The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-06-05
The 9e,ltor.at.
FRIDAY............. JUNE O, 1885
PERSONALS.

Bisnsrek's poverty worries his
friends. His income now Ia only $ll0,-
600 per year.
Thomas Garfield, brother Of the
late President, is enjoying life on a
Michigan FARM. He has not appeared
in public since the late Presidents
funeral.
Ismall Pasha has purchased one Of
tho largest palaces in Florence, with It's
extensive grounds, for 10000. He
Intends to take his harem TO Florence
and 10 live there Ia foture during the
great portion of each year.
Even Wendell Phillips, with all his
learning, eloquenco and good sense,
suffered by speculative Investments.
IL has been found that most OF his for
tune was wasted in worthless mining
stocks. This sad fact contains moral
for every one.
Director-General Burke, Of the New
Orleans Exposition, has broken down
under the burden Of hard work aud dis.
appointment, financial and otherwise,
His energy largely started tho move
mens, and it is pity that he should be
a sufferer by it.
Col. T. w. Higginson says al am
acquainted with a man who became
utterly broken down from drink, but
took the pledge aud kept it ten years,
At the end of this :ime he was swep,
back by simply seeing his clergyman
take one glass of wine"
Commodore G. K. Garrison lcaves
his entire estate to bis wife, his daugh.
tor, his grandchildren, bis two brothers,
his son-in-law, his nephew and his siS'
ter, with no bequests to charities or
public institutions. What be distrib'
uted in this direction was given during
his lifetime.
The Duke of Westminster has lei
bis beautiful place on the Thames
Cliefden, TO the Austrian ambassador
who pays $1,000 for six months. Th'
place would be sold for G250,000, bu
even then only to an approved Purchss
er. Levy-Lawson. the Hewbrew owne
Of the Daily Telegraph, wanted it, bu
il was not approved. There are onl
246 acres Of pleasure ground.
The oldest lawyer in the Unite
States is Mr.. John Levsridge, Of Ne
York, who was admitted TO the bar ]
1871, and who fought in the war {
1912. About forty years ago he wa
counsel to the corporation, durieg th
mayoralty OF Mr.. James Harper. II
il six feet tall, and until within . fe'
weeks has been in excellent health
Only q few days ago, at tho age c
ninety-6ve, he argued an importan
case in court.
| Mr.. John Bigelow Is conducting
scheme for erecting in Central Park
monument to William Cullen Bryant
He does not advertise for contributions
but solicits them personally, though h
expects soon 10 make public state
uent of what be has done and what h'
desires. lie was Mr.. Bryant's associ
ate both in tho editing and the owning
of the Evening Post, being at one time
not only managing editor, but the pos
SCISSOR Of one-tourth Of the stock'ot thai
paper.
An astronomer gives us an idea oi
the relative weight Of the sun aud th,
earth, as follows "Let us, u star
with, weigh the sun. Suppose We have
balance gigantic enough for the pur
pose, and the sun is resting on one o
the scales. Now put the earth in th'
opposite scale. You might as vel
weigh Your head against one of th'
towers of the East River bridge. Pills
hundred thousand earths into the bal
ance, and the sun does not Stir. Their
lies the colossus immovable. But ge
together another hundred thousand, AM
then another hundred thousand, an,
stack them up 10 the pan against tn
sun. Three hundred thousand world
piled up on one side of the balance an
still the sun keeps them up. It woul,
take 10000 more, or $50, 900 eartbs, +
move tho beam even against q singl
sun, and six sextillions is the numbe
representing the weight of the earth il
tons-a mass which is shooting through
space at the rate Uf eighteen miles in
second"
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