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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
All Sorts.

IT costs only half cent mile to go
to Europe
OLIVE HARPER, gossipping Ameri-
can newspaper correspondent, has
just keen married to a French Mar
quis.
IT is stated that among persons of
eighteen and under, the proportion OF
the illiterate is smaller in San Francisco
than in any other large city in the
Union.
A FoUR-YEAR.oLDc child in Tuscarora,
Pa, has actually died of drunkenness.
It's besotted mother fed it with whisky
until after weeks of steady intoxication
it died.
CAPT. JOHN BOSTON, of Lewis county,
KY, aged 95, and a veteran of the war
of 1912, is about to be married. His
intended bride is only year older than
himself.
Mrs. ScoTr-SIDDoNs has left England
on a "farewel tour" through India,
China, Japan and the United States,
and it will take two years to bid every
body adieu.
A AREMARKABLE instance of the increase
in the sale of imported OK tongues is
afforded by the trade done at Paysan-
au, in Uruguay. At this little town,
during the last season, about $50, 600
OK tongues were packed in hermeti-
cally-sealed tins and shipped to En-
gland.
G. CoBB, a printer, while trying to
mount his fiery steed upon the streets
of st. Louis the other day, was bitten
by the other cob upon the arm. A fell
low feeling, probably, made the animal
wondrous kind. He saw Cobb, and
thinking him Sc corned," wanted to eat
him.
IF a young lady has brother, and
that brother wears brown felt hat
worth 50, and he should come home late
at night from seeing some friends, with
that hat crushed into forty-seven )"
shapes, the young lady should imme-
diateiy seize it and by strewing
rosette of velvet and some ribbon over
it, she will have a hat of the latest style,
worth about SO.
THE Marchioness of Thomond, who
has just died at 80 years of age, was the
widowof nobleman who used to claim
that according to 1ineal descent, he
would be the lawful King of Ireland.
The Marquis and Marchioness used to
live at Bath, and their equipage was
about the best known in that city. The
Marquis died some twenty years go.
The widow married Rear Admiral Fame,
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Habits of the Ostrich.

The fallacy that ostriches do not sit
on their eggs, but leave them to be
Matched out by the heat of the sun, is
upset by the report of Captain of an
Algerian regiment in the Bulletin of
the Paris Acclimatization Society. Ac-
cording to the same authority, the mum
Der of eggs laid by e.ne female averages
about eighteen, but the whole of these
are hardly ever sat upon. In many
cases they are left entirely alone. with
out being once covered, and of course
they are not Matched. In those cases
where the birds brood over the eggs,
three or four are always elected from
the nest. This apparent wantonness on
the part of the parent bird has its OBJ
ject; and the object is, that the eggs
shall serve as food for the chicks till
they are big enough to accompany their
parents to the breeding grounds. An
ostr1ch's nest is often built in the midst
of desert, many miles away from a
blade of grass and il some provis-
ion were not made for the young bird,
it would be born only to die. This
fact has been proved by placing some
food cut fine near the newly-hatched
ostriches, but they refused it, and, the
mother having broken the shells of
several of the rejected eggs, they greedi-
ly ate the contents, swallowing guam
tity of sand with the yelk of the egg.
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An .Ex.E3ecutioner.

FIgaro's reporter always saw at the
Paris executions an old man dressed in
black, of distinguished appearance, and
who always took an intense interest in all
the details, and was on familiar terms
with all the functionaries. For q long
time the reporter was mystified. and
finally resorted to On interview. His
man proved to be an ex-dignitary of NE
guillotine. He had been the assistant
for many years of Heindreich, the fos-
mer executioner. He attends the exc
cutions out of feeling of ss home-sick,
ness for his ancient occupation" He
finds the present executions only $3.50,
and says that Heindreich was more dis
tissq1e. In his refinement he has made
himself little guillotine. and guillo'
tines rats and mice at his home, No
131 Boulevard Mont Parnasse.
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RSOp.

