The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-06-24
Things Worth Reading.

Things Worth Reading.
Germany prints twice as many books
a. France.
The custom Of keeping birthdays is
many thousand years o:d. Pharaohs
birthday festivities are mentisned In the
Psntatsuch.
George Eliot generally wrots doubled
up on cola, her feet curled under her,
sofa pillows and pad Of paper In her
lap.
The frat possofies was opend in Paris
In 1852; In England..in 1851. and In Am
erica In l7l0.
louisiana is the only state in which the
Napo.sonic code prevails and in which
the common law OF England does not.
Harriet Prescott spoaosd writes any
where-on her lap-meanwhile taxing
an animated part In the conversation
going on about her.
A minister in Missouri town has in
trodueed the novelty Of reading war bal.
letins from the pulpit at intervals dur
ing the services.
Two brokers just sent TO Jail in Eng
land for exiting" commercial paper are
said to have fioaied $40 600 900 Of worth
lees notes in ak years.
Anthony frollope always wrote stand.
ing mp very straight as high desk With
his watch before him timing himssH to
Q certain length Of duty.
Bombay is said to be the most densely
populated city In the world. In certain
areas the number Of inhabitants 10 760
to the acre.
Germany's debt has increased from
is. 100000 marks In 1877 and nearly 5Oo,- :
0o0000 marks in 1887 to e.i4i .ooO, 900
marAs Of the present time.
Copying ink may be made by dissolv.
ing Q lump oi sugar In the common ink,
used In the proportion Of one draehm OF
the former TO one ounce Of the latter.
4 novel sort Of window giass has been
invented. Persons on the inside Of The
house can zee through Ii. bat IL ID
opaque to.thoss on the outside.
Spurious coins are legally made in
Cnina. They are used TO put in the
collins Of the dead, and the superstition
prevails that they make the dead hap
jpy.
The presentation Of the freedom OF q
city or borough IN England is nov q
mere compliment which does not con-
for any substantial or exceptional priv
fleges.
Greater rexeommunication, an unusual
punishment In the Church oi England
has been pronounced By the bishop ol
Litchfield sgainst clergyman convicted
Of grossly immoral conduct
Until few dsys ego two men named
Heaven and helle we're members Of the
st. Louis police force The former ha'
resigned and the iokers are taking sd'
vantage Of the fact.
A prise for an esesy On ''The Duty ol
Kindness TO Animals" offered by the S.
p. O. A. 70 be competed for by London
public School children, brought the
society lss, ,4e5 essays this year.
One hundred miles of the railroad to
Uganda are now open to traffic. The
drst class fare for that distance lie 3S ru-
pees (sbout Ss), second class 10 rupees,
and third class, rupees. 8 annas.
German canaries excel ali other canar-
les a. singers a canary Of Germany has
been known to continue single triil for
q minute and quarter with twenty
changes Of notes in it.
The lantern fy of Surinam, South Am.
erica. has two sets Of eyes. so as to catch
the light from all directions. It's light
Is like that Of the ordinary FREELY. but il
Is much more brilliant.
The postal service in India extends as
FAR north ne Kolghur, Q village on the
Aimaiayas. Beyond this point a letter
is sent by native runner. who carries
the missive for days in the split end of
q stick, and delivers IL at the end Of bis
journey a. clean as when he received it.
The test OF true Persian carpet-that
used by the natives themselves- 20
drop piece OF red hot charcoal upon 1t.
which leaves O sinked round spot. II
Q carpet 10 one OF the frst quality the
singed wool can be brushed of with the
hand without the least trace OF the burn
being afterward discernible.
"Lurline, the water queen" who has
Just died In London, was the sensation Of
three continents ten years ago, st which
time she had $4,000, every cent Of
which was made on the exhibition stage.
LurIipe was Boston girl, and her name
wgs Sally Swift.
Carrier pigeons In China are protected
from birds Of prey by little apparatus
Of thin bamboo tubes fasteeed
10 the birds bodies with thread passed
bsneath its wings. As the pigeon fies
along the action OF the air through the
kubss produces shrili whIstling sound
which keeps birds OF prey at a respectful
distance.
A proposal to celebrate this year the !
seven hundredth anniversary of the dis i
rovery Of coal in Europe--a discovery
Stained to haya been made in l19S near
Liege, Belglum--has brought ont evi.
renee from DR.. F. But.aenbach that the
lirst find was really made In ltl3 in the
basiu Of the River Worm, north OF AK
10 Chapelle.