The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-19

GLADsronE is SO.


All Sorts.
GLADsroNs is SO.
men.
AroLho CoNHIzEa is said to be grow
ing homely.
EUaENn is wasting away with con-
sumption.
AN Indiana badger whistles IS Homes
Sweet Home"
CLAEDIEH went to the Senate froza
Michigan m 81.
sENAToR JoErs is forty-four his new
wife is eighteen.
In Detroit several women have appIiedg
for positions as street-car conductors-
BuIIARD tables have been introduced
into the gymnasium at Princeton College
ATLANTA, Ga, has two widows, sisters.
aged respectively thirteen and fifteen
years.
Mrs. PEPn, aged CIV. years, and the
mother of twenty-three children, died mt
Essex, Vt, recently.
MARX TwAN, they cay, has been of
fered the Turkish mission because he
is h0re0a-searene sort of a fellow.
IN Montana and Idaho. and somcs
parts of California, they use Schenck1s.
book on Poker in administering tho
oath.
J. s. G.. ABBOTT includes Capt. KidM
among his sketches of The Pioneers of
America. The Captain was lively
pioneer.
.I NEVER knew what good thing re-
igion was until / was chased by bear, -
remarked IaCrosse deacon the otheE-
Thursday night.
Ar bali given at st. AIbans, Vt.,-.
last week, by the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, the sets were formeEa
at the sound of a steam whistle.
Sam S1NCLArR, formerly publisher OF
the New York Tribune, has a 81, 600
position in the New York Custom House
Real estate speculation did it.
An American eagle and Canadian r@os&
er being matched TO fight at Hamilton,
Ont, the other day, we mourn to BAY
that the eagle was thrashed in one min
ute.
Mrs. ELIZABETH ETHRRIDGE, the VEN
erable mother of the Hon. Emerson Eth
eridge, died at Dresden, Tenn, on The
| 18th of last month, at the advanced age
of 102 years.
WHERE is Ohicago?'' plaintively asks
the Rochester Democrat. s'Ask tassr,
| insurance companies" unfeelingly re-
| plies the Brooklyn Argus " they bury,
| their dead there"
| Sam RANDAI1h's leadership of the op--
position during the recent deadlock iEc
the Honse brought him to the front as
| a leader, and he is now prominently
named in connection With the next
Speakership..
! THR revenue of the German Empire
turned into the imperial exchequer from
Jan. / to Nov. 30, 1874, was III, 454s
972 thalers-a tliminution of / 1,601 ,364
thalers for the corresponding period OF
/ 1873.
WHEN am afTectionate man in Mount
| Vernon, ILL.,, published a 6 personal = So
| hciting correspondence with young
cultured hdiee, the type fend set il up
" coIored ladies, - and the poor fellow is
in trouble.
THE differences between an ice house
and a nice house is more apparent In the
spelling than in the pronunciation. Like
the Enghshman's anticipated brood of
young chickens, it depends altogether
upon the setting of the n.
! AN old bachelor says: ssWhen / re-
member all the girls I've met together,
every weather; i feel like one who treads
alone some barn yard all deserted, whose
oats are fed, whose hens are dead, or all
to market started !"
DR HueH J. GLENN, of Colusa coun-
ty, Cal, raised on his farm last year
600, 600 bushels of wheat, which amount
is still In his warehouses awaiting ship
ment. This would load eighteen shipsr.
of 1O, GOO tons, or 800 canal-boats.
WHEN an Indianapolis man had lost
$500 of his employers money at faro
his spunky wife, pistol in hand made
the proprietor refund, saved her hus-
bands place, and got one for herself i'm
the same establishment, besides being
generally and admiringly talked about.
CoMMoDoRE VANDERBILT, they say
! goes to church about once month at
least, feels partly hike q father and partly
like a SON 10 his friend DIR. Deems, cher
ishes the deepest respect for true relig-
ion and true Christians, and has sort of
q religion of his own.
Mrs. Lovrr, of Springfield, Mass, has
forced her husband and three grown
4 mp SONS to take board at n neighbors b. w
she finds it impossible to spare time for
/ housework while the Tilton- Beecher trial
is going ON. She is slow reader, and
gets up at daylight.
THE widows of fifty-four Generals draw
pensions from the United States govern
ment. It is stated that when the pensions
paid to the ewidows of Brigadier Generals,
$50 q month, WAS offered to the widow Of
General Meade, she emphatically declined
TO receive it because it was less than that
paid to Mrs. President Lincoln.
A MAaNIF1cENr necklace and eaH4drUpB-
} of diamonds have been received at the
! New York Custom House, for delivery TO
Mrs. Lieut.. Thomas w. Fitch, u. s. NJ.
nee Minnie Sherman. They were sent
: by the Khetiiye Of Egypt, as a wedding
J present to the daughter of Gen. Shex-
man, In token OF his appreciation of the
! advice concerning the reorganization and
; discipline Of the officers of his army,
t given by the General during his viEf
t to Cairo In 1873.
) Gen. Fremont.