The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-06-05

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Society, in London, Sir r. Temple read
paper combating the statements aa to
the number Of tho population Of China,
and estimating it at 2o7 100000.
Twenty-Five hundred different kinds
of poisonous fishes have been tabulated
by the Toxic University Of Japan.
Fishing must bo sometimes dangerou"
pAstime in japan waters.
The elephant can 90. A very good
ivory IL now mado from bones and
scraps of sbeepskin. The next i'm
provement will DO tho playing Of the
game OF billiards by machinery. WbeD
this is done young men can stay ut homs
and improve their minds.
"Mystery gold" composition Of
platinum, tin and copper, which stands
ordinary acid tests and is said to weigh
as much as pure gold, Is in favor ia
England..fsr articles Of jewslry, aud
has been ayailed Of by counterfeiters
for the manufacture q sovereigns
Thirteen must be lucky numbe"
] ohm Bennett Of West Fairfield, Pa. 4,
died Of consumption At tho age Of sixty,
leaving family Of thirteen children.
ALI are alive aud well to-day, the oldest
being eighty-seven and tho youngest
sixty. Sickness has never troubled
tho family.
The United States has 1900 den
fists, who use Il ton Of gold and five
tons Of other metals and make 1000
900 artificial teeth annually. Only one
American in eighty is found to have
perfect teeth, and one.third of the pop
ulation make more or less use Of tie
artificial product.
Whether or not ono could catch a
ball thrown from the top Of Washing
ton Monument led tho catcher of II
local baseball club TO make q similar
trial irecontly from the top Of the water
works standpipe in Erie, Pa. The
height was 24s feet. and upon tbs
seventh attempt the decd was accom-
plished, but the catcher declared the
sphere weighed ton.
| An electric tooth-pulling machine
which is quick and almost painless il
its operations, 10 said to ruil sever
teeth in five seconds. A pair Of forcrp
protrude from u nickel tubs which il
onnectsd with q wire. The forcep
re applied to the tooth, the operate
touches u spring, spiral arrapgemen
within the tube Winds up in u ~inl
4 draws down the foreeps like Aasb, an
= in an instant Ito tooth il Jerked iror
the JAZZ aud cast on the foor.
81 A Mexican historian makes n br
attempt to show tha' America was di.
covered in the fifth century, A. d., b
/. = party Of Buddhist monks from Afal
anistAn, Of whom one, Hwui Shan, 2,
turned TO Asia after an absence {
4 forty-one years. A short account Of tb
land which be visited, supposed to b
Mexico, WAS included in the ofIicia
history Of China. There il proof ,ha
Hwui Shan actually visited some un
known Eastern region, and the tradi
tions Of Mexico contain al account o
the arrival Of monks.
Thsre is now Lying in Pickens Co.
Ga. man who during the Rebel lior
donned his wife's dress, kept his fac
closely shaved and wore q big sunbon
net, in order to avoid being conscriptec
and sent TO the front. TIE officers il
search Of recruits frequently visited tn
house and asked his wife where he
husband wa, and at the very momen
be could be seen working in the field il
female garb. BY the time be had worr
out seven Of his wifo's dresses he be
came tired Of massuerading, enliste,
: and became n good soldier.