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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
Alarm Caused by Newspaper Article

The article which appeared in the
Herald yesterday, purporting to be an
account of the escape of the wild beasts
in Central Park and their subsequent
ravages in the quiet neighborhoods of
the city, produced an effect which it is
charitable to hope the writer could not
have foreseen. In many instances
people read only the head-li lines, and
others again did not see the denial in
the short paragraph at the end. The
headlines were sufficient to excite the
apprehensions of readers, and with
visions of wild animals roaming about
the city, the head of the family eau
toned his household not to go out of
doors. The issue of the same sheet in
the form of an " Extra" later in the
day, increased this apprehension, until
the excitement became quite marked.
Many fathers telegraphed home to pre-
vent their children from going to school
doors. At Police Headquarters, the
Superintendent was called upon by a
number of persons anxious to know the
exact truth of the statement, having
failed to see the supposed satire, and
were much enraged when informed that
the whole story was a hoax. The tele-
graph offices received kilograms sent by
husbands to their wives warning them
of danger, and when the hoax was ap-
preciated, additional kilograms reliev-
ing apprehension. The public schools
sa4fered considerably in the attendance,
ESPECIALLY those around Central Park
NeaO York Tribune,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

has just receiveda letter announcing his
ruin"
Good heavens ruin ~
"Yes, complete ruin. It seems he
will not be able to save shilling. 0,
dear to think he should suffer like
this !"
"Rdin ~ exclaimed Rigolot with an
extraordinary outburst of feeling. "Ah,
Mademoisel1e, forgive me for saying
such hard zing, but am half glad Of
this. Yes L had long loved you but
you were rich, and I feared my atten-
tions might be misjudged. But now,
zat am richer zan you. say, my beauti-
full, darling Ruth, you will be mine?
And hereon I, behind my door, heard
something not unlike kisses protests ;
then more kissing.
An hour later, Rigolot came to me in
the garden and said: 'tMon cher, I
marry myself to Mees Ruth.
:" I congratulate you, Rigolot."
Then Rigolot winked-such wink.
ST was in the billiard-room yester-
day morning, and overheard you both. "
Golden AOe.
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FAMILY READING.
BIZ oRPHEUs g. KERR.

An American male parent, unto his babies said
Come hi ther, pretty little ones, and sit either
And tell me what you've lately heard your mother
read, and me-"
In his fatherly assurance, and fond PARENTAL
He wanted to discover what he innocents would
About q missaonAry-book. they'd heard the other
day.
Full of glee spake young Alonzo, all legs and curly
"You yead about the man they hung, and all the
And mamma yead the funny part of how 1t made
him swear"
Joining quickly in, cried Minnie all waist and
diunf led neck
at wasn't half so funny, though, as that about
They caught somebody forging, cause he was SO
green, speck."
"a But the thing liked the bestest," Alonzo piped
anain,
"was how somebody yunned away, and won't come
And took Somebody's wife with him upon yail-
yoad train"
a. Then you wasn't list'ning, Tonzo," came swift
from Minnie, small,
When papa read about the girl that tookt her only
And wrapt a baby up in 1t, and left it in a
hail.
Oh, want, hey ?" trilled Aohzo, disnayed to be
outdone;
"I'm go'n to learn to yead, myself and you can
And III yead Herald .Personals,' and never tell
you one I"
The American male parent, his hair rose on
On either knee an infant form he did reverse and
bend,
NAL howls ascend.
The Graphic
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

