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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
The Secrets of the Bowl.

A former Brooklyn ssaloon-keeper,
who has been converted by the Quaker
ladies, has printed the receipts he used
to keep secret. He says bourbon rye
whisky is manufactured from hlghvines,
commonly called fusel oil whisky, made
to-day and drank three days after. 1t
also contains vinegar, syrup. 'ou OF
bourbon, French coloring, limestone,
and other poisonous chemicals. It
costs from 80 cents to 81 a gallon, and
retails for 50 TO SO q gallon.
Cognac brandy is made from French
or Cologne spirits, burnt sugar, oil of
cognac, vinegar, bluestone, Jamaica
rum, honey syrup, port wine, French
coloring, rum, and aeoes. 1T costs 81
gallon, and retails from $6 to $40
gallon.
Irish or Scotch whisky is made from
Canada bighwines, or new distilled
whisky, one week old, saltpeter, fine
salt. essence of oil of Scotch or Irish
whisky. fusel oil, syrup, bluestone, St.
Croix rum, some imported Irish or
Scotch whisky for flavor. It costs $1.50,
and retails for Sc a gallon.
What sells for the best old Holland
gin is made from French spirits, water,
oil of juniper, syrup, white wine vine
gar, bluestone. New England rum, peach
pipes, with some imported gin for
flavor.
Old Tom gin is made from the same
ingredient, but double syrup is added
to make it sweeter. It costs ST. % a
gallon, and retails for $5. 1t is also
bottled as medicine, and sold for the
kidney disease.
Jamaica ana Ss. Croiz rum is made
of double refined highwines, French
coloring, oil of rum, fusel oil, vinegar,
bluestone, burnt sugar, nolasses syrup,
with some Jamaica, Cuba, or ST. Croix
rum for flavor, alum, aloes, and prune
juice.
Stock ale or porter is diluted with oil
of vitriol, strychpine, and aqua fortis to
make it keep. New ale is diluted with
oil of vitriol and damaged molasses.
Lager beer contains little malt, plenty
Of water, some inferior hops, rosin. tar,
saleratus, soda, with four different
chemicals to make it keep after brewing.
An ex-liquor dealer said recently that
fluids sold over two-thirds of the bars
in New York and Brooklyn are COM
pounded as above.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Tyne Work Of A Newsnaner.

The Poughkeeps1e E'ogle, i'll an arti-
Gle on g how mistakes happen in news
papers" figures up the number of type
used in paper the size of the E1,dq1e at
600, GOO, i. g. the actual number of bits
of metal arranged or rearranged, every
day, in preparing a newspaper of that
size for the press. We suppose few
persons think of the printing trade as
one of the most exact and particular of
all the handicrafts, but it is. In max
ing type, variations that might be
allowed in the finest machinery would
render the type useless. IT is very
rarely that type furnished by two sepa-
rate foundries can be used together
without great deal of trouble, though
they try to make them after the same
standard. We read once in while of
a wonderful piece of cabinet work, or
mosaic work, containing ten, twenty, or
fifty thousand pieces, the maker of
which has spent months, or even years,
of labor in producing it, and people go
to see it as q great curiosity; but the
most elaborate and carefully fitted piece
of work of this kind ever made does not
compare with that which the printer
| does, every day, for minuteness Of de-
tail and accuracy of fitting. Tie man
who does the first is looked upon as an
artist--a marvel of skill, and if a hun
dred of his pieces are put in wrong side
up Or turned the iron way, it is not
observed III the general effect-but If
the printer, in fitting ten times as many
pieces together in single day, puts one
where another should be, or turns one
the wrong way, everybody sees it, and
IS amazed at "the stupid carelessness
of those printers. .
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Hot Air and Cool Rooms.

