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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
The Garden Snider.

The web or net of the common gar
den spider, Epeira di0denaG, may be
seen in every garden, spread across lit
tie openings between the branches and
canes of fruit trees, brushes and vines.
It is more abundant this year than for
several years past. It is generally
passed by without any regard or con-
Germ, yet its fabricator is useful in de-
stroying some of the moths and flies
that produce injurious Larvae.
It has been discovered that the net of
this spider consists of two kinds of
silk. The threads of the concentric
circle are composed of silk much more
elastic than that of the rays, and are
studded over with minute gIobules of a
yiscid gum, sufficiently adhesive to re-
tain any unwary fly that comes in con-
tact with it. A net of average dimen-
sions has been found to contain 81, 1868
of these globules, and large net, four
teen or sixteen inches in diameter, 120,-
600; yet this net will be completed in
about forty minutes, if no interruption
| occurs. In ordinary circumstances, the
| threads lose their viscidity by exposure
| to the air, and require to have it re-
newed every twenty four hours.
Any person, by scattering little fine
dust on the webs, may satisfy himself
that it is retained only on the circles
where the minute globules are placed,
and not upon the radii. If the globules
are removed, both lines are unadhesive
but in other respects they are different,
the circular lines being transparent and
highly elastic, while the radial lines are
Opaque, and possess only moderate
pegree of elasticity. Astronomers find
the Opaque silk of the radial lines and
of the egg bag convenient substitute
for platina wires in the telescopes at
tached to their instruments, but the
silk of the circular lines, being trans
parent, is unsuitable for this purpose.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
A Romance in Real Life.

A short time ago a young man 20
years of age arrived in Baltimore from
England and commenced to look for
work at his trade. After several days
fruitless search, the Gazette says, he
entered a large factory on Lombard
street and inquired for work of the
superintendent. The latter questioned
him, asking him his name and where he
was from, and other particulars about
his family. He told the superintendent
that his mother resided in England and
had reared him, his father having quar-
relied with her when he was an infant
and had abandoned them, and it was
supposed he had come to America, but
no tidings had been received from him.
When the young man had concluded,
the superintendent, who, for many years,
has been employed by the firm with
whom he is at present engaged, said to
the astonished youth, ''I am your faith
er." They discussed family matters at
length, and the father, hearing from his
son that his mother had never ceased to
mourn their unfortunate difference and
his absence, determined to proceed at
once to Europe and bring her to this
country and endeavor in the future
years to atone for the mistakes and er-
rors of the past. He secured employ
ment for his son, and obtaining the
necessary leave of absence from his en-
ployers, he sailed last week for En-
gland, intending to bring back with
him on his return the wife from whom
he had been SO long separated.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Long Prayers

DIR. Talmage has something to say on
the question of praying:
We are confident that one reason for
the long prayers with which we are
sometimes afflicted in religious meet
ings is an incapacity to wind up. After
the brother has been praying about
long enough you see that he is trying
to find ''Amen." He does not want to
come too suddenly upon it, and SO he
gradually makes that way; but he is
like Brooklyn ferry-boat aiming for
the wharf when there is good deal of
ice in the river, and he backs in and
out, in and out, at last reaching it with
laundering stroke. Many of the
brethren in their prayers take one-third
of the time to get started and another
third to stop. Why not with your first
sentence plunge into what you most
want, and stop when you get through
without any circumgyrations Men
keep on after they ought to stop, be-
cause they do not know how to let down
brakes. We have a recommendation to
make. If any isolated Amen would
sound abrupt at the time you want to
close, do as the Psalmist did when the
prayers of David the son of Jesse were
ended, exclaiming " Amen and Amen +
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
What the Heart Is.

The heart is like a plant in the trop-
les, which all the year round is bearing
flowers, and ripening seeds, and letting
them fly. It is shaking off memories
and dropping associations. The joys
of last year are ripe seeds that will come
up in Joy again next year. Thus the
heart is planting seeds in every nook
and corner and as wind which serves
to PROSTATE a plant is only a sower
coming forth to SOW its seeds, planting
some of them in rocky crevices, some
by river courses, some among mossy
stones, some by warm hedges, and some
in garden and open field, SO it is with
our experiences of life, that sway and
bow as either with JOY or sorrow. They
plant everything round about us with
heart-seeds. Thus house becomes
sacred. Every room hath memory,
and thousand of them !; every door
and each window is clustered with asso-
Citations.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
The Yendome Column.

