The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-03-28
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| FP"~ AHeo Oouomih mas oxotteu
the surprise and Indignation Of Austrian
grain producers. They are pstitioning
the government for protection.
The annual mortality from iptemper.
ance In Great Britain Is 40, 500.
A successful Illinois dsiryman claims
tbs. he keeps 100 COWS and never raises
a pound Of hay. He feeds his cattle on
corn fodder, cut when in blossom bound
and set up until cured, or until Winter,
when Il 10 removed to the barn. He
ssts seven tona Of this dry fodder 10
the acre, and claims il is worth as much
as the best Of bay. lfs sh
Barton Grindrod, elephant dealer,
says that eleven elephants shipped for
New York il 1871 cost s2775 in their
native land, the highest price being
1925 for Rebs. who soon after dropped
calf Bajsh aud Mandris, notified
fellows, cost $500 each.
A London society" paper asserts
that Mary Anderson charges the pho
tographer $50 guineas, about $3.50, for
the privilege Of taking her picture.
The use Of the postal card is decliu-
Ing by the reason of the reduction in
letter postage.
Foreign brokers are making heavy
purchases Of The American silver trade
dollar, at discount Of ten per cent. or
more.
There are 100, 100000 sheep in Aus.
tralis. Flscks there arc large, number
ing from dfty To- 100000, one flock
consisting Of 100000.
| A great financial panic At Pskia,
China, many banks asd firms having
failed.
| The public baths Of Visnns, th,
Austrian capital, are said to be the I'm
est 10 the world.
Congress has given away 260, ,O0o, ,OO(
acres Of land since 1900.
There are $4,000 French in the cit,
Of New York.
Holland is credited with $4,000 win,
mills averaging s-hOrse power EACH
Cat breeding is being taken up &C
lively in England, not only for th,
comfortable cloak Innings its fur affords
but A. an article Of food, The feundity
quick growth aHi really pAlatable prop
critics Of our familiar heartb-rug irien,
pointing out q staple resource.
One tenement house In New Yorl
shelters 800 families.
\ The annual value Of cotton RAGS i
the United States is said 70 be 500,
100000.
Forty lady students are study yinR i
tho Paris hospitals, the majority {
whem are Russians.
NeaPolitsn hotels charge a dollar "a
, piece Of ice worth cent in tho Uni
ted States.
., The new fast train between Ne
York and Chicago makes the trip
27t hours, and carries only the mail.
:, A Connecticut woman put of ssndir
9 for the doctor until nov she is hopeless
> y. She is ninety-six years old.
A steel pinion, weighing eight ten
!, was recently cast in Chicago; 1t is so
TO DO the largest casting ever success
fully made in this country.
! Spectators in Madrid, Spain, ha
subscribed $l20,000 to raise a revolt
tionary movement similar to that
l. August, 1883. The Spanish Cover
+ ment is fully apprised of the plot.
8. A gang Of Philadelphia "cowboy
in one Of the public schools, modsll
on tho dime-novel plan, was broken
by the lady teacher who disarmed h
valiant captain Of q sevsn-chambsr
revolver He had called her "whi
squsw."
Out Of SO, 900, 900 mechanics, 8, ,ool
600 are paupers In England and on d
Continent.
The aggregate income Of the Eugli
trade unions is 81, $50, 900; their I
sources arc $3, 100000.
Twenty out of thirty dealers ia N,
York seld an inspector Of the Beard
Health oleomargarine 10 place Of b,
ter.
An attempt is to be made with n,
telephone to talk on the Allan
cable.
Over 100000 rose trees are annua
imported into this country from Er
land, France and Holland.
Colored men are now employed
reporters by Philadelphia nswspap
New York spectators in potat'
have lost heavily this winter. The
!; sands Of boatloads are still unsold.
The rainfall in this country is low
in New Mexico, thirteen inches, q
highest in Alabama, fifty-six inches
I The Nihilists in Russia are robb
the mails in order to secure funds
their plots.
!. The center of population is ono
I one-half miles southeast of Taylorvi
KY, and has been under ten feet