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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Wrong House.

In Philadelphia there are numbers
of houses exactly alike, and some
times there is such a quantity of
them in a square that a man who lives
near the middle has to begin counting
at the corner in order to ascertain which
s b is house. Mr.. Bradbury, a few
nights ago, came home late, and, as he
was thinking of something else, he for
got to count.
When about two doors from home he
ran up the front steps of Mr.. Petty s
his own. His dead latch-key opened
the door readily, and Bradbury, after
cropping around in the dark for the hat
rack, knocked against it and upset it,
MIR. Petty was upstairs, Just about
to go to bed. When he heard the noise
he went to the head of the staircase and
listened. He discovered that there wa
man in the hall below, and he knew
at once it was q burglar. So he went
back to his room and got his revolver.
Then he shut his eyes and fred at ran
dom.
The noise walked Mrs. Petty, and she
began to scream violently. Then Brad
bury felt certain that there was a band
of robbers upstairs engaged in butch.
erlng Mrs. Bradbury and the children,
AS he started to creep softly up the
staircase to reconnoiter, Petty began te
steal quietly down the staircase to lool
| after the burglar he had killed. They
met on the first landing, and, although
both were terribly frightened, they
grappled, for both knew it would be
struggle to the death. After fighting
desperately, the combatants rolled dow
the stairs to the floor beneath, Will,
Mrs. Petty sprung the rattle for po
iceman.
just as Petty got the upper hand o
Bradbury and was mutilating his nos,
with his fist, the police burst the from
door open and struck light. Then al
explanation ensued, and Bradbury wen
| home.
You have, perhaps, seen a prize egg
plant at an agricultural fair. Well
Bradbury's nose resembled that in siz
of color and shape and now he no
only counts from the corner when b
comes home, but he has the front of hi
house painted white, with locomotive
headlight over the front door.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Luxury OF New York Hotels and
Their Tables,

It is matter of much interest TO
those who visit New York to keep
posted about the hotels. Recently there
has been quite rivalry among the
frst-class hotels about their bills of
fare, each striving to set the best table
for its guests. We speak more particu-
larly of the hotels on Broadway and
Fifth avenue-the Grand Central being
the largest and most centrally located,
and elegantly furnished. OF these four
or five leading hotels, the bills of fare
are covered with the names of the most
luxuriant viands or the season. The
bill of the Grand Central, especially, de-
serves setting apart as a notable speci-
men of modern culinary skill in the
number, variety, and richness of its
dishes. It contains no less than eleven
courses for dinner. and gives the hours
for no less than six meals every day, for
the moderate sum of from So to 81 per
day, including, of course, an elegantly
furnished room for each guest. It would
seem from this that the tours of our
travellers and the visits of our business
men become rounds of pleasure as well
as of business.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Miss Dickinson.

Anna E. Dickinson has been confined
to her bed or room for the greater part
of the last six months. It is only with
in three weeks that she has been able
to walk more than a few minutes at a
time. During the last two years she
has been given over by her physicians
repeatedly and, as they said, nothing
but her indomitable will carried her
through. 1t is the old story-overwork
by highly nervous organization, re-
sulting in vital exhaustion, and threat
ening to end in paralysis. She was OBJ
iged last winter to cancel over fifty en-
gagements, owing to her failing
health. She is now rapidly recov-
ering, but is afraid to make en-
gagements for next winter. She will
probably gn to England, but is not yet
strong enough to venture on the voy-
age. Her innumerable friends will be
surprised at these statements, for she
has carefully kept the true condition OF
her health concealed, but they will be
glad to know that there is now no fur.
ther cause for fear.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
A Peculiar CONVEYANCE.