The Vendome Column, says the Lon
don Globe is finished. All that is want.
ing now is the statue, but that will
have to await political events. 1t would
be manifestly absured to place any
other statue ON O monument dedicated
to Napoleon than one of the Emperor.
Moreover, the vote of the Assembly de-
cided that the q column should be re-
stored to its former state" But it is
impossible to predict what folly the
French may commit. A French paper
gives q romantic account of the
statue, well known to English
men. which surmounted the column
under the Second Empire. Originally
the work of Chaudet, it was removed
in 1916 to be melted down, and to fur
nish the bronze for the statue of Henry
". The workmen, then Bonapartists,
dubbed together to buy bronze to re-
place the metal, which was sacred to
them, and with which they made sever
oil reduced copies of the original statue.
It is said that ten of these statuettes
are to this day in the left leg of the
good King Henry. The little Victory
which the Emperor held IN his hand
escaped the breaking up, and was dis
covered some years afterward.
In 1882 the statue was replaced, but
it was the Emperor as the s. Little Cor
poral" who in singularly bad taste
figured on the summit of a column
which is an imitation of the pillar of
Trajan at Rome. When Napoleon III.
wished to restore the work of Chaudet
it was intrusted to M. Damont, who
was fortunate enough to be able to re-
place the original Victory in Cesar's
hand. After the overthrow of the col
umn by the Communists, all the pieces
of the statue were recovered except the
Victory. A complete model, however,
exists in the artists studio. The re-
building of the column began eighteen
months ago, and has cost $50, 900 francs,
the sum voted for it, besides supple
mentary sum for paving. Seven hun
dred pieces of bronze had to be pieced
together again, and each plate was
made good separately. Here a nose
had TO be replaced, or leg, or an en-
tire figure. So exceptional is this kind
of work, that there is no precise term in
art or manufactures to describe it ade-
quately. It is not unlikely that the
Parisians, delighted at seeming one Of
their most beautiful monuments re-
stored to them almost uninjured, may
hasten on the rebuilding of the Tuiler-
les and Hotel de Vile
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
The One.Hnrse Negro.

A few months ago gentleman moved
to St. Louis and purchased nice prop
erty, and, among other things to con-
tribdte to his convenience and comfort,
procured fine horse and very gen.
teel carriage. A likely colored boy was
employed at fair salary to take charge
of the establishment, and discharge the
numerous dutiesswhich arise around a
well-regulated homestead. For time
things went on smoothly with Chores,
but Iatterly he seemed out of spirits,
and seldom smiled. His employer OBJ
served this respondent demeanor of
Chores, and he determined to get at the
bottom of it. Perhaps he was in love.
But no matter. Taking Chores aside
one day when he looked more gloomy
than usual, he inquired, considerably,
what it was that allied him. "Well,
you see, mars'r," began Chores, in a
sort of tragic style, ''you's got but one
hoss, while all the gentlemen bout heah
has two an all de boys dey calls me a
one-hoss niger; an as I can't stan dat
'spects I'll have for to resign.
likes you fus-rate, mars'r, an I'd like to
stay if you had two hosses, but you see
how it is-de boys dey can't quit hol-
lerin' 'Dere goes dat one-hoss niger. -
Not wishing to lose the services of so
valuable an assistant, a second horse
was purchased, and Chores became a
two-horse nigger.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

burgh, and by avoiding as much as pos
sible the high road, and resting at
sequestered cottages, as she had done
before, and that only twice for couple
of hours each time, she reached town
early in the morning of the next day.
The time gained by the heroic act
related above was productive of the end
for which it was undertaken, and Sir
John Cochrane was pardoned at the in
stigation of the Kings favorite coun-
selor, who interceded for him in conse-
quence of receiving bribe of five thou
sand pounds from the Earl of Dundon-
aid. Miss Cochrane afterward married
Mr.. Ker, of Morriston, in the county
of Berwick, and there can be but little
doubt that she proved equally affection
ate and amiable as wife as she had
already been dutiful and devoted as q
daughter Sir John Cochrane sue
ceeded as second Earl of Dundonald.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Footprfnts in Solid Rocks.