Some of the trades unions of this
country and England have accumulated
large sums of money. One English So
ciety claims a. capital o9 81, 900, 600.
gAnother has over 81 ZOO, 900. It is but
natural that these enormous sums in
the hands of men unaccustomed to the
use of money and ignorant of the alpha
bet of political economy should be mis-
applied. In too many cases they are
worse than wasted. Men shirk work
because they know they will get reg
ular stipend from an overfowing treas
ury by asking for it. They strike, fool
that their union will pay them while
idle, and they like such easy methods
of earning money. Even when neces-
sity forces operatives to strike, the
funds given them are still wasted. They
are spent unproductively for the sup
port of men who do nothing in return.
So much capital is destroyed. The
workingmen are, therefore, worse off
than before. They have dissipated
great part of the funds of their union,
and have almost certainly got no satis-
factory returns for the money, and they
have diminished the stock of the worlds
capital, and have therefore lessened the
chances of future employment for them
selves and for all toilers. For the labor
donein this world is measured by capital.
The more capital, the more labor. The
less capital, the less labor. So, in
wasting thousands of dollars by spend
ingfit unproductfvely, these unions of
workingmen harm workingmen for un-
numbered years to come. Labor, hav-
ing gained some capital, uses the weapon
against, instead of for, the employe.
It might so readily be used for his ad-
vantage that this error needs protest.
In very many cases it would be cheaper
for trades-unions to set up lot of its
members in business on their own ac-
count than to support them during
strike. Why should it not do SO ? The
danger of this course would be that the
inexperience of the men might wreck
the enterprise. To avoid this peril, the
union might devote its surplus funds,
from time to time. to enabling it's mem
bers to buy an interest in the shops in
which they are employed. There are
few employers who would not be will
ing, for ready cash, to form an indus
trial partnership with their men on the
plan which the Brigg Brothers expert
ment has made famous. A loan to men
thus taken into partnership, secured by
mortgage on their stock, would be as
safe as any investment. In this way a
trades union could gradually make all
its members independent, instead of
keeping them and their successors
poor. It is because this productive use
of the capital accumulated by labor is
SO easy that it's unproductive waste is
eXcusable,-CTicQOO Tribune
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Humorous.

A NOD FE1Low-Morpheu
TIE devil likes to ssgn himsel&
"soAI proprietor.
4 oANN1BAL's epitaPh-s' Write me aEa
one who loves his fellow-mao.
I THE winter style of hat for gentle
men is made with such stiff Crowd
that if he goes home drunk and as
struck on the head with q poker, he
merely thinks he grazed the ha4 lamp
as he was passing.
: This is the way the Indian Mag1S-
trates of Naitck used to issue their war
rants " You, you big Constable. quick
you catchum Jeremiah OHscOw, strong
you holdum, safe You bringam afores
me. Thomas Waban, Justice Peace.
A MEMBER of Parliament at London
dinner party was selected to say grace
He ended "Oh, Lord, make ms truly
thankful, and what do you think Of the.
improvement along the Thames ?" the
question being Iut in the same breath
to an Ambassador who sat OF has right.
A GENTLEMAN sat down at a table in
an Oshkosh restaurant, the other day.,
and called for 8. q bill of particulars. -
" Brooklyn, by thunder !'' roaEe0 the.
bystanders, in gust of moral indigna-
ton, as they shot him through the door
way with the velocity of a Remington
rifle ball. Brooklyn Argas.
A DOCTOR went out West to practice,
his profession. An old friend met hicz.
on the street one day, and aske2 ainn.
how he was succeeding in his business.
g First-raet II he replied; $ I've hAGR
one case." "Wen, and what was.
that p" "It was birth, said the doe
tor. "How did you succeed with ths&s
" Well, the old woman died, and the
child died BUT, by the grace OF God.
I'll save the old man yet p
A lady declared that she never could see
How the men could all smoke. Why, n &lIlss.
'em, said she
81 don't know said Sam i" there's my. father
amt SLOW:
Who smokes every day, and he's eighty you knSsS.,
81 But, sir, if he never had used the vile weed.
He might have been ninety-he might. SIR. indeed x
TWENTY FIVE thousand dollars VIII BIS.
offered for the dead body of the naAE4
who wrote the following poem
sIf was lokle editor.
Wouldn't have time
wouldn't print cussed word"
For lessen 5 line.
pa get my grub and hcke- free,
tickets to the shows,
wouldn't pay for buggy hiers
& wouldn't good cioaSI~
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JUSTICE TO TuE HamAR.

Citi1en-Who's dead, good sextcnc Why fhcsRfi
chimes
You've struck the Asa hua&rgd RzznRz-
Sexton-Puir mon puir mon tne churcl1.s FifiR
Not less than Peter gfis7, the Ui2er-
Citizen-Not Peter! Then Your bell a wrong
He was but hfty-for As long
AS have lived always knew
How old he was, and
Sexton Yes, tis trues
But then, in ringin' him
gav' him more than was thsl2ws
Twill please hlm, for the gOOdy s1nz
Was fond Of takin' double toll
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

THE story goes, says Boston evening
paper, that Henry Wilson and n. P.
Banks stood on the steps of the Merch-
ants Exchange, in State street, and saw
a Wing procession move down after the
Wing restoration in 1853, and that Will
son said his political life was ended,
and Banks acquiesced, with the addi-
tional remark that they had now ''no
visible means of support. But that
was twenty-one years ago, and you
can't always tell.
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The old Ace of Lexington.

