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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30
TIE MIXED POETIC STYLE.

The first exhibitions of poetic genius
are generally rather striking. An editor
gives few specimen verses of poem
which he cruelty rejected
81 hau dreme;
thort alone, alone;
Oh, it did seme
So sad away from home, from home.
"My he'd upon my hand
lent, lent:
Mi ee upon the sand
bent, bent.
al thort of other days;
And things, and things;
OF happy, childish plase,
And strings, and strings"
This is neither 80 bold in conception
nor so affecting in its conclusion as the
following
"Poor Jonathan Snow
Away did go
All on the ragen name,
With other males
AL for to ketch wales
& mere come back agen.
The wind bloc hi,
The billers tost
All hands were lost,
And he was one,
spritely lad,
Nigh 81"
A method by which persons with
short memories may sing songs which
have been partly forgotten, and also
supply rhymes, is suggested by the
following
"oh, if had lumty tum lumty tum too
In the land of the olive and fig,
would sing Of the luInti tum lumti to you
And play on the thingumyjig.
" And if in the 1uInty tum battle fall,
tumti tun's all that I crave;
Oh, bury me deep in the what-you-may-eaI.
And plant thingumbobs over my grave"
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A SAD STORY

The following sad story of darkened
life is given in the Boston Transcript :.
In Nashua. N. H., resides young
whose pitiful lot excites the deepe
sympathy. When a child she
scalded about the head and face, an
although she survived her injuries the
rosy face of childhood was changed to a
mask--a travesty ON the human coun-
tenance-absolutely frightful in its
nideousness. In Lowell, Mass, where
she once lived, SO great was the horror
excited by her appearance that she was
forbidden by the authorities to show
herself on the strees. AT Nashua she
ventured out the other day and several
ladies tainted at sight of her, and call
is now made upon the authorities of
that place to forbid her appearance on
the streets. What mournful fate is
hers To live through the terrible
physical suffering only to endure hence
forward keener mental anguish IN the
knowledge that she is a thing of horror,
to be abhorred and Stunned by human
kind.
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SENATOR Mopron

VI Senator Morton thus writes the
Indianapolis Sentinel: "There is GER
'alnly nothing either effeminate or divine
ABOUT his appearance, although there
are traces OF suffering in his face. and
m ne Is unable to stand up and speak.
Ills shoulders are broad, his chest deep.
anu MS voice strong. He seems scarcely
W nave crossed the meridian line of
lie, and his thick rnustacbe and 1ono
cnln ~niskers are coal black. The only
signs OF age about him are that his.
naturally high forehead is extended .hv..
the wearing away of his dark hair from,
his temples, and the top of his head 10
tonsored like that of medieval roonk
Mouth and chin are hidden bnt +bo.
Jaw and nose express force and With
out any unkind intentions he Il s,,olro,,
-1eroclty OF character. The latter fea-
ture is certainly as peculiar as that of
Morrlssey, the celebrated New York
Congressman, running up from the face
at very abrupt angle, and apparently
ending, as Heine said all English noses
ended, with piece chopped off. The
courage, tenaclty, endurace, and, if it
be said that it expresses the same grade
of vices, the phrase is used not to attrib
ute traits of character, but to suggest
physical peculiarities. The best and
wisest man that ever lived was as ugly
as satyr, and possessed countenance
upon which was set the seal of every
human vice. The contents of the casket.
however, were as precious as its outside
was foul. To those who have never
seen Mr.. Morton, it has always been
wonder how he could speak with effect
while seated, and it may be said that,
artistically considered, he makes his
weakness more effective than another
could of his strength. OF Chatham it
was said that his crutch became, in his
hand, an instrument of oratory. Nor
ton uses his infrmity with the same
power, and as he sits in his chair, swing
ing it from side to side, and using his
arms in strong gesticulation, the mere
fact of his attitude lends sort of dra-
'matic authority to what he says. He
talks without rising-as a king from his
throne. Literally and fguratively~
utterances are &c cathedra. He guides
the Republicans of Indiana through this
campaign as through all previous ones;
and as the French looked with conf
dence on the morning Of the eventful
day of Fontenoy to the litter on which
their commander, Marshal SAKE, was
stretched, broken down with disease, SO
the adherents of the administration turn
hopefully to that old armchair
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HYDRAuLIC MIN1NG.

