The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-07-09

a AoHuoh paper estimates the loss ol
pins in Europe at 90, ,00n, 900 per day.
The next thing wanted Is pin pad
Oh shame, where is thy blush! We
know. It's hidden under two or three
coats of paint and can't wriggle to the
| surface.
So little has been said about the Oar
win theory oflate that some men are
again travelling on the regulations of
their foretathers.
Arkansas hogs have learned a thing
or two. They dig holes in side-hiIIs.
and head for them whenever anybody
yells out, "cyclone %
The new chief of police OF Milwaukee
Is retired capitalist worth $3.50 ,00O.
When he car''t trighten bad man out
of town he can buy him off.
Ten different men claim to have first
g It the idea of the telephone. Most OF
their claims are as empty as the
shello - which starts off a converse.
ton.
Order your statute before you die.
Then if the artist turns you out too
small i'll the hack and too large on the
nose you can tell him what you think
of his skill
More people want TO leave the por'
of Bremen for the United States than
can be furnished transportation. This
country is filling up SO fast that no one
can teel lonesome.
The brigands of Greece lave increae-
ed in number So fast during the last
year tha: serious fears are entertained
that no one will be lett to run the
government by fall.
That North Carolina child which
was carried off by an eagle has been re-
covered. He was found on a haystack.
where the tired aud goodhearted bird
had left him.
There is really no pain in having a
:ooth pulled. 1t is the soft, mild way
which the dentist clatters his bushel Of
tools that makes fellow think the top
of his head is being pulled off.
A Colorado girl only l8 years old,
on the deata OF her father, took charge
OF his family and farm, and now man.
ages her mother aud brothers, and also
her sisters. her cousins and her ranches
= school-boy being detected il, draw
ing a caricature, was asked by his teach
er. "Were you looking in tie grass
when you drew that 20 "No, SIR
replied the boy. 81 was looking at
you"
America cannot too soon follow the
footsteps of England in seeking to abol-
ish the cnst cme OF wearing mourning
goods. Let the mourning he done in
the heart, instead of making grief
sign board.
A great meeting of cotton operatives
OF Mosely last Friday night resolved
to continue their strike. Several large
employers threatened, it the dispute is
not settled, to c.ose their mills entirely
tor mouth.
Advices received al the NeraI,a nt's
Exchange from New York, report that
the German bark Eesta, from New
castle. England, to San Francisco, was
totally wrecked on the coast of Pata-
gonia, June 81.
Two miners, Durcan A. Bethune
ard John Abbott, were instantly killed
in the Union shaft Friday morning by
the falling OF wall plate, which slipp-
ell from the 900 foot level and struck the
men at the 500 foot level.
Mary O'Comnur, OF jersey ity, XII
ed her children during Friday night
Mrs. O'Connor has been sick for long
time and has been unable IL care for
her children, and she thought by kill
ing them they would go to heaven.
The party new engaged III construct
ing the telegraph line be tween Almota
and Palouse City consists OF three
officers, Lieuts. Birkheimer, Brook and
I'atten, fifty enlisted men, six citizen
employees, four six and two tour mule
teams. They build from one aud
half to four miles per day.
A compsny of German and American
capitalists are negotiating with the N
p. Railroad Company for the purchase
of something over ore hundred thous-
aud acres of land, mostly lying east of
the Paiouse. river. As soon a. they
secure title To the lands they will sink
arte>iam wells III the center OF each Sec
tinn that is not by nature provided
with sufficient quantity of pure water
II is the intention of the company to offer
liberal inducements to immigrants and
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