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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
THE LIVERY OF THE CHURCH.


The Norwich Conn Bulletin relates
a curious story of the defrauding of the
Norwich and New York line of boats by
a skillful swindler While the Church
Congress was in session in New York, a
man, who looked every inch an Episco-
pal clergyman, called at the New York
Office of the Norwich line and wanted to
make arrangements for the transporta-
tion of 600 Episcopal clergymen and
laymen, belonging in New England, to
Boston. There ensued suitable amount
of discussion and of telegraphing to the
railroad men in Norwich, and at length
a bargain was struck for carrying the
great 600 at 50 per man, the agent to
receive so cents per ticket as his COM
mission, amounting to $500. He then
paid for the tickets with check for
81 800, signed William E. Dodge, and
they paid him his commission. Time
came for the boat to leave, but not the
600. Not one of the great 600 were
forthcoming, and the ideas dawned with
startling rapidity in close succession
upon the minds of the steamboat
officials. The check was found to be a
forgery, but the forger has so far
escaped capture.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
H4RD AND SOFT VA TEE.

There is a notion quite prevalent in
the minds of the people that the drink
ing of hard water is injurious to health,
and most ply sicians have warned people
to as far as possible avoid the practice.
But DIR. Letherby, an English physician,
who has devoted much time to investi-
eating the subject, finds, as the result
of his observations, that hard water is
not only clearer, colder, more free from
air and more agreeable to the taste than
soft, but that it is less liable to the alb
sorption of organic matter and to the
sustenance of the life of zymotic organ
isms, or to exert solvent properties
upon salts of iron or upon leaden con-
Quoting pipes. And he claims that the
lime salts exert a beneficial influence
1t is asserted that practical test of the
truth of this new theory is to be had in
the case of the residents of mountain
GUS districts, where the water is almost
invariably hard, and where the inhab-
itants exhibit the best physical develop
ment He claims that water containing
about six grains of carbonate of lime to
the gallon is suitable for use in all
household purposes, for such water
offers the necessary amount of carbonate
of lime for the support of life in the
simplest and most digestible form.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
AN -rNTEREsTIEG DISCOVERY.

Some workmen, while engaged in
laying water-pipes in Cividale, Italy, re-
Gently encountered large fiat stone.
On raising this bed of mason-work
was revealed, in which was placed a
stone sarcophagus covered with mar
BILE lid. Within the receptacle were
the remains of human skeleton, some
portions of which were yet perfect. Be-
side the body lay a sword, lance, he'll
met, spears, a gold clasp and ring. a
piece of very beautiful gold tissue, and
flask of water, which was still re-
markably clean. The removal of clay
from the bottom of the grave brought
out the letters GISVL-from which
archmologists have decided that the re-
mains are those of Gisulf, Duke of the
Lombard Marches of Friui, who fell in
battle in Gil, while repelling an invasion
of the Avars.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
rgoUsAND VICTIMS.

