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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
4 PRrALA DoNNA,s TOOTH.

. Nine. Pauline Viardot, the ever-to-
aforementioned Fides, in Meyerbeer's
ssProphete, had one of herincisive teeth
in ner upper jaw longer than the rest of
her pearly jewels, which somewhat dam
aged the beautiful expression of her
physiognomy. a few evenings before
the production of the &c Prophetic" dur
ing one of the general rehearsals of
that opera, Meyerbeer went into her
room in the theater, and advised her
that he could not consent to let her sing
Fides. CHOW SO ?' exclaimed the great
artistic, stupefed at such a. dreadful rev.
elation. cam / wrong in the inter-
probation of any part of the role? If
so, you should tell me, sir, and I will
correct myself Madame, you are
perfect Fides, and could not dream
of any tragedian songstress to sing and
play better than you" answered the
maestro, but-but-you cannot per-
form Fidesi-unIess- ''Un1ess what ?"
quickly replied Pauline Viardot, burst-
ing into tears. "Unless you submit
to painful surgical operation, and 1
guess you won't, madame" "What do
you think, sir ?'' Simply this, mad
anne you must have that overgrown
tooth sawn to the level of the others. -
"Oh sir, it must be horrible. Surely
I'll be dead before the excision is over. :"
't Not at all, madame, 1 have Just or
dered the dentist of the Queen of Prus-
sia to come to Paris for the express
purpose of attending your operatic mai
esty, and you may rely upon his unsur-
passed skill" AS it was the sine qua
non condition imposed by the hard-to-
please maestro, Pauline Viardot made
mp her mind to confde her beautiful
head to Herr Mul1keistrom, M. D., who
first ehloroformed her, and with magic
dexterity removed at once the obnox-
ious bit of ivory. A few nights after
that {" terrible" trial, Pauline Viardot
won her crown of immortality in that
role of Fides in which she will never be
0qualod. When the tremendous echoes
OF the enthusiastic applause and rappeks
had abated, and the artists were allowed
to leave the stage, Giacomo Meyerbeer,
trembling like a child, with emotion,
respectfully took Fides' right wrist, to
which he adjusted a diamond bracelet
worth 10000 francs, in the middle of
which, and surrounded by rubies, stood
the small piece of tooth that for so many
years had been prominent in the great
artiste's features.
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WAR OF CHURCH AND STATE.


Nearly all the European correspond
ents of the American press are just now
nursing with great earnestness the
probabilities and inevitabilities of a
conflict between church and state In
Europe. A late London letter reviews
exhaustiveIy the situation. The writer
alleges that Pere Hyacinthe is as GER
tain as Mr.. Disraei is that terrible re-
igious war is about to break out all over
Europe, and that this is to be preceded
or followed by other wars, SO that for
some years to come war is to prevail
g international war, civil war, and re-
hgious war" Mr.. Loyson gave express
sion to these sad forebodings at BAN
quet given in Geneva to the members
of the International Law Conference.
He was frank in saying that it was quite
useless to hope for reign of peace on
earth as long as sc the moral perversity"
of man remained, and that wars would
continue until stevil was destroyed.
The coming religious war was renewal
of the old conflict between the church and
the state the coming civil war would be
conflict between labor and capital, and
the coming international war would be
one led on by the iealousies and rivalry
of nations. The future of Europe was,
indeed, "an appalling one. Mr.. Dis
raeli has lately taken care to express
the same opinion. The war once COM
menced, all Europe viii be drawn into
it, and even England will find it hard to
preserve her neutrality. The United
States alone, adds the correspondent
and prophet, can afford to be a specta-
tor and not an actor in the conflict; and
when the combatants have torn each
other to pieces and the combat slack
ems in consequence of sheer exhaustion,
the republic may step in as arbitrator
and peacemaker.
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WHO WROTE SH4KEsPEARE2

