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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
AWKWARD Rerelations Of Aeousties.

A Boston musical journal calls at
tention to some applications of rather
obscure principle in acoustics, which it
will be well to bear IN mind when talk
ing in noisy places.
While walking through one of the
retired streets of Cambridge short
time since we met carryal coming in
the opposite direction. In it were two
persons having a very animated con-
versation. The ancient vehicle ratified
along with much clatter, but every word
they uttered was perfectly audible from
the sidewalk. The conversation was
peculiar. We're the people aware how
their voices could be heard on either
side they would have related their fam
lily secrets in a less public manner.
From the beautiful expression of in
nocence on their faces we guessed they
were not conscious of their involuntary
auditor. OF course we assumed our
most demure and unconscious express
| sion till they were safely past. Now
these innocents were ignorant of one OF
the simplest laws of acoustic science.
Noise, such as a carriage would make,
consists of confused and irregular
sounds or pulsations in the air. The
vibrations, being long and short, and
of every variety of amplitude, crowded
each other and destroyed their progress
riding innocents were, in degree, mu
steal, because the human voice in speak
ing gives kind of irregular vocaliza-
tion. The tones, being less hampered
and obstructed, travelled further, and
reached an unwilling listener, who was
partially beyond the influence of the
noise. To the speakers the rattle of
the carriage seemed much louder than
their voices. To the hearers, at dis
tance of hundred feet, the voices were
the loudest. Most people, in riding.
moderate their voices to the circum-
stances, without, perhaps, thinking of
this matter, or without being aware of
! its explanation. The same effect may
be noticed in concerts where silly peo-
pie talk during the performance. Dur
ing the loudest crash of the orchestra
or organ they talk sweetly on, only to
find themselves shouting aloud when
an abrupt piano passage comes. At an
organ concert in Music Hall the audi
ence was once amused to hear bit of
conversation that was not intended to
be public. The organ pealed through
the hall with every stop out, and, just
as it sometimes will, INDUCED in re.
markabIe piano passage, and in the un.
expected stiffness an old lady was heard
to remark aloud, eve always fry 'em
in butter 2"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
ON THE CARs.

Hurrying TO the city
In the crowded car
Jumping, jolting. dodgfnGs
Racked by many jar;
Looking out the window,
Seeking aught to please,
Finding dust most plenty
Finding not your ease.
CHANGING at the papers,
Taking in the news,
Some new-wrought sensation
Sure to cure the blues;
Talking to your neighbor
Sitting by your side,
Trying hard to slum her.
Dozing while you ride.
Over lofty bridges.
Flying tunnels through,
Shooting through the forest
What great adoi-
Running over cattle
just by way Of spice
Riding on the railway
Oh, 1t is 60 nice!
Whistles Always blowing
Till you're deafened near
Cinders from the smoke-stack
Filling eye and ear;
Bells forever ringing,
Out of tune and time,
Brakes forever creaking-
Isn't it sublime
Daily undergoing
Riding on the cars
To and from the city
Fills ones life with ars;
Yet it hath it's lesson
With this brief refrain:
Life is but the passing
OF railroad train.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A Sitting of the French Assembly.