Because, when the air of the streets
marks 80 or 40 degrees in the Fahren-
heit scale room over warmed by fire
can be cooled by opening the windows
the average British householder adopts
the ready conclusion that whenever q
room feels hot the way to cool it is to
let in the external air. Accordingly in
these piping times he, and still more
often she, opens the sunny side of the
house, and let's in air at a temperature
carrying from 100 to 120 degrees or So
Then, because in a very short time the
room, naturally enough, becomes much
hotter than it was, it is considered that
the windows are not opened widely
enough, and the supposed error being
remedied, still larger quantity of hot
air is let in. And SO we find ma
terfamilias sitting with d very light
muslin upon her frame, and great
deal of perspiration upon her upper lip,
her face the color of an Orleans plum,
and her condition of mind to the last de-
gree detected, simply because she per-
sists in disregarding the most elemen-
tary principles of natural philosophy.
We tell her that If she will open the
windows on the shady side of the house
only, and keep the others closely shut,
her dwelling will be at least not hotter
than the shady side Of the street, where
as by her arrangement it acquires the
heat of the sunny s;de. We tell her,
also, that if her house be large and the
inmates few, she may live in a delight
full state of GOODNESS by only opening
the windows at night and keeping them
closed during the day. Her house will
then be some 10 or 10 degrees lower in
temperature than the streets, and con-
ve.t very much the refreshing effects of
a cool bath upon entering it. We tell
her all this, and she is very much in
terested. At our next visit we find
every window open and the house full
of red-hot air. G It stands to reason"
she says triumphantly, THAT you can
not possibly cool house without plenty
Of yentilatIon. "-Lancet.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

last goodbye to her handsome Teddy,
as she fondly called me. No wonder
my heart swelled when I thought Of
those who in the sight of God were
guilty of my crime.
/" AS we went down the dock, child
passed us with bunch of cowslps
Just two years before I had gathered
them for Lucy in the green Eentish
lanes The child looked up wistfully,
as passed presently she ran after us,
and put her cowslip in my hand. That
Was the drop too much IN the cup al
ready to save my life I could not have
kept back the tears which rolled over
my cheeks. I was handcuffed, but one
of nv guards thrust handkerchief into
my hand, with few cheering words
grufllY said That touch of sympathy,
and the child gift, saved me from utter
despair. That was the last [ saw of
England. My life here has been the
same, day after day, except the few
times [ got Off They mostly let me
alone now. keep by myself, and I've
never told word of this before. [ had
almost forgotten / wasn't Jim Brown,
until to-day. Did you hear how hurt
my arm?"
lone of the men told me you were
helping to raise a heavy stone, and that
you let the lever slip in some way, and
so got your arm crushed.
"That's true as far as it goes; gang
of us were working on the road when
carriage passed. [ looked up rs I step
ped out of the way, and who do you
think I saw ?-Lucy and her husband !
She was looking just the same as ever,
only prouder. ] was 80 near / could
have touched her dress. She looked
calmly at me-I was only a convict,
covered with the dust from her carriage
wheels. If she had recognized me, the
color would have faded little from her
pink checks, l think. wonder if she
remembers the letter wrote her, before
/ was transported. I told her some
home truths then. She knows who to
blame for my wasted--worse than
wasted life.
"Twelye years didn't seem much to
me. I looked after the carriage like
one stunned. The lever slipped from
/ my hand--you saw my arm. / didn t
| think of it, until found I couldn't lift
it. Mr.. Pierson has got some high APP
! pointment here, some one said. OF
/ course his wife will be .feted AMI flat
| tered. I wonder how she would like to
/ be reminded of that summer ia Kent.
/ How would she like if | should stop her
/ carriage, and remind her of the time she
/ swore to love me forever, or how often
/ her bright head has rested on my shout
! der. [ can feel the thrill of L er soft
! lips yet on my check. There, that's all.
Do you believe in justice? I don't.
/ The cause of evil should be attacked (;
/ nosO, it is only the victim. That woman
is more guilty today than I. She drove
me mad-and yet she rides by in her
carriage, respected and admired while
/ [, in my prison dress, can never be any
thing but what [ am-411. = Overland
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Popping the Question.

