The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-22
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A SWEET article for the toilet-A hon
eycomb. eTfs1
THE acrobats of every househoid-tne
pitcher and tumbler.
He is an llliterate man who spells
'wife % simply "yf.
WHO always comes to ball after
midnight ? One A. NJ.
VERMONT proposes to make drunken
ness legal ground for divorce.
THERE is nothing in phrenology after
all. The greatest rivers have small
heads.
Fresh COWS in New York. for best, are
from $50 to S13O. An inferior quality
are $50 to $50.
THERE was once an old lady who
kissed COW, though lots of young Ia
dies kiss calves.
Now Is your chance, ladies. Isabella
of Spain is going to sell her diamonds
81, SOC, 900 worth of them. ~
THE tax on dogs in Massachusetts is
two dollars per male and five dollars for
female. The tax goes to the sheep
fund.
THE Wisconsin Grangers have already
forty one operative associations for
selling goods and manufacturing, and
twenty insurance companies.
Mrs. J. w. GILBERT, of Hartford, is
going to play a correspondence game of
chess with Miss Rudge, of England,
reputed to be the best lady player in
Europe.
NOBODY requires a larger stock of
than the young man who keeps matches
in his room where the other bo..rders
can get at 'em.
NINE million horses in the United
States, value $3.50, 600, 900. France has
3,663, 600, Austria 3, 100, 900, England
2, ,666, 200, Germany 2. 500, 900, Prussia
1900, 600, Turkey 1,10O, 900.
PooR Mary Lamb once wrote to a
friend GO have known many single
men should have liked in my life (n I
had suited them) for a husband, but
very few husbands have ever wished
were mine."
A WRITER on organ grinders says that
as q rule it is always the poorer classes
who give to the street musicians. Per-
haps their acquaintance with the grind
ing effects of poverty has tendency to
make them kind.
THE proprietor of an extensive mail
route in the Southwest, where the
grasshoppers have destroyed nearly ev-
erything, except wheat, writes that he
has contracted for 10000 bushels of
wheat, at so cents per bushel, to feed
| his horses.
You've Virginia is going to school at
all events. DR.. Buffner. superintend-
ent, reports 1887 enrolled pupils in
| the public schools-121, 789 white, 50,
086 colored. The percentage of gain
is much larger among the blacks than
| the whites.
A WEEKLY paper in Illinois describes
/ b1ear-eyed hitching- post, a goat faced
! gunny- sack, wsrt- cared bung-hole fol
cider barrel and a plaster-cast for the
poop-deck on canal boat" There
must have been dearth of society news
that week.
TIE Oldest tailor in the world hal
Just died in Paris He was 100 years
of age. He was called Father Fipps
He began his trade at 9 years of age
and continued at it till his Tooth year
| He worked for ninety one years Three
months ago he made pair of pantaloonl
for his youngest great great grandchild
1t took him a fortnight ts And &c
think, - he said, IS that once upon a time
I could make pair in half a day IA
NesO York Mail.
THE Republican party has had an un
interrupted majority In Congress fol
nearly sixteen years. The following
table shows the status of parties in the
House of Representatives, and the Re
publican majority in each Congress o.
that period:
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