A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette,
speaking of recent disorderly scenes in
the French Assembly, gives some rem
iniscences of still more riotous pro-
ceedings in the Assemblies of 1848
and 1849. He says " On one occasion,
Prince Pierre Bonaparte rushed up to
the hemicycle under the galleries and
boxed an antagonists ears on another
occasion Count Keranaech, a Breton
member, emptied his glass of sugared
water into the face of a Deputy
the Left, who had come under
the tribune 10 shake his fist at him !;
and on a third occasion NM. Victor
Hugo and Baroche had a bout of bill
hngsgate, which was only stopped by
the disputants being forcibly hustled
out of the Chamber by their friends
through open doors. But the most
memorable affray occurred one after
noon during the debate on the Con-
scription bill, while the Marquis de
Querhoent, another Breton, was speak
ing on the Conservative side. Don't
| talk like an old woman suddenly
| shouted NJ. Doutre, member for the
Rhone. Who is the imbecile who said
that p retorted the noble Marquis,
| stopping short. Whereat half dozen
of NJ. Doutre's friends roared together,
We all say it it's you who are an i'm
becile.' This brought the whole As
| sembly to their legs, and NJ. Dupin' 8
bell began to peal away like that of a
ship in a fog. But there was no check
/ ing the riot. Scores of members on both
sides had clambered over their desks
and invaded the floor of the house,
exchanging invectives and above the
din resounded the voice of maddened
Royalist, who yelled: If any one
would give me pistol, would fire it
into that pack of wild beasts 7 Wild
beast yourself and call you to order,
sang out M. Dupin, beside himself.
but this only increased the tumult. for
the whole Right, turning on the Presi-
dent like one man, vociferated, tVous
nous insultez, II nous faut des excuses
M. Dupin saw it was time to suspend
the sitting, and groped about for his
hat, but as he lived in the building Of
the Assembly, and had only few
passages to cross to reach the chamber
he usually came bareheaded, and the
hat with which he used to quench par
Eamentary fires was dusty old proper
ty, which lay under thedesk. For some
cause, however, as yet unexplained, the
emblero of peace was not found this
time, and the President bawling dis
tractedly, Lend me hat, some one
wild scene of confusion ensued. The
Right, wishing to force M. Dupin tt
apologize, rushed to both staircases o.
the platform to prevent any member
from handing the President hat the
members of the Left, who wished th'
sitting to be suspended, tried to carry
the staircase by storm. At last, an i'm
aginative Republican, putting bundl,
Of papers inside his headdress to Civ,
it weight, flung it at the President
feet; and M. Dupin, catching it up
planted it triumphantly on his head
and declared the sitting suspended
: adding with intense feeling and lou
, enough to be heard by the reporters
All tas d,animaux Z
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Smelling hfs Rreatll.

Scene-Brown's parlor in Springfield,
Mass.-Brown, hat in hand, just got
home from walk with his eldest-an
e,af.G1at terrible. Mrs. Brown Now,
John, smell your breath you've been
drinking again Mono, my dear,
-hic-allus had sharp nose. l.
(desperately)-you must smell the bay
rum the barber put on my hair. Invent
into barber-shop didn't I, sonny 2''
't Yes, ma'am, you bet. Pop told me
to stand outside and suck that stick O.
candy while he got shaved, an he went
into the shop on Main street, near
Wight's block, where them screens
made like window blinds stand just in
side the door," Exit Brown Just il
time to escape crusade of articles o.
bijoutry and vertu.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A Hint or Two.

It is the penny saved more than the
penny earned that enriches it is the
sheet turned when the first threads
break that wears the longest; it is the
damper closed when the cooking is done
that stops the dollars dropping into the
coal-bin it is the gas or lamp turned
low when not in use that gives you pin
money for the month /; it is the care in
making the coffee that makes three
spoonfuls go as far as teacupful ordi-
narily it is the walking one or six
blocks instead of taking car or omni-
bus that adds strength to your body
and money to your purse it is the care
full mending of each weeks wash that
gives ease to your conscience and length
of days to your garments and last of
all, 1t is the constant care exercised over
every part of your household, and con-
stant endeavor to improve and apply
your best powers to your work that
alone give peace and prosperity to the
family.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Chinese Students.

Two Chinese students were recently
admitted to Yale College, scientific de-
partment. They passed the examina-
ton most creditably, and gave promise
of superior scholarship. There are now
sixty Chinese students supported by
their government in Connecticut and
Massachusetts,. Thirty came two years
ago, and thirty arrived year since,
and thirty more are expected in about q
fortnight. So far their department has
been excellent and their progress quite
remarkable. The students are placed
at first in cultured families, two in a
place, where their first aim is the mas
terry of our language. They are all un-
der strict supervision, and spend each
from two to four weeks year at the
Headquarters of the Chinese Educa-
tional Commission, in Hartford, where
they are carefully examined as to their
habits and progress. Scattered in some
twenty or thirty different towns, these
boys have everywhere been favorites.
The kindness with which they have
been treated has been very gratifying
to the commission here and ito the
Chinese government at .home.-Bosto'a
Traveller
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
lho story of the n1aple-rree.

