The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
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Current Paragraphs.
EASY roads lead to hard places.
MONEY generally costs too much.
THE origin of Easter eggs-A hen.
A MAN who has no mind will not
change it.
NENER marry woman who kicks
sideways.
The wisdom of the wisest is folly in
the sight of God.
A FOOLISH friend is more troublesome
than wise enemy.
In California all educational offices
are open to women.
ONLY the stores of the mind can be
taken to the next world.
A HEALTHY heart digests and draws
strength from misfortune.
HEED the slanderer to-day, and he
will talk of thee tomorrow.
NEARLY every county in Oregon con-
tains undeveloped coal mines.
DoN PIATT says shrewdly: "Humor
is to a newspaper what tail is to kite
very absurd, but very necessary to its
ascension.
THE latest Utah discovery is of bed
of sulphur, almost pure, assaying 80 per
cent. on the average and entirely free
from arsenic.
IF anything will impress the human
mind with awe, it is the expression of q
mans face who has just been aroused
from snoring in church.
THE frog-dealers of New York are do
ing a jumping business. Five hundred
pounds of that French delicacy are con-
sumed in that city daily.
BANcRoFT's history, the tenth volume
of which IS now IN press, has been just
forty years i'll publishing, the first vol
ume having appeared in 1884.
A BOWLING GREEN (Ky.) man has a
chicken covered with red hair instead of
feathers and down. The old hen feels
very much ashamed of herself.
The Postmaster General has per-
emptorily prohibited the use of in
toxicating liquors either in or out of
the department during business hours.
A RICHMOND negro went to steal hens,
caught his foot in trap, and cut toe
off rather than have daylight find him
| there. It was an untoward affair for
him.
THERE are at present 214 prisoners
in Washington City Jail, which is sew
enty nine more than have been confined
IN that institution at any one time since
the war.
BosToN IN one year contributes nearly
$3, 500, 900 for the poor, or enough to
board all the poor at the leading hotel
the year around. But it does not all
reach the poor.
BRET HARTE is said to be constantly
hard up. Such, however, is genius. =
Exchange. If being hard up consti-
tutes genius, we have had some spells
| of remarkable brilliancy.
Neaos.
A SPECIAL convention of clergymen
and laymen of the Episcopal diocese of
Iowa has been called to meet at Daven-
port on the 9th of December for the
purpose of electing a successor to the
late Bishop Lee.
THE equalized valuation of taxable
wealth of New York State for 1874
shows real estate 81, 75O, ,699, ,918; per-
sonal property, $418, Cos, ,955; total,
81, 1853, ,307, ,873-which is $40, 900, 900
greater than in 1878. OF the whole
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81, los, 156, 900, or over one-half.
CALIFORNIA contains twice as many
square miles as the six New England
States combined. Again, Cal. contains
! 37,775 more square miles than Great
Britain, Ireland, and all the adjacent
islands under the British flag. We're
it as densely inhabited as the British
home territories California would have
more than thirty five millions of peo-
pie.
WITH few exceptions, says veteran
observer, illiterate and half-educated
persons use more big words than
people of thorough education. It is a
very common but a very egregious mis-
take to suppose that long words are
more genteel than short ones-just as
the same sort of people imagine high
colors and fiashy figures improve the
style of dress.