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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
HIGH LIYIMG

The highest spot on the globe inhab-
tied by human beings is the Buddhist
cloister of Hanle, in Thibet, where
twenty-one priests live at an altitude of
16, 900 feet. The monks of st. Bernard,
whose monastery is 8, III feet high, are
obliged to descend frequently to the
valleys below in order to obtain relief
from the asthma induced by the rarity
of the atmosphere about their noun
tain. At the end of ten years service
in the monastery, they are compelled to
change their exalted abode for per-
manent residence at the ordinary level.
When the brothers Schlaginsweil ex-
plored the glaciers of the Ibi- -Gamin, in
Thibet, they once encamped at 81, 900
feet-the highest altitude at which a
European ever passed the night. At
the top of Mont Blanc, Is, 781 feet above
the level of the sea, Prof. TyndalI
spent night, and with less discomfort
than his guide, who found it very un
pleasant.
In July, 1872, Mr.. Glaisher and Mr..
enormous height of 38, 900 feet. Before
starting, Mr.. Glaisher's pulse beat 76
strokes per minute, and Mr.. Coxwell's s
IA. At IL, 900 feet. Mr.. Glaisher's pulse
had increased to 81, and Mr.. Coxwell's IS
to 100. At 19, 900 feet, the hands and lips
of the aeronauts turned quite blue. AT
20. 900 feet, Mr.. Glaisher could hear his
heart beat, and his breathing became
oppressed. At $4,000 feet he became
senseless notwithstanding which he
assembled still another 5000 feet, when
his hands were paralyzed, and he had to
open the valve with his teeth. In the
Alps, at the height of 13, 600 feet, clim-
bers suffer from the rarity of the air
yet, in the Andes, persons can dwell, as
at Potosi, at height of from 13, 900 to
Is, 600 feet, without inconvenience.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
ABRAHAMJC MaY,us

A contributor furnishes the following
chunks of wisdom
To be great among fools, thou must
be great fool.
Woman is said to be tickle. And
man is born of woman.
There be those who think that mules
cannot be driven without swearing.
Well, that depends upon the education
of the mules-especially the one that
drives.
Sc Be just before generous. There
be men who make this an excuse for be-
ing neither.
Nothing is smaller than fallen great
ness.
Were all men great there would be no
great men. We're mice as large as ele-
plants, elephants would be as small as
mice.
Seeking fame is like climbing a
creased pole. Men will cheer to see
thee go up, and laugh to see thee come
down.
There amt always as great distance
between greatness and idiocy rs many
suppose.
If thou art too lazy to think, thou
wilt be too poor to know.
If thou canst tolerate liar, thou art
half liar thyself.
It takes more than one to get all the
good out of laugh.
The devil will never get to heaven,
because he cannot die and have fun
eral sermon.
When a man is too poor to feed his
own feas he gets dog.
All men think well of themselves, but
some have a queer way of showing it.
Men boast of their relations when
they have nothing else to boast of.
Never thing of reasoning with mule
whether it has four or only two legs
When the devil praises thee, remem-
Der that he is "The Father of Lies"
Thou mayest tell the truth so that it
will be lie.
A knave cheats others q fool-him-
self.
Sleep is said to be brain-rest. Were
it nothing else, there bemen who might
keep awake forever.
FATHER ABRAHAM.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

WE learn from the Springfield Re
publican that Mrs. John Morrissey
promenades the streets of Saratoga in
black drap d'ete polonaise, embreid-
cred in silk, with true lovers notes and
wild flowers in all their natural and
strong colors-yellow. red, white, etc.
1t was imported FROM Paris, at cost
of 81 900 gold. Nobody passes the lady
without turning to look at her gorgeous
costume. The lady were 4fs.ss single
stone diamond ring, said to be valued at
$4,000.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

miles can be made in day by going
steadily on than by stopping. Pay as
you go. A man of honor respects his
word as his bond. Aid, but never beg.
Help others when you can, but never
give what you can't afford to, simply
because it is fashionable. Learn to say
no. No necessity for swapping it out
dog fashion, but say it firmly and re-
spectfully. Have but few confidants,
the fewer the better. Use your own
brains rather than those of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself. Be
vigilant. Keep ahead rather than be-
hind the times. Reader, cut this out,
and if there be folly in the argument,
let us know.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
UNExAMpLED PROSPERITY.

