The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-02-11

What's this, j. b. Eddy for U. 8. sch.
ator. No danger OF anything more than !
talk though, and that is carrying the
joke too far
A gentleman informs the Man about !
Town that he recently made $50 one day |
by being a subscriber OF the DEMocRAT. |
The moral is plain.
Mayor Pennoyer says he will go to jail |
rather than sign those $400, 900 bonds. |
Hence there Ia a prospect OF live item |
IRON the metropolis OF the northwest.
Yesterday was ground hog day, and as
: the hog cast shadow at noon he will go |.
back in his hole for eix weeks. That {
means rainy weather. 1t is doubtful /
though ii the rule applies to Oregon.
An eastern Oregon paper tells OF man !
who sent to Portland for chair bottom, |
paying IL cents postage on 1t. The same |
kind OF chair bottom was being sold In /
. local store for 1914 cents. There is |
whole lecture for you.
remarkable BIRTH record has occur J
red near Pollard, Ala. Seven year. ago
nrs ID Pettis gave birth to three chill |
ofent Two oglris and boy. A few dave
since she gave birth to four bows. ali |
now living. Two Of them weighed eight !
pounds and two others Elk pounds each. |
A man just from Dawson saws that
what the people there need il a cnre for
seuTyy and not relief from starvation. A |
grand opportunity for the government
70 help eufiering scurvy people. Peo- |
/ pie not willing to catch the scurvy by |
the way. should stay away from the |
klondike country.
a Statesman correspondent from Min
to says: 'Since the assurance Of the ex.
tension OF the O. @. & f. east in the
early spring, the klondike fever in this
vicinity has measurably abated and the
third contingent from here for the gold
hei'ls viii not be so large as otherwise it
might have BEEN"
Editor Hofer, of Salem, has recently
delivered lecture on the Philosophy of
Hnmor. and even Brother Fletcher,
who as present and heard It admits IL |
contained some good points. Fletcher's
motion OF vote OF thanks was no doubt |
ole oil the funniest things of the even |
.og.
Bobbs-'You can say wha. you like
about advertising. but can tell on that
II has repaid me threshold"
Dobbs-"Why. what did you adyer-
tise?''
Bobbs-"About four years ago put
an ad IN the paper for a typewriter. / I
nov have wife and two children"
Some Albany people are very anxious
| Just now that the county have pamphlets
printed for the purpose OF advertising
the eonnty, and want that 500 appropri-
aied some time ago by the county for that
purpose be used. The Times is ready IN
wini the pamphlets whenever ordered
by the county. The Times had the low
esl bid you know. -BroEnville Times
The city council Of Portland has passed
an ordinance making il . mlsdemeAnor
for \ woman to wear q hat CT bonnet at
4 theatre ia that city. IL ies.ed il IL
very probable that il might be found TO
| be unconstitutional. At TIE same time
it will be very agreeable thing 10 see il
enforced Big hats are nuiszncCs at
8 publ. entertainment.
/ There xas enc party OF five men on
the Corona 10 whom tie loss of their
outfits means ruin. This party vas from
the East. When they got the gold lever
they called their relatives together, and
IL uas decided to mortgage tEo home
szas .4a ffzzf f--w -. Z
ey TO send the gold seekeEs nor.h. They
raised $3.50 for the trip The fools are
not ali dead. /
! Here is paragraph OF Salem Journal
sarcAsm: The tears fairly rolled down
the cheeks Of ChArleJ Moores as be
plead the cAuse OF human LABOR a. the
Portland convention. He was thinking
OF the time he and his committee Of FIVE
put in thirty days Al revising the house
| Journal Of ls95 at $40 day each
The steamer Alliance arrived in Sc
atias from Copper river, Alaska with
the news of a double murder and lvnch-
'uz at N2ldes Pass. on January 2 NJ
A Call. Of Worthingtoo, Mimi, and "
A Lee. OF Salem, Mas we're murdered
I BY vi F Tanner, who is kooEn as the
Montana CoNhoy,n who In turn was
hanged By about forty prospeeiors--l
There viii be plenty OF items like this
later on.
The crop of Reed stories is steadily in
ereasing aee rsiing 20 Ilse Washington
! Posi- . member oi the house Sent to
Speaker Reel the other day and said
that ne had been selected by hrs dele
CATION 10 deliver 4 enlozy on deceased
member. II did not know the member
very well " remarked the Congressman,
and 50 ihoughi would ask you what
l should say"
WELL" said Mr. Resd, with mis- inimi-
table drawi, 'ssy anything except the !
truth .
After visiting ii. the poultry shows in
the state George D Goodhue, the Salem
poultry expert, makes the following dis I
conrseing report: I'VE have settled (
down on our platform, after framing il, L
and voting it in ourselves IL is short, {
! bat we are going TO stand on IL because
we know il Is right, lis ''Ss % l." :
Tha, is. "Sa good hens TO scrub" II Z
we have to accept 4 less ratio and take 4
l6 10 l, We will do il with bare kuuckles {
aud blood in our esee. Ii 10 TO is good c
81 to ought to be better, because - is a
twice l6- This is "hens," and that is 4
what we are talking about. Now il
there Is any political calf in Oregon that &
can object to our ratio on hens. let him y
step forward and get his milk. I
Vim NJ Stanley, who returned from
the klondike last July with $4,000 in
gold dust and nuggets, has written q
book entitled "a Mine OF Gold," which q
deals with his adventures in Alaska o
The most interesting picture is one rep D
resenting twenty nuggets, selected from
his treasure Stanley tells ell about I
how he found. but says nothing about
how he lost them. After he returned 4
home he left them in little box in his o
bedroom. One morning he had occasion
TO show them TO a friend. They were
gone. lie employed detectives, but they
could not End thdm and the mystery is 3
still unsolyed. The nuggets were worth J
$500.-Ex. The DENoCRAr received one :
oi these books, full of interest. c