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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

The following is said to be the
means used by the professional rat
catchers of I>aris to destroy the
vermin:
"They take deep tub with wa
ter on the bottom, and a little ele-
walton in the middle like an island,
on which is only space for just one
rat to sit on. The top is covered
and has o large balanced valve,
opening downward OH the middle
Of this valve a piece Of fried pork
or cheese is fixed, aud when the rat
walks on it to get the cheese, the,
valve goes down, drops the rat in
the water, and moves back i'll posi-
ton. A road is made from the rat
hole to the top of the tub, by means
Of a piece Of board rubbed with
cheese, 50 as to make the walk at
tractive for the rats. In the course
Of a single night some ten or twcn-
ty, or even more rats may godown;
and if the island were not there,
they would be found most all alive
in the morning quietly swimming
around; hut the provision Of the
little island saves the trouble OF
killing them, because their egotistic,
instinct of selfpnservation causes
them to fight for the exclusive pos,
session Of the island, Of which, in
the morning, the strongest rat is
found in solitary posseSsion, all the
others being killed or drowned
around him"
This may do fr I'aris, We DO
not know llvw il would answer.
here.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07
I" Episcopal ?

" Are there any Episeopalians in
this vicinity, MADAME asked q
tall, thin strangerot Airs. Artemus,
as she stood in the open door, in
answer to his knock m
/" Amy which :"
" Episcopalians.'' ,,,...r,4
Now, if Mrs. Artenus had o,
falling, it was that she neyerwonld
admit that she could possibly be
ignorant Of anything. She always
knew all about any subject men
toned. So she answered:
/" Episcopalians! Wall, we don't
exactly know, Ny John--he's my
son--he seen somethin' out'n the
corn-field yesterday. He didn't
really know what it was, but told
him | guessed it was a chipmonk.
But now yon sneak ont, I'll bet it
was a Episkerpalium. And my
next neighbor, Farmer Hawkins,
he said he shct ut somethin' that
same day that John see his strange
crittm, and Farmer Hawkins he
thought it was some wild crittr
that had got out of some managery
somewhere. Anyhow, / think
that's a Episeopaling, too. Be
they bigger'n q chipmonk 2"
" You misunderstood me, mad
am" te M
Wal, you needn't feel oneaSy.
Et there's any PisConaIiumsin this
here neighborhood, you can jest
make up your mind that they'll git
shot! We air too feeliu' q COM
mulity to let things rup at large
which mout destroy aud devour
somebody. Come in, wOn't.ye2'
{" No, ma'am. How far is it to
the nearest town."
/" About six miles Have vow
got any friends there? Cos if you
have, know a'most everybody in
that town. You're a minister,
take it ?"
i" am, madam
Air You a .hardsnell Baptist, or
what ?"
/" No, maSam; lam E-a-well,
one Of the old school. Good morn
ing, ma'am."
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07
Curious TnventEOms-

Among the inventions for which
patents have recently been obtained
III the, United States are ,th@follow-
ing.
A device for attaching. buttons to
clothing with a screwrdriveE.
An attachment to piapos, 50 that
the strings may be touched, mid
length by q pedal movement, and
a sound similar to a violin or guitar
obtained.
4 child's carriage, SO arranged
when the handles are dropped, a
pawl stops the wheels and arrests
motion at once, and, when grasped,
the pawl is released.
A pc cil.sharpener that is also .
handle for stumps Of lead-pencils.
BreastpinS and earrings, with
tubes to hold artificial flowers.
An apparatus for drawing oil
boots, consisting Of o strap passing
around the body below the waist,
having at each end a hook.
A medical compound for the
smallpox, composed Of saltpetre,
gum camphor and charcoal.
A lady's comb, passed into the
back hair in the usual manner, anil
the leaves al owed to overlap atI
press upon the chignon, y spring
serving not only to retain the oriia-
ment il place, but the cbigron also.
A toy bank, in which an antoma-
ton banker stands to receive money,
and, when aspiring is disengaged,
he turns AROUND, tile door is shut,
aud the money is deposited III the
back part Of the bank.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

