The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-05
All Sorts.

All Sorts.
GRASS widows-The wives of rowing
blades.
AMERICA has one doctor to every 800
Inhabitants.
A Sr. LOUIS variety theater announces
s' The Female Brothers" as the reign
ing sensation.
A MAN not As years old yet, got license
to marry his fifth wife, last week, at
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
THE Duluth Tribune establishment
has been sold at Sheriff's sale, and is
now the property of Mrs. Lorinda r.
Hulburd, of Chicago.
many propose to put stop to the sys-
tenn of recalls, and of throwing boquets
and wreaths on the stage, during the
progress of an opera or play.
THE Paris police has forbidden the
use of certain streets to people with
veIocipedes, and commanded that in all
others they must carry bells by dav.
like sleighs, and a lantern at night.
AT recent " cheese fair in England.
the judge decided that American fac
tories cannOt produce cheese equal to
the best cheese made in England, al
though they successfully compete with
the medium qualities.
Mr.. SKmnNGs, of West Gorham, Me-, :,
fired into his poultry-yard the other
night and brought down Messrs. Perkins
and Blake, two quiet citizens who had
got in among the chickens. Perkins
died in short time, and Blake car ries
thirty seven wounds.
Mr.. HENRY r. MYaATr, of Oxford,
N. Y, has quart bottle of old Madeira
wine in his possession which was put
up and hermetically sealed by Robert
Morris, of Revolutionary treasury fame,
in 1774. He will have it on exhibition
at the Centennial Exhibition at Phila-
delphia in 1875.
An old tax warrant, just discovered,
sets forth that Joseph Bonaparte was
taxed in 1912 800 for 1000 acres of
land, by Nathan Sutterthwaite, then
Assessor of BordenSown. N. j. The
ex-Assessor is still living, and says he
"stuck it on little, as Bony was rich
and could stand it.
An agent of the Massachusetts Board
of Health is travelling on the railroads
of that State testing the air in the cars,
more particularly the smoking car. He
carries q pair of bellows and a small
vial, partly filed with fluid, into which
the air Is forced with the bellows, and
subsequently it is analysed and the i'm
| purities separated.
LET those who think that If all plant
corn instead of wheat the pork and cat
| tie business will be overdone, look care
| fully to the tables of slaughtered ami
mails in this country. In 1860 the value
of slaughtered animals was $500, ,OOO,-
| 600, and in 1870 S4OO, 600, 900. If IL
reaches double that in 1880, there will
Tbe demand for all.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says Bon.
ner, of the New York Ledger, is re.
sponsible for much of the prevailing
distress. For years young people have
been reading his delusive romances and
his advice to marry young, and nov
there are thousands of peoplewith large
families on their hands and nothing K
eat but New York Ledgers.
A DOCTOR and preacher met on the
street the other day and. commenced
bandying words about physical prowess
The preacher said one blow from the
fist would show tie doctor what "blut
mass " was. The doctor replied that i
the preacher wanted to learn cheal
method of " spreading the gospel" h'
would advise him to run against hi
| fist Glasgow (Afo.) Times.
One savant has discovered that, il
fifteen years, we are to radiate radian
matter enough from the earth's surfac,
to make a second moon, and that whel
these two moons get into operation W
shall have no more disease and death
But depend on violent measures to de
crease the population. It will cause
deal of trouble in poetry. We shal
have to speak correctly, and say, Rol
on silver moons, or, THE moonses ar
by the moonses, the inconstar
moonses."