In the system of hydraulic mining
which prevails extensively in Califor-
mia, there were employed, in 1867,
5000, miles Of artificial water-courses.
Prof. Raymond states, in one of his re-
ports on mines west of the Rocky.
Mountains, that the fumes of these
canals are often of sheet-iron, and in
some places are carried considerable
distances at height of $50 feet above
the ground. Large volumes of water
are conducted in this way, and directed
against hills and masses of earth under
hydrostatic pressure that will, if
need, cut away solid rock almost as
readily as the compact soil. Great
damage is done to extensive tracts of
country by thus directing streams from
their natural channels, and spreading
earth, sand, gravel, and pebbles that
have been washed down by their cur
rents over fertile and cultivated lands.
One orchard, valued at $50, 900, and
another at $780, 900, have been so de-
stroyed. A report from the Agricul-
tural Bureau at Washington estimates
the annual damage done by this mode
of mining at $12, 100000
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LONDON PROPER.

We are apt, says the Chicago Tribune,
to boast of the size of our city meas
ured In miles. Our square mileage
compares meekly with the vast area of
the metropolitan district called Lon
don, which is $50 square miles. And
yet the city proper isconfned to space
hardly a mile square. This is the
wealthiest spot of ground in the world.
Its annual revenue is go, 500, 600. It's
municipal government is the Oldest.
richest, and most renowned in the
world. The head of the municipal gov
ernment is, as everybody knows, the
Lord Mayor, and the legislative body
the Corporation. Their powers, being
mainly traditional, are vague but vast,
and their capacity for entertaining pub
lie visitors enormous. The trifing en-
tertainment given the Shah of Persia
cost .e10, 900, which, for one meal and
ssfixings, /" was a pretty decent amount.
The Lord Mayors salary is e9, 642, a
sum odd enough in amount and about
equal to half the expenses. This great
potentate is elected annually by the
Corporation, taking his year of splendor
in rotation, and therefore without the
aid of caucus or bank account. It is
the intention of the present government
10 extend the city by taking in the
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TAXING corn

"Colds % do not spring from the ac-
ton of cold air upon the BODY SO much
as from an impure and weak condition
OF all the vital processes. In other
words, with an average or superior con-
stltution, and an intelligent observance
OF all the laws of health, men and
women could not take cold if they
wanted to; they might be exposed to
the cold to degree equal to the beast
in the field, and with like impunity.
But in the case of persons with feeble
constitutions, and who disregard, know
ingly or otherwise, the conditions of
healthy existence, no degree of care will
prevent the taking of cold, as it is
termed. Such people, unfortunately,
are apt to neglect the study of health
while pursuing the study of avoidance
of "bad weather" The conclusion
from ali this is, that neglecting the con-
ditions upon which strength of consti-
tuition and purity of blood depends, and
then striving to avoid in sedulously
careful manner the evil influences of
cold upon the body, is like neglecting
the substance for the shadow of health;
or more properly, it is like one who
starves his body, and then strives to
keep quiet in order that his strength
shall not be exhausted. Let food be
taken and the exhaustion from exercise
will not ensue let all the conditions of
health be observed, and then the natura
hanges of the weather will fall harm
lessly on the healthy functions of the
bOdv
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COMETS.

Mr.. Reeves, the welIknown astrono-
mer, is reported to have recently ad-
vanced, before one of the English
scientific associations, an entirely new
theory with regard to comets, and, by
the use of diagrams, he showed that the
part of the comet termed the tail being
in the direction from the sun, and there
fore as often in advance as behind the
nucleus, is not really a tail. He also
argues that as comets are transparent,
and all matter is known to be either
solid, liquid or gaseous, comets must
be the latter, for solids and liquids are
Opaque. The only known power, he
says, by which this gaseous matter can
be held together is gravity, which must
necessarily have a center, and every
part of the body being free to move,
resolves itself into sphere, the center.
of which is in many cases exceedingly
dense, gradually alternating toward the.
circumference. This being the case,
the rays of the sun are refracted in
their passage through the spherical
comet, thus illuminating the portion be-
yond the center or nucleus, which illu--
mination forms the tail, all this being,
according to Mr.. Reeves theory, en-
tirely in accordance with natures uni
versal laws.
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ALAsKA AGRICULTURE.

