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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

A correspondent in Utah charges
that the comet Or the d--l has
given that at part Of the country a
succession Of the most terrific thup.
der storms ever witnessed there.
For ten days storm succeeded storm,
upon seals Of grandeur only ap-
preached by heavy artillery ofmod-
eEn invention.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

A boat containing Harod Wells,
wife and thres children, and q Miss
Smith, was upset in The bay 1t Sc
attic, w, r., on the 4th inst. All
were rescued but Mrs. Wells and
her youngest Child, both Of whom
were drowned. u. = i
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Isis now said that Theodore Til.
TONS handwriting 50 closely resem-
bles Beecher's that il requires an
expert to tell tother from which.
Put this and that together.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

THBRE is one good thing about
thoae white gauze wells; . woman
who powders looks as respectable
behind one ofthem as q woman who
d0essn't.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Local Option was everywhere
defeated in Kentucky. and the DEM
ocrsts elect the clerk Of the Court
ofAppesls. 4 lH3l
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

The steamship Idaho has been
temporarily withdrawn from plying
between Portland and Frisco.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Ifyou want to find out q mans
real disposition, take him when be
ID wet and hungry. If he is ami.
able then, dry him and fill him up,
and you have an angel.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

On the 4th q reservoir broke at
Trenton, N. u, flooding an reGOt
one , mile in length and three bur.
dredI yards in width. Many houses I.
swept away, but no lives lost.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

It is rumored that the Spanish
Republicans have gained another
brilliant victory under General Mo-
riOnez, IN Nevarre, sCOoping some
1890 Carlist prisoners.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

BeeCher is reported to be in high
spirits, weighing more than be has
for years. Well, well, some people
have remarkably elastic cousciences,
which enables them to grow fatun-
der the most adverse circumstances.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

On the morning Of the 5th, the
steamboat Pat Rogers, near Aurora
on the Ohio, was burned with her
cargo Of cotton. Six persons were
lost. Boat was valued at 100000;
insured for $4,000.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Mrs. Tilton alleges that Miss Su-
ssa B. Anthony made her life mis-
erable. We have before heard it
minated that Susan was unbear.
able. utaa
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Moulton has returned to New
York. and says be- viii testify II
both psstieS desire it; the matter
has gone % tsF al The facts ought
to COME cut How kind aaa con.
sidegsse'ia Moultopi't 'aeTA
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Bismarck's son killed Zearskow.
sn, On infantry officer at. Dusseldorf,
in 8 duel, recently.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

The Spanish Government propos-
% 70 send 10000 more troops to
Cubs.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Physicians declare that VanEten,
the California bond 6fger! fsCently
arrested in New Jersey, and who
was foqndip q dying condition in
his cell on the LIST inst, a two-ounce
vial of lsudanum BY his bedside,
was not poisoned but died Of con-
gestion Of the Lungs. i42e.AA wv
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Germany protests against French
aid to Carlists.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07
HEALTHY READING.
The present is generally the dull