Thirty years ago California was
Mexican province. In 1S47 it became
a part of the United States and in
1949 its mineral wealth was intimated
by the finding of gold at Suffers Mill.
The progress of that State since 1848,
is one of the marvels of modern times.
Until within very few years the min
eral resources of California have been
the main stimulus to its prosperity, and
the development of it's agriculture is
now alike remarkable both in the
amount and value of the products. The
San Francisco Bulletin of the % ult.,
gives US, as a careful estimate of the
wealth created the past year from this
source, the following figures Wheat,
barley, corn, and oats, 1000, 900.
Hay, wood, wine, fruit, and dairy $18,-
600, 600; miscellaneous items, So, ,000,-
600. Making a total of 81, 200, 900.
The Bulletin thinks the actual results
will exceed rather than fall below this
estimate. The product of the mines
will be about $40, 900, 900, and of lum-
bering and manufacturing SO, 900, 900,
making total OF $101, 1000, 600. To this
must be added wages for the laboring
classes and the profits of the merchants,
professional men, and others in the ag-
gregate very large sum. Of course,
this is not all profit but estimating it
at only 30 per cent, leaving the balance
for consumption, waste, ETC., the But
zetin believes the net gain to the wealth
of California during the past year will
be $50, 900, 900. This, for State the
real history of whose progress dates
back only a quarter of a century, is a
most gratifying result.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
POWERFUL BRANDf.

A gentleman who has for years lived
to town on Thursday evening to attend
the Jones reception. He took little
champagne with Jones, and afterwards
commenced on brandy. After taking
two drinks he caught himself taking his
shirt studs out and putting them into a
friends vest pocket after the third
drink he stole his own watch. We
passed him on his way to the railroad
depot, and heard him moralizing thus ::
elf that there brandy is cheap at two
bits drink, how much is Carson riv-
er water worth at nothing? I got that
fellows watch and his studs, and if I'd
took another drink, I'd had his boots. :"
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row TO GET ALONG.

Do not stop to tell stories in busines
hours. IF you have place of business,
be found there when wanted. No man
can get rich by sitting round stores and
saloons. Never fool in business mat
4ers. Have order, system, regularity,
Iiberality and promptness. Do not
NEEDLE with business you know nothing
OF. Never buy an article you don't
need, simply because it is cheap, and
the man who sells it will take it out in
trade. Trade in money. Strive to
avoid hard words and personalities. Do
not kick every stone in the path. More
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

THE Paris correspondent of the Bos-
ton Saturday EUening Gazette writes
that 10, 600 volunteers joined the French
army last year, representing the upper
and middle classes of France. OF this
number, $500 are scarcely able to read
and write, 5000 have only the most
elementary education, and LOCO have
only the mere elementary education re
CURED of non-commissioned officers.
Such facts as these go to show that
Sedan is not the only disgraceful fact
in French affairs.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
TIE DOG QUESTION IN GEORGIA

IHh OCG QCEO41Olf 1N 6bOhbIA.
There are, according to the official
returns, 100, ,318 dogs in the State of
Georgia, and this is about one-half Of
the real number. A tax of So per head
would raise more for school fund than
the whole State now expends in educa-
tion. Moreover, the people have lik-
ing for fat mutton and yarn socks, and
dogs diminish the production of these
comfortable articles. But the difficulty
is in determining what to do with the
faithful or ferocious creatures. Taxa
ton is well enough to talk about, but
how is a tax to be levied The bother
is that under the code dogs are proper
ty, and under the Constitution property
must be taxed 0d Uolorens. Unfortun-
ately, nobody returns dog as part of
his taxable estate. Besides the crea-
lures who are owned by nobody, there
are thousands of NANCY and worthless
ours owned by people who give in no
returns of their estate, and have rarely
enough money to pay their polls. I'm
der these circumstances the dog ques-
ton has assumed important proportions
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