A visitor to this far-of region writes
esThere is a general impression that
nothing viii grow in Alaska, and that it
is region of hostile winter and savage
icebergs, all of which is extravagant
nonsense. On open land and along the
streams, succulent grasses grow lux
uriantly, and sometimes to a height of
three and half feet. Red-top and
wild timothy abound on the islands, and
in the mainland something very like
Kentucky bluegrass grows extensively.
Considerable hay has been made this
year, the haying season being nearly
the same as in Oregon. Heretofore the
government has been paying $40 ton
for imported hay, in gold, but this year
the natives are cutting and storing ma
tive hay for about $30ato in currency.
Barley was raised lastyear, and it yields
as well as elsewhere. Potatoes, turnips,
onions and the like have all been pro-
duced on the islands, and generally
turn out as in other places"
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right. however, OF appropriating gov
ernment funds for that purpose is con-
ceded, and resorted to in cases of neces-
sity. All subjects, of whatever rank, who
send their children to school, are re-
quired to report the fact to the local
inspector; and parents of children over
six years of age are obliged to send
them to school, or give some satisfao-
tory reason for not doing so." Statlsti-
cal information on this subject shows
that one in sixty eight of the people are
obtaining an education-a percentage
which one would not look for in be-
nighted Japan.
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EDucATloN IN APAN.

tsJapan," says traveller, ''is divided
into seven educational circuits, in each
of which is high school, and each cir
euit is subdivided into thirty-t two mid
die school districts; the latter being
again sectioned into primary school dis
tricts, according to the discretion of the
local authorities, to whom also is dele
gated the power of appointing school
inspectors. These inspectors and school
claims are paid out of local funds; the
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Il BIG STEAMER.

The Pacific Mail Company's steam
ship, City of Peking, soon to be put ON
the line between San Francisco and
Yokohama and Hongkong is the largest
ron vessel in the world. She is 423
feet long, 48 feet breadth of beam, 383
feet depth of hold. and has capacity of
5000 tons, of which 800 tons are for
coal to prope1 her. The Peking carries
four mats, all of iron. Her iron plat
ing is from 11-16ths to full inch in
thickness and the plates are II feet in
length. Her engines are double COM
pound engines, with two cylinders of
81 inches each Qow pressure), and two
of 88 inches each Cow pressure), all
having 81 inches stroke of piston, and
in average weather her speed will run
up to 151 knots per hour. She has four
decks, strong and impervious to water.
There are ten boats-four of them are
each 26 feet inches long, 7 feet 6
inches wide, and feet 8 inches deep.
The smallest of her boats are % feet
long. feet 3 inches wide, and 2 feet 2
inches deep. There is full set of
awnings, of material made incombus-
tible, to cover the vessel from stem to
stern. The distilling apparatus will sup
ply 1000 gallons of fresh water per day
for passenger consumption. The total
weight of the iron used in the steamers
construction was 5, 400, 900 pounds. Her
actual freight capacity is probably Eek
elusive of coaD .O0o toms
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i DIR EA NJ

