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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

The th1iftiest people in Central Amer
lea are the smallest-the ants Some
of them are wonderful workers. There
Is one kind, sort of wee, wee trufHe-
growers, who live together in immense
swarms, and do such deal of cutting
up, that it is almost as much as the for
ests can do to stand against them. They
are called leaf cutters for the reason
that they send out armies of thousands
and thousands to bring in leaves, which
they cut from the trees in such quanti-
ties that whole plantations of mango,
orange and lemon trees are sometimes
stripped and killed.
Do they eat the leaves? Not at all.
They live on funny little trufhes, or
fungi, of their own raising. They use
the leaves only to make hot-beds for
their dainty plants, in chambers under
ground. One colony of leaf-cutters will
have great many of these cellar cham
bers, all united by tunnels for quick
transit, and we'll supplied with what
builders call ventilating shafts for the
ants are very particular about having
plenty of fresh air. These shafts reach
to the surface of the ground. Each
chamber is about as large as a mans
head, and is kept little more than half
full of cut leaves, overgrown with small
white fungus which the ants cultivate
for food.
There are three kinds of ants in each
colony the workers, who go off to the
woods for leaves, and have all the out
side work to do some very small ants,
who stay at home and spend their time
cutting up the leaves that are brought
in, and taking care of the baby ants and
few gigantic fellows, who manage
things, and do all the fighting in time
of war. Let any enemy disturb the
workers going out for leaves or bring
ing them home, and instantly the sol
diers will run out in force, with their big
jaws wide open, and settle things in
order. The little nurses come out
sometimes. too, but only for fun or ex-
ercise. When they haven't anything to
do, and the weather is fine, they like to
take run out with the workers, but
they do not bring any loads back.
When one of them gets tired, he just
climb up on leaf that a worker is
bringing in-as you might climb up on
load of hay, and SO enjoys nice ride
home.-St. Nicholas.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Got Him on a String.

Some of those Sixth ward boys are
travelling in the broad road which lead
eth to destruction. A parcel of them
got down on a policeman because he
wouldn't let them play "prison goal,
and they stretched clothes line across
the alley, watched out for his coming,
and then ran down the alley and called
him far worse names than the boys of
ancient time called the Prophet Elisha,
and were devoured by the bears as pun
ishment. The policeman thought he'd
arrest few of them and have that little
business nipped in the bud right then
down the alley, shouting s'halt - at
them, but when he struck the line he
changed the nature of his shout. The
line took the officer across the mouth,
sagged forward, sprang back, and the
copper was lifted off his feet and thrown
into pile of ashes, with half his teeth
rattling as he drew his breath. He
| murmured great big oath and jumped
up, thinking that two of the boys had
been holding the line, and he struck it
again on the run. This time it caught
him under the throat, almost sawed his
head off, and then bent him over back
wards until his spinal cord was doubled
up like telescope. while all the boys
kept howling 40, did you see him
flop 2" The officer is not on duty now.
He has porous plasters all the way up
his back, sponges his gums every half
hour with camphor, and wears red rag
around his throat. They were carrying
to read, and the face of every Sixth
ward boy smiled ike a pumpkin be-
tween the corn hills.-Detroit Free
Press
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
NUMBER OF TREES ON AN ACRE, AT vARI-
GUS DISTANCES.
USEFUL ITEMS.

An Irish mile is 2, ,24O yards Scotch
mile is 1924 yards an English or
statute mile, 1,76O yards German,
1906; Turkish, 1926.
An acre is 4, $40 square yards, or SO
yards, foot, 81 inches each way. A
square mile, 1,760 yards each way, con-
tanning $40 acres.
. A legal stone weighs IA pounds, or
the eighth of a hundred, in England,
and Is pounds in Holland.
The fathom (six feet) is derived from
the height of full grown man.
A hand, in horse measure, is four
inches.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Change In the Management OF the
Chicago Tribune.