Nine miles from Frankfort, on the
road to Lexington, stands one of the
finest and richest farms in Kentucky
that owned by Mr.. Alexander. On this
superb stock farm we saw 800 blooded
horses, ranging in rank from old LEX
ington," the monarch of the turf, to
the kittenish and frisky yearling.
Here also Mr.. Alexander has collected
800, 600 worth of cattle, comprising
some of the finest stock in the world,
and peeping into the inclosure where
the costly cattle were kept, we saw one
diminutive heifer worth $27, 900, and a
variety of foreign creatures whose value
seemed almost fabulous. On this farm
are bred the great majority of fine trot-
ting and running horses which appear
in our parks during the racing season.
Mr.. Alexander's estate, which is ad.
mirably stocked with fine farm-houses,
barns and stables, and which is more
like ducal manor than the ordinary
American farm, extends over 8, 200
acres. Near by is old John Harper
modest farm of 2, 600 acres. The roads,
the stone walls, and the fine lawns COW
cred with massive shade trees, make a
series of delightful pictures. The an
nual sale of horses on the Alexander
farm occurs III June. Only yearling
colts are sold. Hundreds of people
from all the country around, and from
every State in the Union, flock to this
sale. An immense barbecue is held,
and high wassail marks the conclusion
of the occasion.
We paid a respectful visit to old Lex
ington, the mighty sire of mightier
equine family. He is now quite blind,
veteran of %, afflicted with goitre,
and stood gazing in the direction from
which our voices came, a melancholy
wreck of his former greatness. The
princes of the race-course of the pres
ent galloped by, neighing and paving
the ground, as if annoyed at our pres
ence. One of them, named Asteroid,
SO far forgot his princely dignity as to
charge incontinently upon the fence
wherewe were seated. The negro
men who manage these erratic
brutes undergo all sorts of peril
Gus adventures, but they seem to pos
sess as many lives as cat, and, like
that animal, always land on their feet,
no matter how far the plunging and
rearing horses may throw them.-Ed-
s0ard King, IN Scribner's for December.
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Won Moltke's Habit of Life.

A French tourist in Germany gives
an account of Won Moltke's daily life
in the country. The chateau and vii
lsge belonging to the old Marshal are,
situated in Silesia, where they lie amid
fertile lands diversified by pleasant
scenery. The dwelling house is more
spacious than elegant, its whitewashed
walls and green shutters making it look
like the house of peasant grown rich.
Its solitary owner rises regularly at 8,
warns, his coffee which is prepared over
night, on his lamp fed by spirits of
wine, and then goes out Immediately
into the park. His meditative air as he
walks up and down the alleys, his close
ly shaven face well furrowed with
wrinkles, his stiff black cravat, long
coat and slouch hat, give him the air of
an old Lutheran minister preparing his
Sunday sermon. At the Marshal COM
mences a general round of inspection
through the stables, granary, mills and
distillery, until he arrives at the orch
ard, where loves to hnger, knife in
hand, now pruning some unruly branch,
or anon removing dead twigs. At 10
he breakfasts on a bowl of soup or a
glass of wine, with slice of bread and
butter, then he runs through his CORE
spondence. Walking follows, or drive
to visit some neighbor, and the return
does not take place until o'clock for
tea. On Sundays alone he abstains
from work, but after going to church
he spends the remaining hL~-rs among
his workmen and laborers in pious
readings, for he is sincerely religious.
Often at night he visits his wife's tomb,
which is concealed by row of cypres-
ses, on a hillock in the park. She died
on the Christmas night of 1868. She
was young and charming, and they ap-
pear pear to ebay have ts been tsndery yae attached h to
been her father. When he arrives at
his seat, his first care prior to entering
the house, is to go and pray at her
grave
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Calnels in Nevada.