The Missions Catalogues publishes
the following letter from Mgr. Puginier,
Vicar Apostolic to Eastern Tong-king ::
hasten to thank you for the interest
you have manifested in our cause by
publishing several articles on the per-
secutions of Tong-King. The readers
of the Missions CatholiQAes must have
been touched by the terrible mlsfor-
tunes of our Christians, and will not
have omitted to ask the Divine Master
to restore peace and prosperity to his
church in China. God will hear the
prayers of our martyrs. The massacre
of Christians and the pillaging and
burning of their villages commenced
in my mission, and thence spread into
that of Mgr. Gauthier. How can L
ever describe to you the horrors we
have witnessed, and which we were ut
terly unable..to prevent ? The literati,
freed from all restraint, excited by love
of pillage, and drunk with blood,
abandoned all restraint, and their
wrath knew no bounds. Armed with
lances, guns, and even cannons, they
threw themselves, followed by numer-
GUS bands of lawless men, upon the
Christian villages, none of which were
strong enough to defend themselves.
They killed men, women, and children
without distinction, sparing neither
those who asked for pity nor those who
refused to do SO. A schoolmaster, see-
ing the literati coming, took refuge in the
church, and there, PROSTATE before the
altar, implored the mercy of God. The
murderers arrived. They seized him in
the sanctuary and scalped him. He still
continued to pray, and they at last cut
his head off. Among them were several
dren. Three priests, twenty missionary
students, and ten catechists or scholars
of Mgr. Gauthier met with the same
fate. About 70, 900 Christians, in both
missions, were totally ruined and dis
persed. The majority of them were
killed in the sack of the villages; many
were ordered to apostatize, and on re-
fusing to do so, condemned to death.
A great many are still hidden in the
mountains, living there on roots and
herbs. Others have taken refuge with
pagan friends. Over thirty p1esby-
teries, 200 churches, 300 villages, con-
tanning IA, 600 families and ten converts
of Annamite nuns have been pillaged
and burnt. The material loss to the
missions is over 400, 900 francs, and that
of the Christians exceeds Is, 900, 900
francs. The labor before us is i'm
msnse. We have, first of all, to bring
the dispersed Christians back to their
villages, and and they are nearly naked
and without money. Moreover, their
houses being burnt, we shall have to
help them to rebuild. 1 estimate
that each mission will require at least
300,0 francs to put it to rights, and
where are we to get the money We
trust in Providence, and entreat the aid
of God through the intercession of his
latest martyrs"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
EDUCATED ENGLIsRMEN.

It is well known that the English are
wonderfully ignorant of American geog-
raphy, but it is not often that they
confess it. Lord Roseberg, in recent
speech in London, said that 's he could
walk up to a map in the dark and put
his finger on the site of Cicero's villa,
but if any one asked him where San
Francisco was he should have to think
twice." This remark recalls to the table
talk editor of the Ge9atLen1a7a's llaga-
zine a similar remark of Mr.. Golden.
These men," said Golden, speaking
of English Ambassadors, and of the
necessity of turning them into CONNER
cial travellers, So these men know where
the Iissus ia !; but they know nothing
of the Mississippi" ct was twenty
years ago. Yet the Mississippi could
float all the navies of Europe upon its
bosom, and it took me half day to find
the Ilissus when I was in Athens, and
then only found the bed of the river.
Half dozen nwasher-women had damned
up the uissus to wash their clothes"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

" PLEASANT, WICKED H0MB Or G.
burg says: It is of course only natural
and proper and in obvious accord with
the eternal fitness. of things that place
so pleasant and yet go pd should be in
the hands of the English. When HON.
burg was wicked pleasant, wicked
Homburg, Mr.. Whyte-Melville calls
it, just as he talks of Sc pleasant, wicked
Pompen - it was no less naturally in
the hands ofthe French. French was
there, as at Baden, the ruling tongue.
They are beginning, though very slow
", to return to both places, and having
lived to see at Honburg Fren ch ladies
dancing with German officers in Ger
man uniform, I feel justified in enter
tanning some slight hope that I may
Outlive la reUanche. But still English
is now SO completely the language of
the place that in whatever numbers the
French return, they ought to have no
more chance of recovering Homburg
than of getting India. We have more
to fear from the Russians, and still more
formidable rivals than either are our
enterprising and ubiquitous American
cousins. At one or two of the tables
d'hote here I have heard almost as
much American as English. However,
as the two Anglo-Saxen races can, on
the whole, understand each other bet
ter than they can understand any other
race, their rivalry is pretty friendly,
and each displays at the table d'hote
quite as magnanimous tolerance as can
be reasonably expected, considering
the others unnatural treatment of their
common mother-tongue. Nevertheless,
a possession SO pleasant as Homburg
ought not to be allowed to pass into the
hands of even near relations, SO trust
there may be a greater rush here than
ever of the real, original English next
season. There is no reason, by the
way, why those whom. it may suit
should not come over for the winter,
since the center of Homburg's happi-
ness and civilization, the Kursaal, is to
be kept open all the year round.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
LIMITS Of GREAT CITIES