Don't be too sudden about it. Many
a girl las said s no" when she meant
YES simply because her lover didn t
choose the right time and pop the ques-
tion gently.
Take a dark night for it. Have the
blinds closed, the curtain down and the
lamp turned most out. Sit near enough
to he7. SO that you can hook your little
finger into hers. Wait until conversa-
tion begins to flag, and then quietly
remark
"Susie, I want to tell you some
thing"
She will fidgct around little, reply
'tyes,' and after pause you can add !:
"Susic, my actions must have shown
that is, you must have sc en-I mean
you must be aware that-that-
Pause here for awhile, but keep your
little finger firmly locked. She may
cough and try to turn the subject off by
asking you now you liked the circus. but
she only does this to encourage you.
After about ten minutes you can con-
tinue
81 was thinking as I came up she
path tonight that before I went awsy
would ask you-that is, I would broach
the subject nearest MY mean l would
know my
Stop again and give her hand gentle
squeeze. She may give you yank to
get it away, or she may not, in either
case it augurs we'll for you. Wait abe ut
five minutes, and then go on
"The past year has been very
happy one to me, but hope that future
years will be 7still happier. However,
that depends entirely upon you. I am
here tonight to know-that is to ask
you-I mean ] am here tonight to hear
from your own lips the one sweet"
Wait again. 1t isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her
plenty OF time to recover her composure,
and then put your hand on your heart
and continue :
Yes, thought as L was coming
through the ate tonight how happy I
had been, and l said to myself that If I
that is, said if l only knew-if I was
certain that my heart had not deceived
me and you We're ready to. share-"
Hold on-there's no hurry about it.
Give the wind chance to sob and
moan around the gables. This will
make her lonesome and call up all the
| love in her heart. When she begins to
cough and grow restless, you can go on.
"Before ] met you this world was a
desert to me. l didn't take any pleas
ure in going blackberrying aud stealing
rafe-fipe peaches, ana IL dIun mabtcf
whether the sun shone or not Bat,
what change in one short year 1t is
for you to say whether my future shall
| be prairie of happiness or summer
/ fallow of Canada thistleS. Speak, dear
est Susie, and say-and say that
| that"
Give her five minutes more by the
clock, and then add
''That you will be-that is, that you
will mean that you VIII be-be
mine %
She will heave sigh, look up at the
clock and over the stove, and then as
/ she slides her head over on your vest
pocket, she viii whisper
You are just right 1 will III.
| quad, an our F5reSidc Friend.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Her Tyenty-seeond husband.

Talk not OF Utah st. Jerome men
tions widow that married her twenty
second husband, who in his turn had
been married to twenty wives | There
is an instance recorded at Bordeaux, in
1772, of gentleman who had been mar
ried sixteen times. A woman named
Elizabeth Nase, who died in Florence in
1763, had been married to seven hus-
bands. She was of the ripe age OF 70
when last led to the hymenea1 altar, and
survived her s' beloved" When on her
deathbed it is said she recalled the good
and bad points of her several husbands,
and having weighed the pros and cons,
determined that the fifth claimed the
highest merit, and ordered her grave to
be by his.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Triumuhs Over Orthography.

Among the guests at one of our we'll
known summer resorts is wealthy
bachelor, whose bank account is much
better than his orthography. A party
of guests were playing game where a
ball made of handkerchief. is thrown
from one to the other with the saluta-
ton of Here comes a ship laden
with each successive receiver being
obliged to name commodity for cargo
beginning with the letters of the alpha
betintu When the 'kerchief alighted
at the letter X in the bachelors lap, he
shouted g Krockery," which excited a
smile, and the game hastily proceeded
when it was found that the word was
really given in good faith and not as a
joke. The ROBUSTNESS of young
lady, however, caused the flying mes
senger to alight in his lap a second
time at the letter S, whereat the receiver
shouted 'sSinnamon SO triumphantly
that somehow or other there was SO
much laughing that it was thought best
to try another game.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Your Chin.

A pointed or round chin indicates q
congenial love. A person with such
chin will have a beau ideal, and will not
be easily satisfied with real men or
women.
The indented chin indicates great
desire TO be loved hunger and thirst
for affection. When large in woman
she may overstep the bounds of etiquette
and make love to one that pleases her.
A narrow square chin indicates de.
sire to love, and is more common among
women.
The broad sqr are chin indicates vio-
lent love, or at least devoted attach
ment.
The broad round chin indicates ar
dent love, combined with great stead
fastness and permanence of affection.
The retreating chin is indicative of
the want of ATTACHING MT, and but little
ardor in love.
The chin, in it's length and breadth,
indicates self-control, self-pin, resolu-
tion and decision, etc.
CaInivorous animals have the upper
jaw projecting, while those of grami-
nivorous nature have the lower jaw pro-
iectiDg. In man with projecting up
per jaw, will be found large destruct-
iveness and love of animal food when
the lower jaw projects, then the love for
vegetable food
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
The Ring Finger.

