The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
All Sorts.

All Sorts.
OVER sixty nations now burn Penn
sylvania coal oil.
JOHN BRIGHT will, it is reported, visit
this country next year.
A CHINAMAN and an Irishman run a
candy store in partnership in New
York.
The membership of Plymouth Church
is made up of 1904 females and 1856
males.
COLORADO and Wyoming are doubt
less the most wonderful fossil fields on
the globe.
ACCORDING to Punch, Gladstone has
abandoned the works of Homer for
those of Pope.
TT cost Denver sport $48 to cut of
the plg-tail ornament of a Celestial
resident in that city.
J. s. CLARKE is the only American
comedian who has successfully played
English comedy on English soil.
"AND inow," complains the Omaha
Bee, 't the barbarians of the East refer
to our female population as Oma-
hens.'"
A TERRE HAUTE newspaper begs the
policemen of Indianapolis, when they
visit T. Fl. for "a big drunk, " to leave
their uniforms behind them.
IT is the opinion of the Galveston
WeaOs that the trade between that city
and the New West in tropical fruits is
destined to be very important.
A. LETTER in the New York Tribune
says IS Papa has given us three cents a
day for not sucking our thumbs. We
send 81 for child in Kansas.
CINCINNATI people spend So, 600, 900 a
year for intoxicating drinks. and still
are greatly troubled to know how
to keep the poor of the city from starv-
ing.
TIE Rev. Florence Mccarthy, of
Chicago, counts 80, 900 conflicting read
ings in the New Testament. and says
that s' we are at the mercy of the trans
lators."
DIR. JOHN HALL says that in England
people are divided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church
men and absenters.
THE government of France is enor.
150, 600 clergymen, and $50, 900 office
holders, making q total of 1900, ,00C
rulers of less than 40, 900, 900 people.
ENGLISH and German architects fire.
| quently visit the ancient Greek temples
| of Pasturn and return filed with praises
of the Grecian beauties. For modern
building purposes, however, they are
pronounced useless.
M. HURoUERnor left $12O, 900 to the
city of Paris to found a railroad school
but as the same was insufficient for the
purpose, and the city had no funds te
put with it into railroad schools, the
money was Reluctantly sent back to the
heirs.
A LETTER from Hardyville, Arizona,
says the tide of emigration is steadily
increasing. All agree that great rush
is near at hand. The great point of at
traction now is the Sandy country.
Towns and cities are talked of, and
qnartz mills, new roads, ferries, and
stage lines, are among the improve
ments of the day.
TINS is rattlesnake season in Texas.
A letter from there says: Thirty-one
rattlesnakes were caught and Gagged at
sink-holes were attacked, and thirteen
taken from one, and eight from the
| other. They measured from three to
five feet, and some of them had as
| many as nine rattles.
A Vile SLANDER ON THE SEx.-It is
in this underhanded way that an Ari-
zona paper seeks to disparage the taste
of the average American woman Last
Saturday q young Indian, one of the
fanciest-dressed of his tribe, came tc
| town with the wages of weeks work
in his pocket and sought out the differ
emit stores to find some article that
would add to his fine appearance. He
examined many styles of colors and
scarfs, handkerchiefs and blankets. By
and by his fancy was arrested at the
sight Of a new style hat. Is was just
exactly what he wanted-a hat with {
! feather and bird in it. He bought
it eagerly, and went of happy il
the possession ef-a lady's hat of tht
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