The London Builder thinks that the
time will soon come when the question
of the extreme limit to which cities can
be extended will be solved. London
has now an estimated population of
8, 400, 700, and the question suggested
by the Builder rises from the estimate
that 600,0 900, 600 cubic feet of carbonic
acid gas are respired in London every
twenty -four hours by human beings
alone, and that Ia, 600 tons of coal are
daily consumed there, o great portion
of which is cast into the atmosphere in
the partially volatilized form of smoke.
But fortunately for the theories of the
dwe1lers in London, and fortunately for
the theories of the croakers, there are
many miles of fresh air above the city
conttantly replacing the vitiated at
mosphere of the streets. London may
be extended indefinitely with, in all
probability, no perceptible change in
the Iife-supporting power of her at
mosphere. The registration of births
and deaths in England is so thoroughly
made that the estimates of population
based thereon very nearly agree with
the actual count from the census re-
turns, and such registration has as yet
given no signs of any increased ratio
of deaths following the growth of Lon
don. In this connection the fact may
be noted that London contains as
much population as the seventeen next
principal cities Of Great Britain and
Ireland, and that, according to the Ia
test estimates, the population of Lon
don is increasing in larger ratio than
that of other cities.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
INCREASE or EUROPEAN 4RMIE

INCREASE OF EUROPEAN 4RMLES
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times recently gave published ta-
BILE, wherein the increase of European
armies for the last fifteen years was
shown, from which we deduce the fol-
lowing facts /: The increase which oc-
Cured during that time in Austria
wss 222, $50; in Russia, 367, 80; in
Italy, 297, $50; in Germany, !, 1926. 161
in France, 337, 100; in England 233, O2O.
The increase in the minor states has
been proportionately as great, and yet,
leaving that entirely out of the ques-
ton, we find that in fifteen years 2,873,-
121 more men have been added to the
standing armies of the above named
powers, the highest proportion of sol
diers to each million of inhabitants be-
ing reached in Germany. The statistics
certainly indicate gigant1cally hostile
preparations for peace, and eyince, SO
far as Germany is concerned, the truth
of Won Moltke's speech delivered at the
close of the late war, that if Germany
desires to remain what she has gained
within the six months of her warfare
with France, she must watch with
+" sword in hand" for the next fifty
years. Evidently the other powers of
Europe are slumbering in much the
same manner. When the taxation req
uisite for the support of this immense
ly great non-producing element is taken
into consideration, as well as the fact
that it consists of the strongest and
most able-bodied portion of the popula-
tion, which is thereby drawn from the
industrial and self-sustaining pursuits,
some idea of the oppression under
which the laboring classes, upon whom
the chief support of the army falls,
stagger, may be conceived, as well as
the price which is paid for preserving
peace among transatlantic empires and
kingdoms
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL

STRIKE.
A woman was at the bottom of the
agricultural strike in England, says
Kate Field, and this was the way of it !:
Mrs. Vincent, wife to the editor of the
bennington Chronicle (who, by the
way, lived many years in Massachusetts,
and got to be quite Yankee), was run
ming that paper in her husbands alb
sence, one day in February, 1872, when
a farm laborer walked into the Office
and said: "We're going to have a
good meeting tonight, and we hope the
Chronicle will send a reporter and
make England hear u.s." ct don't see
the necessity" exclaimed the assistant
editor-a man. 81 do" replied Mrs.
Vincent. "There is nobody to send, !"
argued the assistant editor. Some
one was found, and the report did make
England hear, and the revolution fol-
lowed. Hodge for the first time called
for his rights, and took a long step
toward getting them. Kate, who grew
a redder Republican than ever in her
English sojourn, thinks there are seri-
Gus grounds for fearing that "the En-
glish revolution of 1895 may rival in
atrocity as well as in benefcence that of
the French hundred years earlier"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
DANCES.

