The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-26
Persons and Ti,ines.

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Texas has 10000, 900 acres Of public
lands.
TEE man who works with wilI-The
Probate Judge.
GREEIEx, Col, has just shipped twelve
bales of buffalo robes.
CHINESE nnaxim-Never rub your ewes
except with your elbows.
Fifteen years ago there were scarcely
ten mildonaires IN America.
PHILADELPHIA has more variety halls
tnan any city In the country.
In Japan there are 18. Tie schools. and
the scholars number ], ,289. .3O7.
PENNSYLVANIA still produces $4O. .OOO.-
GOO worth Of lumber annually.
THERE were 606 deaths in New York
last week, and only 5O4 births.
A NEGRO Is to be executad IN .TacroaI
Hayh, this month, for cannibaIisrn- ~,
ate hls victim all but the head.
SIX " mock suns" anei an inverted rain
bow were seen loafing about the gun AZ
south Pueblo, Col, few days ago.
R1cHARD GRANT WHrTE holds German
to be the most horrible combination Of
sounds with which the human ear can bo
tormented. .
THE fisheries on the coast of Scotland
t,g ut,uring IN tne past season have yielded more
u, s,,an ooO,VOO,OoO OF herrings, affording
an unusually good harvest to the oeople'
CoNGREss consists of sevsnty-four (74)
Senators (when all the States are fNs,lIy
represented) and two hundred and nine-
ty-two (292) Representatives. the bas;a
ol representation is about 19O, 600.
MRS. GRABAcH, of Omaha. killed her.
Gttae step-daughter by stamping on her.
one says she was possessed by devil.
W WHICH Is not complimentary to Mr.. G..
70 whom she was given in marriaoe
Dut pohteness is not characteristic of fha
species. - ~lA'
TYPHOID fever prevails in the citv of
LoIoon and vicinity to an alarming ex-
tent. several members of the ToyaI
Z inousenold, including Prince Leopoid-
lave lave oeen very sick with it, and several
from 1t.
In the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord, a noted writer, nothing is so ~.
srable as conciseness. We do not -
member to have seen a moro concise
statement of mans virtues than in
contained in the following, from an Ore
gon paper
The angels tonight I'm their manwiona - 1,oht
Are waltzin' round Anthony Mini.
He was faithful and kind a. a1v xo.,1i aa
And gin was his favorite drink
THE production of sHenry "" AZ
Booths Theater, New York. reouirea
forty-four actors and actresses. 40 su-
pernumeraries, and fifty-five ballet Girls.
In the battle scene at Agincourt there
Will be more than 800 persons on the
stage at one time. The production Of
the piece involved an outlay of $40. 900.
THERE is a woman in Paris who pro-
poses that she shall be declared Queen
OF France and Navarro, and immediatelv
married to Alfonso XII. of Spain. in or
der that By the union of the two king
doms there may be no longer any Pyr-
enees. The police, not appreciating poll
tlcs, have sent her to a lunatic asylum.
THE government has derived an in
come from Alaska, since the acquisition
Of that Territory, from taxes on seal
skins, OF 81, 150, ,219; rent for fur-seal ISL
ands, $40, 180. u; sale of seal-skins taken
by government agents, under section 6.
act of July 1, 1870, S29. .529. 1S: total
income, 81 1856, ,229 81.
AT the beginning of the last year the
German army consisted of 81 $50 officers.
J, ,329, 5000 men, 314,970 horses, 2.7O0
tield-guns, and $40 siege-guns. The i0-
ures do not include the fourth battalions.
consisting of 3,400 officers and 152. 100
men, which are to be formed in case of
war, or the I01sdstusDa, to be raised under
the new law, which would bring into the
held force of at hast 3, 718 officers and
2O2, 500 men.