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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A. 7. Stewart Setting an Example to
Fast Young Men.

Mr.. A. T. Stewart, says an editorial
paragraph in the Brooklyn argus, sets
an example to the fast young men of
the country which they will do well to
copy. Mr.. Stewart is at his place of
business at about 8 o'clock every
morning. He rides in an omnibus
when it suits his convenience. He goes
to parties at an early hour, and leaves
at a reasonable time. Yesterday we
saw one of the wagons in which his
goods are delivered-covered with can
vas drawn over hoops, his name paint
ed on the box, and the vehicle filed
with parcels-passing from Broadway
into Wall street. On the seat with the
driver sat the merchant prince, as care
less of the remarks of others as sensi-
BILE man ought always to be. Mr..
Stewart got out in front of Drexel's
banking house, without the conscious
ness that he had done anything remark
able or unusual. About the same time
some young bloods alighted from fine
hveried establishments. We happened
to know the latter gentlemen as well as
the former. One was young merchant
who does not possess $50, 900, and owes
five times that amount. His credit 10
marked D in commercial reports. The
other was a gentleman whose father
failed in Wall street two years ago, his
creditors losing by the failure 800, 900.
but the wife had had settled upon her a
handsome estate. The carriage and
horses, Of course, rightfully belonged
TO the creditors. But they, the up
starts inside, the funky on the box,
and the cigars from which smoke was
then ascending, were shamelessly
Haunting and parading the streete
while men like Mr.. Stewart were riding
in a baggage wagon or wading the slush
on foot.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
Coal.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says !:
Recsnt explorations between Potts
vile and st. Clair have discovered such
immense deposits of anthracite, in ad-
dition to and underlying those already
known, that we may look upon the sup
ply OF coal in that region as practically
inexhaustibie. At depth of ], 900 feet.
passing through numerous veins of va
rious size and quality, the so-called
seven-foot vein vas reached, and was
found to be thirteen and half feet
thick, and of excellent quality. Beneath
this came alternate layers of slate and
coal for thirty odd feet and then the
Monmouth vein, twenty feet thick
then what is Thought to be q nineteen
foot vein OF coal. Below them is be-
lieved to be the solid rock. Altogether,
there would seem to be depth of near
~ seventy feet of coal and these veins
are OF so vast an extent that generations
OF men may dig from them before the
fuel problem will seriously distress us.
The probable area of coal lands in
Colorado is 100, 900 square miles, .
larger space than Hhe six New England
States. The aseettained area of lands
aboundlng in ccalEis somewhat less than
that OF the State of Connecticut. OF
nfteen mines working, one near Erie,
the Bowlder Valley mine, works about
lUO men, taking out about ESQ tons per
day-the miners working by the piece
averaging daily wages of S. each. The
VEIN, worked at from Ave to fifty feet
below the surface Of the earth, is now
nine feet thick. The years yield Of the
mime mentioned reaches $50, GOO tons,
worth at least 81, 600. 600. +"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
4 Snake in His Boots.

A few mornings ago, Joe Niles, of
North Bennington, pulled on his boot,
which he had set out in the woodshed
the evening before. He says he :" felt
something kinder cold and squashy-like
about his toes, and couldn't think what
the plague had got intew his boots, :"
but he went out and MIXED five or six
COWS. When he got back to the house
his toes kept tickling 50 he couldn't
stand it," SO he took off his boot, run in
his hand, and pulled out brown snake
two feet long, that he had showed into
the toe of his boot. Joe don't put his
boots in the woodshed any more, and
sends q ferret down into them every
morning TO make sure that no unwel-
come visitor has crawled in over night.
Troy Press.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A Papor.CanOe Voyage.

Mr.. N. H. Bishops, who started from
Philadelphia several weeks ago for the
Gulf of Mexico in paper-canoe, has
written letter TO friend in that city,
announcing his arrival at Newbern, N.
g. He padded from Norfolk, through
the Cypress Swamp Canal. to Ceure-
tuck Sound, and thence to Pamlico
Sound, keeping alongshore Of the mar
rowstrip of land which separates these
bodies of water from the Atlantic. and
running considerable risk in crossing
the stormy current which sets in
through Hatteras Inlet. The voyaRer
was picked up in Pamlico Sound by q
yacht belonging to Judge West, of
Newbern, who, with a party of gentle-
men, had been cruising for several DAYS
on the lookout for him, and who offered
him the hospitalities of their town.
Mr.. Bishops, after leaving Newbern,
was to row down Bogue, Stump and
Masonboro Sounds in about ten days,
and reach Cape Fear river by interior
water passages all the way except the
last seven miles. Rice planters on the
Waccamaco and Pedee rivers have
wanted him to visit t!aeir plantations.
Mr.. Bishops says that not man whom
he meets viii trust himself in his boat.
Every sailor. boatman, and oysterman
says he would not CROSS q creek In such
q she'll
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
The Hottest Yet,

The water encountered ia the main
east drift ON the 2,000-foot level of the
Imperial Empire mine is the hottest
ever struck ON the Comstock lode. It
was carefully tested yesterday with two
good thermometers, and the tempexa-
ture was found 70 be 1904 degrees.
The stream of water is but an inch or
two in diameter. The temperature of
the atmosphere in the drift was yester-
day 116 degrees. Notwithstanding the
hot air and hotter water, men are &C
work in the face of the drift. Going
down by degrees rs they are, our miners
are becoming Injured to the heat, and
expect to be able TO continue right on
down to where the rocks are In molten
state without experiencing the slightest
difficulty. At the Consolidated Vir-
ginia they are already making their CAL
culations for pumping up the molten
silver when they shall have followed che
big bonanza down to depth OF about
$500 feet. Virginia New Enter
a17i8e.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A Chicken Within a Chicken.