Of land, because they couldn't raise
corn. 1'hey would be houseless
and homeless in a lumber yard, and
barefooted with all the leather in the
swamp at their command. They
have abandoned work and want
something nice and easy. | think
that the respectable German in his
six-by-nine attic peggiug away at
his last, is much more respectable
than the young man who left his
fathers farm before he learned to
work. You ought TO 90 to my
house and see the number of appli-
cations that are made to me daily.
Why, people must think that own
Central Park, and Prospect Park,
and the Navy yard. [Laughter.l
They won't believe that Ive no in
huenee at Washington. Laughter. |
| sympathize with them and assist
them when | can. lnever say,
"Youpg man, go West" Loud
laughter. try toencourage them.
A WORD TO THE RICH.
Mr.. Beecher then addressed him
self to the wealthy members of his
congregation, and said; "Even if
you are worth a million to-day,
your sop may be forced to beg his
bread because he can't work. Your
daughters cannot be chambermaids,
or cooks, or washerwomen, what's
to become Of them? Laughter. In
one thing | would have you Judia-
lied. There is an old and true
Jewish proverb which says, ale
who brings up his child without a
trade, brings him up to steal" The
papers tell us of people going to
seek their fortunes IN America. 1t
should be, work for their fortunes.
Tell your children to work. They
say it will kill them. Shall they
live? No. Laughter. Shall they
commit suicide ? No. What then !?
Simply this: "Eat the bread you
earn, or don't eat."
Mr.. Beecher closed with a touch
ing peroration in which, speaking Of
the rising generation, he said: "l4et
them be men who earn their living
by the sweat Of their brow, and who
can hold up their big, hard hands
and say they never took a penny
they did not earn.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

TnE BoTroM or IT.-A young
drug clerk committed suicide in
Bristol, a few days ago. At the
inquest, the Coroner asked a fellow
clerk ot the deceased it he knew
Of any cause for the suicide. "No,"
was the reply; " he was getting
along very nicely, and was going
to be married next month"; eco
ing to be married next month, was
he ?" exclaimed the Coroner.
Y That will Do. We've got ut the
bottom Of this business"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07
A Mothers Tact.


side her, and provided with dull
rounded scissors and some old mag
azines, was Just as bissily cutting
out old pictures.
1T would litter the carpet" s(
said aunt Martha, who had come il
for a cozy chat. Mamma knew this
but she knew, too, that a few min
utes' work would make all righ'
again, and Josie was happy.
All went we'll till the little boy
found that he had cut off the leg o
a horse that he considered a marve
of beauty. It was q real disappoiut
lnent and grief TO the little one.
"Mamma, seel" and, halt crying
he held it up.
"Play he's holding up one foot
the mother said, quickly.
"Do real horses, mamma +"
ooh, yes, sometimes"
q will" and sunshine chased
away the cloud that in another min
ute would have rained down.
1t was little thing, the mothers
answer but the quick sympathy,
the ready tact, made all right. The
boys heart was comforted, and he
went on with bis play, while the
mother sewed quietly, with no jar
OF nerves or temper, and auntie's
call lost none of its pleasantuess.
"I'm tired cutting pieces, man.
ma" said Josie afterawhile.
"Well, get your horse and wag-
on, and play those bits OF paper are
wood, and you're going to bring me
a load. Draw it over to that cor
ner by the fire, and put them in
the kindling.box; play that's the
wood-house."
Pleased and proud, the littleteam-
ster drew load after load, till the
papers were all picked up, without
his ever thinking he was doing any
thing but pay.
"Well, DECLARE said aunt
Martha, ''old as | am, I've learned
one thing to-day and | wish Emily
would. come in and take lessons, ]
do"
Mrs. Waldo looked up in sur
prise.
"What do you mean, Auntie ?"
swell, | spent yesterday after
noon over there (the old lady had
a weakness for visiting, and was
''auntie" to the people generally,
and things were in ssnarland nigh
below all the time-starting with
less than Jessie's given you a dozen
times since I've sat here. I've had
a good talk with you, and you've
given me pleasant thoughts for a
week to come over there we
hear ourselves speak. 1t
was, Don't do that and 'You
child,' spill, and scratch
and break and tumble, scold and
slap, half the time. Emily means
well :; she loves her children, aud |
never spares herself sewing for
them, or nursing them when they
are sick. Sheh has a world Of pa
tielce some. ways, but she don't
seem to haVeany faculty managing
them. Well, WE'LL. III send her
over here, only | won't let Why" 1
aud the old lady rolled mp her knit
ting,as tho bell rang for tea.
A. little tact, springing from
thoaghttul love, how good it is =
.irthw's Magazine.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

