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

A child has a right to his indiyidu-
ality, to be himself and no other; to
maintain against the world the divine
fact for which he standa And before
this fact father, mother, instructor
should stand reverently seeking
rather to understand and interpret its
significance than to wrest it from its
to be inscribed with the family name,
nor written over with the family tradi-
tions. Nature delights in surprises
and will not guarantee that the children
of her poets shall sing, nor that every
Quaker baby shall take kindly to drab-
color, or have an inherent longing for
a scoop-bonnet or a broad -brimme6
hat.
In the very naming of a child his in
dividuality should be recognized. He
should not be invested with the cast-Of
cognomen of some dead ancestor of his
torical celebrity, name musty as the
grave-clothes of the original wearer-
dolefully redolent of old associations
q ghostly index finger forever pointing
to the past. Let it be something freshs
a new name standing for o new fact, the
suggestion of history yet to be writ
ten, prophecy to be fulfilled. The
ass was we'll enough clothed IN his OWE,
russet, but when he would put on the
skin of the lion every attr' butte became
contemplate. Commonplace people
slip easily through the world, but when.
we find them heralded by great names
we resent the incongruity. and insist
upon making them less than they are.
George Washington selling peanuts,
Julius Cesar as q bootblack. and Virgil
vender of old clothes, make but a.
sorry figure. Leave to the dead kings
their purple and ermine, to the poets !.
their laurels, and to the heroes of the ],
earth sole possession of the names they
have rendered immortal.
Let the child have name that does
not mean too much at the outset, bne
which he can fill with his individn-
ality, and make by-and-by to stand for
exactly the fact that he is V5ctor5ess
M0Qdzine.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Trials Of a Ticket.seIler.


tTicket to Ne Yark," said Pat, the
other day. at the Providence railroad
station.
BY the Shore Line ?" inquired the
ticket clerk, who always wants to be
certain with this class of customers.
ssShure line? Faix I do, and mighty
shure too, for want to see me brother
Dennis in Worcester, shure, an the
way"
"That's not the Shore Line. You
want to go to the station on Albany
street"
"Divil bit do L want to go to any
station. Fax, 1 was in station all
night for givin' an omadahn a Black eye
that was blackguardin' me, jist."
You don't understand. The Shore
Line don't go to Worcester"
Augh, bother that Me brother
towld me the train was always shure to
go to Worcester, and I want the shure
train
s'No, no !'' said the clerk, laughing.
This train does not run to Worcester,
this is the Shore-S-h-o-r-e-L e.
on shore. You understand what COM
ing on shore is, don't you?"
Coming ashore, is it? An is it
laughin' ye are bekase ye think I'm
just ashore, and votin' more than a
uOHeu I1unGS WIZ Lu0 Dyes Oh Un0 OW1u
sixth since set me fut in AmerikY? "
Sc I tell you this train does not run to
| Worcester. -
"Don't it +? Beoad, perhaps it walks
there thin, for I've heard av things
bein' slow and shure."
EFF you want to go to New York by
way of Wore"
s'I don't want to go any by way, avic
| it's the shure way, towld We and stop
at Worcester.
s'This road don't stop at Worcester,
I tell you it goes to New York. -
can Worcester is betwane Boston
an New Yark ?"
ss Yes, but not on this road
"Augh! go away wild yel Give me
me ticket, and let me go. Faix, I'll
stop if the road don't.
"There's ticket for New York." said
the clerk, +" but you can't stop at Wor-
cester w1th it, mind that"
s'Shure do" said Pat, passing over
his currency. Faix, I've 40 desire to
shtop at Worcester wild it. Shure, I'll
leave it wild some gentleman in the ca,
till return,
The case was hopeless, and the tick.
et-seller was obliged to let Pat go, but
could not help but smile at the task the
conductor had in prospect.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Blazer ,, Finds a Paradise.

