The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-09-16
Some sniallI oses.

Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats
and torpedo boat destroyers.
Vienna has cabman who has been
fined twenty times for trying to bring
bicyclests to grief.
While Berlin has only one-nineteenth
of the population of Prussia, it paye
nearly one-sixth of the income tax.
The present population OF Bordeaux,
France, lie 297, 900, of whom Is, ,S64 are in
receipt Of assistance from charitable
societies,
OF 1000 housewives in Almelo, Hol.
land, who were consulted as regards the
desirability OF abolishing night work for
bakers. all but ten favored the measure.
few weeks ago Stockholm harbored |
no fewer than $50 naturalists--Sl0 from
Sweden, 14l from Denmark and 50 from |
Norway. They we're attending the fit.
teenth congress OF Scandinavian natur-
alists.
A fund is being raised to rebuild Low
er Brixham (EuRland) church in mem
ory Of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, the
auther of the hymn "Abide With Me"
1t was first sung by the Brixham fisher
men,
The Russian soldiers invariably wash
and dress with extra care before battle,
as they believe physical cleanliness TO
play an important part in helping them
to enter heaYen.
An Alpine lifs-ssving society has
been formed in the Tyrol at Innsbruck.
Its object is to have stations at various
resorts for rendering prompt assistance,
with competent guides, in case OF acct
dents.
The regular army is made up Of % per
cent. foreigners, while in the navy so per
cent. of the petty officers and AZ per
cent. of the seamen ars foreign born,
Forty per cent. OF those who went down
with the Maine were of this class.
A few days ago Richard Packard, who
lives in Machias, Me-, saw q bottle in
the river bobbing up and down in quite
lively and singular manner which he
was at loss to account for, until the
bottle took an extra jerk heavenward,
when q good sized ell was seen with his
head in the neck of tie bottle.
Prof. Martin, the SEeedish savant,
has discovered in .he Kremlin at Mos
COW large portion OF the Swedish war
booty captured by Gustavus Adolphus
1t appears that the majority of the sil-
yer vessels and ornaments kept in the
treasury at the Kremlin are presents
made at different times by various kings
of Sweden to the cEaTs of Russia.
A scrub woman at the New York city
hall, wso boasts of a political pull, says
that she is lady, and for that reason
che refuses to pick up scraps of paper
from the floor. She posted a
notice IN one of the roome
reading as follows: "Don't throw scrapI
of paper on the floor. They'll sta!
there. Remember, your mother was I
woman"
The hamingoes which fish in lak'
near BIT. Aseotan, in the Andes, AZ
easily caught by the Indians. The LAX,
IL fed by hot spring, but most of th
suriare is frozen every night. Accord
ingly the Indians. knowing that If tn
birds fish in the colder places they wi
be frozen fast by their legs, Welt It ever
morning to seize them before the hot su
thaws ihe Ice.
In down east state not long ago val
effort was made TO invalidate Will dir
poeing of several huedTed thousand do
lars. Disinherited relatives tried to NJ
Get the will because the testator left b
fortune to endow a church on the col
dition that every Sunday before the &c
vice the whole of the thirty mine articl
were 70 be read by the clergyman on
side the door
Many visitors in Europe consider il
high honor to be invited to visit Il
Rockers club at Bruges. At the emo
ing contests Of this organization q stat
quantity of tobacco is given to ea'
member, and the one who takes Il
most time in smoking his portion vii
the prize. When the pipe goes, out Il
competitor is counted out, for no reIigh
ing is allowed. The present record for
quarter ounce Of tobacco is ninety -oI
minutes.
A gentleman who died at Mon
France, left legacy OF 5000 to q,
friends, the money to be spent on dir
ners served in different Tertuaran.p, ar
at ea-h meal certain dish to be cate
and q certain wine, of which be wi
very fond, TO be drunk. Furthermor
his memory was TO be toasted at deseI
the FIVE companions were ID dine
blacK clothes and gloves, and enter II
room preceded by flag and the mus
of an accordion.
The cough or pufF, of railway engIr
is due to the abrupt emission of was
steam up the chimney. When movir
slowly the coughs can, Of course,
heard following each distinctly. bl
when speed is put on the puffs come OF
cne after another much more rapid
and when eighteen couVfs a second a
produced they cannot be separately di
tinguished by the ear. A Iocomotiv
runhing at the rate Of nearly seven
miles an hour gives out twenty puffs
steam every second-that is, ten for eac
of its two cylinders.