ally 80 pr'lltic in items, has hardly
commenced, and the world at large
seems to beidly Willing away the
cheated term" sometimes called
"doy day>'), getting really ior the
great carnival Of items which al.
ways follows these few weeks OF
rest and quiet. Beyond the Tilton-
Beecher scandal, which already be-
gins To pail 'heappetite fthe most
prarient, there is really nothing to
induce startling capitals and huge
headlines. In view Of these facts,
we have concluded that a few sea-
sonable health items might not come
smiss, aud may be productive Of
much good. With this introduc.
tion we give the following facts, COL
lated from various sources :
Not one growingclild in ten can
be confined in school more than
three hours a day without suffering
more or less debility or eldangering
life.
Most Of the school-houses in our
cities, and not a few in the country,
are pest-houses, very much III the
sense that tenement houses are.
The most prevalent complaint
among ladies at the present day is
headache and careful investiga-
ton viii prove that this trouble has
rather increased than diminished
since the present style Of wearing
hair came in yogue-involving, as
it does, the loading Of the head with
such d quantity Of foreign material
The dyspeptic person should
avoid hard water as he would hard
drugs, for all the hard waters on
earth are only drugs in solution.
Those who would have perfect
digestion should not drink any
thing at meals. Drinking should
always be done before, after, or be-
tween meals. ,roltl.bS8
Milk isespecially pernicious in all
and obscure cases of
Indigestion to which the phrase
"nervous debility" is usually ap-
piled.
One Of the great and increasing
evils Of imperfect mastication is de-
caying of teeth. tis law Of all
vital organisms that every struc-
tpre Or post must do its own work
or die.
Corsets are the degenerators Of
one sex as much as tobacco aud liq- |
uor are the. enemies Of the other. |
Ladies suffering from nervous de- |
bility in summer should beware OF
oYer.exercisiIg The fault with too
many invalids Is that they overdo
when trying to recruit, apd thus Sc
riously retard their Improvement.
Domestic animals that are per.
nitted to live normally never have
lecayed teeth.
: Women heslthiiy and happily
are not usually in ILL.,
health. Hannah Moore wrote elev-
IN books after the age Of so. Sarah
]. Hale Is now IS, and is still edit.
ng. st INA. "A, ...... #
The influence Of Imagination on
he vital functions has always been
recognized, and it was this recogni-
ion that enabled the ancient physi.
ian to besosUccessfall llwith charms,
'mulets and incsntations, T.
Parasols, except IN tie middle IF /
be day, during the cheated term"
re parnicious things, as are the wells /
nth which SO many fashionable ilaa L
g.. J. Al r. sEEt,3A FilWt5
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07
puny and scrofalous by sleeping in
unventllated rooms.

ubVNbsAb0VOA AAOtAos
The sugar insect, which is the
cause Of that tormeDtlng skin affec,
ton known as the 'grocers itch," ,"ls
found in nearly all the brown SUI
gsrs of commerce. More than 1O0,-
QUO have been found in a single
pound OF "merchantsble" sugar.
Water-drinking between meals
should be according to thirst. It's
a mistake to load a weak stomach
with cold water on the theory that
it is a tonic. AS a habit, it is we'll
to take tumbler, or q part Of one,
ofpure, soft water after dressing in
the morning.
The prevalent custom on the part
Of most women, ofwearing the hair
twisted into a mass on the top or
back OF the head, and the more
modern and still more pernlcious
custom OF loading the head with
false hair, or substances resembling
it, is a source ofheadsche, and indi-
rectly a cause Of dyspepsia.
It is impossible for any child
whose mother has diminished her
breathing capacity by lacing to
have sound and vigorous organ.
zation. 1t girls will persist in ruin-
ing their vital organs as they grow
up to womanhood, and if women
will continue this destructive habit,
the race must inevitably deteriorate.
Erectness is. one Of the most obvi-
ous laws of vital machinery. YET
almost everyone is crooked. "Bless-
ed are the upright," physically as
well az morally.
The only method which has ever
proved effectual for preventing or
curing consumption is to keep the
lungs expanded as much as posi-.
bic. For this purpose breathing
tubes, spirometers, blow-guna, lift
ing-machnes, and other gymnsstic
contrivances have been found use.
ful.
All kinds Offood which are only
semi-sOlid, or composed of solid par
Iicles diffused in water, as -pud-
lings, stsws, mushes, gruels, soups
ste., should always be taken with
Try bread, hard crackers, green ap-
oles, or something similar, and eat
IN very slowly.
A deleterious practice, common
q our large cities especially, is
he excessive use Of ice.cream and
oda.water. iat
Everybody has fine teeth in the
East. Women there at ninety
AVE perfect teeth, and seldom one
'nder fifty loses . single incisor or
Or even a tnolar. / q
Tobacco using directly fearfally
essens the breathing capacity. This
) one reason why tobacco users re-
Iuire more sleep than others, other
circumstances being equal.
Tobacco using in young persons
'as the same effect in diminishing.
he breathing capacity that tight
acing (Which is 50 alarmingly 81
be increase agaih) has. Examples
re indeed sadly frequent on the
loroughfares Of our great cities Of
oung ladies who have destroyed
lore than half Of their breathing
BY this disgraceful habit Of
glhlit,-.llsacing. Their wan, expires
onless faces, harsh, contracted fea-
Tres, with bilious discolorations Of
'sskin, proclaim in languageithat
InrIot be mistaken, deficient respi4i
,ttoa,ss,, Au1 ,. &ho ,i,n,,,t,.hova nF
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Chief CoCkrill is taking vigorous
measures to abate the hUOdlum snu.
isauce Of that city. This boodlnm
buaipeas i engaging tbe attenttn
OF our best citizens in places other
than Frisco.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