The Chicago Journal of the 30th ult.
says
We learn from undoubted authority,
that on Thursday, of the present week,
Mr.. Joseph Medill bought from Mr.. AL
fred Cowles and Mr.. Horace White,
three fifths of their interest in the Chi
cago Tribune property for the sum of
$500, 900. The stock of the Tribune
Company is $500, 900 at it's par value,
divided into 200 shares at 81, 900 each.
Messrs. Cowles and White sold 60
shares for the above-named sum, being
at the rate of $1,000 per share, and
they retain Al shares. Mr.. Medill
now owns LOG shares, and will, of
course, be the chief editor. Mr..
Cowles will remain as heretofore the
business manager, and we understand
that Mr.. White, after making journey
to Europe, will resume his connection
with the paper as an editorial writer.
During the nine years that Mr.. White
has been the chief editor of the Tribune
its net profits have averaged $147, 900
per years, from which it appears that,
although Mr.. Medill has made this
purchase on the basis of 81 Zoo, 900 for
the whole establishment, he has got a
very good thing.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

A FRENCH gunmaker has invented a
rife so arranged that the breech is
opened by cooking the piece, and, the
charge being introduced, the breech is
closed and the gun fred by touching
the trigger. The cartridge consists of
q hollow Ieaden cone filed with powder
and closed at the base by means of a
piece of cork. At the moment the cart
ridge is introduced into the breech the
powder escapes by small hole in the
cork, and an imperceptible ball of full
minating powder, which forms the
printing, takes its proper position. The
triple action of cooking, loading and
firing is thus effected simultaneously,
SO that q man with very little expert
ence can fire twenty rounds minute.
The cartridges are stored in an iron
tube, which is placed parallel with the
barrel, and contains thirty balls, so that
the piece may be fired as many times
almost without any interval, and with
out removing the stock from the shout
der, as there is nothing to be done but
to cock and pull the trigger.
How to stop cock k-fght-Let all par
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
A Treasured Musket.

He was a remarkable looking old gen.
tleman, and he sat in the waiting-roo
of the Central depot with an old-fash-
ioned gun across his knees. To one
who passed him by, in casual way, he
seemed to be a hunter on his way to
some wood or field where game was co
be found. But he who tarried mo-
ment learned that the old gentleman
was one whom the nation had honored
for his assistance in it's time of need.
On the stock of the old gun was plate
bearing the words
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
By resolve of Congress,
Presented to
ANn1 GOpFR

For his gallantry at the siege Of Plattsburg.
The inscription told the story. The
old man was seventy-six. He says that
twenty young fellows, only two of whom
were over eighteen, formed themselves
together and offered their services to
the United States General in command
at Plattsburg they were supplied with
some old muskets, and, on the 11th of
September, 1914, in the simple language
of the old man, they "did the best they
could" His work was done SO well that
on the 11th of September, 1926, the
musket, with the above inscription, was
given as a tribute of the nations es-
teem.-RocheSter Democrat.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

old cock, and walk right up to the big
turkey-gobbler.
But there was one animal which
caused Master Frank to quail with ter
ror, especially when alone and after
dark. Do you want to know what it
was will tell you. It was mouse |
Yes little brown mouse, with his
bright eyes, and pretty, tapering tail,
would make our bold little boy tremble
and scream and, If he CHANGED to light
on several of these pretty creatures
playing together, you would have sup
posed that he had run against herd of
puffaioes. Very silly, wasn't it?
Now, every night, en- his way to bed.
Frank had to pass through a lonely
room, where mice and rats would some
per over the floor, frightening him
sadly, and causing him to clasp
| msmma's hand more tightly, and hurry
along as fast as possible.
But one night, when it caae bed
time, mamma was sick up stairs, and
nurse away, and no one with Frank in
the sitting-room but papa, who was
busy reading his newspapers. so the
little boy was told to march up stairs
to bed alone.
go papa!" said he, "Pm afraid
to-"
Afraid of what?" said papa.
'' Afraid of the rats and mice, papa,
III the big g.lumber-room."
Oh, nonsense !" said papa if
that's all, I'll soon fix you out.
So papa took his writing materials,
and wrote this
To all the Rats and Mice in this House, greeting
You are hereby ordered to let nv little boy
Frank pass safe through tho lumber-room.
and all other rooms. at all times This order
| will stand good till countermanded.. Anv
rat cr mouse disobeying will be dealt with
| according to law, Witness my hand and
seal
Then papa signed the paper, and
sealed it with big red seal, and gave
it to Frank, who thanked papa, kissed
him good night, and trudged up stairs
without another word for he had often
seen papa give passes to people who
wanted to go somewhere, or do some
thing, and he had high opinion of his
fathers "passes."
So, when he came to the door of the
lumber-zoom, he flung it wide open, and
called out '' Ho Misses rats and mice.
you can't touch me; here's my pass. -
And every night, when he went up to
bed, he held out his pass to the rats and
mice and none of them ever did him
any harm. Nursery.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
rrHE PLAINs-A PRuPEUgx.
BIZ JOAQUIN AGrLLxn-