a NEW law in reference to truant chill
dren Is about to go into effect in New
York city. It is designed to clear the
streets of the young vagrants, who,
growing up without care, furnish many
recruits to the criminal classes. The
law gives the Board of Education au-
thority over all children between the
ages of 8 and IA years who are found
wandering about the streets and public
places during school hours, having no
lawful occupation or business, and
growing up in ignorance. These chill
dren the board may order to be taught
in the schools like ordinary pupils, OF
they may be instructed in useful trades.
or they may be put in confinement and
educated there. The agency of the
police force is availed of for the enforce.
ment of this new law.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
TIE CLIMATE OF ALAsKA,

The Se7-Oace Monthly, in an interest
ing chapter upon Alaska, gives few
items regarding the weather that will
be of interest to those who do not ap-
preciate the peculiarities of that climate.
At Sitka the mean temperature of sum-
mer is 81 degrees and that of winter is
32 degrees, the latter being precisely
! the mean of st. Louis, Mo. In place
of incessant hail and snow, as is fre-
quently enormously supposed, rain falls
| throughout the winter season, and
whatever snow falls soon disappears.
Not only do these thermal conditions
exist at the capital of Alaska, but a pro-
portionally high temperature reigns
throughout the coasts beyond, and the
influence of the ocean currents extends
even to Norton Sound, near the arctic
circle. In the Aleutian Islands the
winters are somewhat colder, but the
temperature frequently remains above
35 degrees until the 1st of January.
On Kodiak Island the two most severe
frosts of one winter were recorded at
O degree and 13 degrees. The Greek
Bishop Veniaminoff, who has kept a
continuous record for six years, states
that during that interval only on nine
occasions did the mercury fall below
10 degrees Fahrenheit; but on the other
hand the summer temperature averages
only 49 degrees, and the line of per-
petual snow on Maskushin, an active
volcano in Oonalaska, has an elevation
of 3,100 feet. The arctic winter in the
interior at Fort Yukon yields mean
temperature of 80 degrees, but the mean
temperature of July is frequently as
high as IS degrees or 70 degrees. From
December to April the average number
of days on which rain or snow falls in
the Aleutian Archipelago is twenty-six
per month. The mean temperature of
the winter months on the island of St.
Paul is 90 degrees, or very nearly the
same as at Omaha and Northern New
York. Fog prevails almost incessantly
in the autumn. Iceland in the North
Atlantic and st. Paul in the North
Pacific. or Behring sea, represent re-
spectively two areas of low barometer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
A REMARKABLE CRAFT.

Stanley has had a boat built in
England for his African expedition.
This craft possesses some remarkable
features of construction to meet the
necessity of lightness, strength, and
small draught of water, combined with
great carrying power. She is built of
cedar wood, with mahogany bulkheads,
is 40 feet from stem to stern, with 6
feet beam, and is put together in such
a manner that she can be divided into
five sections, each section weighing
only 120 pounds, and being provided
with carrying-poles, SO that it can be
carried by two men in the style of an
Indian palanquin. Though so light,
the hoat will carry about fifty persous,
or between six and seven tons burden,
while drawing only one foot of water
when fully loaded. She is fitted with a
double bank of fourtee6 oars, seven on a
side, and will carry two large sails
With peculiar appropriateness to the
object of his mission, the boat was
christened Livingstone.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
BEA UTIFUL INCIDENT IN THE LIFE
OF A QUEEN.