FAcr.--When your pocket-book
is empty, not a stamp in it, and
everybody knows it, you can put
all your friends in it and it won't
bulge out worth d continental. Y
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

A LITTLE boy was asked about
the story otjOseph, and i. be knew
what wrong his brethren done in
dispOsibg OF hin when be replied,
"ImPpsth stheysOla hlmtoo ChesP.p
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07
FRIDAY, AUGUST !, 1874.

Two suicides and attempt at the
third, in San Francisco, last week.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

The mills on the Pslouss, W.T.,
have been running on halt time Of
late, % account IF NV water. In
some localities grain has been dam
aged IA, come extent BY the excess
iyebsta, ana viii not turn out as
ts4- ElsN III w .RE
wen "a fast year. II = = ) h, y
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

s}8Tfag4 5sH4gf Al s4iilf& ~ sft.aI IXnt
VELLY Coon. Friend McPher-
son has got anOfico Pub
lic sOg Douglas comfy sssa s..si .;Ii..s I '..'ii
.alr
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-08-07

Rhtl Hsr Iass story, 'sIOhn
Oakhurst,' = Was written in . single
night, and the 4 r TINES paid
him $500 tor il. Good wages, that.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Glover Hay for Horses.

The New York Herald says: Many
farmers are strenuously opposed to red
clover as feed for horses of any kind,
as they contend the poisonous dust
which rises from the dead stalks and
dry leaves frequently causes the heaves.
For many years We have kept horses
almost exclusively on clover hay
through our long winters, and if the
clover was well cut when about one
half the blossoms had turned brown,
and the hay mostly cured in the cock in
good weather, 80 as to retain most of it's
leaves and heads, and green appearance,
we have never known it to produce
either cough or heaves. We know of no
reason why it should produce a cough
in horses, any more than red-top or
herds grass. Glover when cut early fol
hay, as it generally should be, from it's
succulence, if not we'll dried before be-
ing carried to the barn in large quanti-
ties, is very liable to heat in the NOV,
or on the scaffJld this process pro-
duces some injurious chemical changes
in the hay. The starch, sugar, gum,
etc., first assume the vinous fermenta-
ton, producing a saccharine quality in
the hay. If the change here be ares
ted, no bad results would follow, the
nutririve and healthy qua ity of the
hay would not be lessened-but gener-
ally the vinous runs into the acetous
fermentation-this is followed by sour
ness, moldiness and dust. Such musty
hay, fed to horses, when made from
clover or any other kind of grasses,
would be very likely to produce a stub
born cough, frequently ending in the
heaves. It is no wonder that some
farmers have prejudice against such
clover hay.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Grange Statistics.

On the first day of October, accord.
ing to an official bulletin issued by the
secret ~ of the Natiopa Grange, in
Washington, there were in the several
states 90, 900 subordinate oranges. Dur.
ing the preceding month 400 new
oranges had been instituted. The next
session of tie National Grange will be
held in Charleston, S. c., on the first
Wednesday in February, 1875. The
oranges represented in each state are as
follows: Alabama, $50; Arkansas, 5O4
California, 231; Connecticut, 3; Della,
ware, IA; Florida, 81; Georgia, $50
Illinois, 1,513; Indiana. 1891; Iowa,
1000; Kansas, l, $50; Kentucky, /, 425;
Louisiana, 1856; Maine, So; Maryland,
118; Massachusetts,, 81; Michigan, 500;
Minnesota, $40; Mississippi, 622; Mis-
souri,, 1892; Nebraka, 500 New Hamp-
shire, 35 New Jersey, 80; New York,
238; North Carolina, $50; Nevada, 5;
Ohio, 1,O31; Oregon, ia; Pennsylva-
mia, $40; South Carolina. 313; Ten
nessee. 1908; Texas, 687; Vermont,
125; Virginia, 1913; West Virginia, 10;
WisconsiB, sos; Colorado, IS; Dakota,
Sc; Canada, 81; Idaho, %; Montana,
%; Indian Territory, 4.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Natural Gas as Fuel.