We have, says the Virginia (Nev. }
Enterprise, in this town, a genius
known as ''Blazer," who is =" never at
peace except when at war; He would
leave his dinner any day if he thought
he could find fight. When he is un-
able to find muss he is perfectly
wretched. A week without a battle,
and he begins to think there is nothing
in the world worth living for. Although
he seldom wins more than one fight in
ten, it is all the same to him. He
rather enjoys good pummeling. A
night or two since some friends of his,
who happened to be passing through
the '' Barbary coast - region of the
town, had their attention attracted to a
shebang near at hand by a tremendous
uproar. There was a smashing of
glass, Grabbing of chairs, bottles, and
tumblers fierce yells, bitter curses,
and, in short, a fearful commotion.
Thinking one of the voices within had a
familiar SQUAD, the gentlemen looked In
at the door of the '' gin-mill, I" and there
beheld Blazer surrounded by about
half dozen " coast rangers" who were
giving it to him "straight from the
shoulder on all sides. Blazers nose
was hattened one eye boasted watch
fob his upper lip was laid open by 6
blow from a tumbler, and his clothes
were nearly torn from his back. A
clip under the eye sent him ito grass,
while those nearest him began jumping
upon him and kicking him In the ribs
His friends at once rushed to his res
cue. The breath was completely
knocked and kicked out of pool
Blazer, and he lay stretched upon the
floor. Some water dashed in his face
revived him. Recognizing his friends, ht
smiled as amiably as was possible will
his bloated and distorted upper lip, ant
huskily whispered:
"Boys, it's gorgeous I've stumbled
into regular paradise p
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
All Sorts.
OLIVE LOGAN is deaf.

BISMARCK is great fox-hunter.
The Astors own 1900 houses in New
York city.
THERE are thirty-eight Roman Catho-
lie churches in Brooklyn.
CooPRR's "Bee- Hunter chewed to-
bacco, and he lived to be 103.
The Jews say that Judaism is de-
clining, and they ought to know.
MILWAUKEE's census shows a popu-
lation of 81, ,405, an increase of 1886
since 1870.
Two ATLANTA professors, who recent
~ tried mule steak, pronounce it finer
than real beef.
turned white in a single night. She
fell into -four barrel.
Gov. FURNAs, of Nehama county.
Neb., raised 5000 bushels of peaches
IN his orchard this year.
THE first daily journal in the world
was that of Frankfort-on-the-M Main, es-
tablished in 1915. 1t is still issued.
GAS I NEVER pay my own debts it
isn't ikelyI shall pay hers" This is
the frank way Tacoma manadvertises
his errant wife.
The Northumberlan House, in Lon
don, was bought for the purpose of
opening new street. The price paid
was So, ,489, 500.
A NEW salt-basin has been discovered
in Saginaw Valley, Mich, which is
deemed inexhaustible. The brine is
obtained at depth of !, 7643 feet.
YEDDo has eighteen newspapers,
among others the '' 'Nischinshinjishi,' -
the Tokionichinichi Schimbum," and
the Chinbansashi.
HONOR and glory to E. F. Phillips,
of Michigan, who has written 5,115
words on a postal card! These would
make about three columns of closely
printed matter in large newspaper. A
great man Phillips is
"THE Son of Man" advertises in a
Cincinnati paper that the world will
come to an end on the 4th of July,
1876. The sooner, therefore, this hope
full son of gun gets out of "sin, sin, %
and into another State, the better.
The Austrian Polar expedition, which
has declared to the world the inadvisa-
bility of attempting to explore the far
north or discover an open sea, would
seem to have been composed Of explor-
ers competent to judge. From recent
and more detailed reports, it is shown
that the expedition last spring did reach
the most northerly point ever trod by
the feet of men, 81 degrees so minutes
north Ia .itude. Here they raised their
native flag and gazed away to the north
as far as the eye and glass could reach
over dreary waste of perpetual ice
Austria will send one more party ovel
the same ground.
One of the most pathetic reminders
of the recent Fall River disaster is the
habit of woman whose three daughters
were killed, but who still insanely be
ieves that they are alive. Every day,
when the factory bells are ringing fol
dinner, the woman, who saw her three
daughters borne away to be buried,
that Sunday, takes tin-pail, as she
used to do, and starts for Granite Mil
No. /. Sometimes her neighbors divert
her attention by telling her that it ISM
bell time, but other days she walks to
the place where the mill once stood
sees nothing that she can recognize
turns back in a dazed way, and goes te
her deserted home again.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Pro1lnce off the Earth.

