The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
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TT takes 26O rails to lay mile of rail
road track.
PREFERRED creditors are those who
do not dun.
SARATOGA SPRINGS were patronized by
the elite of 1892.
SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius there
fore it is good for eruptions.
A SPOONFUL of brown sugar added to
flour paste makes it stickier.
New York has just lost hundred-and
thirteen-year old centenarian.
ENGLAND and Scotland are said to
contain 800, 900 habitual drunkards, in
Guiding both sexes.
THE good, old-fashioned recreation of
nine pins is destined to lose its charms
now that a machine has been invented
which enables the players to set up the
pins themselves without going down the
alley.
From 1904 to 1873 the Bible has been
circulated in 271 languages-over 49,
600, 900 copies. Last year every hour
OF each working day 1900 Bibles were
printed, over 10000 every day, and in
languages spoken by 100000, 900 of
people.
AFTER reading that meerschaum is
manufactured into a choice cosmetic
for ladies, one need not be surprised to
hear that excellent plates for artificial
teeth are now made of fsh-scales dis
solved and combined with certain fibrous
and adhesive substances.
THE coolie trade in Cuba is tainted
with horrible abuses. The poor China
man is bound out for term of wears.
and though the term may be short, it is
long enough, in the hands of the heart
less overseer, to wear out heart and
body. Under this accursed traffic, only
one out of twenty coolies ever survives
the term of slavery and returns to his
native land.
STEAMERS now leave New York for
Europe every day but Monday and Fri
day throughout the year. There has
always been prejudice among sailors
against sailing on Friday (the super
stition being that it is an unlucky day).
but of late the feeling seems to be so
much modified that another year will
probably witness steamers starting on
their ocean voyage on Friday the same
| as on other days.
In an ordinary piano there are fifteen
kinds of wood, namely Pine. maple,
spruce, cherry, walnut, wnitewood,
apple, basswood, birch, mahogany,
ebony, holly, cedar, beech and rose
wood, from Honduras, Ceylon, England
and South America. There are used of
the metals, iron, steel, white metal.
gun metal and lead There are in an
instrument of seven and half octaves,
2l4 strings making total length of 787
| feet. Such piano will weigh from
600 to 1000 pounds.
IT must be said that matters are get
4 ting to an alarming extent promiscuous
at Salt Lake, the salt of which is rapidly
losing its SAVIOR. The latest novelty is
the doctrine preached by a Mrs. Olsen.
She is an excellent Mormon-rather too
| good one in fact-for she has publicly
/ declared that she would like to have
three husbands-one to live with and
love her, and the other two to help sup
port her. We don't see why Mrs
| Olsen's doctrine is not as good as Brig
hams. At any rate it reduces polygamy
to an absurtlity-if any such reduction
were needed.
/ PERHAPS the smartest little eight
year old in the world is Charley Trip
lett, of Cedar Township, Iowa This
bit of boy has worked as a full hand
in the field this summer, running q
/
own team, and keeping up with the
smartest. He now drives milk wagon
to cheese factory, and makes him.
self generally useful in the dairy
line. Moreover, Charley Eight-year.
old is capitalist, with fifteen acres oil
wheat of his own, and an interest in
sundry colts and calves. If he goes OF
as he has begun he will own all lows
before he is so years old.
NASHUA. Ogle county, ILL.,, has a wild
man. He inhabits the neighborine
woods, and wears a dress which sug
gests that he has employed the State
prison tallors. He has been pursued
by boys, who report that his face il
covered with pasteboard mask, with
painted lions on the cheeks, and thai
his feet are enveloped in rag carpet
He is a wild man of the timid sort, anG
fees from the small boy as from The
wrath to come. His gray hair hang.
down his shoulders. He also groani
and growls like a bear, and clears
four-board fence with agility. Some
times he walks on his hands and feet
and altogether he is a rare bird
A CAPITAL of one hundred Thousand
pounds sterling is being raised in Lon
don, by joint stock subscription, fo
the establishment of a morning an,
evening newspaper upon what is spe
cifcally defined as commercial
basis. In short, as we understand th
scheme, this journal, while giving al
: the news very fully, is to sell its politi
cal, literary, and other editorial service
to the public, just as a great lawye
puts his abilities at the command of a
paying clients Professional editors {
2 the best rank are to be placed over a
the different departments and, in fac
> this original newspaper is to be COZ
Quoted strictly in accordance with th
= !, commercial principles of any othe
business.
: A French Tragedy.
Q Fashionable French society is az
: palled at tragedy which occurred quit
e recently. M. Valentin, who had bee
t the fashionable tailor of Paris and ha
!, made fortune, retired with his wife
q Mandres to live. Their son had wo
n unusual honors at the Cavalry School 6
It Saumur, and the day of tragedy had r.
r turned home with friend to receiv
a the 1aarantal conoratulations The de