Go ye and look upon that lands
That far vast land that few behold,
And none beholding uadergtand--
That old, old land which men call new
Go journey with the seasons through
It's wastes, aud learn how hmitieeGs
The solemn silence of that plain
Is, oh so eloquent. The blue
And bended skies seem built for 10
And all else seems O yesterday,
An idle tale but lily told.
Its story is of GOD alone,
For man has lived and gone away
And left but littl heaps Of stone.
LOl here you learn how more than Mt
And dignified Is silence when
You hear the petty jeers OF men.
It's awful solitudea remain
Thenceforth tor aye part Of you,
And you have lear ned your Httleaesss
Some silent red men GROSS your track;
Some sun-tanned trappers come and go
Some rolling seas of buffalo
Break thuuder-like and far away
Against the foothills, breaking back
Like breakers of some troubled bay;
Some white-tsiled antelope blown by
So airy-like; some foxes shy
And shsdow-like move to and fro
Like weavers' shuttlee asl ycu pass;
And now and then from out the grass
You hear some lone bird cluck and call
sharp keen call for her lost brood,
That only makes the solitude
Seem deeper still, and that Is all.
That wide domain of mysteries
And signs that men nisunderstand;
A land Of space and dreams; q land
OF sea-salt lakes and dried-up seas;
A land OF caves and caravans
And lonely wells and pools q land
That hath it's purposes and plans;
That seems so like dead Palestine,
Save that its wastes have no oonfine
Till pushed against the leveled skies:
land from out whose depths shall rise
The new-time prophets; the domain
From out whose depths shall come,
All clad in skins, with dusty feet,
A man fresh from his Makers hand,
A singer singing oversweet,
A charmer charming very wise;
And then all men shall not be dumb
Nay, not be dumb, for he shall say,
Take heed, for prepare the way
For weary feet :" and from this land
The Christ shall come when next the race
OF man shall look upon his face.
dTper's for N0renLber.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Washed Postaaa Stamns.

Third Assistant Postmaster-G General
Barber, who has given the subject much
attention, expresses belief that the
government is annually defrauded out
of $1,000,000 or 5 per cent. of the
amount of stamps sold, by the use of
washed postal stamps. To be able to
defraud the government of SO large an
amount it is evident that there must be
an organized or systematic business car
ried on in this line. In many cases.
however, the washing is so poorly done
s> TO be detected, in which case the
letter is treated as if not stamped at all
and forwarded to the Dead Letter Office
with other matter held for postage.
While the government loses the amount
that should have been paid for postage
the person practicing the fraud gains
nothing, as his letter is not delivered.
REMOVAL OF DRY PUrrY.-Accordino
to an English journal, the difficulty Of
removing hard putty from a window
sash can be obviated with great readi-
ness by simply applying a piece of
heated metal, such as solderinp-iron
or other similar implement. When heat
ed (but not red-hot), the iron is to be
passed slowly over the putt thereby
rendering the latter so soft that IL viii
part from the wood without any trouble.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
NUMBER OF SEEDS IN A BUsHF1,.

NUMBER OF SEEDS IN 4 BCSHEL.
A Scotch paper gives the following
table, said to be based upon actual trials
of the number OF various kinds of seeds
in bushel. It also adds the weight,
by which we can judge how the bushel
measures cornnare with nurs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
rranRa Pass.

Frank was a bright little fve-year-
old fellow, full of fun, and anxious to
make himself of consequence. Armed
with stick, he would feel as nrave as
a lion among the hens and cnickens M
and, as they scudded away rom 1u III LILLE
dreadful creature, to take snelGeT WI MneL, T.
ever they could find i. ne sS;S MGuiu say To 70
erialrrisA, 1ianf only he pronounced the word
zhi-ant. ju - He would even attack the
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

TIE coastwise trade of the United
States, during the last fiscal year, was
about two and one-half times greater
than the foreign trade.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Children,s Chase.

