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cooking stove.
LUMBER AND fLouRING MILLS.
In this line, Oregon is up with the
times, having as good saw and grist mills
as can be found in any State, and owing
to the great amount of wheat produced
and her very superior water power, per-
haps she has better facilities for making
flour than can be found in the land of
wooden nutmegs, where, it is said, they
have patent for making carpet -baggers-
OF Oregon towns. or if you please,
cities, we have first the city of Portland,
the commercial city of this young State,
situated five miles above the-p point where
the Willamette river empties into the
Columbia river, and ninety miles from its
mouth. Vessels, both steam and sail,
come from all parts Of the world to this
point at all seasons of the year, making it
quite business point, containing some
10000 inhabitants, quite a number Of
churches, an excellent library, 6ne streets
with Nicolson pavement predominating
and are all we'll lighted with gas. Then
we have Oregon Ciy fifteen miles above
at the celebrated Willamette Falls, where
the river with reckless impetuosity leaps
over precipicc forty or fifty feet high
and glides smoothly on to the Columbia
At this point they have the finest watel
power | have ever seen. This is one O.
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Agents for the Register.
BUSINESS CARDS.
s.QUISS THORNTON.

= TToRNEY AND CoUNSELQR At LAW
"a OrrIcE-No. Ill First street, between Nor
rison and Alder, opposite the ooc;4en;al Hotel,
Portland. Oregon
VIII practice in the Superior and Inferior
Courts of the state, and IN the District ana Cir
cult Court af the United States, giving special at
tentien - the collection Of debts in all parts of
Oregon. aud obtaining discharges in Bank
r1ptev. which. since the last amendment TO the
law. NAV be obtained frorn all debts contracted
prior to january lst. 1859. without regard 70 the
per ceatase which the assets may finally pay
November 20, IS70-l1v&y
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THE Still VS.. The PREss.-A glass
of whisky is manufactured from about
seventy grains of corn, the value of
which is too small to be estimated. A
glass of this mixture sells for twenty
FIVE cents, and if, off good brand is con-
minute or two 1t fires the brain,
deranges and weakens- the physicsB sys-
tenn. sR
On the same sideboard on which the
deleterious beverage is served, lies a
newspaper. II is covered with half a
million types--it brings intelligence from
the four quarters of the globe. The
newspaper costs less than the glass Of
grog, but it is not less true that there is
large number of people who think corn
juice cheap and newspapers dear.
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SEVEN DAYS, ONE WEEK.-The
following est-ay is good enough to have
originated with Figaro as it didn't, we
"heok" it. 1t is in celebration of the
marriage of Lorenzo Day to Miss Marthy
Week:
A Day is made, Week Is lost, aM
But Time should not compfufo--a ~
Thcre'll soon be little Days enough
To make the week again.
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A Texans Views of Oregon.

The following letter is taken from the
Houston Telegraph of February I'd, and
was written to that journal by an old and
at one time prominent Tcxan---Mr. Theo-
dore The letter is dated Portland, Or,
January Sd, 1871, and is as follows:
Little did you or / think, when We
last met on the Colorado, that l should
turn up here or become your cores
pondent; but here l am, and believing
that your readers would like now and
then to hear from this jumping-off place,
/ propose to find room in the Telegraph,
if you will let me, and so here goes for
the first letter
Oregon as State is not very small,
that is to say, she has square miles
enough to make quite State, but instead
of being what some might call big lit
tie State, would call her very small
big State, containing, if my memory
serves me right. about 10000 lnhabi-
tants, scattered about something like the
Texan mans noos were, one here in n
drove and three over there by them
selves, a very large per centage, how>
ever, being confined to the Willamette
Valley, which valley constitutes Oregon
in fact, and is about twenty miles wide
by about two hundred long. That is
Oregon, and to say that this Willamette
Valley is one Of the most highly favored
districts of country in the United States
is not saying any too much; for indeed
it is a favored spot-onc on which nature
has most lavishly bestowed her choicest
blessings, viz: one of the most beautiful
rivers in the world, navigable from its
mouth almost to its source, with numer.
GUS tributaries flowing in from either side
only surpassed in beauty by itself, with
climate mild beyond the conception oi
any ono who has not experienced it
healthful and invigorating, with a sol
unsurpassed in fertility on the continent
Wheat, oats and barley, with all the veg
etables, are grown with extraordinary
perfection. The farmer for the period
of thirty years has never failed to receive
a boun iful return for his abor, and frost
never kills. Rain is always abundant
yet never excessive. Apples and pears
grow larger than anywhere else. Peach
es and plums meet together in the sun
shine, like twin cherries on the same
stem, and cherries of the most delicious
kind are so plentiful that the birds will
hardly eat them. Raspberries ripcned
this season both in June and November,
also blackberrics, salmon berries. CHINA
monbcrries and strawberries.
Mr. Editor, dare l tell you how they
grow in the Willamette Valley? IF my
veracirv is brought in question, will you
stand by me | fear you falter. Well,
am going to tell anyhow; they grow as
large as billiard balls, that is to say, small
! billiard balls
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Fine Tobacco and Cigars.