Take the potato away from Ireland,
and starvation comes. Famine recent
~ had it's hold on Bengal on account of
a failure of the rice crop. Bread fruit
is to West India both food and clothing.
Heaven sends it and causes it to grow,
and the lazy natives ask nothing fur
ther. And yet all these yield to the de-
spised bamboo. We go fishing with
these poles; the Chinese eat them. The
uses to which it is put render it a ma
tional benefactor. Houses, boats,
screens and water-wheeis are made OF
it, together with fences, ropes, furni-
ture, hats, umbrellas, and all varieties
of weapons, lamp-wicks, pencils, brush.
es, pens, aqueducts, telescopes. and 9
thousand other things of daily use.
We might almost say that were the
bamboo to perish suddenly from off the
earth the whole Chinese Empire would
collapse.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
L musRD LAST NIGHT IN PENSIVE
MOOD.
NJ ALICE WILLIAMS


4'Oh there's nothing half sweet in Life
As loves young dream !!
I mused last night in pensive mood
Albeit not often septimental-
MY heart was heavy and my frame 80,
Was racked with aches-both head and dental
say, as once I've said before,
I cast upon the Past glance
Fond, lingering and comprehensive.
Issy once more that mossy bank
By which the river ripples slowly,
Oershadpwed by the silVery veil
Of willow branches dropping lowly,
Bsstrewn with wild spring howerets dyed
In every color of the prism
Where Oft we sat, May Brown and l.
Nor ever dreamed of rheumatism.
We loved. All, yesi Some might have loved
Before us, in their humdrum FASHION
Bnt never yet the world had known
SO wild. 50 deep, so pure a fashion
We rocked not OF the heartless crowd,
Nor needed cruel parents frowning;
But lived in one long blissful dream,
And spouted Tennyson and Browning.
And when the cruel fates decreed
That for season I must leave her,
1t wrung my very heart to see
How much our parting seemed to grieTe her
One happy moment, too, her head
Reposed So lightly my shoulder
In dreams live that scene again,
And IN my arms again enfold her.
She gave one long auburn curl
She wore my picture in lockef,
He letters. with blue ribbon tied
carried IN my lett coat-pOcket.
(Those notes, rose-scented and pink-hued
Displayed more sentiment than knoRledge.}
I wrote about four times week
That year was away to College.
But oh, at length :" a change came oer
The spirit OF my dream !" One morning
got chilly line from May.
In which, without the slightest warming,
She said she shortly meant to we'd
Tom Barnes "a parson, fat and jolly;
She sent my notes and ruby ring,
And hoped would % forget my folly"
1 sent her all her letters back,
called her false and fickle-heaHted,
And swore hailed with joy the hour
That saw me free. And so parted.
quoted Byron By the page,
smoked Havanas by the dozens,
And then vent out West and fell
In love with an my pretty cousins.
-ScFtbRer's for SUceqltbeT.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
A SINGULAR and affecting trait is re-

A SINGULAR and affecting trait is re-
corded of the bison when young.
Whenever COW bison falls by the hand
of the hunter, amp happens to have q
calf, the helpless creature, instead of
attempting to escape, stays by its fallen
dam, with many expressions of strong
affection. The mother being secured,
the hunter makes no attempt on the
calf, because this is unnecessary, but pro-
ceeds to cut up the carcass and then,
laying it on his horse, he returns home,
followed by the young one, which thus
instinctively follows the remains OF Its
parent. A hunter once rode into the
town of Cincinnati, between the Mlamis,
followed i'm this manner by three calves,
all OF which had just lost their dams.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

WHILE Northern woolen-mills are
stopped, those of Georgia are increasing
the number of looms and reaping divi-
dends. Columbus has 35, 600 spindles,
so woolen and 879 cotton looms, all
built In less than seven years by city
fifteen million dollars, and millions OF
other property.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
The Koumis Cure for Consumption.