A Florida correspondent says: "I
wonder if description would serve an
artist as model for sketch of equip
age much in favor in Florida Imagine
small, short cart, perched high on
two wheels drawn by a cow-than
which the lean kline in Pharaoh s
dream we're never leaner-so miserable
that all hair stands up the wrong way
(the representative COW has generally
lost one horn aud the most of her tall,
and then curled up on the floor of the
cart an old colored woman, extremely
dilapidated as to costume, smoking the
stump of pipe, and one or two younger
women in front, with man, whose at
tire is more picturesque than servicable,
sitting on the shafts driving. This
conveyance, animal and all, appears to
be peculiar to Florida !; certainly I have
never seen anything like it elsewhere,
and it would be quite as striking in a
picture as the group of gypsies painters
are SO fond of %
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

appears probable that the West will
never get rid of the reputation of being
compelled TO burn corn for fuel. Be-
cause, two years ago. freights were SO
high and corn was so plentiful that it
would not bear transportation, and was
the cheapest fuel obtainable, Eastern
papers, which know no better, fancy
that corn burning is going on now. A
Washington city paper laments over the
fact that - Western farmers are actu-
ally burning their grain for fuel. while
Eastern laborers are starving for the
| necessaries of life that are thus wasted,
the high prices of transportation rem
dering it impossible fo put the gram ID
market. - Western Rural.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
waits from Ararat. >,

Under this name, and the shadow of
the storied mount, newspaper -four
ishes, edited by Americans (of course).
The paper contains some curious and
interesting local topics, quotes the
price of girls as wives in the Armenian
villages, varying from two to sixteen
pounds, and discusses the peasant no.
ton that the world rests on la rye OK.
which, being irritated by D. fly tosses
it's head and causes earth quak kes, and
the belief of the natives in the neigh.
borhood of the mount Dlat impassable
barriers surround Arars.t to prevent its
being desecrated by paortal feet, while
angels keep guard orr the summit lest
one piece of the indestructible wood ei
thu ark should be borne away.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Black Hills Gold Hoax.

The facts in regard to the Black Hills
region, CLEANED here and there, from
officer, soldier and civilian of the late
expedition are coming to light, about as
follow: First, there appears to have
been found. extracted and brought
away from the Black Hills by the en-
tire expedition, about 50 worth of gold.
Second, it is pretty conclusively under
stood by some that the ore from which
the said gold was obtained was i'm
ported-that is, the hills were "salted !"
Third, the area of land valuable for cul-
tivation is so very small that it is lost
in the great lengths of only moderately
good soil. Fourth, the timber
land is composed of spruce, yellow
pine, and cottonwood of stunted
growth, such as is usually found in the
stretch of land between the Missouri
river and the Rocky mountains Fifth,
that the Black Hills region is not par
ticularly rich, either in soil, timber or
mineral wealth, and is in every respect
just such neighbor as one might ex-
pect to find of that mysterious country
lying to the north of it, known by the
natives as ''The Bad Lands Why
not. then, let Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail and their followers enjoy their
possession of that region undisturbed ?
-(HIc4yO Journal
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
IS Bridging ,, Type.

A feature of London is its bridges,
and, while eminently practical in their
special service of promoting travel and
traffic, each has it's library of tragedies
and romances. OF all this, history and
legend are full, while each days police
record adds it's quota Quite out of
the range of ordinary use, or misuse,
of bridges is practice connected with
the Blackfriars, and one which I never
saw mentioned in print.
As was one time talking with the
night editor of the leading London
daily, the foreman of the typographical
department reported to him that they
were half dozen hands short.
How's that?" asked the editor.
Discharged for 'bridging,'" was
response.
After the foreman had gone, my
Yankee curiosity caused me to inquire
what this strange offense might be.
Bridging type is one of our princi-
pal sources of annoyance and loss, -
said he. ''When compositor is throw
ing in his case, if he happens to pi a
handful, instead of carefully sorting
and distributing the type, he shoves it
into his pocket or, if a printer is trans
| ferring O stickful of matter to a galley
and accidentally 'pi's' it, he also Sc
CI0bly GIIuSIS the InASS 1uto LIS pOCho'
and resets the whole; and the type
these printers have secreted they quiet
ly dump into the Thames on their way
home at night, while crossing the Black
friars Bridge, over which majority o
them pass. So extensively is this dis
honest and lazy habit practiced, tina
there are tons upon tons of tpye in th'
bed of the Thames, and hardly ever ii
body dragged for without the hauling
up of quantities of type metal"
This same habit prevails in the larg'
cities of the United States, although
not so extensively as in England, per
perhaps; and New York printers, wht
sink their ''pi" in the East or Nortl
rivers, while crossing on the ferry boat
to their homes in Brooklyn or Jerse.
City, are also described by the Londol
phrase as having bridged" thei
type.-Fireside Friend.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
interesting Statistics.

