The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-05
Persons and Things.

Persons and Things.
JOE JEFFERSON is on his orange plan
tation In Southern Louisiana.
Ex-SENAToR DooLTTrLE is lobbying m
the Wisconsin Legislature.
THERE were 251, ,545 children In the
New York public schools Last year.
SUSAN, sister of Anna Dickinson, made
her debut as O. lecturer last week.
JOHN Ct. SAKE has left Albany to make
his home In the City of Churches.
THr decrease of cotton shipments as
Memphis this year was ~, 600 bales.
TmcKEN is the name of the man
who is getting up the Milwaukee Direc-
tory.
THRrY-FrvE new operas were pro-
duced in 1874. Only three made any
success. M
In Paris 671 women get their living by
serving as models for painters and
sculptors.
In Sweden last year there were 1O5, ,4O8
imperial gallons of whisky manufactured
from sea moss.
A WESTERN farmer, reading of Q
cricket club, writes to know If it Is good
for grasshoppers. ~
TIE Australian process of exporting
fresh meats in tin canisters has led Co
disastrous losses.
THERE are still on the pension list the
names of 410 widows of the soldiers of
the revolutionary war.
BosroN has successfully introduced
stoves and fires into street cars, for tho
comfort of passengers.
SEVERAL suits are pending against the
United States for Infringement of pa
tents in the Springfield gun
EIGHTEEN New York policemen have
been murdered while discharging their
duties since the LIST of May last.
THE New York Tribune publishes q
daily supplement containing verbatim
reports of the Beecher-Tilton scandal
The New York Tribune dollar fund for
the Kansas and Nebraska sufferers now
foots up 90, 51484, 800 of which has
been sent forward.
THE highest telegraph Office in the
world has lately been established by the
Western Union Company, at Alora, Cola
10, 500 feet above the sea.
HAVING worn decency thread-bare, the
female portion of the Beecher-Tilton i'm
broglio are beginning to think that the
courtroom is no place for them.
THERE are in the United States 156
silk firms and manufacturing corpora
tions, employing 1861 operatives, and
representing Sig, 100000 of special
capital.
| THE itterateurs of the East are talking
about o monument to Edgar A. Poe. 1t
has been designed by George A. Fred
erick, of Baltimore, and viii be of mAx9le,
chaste and simple in style.
| MoUnroN at Brooklyn and Irwin a&
| Washington have been answering great
many questions during the past two
weeks, and the world draws a sigh Of ne
Lief in knowing that they are through 2
HORACE B1NNEY, of Philadelphia, ia
not, after all, the only graduate of Har-
ward College during the eighteenth cen-
tury now living. -Congressnan and
Judge Willard Hall, of Wilmington
Del, was graduated in 1893.
In 1874 there were SO, ,O8S persons in
Great Britain who paid the tax for using
armorial bearings-of whom 80 ,226 paid
the lower duty, which does not confer
the privilege of wearing them ON car
riage, and is, ,6S1 paid the higher duty,
which does confer that privilege. The
respective duties are one guinea and two
guineas.
ACCORDING TO the statistics of the Lon
I don work-houses, which are usually pub
lished by the newspapers ON the day afteE
Christmas, the decrease of pauperism -
} compared with last year was S,364 Per
} SONS. The total number of people who
received relief, including widows and
7 outdoor poor, and children, was Sc, BOT.
I f- fe4
TEE most circuitous instance of The
! application of the proceeds of theft il
! reported from Montreal, where q letter
, carrier ON probation stole a registered
letter containing six dollars, and used thG
} contents to insure himself In one of tbs
: companies that guarantee the honesty O
. their policy holders in responsible posi-
tions.
Z A LARGE black marble tombstone hal
Z been laid over the grave of DIR. Living
!. stone in Westminster Abbey. The ston.
bears lengthy inscription In gold letters
commencing
Brought by faithful hands, DER land and sea, her
David Livingstone,
Missionary, Traveller, PhilAnthxopiBt,
3 Born March 49, 1918, ct Blanfyre, LAnarknhiFe,
g Died May, 1874, at Chittambo's Valley
a With his last words he wrote: % An
can do In my solitude may. Heavens rioh blsnsln
Y como down every Anerican, EngliahmAn, q
|. Turk who viii help 10 heal this open sore o. sh
d | woridir