Probably every one has heard of the
fables of 1Esop, yet if questioned as to
their authorship, how many could give
any account
The life of Esop, asst is given before
so many editions of his fables, is an in.
vention of one Planudes, Greek monk
of the sixth or seventh century. The
same may be said of large proportion
of the fables which bear his name.
Scores of fables by the priests and
monks of the first to the sixth century
are accredited to Esop. It is so with
many traditions.
OF the real life of Esop little is known
with certainty. "The different tradi-
tions, opinions and conjectures of Rsop
by both ancient and modern writer's
would fill large volume" Ph@drus,
Euripides, Plutarch, Plato, Aristotle,
Gellius, and in fact nearly all of the
writer's of the ancient Greeks mention
him. ''You have not so much as read
Esop," was proverbial expression for
Ignorance.
Esop fourished about B. G. $50,
hundred years before Herodotus, the
most ancient Greek historian, and four
hundred years after Homer. He was
born at some town in Phrygis, and was
by condition a slave, though probably
he rose above that condition, as he be-
came an eminent speaker. Most writer's
also ascribe to him a deformed person.
Perhaps it is on this account he got the
name of Gelootopotos,a as he is called by
Lucian.
Indeed, it is not material whether he
was bond or free, whether handsome or
ugly. He has left us legacy in his
writings that for $500 years has pre-
served his memory dear to US. And
although in this long period the cir
c1lmstances of his life have been lost,
his fables remain, and will continue to
instruct as they have in the past
Hearth and Home. NJ
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How to Make Mischief.

Keep your eye on your neighbors.
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do. To be sure,
you never knew them to do anything
bad, but it may be on your account they
have not. Perhaps If it had not been
for your kind care, they might have dis
graced themselves a long time ago.
Therefore do not relax any effort to keep
them where they ought to be. Never
mind your own business-that will take
care of itself. There is man passing
along-he is looking over the fence
suspicious of him /; perhaps he contem-
plates stealing, some of these dark
nights, there is no knowing what queer
fancies may have got into his head.
If you find any symptoms of any one
passing out of the path of duty, tell
every one else what you see, and be par
ticular to see great many. It is good
way to circulate such things, though it
may not benefit yourself particularly.
Do keep something going silence is a
dreadful thing though it is said there
was silence in heaven for the space of
half an hour, do not let any such thing
occur on earth, it would be too much
or this mundane sphere.
MISTAKEN ADVERTISING. = An ex-
change expresses the opinion that the
public can be better reached through
the columns of newspaper of fair
circulation than through all the other
mediums, costly circulars, cards, pos
ters, give-aways and jimcracks put to-
gether. The old-established county
newspaper is, after all, the only general,
judicious medium for advantageous
advertising. A thousand doors are
opened to welcome it a thousand mes
sengers are weekly seeking the Post
Office to receive it /; a thousand families
look for its coming, and ten thousand
read it when it does come, advertise
ments and all. There is much truth in
this. The thousands of dollars wasted
annually upon expensive almanacs, cir
culars and other questionable methods
of advertising, which, in company with
Patent Office reports, find their way to
the junk-shop, would render very ma
terial aid toward the support of num-
bers of deserving papers, and also re-
turn something in the way of profit to
| the advertiser.
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A Man Slaughters One Hundred Striped
Snakes.

Last spring Will Moody moved out
of his log house in Union Grove, and
it stood unoccupied and deso1ate for
several weeks, but last July Ed. Asher
purchased the property and moved into
the old house to stop only while he
could build new frame house.
He had hardly settled his family in
their new quarters before they had a
practical demonstration that there were
occupants there before them, who evil
oently looked upon the new comers as
snakes The little striped garter
snakes.
The first night iA the house, there
vas a great rustling on the floor like
tle pattering of myriads of mice, but it
was mice not that made the noise; it was
the sound from dozens of snakes as they
dragged themselves across the floor
Delightful
In the morning Mr.. A. used to get up,
shake the reptiles out of his clothes,
grasp a pitchfork and pitch the Shiny
devilsOut of doors, It was no uncom-
mon thing to kill half dozen in the
morning. The second and third DAYS
were worse than the first. At breakfast
crawling up his leg, and, glancing down
ward, found beautiful little striped
fellow working his way UP in the world.
Another time he found a three-foot fell
low in his overcoat pocket. who greeted
him on his approach with a friendly
kiss.
This nuisance became intolerable.
The house was old and the mortar in
the clinking had given away in many
places, and in the evening no sooner
was the lamp lighted than q serenade
of Kisses would begin, and nearly every
one of the holes would be ornalAented
with snakes head. At the end of the
fourth day, Mr.. Asher grsped his
shovel and went to the banking of the
house, a mass of straw and dit that had
not been moved for several years, and
here were their snakeships IN all their
glory. 1t was a perfect massacre, for
in that banking he found and killed an
even hundred garter snakes. Thirty
were found in one nest.
There's a scarcity of the serpent
around Mr.. A. IS farm now.-Litchfetd
(11i7l7a.) LedQer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