A correspondent of the London Daily
NeaUs, writing from Samara, on the
Volga, says: cit has long been known
that the Tartar tribes inhabiting what
is generally known as Independent
Tartary (no longer, however, since Gen.
Kaufmaun's visit, particularly indie
pendent), and nomad tribes scattered
over its northern frontiers, the Turko-
mans and the Kirghis, as well as other
tribes more or less akin to these,
such as the half-nomad Bashkirs of
Orenberg, all used fermented mares
milk, which they called Koumis, not
only as a beverage, but as a substantial
portion of their daily food. It was re-
ported to combine the nourishing prop
critics of milk with the invigorating
qualities of alcohol; indeed, among its
other virtues, it was said to exhilarate
and intoxicate. It came into the heads
of some Russian medical men, of whom,
believe, DR.. Portnikoff, of Samara, to
have been one of the first, that this
koumis might possibly possess medical
properties as well. It was observed
that consumption and its cognate dis
orders were unknown among the tribes
who habitually drank koumis. Starting
from this observation, experiments were
made on the UiliG corpora of consump-
tive patients, and with highly beneficial
results. Upon this DIR. Portnikof
started a koumis establishment at
Samara. It's situation offered him
many advantages. In the first place.
from it's position on the Volga. it was
at least approachable, whereas Oren-
berg, the nearest spot where koumis
could be said to be indigenous, was the
ultima thule of the civilized world.
This new establishment on the Volga
was the means, therefore, of pushing
the koumis outposts 800 miles westward.
In the next place it was observed thai
the pasturage at Samara was similar tc
that of Orenberg. It is supposed that
the virtue of koumls consists in great
measure in the rich quality of the mares
milk, which again is dependent, not
only on the race of mares, but on the
pasturage on which they are fed. AL
these are propositions which are more
or less vehemently affirmed and deniee
by the different camps into which
koumis connoisseurs are divided"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
Sunlight for the sick,

DIR. VIM. H. Hammond, in discussing,
the sanitary influence of light, OBJ
serves that the effects of deficient light
upon the inmates of hospital wards and
sick chambers have frequently coraa.
under his special notice that most
physicians know how carefully tne.
attendants upon the sick endeavor ts /,
exclude every ray of light from the
apartment, and even some members of
the profession are singnlarly assiduous.
in this respect but 4hat the practice;
except in some cases of actual disorder
of the brain and other parts of the
nervous system, is pernicious, admits
of no question. During the late civil
war DR.. III. visited camp and hospital
in West Virginia, in consequence of in
formation received that the sickness
and mortality there prevailing were un-
accountably great, and he made n
minute examination into aIl the cir
cumstances connected with the situa-
ton of the camp, the food of the men,
etc. Among other peculiarities he
found the sick crowded into a small
room, from which the light was ex-
cluded by blinds of India-r1bber cloth.
The patients were as effectually
bleached as is celery by the earth being
heaped up around it; pale. bloodless,
ghost like looking forms, they seemed
to be scarcely mortal. Convalescence,
was, under such circumstances, ae-
cording to DR.. Hammond, almost i'm
possible, and his belief was that many
of the men had died, who, had they
been subjected to tho operation of the
simplest laws of nature, would have
recovered.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

A BAPTIST missionary in India pro-
poses that men and women who. go out
as missionaries shall enlist for ten
years only. He thinks by this plan the
missionary service would be more eff
fective, as many missions are ruined by
sick men hanging on, and by the reten-
ton of men too old for hard service.
Furthermore, more persons would be
willing to serve as missionaries than on
the life plan.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

FoUR times as many patents were is
sued in this country last year as were
granted in England during the same
time.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
An Earthquake Experience.