Some years ago, nine or ten camels
were shipped into Nevada, under the
care of Frencemen who had experience
with the animals. But two of the origi
nal stock survived yet from these there
have been reared heard of twenty-six
sound and healthy camels. They be-
long to a ranch on the Carson river, and
are employed in transporting salt from
the marshes lying in the desert to the
mills situated sixty miles eastward. No
more difficulty is experienced in provid
ing for the camels than for so many
goats or donkeys, They feed and grow
fat on the prickly and bitter herbs
growing on the plains, which other ami
mails reject. The ranch on which they
are kept is sandy and sterile on the ex-
treme. When left to themselves the
favorite occupation of the animals, after
they have done feeding, is to lie down
and roll in the burning sand.
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Deatb Of GIoster. the Trotter.

The celebrated trotting horse Gloster
died in this city at - o'clock noon yes
terday. He was the property of Alden
B. Goldsmith, Esq, of Goshen, Orange
county, New York, was dark bay
gelding, nine years old, and was physic-
ally the largest trotter in the United
States, standing about II hands high.
He was sired by Volunteer, and he by
Rysdick's Hambletonian, his dam being
by Stockbridge Chief, and was consid-
cred by all who knew his points one Of
the most promising horses in this cOun-
try. He had a record of 2:17, made at
the Rochester Driving Park, Rochester,
n. Y, Aug. II, in three-in-ive race
with Red Cloud, Sensation, st. James,
Gazelle, and Camors. He made dead
heat with Red Cloud in the first heat in
2:18; won the second in 2:172 the
third in PIT, and the fourth in 2:19.
He was the especial pet and favorite of
his owner, who reared him, he being
also the owner of Volunteer, Gloster's
sire, and it was with great reluctance
that he consented to the proposed trip
to this coast. Mr.. Goldsmith refused
an offer of $4,000 for Gloster shortly
before the horse left home, and willfeel
his loss almost as a broker a smash in
stock, Gloster arrived in this city about
GAS I'll OI ILLS AOuCu, LII COnpduy Will
the famous trotter Judge Fullerton,
having come overland, in charge of Budd
Doble, in that gentleman's special car.
His disease-lungfeve contracted
en- route, and Immediately upon his ar
rival in this city he was placed in the
hands of DR.. A. De Tavel, the well
known veterinary surgeon, and quar-
tered in the spacious and comfortable
stables of Col. John G. Morrison, Jr.,
that gentleman kindly rendering stall
for his use. Everything that the skill
and experience of the veterinarian could
suggest was done for him, but without
avail His dead body was taken yester-
day afternoon to the track OF the Bay
District Fair Ground Association,
where a post-mortem examination was
made by DIR. De Tavel, which disclosed
the fact that one lung was almost en-
tirely consumed, and the other COM
paratively untouched. He will proba-
bly, be buried within the circle of the
course, with the respect due his merits
and fame.-sSaaa Francisco CAL, Oct. 81.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

UPON reaching the age of 16, the
average Italian youth is called upon to
elect whether he will join the clergy or
the brigands.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
Reasons Why Women should Smoke.

There are some reasons why smoking
would be an especial advantage for
woman. Their lives are usually made
up of an infnity of small cares. They
would find that q thousand petty
troubles would vanish in the cloud curl
ing up from a good cigar. The de-
parture of the cook three hours before
a dinner party would be viewed with
less poignant regret if seen through
blush gray haze of tobacco smoke.
Sorrow over a chimney that won't
" draw can be counteraeted by JOY
over cigar that will. Then, when the
days work is done, and husband and
wife are sitting cozily by the fire, mu-
tual smoke would bring them closer to-
gether, and would tend to create be-
tween them that hearty good-fellow-
ship which is now sometimes wanting.
Popular prejudice forbids woman to
puff cigar on the street or anywhere
else in public. but individual prejudice
keeps great many men from doing the
same thing. It is doubtful whether
any one has right to pollute the air of
a place set apart for public use. But
in the privacy of home, or at the close
of dinner-party, why should not both
sexes indulge in the universal narcotic
stimulant Would not the ordinary
chatter of society be changed into some
thing better under the influence of the
grave kindliness that is born of quiet
smoke? And then, as self-defensive
apparatus, as the husband often eats
onions because the wife does, would it
not he perfect +?
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

The difference between a dishonest
debtor and an importunate creditoris,
that one is a "do" and the other dun.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
A Murderous Meapon.