ANTHONY CoMsToCK, chief detective
of the New York Society for the Sup
preston of Vice, told Brooklyn meet
ing the other evening that nineteen tons
of obscene publications have been
seized this year, with account books
showing the names of 4,50O dealers all
over the country. One hundred per-
sons have been convicted during the
year. A few nights later Comstock's Is
face was terribly gashed by dirk in
the hands of one of the dealers whom
he had arrested. But for his great
physical strength Comstock would
Idoubtless have been murdered.
THE Richmond { Vo.) Enquirer says
"Lynchburg is to have a likeness of
Senator Thurman, taken by her own
photographer. During his recent visit
to his native town the Senator gave
Van Ness a sitting, and the vainest
town in the State is supremely happy
in the possession of her favorite sons
negative
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

THE English firm of powder manufac-
turers that owned the cargo which re-
Gently exploded with such damaging re re-
suits few weeks ago, contributed $oUU
to the relief fund of the sufferers.
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ACCORDING to the late Prof. Agasslz,
the Adirondack group of mountains -
the Oldest In the world-the lana "nLIn lfa
first made its appearance aDone oon 'A
waters of the great primevaI ocean'
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

RICE OAKE.-One cup of rice -four,
three eggs, one cup of sugar. Beat
the eggs to a standing froth, then
add the sugar and beat as much longer
or until light add %he rice flour and
beat light again. Bake III quick oven.
AS there is neither butte~ nor soda in
it, it is good cake for invaSds.
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w o M l. NJ

Are subjected; and tonic for the Aged, Feeble
and Debilitated, have equal They strictly in
tended as Temperance Tonic or Bitters, to be
used as medicine only, and always according to
directions.
SOLD BY ALL FIRST Glass DRUGGISTS,
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Wonderful Curiosity.


The British ship Scindia, Capt. Geo.
Harrison, arrived here few days since
from Calcutta, having on board one of
the most remarkable natural curiosities
the world has probably ever seen. It
consists of short-horned, sacred Brah-
min bull, born in Nepaul, Northern
India, in 1871, and imported here by
Capt. William Dennison Folger, form
erly of this city, but latterly a resident
OF Calcutta. The bull itself is q re-
markable curiosity, and is one of that
description of animals held in great
reverence by the natives of India, on
account of its traditional sacred charac-
ter. But in this case a novel Iusus
nature renders it most singular crea-
ture. The brute portion is symmetric-
ally formed with a glossy coat of fawn
colored hair and well-shaped body and
limbs. But protruding, as it were, from
the left side of the hump on the back
OF the neck of the animal, is wonder
full and regularly shaped, in nearly all
respects, human arm. The deltoid and
triceps and biceps muscles are we'll de-
veloped, particularly the latter; the
joint at the elbow is flexible, the fore
arm rather attenuated, the wrist as fully
flexible as in the human arm proper,
while the hand is composed of four dis
VAASCAy 4404nOA bWO "a bIOA COLI
nected together. The extraordinary ap-
pendage to an otherwise well formed
body does not appear to give the crea-
ture any Inconvenience or pain, gener-
| ally hanging hstlessly by its side, ex-
cept when it is angered or annoyed,
when the arm raises as if it's possessor
felt inclined to ' strike from the shoul-
DER" The animal is quite healthy,
enjoys a ravenous appetite, the nice
grass of its native cline being its IA
vorite food, and does not seem to have
suffered any bodily injury by it's long
sea voyage. If not disposed of in this
country, we learn that it is the inten-
tion of the importer to take the creature
to England, and secure it place in the
London Geological Gardens, where such
novelties are highly priced. It would
prove unique attraction to the natural
curiosities in our Central Park. It has
already been visited on the Scindia by
several scientific gentlemen of this city
and Brooklyn, where the ship lies, near
he Fulton ferry.-NeU York Herald.
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THE ITALIAN HOMICIDE.