The Pittsburg iron manufacturers in
their endeavors to reduce the cost of
iron-making to the 10 vest possible point
are now experimenting with natural gas
as a cheaper fuel even than the exceed
ingly cheap coal that abounds IN that
region. This gas may be obtained for
the boring over large areas of territory,
and at Erie, Pa, it is now used for
warming and lighting houses, general
ing steam and various other purposes.
The first practical use of this fuel for
iron making is at the iron works of
Messrs. Rogers & Burchfield at Leech
burg, near Pittsburg, and at works of
the same firm at McKeesport, where
gas has been lately partially, if not en-
tirely, used in the manufacture of iron
il pudding and heating furnaces, and
to generate power for the machinery.
The advantages obtained are, first, an
economy of some 500 per week-the
cost of the coal previously used in the
works named-and a very considerable
gain, or more strictly speaking, avoid
made, together with decided improve
ment in quality of product. Since the
adoption of this fuel at the works
udulSus S6NeEdI 6DOEbS nave D60u H1hu6
at Pittsburg and in the immediate vicin
ity to obtain gas by boring, as we'll as at
other places, with thus far very fatter-
ing success. The effect of the substitu-
ton of a natural gas fuel, costing moth
ing but the expense of sinking tube
and the necessary connections to con-
duct it to the furnace, upon the iron in
dustry cannot fail to be very marked,
and should, as now seems probable, the
supply be found to be abundant and
continuous, it must result in material
reduction in the cost of making iron.
Even where the supply is confined to
certain localities of limited area, but of
large coal consuming capacity, the re-
suit is no less beneficial to the trade at
large, since a vast amount of coal is
thus liberated for consumption at other
points. In metallurgical point of view
also the use of this gas opens the way
to many practical improvements in iron
and steel making, now precluded either
by cost of fRel or by the impurities
added to the iron by its use, such as
sulphur, phosphorus and other well
known deleteriOUs elements
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Swimming Two Hundred Miles,

In the steamship Queen there was, as
one of the passengers, the noted Paul
Boynton, pearl diver, life saver, and
man-fish in general. He leaves on a
dangerous experiment, which is none
other than to make a sea voyage in a
life saving suit. It is his intention to
dop overheard not less than two hun
dred miles from land, either after leav-
lug New York or before leaving Liver
pool, when he will be left to the mercy
of the waves until he shall meet with a
passing vessel. Mr.. Boynton is conf
dent that he will come out all right in
the matter and prove the value Of the
dress. This is a rubber suit or armor
of peculiar pattern, containing COM
parGments which, whcn inflated. it is
claimed, are to float a man of any
weight in safety. The one taken by
Boynton will weigh fifteen pounds, and
he carries with him, in a rubber bag,
two dozen signal lights, two pounds of
cheese, six pounds of crackers, one piece
of bolonga sausage, one ak and one
bowie knife for sharks, signal flags,
rockets, an extra suit of clothes, and a
large double-bladed paddle with which
to propel himself. Mr.. Boynton is a
man of fine physique, and weighed yes
terday about one hundred and eighty
pounds. On the Jersey coast he claims
to have saved seventy-one lives. N. y.
Herald
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Misunderstanding Works,

There are several establishments Of
this sort in Australia, and late num-
Der of the Queenslander gives an &C
count of visit to the one at Oakley
Greek, near Toowoomba. Here there
are put in cans each day 375 wethers,
45O ewes, or 25 head Ct cattle. The
meat is carefully and expeditiously cut
from the bones of the slaughtered Car
casses, then cut up into pieces and put
into an oven for steaming, or "blanch-
ing as it is called. It is steamed
about half an hour, the escaping juices
being afterwards boiled down into
beef extract" The meat, after steam
ing, is weighed and pressed into tin
cans, the covers of which are then put
on and soldered, small hole being left
for the escape Of steam. These cans
are put into the retorts, or steamiDg
boxes, where they are left until thor
oughly cooked. The hole in the cover
is then soldered up, and the cans are
cooled suddenly under showerbath,
IN order TO create vacuum in each can.
Those failing to shrink cen be thrown
out, and those perfectly sealed are then
put up for expectation. Most of the
canned mea. goes to England.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Sterility in Fruit Trees.

