The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-09-09

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A flea will eat ten times It's ow
weight Of provisions in day, and wi
drag after 10 chain "A hundred time
heavier than itself IL leaps a distasc
Of 1T least 200 times its own length.
| The father of the late Gornmodor
Mutt was New Hampshire farmer
six feet two inches in height Tb
Conmodorcis height was three fee
seven inches, aud for three years. !
IL said, Barunm paid him salary o.
$4,000.
In LeadvilIe, when an actor fails t0
respond 10 an encore, the audience Civ.
emphasis to the call by opening fir.
on the sceneries with reyolvers. This
generally brings the flushed triumphant
star smilingly to the footiigbts.--Aryo
4 woman in Elstern Peansylvania
became crazy on seeing her husband
kiss another womar. 1ne husband
was a rascal. No true husband would
ever kiss another woman while bis wife
was looking-OH City Dervick.
Professor TO student who writes.
not for .he masses, bat for the e,lucat.
ed few should write so that
the most ignorant Of your audience can
say" Studen. (Duzzied) )-"Wbst part
OF my production is not clear to you
sir 7"
Many excellent gentlemen Who adj
mired Hancock refrained from voting
for him because they deprecated the
democratic squaSble for Office that
would follow his election. Tney have
not 50 high Hn opinion Of their own
political wisdom as they had last fall
-Bg6Talo Courier.
A famous surgeon advises one OF his
patients TO undergo an operation. eIs
IL very severe T. asks the doctor aye
put him TO sleep but very hard ON
tho operator" How 50 We suffer
terribly from anxiety. Just think, it
only sncceeais once IN hundred times. {"
In the following ambiguous passage
from modern love-letter to a Young
lady, We recognize a somewhat peculiar
delicacy Of compliment : "How |
wish, my dear Adeline, my engagements
would permit me to 90 and see you
1t would be like visiting some old
ruin, hallowed by time, and fraught
with thousand pleasing resollections. I"
A little three year-old boy, already
set apart for lawyers calling, being
taken Ia hand with switch, after
having been foI hidden TO pick another
pear from a favorite dwarf tree, in-
dignantly exclaimed, "Mamm4, / did
no: pick Of the pear you come and
see if | did" Sure enough, he didn't.
He simply stood there and ate it, and
the core was still dangling from the
stem
Near Naples, lately, the brigands
seized an old man Of eighty, and sent
10 his family for ransom Of two thou
sand ducats. The family sent back
only two hundred upon which the
brigands returned answer in an envel-
ope containing the old mans ears.
The family Immediately raised the re-
manning eighteen hundred and dis
patched it, but meanwhile their father
had died Of pain and fright.
The best olise IA slses District of
Columbia-recorier oF deess has
been given 70 Fred Douglass, ~hinl..of
course, causes some complaint. Tie
Office pays about $1,000. Sheridan,
who was dsapitatsd to make way for
Douglass, says: II liked the position
and told the president I wanted to
keep it, although i was overworded.
My office hours were from half-past
twelve tn quarter Of one every other
"Wednesday.
The name of the Deity is spelled
with four letters in almost every
knowA language. 1t is in Latin, Deus;
Greek, Zeus; Hebrew, Adon; Syrian,
Adad; Arabian, ALA /; Persian. Syra !;
Tartarian, Idga Egyptian, Aumn or
Zeut East Indian, Esgi, or Zeni
japanese, Z4in; Turkish, Addi Scan
dinavian, 0iin Wallachiau. Zene
Croatian, DegA Dalmatian, Rogt
Tyrrhenian, Eher Etruaian, Chnr
Morgarian, Oese Swedish, Codd
Irish, Dich German, Gott French,
Dieu Spanish, Dios /; Peruvian,