The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-17
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lIkwyer, doctor or minister cannot b
| vsfy anccessfI,I nnloss no knows enoug
" fhrmlng'to get biz liylsg AZ tba
whtts waiting 10 secure sufficient Gus
loni h bic profession 10 support him
The IA Grange (Tnd.) authoritie
ST aside . certain snm for bounsies OF
woodchbck acaIp1 and the scaipers ar
proving decidedly too industrious
s0IDe 1000 soalpa wero taken ia ant
raid for Ia one day recently. Ove
1000 bayp been paid for Up TO date
eanaink 50 outlay Of about $3.50,
suhl largely in excsss of the amounl
feasfveJ.
/. That was ahrewd glove dealer who
oaId not employ for saIeaWomen girl
could wear aussiI6r than nambe,
eight gloves. Il mean, asid he, at6ai
their hands shall always be larger than
those Of the customers. who are'flatter.
cd BY tho contrast, and taereby put
into good humor for making pur.
ehases."
The 6rst atrawberries sold IN Paris
are habituaIly known as English, y
and Il is said that they arc all descend.
anita from tho slips which the Princess
Victoria sent 10 Louis Philippe In ro-
turn for some Mexican paulonias which
that monarch bad eourteously bestowed
upon her.
The Government now proposes 20
sue the Star. Reuters for 81, 100000.
rhe House Of Commons nov consists
of039 members. OF these 335 are
liberals, 24l conservatives, thirty Par
neIlitss and thirty three moderats home
rulers.
The ostrich farm near Coata, Los An.
geles Co. Cal. has thus FAR been success-
ful. The birds arc In exceIlen. condI-
ton, and have already been despoiled
Of feathers worth 800.
The board Of West Point examiners
At New Maven. CT, tho other day te-
iscted two candidates for physical un-
fitness, one of them because be had .
decaycd back tooth. and the other be-
cause he had two back ts,lh hai't up
with gold.
II Il announced that Ibe makers Of
the imitation coins used as pendants fo'
bangles aud other je~elry viii lie treat
cd by the Government a. eoun,erfeisors
The Japanese are invcteFa.e smokers,
men and women. Their pipes. how
exsr. are very ANAL, tha l.o~h holding
tobacco sufficient only for a single
whif. The cigar aud the cigarette
have not yet come into general fAshiol
with them.
English persons who want 20 &c
married arc obliged to DO so befor
noon, unless they can obtain a special
license. A bill extending the hour &
four o'clock Is under consideration.
A watermelon vine grown in Harri
county, Ga., Is 1900 feet long, and j
has produced 400 pounds Of melons.
China is endsayoring to prevent th
shipment Of beef 70 the French in Ton
qain.
| A story comes from Chicago as fol
lows "Last Spring some leadin
dealers in butter in New York an
Boston sent agents through the We
AID bought up all the butter obtain
able At an average price Of twenty-ou
cents, and placed it 10 coN storage
this city 70 the amount Of 100000
pounds, believing, il Is said, that Il
produc. would go up this month. Be
owing TO plenty Of rain and continue
good grazing, the cows have continue
10 give an abundance Of rich milk, an
thus far, in July there has been lart
production Of butter, equal TO the JuI
butter, with the result that tho ne
butter Is for sale in this market
nineteen to twenty cents. The col
stored butter has, in the mean tim
been deprcciRting in value, and il
said that some OF it will have TO
sold at ten to twelve cents. 1t is csi
mated that the aggregate loss on u
deal will be between 100000 ar
$1,000, ,0O0."
The sweet potato is native Of Il
East Indies, and was introduced in
Europe by the way Of Spain. VIII
early writer's speak ot3thc potato (befo
the middle Of the seventeeth centur
it is usually the sweet potato that
referred TO, though the Spanish al
introduced our common potato fro
South America in the beginniDg Of {
sixteenth century, but it did not
come popular as an article Of fosd |
more than hundred years after, Al
it was not even mentioned in &
"Complete Gardner in I7l0. Thoul
they belong to entirely different speci
of plants, the common name of bo
would seem to be derived from
botanical name (batato) Of the swt
! potato.
: The reason that woman never pl