Swinburne says in his :" Treatise of
Spousals" sThe finger on which the
wedding ring is to be worn is the fourth
finger Of the left hand, next to the lit
tie finger; because by the received
opinion of the learned and experienced
in ripping up and anatomizing mtn S
bodies there is a vein Of blood, which
passeth from the fourth finger into the
heart, called veno Gmoris Goves
vein) and SO the wearing of the ring
on that finger signifeth that the love
should not be vain or feigned, but as
they did give hands each to the other,
SO likewise they should give hearts also
whereunto that vein extended"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
HrotHerIy Love.

Mr Dickson, colored barber in one
of the largest towns of Massachusetts,
was one morning shaving one of his
customers, respectable citizen, when
a conversation occurred respecting Mr..
Dickson's former connection with a
colored church in that place.
Sc believe You are connected with the
church in Elm street, Mr.. Dickson,
said the customer.
Not at all, sab"
"Why, are you not member of the
African church %
ts Not dis year, sah. -
&c Why did you leave their commun-
ion, Mr.. Dickson, if I may be permitted
to ask 2"
"Why, I tell you, sah,' said Mr..
Dickson, scraping a eoncave razor on
the palm of his hand, 1T is jess like
dis. L iined dat church in good fait. I
glib ten dollars toward de stated preach
in of de GOSPEL de fust year, and, do
people all called me Brudder Dickson.
De second year my business not good
and [ only glib five dollars. Dat year
de church people called me Mr.. Dick
son. Dis razor hurt you, sab ?"
No, sir; ; goes tolerable well.
q Well, sab, de third year feel berry
poor-sickness IN my falniiy / give
nofiin for preachin'. Well, sab, arter
dat dey call me ole niger Dickson. an
l lef' 'em"
So saying. Mr.. Dickson brushed his
customers hair. and the gentleman de.
pard3d, we'll satisfied with the reason
why Mr.. Dickson left his church.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
A Modern GinnYra.

In Washington, the other day. lit
tie boy, while playing at hide and sock,
hid in large leather trunk with a
spring lock, and unconsciously locked
himself in. His playmates upon hear
ing him cry, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to release him, gave the alarm
A lady neighbor was the first on the
spot, and after great succeeded
in raising one side of the lid, thus af-
fording air to the little victim. Addi-
tional aid soon arrived, the lid was
forced open, and the child, who was ex-
cessively weak, was rescued. Restora-
tives were at once applied, and the lit
tie fellow when last heard from, though
still weak, was beyond danger.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
"reminiscences of the Founder of the
s. Herald.'1

Strolling into the Town Clerks Office,
the other day, I was shown a receipt
given by the late James Gordon Ben
nett, founder Of the New York Herald.
The receipt was given in acknowledge
ment of having received the sum of
S1S 70 for two and a half months teach
ing N 1916. Mr.. Bennett passed through
Stenben when on his way from Halifax
to Boston, and, on arriving here. being
hard up, he taught the village school.
Bennett showed good deal of theolo-
gical lore, and held a strong argument
with The old orthodox deacons of the town.
He also evinced great proficiency in
teaching. He suddenly left town one
hight. Tt was afterward ascertained
that he had taken passage on board a
vessel for Boston. The next thing
heard from Bennett was in the shape of
the New York Herald, copies of which
paper have ever since been taken in this
town, more because the people re-
spected Benefits friendship than on
account of any love they bore toward
the paper.-.Steube1a (1{e.) Cor. Of the
ROS{O32 (T1O}lc
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