Considerable interest has from time
to time been excited by announcements
of the discovery of supposed human
foot-marks in the solid rock, the latest
being an account in the Nashville
Union of August of their occurrence
at the narrows of Harpeth. II may not
be amiss to state here that there can be
no question of the artificial origin of all
these marks, the similitude of the hu-
man foot being favorite form of pic
ture-writing among the aborigines.
Several well executed specimens are in
the National Museum at Washington,
and others are to be found elsewhere.
They are usually executed in limestone,
slate, or sandstone, and are of very
rude workmanship, Notwithstanding all
encomiums upon their marvellous per-
lection. On close examination they
will be found cut through the lamina-
ton of the rock, instead of indenting
it, as would be the case if produced by
naked foot traversing surface in a
plastic condition.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
Measuring Distance br Sound.

An instrument for measuring distance
by sound has been invented recently by
Mai. de Boulenge, of the Belgian army.
It consists of glass tube having grad
uations along its length representing
distances measured. The tube is
closed at its extremities, and is filed
with liquid in which is a metallic
traveller, formed of two disks united by
a central rod. The diameter of the
disks is little less than that of the
tube, SO that when the latter is vertical
the traveller Will descend with slow
and uniform motion. Knowing the
velocity of sound and that of the trav-
eler, it is easy to construct the distance
scale. In operation the edge of one
disk is brought to the O mark, and the
instrument being held horizontally,
the fash of the canon, for example, is
noted at that instant the telemeter is
turned to a vertical position. and so
held, the traveller, of course, descend
ing meanwhile, until the sound is
heard, when it is again. brought hori-
zontal. The position of the traveller
denotes the distance to be read on the
scale. It is stated that during the
course of official experiments at the
Belgian artillery school, the instrument,
in estimating distances of 5000 yards,
did not make over twenty-one yards of
error
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
In view of the fact that Watts hymns

In view of the fact that WatC hymns
have been translated into the ChoctaW
language, and have become favorites OF
the braves, an admirer of the noble red
men SAYS it is very affecting to think OF
q noble red man sitting upon fence
and singing, "How doth the little busy
bee," while he watches his wife carrying
home couple of bushels of potatoes
upon each shoulder, and wondering II
he couldn't swap that squaw for Jug
of robust rum.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

VALUABLE BANDs.-The other day,
after q meeting of certain famous
women's club in New York, the ladies
amused themselves comprising their
garters, to see which wore the handsom-
est /; for garters of extravagant expense
have lately come into fashion, and sew
eral of these club members wear theirs
clasped with gold and precious stones.
The jewelers. are all Introducing new
designs for garter clasps that promise
shortly to cost as much as the bracelets
that fashion has discarded. A charming
woman and singer in society is said to
wear pair of garters that cost $500.
In cost Nam Hounr Gnr,n a7o l. III
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

A TERRE HAUTE man, not being able
to collect bill for $16 against a doc
tor, concluded to take it in physic. he
lost good deal (of fesh) by the opera
ton.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

THE total number of Southerners now
excluded from holding office by reason
of political disabilities is less than $50.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
State Taxes.

The following shows the State taxes
in the States named, and the rate levied,
for the year 1872
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

THE foreign resident population OF
Paris is made up as follows 600
Americans, 1000 Englishmen, AZ, 00O
Germans, 80, 900 Belgians, and l2,0oO
Swiss.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

IT cost New Haven. Conn, $40 to kill
and bury six dogs last month.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

A MATTER of course-A horse race.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11

Is purely Vegetable Preparation, composed of
Calisaya Bark, Roots, Herbs and Fruits among
which will be found Sarsaparillian, Dandeion Wild
Cherry, Sassafras Tansy, Gentan, Sweet Flag etc.;
also Tamarinds, Dates Prunes and Juniper Berries,
of Sugar Cane to keep in any climate. They invari
ably relieve and cure the following complaints
Appetite, Headache, Bilious Attacks Fever and
Ague, Summer Complaints, Sour Stomach. Palpita-
ton of the Heart General Debility, etc. They
especially adapted remedy for the diseases to
w q NJ EN-
Are subjected; and as tonic for the Aged. Feeble
and Debitated, have equal. They strictly in
tended as Temperance Tonic Bitterf, TO De
used as u medicine only, and always according to
directions.
SoLD By ALL FIRST Glass DRUGGIsTs.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
Another domination tor Chief jus
t,ce.

