The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-01-25
nDlronrAE rAnlenArns.
Josh Billings IS II California.

Josh Billings IS u California.
President McHah0n was sixteenth
child.
There arc 100000 Jews in this
country.
TennysOn was ten years writing I'm
MemOrian."
ls2l,-frst New England thanks
giving dinner.
Sleighing in the Eastern States, and
Staying in Turkey.
A house 210 years old was recently
torn down in Hartford, Conn
Jamaica is growing $4,000 -quinine
trees. That's bitterness for youl
Democratic State Central Committee
meets at Portland next Thursday.
This is Senator sharon's off year
and Mitchell will soon be off ere!
The New York World calls E. P.
Hammond, the reviyalist, an arrnnt
fraud.
Queen Victoria gave $3.50 for the
relief of sufferers by the famine in
India.
Com Mutt and Jennie Quigley will
marry soon. Wsll-Jennie's slittle
but, o myr
Nearly every voter in Monmouth
precinct, Polk county, belongs to the
Greenback Club.
An enterprising restaurant keeper an
nounces on his bulletin, "sigars, tobOc-
co, and bullony sawsig."
Goodness how the Ashland Tidings
IS retrOgradingl 1t has got back to that
poem, beautiful Snow"
Philadelphia has 100 millionairs,
besides about hundred million airs
that her people put on.
The Russian Bear has about gobbled
W Turkey. And barin' that Russia
Turkey would be all right.
An Indian girl has made her debut
a, an actress in Toledo. The stage man.
ager says she is always reddy.
Whittier is always a Quaker. He
invariably says sthee" and 'sthou,' and
has the quiet, gentle Quaker way.
Dick Williams, Oregon's Congress
man, recently had reception given
him at his old home, Findley, Ohio.
"First in wore, first in piece" as the
man said when the patch in the bay
window of his trousers wore through.
DR.. Walker, the sfvinegar bitters'
manufacturer, was put in jail las
week for refusing to support his wifs.
/ Iowa rejoices in tremendous crow.
this year, but there is so much mud IL
the State that nobody can get to them
The Dallas Itentizer frantically i'm
perfumes its readers for death notices
Its subscribers must all be delinquent
Alexander II. Stephens gained foul
pounds last month, and yet he wear
anchors on his feet to hold himself
down.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, is s
numbering merchant Our Senator
Mitchell will shortly be a-lumbering
home.
Nothing can exceed the real horrors
of the Turkish war, unless it may be
the pictures of them in the illusi lted
weeklies.
The President has about made up
his mind that it is impossible for the
tail to wag the dog. He is growing
very weary.
Grant has gained IS bs, gross, since
leaving America-to say nothing of
what the Americans have gained By
his absence.
Theodore Tlton is growing richer
aud Beecher poorer. Thus is the great
Plymouth preacher getting fare taste
of his future.
The eastern war has ruined the trade
in pretty Circassian girls. The Turks
cannot afford to increase their harems
in view of present uncertainties.
A wicked man killed himself in the
lowest level of mine, and the account
says, 'sThus his alleged soul was saved
over half mile of transportation"
The Supreme Court of Maryland has
decided that negro lawyers can't prsc-
tics in that State. and one Thomas JEFF
ferson Payne. of Baltimore, is disgust
ed.
l The old maxim, "Be chaste and you'll
be happy is contradicted point blank
by Black Hills man, who was recent
ly chased ten miles by q party Of red
skips.
There is an cid lady in Lynclburg,
Va, who says she made pair of stock
ings last fifteen years by merely knit
ting feet to them every winter, and legs
every other winter
The Portland ChTtstian Advocate and
Monmouth Christian Messenger are
having lively COX Yoke" argument.
So Buck and Bright. going the same
heavenly road, won't work together.
A writer in the Telegram says in