lac story of the mapIe-Tree.
,TsIst where the children troop along
~ Inorn aud noon together,
TIE u'apie-tree grew green and strong
4--OuSh Eu the summer weather
The .:ttie tree, SO slim, so greea
Among the hirches round II.
L Only helped to make a screen
And no one e'eT had found it.
Now summer days begin to fade"
CG,u said She maple sighiuC:
- And ons sees me in this shade
W4asl Is the use Of trying ?"
And yylfic one night she fretted thus.
Tav AIR grew cold and colder,
Aus there came a painter down the road,
HIS coiors on his shoulder
TaCE Frost aiown the winding way
Came whistl1ag, leaping. singing;
HIS paints behind went swinging.
Their. how the spatters few about,
And straaks both red and yellow,
TIN all TIE leaves that leaned far out
t1.uwel IKE tie apples mellow.
-ra.. maple watched the coiors grow,
Then cried. oh. stop! oh, listen!
Before my leaves fall. paint me now
Catil IL red gtisten."
IaeE Frost stands STILL So small the tree,
H-d sale among The birches,
He stops uncertain; then he climbs,
-lLl4 Ftfts aAlA LA4-E@ A4S SteA-N 49,
.. Oh. paint nus. please - the maple cried,
e I5right RED and red all over,
t. each that may walk or ride
Ny beauty shall discover.
y so1ner said taan done it is
The swift brush plies he singing,
Then awlnCs away, upon his back
HIS brushes Lightly singing
AdoIn the road the painter goes;
IN silant Joy she watches,
TIL the Far-off hills betray his path
n red and purple bIotches.
How splendid shines the nlapie-trSe,
VITA green around and under;
Tne golden rods il all the place
Bow down IL reyerent wonder.
And how she scorns the lady birch
That stands SO close beside her;
Her head she tosses, waves her arms,
And shakes her leaves ont wider.
u silly little rnapIy-tree,
Have done lsltE all your prinkirg;
Along the road t1e children see,
OF fun and pleasure thinking.
- OA, lookt halo come see the show:
) tree jus ike ! feather,
Lets sticS Il IL our hats, you know,
AI-d march down all together!'
They swarm the raspberry bushes through !;
They tread the thlstles under:
They gather round ;he trembling tree,
Intent on scarle; plunder-
Q. dainty little f-ee: She stands
Like Esiea guered city;
They bend GnU break with feet and hands
The jubllant banGltti!
Then of they march in scarlet line,
And blaze through all the meadow;
Bat the bIrchss d-oop their giistening leave
And screen her with their shadow.
-1Jlla Q BrGeAett, 81. NjcHoas FOR Norenlber.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Four Distinguished Men Predict a Eu
rOpean War.

Father Hyacinthe and Victor Hugo
have joined Mr.. Disraeh and the Pope
in prophesying the approach of tre-
mendous war, which shall rage all over
Europe and elsewhere. Mr.. Disraeh
predicted that the war would be a re-
ligious one, and that it would convulse
the globe. The Pope described the i'm
pending struggle as one between the
armies of the Archangel Michael and
the hosts of Satan. According to the
prognostication of Father Hyacinthe,
the coming war will be three-fold, and
will include fearful conflict between
popular rights and the power of capital,
in which the combatants will tear each
other to pieces. According to the vati-
cination of Victor Hugo, the great and
inevitable encounter is to be I" between
two principles, republic and empire. "
He SAYS that "we have before us-in
Europe-a series of catastrophes which
engender each other, and which must
be exhausted ;" that "we can get a
glimpse of peace only across a shock
of arms ;" that between the present
and the future there is fatal inter
position y that the Kings must ex-
plate their crimes :" and that the
separation of the people will result in
federation and fraternity. He thus
closed his prophecy of the Universal
Fatherland - 'EThe solution is this
The United States of Europe. The end
| will be for the people-that is to say,
| for liberty and for God-that is to say,
| for peace There must surely be
something in the atmosphere of Europe
that leads so many prophets to oprephesJ
| the approach of war-war about re-
hgion, repubhcanism, and the rights oi
human nature.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

A New YORK paper says ga Virginia
sculptor is to make a bust of Captain
John Smith" It is really curious what
a liking these Virginia artists have for
this subject. Over two hundred years
ago, Virginian named Pow Hatton
attempted to bust Captain Smith, and
had the advantage of later artists, as he
was to take the subject from life. Still,
we shall be glad to see the last Virginia
sculntor succeed.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
The strength Of the Horse.