The Murderer Committed TO the Tombs.
Coroner Kessler held the inquest yesterday In
the case Of vincenzo Bancamano, who died as the
Park Hospital, on Monday last, from stab wound
OF the abdomen, inflicted by Joseph viccari, on
Friday afternoon. the Sd inst, during an alterca-
tion about two cents.
Mathio Gentilla, OF No. Al Mulberry street, testi-
fed than he was present at the time OF the ARRAY,
Biancamano told the prisoner to give him four
cents but the latter only wanted to give him two
cents; after some words had passed between them
the men closed together and had fight; witness
saw Viccar pull out a kniie and stab the 0ther
man; recogn ized the prisoner as the man VINO
stabbed the deceased. .,
Michael Piseto OF No. Al Mulberry street testi.
ned that he knew botn the prisoner and deceased,
was present In the room during the nght ana saw
the stabpng; the knife used by the prisoner haa
Deputy Coroner Or. Leo testified that he made
post-mortem examination upon the body OF the
deceased and found an incsed wound over an inch
IN length In the abdomen; death. in MS opinion.
resulted from traumatic peritonits caused by
stab wound.
the jury, after q brief denberaton, rendered q
verdict that the deceased came 10 MS death from
| a stab wound OF the abdomen inflicted at the
hands OF Joseph viccari on the Sd day OF July, al
| No 35 Mulberry street
| The prisoner, In answer to the Coroner, stated
| that he was forty y-lour years Of age, native o
South Italy and resided at No. 35 Mulberry street
! and BY occupa tlon q ragpcker. He pleaded no,
! guilty. and was committed to the Tombs TO await
| the action Of the Grand Jury
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snersUre % presumed to be similar. Those three

therefore 90 presumed to be similar. Those three
bands exist n Cogc,s,s comet.
"Tne question Is 70 what phenomena would
therefore, be answered BY answering the Suss sioH.
What would be the consequence OF adding 30 the
asns @ tss o. 81
atmosphere at tne greatest heights to which bal
Icons have be sssndsS sSs Our SSnd
would be noticed on the ssrth's surface;
but some very slight changes mirht be percep-
tinle, one or two OF which we will indicate. Tyn-
powerful absorDents Of the heat rays. II follows,
therefore, that the mixture Of possibly one per
to raise the average temperature Of the earth,
since Its presence would hinder the radiation
mo space OF terrestrial heat the total
effect upon the mean annual temperature being as
nearly as we can estimate less than Q quarter Of
degree Of Fahrenheit for stations at the Equator.
In our latitude. This dlminution OF terrestrial
radiation would have as q further consequence an
pended in the air an increase IN the severity ever Of
storms, and sta gea:er contrast between the
rainfall IN the desert and In the well watered
RBNCoNTRE WITH THE EARTH IMPROBABLE
"But considerations as to the possible effect OF
OF the comets tail seem altogether out of place
when we consider that such addition cannot hap
Unity to portion Of the tai as to draw it 70 It.
SELF and oi this event there seems, IN the present
case, but little II any, PROBABILITY 1t has, indeed
been satisfactorily ascertained that on two pre-
vious occasions during the past century-namey,
on June 80, 1861, and November ~, 1872 this very
event did, in all probability, happen On the lat
ter occasion beautiful display Of shooting stars
took place in consequence. At the earlier date
there was some talk about perceiving a slight
haze in the atmosphere similar to that OF indian
summer weather, or OF the Aurora Borealis.
THE GROWTH OF PIE TAIL
"But as regards the present comet we, as was
above said, can hardly expect SO interesting an
event. Accurate observations have been made at
Washington on the growth OF the tail during the
past month, which have shown that, while on the
23d OF June Its apparent length was one and half
degrees corresponding to q real length OF at least
900 miles, 1t mad on the 7th OF July In
creased to an apparent length OF eleven degrees,
corresponding to real length NJ at least 10 OOO 600
miles AT Al tnis rate the length OF the tan VIII,
on the Goth OF July not exceed 10000, 900 miles.
''OoservatiOns made upon the nucleus with very
powerful telescope give no decided evidence OF
any well marked internal constitution about the
head, such as was remarkably shown in Donati's
comet, wnence we would rather infer that Coggia's
comet will not at any time have the intrinsic
brightness ana magnitude Of its predecessor
The New York herald., 1874-07-11
TIDAL WAVES.
An Interesting Lecture by Professor
Van der Weyde.