The following IS taken from a Port
land, Oregon, paper At the office of
Wells, Fargo & Co. in this city we were
shown a large and savage-appearing
knife which, if welded by reckless
hands, would be sufficient to strike
terror to the heart of the bravest man in
the land. The knife was the property
of the desperate Frank johnson, who
was arrested some time ago for robbery
committed near Baker City, and re-
Gently tried and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary from Baker county. Johnson,
company with an accomplice, was ar
in rested near Winnemucca and brought
back in irons. On his person was found
the knife in question. The weapon,
from appearances, is fit companion to
associate with a man of Johnson's des-
foot in length, and, including the handle,
is nearly eighteen inches long. The
handle is made of buckhorn, strongly
riveted to iron, while the blade is very
heavy-more than half an inch thick at
the back-and made of the best quality
of English steel. The point is rather
blunt, but the edge is as keen as q
razor. This knife will weigh about five
pounds, and can be used as good sub
stitute for hatchet. To a hunter or q
frontiersman such a weapon would be
indispensable, as 1t could be used as an
ordinary bowieknife or hand-ax in
hewing trail through the forest. or
cutting wood for camp fire. In a
hand-to-hand encounter such a knife
would be sufficient to almost sever an
arm or the head from the body. Along
the blade is I:sldely carved the signif
cant words: Z" Rio Grande Camp Knife, /"
evidently engraven by the owner. It is
asserted on good authority that john
son used it in scalping nine Indians
after he had shot them, and also had
killed two Mormons with the same
weapon. Mr.. Paige, who brought
johnson down, is of the opinion that
the knife has been employed in taking
the ives of perhaps 20 or 80 men, as it
is much worn, and appears to have
been used for years. There is 10 tell
ing through how many desperadoes'
hands the weapon has passed, or in how
many sanguinGry border conflicts it
has played conspicuous part. It is
incased in q strong leather scabbard.
An unwritten history of bloodshed,
crime and outlawry is intimately asso-
ciated with this piece of ''jewe1ry."
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Drifting to Fortune.

LOUISVILLE has little romance to tell
Elvira Glover, who kept a house with
an almighty illuminated number, and
an easy door-bell, has sold out, dark
ened her transom, and gone to Italy to
become million-heiress and countess
She was not virtuous, but is likely to
be as happy as a title and a golden for
tune can make one. Fifty years ago a
young English officer named Hendricks
was travelling in Italy, and ran off with
and married the daughter of rich and
proud Italian nobleman. She was an
only child. The Count drove his daugh-
ter and her husband away from him !;
they took refuge in Canada, and finally
drifted into New York. Here the
mother died giving birth to a daughter,
but the daughter lived and was main
tanned by German woman. The father
married this woman for his childs sake,
and then he died, and the step-mother
and child drifted and suffered and
knocked about the world until the girl
was married quite young to an Ohio
river steamboat mate, named Hiram
Titus, in Vincennes, Ind. Titus soon
and riendless, the world before her,
with a meager education and nuch per
sona1 beauty for her dover. She went
to Louisville, and went wrong, although
she married another boatman. He was
nearly always away from home, and she
was gay. He died quarreling with her,
and she established herself in the house
where the news of her grandfather IS
death in Italy recently reached her.
She is the sole heir to the Counts title
and fortune, and she has gone to claim
and enjoy them. She is yet young and
handsome, and may mend her ways in
her far italian home, Ehere title covers
a multitude of sins.-e
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

THE yellow spots produced by aalkrSe-
acid may be removed from brown gsr
black woolen goods, while fresh, by re-
peatedly dipping them into conoen-
trated solution of permangaie of peAaesa
and then washing them with waaur-
The yellow spots on the hands may he
removed IN the same way, the bEosszs
stain produced by the permsnRnnnAss
being removed by an aqueous solution
of sulphurous acid.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

''DR. PETER GUNsoLUs," saysa Texas
paper, now residing in the neighbor-
hood of Fort Griffin, and who is rs
years old, stout, hale and hearty, and
who lived on the frontier the greater
portion of his life, informed us that he
was now living with his sixth wife
married a young girl each time /; has
fifty-four children, forty4eight of whom
are still alive, and scattered from here
to the Pacific, and all doing well"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

THE eruption of Mount Etna is over
for the present, but frequent and vio-
lent shocks of earthquake fill the in
habitants of Bronte, Randazzo and
other places near the volcano with ter
ror, and they desert their houses and
pitch tents under which to sleep at
night, while their property is guarded
by soldiers. In the territory of Bronte,
several hectares of land have sunk
down more than metre below the usual
level.