William ". expired about midnight
at Windsor Palace. The Archbishop of
Canterbury, with other peers and high
functionaries of the kingdom, was in
attendance. AS soon as the ''scepter
had departed" with the last breath of
the King, the Archbishop quilted Wind.
sor Castle, and made his way with all
possible speed, to Kensington Palace,
the residence at that time of the Prin-
cess-already by the law of succession,
Queen Victoria. He arrived long be-
fore daylight, announced himself, and
the Princess. She hastily attired her.
self, and met the venerable prelate in
her ante-room. He informed her of the
demise of William, and formally an
nounced to her that she was, in law and
right, successor to the deceased mon
arch. "The sovereignty of the most
powerful nation of the earth lay at the
feet of girl of eighteen" She was de
jasre Queen of the only realm, in fact
of history, son which the sun never
SETS" She was deeply agitated at the
formidable words $50 fraught with bless
ings or calamity" The first words she
was able to utter were these. ST ask
you prayers in my behalf" They
knelt down together, and Victoria in
augurated her reign, like the young
King of Israel in the olden time, by
asking from the Most High, who ruleth
in the kingdoms of men, "an under
standing heart to judge SO great peo-
pie, who could not be numbered nor
counted for multitude" The sequel Of
her reign has been worthy of such be-
ginning. Every throne in Europe has
tottered since that day. Most of them
have for time been overturned. That
of England was never SO firmly seated
in the loyalty and love of the people as
at the present hour. Queen Victoria
enjoys a personal influence, too-the
heartfelt homage paid to her as wife,
mother, and benefactor to the poor, a
Christian woman-incompar wiser
and greater than any monarch now
reigning. She is loved at home and ad-
mired abroad.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

TYRE AND SIDoN.-Tyre was very
ancient city, and one of great renown.
It was in Phonicia, on the coast of the
Mediterranean, and partly built on an
island. The part of the city situated
on the shore was called Old Tyre. The
tribe of Ashur bordered on Tyre. Here
Solomon obtained lumber and skilled
workmen for building the temple at Jeru-
salem. Tyre was famous for its arts
and skilled artisans. It was conquered
by the Chaldans and afterward by the
Persians, and then by Alexander the
Great, and was finally destroyed by the
Saracens, A. D. 1891. It is now heap
of ruins, and memorable illustration
of the fulfllment of prophesy. See
Eek. xviii.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

III. If this table is to be depended
upon, we thus learn that of all coun-
tries in the world Norway offers the new
born child the best chance of long life
while Ireland offers the worst. And
France, universally admitted to be SO
far as soil and climate are concered one
of the most favored regions of the earth,
offers but little better chance than
Ireland.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

BASEBALL clubs are starting up in
various parts of England. The recent
baseball contests in London between
the Boston and Philadelphia clubs
have excited very general interest there.
Bats, balls, and the other articles used
in playing the game are being imported
for sale, and the papers are publishing
manuals for the instruction of players.
The Americans astonished everybody
by winning several cricket matches,
beating the natives at their own game.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

IMPORTANT old gent from the country
(who thinks the lofty bearing Of those
London barmaids ought to be "taken
down bit y" Glass of ale. young
woman; and look sharp, please p
Naughty blonde (blandly)-" Second
class refreshments lower down, sir -
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

On an average five million newspapers
are distributed every day in the United
States-more than two newspapers q
week for every man, woman and child
that can read. No other country or age
has ever had such a multiplicity of
journals. Great Britain has only two
ffths as many, and twenty years ago
We had but one where now there are
five
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

The French Academy of Sciences is
in state of profound anxiety, and
manifests the greatest alarm lest the
climate of Southern Europe should be
injuriously affected by turning the Des-
ert of Sahara into sea, which some one
PROPOSES to do.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

HITHERTO worn-out straw hats have
been considered things utterly beyond
utilization. The world advances, how
ever, and now profound American
economist proposes to chop them up
by machinery and feed horses with
them
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

THE Pennsylvania railroad claims the
largest locomotive in the country. 1t
has twelve driving wheels, and weighs
seventy-five tons.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

WHEN man reminds you that you
owe him, just make note of it. He
will take more interest in the matter if
you humor him in that way.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

The British government is talking of
expending 5000, 600, 900 in irrigating the
lands of India to prevent future fam
ines. It is a gigantic conception.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

GonD may be beaten into leaves so
thin that 1SO, 900 would be only an inch
thick.
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GIRAEEES.