The Children's Chase.
You remember, Kitty Kyes-
Yau cannot forget, know
How chased the butterflies,
HAlf life ago.
Happy children were we then,
On the PeScham hills at ,siay
Careless of the tolls of men
Happy children all the day
Think back We chose the eolors brtgbt
Through the fields of waving corn,
Der the slopes and ont of sight
Down the dewy wales between;
Recking not of faces tanned.
Fretted feet, nor frocks' disgrace.
With ready hat in hand.
laughing, lesping, led the chase
Kitty, on the breath of spripe.
With shadow-casting. flying hair,
Like falry following
Here and there and everyvhere
Now the beauty seeming ours.
Eagerly pounee upon
Nothing but forsaken flowers
Far away il hutters-gone!
Up and after. undismayed
sim we faster. faster run
1lA-tts where the maple shade
lars our pathway from the sun
Kitty stops hear her saw,
Answering my quick surprise,
st keeping house will play:
Aou may follow butterflies
All follow, far beguiled-
Eyes but for the glittering thing;
IlLl II seems as though the child
Like MS hope, has taken wing
Comes whisper lightly strayins:
Round that nlapie-shaded spot
Other little ones are playing
Kitty 5 children are they not:
He who chased the butterflies
In the play-fields of his BIRTH
Sttl IS chasing butterflies
O'er the deserts Of the earth:
But-he hopes to lie once more,
When the years have done their best
And the weary race is DER,
OF the Prachanl hills at rest
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

EVERY married man in Pittsburgh has
turned boat-builder, and is creating Q
gondola unto himself, since returned
Venetial traveller upset one ON the river
and drowned his wife. The girls look
on in calm approval.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
GZl%T
CAPACITY OF nIsTE1

CAPACITY OF CIsTERNs OR WELLS.
Tabular view of the number of gal
Ions contained in the clear. between the
brick-work, for each ten inches of depth.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

Do Docs PERsp1RE PIT is frequently
urged as an argument against the ordi-
nary method of muzzling dogs, that it
closes the mouth, and thereby prevents
perspiration, which, in the dog, is said
to take place only through the mouth.
This. according to Land ana water, en-
is an error perspiratIon gong on
The idea of perspiratory glands in the
tongna ia characterized as absurd, these
ORGANS being only found in the dogs
akin which Is abundantly suppl ID with
them. The real cruelty of the close or
strap muzzle is, that it hinders free
respiratiosa, rather than free perspira-
ton. -
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
A Budget of Useful Information.

WEIGHTS OF CUBIC FOOT OF VARIOUS
SUBSTANCES.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

MARROW GAUGE RAuLRoADs.-Iti is be-
coming clear that narrow guage rail-
roads are going to be important factors
in the future development of new coun-
tries. It is said by expert judges of
the ratio of expense in transportation,
that a road of three feet gauge can
carry five tons of paying freight on each
car as cheaply as the ordinary gauge
road can carry the cars empty. In the
case of the Grand Rapids, GreenviIle
and Alpena railroad, Of Michigan, it is
shown that whereas the 236 miles of
road would cost, if built ON the four
foot eight and one half inch 'guage, $5,-
S47, 7,344, on the plan of the three foot
gauge it would cost only $3, 595, ,532-a
saving approximating to forty per cent.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

How to stop cock -fight-Let all par
ties present claim fowl.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

An invention is now on exhibition IN
Liverpool by which oil or glycerine is
made to perform the functions OF steam.
by the same means-application OF heat
which expands the oil placed in small
cylinders, from which it is claimed q
pressure of 10000 pounds per square
inch NAV be obtained without the dan
ger of steam explosion, which prevents
using a pressure of more than 200
pounds to the square inch generally. In
this case an explosion would only crack
the cylinder containing the oil, it is
claimed. The application of this pro-
cess has been made to printing press
and punching and riveting machine,
which are on exhibition.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

FIRST loves seldom, last loves never
wed.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Household Helms.

