The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12
Persons and Things.
THUn4AN is a great snuff-taker.

Persons and Things.
THURMAN is q great snuff-taker.
The smallpox is raging fearfully In
Cuba.
THE mummies belonged to the first fam
lies Of Egypt
Ak unpublished poem Of Miltonis has
been discovered
TEE Erie railread killed ninety-eight
people last year.
Sam WARD, the lobbyist, is brother 10
Julia Ward Howe.
THE silver mines In Massachusetts, will
amount to something after all
TRAsK, thefamous usanti-tobacconist, died
at Fitchburg, Mass, recently.
IT is a fact that the Yale College Trus-
tees pay Evarts' fee for defending Beech
er.
JUDGE REED, of Iowa, has decided that
paying for game of billiards by the
loser is gambling.
MARTNsvnLE, Ind, has produced
hog weighing ], ,122 pounds-the heaviest
in the United States u
Two m11IoN fish, last year, were
Matched fer the government at the State
Hatchery in Michigan.
THE grand jurors of Lucas county,
Ohio, have presented church rafaes an
an IegaEty and nuisance.
PERHAPS we hadn't better exterminate
the Indian. 1t cost $411, 900 to bring
Modoc Jack to the gallows.
THAT famous hotel, the Astor House, Of
New York, Is to be closed on May
/, and converted into business Offices.
IN Dewitt county, Texas, fifteen in
dictments have been found against as
many persons for carrying six-shooters.
IT is whispered that a christening may
occur at the White House in the spring,
which hasn't happened mnce Tyler was
President.
WHILE GooLDY, of Terre Haute, aged
IL years, travelled "on his own hook to
San Francisco and back. Now his parents
call him Windy, because he goeth where
he listeth, and no one knows whence he
cometh or whittier he goeth.
SOMEHOW one can't help thinking of
that citizen of Syracuse who has thirteen
children, all girls. Probably there Is not
corner of the bureau In that mans
house that hasn't cold chew of spruce
gum sticking to toit.-MiItOGukec Sentinel
THE following are the statistics of the
schools in Japan: Public schools, z, ,995;
private schools, 5,721; total, . ID, 716.
Scholars: Boys, 978, $50; females, 31O,-
AIT; total, 1,289, ,3O7. Percentages of
scholars in proportion to population,
Alb.
THERE is a man In the condemned cell
in Paris who cannot be guillotined until
the authorities ascertain his name. He
was condemned by name since found
to be false, and there is no precedent for
the execution of man whose name is
not known, SO he must wait.
THERE is no question as to the profita-
bleness of some of the Nevada silver
mines. The Belcher mine was sold in
| November; 1870, for $40, 800. Since that
| time it has declared dividends of $12,-
| O64, 600, and called In assessments of
| 81, ,246, 400; and the present value of the
mine is estimated at $6, 136, 900. Here
is clear profit of $15, ,932, 800 on $40, 800
In four years. The Virginia consolidated
mine has risen in value from $5S, 600 to
@63, ,18O, 600, besides dividing @648, 600 in
| dividends. Other mines have proved
| quite as profitable.
MISS MINNIE HAUcK, at the close of o.
short but very successful engagement at
the Royal Opera House of Berlin, has
gone to Weimar. In October she is to
begin another series of 60 star +" per-
formances at Berlin, and after
that she will enter npon several
years engagement for season of six
months annually in the German capital
The prosperity of our young country
woman, whose artistic career and
estimable personal character have both
been SO creditable to America, viii be OBJ
served with great satisfaction on this side
of the ocean.
DR. GEORGE N. BEARD, of New York,
has been challenged by the Eddy
Brothers, mediums" Of Chittenden,
Vermont, to prove that they are sstrans-
parent and unscrupulous humbugs.' =
They offer to put mp 81 900 in the hands
of three umpires, one q competent scien-
tific man to be chosen by DIR. Beard,
\ another to be chosen by the Eddy's, and
these two to decide upon the third
, They offer him every test that won't
ssinfiict pain or bodily harm on the me-
: dunn, and a darkened room as the only
condition. If the doctor establishes
/ fraud in the manifestations he is to have
l the 81 600. If he fails the medium is to
l receive it.