Recent note has been made of the ar
rival at the Garden of Acclimation, in
Paris, of six giraffes, the oldest of
which is three years of age. The giraffe is
native of Africa, and used to inhabit
the country from Nubia to the Cape of
Good Hope, but it is said now to be re-
stricted to small canton of Abyssinia
All attempts at demonstrating the ami
NAL have failed in Africa, yet it is easily
tanned in Europe. In its native haunts
it roams in herds of from five to fifty,
browsing on the leaves and small
branches of trees. It is inoffensive,
and seeks to escape danger by flight !;
yet, if hard pressed, will fight stoutly,
discharging storm of kicks with it's
hind legs that will even beat off the
lion. Its running pace is swifter than
that of feet horse, and it moves over
uneven ground with great advantage
The flesh of the giraffe is called palat-
able, and its marrow is favorite Afri-
can delicacy.
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in Georgia and SO absolute is the mud
die that the animal kills sheep, goes
mad, and disseminates feas with reck-
less impunity.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

A PARIS correspondent of the London
Times, who writes about the late tour
of President Mac cMahon through France,
declares that the French peasantry do
not believe the late Emperor Napoleon
is dead. Their theory is that the story
of his death was concocted by his ene-
mics who wish him dead. They also
believe that MacMahon was placed in
power for the purpose of seizing on the
favorable moment for the return of the
Emperor. In the city of Mans peas
ant told the correspondent that they
were deceiving the people; that the
empire in fact existed in Paris; and
that he had seen the Emperor on horse
back, in Marshal's uniform, in the
very costume he used to wear, with the
same large red ribbon, the same mus
tache and short hair, but only a little
grayer than it used to be. It was in
fact to dispel this delusion that Presi-
dent MacMahon made his tour, and he
now finds that most of the peasants ac-
tually took him for the late Emperor
and refuse to be convinced of the ex-
istence of President or a republic.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

SOMEBODY ingeniously calculates that
in planting and garnering twenty acres
of corn a farmer must travel at least
nine hundred miles in the cornfield
alone. SCI have, he says, "a twenty
acre field forty by eighty rods. To
break this up would take one hundred
and sixty-six miles narrowing it, about
forty miles furrowing out, ninety
miles; planting, forty-five miles, if
with planter; and if dropped and
then covered, nirety miles; and for
each plowing of two burrows in a row,
ninety miles; or, five plowings, four
hundred and fifty miles. Thus you
will see it takes about eight or nine
hundred miles of travel to raise twenty
acres of corn, not counting going to
and returning from the field. Besides,
there is some replanting, thinning, roll
ing" etc.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-08
RICH MEN AND THEIR SONS.

A New York correspondent of the Boston
Times writes as follows:
How rare it is that rich mer have large
number of sons, and how few Of their sons
have any of the money saving or money:ma'
king capacity of their fathers. Of our three
wealthiest citizens, Alexander T. Stewart is
childless Cornelius Vanderbilt has but two
sons-W IN. H. Vanderbilt, president of the
Hudson river railway, and the inheritor OF
good deal of the paternal nerve and energy,
and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., as notorious
for borrowing as the senior is for making
money.
It was Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr, who ne,
potiated loans on bis personal responsibility
with the kind-hearted Horace Greeley to the
extent of some $4,000. The Commodore had
long ceased to discharge his hopeful offspring's
debts, and when he heard the editor Of the
Tribune had been made victim, he entered
the sanctum, and informed the journalist that
he would not pay a dollar of the obligation.
Of course Horace Greeley had no such ex-
pectation, and without looking up from the
diagram of Boston he was scratching Oft with
his pen, and callingit it copy, he queried in his
high KEY: "Who the devil wants you to,
Commodore Vanderbilt" After the decease
of the distinguished journalist, the elder Van:
derbilt did relent little, and sent Ida and
Gabrielle Greely two $4,000 first mortgage
bonds on the Harlem Railway.
Old John Jacob Astor had two sons, one of
whom was deranged, on account, as is alleged,
Of fall upon his head in his youth. He
lived to be seventy-fve, dying few years ago
in q quaint old house in Fourteenth street.