A contributor who has tested the eff
| fects of alum water as a bed-bug exter-
minator sends us the following recital
of the results
81 had a dream that was not all a
dream. The sun went out in darkness,
and the earth swung blind and b1acken-
ing in the moonless air." It was the
midnight hour the dead waist and
middle of the night, when DER the one
half world nature seems dead and the
predacious bedbug sallies forth on fre-
quent Sorties on the tanks of man. Fret
full tossed long hours upon my couch,
till from my semi-slumber I awoke at
sounds like clashing shards of beetles
multitudinous There by the half
spent taper's itful ray, ye gods bear
witness what mine eyes beheld. In
columns wild, disordered, yet immense,
they came, their brown backs cleaning
IN the perfumed air and as they madly
plunged each against other in most
reckless haste, sound went forth like
rustling foliage of October's wood
when the autumna1 zephyr wanders
through its aisles. What this might
mean pondered long, unable TO divine.
Curious I gazed until I saw, upon the
upper corner of my couch, an alum
crystal glittering in the light, and on its
apex as rostrum stood the Cyclops
Polypheme of all the bedbug race, with
beak ajar, as 'tWere that he would
speak. Listening gathered this : He
called the benediction of their patron
saint upon the man who first proclaimed
that alum was their bane. " For see, :"
he said, Sam I not hale and strong as
well BELTS your chief? My mandibles
acquire vise-like grip on this most
| healthful food. Buts mark you this,
from now henceforth, whatever sheets
he lies between, our benefactor must
remain exempt from any nip of any of
our tribe" With one assent they gave
applause, then went their several ways.
I turned me DER to seek dubious re-
pose, the poets lines recurring to my
| mind:
You may twist, you may turn, or whatever you
will,
But the scent of the bedbug will hang round you
still.
| [Ria11n 7
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ICELAND WoNEM.

In one regard the women of Iceland
have obtained completer equality than
their sisters in Continental Europe.
They receive exactly the same educa-
ton as the men do. There are no
schools in the island, naturally, as fam
lies live almost a dozen miles apart,
and instruction is therefore given by
the father to his sons and daughters
alike and together, the priest-where
there is a priest sometimes adding a
little Latin or Danish. Thus the girl
learns all her parents can teach her and
is as good an arithmetician, and as
familiar with the Sagas as her brothers.
Accomplishments, of course, are pretty
well out of the question; painting, not
only from the difficulty of procuring
materials, but because there is really
nothing to paint dancing, because you
can seldom gather a sufficiently large
party, and have no rooms big enough ;
instrumental music, on account of the
impossibility of transporting piano
over rocks and bogs on the back of a
pony. Nevertheless, we found in a re-
mote house Ga good wood house, by the
way) upon the coast, where we were
Hospitality entertained for day and a
night, not only a piano, but several
young ladies who could play excellently
on it, and guitar, accompanying them
selves to songs in four or five languages
the Swedish, as we thought, the pret-
tiest of ALL Co1m1aitt Magazine.
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NAPOLEON ".

Those interested in the Prince I'M
perial of France, Napoleon ~, who is
now attending school at Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, England, will be
pleased to learn that he now stands
eleventh in a class of 80 cadets as the
result of all the competitive examina-
tions which he has passed since joining
the establishments. In the artillery he
is fourth on the whole, having passed
as high as second in the last exam1na-
ton in that subject. In fertilization
and geometrical drawing he is eighth.
In mathematics and mechanics he is
tenth. He stands fourth in military
drawing, eleventh in military history,
twelfth in landscape drawing, and
twenty first in chemistry and physics.
These results, all favorable as they are,
should in fairness be taken in connec-
tion with the disadvantages under
which the Prince has labored. He is
the youngest of his class except four !;
he has had to follow the course of lee
lures and instructions in a foreign
language he is competing virtually
with much larger number than thirty
two, as the class was selected by open
competitive examination out of about
four times that number and, for him,
most painful and distraeting events
have been happening during nearly the
whole time he has been at the academy.
Those best qualified to judge of his ca
pacity and progress, both absolute and
relative, are entirely satisfied in every
respect
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duced was by having one native lie
upon his belly, and another taking him
by the feet and drag him rapidly down
the incline, carrying as much sand as
possible with them. With this exper-
iment the sound was terrific; and could
have been heard many hundred yards
dirto ,,
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Chicago Ledger.