A contributor to the columns of the
Cincinnati Trade List shows, by Sc
ries of interesting statistics, the
proportions between labor, material,
capital and products in the several
great industries of the country. Food
and its preparations represent capital
material, 1882, 462, ,947; products, $780,
365, sol. Iron and manufactures OF
iron have a capital of $19S. 1865, 115 ;
wages, $73, ,O27, ,976; material, $103, ,208,
218; products, 1922, 138, ,698. Textile
fabrics call for the employment of more
capital and a greater number of hands
than any other nine industries enumer-
| ated, while iron and its manufactures
| yield a larger amount of money in earn
ings to their employees than any other
employment, the relative pay being
higher. Food, having a productive
value of $500, 900, 900, employs relatively
but few hands, and pays them relatively
the least. The manufacture of com
mon clothing employs the largest mum
Der of ha, DIS, and pays the larges
wages. The highest paid labor is thu
iron indu0try, because it calls for the
most skilled laborers in its severa
trades, producing many varieties of Gu
rious and peculiar work. In the manu-
facture of textile fabrics, an immens'
number of hands are employed; bu
comparatively small number of then
are able bodied laborers, great mum
bers being women and children. and
vast amount of work, in proportion, /
done by machinery.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Destitntion in Nehraska.

in eleven counties on the Western bor-
der of Nebraska who will require to be
fed the coming winter. This is the es-
innate of Gen. James s. Brisbin, who
was commissioned by Gen. Ord to visit
the people of these counties and ascer-
tain their numbers and needs. It is in
the presence of such fact, and the near
approach of what may be a severe win
ter, that, Notwithstanding the efforts
making for relief by State and local or
CARNATIONS, we earnestly urge an i'm
mediate appeal to the Secretary of War
to authorize Gen. Ord to issue 400. OOC
rations, more or less, according to their
actual necessities, to these distressed
people, just as was done in the case oi
the people of the South in the season OF
the recent hoods.-O Omaha Herald.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

The quantities sold at these $50 towns
increased from 43, 9O1 quarters for the
week ended August % to 64,693 quar-
ters for the week ended September 5,
against Il, $50 quarters for the cores
ponding week Of last year. In the same
week over 800, 900 quarters of foreign
wheat and wheat flour were imported
into the United Kingdom-an unusually
large amount. From these facts it may
be seen that the fall in the price of
wheat is not due to the unwarranted
operations of speculators.-Nes0 York
Tribune Sept %
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Pith and Point.

MEN of color-Painters.
EYE neutrality-suspicious..
LETTERS of credit OU.
A COMMON cant-A mendicant.
THE Emerald Greenland.
CAST iron-Spent cannon balls.
THE end of the world Money-mak-
ing.
A STAMP act-Treading on peoples
toes.
SoUNDNes on a bar-Rapping for
drinks.
THE Houston CTex.) Chronicle gayly
exclaims +" Glory to God Two dollars
received at this Office yesterday! Bring
in your wash bill"
A GOOD way to restore a man appar-
emily drowned is to first dry him thor
oughly inside and out, and then clap q
speaking trumpet to his ear and inform
him that his mother-in-law is dead.
New version:
Mother, may go out to swim?
No, my darling daughter.
Wear your clothes, my cherubim,
For there isn't any water.
A SPREAD EAGLE barber announces
Abscision and Genealogical Tripsis." It
is not often that four such high-priced
words get into a single sentence.
A POLITICIAN, wishing to compliments
well-to-do farmer, said "You must
have begun life early to accumulate
such an estate as this ?'' g Yes replied
the farmer, "I begin life when was q
mere baby"
A GENTLEMAN of mechanical turn Of
mind took off the gas meter to repair it
himself, and put it up again upside
down. At the end of the quarter it was
proved with mathematical correctness
that the gas company owed him $3.50.
"DoN'T cry, my little fellow, don't
cry" said kind hearted stranger to q
ten-year old, who was busy churning his
tears with both fists as hard as he could.
"I amt a-cryin'," snappishly retorted
the urchin, "1'm only washin' the dirt
out of my eyes.
THAT was shrewd advice of learned
lawyer to a pupil S" When the facts are
in your favor, but the law opposed to
you, come out strong on the facts and
when the law is in your favor, and the
facts opposed to you, come out strong
on the law" But" inquired the
| Sbuueub, Wien tu0 INV auQ Tie 1ACId
are both against me, what shall I do 2''
'Why, then," said the lawyer, "talk
around it.
! FOUR doctors tickled Johnny Smith,
| They blistered and they bled him;
| With squills and anti-bilious pills
| And ipecac they fed him.
| They stirred him up with calomel,
| And tried to move his liver,
| But all in vain! his little soul
Was waited DER the river.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
botanical Photography.