j=sJ~ Physicians Prescriptions and Family
Recipes compounded with care.
December 81, 1870 II
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JOB WORK.

Having received type. stock Of coiored
inks cards. Gordon Jobher, etc. pre-
pa ell 70 execute ali kinds Of printing in Il better
manner aud fifty per cent cheaper than ever he
fore offered in this city.
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A Mammoth Idol.

Not so very long since report was
floating about to the effect that the
Emperor of Japan had prohibited
in his kingdom, and that
the celebrated Colossus of Buddha, as
the Daibooth is sometimes called, was
to be sold as old brass. The London
Times, on hearing of this, proposed
that the Minister of Public Works
should buy it and set it up in Hyde
Park. This great heather idol was first
brought into general notice in 1864, on
account of the great excitement caused
by the murder of two Englishmen, who
went to Ramakura to examine 1T. The
image, though in sitting posture, is
60 feet in height. It was formerly gilt
all over, and sits with the legs crossed
and the hands folded as if in deep
thought. Some idea of its great size
may be obtained when we state that it is
averred that five persons can stand on
the conjured palms of its hands, while
five more can find room to sit on the
thumbs It is of bronze and hollow,
and is placed in the center of a large
garden, which is surrounded by high
and massive walls. Originally the
statue was seated on an enormous Lo
tos flower, and was canopied by roof,
supported by one hundred columns
On each side of the gate by which ae
cess was attained to the Diabooth
stood an image twenty-six feet high
The image on the right hand had it'
mouth open and its hands stretched
out, while the one on the left hand hae
it's mouth shut and it's hands draw
back-signifying, first, Creation ant
Destruction; secondly, Activity an'
Passiveness thirdly, Life and Death
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Novel Substitute for Gutta Percha.

A singular marine plant is washed up
on the shores in the vicinity of the
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa,
which has come into considerable use
as substitute for gutta percha and
similar substances, in the manufacture
of fancy articles, such as canes, pic
trlre frames, inlaid work, etc. It is of
a dark color, and, when fresh, it is
thick and feshy; but when it is dried
it becomes compact, and its surface
looks like a beautifully grained deer's
horn. After it becomes dry and hard,
it can be rendered soft again by steep
ing in water, and in this condition it
can be stretched and formed into various
shapes. 1t can also be reduced, when
dry, to powder, then made plastic by
soaking in water, and in this condition
it may be struck into almost any shape
in die press-coming out of the moulds
like articles formed of gutta percha.
The plant is prepared for it's industrial
uses by cleaningit first with weak caus-
tee alkali, and then with dilute sui
phuric acid, after which it is washed,
and before it is quite dry it may be press
ed into sheets or any other form. It then
may be rendered very hard by steep
ing it in hot solution of alum, after
which it is removed to q not room,
where it is dried, and retrains it's shape
afterward. Reduced to powder, it may
also be mixed with various substances
like india rubber, and moulded into {
great variety of articles.
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Our Scandinavian Immigration.

