The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-10-18
Intelligence Items.

1000, 900 parts.
Russia has 81 100000 horses and
Turkey but 100000.
Greece contains 6552 Protestants to
60l3 Roman Catholics.
Gold may be hammered so that II is
only l 900, ,0O0th Of an inch thick.
Baron Rokitansky, the surgeon of
Vienna who died recently, dissected
$4,000 corpses.
During the recent bull fighting sea-
son at Madrid 90 bulls and 143 horses
were killed.
Indiana's school fund is now Ss, ,007,.
095-the largest held by any State in
the Union.
A son of one of the late Siamese
twins is student at Chapel Hill Insti-
tute, N, @.
George Lassard, one Of Napoleon's
happy old veterans, 9I, recently led a
we'll preserved bride of 90 to the altar
at Montreal.
As scarce as hens teeth will per-
haps lose its Significance as q figure Of
speech. Professor Marsh has found q
lot Of fossil fowls which have teeth.
In the Royal Library at Paris, is a
Chinese chart made 600 b. c., on which
1460 stars are correctly located. There
is also map Of China made 1000 b. O.
Adah Isaacs Menken was buried at
Mount Parnassi, and on her plain mar
BILE tombstone are the words . Thou
knowest words which suggest vast
deal.
The richest club Of New York, if not
in the United States, is the Union
League, which Is said to have a surplus
of $500, 900 invested in Government
bonds.
The penny clay pipe that Billoir. the
Paris murderer, who cut his mistress
to pieces, smoked just before he as
eended the scaffold is offered for sale.
Price, $40.
The territory which Turkey loses by
the treaty of Berlin is roughly esti-
mated at II 500 square miles, or about
1900 square miles more than the
whole area Of England and Wales.
II has been discovered by Minnesota
farmers that two acres of sunhowers
viii supply a family with fuel through
along winter. The wood Of the stocks
and the oil of the seed make roaring
and cheerful fires.
A monument is to be erected at
Muskegon, Mich, to the late Jonathan
Walker, the man who had his hand
branded for assisting the slaves to es-
cape. He died in April last aged
seyenty-nine, in great poverty.
The failure Of the Cincinnati grocery
house of II. NJ. Bishop s. Co., of which
the present Governor of Ohio is the
head, is said TO have been caused by q
want of confidence. inspired by the
recent visit Of MIR. Hayes to that State.
The richest bachelor in the country
is said to be Peter Goelet, of New York,
his property being estimated at sI0,-
O00, 900. he is now seventy-eight
sible I" catch for some aspiring hus-
band seeker.
Statistics from DIR. S. n. Bemis, Of
Louisville, KY, show that Of ATS de-
scendants of first cousins, 793 were
defective n deaf and mute 63 blind;
231 idiofic; q insane 80 epileptic !;
1S9 scrofulous 50 deformed and 627
died early.
A young woman at Troy, Vt, lost
forty pounds of weight, the use OF her
limbs and her life almost, by the ex-
cessive use of cloves. A skillful doc
tor and the adoption of a less spicy
diet have restored her to a measurable
degree of health.
Virginia has established the whip
ping post, and in future stripes are to
be inflicted upon persons conYicted for
the first time of petty larceny, except
when, in the discretion Of the Court,
the condition of female prisoner may
make whipping inadyisable.
Goodwin Smiths theory that Ameri-
can manufacturers are only good at
coarse work, has Just sustained another
severe shock. Mr.. Humphrey, of last
years British Rifle Team, has been
shooting this year with an American
rife, and won the Cambridge cup ie50)
Herewith.
hrs. Jonas Hay, who lost her scalp
by her hair being caught in machinery,
at jamestown, n. Y, has had the COW
ering of her Uranium restored through
the contributions Of skin from her
friends. Thirteen hundred and seventy
eight pieces of flesh have been en-
grated on her head.
A legal busheI of oats in Maine, New
Hampshire and New Jersey must weigh
30 lbs; in Canada, "a lbs; in Oregon,
36 lbs; in Missouri. 33 lbs; in Iowa,
Massachusetts,, New York and most of
the other States, 80 lbs. The weight
should be uniform throughout the
United States and Canada.
No one can read the newspapers
nowadays without becoming impressed
with the fact that DIR. Mary Walkers
trousers successfully fill the position in
journalism formerly occupied by Hor-
ace Greeley's old white hat.-No7v.
Herald. Do you mean that she pulls
'em on over her head ?--PhiI. Bull.
An inventor in Brussels has devised
an electric bride with which the driver,
by pressing little knob on the reins,
can cause an electric current to act on
the corners of the horses mouth in
such way as to make the most in
tractable animal docile in few minutes.
The surprise of the horse at the novel
sensation is evidently so great as to
leave him no power to attend to any
thing else.
The two rooms occupied by Voltaire
in his chateau at Ferney have been
kept lovingly and reverently as he left
them. His little sleeping apartment
-vsf1, to &,...o1rlo To1 4 sko -,,oI1.