IMPORTANT TO BANK DEPOsIToRs.
A suit involving questions of interest
to bankers and their depositors has
been decided in the Circuit Court of
Maryland In 1872 the Third National
Bank of Baltimore was robbed by bur-
glars, who rented the next building,
opened commission store, and drilled
through into the bank and stole some
$4,000, considerable portion of this
being special deposits. William A.
Boyd & Co., customers of the bank,
had some $4,000 worth of valuable
securities in the safe, which were stolen.
These were deposited under a special
agreement as collateral security for such
sums of money as the firm might bor-
row from the bank from time to time,
firm owed the bank nothing. When de-
mand was made for the bonds, or their
value, the bank refused to pay, on the
ground that they were kept in the safe
at the risk of the owners, and subject
to their orders. Inasmuch as they were
not at that time indebted to the bank,
suit was brought in the Supreme Court
for the value of the bonds. Two ques-
tions were argued, namely were these
bonds held by the bank as collateral
security, or were they at the time of the
robbery merely deposit at the risk of
the owner? If no other obligation
rested on the bank than to use reason
able diligence in guarding a special de-
posit, did the manner in which they
were kept raise such presumption of
negligence as to make the bank liable !?
This last proposition involved most eS-
haustive inquiry into the mode of con-
structing vaults, the hecomparative merits
of various burglar-proof safes, the de-
gree of caution that should be exercised
in the employment of night watchmen,
compensation that should be paid to
watchmen in order torelieve them of the
necessity of engaging in other employ
ment during the day, and many Incl
dental matters. The case was tried
about a year ago, and the jury failed to
agree. The record was then sent to the
Circuit Court for Howard county, and
a few days ago the jury brought in a
verdict for 500, 1T. .83 for plaintiff, the
| full amount claimed.
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A YOUNG man II years old, named
Anski, at Lacon, ILL.,, hired out to a
man, and was sent every morning after
ice. He used to carry it home in a
coffee-sack on his back. Its effect was
to paralyze the spinal cord, making
him q hopeless invalid.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30

Two CHICKENS FROM ONE Eaa.-A
hen belonging to Mrs. Dolin, living in
the neighborhood of Ringwood Mills,
Chester county, Pa, stole nest and
Matched out dozen chickens. When
found she was trying to persuade three
more eggs in her nest to produce chick
ems. One of these eggs was broken and
found to contain two little chickens,
one white and one black, separate and
wen formed, but dead. The egg was
probably double-yelked, and the result
in this case is opposed to the general
opinion that double-yelked eggs always
produce twin chickens united together.
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whole vast metropolitan district, give it
a written constitution, with the Lord
Mayor at its head, and relegate the cleo
tive power to the masses.
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A TOnCRING sT0RY

A story reaches us from Detroit of
sad-eyed boy "with dirt on on his chin
and tear on his nose," who went into
a Detroit police station, and, having
stated that he was a homeless waif,
asked humbly to be sent to the State
Reform School. Wouldn't he prefer to
go the Workhouse o no he had
brother in the Reform School, and he
would like to be with his dear brother.
something to qualify himself for the
school. This touched the heart of
gentleman present, who, after consult
ing the Sergeant, said !: ct guess we
can fix it, my dear boy. I am going to
leave my wallet on the desk, and the
Sergeant and I will go up stairs. If
you take the wallet it will be stealing,
and then you can be sent to the Reform
School, as you wish" So the wallet
was deposited on the desk, the men
went up stairs, and when they came
down, not only was the property gone,
but the boy, o where was he 2" Alas!
he had bettered his instructions and
vamosed the ranch of justice, leaving the
owner of the pocket book wiser man
by about Sc worth. Singularly enough,
the lad hasn't yet come back to be sen.
fenced and sent to the school.
TIE HEAVIEST WAREHoUsING FIRM IN
THE COUNTRY. The firm of which Moul-
ton is the most active member are among
the largest importers in this country of
railroad iron, salt and fish. They are
the heaviest warehousing firm in this
nation, if not in the world. They own
and lease a line of warehouses and
docks fronting the upper bay, on the
East river side, for at least 1 miles,
valued at not less than $50, ,00O, 900.
These warehouses embrace the Atlantic,
Commercial and Erie docks and basin.
MouIton is in charge of all freights re-
ceived from the Mediterranean, South
America and those from New England
and the British Provinces. In addition
to this, he has large interest in the
importations of salt and fish, all of
which passes under his direction. It is
claimed that this firm has done bust
ness during five years past of over
1886, 900, ,OO0.-C Cincinnati Commercial.
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THEY have universal suffrage in Italy
upon the condition that the voter pays
seven dollars and half for the privi-
lege. Only one-fiftlf of the people
consider their vote worth the aforesaid
sum.