Says correspondent of the Rich
mond Enquirer Hamlet overheard
julius Caesar tell King Lear, on the
Twelfth Night after the Tempest, that
Antony and Cleopatra had told Cori-
| olanus that Two Gentlemen of Verona
were the. authors of Shakespeare's
plays. Lear said: You may take it
As You Like It. but don't believe it,
for heard Romeo and Juliet say that
their Loves Labor was Lost when
1roilus and Cressida stole the Comedy
of Errors and sold it to the Merchant
of Venice. Timon of Athens and Gym
belline were parties to the theft, and,
after drinking Measure for Measure
with the Merry Wives of Windsor, told
King John all about it. Richard III.
Ga competent critic said Bacon could
not write even a Winters Tale, and
Henry VIII. says that settles it; SO
why make so Much Ado About Moth
ing? Othello was busy dealing FIVE
cent game of faro to the w., V. and
VI. Henrys, and the only remarks made
by them were an occasional 9" Prindle,
don't turn hold on,'' and few other
forcible remarks of cursory nature
and, as Richard II. was absent Tanning
the Shrew, could get no further evi-
dence as to who wrote Shakespeare.
But All's Well that Ends Well.
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PISTOL PRACTICE IN WAsHoE

L.
Yesterday afternoon, at saloon on
the Divide, some men were discussing
| the shooting affray which occurred dur
|. ing the morning between the two
brothers-in-law, Fallman and Ward, as
mentioned in another column. It was
agreed by all hands that it was shock
ing bad shooting-a discredit to
Washoe. At last a Phoebe man BAN
tered Comstock man, whom he knew
to be good shot with pistol, to go
out in the back yard with him and de
some shooting, just to show the boys
how it should be done. In the saloon
was box of eggs, and what the Piocher
proposed was that each should shoot two
eggs off the bare head of the other at
the distance of ten PAGES, the one miss
ing to treat the crowd. The Comstocker
was bound not to be bluffed by man
from the other end of the State, SO to
the back yard all hands adjourned.
Each man used his own six-shooter.
The Comstocker first "busted" " his egg
on the top of the Piocher's head, which
exploit was loudly applauded by ali
present. It was then the Piocher's
turn to shoot, and an egg was produced
to be placed upon the head of the Com
stocker, but when he removed his hat
there was a great laugh, for the top of
his head was as smooth as a billiard
ball. For full ten minutes all hands
tried in vain to make an egg stand on
his head. It couldn't be DONE The
Eocher then taunted the Comstocker
with having gone into the arrangement
knowing that he was safe. The latter
told him to set up his egg and it was all
right-he was there. The Piocher went
into the saloon and a moment after
came out with small handful of -four,
which he dabbed upon the bald head of
the Comstocker and then triumphantly
planted in it his egg, fell back ten steps
and then knocked it off. The Com
stocker then told him to set up his SEQ
ond egg aud shoot at it, as he didn't
want to have his head chalked twice
during the game. This was done, and
the wreck of a second egg streamed
over the Comstocker's pate. The
Piocher now stood out with his last egg
on his head. The Comstocker raised
his pistol and fired. The Piochor
bounded yard into the air and the egg
bounced whole from his head. ''I've
lost r said the Comstocker. 'Let all
come up and drink. By slip I've put
half the width of my bullet through the
top of his left ear ~ and so it proved
upon measurement Virginia Enter
0rjo
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HOW INDIANS CLIMB TREES.

In South America even the weakest
may be, not uncommonlY, seen pluck
ing the fruit at the tree tops. If the
bark is so smooth and slippery that
they cannot go climbing, they use other
means. They make a hoop of wild
vines, and putting their feet inside they
use it as a support in climbing. The
negro of the West Coast of Africa makes
a larger hoop around the trees, and gets
inside of it and jerks it up the trunk
with his hands, little at time, draw
ing his legs up after it. The Tahitian
boys tie their feet together, four or five
inches apart, with a piece OF palm bark,
and with the aid of this fetter go up
the cocoa palms to gather nuts. The
native women in Australia climb the
gum trees after opossums. Where the
bark is rough they chop holes with
hatchet then one throws about the
tree a rope twist as long as will go
round it, puts her hatchet on her crop
ped head, and placing her feet against
the tree and grasp1ng the rope with her
hands, she bitches it up by jerks, and
pulls herself up the enormous trunk al
most as fast as man will climb lad
dar
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
4 RUSSIAN MILLIoNAIRE.

