The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
Current Paragraphs,


to 1e4 nighrgowns.
A WOMAN in Berlin, Germany, has
forty-nine children.
THE new army bill in France increases
the army to $50, 600 men.
AN Iowa father of seventy-five au-
tumns is gladdened by a 12-pound
scion.
EMuGRANTs received at Castle Garden
since January l, 1874, 131, 1922.
THE chandelier for the new opera
house in Paris will cost So, 600.
LONDON expects to have $50, 900, 600
people before she stops growing.
THE law-abiding Bostonians have
violated the building law. 1,010 times
ACCORDING to the military survey of
the Russian empire, the monarchy ex-
tends over 400, ,227 geographical miles,
or ohe-sixth of the inhabited globe.
JOHN ALLEN, of Pierpont Manor,
Jefferson county, N. Y, has just been
elected Justice of the Peace by the
Republicans for the thirteenth term of
four years each. Squire Allen is 80
years cf age.
AMERICAN cities pay roundly not to
have their streets poorly cleaned. Paris
receives $130, 900 year for the privi-
lege from contractors, who manufacture
the refuse into compost and sell it for
$500, O00-a clear profit OF $380,O0O.
WILLIAM MORAN, of the Philadelphia
Sunday Chronicle, was convicted few
days ago of singular libel upon George
E. Hall, member of the Common Coun-
Gil. He charged Hall with picking the
pocket of marble statue of George
Washington.
IT is stated as probable that one of
the Paris theatres will adopt the rule of
closing the doors as soon as the curtain
rises and keeping them vigorously
closed while the curtain is up, SO that
late comers may not interfere with the
comfort of all who are seated betimes.
In the great s'hop district" of New
York-comprising the counties of Her
klmer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida,
1000 bales of this seasons hops are
now held. The price from first hands
ranges from 36 to As cents. Brewers
are now pretty well stocked up Roch-
ester (Ms Y.) Union.
GEORGE l1ABARs whose death, In
at the age of 1O7 years,
we reported last week, lett SIG descend
ants. His father, when 95 years old,
married woman of 30, who thought
she would worry him out. perhaps
but he proved to be like Joey Bag
stock, old and tough, and outlived her,
dying at the green old age OF Ill years.
A TENNESSEE paper celebrates the
of the 'tbest man in the
county" In single day, last spring,
she dug six pounds of ginseng. captured
and killed two rattlesnakes with eleven
and thirteen rattles, and gave birth to
wins. But she can't do it every day.
not to mention twins, are
not to be had more than once or twice
/ week.
MIR. BANCROFT continues to drive
ais inexorabIe quill with vigor. He
Uses at 6, lights his fire, and works until
to breakfast at 8. After |
breakfast he resumes his labors until 1.
when he stops for the day, and usually |
axes ride on horseback, followed by |
! g constitutional walk of two or three |
niles. The evenings he devotes to So
'ial enjoyment.
CoINER BABooCK, of the United States |
Mint, San Francisco, Dec. 10, delivered i
o Superintendent La Grange the sum
# 1850, 900 in double eagles. This is
he largest days work ever performed /
" any mint in the United States. In
he three days, terminating with Satur-
ley, the mint has turned out S., 800, 600,
he largest amount of coinage ever run
q the same period.
Mrs. JOAQUIN MILLER has written a
Lraha founded upon the incidents of
Ter chequered life. Joaquin is char
cter in the play; SO is Mrs. 10 so are
many living "Oregon characters" of
Iote. Climax of Act l.: "My marriage
nth joaquin - Do. of Act IL: ss His
departure, and Myself standing on that
onely rock, watching the recedjng
hip %
; A LIBEL suit in Lowell involves the
uestion of how much publicity is
1ven, in the eyes of the law, to matter
'ritten on postal card and sent
trough the mail The defendant
Trote letter to the plaintiff on a pos
al card, accusing him of forgery, and
is defense is that, as the postofice
Jerks are enioined to secrecy, there
1as no more of publication than if
be matter had been sent in a sealed
sitter.
AN illustration of the poor-debtor
AVIS of Massachusetts, is found in the
of man for debt in one
+ the jails near Boston. He placed
u his property at the disposal of his
reditors, but for some reason was not ]
nowed to take the poor debtors oath.
nd is now denied almost all communi-
alton with his friends, is forbidden
1e use of newspapers, and is obliged
} march daily with the prisoners who
ave committed great crimes. ,
ANGoRA, generally celebrated for cats.
town of Asiatic Turkey, 215 miles !
'om Constantinople. It contains the !
1ins of ancient ByzanGian architecture
ad Greek and Roman relics, and is .:
$50 celebrated for the lon0-haired
amel-goat. just at present Angora is
/ great distress, being upon the point
starvation. The Sultan of Turkey.
monarch not generally credited with !.
aarity to his subjects, has contributed
LOO, 600 for the relief of its inhabitants !
an act which greatly rebounds to his !;
edit.
A Reformed Prize-Fighter.
The London Times says as Bendi-
- formerly . well known prize
,hter and champion of England de- &