Dancing in Russia is said to be rather
a heavy pastime. The peasants, in
dancing, merely sway backward and
toward to the balateica, a long guitar,
whose notes are frequently drowned by
the shouts and songs of bystanders.
The Cossack's dance is described as a
noisy tramp. But the Court dance
the polonaise (ef Polish origin, as its
name indicates)-is simply promenade
or march, which affords the best op-
portunities for conversation, while the
strictest etiquette may be observed.
The redowa. mazurka, and varsovienne
are all of Polish origin. The jig and
country dances (contre danse) are purely
English, while the reel is Enthusiastically
Scotch. The minuet originated In the
old French of Potion, and was after
ward introduced into England, where ii
was long and deservedly popular. The
waltz, contrary to popular belief, is also
of French origin. The polka was
brought from Hungary in 1910. The
election of President Polk about the
time it became popular here, gave rise
to the erroneous notion that the new
dance had been named in his honor
The cotillon known as the German il
really very old dance, slightly modi
fed. The Orientals are fond OF wit
Messing ballets and intricate pas seuls
but never dance themselves.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

The director of the Philadelphia
mint in his last report describes what,
in his opinion, would be the course of
silver coin in regaining currency among
the people in case the government were
to issue it now. The demand for these
coins comes from Texas and the Pacific
coast, where they circulate as money.
The first effectof any considerable issue
of them would be to remove the differ
ence in market value between silver
coin and bullion in New York. Next
they would be sent to Texas and the Pa
cific in such amounts as to compel
merchants there to refuse them in sums
above five dollars. AS soon as there
was a glut in the only mar
kets where they are now avail
able as a circulating medium, they
would gradually come into use in other
quarters, and as paper money ap-
preached gold in value, they would ex-
pei the fractional notes, which latter
are redeemabIe in United States legal
tender notes.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
ARBITRATIO

The trades unions in England are
gaining little sense. Past experience
has shown them that little is to be
gained by prolonged strikes, and the
workmen and their employers have re-
Gently begun to try arbitration as
means of settling their disputes. An
amicable adjustment of the troubles at
Bolton several months ago was brought
about by this means, and now the min
ers in Yorkshire, who, to the number of
twelve Thousand, struck work the other
day, have gone to work, leaving the ar
bitrators the work of settling all differ
ences. This is by far the wisest course
for workmen to pursue, not only in En-
gland but elsewhere. Strikes not only
create hard feeling between master and
servant, but entail great hardship upon
the latter, who are sometimes thrown
out for weeks together, losing their
wages without any compensating re-
turn. A calm discussion of all such
diferencesis almost invaria bly, the best
strikes should only be resorted to under
the pressure of great wrongs for which
there is no other remedy.
CHARLES LAME would not allow any
great antiquity for wit, and apostrophiz-
ing candle-light, said "This is our
peculiar and household planet wanting
it, what savage, unsocial nights our an
cestors must have spent, wintering in
caves and unilluminated fastnesses
They must have lain about and grum-
b1ed at each other in the dark. What
repartees could have passed when you
must have felt about for smile, and
handled neighbor's cheeks to be sure
he understood it. :"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

A FRENCH engineer, NJ. Bazin, is con-
structing vessel for marine express. Tt
will be truly the express train of the
ocean; with an engine of 1900 horse
power it will have capacity of 2,2OO
tons, will carry $50 passengers. 400 tons
of merchandise, and the postal service
It will go at the rate of twenty knots an
hour, that is to say, it will go from
Havre to New York in six days.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

IF the patient does not receiver his
health, ought the physician to recover
his fees?
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
4 STRANGE DREAM F11FJIIEo