Leaves of any kind may be beauti-
fully photographed by the following
simple process Place five cents worth
of bichromate of potash in a two-ounce
bottle of plain soda water, and when
most of it has been dissolved pour off
some of the clear liquid into plate and
thoroughly saturate piece OF ordinary
writing paper in it. Then lift out the
paper and allow it to become almost
entirely dry in dark room. Thus
your "plate is prepared. The leaf
should then be placed upon the now
bright yellow paper, a piece OF soft
black cloth and several thicknesses OF
newspaper under the latter, and the
whole inclosed between pieces of glass
of the same size and held together by
clothes-pins. Expose tothe sun SO that
the light will strike full upon the leaf
until the paper has turned deep
brown; then take the paper from the
frame and put it in clear water. which
must be changed every few minutes
until the yellow part becomes per-
fectly white-and the photograph re-
mains.
DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT Natural
lists say that the elephant, like tht
whale, is being driven into extinction
| by the persecution of mankind. In In
dia the hunters have pursued him s,
| far inland that he is scarcely more com
mon DOW in the habitable part of tha
country than is the red deer in England
and in Burmah and Ceylon only has til
huge and docile animal q refuge fror
determination.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
RAMON.

1.-THE following spirited poem we clip from ehs
Attantic for October. 1t is by Bret Harte, in his
very best vein the being laid at FL Refu9ao
Mine, Northern Mexico.]I
Drunk and senseless in his place,
Prone and sprawling on his face,
More like brute than any man
Alive dead
By his great pump out of gear,
Lay the peon engineer,
waking only just to hear,
Overhead,
Angry tones that called his name,
Oaths and cries of bitter blame
Woke to hear all this, and waking, turned and ned
"To the man who'll bring to me-"
Cried Intendant Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine
'' Bring the sot alive or dead,
/ will give to him, - he said,
Fifteen hundred pesos down.
just to set the rascars crown
Undernee tn this heel of mine;
Since but death
Deserves the man whose deed,
Belt vice want of heed
Stops che pumps that give us breath
Stops the pumps that suck the death
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine!"
No one answered, for cry
From the shaft rose up on high;
And shutting, scrambdng, tumbling from below
Mounting the weaker's shoulder,
Graphing, clinging to their hold or
Letting go,
AS the weaker gasped and fell
From the ladder to the we'll
To the poisoned pit of hell
Down below
" To the who sets them free,"
Cried the foreman, Harry Lee
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine
81 Brings them out and sets them free,
will give that man." said he,
Twice that sum- who with rope
Face to face with Death shall cope.
Let him come who dares to hope I"
Hold your peace !" some replied,
Standing by the foreman's side;
" There has one already gone, whoe'er he be !"
Then they held their breath with awe,
Pulling on the rope, and
Painting figures reappear,
On the black rope swinging clear.
Fastened by some skilful hand from below
Till a score the level gained
And but one alone remained
He the hero and the last,
ne whose sklllful hand made fast
The long line that brought them back to hope and
cheer!
Haggard, gasping, down dropped he
AT the feet of Harry Lee
harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine;
have come" he gasped, ttto claim
Beth rewards. Senior, my name
Is Ramon
I'm the drunken engineer
| m the coward, Senior Here
He fell over, by that sign
| Dead as stone!
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
THERE Is q Young woman in Marshall

