The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
Persons and Things.

Or 26, $40 Welshmen who live In Liv
erpool, 3,316 are church-goers.
A LITTLE boy in Albany bit his tongu,
while rocking In chair, and bled K
death.
Mrs. RoBB1Ns, of Conway, N. H., In.
added four young robins to her nest n
IL months.
A CINCINNATI pork-dealer proposes ia
furnish the world with his ought -to-buy-
biography.
/ A MINNESOTA man makes the winter
seem short by giving his note payable in
the spring.
THE King of Burrnah is going to start
a newspaper to be published in Burmese
and English.
The number of sheep last year In
Australia was 81, 400, ,000s It has doubled
in twelve years.
In the Gardner Cde.) Methodist Con-
ference there are sixteen persons between
the ages of 80 and 100.
The total strength of the volunteer
forces of Great Britain was at the end
of last year 236, ,683 men.
In Minnesota wood is only 50 cord.
but then 1t takes cord of wood to warm
one side of man up there.
SERVED him right An indianapolis
blgamist has gone crazy for fear of being
prosecuted for his dupicity.
WHEN the thermometer marked AZ
degrees below zero in Sioux Falls, Lows.
the people were afraid to go to bed.
HE foremen of the Cincinnati brew
cries are paid $40, 600 per annum, which
Is more than Circuit Judge gets.
these hard times are enough to make
man hang himself @. AuItnan, of
Canton, only made $780, last year.
The pGuiems of an Archbishop is
made from the wool of male lamb.
which Is usually killed for the purpose.
A DRUGGIST In Lewiston, Me-. declares
that over ton of snuff lis annually com
sumed IN that town in dipping, chiefly
by women.
SR WILLIAM VERNON HARcouRr In
said to be retained as the counsel of the
claimant, Orton- Tichborne, in motion
for writ of error.
IN the next House of Representativ
there will be eighty-six ex-rebel officers
and soldiers, and twenty-three Union
officers and soldiers.
IT is estimated that Chicago will han
die hundred million bushels of grain
this year. Last year the quantity was
nearly ninety-six millions.
THE Centennial buildings in PhiladeI-
phia will cover twenty acres, and 10
lessen the fatigue of a thorough visit, an
elevated railway is projected.
Mr.. ALEXANDER XHRMUs, of Dnnn'g
Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of a by-
gone race In the mounds on his planta-
tlon, nine feet long, and traces of gold
also.
In England, recently, tin of beef,
which had been prepared for the soldiers
IN the Crimea in 1856, was recently
opened, and its contents found perfectly
sound and wholesome.
A KENTUCKY young lady, who prom
lsed her grandfather never to marry a
certain young man ON the face of tina
earth, went through the Interesting cere-
mony In the Mammoth Cave.
THE present city horse-car companies
In New York, during the year 1874, car
ried lac, DOC, 900 passengers, or number
more than three times larger than tha
population of the United States.
DOUBLE eagles to the amount OF
$3.50, 600 were turned out in a single
day recently at the San Francisco Mint
the largest days work ever performed
by any mint in the United States.
A JACKSON CTenn.) man has built a
house seven feet high and ten feet by
twenty feet area, upon wagon. It has
two rooms and four windows, and ac-
commodities his wife and three children
THE Good Templars of town in Cali
fornla have leased a column in the local
paper for the PRONUNCIATION of the tenn
perance doctrines, and hope by this in
genlous device to make many converts.
SOME of the extensive prehistoric ruins
in Southwestern Colorado, discovered by
the Hayden expedition last fall, are OF
such hlpuian dimensions that they
must have been inhabited by mere hu-
man wrens and swallows.
LENTEN dinners are becoming fashion
able, the aim being to give as great va
r1ety as possible in the kinds and cook
cry of fish. A printed bill of fare ON
one OF these occasions mentioned fifteen
different fish served in multiplicity of
ways.
A TRAIN on the Albany and Susuue-
hanna railroad was lately thrown from
the track, near Binghamton, by O
broken rail. The palace car was thrown
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the passengers escaped without serious
injury.
THREE thousand bird nests have been
distributed at various points In the parks
of Paris. They are made for the spar
row. titmouse, cuckoo, blackbird, mag
pie and others-and In the forms re-
spectively as the birds make them for
themselves.
FRoM the Massachusetts, Railroad
Commissioners report for 1874 il is
shown that the total receipts of -four
have fallen off at Boston the past year
slightly corn over 400, 600 bushels.
and oats nearly $50, 900 bushels, while
wheat Is not given. y
The face of no living person Il per-
mitted to be engraved for use ON United
States currency, which is wise thing.
the same as it Is wise never to name q
child or town after living person.
How man win turn out is some of fhoaa
things no person can tell. =
GoRDoN and Wagner. who were Ia
have been hung at Thomaston, Me-, last
Friday, were reprieved for, one month
pending the settlement OF the constikn
Gonality of the law authorizing the Gov
ernor to ffx the date of saxa<axtsoY, .v.yl,s-I.