One of the Scotch papers mentions
the arrival of the steamer Scandinavia
at Granton from Gothenburg with sixty
two passengers-sixty of them being
emigrants. This is the fourth party of
emigrants who have landed at Granton
this season on their way to America.
The largest exodus eff emigrants from
Scandinavia was in 1868 and 1869, when
the numbers were about 10000 from
Sweden and about 4, 500 from Norway.
Last season considerable reduction
took place, the numbers hardly reach
ing half of those of the preceding years.
The numbers leaving this year by the
various routes compared with those OF
last season would, however, indicate a
renewal OF the trade; but it is not ex-
pected that it will be as great as that
of 1869. Those landed at Granton last
week were about to sail for New York
A considerable number of them are
farmers who have sold off everything al
home with the intention of again in
vesting their capital in the purchase O.
farms in the inland districts of the
United States.
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A Mammoth Mammoth,

Quite an excitement has been created
of late in Clark county by the discovery
of the fossil remains of an unknown
animal near Plattsvllle, on the road be-
tween Springfield and London. Some
laborers engaged in digging ditch on
the farm of Alexander Poorman, last
week, threw out sundry pieces of bone,
which, however, failed to elicit their
attention. Mr.. Poorman CHANGED to
pass by the scene of their labors, and
his dog caught up from the bottom of
the ditch fragment of bone which at
tracted his attention, and he caused
further excavations to be made, which
resulted In unearthing part of the
skeleton of mammoth of gigantic and
unparalleled proportions. Two tusks or
bones were discovered eleven feet and
eight inches in length. They bore the
and with the discovered fragment must
have measured full twelve feet in length
Their diameter at the base was seven
inches. Several teeth of the monster
were also found, measuring nine inches
in length and as thick as mans arm
Two or three of the vertebra were also
discovered, and our informant says
that he saw a man thrust his fist
through the cavity formed by the de-
composition of the spinal marrow.
The discovery of the remains caused,
as we have said, considerable excite
ment. Trains which passed Plattsville
stopped to allow passengers to view the
remains. One or two scientific mer
have already visited the spot, but the
place of the new fossil in the anima
creation has, not yet been assigned.
We are Indebted for the above facts
to Mr.. Hicks, salesman of the firm Of
Parker, Hopple & Co., of this city.
| Cincinnati Gazette.
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Fishing up a Cable by Mistake.

A curious circumstances is mention
ed by the Geelong Advertiser, which
accounts for any little irregularity that
may have occurred few months back
in telegraphic communication between
this country and France. 6 Capt. L.,
of the bark Aberdeen" " says the Adver-
t1ser, (Which has arrived here after
making a good passage from Frederick
stadt, met with novel incident on the
passage out. When in Dover Straits he
found the Spring tides running SO
strongly against him that he dropped
his kedge anchor about nine miles
Southeast of the South Foreland light.
house, in twenty one fathoms of water.
The anchor dragged, and when it was
deemed desirable to haul it up and
make fresh start, it was found that
there was great deal more strain on it
than could have been anticipated, and
it required all the power that could be
brought to bear to bring the anchor
above water. When it did make it's ap-
pearance it was found that it had laid
hold of what appeared to be ships
cable, but what, on examination, prov
ed to be the submarine telegraph cable
from Dover to Calais. Captain Law al
once lowered it again to its submarine
! bed.
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THE HOLY GRAIL.
Origin of an Old Legend.