THERE is young woman in Marshall
county, Kan, said to be heiress to an
estate of $15, 100000 in England. The
yarn runs that she was brought to this
country by gypsy, having been stolen
from her parents-that she is member
of one of the noblest families in Great
Britain-that the old hag who brought
her here confessed to these facts upon
the bed of death. The young woman
has received letter from an English
lawyer who asks her to come over and
take possession. And she is going over,
TO the great grief of all the marriage
able young men OF Kansas.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

THE SMALL BoY.-One of the saddest
things about the small boy of the pres
ent day, says the New York Tribune,
is the uncertainty which seems to attend
him as he bounds along through life.
You can't always tell what he is going
to say. At Sunday school service held
not long ago, an amiable clergyman,
endeavoring to illustrate the necessity
of the Christian profession in order
rightly to enjoy the benefactions OF
Providence, spoke as follows 6 For in,
stance, I want to introduce water into
my house; I have it pumped. The
pipes and faucets are in good order, but
I get no water. Now, why do I get nc
water2' The reason, he wished the young
people to see, was that he had made NJ
Communication with the main in the
street. But the boys were too inten
on plumbing and water rates. :" Now
why do I get no water" 2" g know,
shrieked little one ''you don't pay.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

IT is only thirty years since the first
electric telegraph line was established,
and at this sime there are many more
than million miles of telegraph wires
in use.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
THE LITTLE FOLKS,
COMING
OREGON.

Two fair ships are sailing,
Sailing over the sea-
Nil!ie's ship and my ship
Fun as full can be:
SIDE by side, my Willie says
Like as pin to pin,
Oh, the happy, happy days
When our ships come II
While our ships are sailing,
Sailing over the sea-
Wi.,ie's ship and my ship
Fun az fuil can be,
Sailing on the sunny tide
Girleving would be sin +:
Soon or late, and side by side,
Shall our ships come in.
st. Nicholas ycF october.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

IF man passes off counterfeit $40
bill on you, don't keep it all to your
self, but circulate it around among your
friends.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

many residents as the city of Phila-
delphia.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16

ACCORDING to DR.. Maginn, no cigar
smoker ever committed suicide.
, 1874-03-10
MICHIGAN,
spetia{ D!sEmtch to 1Ae EIl,caHo Tribune.


LANSING. slleh., alarch o.-Tho judiciary
Conmittoo III tho House reported /. proposed
suction dolug away with the necessity OF tho
concurrence of moro tiian two-thirds Of Il Jury
III civil cuaea. 1t viii he attempted to mako tho
verdict Of ton or oleyan final in criminal casoa.
Many petitions woro received iu favor or 70.
malD suffrage.
Tho Committee on State Affairs roportol that
the boundaries Of the Ssato III reported in tue
proposed Constitution arc correct, aud no
c!lange will lo mAtlo. Thu boundaries arc tho
samo IN III tho old Constitution.
Tho lIoltbo adoptod u resolution expressing
tho sympathy OF members With the women III
tho present temperance u llAalo.
lilo Altlior-Ooneral waa instructed to ro-
port low ns,lrl tho Htato raIl during
1873 fur extra logal SERVICES, heslon tho Aalary
laid to the Alt0noy.Genoral. 4 tlehato wifi
foiow tho report. on the question Of tho proper
anlary Of tho Attornoy-0onoral, mud how good
lawyer should bo employed for That position,
In THE HEHATE
homestead exemption Of roal eAtato was uain-
tained at 2,000, t!lat noty tlisagroolng with tho
llonHe, which fixed s., ,500.
Alnch discussion took place concerning cor
porationB, and snany noM),ers inyeIgh strongly
against members receiving raanes from tallways.