European gossips are discussing the
fabulous wealth of recently risen
millionaire-a Russian Baron who has
made an enormous sum of money in
Russian railroads. This gorgeous per-
son is said to possess an annual income
of Is, 600, 900 francs, and is consequent
ly comfortably removed beyond the
vulgar necessity of hurrying down to
the store or Office on a cold winters
morning without breakfast or gloves
He carries in his train thirty servants.
sixty musicians, sixteen Russian and
Swedish singers, and an army of cooks
and confectioners. He has an Oriental
palace in every city of any size in
Europe. Passing through the small
Swiss canton of Tessin, he was struck
by the exquisite beauty of the scenery,
and, jabbing his gold-headed cane into
the ground in certain spot, ordered
his servants to build him a palace
there. Great millionaires like Monte
Cristo do not trouble themselves with
details, SO the palace is going up rapid
ly. The novelty of such a thing must
have passed away. The Baron feels
himself compelled every two years to
clean out his household, by abandoning
his residence, ordering a new set of
servants, and wiping out all his ac-
quaintances, to supply their places with
new ones. The poor man is miserably
off after all. He is harassed with the
belief that somebody is aiming to cir
cumvent him and absorb his wealth,
and consequently is less happy than the
ill-paid employe who knows certainly
that similar designs are entertained by
his creditors. He has more to lose.
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THE TIRELESS BRAIN.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up once
for all, then closes the case, and gives
the kew into the hands of the angel of
the resurrection Tic, tao, tic, tao, go
the wheels of thought. Our will cannot
stop them, sleep cannot still them, mad
ness only makes them go faster. Death
alone can stop them by breaking into
the case and seizing the ever swinging
pendulum which we call the heart, si-
lencing at last the clicking of the terrible
escapement we have carried SO long
beneath our wrInkled foreheads. If we
could only get at them as we lie on our
pillows and count the dead beats of
thought after thought, and image after
image jarring through the tired organ.
Will nobody block those wheels, I'M
couple that pinion, cut the string that
holds these weights, blow up the ma
chine with gunpowder? What a pas
sion comes over us sometimes for silence
and rest - if this dreadful mechanism
unwinding the endless tapestry of time,
embroidered with spectral figures of
life and death, could have but one brief
holiday. Who can wonder that men
swing themselves off from beams In
hempen lassoes that they jump off
from parapets into the swift and CUR
Cling waters beneath !; that they take
counsel of the grim fend who has but
to utter his peremptory monosyllables,
and the restless machine is shivered as
a vase dashed upon a marble Hoor. IF
anybody would really contrive some
kind of lever that we could thrust in
among the works of this horrible au-
tomaton and check them or alter their
rate of going, what would the world not
give for the discovery? Men are very
apt to get at the machine by some indi-
rect reason or other. They clap on the
Lrakes by means of opium, they change
the maddening monotony by the use of
intoxicating liquors. It is because the
brain is locked up, and we cannot touch
the movements directly that we thrust
these coarse tools through any crevice
by which they may reach the interior,
alter its rate of going for while, and
at last spoil the machine.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
A BRA We HERO.

To the already long roll of American
railroad heroes must be added the name
of Thomas Furlong, baggage master on
the Old Colony railroads New Bedford
express train. Mr.. Furlong happened
to be riding on one of the switching en-
gines in the Boston yard, which was
backing over the draw. Just as the
engine was entering the bridge struc-
ture, Mr.. Furlong noticed two men
starting to walk over the narrow tim
bers, on which the rails are laid, and,
seeing their peril, he told the engineer
to shut off, and then prepared for the
rescue of the men. One of them was
struck by the engine and thrown to one
side, where he lodged, comparatively
uninjured. The other man had pro-
ceeded further on the timber, and, if
struck by the engine, would have been
thrown lengthwise on the rail, and con-
sequently cut in haves. Mr.. Furlong
reached forward, and taking the man
by the chin raised him from the track
with the intention of carrying him
across to the other side; but, his
strength being unequal to this task, he
lifted the man clear of the rail and
dropped him over into the water. By
this time the engine was slowed con-
siderably, SO that, leaping off, Mr..
Furlong and the fireman secured boat
hook and fshed the man from the
water. The rescued men were employed
as divers at the Broadway bridge draw
pier, and were filed with gratitude to
their daring rescuer. This is by no
means Mr.. Furlong's first successful
attempt at life-saving.
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THE JOURNALISTIC SNAIL BOY