Under the title of "Joseph of Arima-
THE, otherwise called the Romance of
the SENT Graal Or Holy Grail" the
Rev. Walter M. Skeat, an English
clergyman, has given to the world an
interesting summary of the Grail legends
and trustworty account of the word
graft, from which we extract the follow
ing:
''Ihe word is, in fact, the Low
Latin 9rod0te or grasole, which occurs
in Ducange, or in Carpenters Supple
ment, III the very numerous forms !gro-
dale, groddtus, grasalo, grosole, gray
ale, grdss0te, grdz0to, grass0lo, with
the dlminutlves grosellos and grassa-
letus Charpentier further tells us
that the slgnlfication is kind of YES
sci, OF wood, earth or metal, and not
always implying the same notion: for
1t occurs both in the sense of large
round and shallow vessel-Fr. jatte Ca
bowD, and also pro laaacis sea- cotina,
specie, for the use of the table, Fir. plat
Ga dish). ALI the above forms are va
rious corruptions from a diminutive
cr0tell0 of the Latin crater or cratero,
which again is from the Greek kroter
or kroteria, a bowl in which things
or uld be mixed up. In precisely
similar manner the modern French
grille is formed from the Latin cYoticu-
la. :. AT any rate, it is certain that the
original sense of groal was a bowl or
dish, and the seyaat groal was that Ho-
ly Dish which was nsed at the Last
Supp-r.
The Holy Dish, however, remarks
the London Athemeuna, became convert
ed into the HOLY Chalice, and this myth
was supported by change of san greal
(holy vesseD into sang real Goyal
blood, wrongly explained by Menage
as real blood, Mr.. Skeat shows that
the etymology of san greal has been
rendered perplexlng by the existence of
grail, "service book, or antiphonary
for High Mass" which is derived from
the Low Latin gradale or gradua2e,
which again comes from graoati, because
this service-book contained certain por-
tions sung after the epistle IN grogibats,
upon the steps of the choir.
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A Streak of Luck.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin is
for the subioined story:
Pages or elastic cords that we're in
very general use, when long dresses
were worn on the street, netted small
fortune to the first introducers, Messrs.
Lewis, Brown & Co., of this city. They
had held in stock, very long time a
large lot of English elastic cord of coarse
sizes, and had been unable to find any
sale for them. One day the idea sug-
gested itself to one of the firm that this
cord could be used to loop up trailing
dresses. They started the novelty, de-
signed the hook, and in an incredibly
short time had disposed of all their
dead cord, and had their parties in
England clean up the British market.
The result was that when the rush first
set in they held the only stocks ano
supplied the whole country. Fifty
girls were constantly employed in this
city putting up pages.
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SEQUEL of the London Diamond Robbery.

London has just had sensation, in
the robbery of prominent ieweler by
Mr.. Torpey and wife, with the aid
of chloroform and straps-Mrs. Torpey
applying the anasthetic, while Mr.. L.
seized the diamonds, and with about
s125, 900 worth of iewelry escaped to
the continent Mrs. Torpey was arrest
ed and tried for her share of the offense,
but was acquitted on the extraordinary
ground that she acted under the COM
pulsion of her husband. Being watch
ed after her release, she was observed
to go into deep mourning and dyed her
blonde tresses black. Thus disguised
she one day went to a house in the
busiest part of London, and detective
suddenly following her into the house
found the identical Mr.. Torpey himself,
with part of the jewelry in his posses
sion. Now the London papers want te
know whether Torpey can be punished
for his wife's acts as well as his own, o.
not.
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The Collapse of the Grandeur of Paris