WILD CRAB APPLE JELLY.-Cover the
fruit with water and boil until soft,
then strain add one pound of sugar to
each pint of juice !; boil from fifteen to
twenty minutes.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
Chancery Court at Jacksboro'
Tennessee.

Rubin Green, Admir-, vs.. John +. Green ct al
IN THIS CASE IT APPEARING FROM TILE
! allegations in the bill. which are sworn 10, Thai
the defendants JoJ5 Green, David Green and
james Green are n0n.residents Of the State Of
Tennessee, ana that the residence OF defendant
Newton Green is unknown and can not be ascer-
tanned upon dligsnt inquiry, il is, therefore or
dered by me that publication be made for four
successive weeks in the Knoxville Weekly Chron-
icc newspaper published Ia Knoxville, Tenn.
notifying said defendants % appear before the
Clerk and Master 90 his office IN Jacksboro', Ten
nessca, on The first Monday in December. 1874 be-
the next term of said court TO be held nj Jacks.
borO', Tenn, on tine third Monday of December.
1874. and file their answer OF other defense to said
bill, or the same will be taken as confessed and
set for hea Ing eX parte as 10 them. This 9th
Sept, 1874. J. p. LINDSAY, @. I'M.
iIltwit Of Chancery Court at Jack sboro.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
PROSPECTUS
OF
3ROWNLOW'S
KNOXVILLE WING

II lie UNDERSIGNED HAS DETERMINED
under the above caption, to publish W eekly
Newspaper.
My purpose is to make a readable, orthodox
journal. And while it will be chiefly devoted to
Politics and Politicians. it will not neglect the
discussion Of those questions IN which are in
volvtd the development of the vast material re-
sources Of Tennessee and the interests Of the Ag-
ricultural and Laboring classes,
For thirty years was Editor and Publisher of
the WING which l now propose to resurrect. Is
sues are not now what they were then. but now,
as heretofore. / shall inscribe on my banner.
" Independent in all things Neutral in moth
ing"
have never been anything else in politics than
Wing and a Republican. and it is now too la e
in life for me to join the Democratic party. /
shall, therefore, publish a Republican journal.
but it will be an Independent journal. Whatever
in the party or its leaders l regard as deserving
consure / shall condemn without hesitation.
| shall war increasingly upon theinfamous Civil
Fights Bill now before Congress or any other like
odious sectional class legislation.
| am a National man in my sympathies and
views of public policy, and shall unsparingly war
upon any legislation by any party which is in
tended or calculated for the oppression of the
people Of my State and section, either white or
black, President Grant, the honored leader of the
great party which controlsthe Government. has
shown himself to be ominently National in all his
views and feelings. No man is so deserving of the
gratitude Of the whole people as he and long as
he continues to act as he has done 10 the past he
shall have my cordial support, both as a Senator
and Editor.
shall commence the publication { the WING
as soon as / shall have received the names Of
from three to FIVE thousand subscribers. which
expect to do at an early day.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
One year. payable invariably in advance. 500
Remittancos can be made through the PostoIice
at my risk when the receipt Of the 20 tmaster is
taken for the amount forwarded.
w. G. BROWNLOW,
Knoxville. Tenn, Sept. 18th, 1874,
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
In the Chsncery Court at Seier.
vile, Tennessee.

John Black, admir-, OF Phillip Shuts decd, VS.,
- Mary shuts and Others.
y THIS CAUSE IT APPEARING TO THE
4 clerk and Master, that the defendant David
larneI, husband of Caroline Yarnell
deceased, and the children of Caroline
arneIi and said David larnell. whose names
are unknown, are non residents Of this State, SO
mat the ordinary process of law can not be served
on them Y is therefore ordered that publica-
ton be made in the Knoxville Weekly Chroni-
ele; NEWSPAPER published in the city of Knox
vile state OF Tennessee for four successive weeks
notifying said non resident defendants TO appear
90 the second Monday Of October next, before the
Cnaucery Court at Seyieryille, and file their an
sWers OF otherW Sc make defense 10 the original
OH hicd m the above cause or the same will be
taken for confessed and the cause as 10 each of
them set Tor hearing eE-Uartc. This sth of Sep
emher A, ID. 1874. Attest
iylnw4t d. p. GASS. G. NJ.