THE JOURNA LISTEC SNAIL BOY.
Francisco, emulating the examples of
their older brethren, have varied the
monotony of their amateur sheets by
offensive personalities which have re-
suited in libel suit. The editor who
caused the arrests of his rivals was only
fourteen years of age. He was at one
time associated with them in the publ
cation of the Pacific Youth, but break
ing with them, started a new Pacific
Youth at low rate, the older journal
being conducted by chubby child of
twelve. His former associates retail
ated by publishing two vindictive
sheets called the Gro1Ozer and the Yin
dictator. in which the character of their
rival was most savagely assailed. Not
content with this, one of their myrmie--
ons attacked him in the rooms of the
Pacific Coast Amateur Press Associa-
ton, of which he was President. The
following extract from the alleged libel
gives a good idea of the success with
which the juvenile amateur initiated
the style of some of his professional
brethren: "Were the room at our dis
posal, we Id give accounts of theft,
lying, misrepresentation, cowardice, and
blackmail schemes of this foul-mouthed
slanderer. But it is not his reputation
which is at stake ; the only reputation
he has is that of liar, thief, and cow
ard. His reputation he earned at
school, and he has carried it from the
desk and school-yard to the Office and
into society. And the hatred for him
by all who have ever associated with
him is great and unexceptionable." On
the case being brought into court, it
was attempted to be shown by the coun-
sci for the defense that the offensive
words were to be considered in q Pick
wickian sense. He thought the boys
should be spanked and allowed to go,
as they belonged to good families and
had promised to discontinue their jour
nalistic excesses, but the opposing
counsel urged that it would not be fair
to allow them to go free because they
did not happen to be hood1ums. The
court decided that there was clearly a
libel, and held the boys for trial, so
that these amenities of juvenile Jour
nalism will result in litigation, which
viii, we trust, be an expensive warning.
to other amateur editors not to initiate
the bad qualities of their professional
brethren.
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SENG MORE.

| Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not yet three years
old. The songs and hymns your mother
sang, bring them all back to your mem
ory, and teach them to your little ones
the hymn and the ballad funny and
/ devotional mix them together, to meet
the similar moods, as in after life they
come over us so mysteriously some-
times Many a time and oft, in Broad
way and Wall street, in the very whirl
of business in the sunshine and gayety
of Fifth avenue, and amid the splendor
of the drives in the Central Park, some
little thing wakes up the memories of
early youth-the old mill, the cool
spring, the shady tree by the little
school-house-and the next instant we
almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the
smiling faces and the merry eyes of
schoolmates, some gray headed now !;
most g lie moldering in the grave"
And anon, the song my mother sang :"
springs unbidden to the lips, and sweet
ems and soothes these memories.
At other times, amid the crushing
mishaps of business, merry ditty of
the olden time pops up it's little head,
breaks in upon the ugly train of
thought, throws the mind into another
channel light breaks in from behind
the cloud in the sky, and new cour-
age is given to US. The honest man
goes singing to his work and when the
days labor is ended, his tools laid aside,
and he is on his way home, where wife
and child, and tidy table and CHEEKY
fireside await him, he cannot help but
whistle and sing.
The burglar never sings. Moody
silence, not merry song, weighs down
the dishonest tradesman, the perfdious
clerk, the unfaithful servant, the per-
jured partner.
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THE DISEASE OF THE DAY.

A correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal writes " Paralysis is becoming q
prime disease. It is not confined to the
feshy, the plethoric, nor to the aged.
The fast life of our business young men
tells ON them. It is a very common
thing to see men cf thirty and thirty
five bald-headed, feeble-gaited, and
walking about with canes, their under
pinning knocked out, with other signs
of premature age. These signs of early
weakness develop In paralysis. Sudden
deaths from this cause are very COM
mon. Several have occurred in railroad
trains the vibration seems to predis-
pose persons to the disease. Not long
since a gentleman died in one of our
churches. He was interested in case
of discipline. He made report to the
church on the case, sat down, laid
his head on the back of the seat
and instantly expired. In another
case, a man not accustomed to
public speaking arose to relate
his religious experience. He was
SO excited that he could scarcely speak.
In the midst of his remarks he was
seized with paralysis, and carried to
his home. Our young men will have to
tone down their style of living if they
amount to anything"
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A SIXTH sense appears to have been

