The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-22
AN Sorts.

4All Sorts.
FRUIT Gamers are engaged on put-up
jobs.
AT Benicia, Cal, there is sow on ex-
hibition a grape measuring 4 5-8
inches one way and 81 inches the
other.
TIE Bostons retain the base ball
championship for the third season.
with the Mutuals second and Athletics
third.
Coop nature, Like bee. collects its
honey from every herb. III nature, ike
spider, sucks poison FROM tine sweet
est flower.
GERMANY has just launched her sew
enth 6rst-class iron-clad, and the
eighth, now being constructed, is to be
adoat in April.
SENATOR Go1DrHwA1TE, of GEORGIA.
is thinking of resigning on account of
ill-hea1th, and General Morgan is
spoken of as his successor.
SOME folks call it "Boss-town."
others "Bawston, +" and others " B-os-
ton," but the real pronunciation is
"Boz-ton," dwelling long on the "z."
A DEAD man can drift down stream,
but it takes q live man to pull up
against it. That is the time that tries q
mans soul-when the tide is against
him.
RIsToRI has been quite successful in
studying the English language. She
can say ridiculous improbabiities "
with ease, and is practicing on
"thirsty."
Mr.. GEORGE H. NErT1EToN has BEEN
Ao1 - k11o
souri, River, Fort Scott and Gulf Rail
road, with full powers and authority as
its chief executive officer.
THE following striking lines forms an
inscription found at Melrose Abbey:
The earth Roeth on the EARTH Riissenine in gold:
The earth goes to tine earth sooner than it void;
The earth builds on the earth castles and towers;
The earth says to the earth" All shall be oursl'
A CALIFORNIA temperance association
limits the beverages of its members to
| wine, beer and cider, "except when
laboring under q sense of discour-
agement, and then whisky will be al
lowed"
TIE mild weather is Matching out the
grasshopper eggs at the West, and tho
| fields swarm with young insects. The
farmers exult in the thought that win
ter will kill them and they will be free
from the pest next season
Col. WILLIAM WILSON, who raised
Wilson's" zouaves," at the beginning of
| the war, died at New York city last
week. He fought gallantly throughout
the war, and had since lived a quiet
| life.
THREE little girls in Hartford, God
bless 'em, spent week on fancy work,
and then held fair, which netted nine
dollars, with which they purchased q
ton of coal for poor widow lady of
that city.
THE invention of the musical scale, or
gamut, occurred in 1922. ut was the
work of an italian monk, and contrib
uted much to diffuse a taste for music
The inventor, Guido Arctine, was sent
for thrice to Rome to teach it to the
clergy.
THE annual report of Superintendent
Bangs, Of the Railway Postal Service,
shows variety of interesting facts,
prominent among them being the state
ment that of all the mail carried under
his superintendent " per cent. is news
matter to regular subscribers.
PRINCE BISMARCK is now reported to
be in excellent health. The wound in
dlcted by Kullmann has left scar, but
it is perfctly healed. Close to it, how
ever, on the wrist of his right hand, q
red mark remains, which is still sore
enough to make writing a somewhat
painful exertion.
SUCH death as that which occurred
at Uxbridge, Massachusetts,, recently,
is extremely rare. The body of an un-
known man, sixty years old, was found
hanging Yith bead downwards on the
fence of1fhe cemetery. He had appar.
emily caught his ankle between the
pickets over the fence, and had evident
ly been dead o day or two.
TIE habit of breathing through the
mouth instead of through the nose tends
to weaken the whole respiratory appa-
ratus, diminish the capacity of the
lungs, and when commenced in early
infancy, to distort the jaws and deforn
the teeth. Many of the tribes of Ameri-
can 1ndians-as explained by the emf
nent artist, the late MIR. Colton-art
particular never to allow child tc
sleep for q moment with its mouth
open, and unsymmetrical teeth are un
known among them. Whenever &
child is inclined to open It's mouth dur
ing sleep its watchful mother or nurse
presses its lips together, holds them
closed. and preserves the corrective
process until the abnormal habit il
overcome and breathing the natural way
established.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DIsEAsE.-A
writer in Chambers Journal speaks o.
the fact as decidedly noteworthy that
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