CALEB CUsIlINti SHOWS HIS HAND AdAlN.
WASHINGTON, January l9.-The President
has sent IT, Tie senate the nomination of
Morrison r. Waite, of Ohio, to be Chief
Justice Of tie 1apleme Court of the United
State.
The nomination. was surprise TO senators
and all others about the Capitol including
the justices Of The Court, but did not occasion
the same degree Of wonder as when Caleb
Cushnc'5 name was transmitted for the same
Office Subsequently the Senate In Exec
utive Session referred the nomination to
the Committee ON the Judiciary, who will
very probably Ia morrow report favorably
upon it.
Many Inquire were made as to the stand
ing of this gentleman, he not having nation
al reputation. but being best known in the
state in which he ia citizen. The nomina.
ton recalled the fact that he acted as one OF
the counsel at the Geneva Tribunal of Arbl-
traton, and some of tho Senators were ac-
quainted with him as an able lawyer of thirty
Years standing in Ohio. Although Republi-
can he is not an active partisan, and at the
present time i5 President Of the Ohio Consti-
tutional Convention.
1t was discovered on looking at the Supreme
Court record a year ago tomorrow that MT
Cushing, admitted to the bar OF that court as
an attorney Contrary to report, Mr.. Waite
never held judgeshp in Ohio. Senators OF
both parties speak well of tho nomination, ano
there seems to be 10 doubt of the confirma
tiOn.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
E'ariu Notcs

\ wriier la the IHUra! Nsi1 l99.s, say thlt
cows should be salted every morning, auJ. Al in
tho stable, before tOddeIing, Lut never biter
I king water THIS is the practice OF The hest
stock keepers ia switzerland aud he thinks ute
preferable to salting them oncs or twice a week,
OF to keeping 1t Constantly within their reach.
Charcoal 1or hogs Is frequently prescribed IN
agricultural papers without any directions 10
quantity. 1t LIQUID not be given carelessly and
ut random. G5od fresh charcoal, properly pull
verlzcd, may Up given at the rate OF one easpoon
iul tor every hundred pounds OF animal, whatever
its sizc may be, and at this rate will do NJ harm
nor scour tha animals, and may often he very
useful
Guano is now declared TO be the result oil the
accumulated VI FOSSIL marine plants aud animals
whose organic matter has heen transformed into
nitrogenous substance, leaving the mineral part
behind. 1t was originally deposited on the sea
bottom, being brought to tho surface by the up
heaval OF thr Islands upon which it is found.
A cornstalk crusher is the last agricultural
idea, and the editor of the R,rai Nei0 fCyLar says
that running The stalks through threshing ma
chine prepares them better for cattle than to cut
them, as 1t bruises and pulps them TO some eztent
removes the sharp corners which cause sor,
| mouths in cattle and makes them moro pnlatable
| &c.
MinntaotA paper has political economy il
bIet by Informing it's readers that hog skin ant
| COW hide bags hold 10 times as much corn as can
vas bags do, and cost only onetenth as mucL t
| get to market. The corn should be put into th
bags before taking the skins oil the animals.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
WOMAM SuEER.CE.