An enterprizing citizen Of Mays-
vile last week dug ont ten polecatst
from one hole. lie now creates q,
decided sensation wherever he APP
PEARS ai.tl Las to rooSt on the front
yard eace nights, as bis wife won't
LIT him come into the house.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

This is the worst year that has
ever been known in Kansas for
pulling gus ont Of the wagons
muazle first. A woman IN Jewell
coanty has just pulled one, andaow
Las to part her hair on the side
tat her ouly arm is on.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

A gentleman in Hartford, Conn.,,
recently run a torty-toot icicle into
his eye.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

that the man who built 1t was q So
cial, good man, with q heart and
blaln, too.
A LIE.
Men do not like labor because the
worker raiks below the thinker,
That's q democratic feeling. | say
Pm just as good as any other man,
because all men are equal. | beg
pardon; all men are not equal in
size, height or girth; not equal in
virtue; but all men sre ciyilly equal
before the law. When a man says
"i'm just as good as any man." it
may be 50, and it may not be SO.
When the universal man says it,
it's a lie.
That has been the grand blunder
Of the Communists and Internation-
ais. They wanted all men equals
with unequal means. The most
productive part OF man is the ami
ma. \ man shears a sheep and
there are five hundred men in the
same township that can do the same
thing. Then the wool is sent to
the manutactory, but there will not
be FIVE hundred men who can
weave the fine cloth. The result
is that the man who shears gets one
dollar day, while the weaver gets
three or four dollars a day. This
il the result ot brains and educa-
ton.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07
TRUE REspECTABILITY.

In Ohio, when | lived there,
knew emineltly educated German
gentlemen earning q dollar day
breaking stones on the macadam-
lied road. Measured by ayocation
they were low; but they were
thinkers, ranking higer-they were
honorable.
A man who has been a hard
worker all his life says to himself:
q have a smart boy. I'll give him
chances | never had. l'll give him
a good education. Yes, iii make q
lawyer out of hin." [immoderate
laughter In the month Of June
there will be 100000 blossoms on
every apple tree. There will be
about 300 apples, and the remain
der will drop to the ground. 1t is
the same in all professions. Out Of
every 100000 candidates there will
only be 300 professional men.
THE CURSE or WEALTH.
The great trouble is that men are
more anxious to be rich than to be
happy. | never knew a minister
who warned his people about being
extrayagaLt who refused a good
salary. | never derided wealth,
never exhorted you about being eco
nomical, for Won would Just as lief
walk into my yard and say to my
COWS, go, Alderneys, be careful Of
yonr milk" Laughter.
\ man may be rich and yet be q
faol. Of one hundred who have
wealth, but one knows how to use
it. The insane notion that If a man
only had wealth lie wouldn't want
anything else, Las been the rnin Of
many young men. Sudden wealth
and immense wealth are the dream
OF many men IN cities who have left
their farms and workshops to come
here | venture to say that there
are 5000 young men here between
20 and 80 years Of age who have
nothing To do.
NEW YORK IL FULL or THEM.
| do not wish to be disrespecttiil;
ask ore ot them IT they can do a
days work. He will answer. No.
-\re yat good on Shlpboard? ? No.
!'ve never been to sea. Can you
make A chair? No. Are you d
No. Are you a car.
penter? No. Is there Anything on
Gods earth that You can do? No,
not thing. Laughter. Now think,
wlat youdo? Well, l'ma good
book-keeper. Laughter. They can
do nothing and can get nothing to
10. Not alone is this the case in
New York, but in all the large
cities il the tmon.
WHAT THEY GAUGEnA.
Thousands Of young men would
,tarye to death On a Hundred acres
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-02-07

that the man who built il was q So
cial, good man, with q heart and
blaln, too.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
Water.