On the night of the 1st of August,
Mrs. Mary Hess, wife Of David Hess,
living at pottsdam, Miami county, gave
birth to twins, who as natural curl
osity excel the far famed Siamese. The
children were both males, fully devel-
oped, their combined weight being 133
pounds. Each had a separate circula-
dis met persons except the union be-
tween them, which was about as fol-
lows:
The distance from the base of the
skull to the point of union was Il
inches on each side. The length of the
union was Il inches, extending to the
umbil;cus, there being but one for both.
The nipples We're q inches apart, and
the nipple of the left child was on its
back. It was inches from the joint
of the right shoulder of the right child
to the left shoulder of the left child.
The circumference of the union was 18
children was 10 inches. The bond OF
union between the two was bony sub
stance.
Both children were born dead, but
before the interment photographs of
them were taken, and a picture of them
in india ink is on exhibition al the
gallery of the Messrs. Tresize, on East
Fifth street, in this city. Mr.. Hess, the
father, is blacksmith, and large sums
of money very offered him for the
bodies of the children, but he declined
them, and, after the burial, q guard was
placed over the grave to prevent them
being stolen away. They were after
ward secretly removed and buried in
another place unknown to any person
but the parents. The mother was three
days in labor, and was attended by Drs.
Sigerfoost and Bobbs. She has been
up and well for some time.-Dayton
(O) yO3krn1E
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

Nor while one human heart beats will
the tales of woman's devotion to the OBJ
jects of her affection cease to be told.
In the absence of our poet we will at
tempt to note in sober prose, though
with profound emotion, an instance of
this devotion in the Chicago fire. A
woman with heart-strings torn with
agony watched the roof of her house
glowing with prodigious flames. Those
dear to her still remained in the build
ing; was it any wonder that her eye
lighted with an almost maniac glare,
and her frantic movements showed all
the torture she was enduring? It was
too much-too much. Before the
alarmed bystanders could stop her she
had rushed desperately into the flaming
house, animated by an heroic self-sacri-
fee. Let us rejoice that it was reward
ed che emerged unharmed, carrying in
her noble arms the innocent creature
she had saved-four cats bowling and
clawing like mad.-Neeo York Tribune.
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Drinking in France.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
EnqMirer writes: "During my brief
stay in Paris have seen at least 500, 600
people, and in this number only three
drunkards, and not single crusader
Everybody drinks. Wine is a part of
the meals. They put brandy in their
coffee instead Of milk. The father pours
wine for his daughter, the mother for
her children. On all the principal
streets there are little tables placed on
the sidewalk in front of the cafe, where
all classes sit and drink and min
gle freely together. But there is
no disorder, no disturbance. In France
it is not disgracefu1 for man to
drink, but it is ungenteel for him to
get drunk. In America it is disgrace
to drink, and social damnation to get
drunk. Here there are no bars or sa-
looms where the front windows are
painted, and there are no screens at the
doors nobody drinks on the sly. They
drink light wines, drink leisureIy, drink
until they have enough, and then stop.
An American has no time to drink leis-
ureiy. He is always in hurry. He
lodges into G saloon, bolts twenty five
cents worth of poison, works half an
hour, and runs IN and takes another.
Life is q rush with him, and he must
have stimulant, and wine is too light.
Another difference A man of the low.
est class is considered gentleman until
he proves himself otherwise, and he
takes wine at the same table with the
rich man without giving offense to the
latter. Being treated like a gentleman
he acts like one.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

BIsMARcK's s wife isy over go, yet fresh
and beautiful, directs her household af-
fairs, carries at home q bunch of keys
in her belt, and is proud of the many
embroidered covers and curtains, the
work of her own Industrious hands.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25
Water-PrOofing Leather.

The 1nacrican artisan gives the fol-
lowing recipes for water-proofng
leather:
Melt together beef tallow four
ounces, resin one ounce, and beeswax
one ounce, and when nearly cooled
solid add as much neat's-foot oil as the
above mixture measures. 1t is to be
applied with a soft rag both to the soles
and uppers. The leather should be
warmed meanwhile before a fire, and
the application well rubbed in. 1t re-
qnires two applications to make the
leather thoroughly water proof.
Anotherway Dissolve three quarters
of an ounce of paraffine in a pint of
lard-oil. The best quality of oil should
be used. 1t will be necessary to heat
the oil in order to dissolve the paraffine.
This solution may be rubbed on boots
once month, and it is said to render
them perfectly water-tight, and at the
same time il does not interfere with the
blacking II the solution is found to
make the leather too stiff, the amount
of parafliue in proportion to the oil
should be reduced
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-25

A WASHINGTON grocer introduced a
sheriff to Congressman last week. The
grocer was after his back pay.