Rev. L. W. Lewis, in his eReminis-
cences of the War; published in the
1e1as Christian Advocate, relates the
annexed remarkable instance as literally
True. The battle referred to was that
OF Prairie Grove, IN Northwest Ar
kansas, fought Dec. Z, 1862:
A curious fullfllment of a dream oc-
Cured at the battle under NV e1z,, evos
a man by the name of Joe WTufa,ne
had told dream to many Of his fellow
soloiers' some of whom had related it
TO me months previous to the occur-
renee winch now relate.
He dreamed that we orossad . ,.;.-
er, marched over monnto;,, ,7
campeo near church located in a
wood near which terrible battle en-
sued, and IN charge, Just as we
crossed ravlne, he was shot in tho
breast. On the ever memorable 7+h of
December, 1852, as we moved at double
quick to take our place in the line of
battle, then already hotly engaged. we
passed Prairie Grove Church. a small
frame building, belonging to the
Cumberland Presbyterians. I was rid.
ing in the flank of the command and
opposite to Williams, as we came in
view of the house. This is the church.
Colonel, saw in my dream said he.
I made no reply, and never thought of
the matter again until the evening. We
had broken the enemy's line, and were
fT111 xrJha
dry ravine in the wood, and Williams
said, just on the other side of the hol-
low was shot in my dream, and 1 will
stick my hat under my shirt Suiting
the action to the word as he ran along,
he doubled it up and crammed it in his
bosom. Scarcely had he adjusted it
before a mimic ball knocked him out
of line. Jumping up quickly he pulled
out his hat, and shouted, I'm all
right = The ball raised a black spot
about the size of a mans hand just over
his heart and dropped into his shoe"
ANCIENT COURTESY.
George Vandenhof writes to the New
York Tribune to prove that Macbeth
was a gentleman. Says he: When
Macduff and Lenox announce to him
that the King has rewarded his valor
by creating him Thane of Cawdor, and
that they are deputed as the messengers
to inform him of the honor, he replies ::
Giam:s and Tnane of Cawdor,
The greatest is behind I-1hanks for gottr pa1ns
And again, Immediately after
Two truths are told
AS happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the Imperial theme. thank you gentlemen.
Thus he twice pointedly and courte-
ously returns thanks to them for the
trouble they have taken in coming to
him on the part of the King. Immedi-
ately after, before going out with them,
he pays them this elegantly worded
compliment, full of courtesy and high
breeding
Kind gentlemen, your pains egistered
Where every day turn the leaf TO read them.
Meaning, of course, in his heart. Could
any modern politeness surpass that
He keeps register in his heart, of their
kindness, and every day refreshes his
memory of it. "
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

The brave talk by people not en-
ployed in banks. as to what they would
have done if they had been in the place
of the Milford cashier, reminds a
Lowell cashier of the message from a
landlord in Ireland to his agent $ Tell
the tenants that no threats to shoot You
will intimidate me in the least"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
4 HUMAN SKULL IN SOLID ROCK.

A HUMAN SKULL IN SOLID ROCK.
A very strange discovery, interesting
to geologists, is reported by the Usage
Mission CKansas) journal. A human
skull was recently found near that
place imbedded in solid rock which
was broken open by blSshng. DIR.
Weirley, of Usage Mission, compared
it with modern skull which he had in
his Office, and found that though it re-
sembled the latter in general shape, it
was an inch and quarter in greatest
diameter, and much better developed in
some other particulars. He says of the
relic: "It is that of the Uranium of
human species, of large size, imbedded
IN conglomerate rock of the tertiary
class, and found several feet beneath
the surface. Parts of the frontal,
parietal and occipital bones were car
rled away by the explosion. The piece
of rock holding the remains weighs
some forty or fifty pounds, with many
impressions of marine Shells. and
through it runs a vein of quartz, or
within the Uranium crystallized organic
matter, and by the aid of microscope
presents beautiful appearance.
Neither Lyel nor Hugh Miller, it is
stated, nor any of the rest of the sub
terranean explorers, report anything SO
remarkable as this discovery at Osa e
Mission. The Neander man comes
nearestto it, but the Neandertha1 bones
were found in loam only two or three
feet below the surface, whereas this
Kansas skull was discovered in solid
rock"