A lady correspondent of the Cleve-
land Herald, writing from CaJlao, gives
as follows her first experience of an.
earthquake shock: might before
last we wereI having very restless
night could not get to sleep. About
u o'clock Belle awoke, her big eyes
wide open, and a few moments after s.
low, underground thunder came rolling
toward us. H. sprang mp and said
earthquake but there was no need of
being Informed, for it was unmistaka-
BILE. / jumped from my bed and cried.
%, my God By the tlme we were
fairly up, the house was convulsed with
the demoniac shake. / had but one
idea in my head; it had been told me
few nights before to keep my slippers
always by the bedside. l had neglected
to do SO, and in the frenzy Of fright I
could only cry out, Oh, where are my
slippers?' B., who lay IL her little
bed quite composed, not appreciato2
the danger, told me just where they
were. Ny hands were cold and clam
my, and was truly beside myself.
cannot describe an earthquake in o
manner that you could comprehend.
They are neither sublime ncr grand,
but terrible and demoniacaL. This one
lasted about fifteen or sixteen seconds,
yet it aroused sensations that did not
get over for twenty-four hours. AA
night was trying to realize that Goo
had anything to do with terror so
horrible !"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27

Oh there's nothing half so sweet in Life
As loves young dream !"
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-09-25
Pacific Coast.

WINNEMUcoA, Sept. 24.-The Republi.
can State Convention was called to order
at IL o'clock m. j. F. Lewis was elected
temporary Chairman, BEEN. Pixley and
W. T. Hanford, temporary Secretaries
and VIM. Eassil and G. o. Laupblin,
Sergeants-at-Arms. A committee OF one
from each county was appointed on cre-
dentials. Adjourned for half an hour
On reassembling Judge J. f. Lewis
was made permanent President.
After six ballots DIR. j. c. Hazlett WAS
nominated for Governor; DR.. Bowman
Tor Lieutenant Governor; VIM. Wood
burn for Congress; Judge Beatty, of
mnl'o ws,rs s"- E Sm1reme {pdge (ong
term; Charles +. Bicknell for Supreme
Court Clerk; ]. d. Miner for Secretary
of State; Moses Tebbs. of Douglas, for
Attorney General; L. l. Hogle, of En-
reka, for State Treasurer.
At o'clock the Convention adjourned
till 10 O'Clock tomorrow.
SAN FRANCIsco, Sept. 24.-The Reding-
ton Quicksilver Company's dividend is
$40 per share instead of $40.
Twenty. seven cargoes OF wheat have
been cleared from this port during the
week.
Mining stocks were off again to-day.
A marked decline occurred in several
lending stocks.
A man complained at the Police Head.
quarters to-day that he had been robbed
of $1,000 at Elko, and another that be
had been robbed of small sum Of
money, valuable gold watch and con-
siderable quantity of jewelry. They say
the robbers caught them in refresh
ment stand near the station, put pistols
to their heads and compelled them to
give up their property. Similar outrages
at the same place are reported to be Of
almost daily occurrence.
The investigation into the affairs OF
the Coroner's Office is not yet concluded
The testimony this afternoon was Of the
most damaging character. Several wit.
nesses testified to the identity of a
splendid Panther skin buggy robe which
had been the property Of DR.. Farms
worth before his corpse came under the
Jurisdiction of the Coroner. DR.. Rice
however, declares that the robe is his
own and never belonged to Framework
The children of the Hebrew Orphan
| hoy luul WCic hmoh6os sAo vhoAhoAo os WV
Mechanics Fair this afternoon.
The parade of stock at the State Fa
to-day was very fine. The Eastern mel
present said they had never seen bette
exhibition. Tho stock occupied the en-
tire length of the track, one mile. Th
excitement is increasing over the rae
to come off tomorrow between Occident
Sam Purdy and Blackbird for. $4,000
Occident is the favnrite. but the bettin
had not commenced. Cd.
In the trotting race to-day betwee
Oakland Maid, Tod Hunter, America
: Maid, Queen and Billy Ross, for 81 ,0Ut
: Oakland Maid was the winner. Amer
: can Maid was distanced. Time of th
former for two heats was 1885, and S:3l
The attendance at the Fair and race
is good.
. A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona Il
night, says that the Apaches who mu
I; dered Mr.. Roberts recently, were pm
' sued by q detachment OF troops an
!. friendly scouts from Verde to the head
Cane Creek, where o fight ensued,
!; Apaches being killed and several ca
, tured, and the loss to the troops was tv
!. killed and several wounded.