The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-05-14
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People and Things.
FRAEcH has had nineteen constitutions
since 1888.
ToM THUlzB is thirty eight years old,
but very small for his age.
In all England, Ireland and Scotland
there are only 1877 daily papers.
THERE are said TO be ffty-seven womem
editing newspapers in this county.
A PRovDENoE OR. T. firm has com-
pleted $400 rife for King KAlakaua.
The coal fields Of Colorado are larger
than the whole area of New England.
GREAr BR1rAM has but 100, sos acrea
In orchards. Illinois alone has twice as
many.
Two million fish were hatched last yeas
by the government at the Michigan State
Fishery.
BRIaHAM YoUNa has been reelected
Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and President
of the Mormon community.
BOARD at all the summer resort hotels
will be materially cheaper than last
year, and well may we rejoice.
SwEDEs has no national debt, and
its surplus revenue, last year, amount
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cts go.
THE latest addition to the umbrella is
pane of glass, inserted in the front
breadth, through which the holder cam
see his way.
TIE last Boston spelling match was
bothered with such words as cerisas.
ptsymago ogtachygraph giaour, tael, eyot,
hcnus, euchamy, and demoniacal.
BALTIMORE ships sc, Geo, 600 cans of
oysters annually, and 10000 men
are constantly employed in sharpening
I oyster-kmves and soldering up tha
cans.
IT is almost hopeless to breed horses
/ for fast trotters when there have been
but Eve horses raised in Kentucky in the
last fifteen years that have records as low
as 2:21.
the best part of New York city without
tenants, and thousands of houses are oc-
cupied by people who cannot pay their
landlords.
I Two OR three dozen of the Boston doca
tors have been investigating the boy
murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, and, as a re-
/ suit, have united in a petition to the
Governor to hang him.
FRANK .WALwoRTH, the parricide, is
having fits and other complaints, and the
subject of a pardon for him is again at
tracing attention. His mother is q daily
visitor to her unfortunate son.
AN oak tree near Arensberg, in Prus-
sia, more than thousand years old, is
about to be cut down by its owner be-
cause of tn e inconvenience suffered from
the numerous visits of strangers TO the
| place.
i Ex-senator REvELs, of Mississippi,
the first colored citizen admitted to the
United States Senate, has become Doc
tor of Divinity, and is an active preacher
of the Methodist Episcopal Church Of
that State.
WIN. III. NKv1Es, ef London, accused
of stealing $40, 600 from his employers,
started out strange countries for to see :
and detective who went after him cap
tured him last week in Brooklyn, after
an 5000 mile pursuit.
THE Titusvine Courier says that the
production of petroleum in Western
would I'll q canal thirty feet wide at the
toy, fifteen feet at the bottom, seven
feet deep, and over seventy five miles
long.
AN important company has beer
, formed In England to import live cattle
from Texas to that country, with capi
} tai of $4,000, 600. They viii talks
{ 1,5O0 at load, and load the return
ing ships with emigrants at low rates o.
fare.
OEE of the most horrible reports ci
moral insanity induced by belief In thu
supernatural comes from Pinar Del Rio
In the West Indies A mother, who sup
posed herself to be so directed by spirit
rappings, tore out her sons eyes and
! prepared to tear out her own. Thil
was done in the presence of a circle O.
women who prayed in q loud voice Will.
: the hideous operation was being per
, formed.