eng
land has expended sum equal to
SS2 $3.50, 9S9 upon coast Notifications
Great and noble examplesand great
and noble books survive for centuries
after their authors are dead.
A Asuspicious wife, on being asked
where her husband was, replied that
she was very much afraid he was mis-
sing.
A New Orleans young woman re-
centlyswallowedeight fiye-cent pieces
which she had stolen rather than
give them up.
ssGauze and effect are suggested
to o Western editor as the toilets OF
young lady graduates at feminine
commencements.
If man has any religion worth
having he viii do his duty and make
no fuss about it. It'll the empty ket-
tie that rattles.
A Memphis man has sworn a terri
bic oath to kill an average of one doc
tor per week for the next year.
Turn about is fair play.
An eminent physician says that in
his opinion there is no such thing as
cholera infantum 1t is all the effect
ofa baby's imagination.
A New York company will insure
poodle dogs, but won't take q cents
risk on babies. They know which re-
ceives the most care.
A stout old woman in Detroit got
mad recently because photographer
wouldn't let her fan herself while she
had her picture taken.
Boston had to take the seats out Of
its public parks to get rid Of its loaf.
ers. Some folks would have taken
the loafers and left the seats.
Il is all tho rage nowadays for
women 20 be ruflled, yet they are not
allowed to get their collar up. Thus
tyrannical and caprieious il fashion.
Allen, the bank swindler who is
wanted in Detroit, Chicago, Louisville
and other Western cities, pleaded
guilty recently in Pittsburg.
A Florida paper says that "water.
melons as large as nail kegs 60 beg
ging in Tampa market atiiteen cents
apiece" Oh, Internationally fact.
Nathan Philips lives at Pokagan,
Mich. He is eighty-two years old.
He has this year harvested nineao
Of wheat and is getting new set Of
teeth.
A year ago young man would be
real good to his mother on the prom
Use Of a shirt which bu1oned behind,
but now such q promise wouldn't
gwerve him an inch.
Said a young American tohis papa;
"Pa, be you a Britisher?" eyes, my
son, ! was bornin England" e'Well
we whipped you" retorted the
youngster.
The Virginia youth who wouldn't
enter college because the faculty
wouldn't lot him bring his three
coach dogs along struck strong
blow at the root Of despotism.
A red-headed dry-goods clerk in
Boston has caught a pickerel weigh
ing two pounds, and is now looking
up authorities TO ask il Isaak Wal.
toms hair was OF an auburn hue,
A charitable man keeps pair Of
dogs chained at his door, so that peo.
pie who stop to "get a bite can bo &C,
commodated without taking the
trouble TO go into the house.
II is a startling mystery how the
presence Of an old maid and bald
headed man will cast a gloom over Q
picnic party which even pickeled
CLANS can only partially dispel,
''Yes, George Washington was
purity great and high" said Mis-.
souri steamboat captain, "but then
stranger, he never owned steam,
boat which could hitch past the
White Queen"
Taylor, Of Wisconsin, addressed Q
meeting OF Grangers at Monroe nj