The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-04-10
a Modern Drinking Song.


lew style of beverage" and dedicated, by
ieorge Sennott, to the '.Whisky Ring
Fill high the bowl with Fusel Oil
With Tannin let your cups be crowned
IF Strychnine gives relief to Toll,
Let Strychnino's generous juice abound
Let Oil OF Vitrol cool your brains,
Or animated atoms brew
Aud ELL your arteries, hearts and veins,
With glee-and iufusorial glue
Vine! Tha' died out in IS
What fool would have it back And how
The "cup that ciH inebriate
And never cheer they sell US now.
"The conscious water saw its God
And blushed." What oft? Don't you feel
That water knows the Drusger's rod,
And bushes now-with Cochineal!
Ah-h! Fragrant fume of kreosote
Bewitching bowl Of Prussian Blue
Who would not soothe his parchins throat
With your mild offspring, Mountain Dew p
Stronger than aught that racked the frame
And shook the mighty brain of Burns,
Surely, yen set heads a-fame,
Wheueer his fcstal day returns
Bring on tho Becr-fresh Coperas foam.
With Alum mixed, in powder fine,
How could my foolish fancy
In search Of whittier froth than thine?
Thy Indian Berry's Essence spread
Through amber wavelets, sparkling clear,
Benumbs dull Care-strikes Feeling dead
And narcotics Shame and Fear
Far down thy bubbling depths, Champagne!
Drown'd Honor, Love and Beauty lie
They fought th' unequal fight in vain
Shall we, too, merely drink-and die =?
Sweet Acetate of Lead forbid
Fill every drink with pangs-and tell
What torture could-and always did
Anticipate the stings of He'll
Then drink. boys /! drink! We never
Drink younger Ana we never will
Be men-or aught resembling man,
While poisoners have the power to kill
Amen From Frenzy's screech of mirth
To msudlin Sorrows driveling flow,
Wen rave, through scenes unmatched on earth,
And not to be surpassed below!
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THE EYE OF AN EAGLE.-The eyes
Of all birds have pecularity of struct-
ure which enables them to see near and
distant objects equally well, and this
wonderful power is carried to the great
est perfection in the bird of prey. When
we recollect that an eagle will ascend
more than mile in a perpendicular
height, and from that enormous eleva-
ton will perceive its unsuspecting prey
and pounce upon it with unerring Ger
tainty and when we see the same bird
scrutinizing with almost microscopic
nicety, an object close at hand, we should
at once perceive that he possesses the
power OF accommodating his sight t.
distance in manner to which our eye il
untitled, and of which it is totally inca
pable.
IF we take printed page we shall dis
cover that there Is some particular dis
tance, probably ten inches, at which w
can read the words and see each lette
with distinctness; but II we move tn
page to distance of forty inches, W
should find it impossible to read at all
a scientific man would therefore call tel
inches the focus or focal distance of ou
eyes. We cannot alter this focus ex
cept by the aid of spectacles.
But an eagle has the power of alterin
the lOcUS VI HIS eye Juat do hc piSeSeS Ii
has only to look at an object at the dis
tance of two or three miles to see it wit
perfect distinctness. The ball of hi
eye is surrounded by fifteen little plate
called sclerotic bones. They form com
plete ring, and their edges slightly owe,
| lap each other.
When he looks at distant object thi
little circle of bones expands, and tn
ball of his eye being releaved from th
pressure, becomes fatter; and when h
looks at near object the little bone
press together, and the ball of the ey
is thus squeezed into a rounder or NOR
convex form. The effect is very Fl
miliar to everybody. A person wit
very round eyes is near-sighted, and ca
only see clearly an object that is nea
him; and person with fat eyes, as
old age, can see nothing clearly except {
a distance. The eagle, by the mer
will, can make his eyes round or fla
and see with equal clearness at an
| distance