A SIXTH sense appears to have been
discovered by DR.. um-Brown-the
sense of rotation. This distinguished
physician thinks that we possess such a
sense distinct from all other senses,
whereby we are enabled to determine
the axis aboutwhich the head is rotated
and the direction and rate of the rota-
tion. He has made a number of ex-
periments as to the existence of this
supposed sense, by causing blind-fold
person to be slowly revolved upon a
smoothly rotating table.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06

NJ. gibson, writing in the st. Peters
burg Gazette upon the subject of pre-
cious stones, states that, owing to the
plentiful supply of diamonds from
South Africa, these much-prized gems
are at lower price than they have been
for ten years. Pearls and emeralds are,
however, at premium. An opal about
the size of an olive would bring about
1000 roubles sapphire about 1,soO
roubles an emerald, 10000; dia-
mond, $4,000; ruby, $4,000. Pearls
come from Central America, California
and Persia, but none rival those of the
East Indies.
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OF FARMERS TO HOLD
THEIR IKHE
HOLD

| Those Eastern papers which have,
wisely refrained from attacking onr
estimates and calculations on the wheat
crop base their expectation of low
prices upon presumption that farmers
are Obliged to sell their wheat whether
the price is remunerative or not. They
are sadly mistaken here. For the sake.
LOT brevlty we will catalogue cur reasons
for believing the farmers of the North
west able to hold their wheat
/ L. Farmers 1asa of late wears had
good crops and good prices, and are
better off than they ever were before.
| 2. Farmers were never before SO little,
in debt. They have been econonizine
for year or more, as the experience of
New York merchants in all trades Will
testify. The best work of the grange
has been to teach them to go without,
and to keep clear of debt.
3. Farmers are now realizing a. re-
markably good price on all the coarse,
grains. What debts they have they
can way.
4. Farmers have learned also from
the grange movement the power of as
sociation. They will stand together.
The rich farmer will help the poor
farmer to hold his grain for a paying
price. AS we lately stated, it is COM
mon in country banks just now for ac-
counts from rich farmers to be trans
ferred to poor farmers to enable them
to pay their store bills and to hold their
wheat. So what debts they have they
are paying, and will pay without using
their wheat.
5. Farmers, as matter of fact, are,
paying their debts about as freely as.
usual. Reports to the contrary are,
false. Country merchants who have,
obtained full stocks of goods for which
they find little demand, are unjustly
throwing the blame ON the farmers.
The farmer is not to blame for not buy
ing what he does not want or what he,
cannot pay for.
6. Farmers, as a matter of fact, are
amply able to carry over the whole crop
of 1874 for a year, or for more than a
year. During the past tspring and sum-
mer they have disposed qf about 1000,
600 bushels of corn-the bulk of three
years crops-at about so cents at the
crib. They are, therefore, rich. Fur
thermore, it stands to reason that
community which was able to carry
over 1, 100. 600, 600 bushels of corn from
1871, and 1,0oo,oOo,o0o from 1872, to.
sell at an advance of over 800 per cent.
in 1874, is able enough to carry 400,-
100000 bushels of wheat one years
In view of these considerations we
are satisfied that the only way is for the
few powerful spectators who have
tackled the wheat market on the wrong
side to throw up their game. The cards
are too strong for them, and the farmers
hold the cards.-llila01ukee Journal Of
Commerce.
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The Chicago Ledger lis one of the
cheapest papers published (the other
one being the Literary Reporter, of
course) in the country. Mr.. Bonner
will have to look out or his Chicago
namesake will sscut his corners" won
derfully. See how cheap it is in our
list. Same size as the eother Ledger
and Reporter. .-MichigG,a Literary Ee-
porter
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The statistics published by the Mon
treal Board of Health for the month of
August are well calculated to startle the
people Of that enterprising city. Ac-
cording to the Gazette, there occurred
583 deaths within the municipal limits
during that month, which, estimating
the population at 120, 900, gives NOR
tality rate of SO. 70 per thousand inhab-
itants. g This remarks the Gazette,
''means that out of every thousand
persons in the city of Montreal, So or
SO die IN the course of the year. So, if
the population were not being continu-
ally reinforced by births, and by new
arrivals, the entire mass of 100, 900 per-
sons would be taken to their last home
within seventeen years or, in other
words, the average life of citizen of
Montreal is but seventeen years.