Edward Dicey writes in Appleton s
Journal:
Of all the changes in the aspect of
Paris which most strike a visitor who
has not seen the city since the days of
the Empire, the greatest is one which
it is easier to appreciate on the spot
than to describe at distance. [ know
not how better to express it than by
saying that the life has somehow gone
out of Paris. It is not only that the
streets are half empty, that carriages
have well-nigh disappeared, that the
shop windows are bare Of wares, that
trade is obviously at stand-still, that
house after house is shut up, that there
is no building going on, that beggars
are to be met with everywhere; there
is besides this an unavoidable impress
sion forced upon you as you walk about
the city, that Paris has outlived it's
prime Much of this impression may
be owing to the circumstances of the
moment, but still even when order is
restored under settled government, I
question if the recovery of Paris will be
a very rapid, or even thorough one.
Beneath the Empire Paris was devel-
oped by artificial means. The wondrous
aggrandizement and establishment
of the city were out of all proportion
to the natural growth of the country,
marvellous as that growth was. And
the artificial stimulus afforded by the
imperial system being removed, the
grandeur of Paris has, think, collaps-
ed for many a year to come. Except
in the improbable event of Napoleon
ic restoration, and Government likely
to be established in France must re-
y more upon the provinces than upon
the capital. The desire exhibited by
the great majority of the Bordeaux AS
sembly, elected as it is by universal
suffrage, to remove tllo seat of Gov
ernment from the banks OF the Seine.
was not merely an ebullition OF provin-
cial jealousy or reactionary partisanship,
but was the expression of wide
spread, popular conviction that the
virtual supremacy of Paris is fatal to
the welfare of France While France
remains nation, Paris must, in my
Judgment, remain it's permanent capi-
tal But the Government of the future
will have no motive to maintain, still
less to augment, the Importance of
Paris; and therefore I see no prospect
that in our days Paris will ever recover
her pristine grandeur. That her loss
may prove the gain of France, must be
the wish of all who, like myself, be-
lieve that the existance of France as a
prosperous and powerful community is
essential to the welfare of Europe.
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GEN. RossEL closes a communication
to the Commune, complaining that he
had not received proper support, in the
following words: 'ETwo courses were
open to our troops, viz: to break
through the obstacles which environ
Paris, or to retire. The former has
been found to be impossible therefore
we have retired" He says: 81 cannot
endure to hold responsibility where ev-
erybody delberates, where nothing is
organized, and where the guns depend
for service on a few volunteers. In
continuation the General complains
that reinforcements have not been
granted him when urgently needed, and
that in point of fact the Commune was
incapable to discharge the duties per-
tanning to it. He therefore retires from
its service, and demands a cell in the
MoZ0s prison.
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BosroN girls, as a rule, are the most
intellectual, New York girls the most
stylish, Brooklyn girls the most &C firt-
0tiOus," Philadelphia girls the most
ladylke, Baltimore girls the prettiest,
and Chicago girls the most extravagant.
SO says report.
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TIE Government has withdrawn the
prosecution OF Maj. A. Belknap, indict-
ed with Judge Fullerton, under Collec-
tor Bailey's regime for a conspiracy to
defraud the revenue. Belknap is either
dead or dying of an incurable disease
foreign country,
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THE Emperor and Empress of Brazil
will sail for Europe next month, and
spend year in travelling. Russia,
Turkey and Greece are among the coun-
tries they intend to visit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-24

THE Massachusetts Legislature has
refused to give S75, 900 to the Museum
of Comparative Zoology. 1t has also
rejected bill giving SO, 900 to Apherst
College.
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my John. f.


I stand behind bis elbow chair,
NV soft hand rests upon MS mar
Hair hose silver is dearer to me
Than all the gold of earth could be;
And my eyes of brown
Look tenderly down,
On John, my John.
The freight leaps, and laughs ana warns
Wraps us both in its ruddy arms
John. as he sits in the heath-glow red,
Me with nv hands on his dear old head
Encircling us both,
Like a ring of troth,
Me and my John.
His form has lost its early grace,
Wrinkles rest on his kindly face:
His brow no longer is smooth and fair,
For time has left his autograph there;
But noble prize,
In my loving eyes,
Is John, nly John.
+" My love-" be says, and lifts his hands,
Drowned by TIE suns of other lands,
In tender clasp on mine to lay,
!" How long ago was our wedding day? 2"
l smile through my tears
And say, "Years and years,
My John, dear John,n
We say no more, the freight CLOVIS;
Both of US muse, on what-who knows I?
My heC3- drop down in mute caress-
Each throb OF my heart is wish to bless
With my wife's be7t worth
The heart and the Hearth
OF John, my John.
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8ss NORTHWESTERN HORSE NAIL Co,
manufacturers of Patent Hammered Ho'~ e
Nails. Office 68 West Van Buren, street. F g
tory 56 to 68 West Van Buren, street. corr y
Clinton street, Chicago.
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evening the pink dress in which I had
SO many times told her she looked like
an angel, and whether she had her hair
loose over her shoulders, or coiled up
at the back of her head in the careless
knot which made her looked SO sweetly
womanly.
Then I got on my feet, and stumbled
about for another long, weary period.
After while [ fell down from sheer
exhaustion, and slept. My sleep was
very sweet, my dreams pleasant, and all
of her
How terrible was the awakening!
Again I resumed my search for an
opening, and kept it up until my
strength gave out and I was forced to
desist.
In this way passed the time. I had
no means of ascertaining how long I
aa' ~ there-daylight and night
same in that dreadful
- to be very hun
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-05-24

JAPANESE young ladies make wonder
tul plotuses of peanut shells.
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HORACE GREELEY Is about to Vi t
Texas.