WATER is the great mechanical power
in nature. 1t is the great leveler; it
moves mountains and fills valleys. All
our stratified rocks, sandstones, States,
and limestones were formed by the action
of water. To the solvent power of water
and its chemical action we owe our use
full minerals, our metallic deposits, our
iron, copper, zinc, gold and silver ores,
and even coal. To its physical proper
ties-its relations to heat-we owe all the
phenomena of clouds, dew, rain, fog,
snow and frost. 1t supports the plants,
brings them their mineral food from the
soil, and protects them from excessive
heat Animals are equally dependent
upon it. Yet after all, it is only the agent
of the sun; it is sun power that makes
plants grow; it is sun power that moves
everything in the world, and water is
merely the suns agent. The loss of water
would produce the same condition of
things on earth that we notice now in the
moon. Although we have such vast
quantity Of water, yet it is only /, 24O ,OOOth
part of the earth, or 0.0042 per cent.
The crystalline rocks at the earth's sur
face now contain larger quantity of
water than this, and the moment our
earth cools enough to absorb four-thou-
sandths of one per cent. of moisture, the
ocean will disappear. If we should lose
our atmosphere also, the openings or
pores In the rocks will receive it by gray.
Journal Of Chemistry.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
The CamphOr Tree.

1T IS something more than a wonder
that a tree in itself so valuable, in its pro-
auctions SO absolute, and so entirely sus-
cepuole OF successful cultivation in the
United States, should so long be totally
neglected by our agriculturists. As the
camphor tree is quite as hardy as any of
cur apple trees there is, perhaps, no good
reason why it should not succeed well
wherever the apple trees grow. 1t is in
dIgenous to all parts of China, Japan,
Formosa, Burmah, Chinese Tartary, and
nourlshes even as far north as the Amoor
country; but it is found in the greatest
abundance along the Eastern coast of
ohlna, between Annoy and Shanghae. In
the district of Kwang Tung and Funchein
II grows in dense forests, the trunks at
aiming size equaling that of any Of our
orth American forest trees. The princi-
pai market for camphor lumber is Annoy,
where some boards are thirty inches in
Hiatn. The camphor gum Of commerce
does not In any case exude from the tree.
as mas oeen so generally supposed. but il
is obtained from the leaves, tvigs and
smaller roots, by distillation, Western
RurwE. - ''''' T"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
Asking for Money.

ONE OF the very best wives and mothers
| have ever known once said to me, that,
whenever her daughters should be mar
ried, she should stipulate in their behalf
with their husbands for regular sum of
money to be paid them, at certain inter-
walls, for their personal expenditures.
Whether this sum was to be larger or
smaller was matter of secondary import
ance-that must depend on the income
and the style of living-but the essential
thing was that it should come to the wife
regularly, so that she should no more have
to make special request for it than her
husband would have to ask her for din
ner This lady's own husband was, as
happened to know, of most generous
disposition, was devotedly attached to her,
and denied her nothing. She herself was
most accurate and careful manager.
There was everything in the household to
make the financial arrangements flow
smoothly. Yet she said to me, 81 sup
pose no man can possibly understand how
sensitive woman shrinks from asking
for money. If can prevent it, my daugh-
tiers shall never have to ask it. If they do
their duty as wives and mothers they have
right to their share of the joint income,
within reasonable limits; for, certainly,
no money could buy the services they
render. Moreover they have a right to a
snare IN determining what those reason
able limits are"
NOW 1t so happened that / had myself
gone through an experience which ena-
oled me perfectly to comprehend this feel.
ing. In early life was for a time in the
employ of a kind friend who paid me a
falr salary, but at no definite periods:
was at liberty to ask him for money whom
ever l needed it. This seemed to me, in
advance, most agreeable arrangement;
put found it quite otherwise 1t proved
10 be very disagreeable to ask for money :;
II made every dollar seem special favor :
1t brought up all kinds of misgivings, as
to whether he could spare it without in
convenience, whether he really thought
my services wortL it, and so on. My en-
ployer was thoroughly upright and no.
pie man, and l was much attached to him
do not know that he ever refused or de-
INJURED when 1asked him for money The
annoyance was simply in the process of
asking, and this became so great that
OFTEN underwent serious inconvenience
rather than ask. Finally, at the years
ehd, surprised my friend very much by
saying that | would accept, if necessary,
lower salary, on condition that it should
DE paid on regular days, and as matter
OF business. The wish was at once grant
ed, without the reduction; and my en-
ployer probably never knew what relief
IL was to me-. w. Higginsoa, IN the
Wonadh'S Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
Tbe Sun.