There are certain we'll known laws in
vegetable growth which should be kept
in mind, and occasionally BROUGHT into
notice. servi' 6 as hints to those who
may be ignorant, or forgetful of their
application.
Unproductive fruit trees may often be
brought into bearing by process which
has long been known, but which has
lately received more attention, viz, by
bending down the erect, upward grow.
ing branches into a horizontal or droop-
ing position, and keeping them so,
through one growing season, so as to
give them permanent shape.
It is related of grape vines-one
trained vertically, one obliquely up
ward, one horizontal and one downward,
that the last bore the heaviest crop.
Many years ago I had pear tree which
grew vigorously, pushing annually
strong upright shoots, but never flower
ing. By attaching weights to three or
four of these upright limbs so as to bend
them downwards and keep them in that
position all summer, the over-luxuriant
growth was arrested, and flower buds
formed; and the nextyear these branches
bore fruit, whilst other vertical limbs
remained unfruitful.
The rationale of this is, that the flow
of sap is most abundant in the upright
or vertical growth, and the tendency
then is to form wood and leaves only.
This is the case with all vigorous young
trees. It is not until the limbs begin to
assume dropping position that bearing
begins.
The reproductive organs of a plant
blowers and seed vessels) are only meta
morphosed leaves--leaves arrested in
their normal growth and transformed
into calyx, corolla and fruit. Anything,
therefore, that disturbs or impairs the
excessively vigorous growth of a plant
has tendency to throw it into fruit
bearing condition. That which would
have gone into leaf and wood is diverted
into more profitable channels.
The practical farmer and fruit grower
know this very we'll, though they may
be ignorant of the reason.
Cotton is topped to arrest the upward
luxuriant growth, and to force the sap
into the horizontal branches, which, be-
ing retarded. is developed into flowers
and fruit. Many of our garden vege
tables may be ver-stimulated by high
manuring, so as to run into leaf and
stem at the expense OF the fruit.
We must keep this principle in view,
viz. that excessive luxurlance tends to
the formation of leaf and woody fibre
(the increase in size of the individual
plantl, and that it is not until this lux
uriance is disturbed and somewhat i'm
paired that flowers and fruit are devel
oped (the reproduction of species).
1t is found, too, that when practical
BILE, as in the case of grape-vines, the
limbs should be trained straight hori-
zontally and not curved. When straight,
the flow of sap is uniform throughout,
and all the buds are developed alike if
curved, the uppermost buds get too
much, and the lower too little nourish-
ment, so that the object is in measure
defeated.
This principle in vegetable physiology
is of wide application, and the obser-
want culturist will be able to see in it
the explanation of many things, which
otherwise would have been obscure.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
Wool.

According to the figures of the de-
partment of agriculture the wool clip is
larger than last year. In Nebraska, 151
Oregon, 1874; California. 100; Connec-
ticut, III; Minnesota, no; Texas, 1O4;
MassachU sets, Louisiana and Indiana,
IO3; Arkansas and Missouri, 102; South
Carolina, 1O1. 1t was equal to last year
In New Jersey, Michigan and Iowa.
The greatest decrease, IL per cent, was
in Vermont. Among the larger wool
producing states, Ohio decreases her
clip 3 per cent; Illinois, 4 per cent. /;
New York and Pennsylvania, 2 per cent. ;
Wisconsin, 3 per cent; Kentucky, per
cent. There is a very marked increase
of wool production in the states west of
the Mississippi and on the Pacific coast.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
A LULLABY.

-
Rockaby, lullaby, bees in the clover!
Grooming so drowsily, crying SO low
Rockaby, lullaby, dear little royerI
Down into wonderland
Down TO the under-land--
Go, oh go!
Down into wonderland 60!
Rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover
Tears on the eyelids that waver and weep
Rockaby, misunderstanding it over
Down on the uaother-Sorld,
Down on the other world!
sleep, oh sleep!
Down on enc mother-wOrld sleep!
RDckaby, lullaby, dew on the clover!
Dew on the eyes that will sparkle at dawn
Rockaby, lullaby. dear little rover!
Into the stay world
Into TIE llly-world
Gone, oh gone!
Into the lily world, gone!