We are so completely in the habit of
regarding the horse as a docile slave,
expected to minister to our necessities
with accomplishing complaisance-un-
resisting generally under i'll treatment,
often half killing himself by struggling
to drag loads beyond his powers, that
we are apt to forget the tremendous
strength which he can exert if he
pleases to put it forth.
I saw. lately, a small pony running
awav with little carriage, in which
| were two large, strong men one sat in
his place dragging at the reins with all
his might, the other was on his knees
adding his utmost poweR nearer the
head. but in vain. They were just able
to give some sort of direction to their
course. so as to avoid the carts and car
riaoes. which, fortunately, were not
MANY. and in turning several sharp cor
ners. but they could not moderate the
pace in the least, till it pleased the pony
to stop at the door of his own stable.
They set their strength against his, and
on the tenderest point, the mouth, and
the pony won.
The great dray- horses of London
brewery are almost like elephants in
weight and power, yet are SO good
tempered that they can be guided by a
] child The strength of the neck, or
f the heels, or the teeth of such beast,
is fearful indeed, If it were used against,
/ instead of for, the service of man, and
it may help us to treat him with great
er respect to hear how powerful, and, at
| times, how savage an animal horse
can be- We have much to learn in our
treatment of him. An Arab will make
his mare go far longer distances with
out suffering than we can our horses.
In South America, the topping mer-
chant of Santiago used always to have
at hand horses which could be ridden
to Valparaiso, some ninety odd miles,
and back next day, with no food but
hay and a little chopped straw. The
Hanoverian troopers in the PeninsulaI
war were able to keep their chargers in
good condition, while those of many of
the English cavalry regiments were dy-
ing by wholesale. The Germans were
more kindly anxious for the welfare OF
their rough, ugly beasts than the En-
glish horse-subduers, as they count
themselves, were of their far superior
animals. We shut them up in Sitting
stables, with no fresh air, and with
abominable smells, while they are by
nature hardy creatures, belonging tc
temperate climates, and used to expos
ure. It has been found that the NOR
tality in some of the great cavalry sta
bles in London has been diminished
very greatly by admitting more air anc
light.
The courage which horses will show
in charge during battle the ten
!. per, when in mob (the good natureC
giants of the Household Brigade bacl
their horses, so as to disperse crow(
by mere force of the terror of thei
heels, or the switching of their tails
without doing any harm to man, woman
or child) the intelligence with whicl
a horse, who is set to move whole line
of trucks and carriages at railwa
station, understands the complicate
commands made to him by word an
sign, all show powers and qualities @
which, at present, we make but yer.
indifferent use
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
A History of Moving Machines.

The Oldest moving machines, though
very rude, were used by the Gauls. A
cart, having blades arranged in front,
was pushed forward into the grain by
oxen hitched on behind, and thus cut
on the heads. A system of six rotating
scythes was made by Joseph Boyce in
1899, and an attempt to use the same
Mason, in 1852. In 1S11-1815, Smith,
of Deans, once brought out a machine
in which a short vertical revolving
cylinder carried a knife on it's lower
end; but all these rotating machines
have proved impracticable. Robert
Meares, in Frome, in Somersetshive,
established, in 1900, the shear principle
as the only practical one. Salmon, in
Woburn, in 1907. built machine with
a row of blades and fingers moving over
them, and also applied the reel. The
Scotch parsen, Patrick Bell. of Forfar-
shire, in 1926, and William Manning,
of Plainfeld, N. J., in 1882, were the
founders of the present style of ma
! chine. Manning was the first to attach
the draught at the end of the machine,
all others previously having been
pushed from behind. Obed Hussey.
of Cincinnati, attached the side-plat-
form and slit-fnger. Mccormick, then
OF Rockbridge, Va, now of Chicago. in
1885 improved the Manning and Hus-
sey machine, and the appearance of
these at the London Exposition, in
1851, was the signal for their introduc-
tion into general use.
| The Oldest threshing- machine Tex
cept the antiquest) was made by
Michael Menzies, in 1872, or perhaps
at the same time by Tull, consisting of
rotating cylinder with fails. Several
others followed shortly, some like q
four-mill, and in 1892, Willoughby, OF
Bedford, made one like that of Men.
zies, which Won Thaer brought to Ger.
many, and which served as model fo1
the Mecklenburg thresher. The ma
chine of James Wardropp, of AmpthelI
in Virginia, is on similar principle
only the beaters are sticks moving uI
and down. Finally, in 1885, Andrew
Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian
laid the foundation of the present form
by using a drum with four beater,
parallel to the axis. that carried tn,
grain between itself and concave
furnished with similar reds. Al
American, named Moffitt, in 1854, sub
stituted spikes for the rods, though
Menzies' machine adheres to the Ole
system.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
Pith and Point.