ON iiila> last. Vie PRESIDENT Wilson Visited
the Woman suffrage Convention at Washington,
when Miss Susan f. anthony appealed to him to
,ly Il word M hranit Of the cause. She knew LIS
heart wa3 with thcln, md she hoped, If he would
not come on the platform, Ne would tise in his
eat and give them u word ot encouragement.
The ice-PresiAent arose from his seat in The
centre of the hai and said " | wish simply to
say that am ant ar i'm peratrc orders to make no
spcechcs on any subject | viii add, however,
that twenty Yeas ago came to the conclusion
that my wif3, nay mother and my sisters were as
much entitled 10 Ii, ,rht oi suffrage rs myself,
aud have NOT ,h1.. ltd my mnl since. Loud
applause
MI, Anthony .sul 81 It tne say that Mr..
Wilson i Tue iil-I ' N.Cc-President we have ever
had Who was N iAyor oi woman suffrage. Let me
also ptriiet That eHr next President Will be III
favor vi woman sill ." Applause.
& Airs. : TINT III i.sI t.,olution calling lNF the
impearhia nt f., udnt, which Was unanl
mOusly ado. srt. eu.' ilunt had decided that
women are lot ,u.itiad t. tho ri"ht OF suffrage
a committee OF acyua was appointed, with MIs'
Anthony as CE,diIuaU, ~ uJt IN com JUNCTION VIII
the local association 81 the District of Columbis
III ASKING tougI,. 20 give suffrage to thc Womer
Of the District.
Miss Anthony read Iciil lon lhe had prepared
for Congress, asking to Dt relieved oi the sentence
OF the court tor voting contrary To law The peii
tlon was eudnr cd hY the convention
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
Congress Yesterday.

SESATR,-A number of petitions and bills OF lit
tie genera Interest wero introduced ana reierrea 70
appropriate committees. At the expiration Of the
morning hour the finance debate was continued,
Messrs. Wright and Logan being the speakers
HoUsE:-As usual ou Mondays, large number
OF bills were introduced under the call OF States,
and referred, among them the following; Anthor-
znr the same rate OF pension to soldiers who have
lost their arm above the elbow as to those who
have lost their leg above tho knee for tae purchase
OF the former homestead of Thomas Jefferson !; to
establish branch mint at ST. Louis for the right
of way of railroads in Oregon; for improving the
harbor at Washington. A motion to suspend the
rules for the purpose fpassing resolution to In
crease the circulating medium was madei maJoi
ity voted its iavor. but, in consequence OF not
l.aving the necessary two-thirds' vote the motion
was defeated An effort to revive In measure
the franktng privilege was also in like manner de-
teated
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
GENERAI. NEws,

The unlucly Spanish iron clad A'apiies Will
have 10 60 on the dry dock again. 10 repair the
damage sustained by slrikinG on the reef in
New York' harbor, recently.
DR.. Georse.A Christian was can'ietcd in
Washington yesterday Of having "resurreoted'
dead bodies for the purpose oil selling Them.
lie was remandcd fer sentence.
At S,lem, Mass on Sunday night, Henry 8.
Shsp,eigh and his SON FIVE years, inhaled
gas from coal stove, The damper of which
was closed. The boy was lead when found,
and his father was iusensibe. but will re-
cover.
"a City OF Mexico special to the New York
Herald SAYS that Congress has approved the
grant to the Mexican Railroad Company, and
the grant TO the Tehuaniepec Company has
been suspended for oae year All Mexico is
peaceful.
The Supreme Court Of Mississippi decided
yesterday that the general election in that STATE
last November was constitutional. The Legis
lature then chosen will meet to-day and Genera
Ames and the other rewly elected State officer
| will be installed.
| The President yesterday nominated Morrl
son t. Waite, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice o
the United States. Mr. Waite is President o
the Ohio Constitutional Convention. He wa
one of the three cOunsels for the United State
before the Geneva Tribunal. His age isabou
| IS years.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-20
LATER --oovERNoR DAVIS RETREATs.
How the Nomination was Received
In Ohio.

CINCINNATI, Jan. l9.-The news OF the nomi-
nation OF Morrison Il. Waite, of Toledo, now
President OF the Ohio CONSTITUTIONAL state Con-
vsntion, came to Mt Wal al noon, nj the beg'nh
ing of the afternoon session.
The Hon. Rutus King arose ana read ths Asso-
ciatsd Press despatch from Washington annouuc-
inc the nomination of Mr.. Waite.
The Convention forgot its gravity and broke
out into prolonged storm OF applause, In whlcn
every member OF tue Convention most hearshy
participateh.