Van der Weyde.
Professor Van der Weyde delivered last night his
lecture on .'ridal wavesn before the Liberal Club
at Plimpton Hall. He introduced the lecture by
showing that his subject was cool and not dry.
(Laughter.) Tidal waves were the only manifesto
ton Of the attraction Of sun and moon on the
surface Of the earth. II the earth were entirely
surrounded by the ocean the solar tidal wave
would travel round the whole earth In twenty
four hours, which is velocity OF 900 miles
per hour. The lunar wave would travel
round the earth in twenty-five hours, at a velocity
OF 800 miles per hour AS, however, the eonti-
nents are everywhere interposed except round
the South Pole it is only there that this wave mo-
ton takes place, and from this region 1t is
propagated nOrthward into the Indian Ocean and
into the Atlantic, where 1t attains its greatest
magnitude. 1t propagates from Van Dlemen's
Land In twelve hours to the coast OF HindOstan,
and In another twelve hours from the Cape OF Good
Hope to Senegal Twelve hours later 1t has
reached the coast OF Great Britain. and, turning
an opposite directiOn-namely, from west TO east.
Its velocity Of propagation depends on the depth
@ Of 'as the 's earsn Xt depth Of f. LOO
hour and when the depsa is 100 Soms the veo
city ls 100 miles. At 20 iathoms 1t Is SO miles, 10
1atDoms % miles, and fathom miles. Tnis law,
which was discovered by Russell is so reliable that
it has been possible to determine the depth OF the
ocean by the velocity Of the tidal wave.
teresting calculation Of the power Of the tidal
wave OF the ocean, proving that 1t were utilized
would be to the
scarcity OF coal extensive experiments had been
made IN some Of the countries OF Europe 70 md
the best means Of utlliztng this enormous power
wherever 1t Is practicable.
The paper was listened to with great attention,
lecturer. Many OF the salient points Of the lee
ture wire discussed before the club adjourned.
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A Cure Suggested by . Woman.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The prevalence Of the most terrific OF all dis
eases-viz., hydrophoba-has naturally set the
wits OF every one to WORK to discover, if possible,
q cupe. Yet so far, 1 cannot see that any
one has bestowed moments thought
upon either OF the various preparations
of the most thorough Of all blood
scourers, viz. potassium. have under my I'M
mediate care case OF hereditary blood talnt and
I have used with wonderful success the above
mentioned remedy and | cannot see why II IL IS
useful in case OF blood poison snat IL loon
nearly twelve years to develop, IL should not De
eficacious where the poisoning occurs oy inocula.
tion. have proposed the idea TO Two medcal
friends, One replied that "a woman could not be
hysican." The otner objected on the ground that
the remedy would be too slow IN It's operation.
Does apy one know OF q case whore the develop
ment of the disease Immediately succeeded tho
bitter The proverDial jealousy OF the medical pro-
fession makes them scout an idea presented by
non pr professional person, but rs they will admit
that many q useful discovery has been made by
accident, so also 1t may be made by
NEW YORK. July l, 1874 UNA PIAZZA.
The New York herald., 1874-07-11
MONMOUTH PARK RACES.

The irst race to-day will be for the July Stakes,
$500 added to q sweepstakes Of $50 each, play or
pay ior two-year-olds; the winner OF the Hopeful
Stakes to carry lbs.; the second to receive 500
and the third $50 out Of the stakes; threequarters
OF a mile. The second race will be four mile dash !;
the third race dash OF a mile and and an eighth
for all ages, and the fourth race between beaten
horses, a mile and q half The following are few
OF the pools sold last evening the several races
showing the estimation held by the speculatOrs on
the horses that will run
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william H. Hill, aged thirty-four, no home, was
sunstruck yesterday on the corner Of Centre and
Duane streets.
Bertha Bost, OF NO. 800 Delaney street, was
found at NO. SO Leonard street yesterday suffering
from the heat.
Michael Hanlon aged thirty-four. OF No. o4l Sew
enth avenue, was sunstrucK yesterday at Seventy
NTH street and Madison avenue
Alexander Johnson OF No. 4ls West Thirty. eighth
street. was overcome BY the heat In blacksmitn's g
shop yesterday In Thirty ninth street, near Tenth
avenue.
An unknown man was found on the street yes
terday by the police suffering from sunstroke.