The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-12-26

Lieut.. vFesly has promised bis wife
thai be win never 20 to sbe Artis rs-
s!oab assin.
The youngest member elect Of Con-
gresa Il Robert NJ. La Follett, Of Wis
consin he Ia twsnty. eight.
Queen Victoria has conferred upon
Sir John Mcdonald, the Canadian
premier, the Grand Cross Of the Order
Of the Bath, in recognition Of bis emf
nsnt public services.
Through Grover Clevelsnd's election
the number Of Presidents Furnished BY
New York viii be four, Two BY acci.
dent, MilIArd Fillmore and Chester A.
Arthur, and two BY election. Martin
Van Buren,, elected fOrty-eight years
ago, and Grover Cleveland.
The Presidents wives now living are
Mrs. Polk at Nashville, Mrs Tohn II Tyler,
Richmond, Mrs. Grant In New jersey,
Mrs. Hayes, In Fremont, and Mrs Gar
Geld in Cleveland. OF these, The Wild
ows, Mrs. Polk, Mira. Tyler, and Mrs.
Garfield, draw from the Government
pensions OF $4,000 year each.
Chief Justics Greene, Of Washington
TsrrisOry,in bis last charge 10 the graad
jury, bears the following tsstimon; 10
the good effect Of women serving on
juries Twelve terms Of Court, ladies
and gentlemen, have nov held in
which women have served, a. grand
and petit jurors, end il Is certainly 9
fact beyond dispute that no other twelve
terms 90 salutary Tor rest,stnt Of crime
have ever been held in this Territory"
Alexander Ha,niIton's old hcms II
st. Nicholas avenue and l3sth street,
New York, with his spacious grounds
and wide pnrchss, is soon 70 become
transformed into series Of ordinary
city lots. Eighty years ago. and more.
Hamilton spent there the kappiest days
Of his life. with his wife aud seven chill
dren. The building l. two stories high
and aixty feet square. commanding .
noble view Of tae Houdson River aud
the Palisades.
James Gorden Bennett, tho elder, 10
an editorial published in the New York
Herald IN 1870, when there was not .
jobbipg house within mile Of ClsfIin's
present warehouse in New York city,
predicted that oil the land below Canal
street would soon be occupied by whole
sale trade, and advised bis readers TO
make Investments in real estate. Ia
fifteen years from that time CIs6in
built his great warehouses on = plot
formerly occupied by rookeriss, aud the
predicted Transformation soon bccams
fact.
Russell Sage is said 10 be the besl
calculator In America, being both rapid
and. accurate. Sage and jay Gould
maintsin their intimacy and are in some
degree necessary 20 each other. They
are not rivals, for Gould does not dsal
in puts and calls--his business being
heavy stock operations, playing bull
and bear alternately, as self-interesI
may require. These men aid each
other in procuring loans, and are q
times heavy borrowers. Cyrus w
Field il also heavy borrower.
Big houses and small families sseml
10 be the rcle in Fifth avenue. w. Il
Vanderbilt and wife occupy aS2, ,000.-
600 palace Mrs. RLS:uart and Mrs
A. T. Stewart, both chlldless widows
also each has palace. Harriet Lenox
sister Of James Lenox, never married
but keeps house In the spacious dwell
ling which James erected forty year
ago, and In which he passed his las
days. Mrs. E. d. Morgan is another
instance. How hollow, after all, is th
grandeur for which so many struggle 70
lifetime.
Researcher in France by DR.. Schult
have shows that citric acid possesse
powerful antiaeptic propartics, whicl
may give it an important place as q foo
preserving substance, since it is belisy
cd to be free from the objection Of uu
wholes,meness urged against other an
tiseptic acids. Meat fragments place
! in FIVE per cent solution Of the aci
were in state Of perfect prsssrvatio
! at the end Of fifteen days. Experiment
: ing upon organized germs, DR., Schulz
9 found that one drop Of solution of
. part acid to 1000 Of water placed
liquid containing bacteria and 9th
. germs Of microscopic life instant
/ caused their death.
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