THE WEEKLY SUN widely known
sand
which briefly follows
Isa All the of the will be found
din
clear, Ineligible and
carefully selected legiby printed
eguarly
rpincip
republican
of
cattle markets, which particular attention
not
WEEKLY Columns Only 800 discounts
York
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
The Stocking Loom.

A PRETTY story tells us of the inven-
ton of the stocking loom: W. Lee was
gay young student at Oxford, who saw
among the Greek letters of his Iliad only
the eyes of the inn-keeper's daughter, and
heard in the professors tones but the
click of her swift knitting In
despair he threw away his books, hurried
to his mistress, and with her to the par
sons. When the Oxford>dons heard Of
the proceedings at the rectory, they de-
cided in grave council that this crime of
marriage must be made an example of,
and accordingly the young man was ex-
PEELED. Disgraced and dishonored he
and Peggy were cast out into the world
with only four knitting-needles to look
to for bread. But Peggy went merrily to
work, her eyes growing brighter, her
fingers plying faster, while her enamored
husband sat before her in helpless inefi-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06

IT Runs LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE!-DR.
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs runs like a
prairie fire. The fame ofthe Temperance
Tonic is, however, but poorly exemplified
by this figure of speech; for a prairie fire
runs only in one direction, whereas the
reputation of the Bitters spreads toward
all points of the compass. There is not a
square mile of inhabited territory in the
United States, where this meritorious
preparation is not appreciated If any
theoretical gentleman thinks he is prepar-
ed to show that there is nothing in it,"
we advise him to go to the Prairie States,
in the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas OF
the Southern rivers, to New England, in
fact, anywhere within the limits Of "Uncle
Sans real estate" and ventilate his views
By so doing he can raise a heartier and
more general laugh than has ever vet
shaken the sides Of an intelligent people
Persons who have been cured can't help
laughing at other people, who tell them
that the medicine which saved their lives
is failure. IA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
ABOUT WASHING MACHINES.

NO premiums were awarded at the Great
Inter State Exposition, but in the Record of
the Exposition is made this report:
"We find on exhibition variety of washing
machines, and each claims excellence. MANY
OF them, we doubt not, are great relief to
woman-kind. But one which has been thor
oughly tested, and has had an immense sale,
and appears to have the greater demand the
more it supplies-we mean the CALKINs CHAM
PIoN WAsHER-seems here, as elsewhere, to
attract general attention. It is the cheapest
machine exhibited, costing only $3.50, and we
admit prejudice against ow-priced articles
generally, but the simplicity and common
sense construction Of this washer must over.
come all prejudice. 1t is readily adjusted like
a wringer, to any common tub, and its
simple mechanism is such that it must be
durable. 1t does its work well, and does it
rapidly, and by actual performance says for it
self that it can and does wash waist bands and
cuffs as well as ten-pound blankets" The
time for making woman bend over the wash
board has passed away. When men avail
themselves of all manner of costly machinery
to lessen manual labor, who will deny to
woman $3.50 for washing machine? We do
not know how the same amount of money
could be invested to greater profit, and are not
surprised to learn that nearly 10000 of these
machines have already been sold. They are
made, sold and deliDered to any part of the
United States, for the small sum of 81 so, by
the CALKINs CHAMPION WASHER COMPANY,
Nos. 10l and 1913 Clark street, Chicago