The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-03-13

A gargle Of strong black tea used
cold night and morning is now fashion
able In London AZ q preventive Of sore
throat.
The building Of tho Georgia State
capitol at Atlanta develops the fact that
granite can be guArried In Maine, ship
ped 10 Savannah, and thence carri cd
by rail TO Atlanta, at less cost than
IL can be had at a quarry only sixteen
miles away.
A PcnnsylvaniA paper says there is
scarcely farm in Burke County to-day
that would sell for more than the i'm
provements in buildings and fences
would cost. The criticism would justly
apply 10 many other older sections as
we'll as TO Pennsylvania.
Land is still falling heavily in Scot
land. A property has juAt been sold
for $50, 900 which, few years ago, cost
sl35,000.
Many women arc becoming commer-
cial travellers 10 England.
The wholesale price OF GRADUATED
sugar in Boston has declined TO 81 cents
per pound. The price at this time in
1884 was Z, IL, l6 cent?, and in 1883
tho price was nine cents per pound.
The refined articles continues low COM
pared with previous years.
"I have been on the road ten years,
and have travelled over the New York
Central road Winter after Winter"
says a commercial traveller. "The
snowdrif,s we encountered after the
storms on the 10th and 18th were high
or than any / have ever seen in this
part Of the country. They reminded
one Of mountain travel in the lar
West"
A Northern contractor grading q
railroad in the South had considerable
trouble with his negro laborers, and
complained TO @ friend Of their slow
meas. Discharge the leader Of the
gang" said the latter, "and get you =
man who can sing lively songs" 1t
was done, and tho desired effect the
negroes picks and shovels moving obe-
diently to the melody.
The total capital invested Ia cotton
manufa cturing in Maine at tho time OF
the census 10 1880 was sl5,292 COO.
The capital invested in that business
in Lewiston alonc now reaches 81 ,500,-
600.
In the Ecole de Medicine in Paris,
there are rs woman students, Of whom
&c are Russians, IL French women, j
Euglishwomeu and Z Americans.
The New York "Sun" says much Of
the fine comb honey exhibited in glass
boxes in New York city merely repre-
sents Yankee skill. The comb and the
honey never saw bees. They werc
manufactured by human hands. the
comb Of parafiine or beeswax, which ia
also false, blown in by machinery
Another kind Of honey which is put up
In glass cups, with u small piece oi
comb in the centre, is made from csne
sugar, glucose or syrup. We hope New
York city will monopolire all Of thi'
class Of honey.
The export of wheat from San Fran.
cisco for the frat twelve days Of Feb
ruary was 100000 bashels, against
$50, 900 bushels for the same time Ia
January. February's shipments o.
wheat from California promised to
exceed those Of any month since th'
settlement Of the country.
In England obituary notices nov
frequently contain tho statement tha
by tho wish Of tho deceased will MOI
wear mourning.
In 1873 the yield Of California honey
was about 100000 pounds in 1884,
the amount was trebled. The tota
honey crop of the United States las
year was about 6o,Ooo,0Oo pounds, SC
that California produced considerably
oyer one-seventh Of the amount.
A family in Hartland, Me-, was late
ly quite seriously poisoned by eating
baked beans cooked in new bean pot
which evidently contained poison o.
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