The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
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In Australia incubation OF cattle is
now regularly practiced for the preven-
tion of pleuro-pneumon1a.
DEACON Rush, of Mcleod county,
Mimi, has been fined $3.50 for fog
ging grown-up daughter.
THE horse shambIes of Paris supplied
the public during the third quarter of
the past year with $50, 600 pounds of
meat, the result of the slaughter of
,555 horses, mules and asses.
A LOWELL, Mass, architect has de-
signed New England building for the
Centennial with q tower six hundred
feet high. His lofty aspirations recall
the Tower of Babel.
NEBRASKA has 1,345 school houses,
valued at 81 300. 900, an increase of 800
school-houses and $500, 600 in value in
two years. The number of pupils is
72, ,991, and of teachers, 2,2OO.
A DUMB barber in a new Jersey town
is getting all the custom, and has been
obliged to hire four mute assistants.
Barbers who are not " dumb" !" should
cut this out, and paste it on their coat
sleeve.
FoRTY-Two million passengers were
carried over Massachusetts railroads
the past year, and only one person
killed and seven injured, except by the
personal carelessness of the victim of
the accident.
A HEN in Lancaster, Pa, laid curl
GUS double egg the other day. Each of
the component parts was perfectly
shaped, and the pointed end of one was
| joined to the blunt end of the other by
O small igature.
THERE is Chinese cat in Athol,
Mass, that has an extra claw to each
foot. resembling thumb, and it goes
about opening and shutting doors by
taking hold and turning the round
knobs attached to them.
| New YoRK arrested "a, ,821 of her
people last year. of whom "a, ,608 were
of the gentle sex. OF the 60, 600 who
were walked up for drunkenness in its
| various branches, the gentle sex also
contributed one.third.
| STATIsrpIANs declare marked differ
ence between Jews and Christians as to
longevity. In one hundred Christians
| fifty die before the age of ffty-seven,
and with Jews the same proportion
reaches beyond sixty-seven.
THE leaders of fashion say that an
nouncing engagements in the advertis-
ing columns of the press is soon to be
the proper thing in high life. Why not,
when they are sure to be found out and
payer reporters?
Two little daughters of Charles
Rogers, of Utica. n. Y, were sitting by
the stove in the kitchen of their house
recently, and the dress of the younger
who is eight years old, took fire. Hel
sister, aged twelve years, carried the
little one into the yard, rolled her in the
snow. and saved her life.
In Albany few nights ago, part,
was given by Erastus Corning, which
cost SO, 500, and a statistical Jenkins
who was present says the silks, lacei
and diamonds present were valued a
81, ,O00, 600, while the real estate AND
bonds represented could not have beer
less than $40. .000, 900.
SMALLPOX has been very prevalen
in Montreal the past year, there being
661 deaths from that disease in min,
months. a Montreal paper calls on th,
Catholic clergy to advocate vaccination
in opposition to the French doctors
| who oppose it. The death-rate of Men
; treal is twice as heavy as that o
London.
DEATH was the result of q foolisl
wager in Paris, recently. A young maj
made bet that he would smoke twelv
cigars, one after another. At the en-,
of the eighth he began to feel unwen
, and when he had finished the ninth b
was attacked with giddiness and shive1
ings. He refused to leave off smoking
; but went home in charge of som
friends. A medical man was called in
, who could not, however, help him, an
he died during the night.