BOND ND-HoLDERs-Safes.
FoRGERs -Blacksmiths.
To SECURE result, lock it up.
A HIGH note-One of a thousand dol-
lars.
IT is never too late to marry or to
mend.
LAGER -RYTHMs- The songs of German
students.
THE material for making game bags
Gunny cloth.
HOME stretch-The stretch across the
maternal knee.
A VERY unsatisfactory sort of bread
The roll of fame.
"CURRANT literature" ought to be
full of tart sayings.
LEIGH HUNT was asked bv a lady if
he would not venture on an orange
t Madam" he replied, "I should be
happy to do SO, but am afraid I might
tumble off. %
&c MAMMA, why are orphans the hap
piesG children on earth ?" "Why, my
child, they are not. What makes you
think they are ?' Because they have
no pHr0QbS 10 lick eLQ.
$50 you are taking lessons in draw
ing, Sallie % eyes, and the teacher
says I am an apt pupil, as draw more
inferences, insinuations, admirers, and
allowances than any in the academy"
What sort of a sermon do you like?"
said DIR. Rush to Robert Morris, one
day. ct like, sir, " replied Mr.. Morris,
that kind of preaching which drives a
man into the corner of the pew, and
makes him think the devil is after him.. !"
"FELLow trabelers." said colored
preacher, I" eff had been eatin' dried
apples for a week, and den took to
drinkin' for a mont, I couldn' feel mo-
swell'd up dan I am dis mint wild pride
an vanity, at seein' such full tendance
har dis evenin'.
A PENNSYLVANIA sevenAyear-old was
reproved lately for playing out of doors
with boys; she was too big for that
now. But with all imaginable inno-
cence she replied why, grandma, the
bigger we grow the better we like 'em. %
Grandma took time to think.
A LITTLE girl was visiting school
with one of her mates where they sau6
while practicing gymnastics. The cho-
rus ran thus:
Be lively, boys, be lively, boyr,
Be lively.
But she, not quite understanding the
words, took up the tune and sang,
We like the boys, we like the boys,
We like 'em.
ALTAR-ATIoN.
When Mike counting Kitty Mill,
| He begged-as lovers often will
In accents softly spoken,
That she one lock OF golden hair
From her fair head to him would spare
4 By way of love token.
Now Mike and Kit are man and wife
Their courting's turned to married strife
| And sad difference makes IL;
| Though still attracted by her hair,
He ne'er now begs lock she'll spare
| But out in hdndftLs takes it
Judy.
Mr.. CURRAN was once engaged in a
legal argument behind him stood his
colleague, gentleman whose person
was remarkably tall and slender, and
who had originally intended to take or
ders. The Judge observed that the case
under discussion involved case of &C.
clesiastical law. "Then." said Curran,
CT can refer your lordship to hig1.
authority behind me, who was once in
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

Mr.. BENNETT, of the Herald, having
offered to pay one fourth the cost of an
expedition to discover the North Pole,
on condition that the rest of the press
throughout the country should pay the
other three-fourths, Mr.. Murat Hal
stead, of the Cincinnati Commercial,
ss raises y. Mr.. Bennett, and offers to
give million dollars for Polar expe-
dition, provided every editor in the
country will add thousand dollars to
| the fund.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

THERE is temperance society upon
an extremely accommodating plan In
California. No member is permitted to
drink anything exceet wine, beer, and
cider, save when "laboring under
sense of encouragement" and then
whisky is allowed.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

CoNNEcTIcUT river farmers are very
;ovfnI over the big prices their tobacco
crop of this year is bringing.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13

A WOMAN in England, named Betsey
Letherton, has reached the extraordina-
ry age of Ill years. Her mental and
physical powers are still good.