The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-10-31
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Seventeen thousand RuSStanS are
every year banished or sentepced to
penal servitude in Sibtrip.
Two hundred thousand acres of
timber are annually required fer
ties for the railroads of the United
States.
The Chinese keep grapes long
time fresh lN cuttirs ho'e in a
pumpkin, cleaning It out, and. after
filling with ripe rruit, replacing the
cover.
The wi>e ones are already foretel-
ling the great thincs that are to hap
l,an IN the coming year, 1880, aud
mt the least nfth.'s,' Is that the month
d F,.l,ru,rv will h4v, five S.In,i,NS-
thing h,t vii n"th 'ppsn ng'iu f"r
IL yetr4
IL RaS.t, .hr Proportion ot farm !a-
ls,r,,t4 i u ,c n,,n e, ,RPrv lis Hcr,,S.
4, the he~t farm.ti S.','i;an- "f the
w,.>tsr4 part ~ "a u,i.d = =
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p-ff 4'tjnu. Aud ~ .i".si.. i'm. 49,, q,
uf :,c pri ti,s ID ~; ,.tr-nt :. IA.
that r, q,Ii," ft"n thirlN tu .iNf. ia"'t'
raca, ram 10 print-d with a single
hls,rk lay this new process, with the
addition of one stone merely tn put
In the mOredelicate lines uf the faces,
foliage, landscape, etc; and, in fact.
ANYTHING printed in color can he re-
Produced from single block. The
results of the process are iadestructi-
bic, and can be applied to any materi,
al.
A rapid penman can write thirty
words minute. To do this he must
draw his Quill through the space of a
rOd-sixtesn feet and half. In firty
minutes his pen travels furlong, and
in fivO hours and third, mile. We
make on an average sixteen curves or
turns Of the pen in writing each word.
Writiag thirty words y minute we
must make ASS tn each second; in AN
hour, 3A,S00; In II day uf only FIVE
hours, I44.0O0, and in u We of 800
dsys, 43.2O0,O00. The man WIN
lASds 100000 strokes with pen u
month was not at all remprkahle.
Many men, newspaper men lnr in
stance. make /, ,000,0 900.
The following curious calculations
appears In a French journal The
Prince Imperial had seventeen wounds
There are seventeen letters in the
aahsS Napoleon BonaParte. The adj
AitioR of the figures 1903, the date of
the birth of Napoleon ILL.,, makes
seventeen so does 1926, the date ef
Empress Eugenie's birth, and 1853.
the date OF their marriage. From
that 10 1870, the year Of their fall,
wss seventeen years Tho Prince
Was seventeen years Of aga when his
father died. There are seventeen
letters in the name of Lieut. Carey
and the addition If the figures 1852
the IlAts t..ts of Prince NlrInr'> Eirth.
again I,rsHlIltt.s =eSsni-t-n
Tie fir.t -t.,ns of the c. C.,I,'.gn- Cslth-
stirll was laid Aug. II, Ills, and il
is thOught it will be cr,n,.l"te,I ia
aaother year The two towers have
now reached their last stage, and
have Snl y to be fittei with their mas
sive caps of ssllid stone work. For
this purpose two great scaffoldings
have iO be erected ak dizzy height /;
One OF them, however, already ap-
Prnaches completion. When the caps
have been finished, then a still high
~ story vii have to he added to the
scaffoldings, in order to fix nn the
tops Of the caps the gigantic fuIiated
erOSses. almost thirty feet high, which
are tO CROWN the towers. The opera
tion will, it is expected, he performed
next spring.
Thefirst French ballet IN New York
was given at the Bnwery ahnui 1927.
Nine Hntton. the principal dancer ON
appearing I'm her brief and gatszy
ssSstume. was greeted with storm "i
Kisses. which eIIded ia an uproar and
the departure of many from tile thea
Ira. The curtain was rungdnwn and
no furthe performance WAS given that
night. There was a general attack
upOa the troupe in the papers of the
uext day and the exhibition was char
acterized as the most shameful and
Indecent ever presented ia the city.
The consequence was that standing
room could not he found the following
night on the rising Of the curtain The
house was black with men only.
Within a week, however, a few Ia
dies appeared. and before the end OF
the month fashionable New York bad
locked in large numbers to the thea
ire.