The Prairie Schooner sails up with
the following chicken story: I'VE are
informed by Mr.. @. H. Richardson,
who lives near this place, that his wife,
while dressing chicken the other day,
discovered one OF the greatest natural
curiosities we have heard of lately-a
chicken within chicken. Mr.. r. says
that upon being called to examine this
strange freak of nature, he found q
small sack about two and half inches
long and one and q half inches in di-
ameter, joined to the chickens gizzard
by deshy neck or tube a half inch in
length. Upon cutting open the sack it
wss found to contain q chicken, which
in every way resembled young chicken
just before emerging from the egg
shell; the head. neck, limbs, and even
feathers were found in a partially de-
cayed condition. This is pretty strong
chicken story, but we have no reason to
doubt its truth. We may further add
that the chicken in which a chicken
was found was of the male gender"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
.Pith and Point.

RRLArIvE beauty-A pretty cousin.
SHORT crops-Convicts' hair.
TEE "panel game Getting jury.
WHAT the barber said when his wife
fell down n-stairs-Razor.
Hrs mean enough to wear clean
shirts is an Alabama expression.
JOSH BILLINGS says ssTew enjoy q
good reputashun, Civ publicly and steal
privately"
WHY is New Bedford whaler like q
modern lady's waterfall ? Because it In
arter-fsh-ile.
TIE butcher will be offended. we sup
pose, if we call baseball a-bat-war, but
we'll risk it.
An Eastern debating society is trying
to settle which is the hardest to keep,
diary or an umbrella.
MlaERs now and then manage to get
up feast of reason, but their flow of
soul Is not a success.
A LITTLE boy having broken his rock
ing-horse the day it was purchased, his
mamma began to scold. when he silenced
her by inquiring g What is the good
of q horse till it's broke ?''
A MAN went into the Postohace at
Springfield, Ohio, and asked Is there
letter here for Mike How?" "No,"
angrily replied the clerk, s'there isn't q
letter here for anybody's cow
PEDAeoauE-First little boy, what is
your name Little boy-Jule. Peda-
gogue-Oh no your name is Julius.
Next little boy, what is yours Second
boy-MY name is BilliuS.
A conoRED gentleman went to consult
one of the most conscientious lawyers.
and after stating his case said: Now
I knows you's lawyer, but wish You
would please, sa, liss tell me de truh
bout dat matter"
A UNIVERSITY student broke through
the ice on Lake Monona, the other day,
where the water was only four feet
laid upon the ice, he family whis-
pered: 'Boys, I didn't care for my
self, but I'm engaged"
A LADY went into q carpet store re-
Gently, and, pointing out q carpet,
asked the proprietor what it was.
6 Brussels. says the proprietor.
Brussels, quoth the lady. passing
her hand over it. stSeems to me the
AS gentleman was nearly run over
in narrow London street by dray, he
shouted TO the driver, IS Do You want to
kill me ?" whereupon the intelligent
driver put the thumb of his dexter hand
to his nose, and, spreading out his
fingers like fan, replied eff had
knowed you was a-coming this way, I
would have sent you postcard r
HousEKEEPER (who is "going" for
the old bachelor) What can have
the pleasure of reading to vou, my dear
sir Old Boy-Oh, read the news of
the week, Mrs. Wedorburn. House
keeper-News of the week Why it's
not yet half gone Old Boy (mean-
ingly) Tut. tut, i mean the marriage
list, stupid
EVEN in the saloons opinion upon
grave subjects are expressed forcib1y.
a gentleman slightly under the inhu-
ence of the Intoxicating bowl furnished
proof of this fact, night or two ago.
ss Whisky, zur." said he, :. hic
briRhtens the intellect. It ought, by
thunder, to be introduced into the
public schools, zur."--N. Louis Re-
publican.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
Fooling a Bob-Tailed Car Man.

The latest atrocity of the wit of the
Detroit Free Press is in the construc.
| tion of this story:
The other night, rs the " last car" on
the Michican avenue route was turning
around on the table at the corner OF
Woodward and Jefferson avenues, two
young men, who had fixed up straw
man in good shape, helped him aboard
and seated him at the END farthest from
the driver. The dummy" man had his
hat pulled low, his arms down, and was
SO braeed up against the end of the car
that :" he" looked as much passenger
as any one. The car moved off after
awhile, and as it turned into Michigan
avenue an old lady got aboard. She
paid her fare, the two young men fol-
lowed suit, and the car moved on again,
the driver keeping his eye on the dunn
my" and wondering if he was going to
try TO beat his fare.
At First street the driver jingled his
bell for fare, and the two young men
and the old woman looked over at the
street. and the driver looked through
the window and yelled 6 Fare" and
iingled the bell again. There being no
response, he opened the door and called
out to the straw man:
"Say, you You want to pay your
fare 70
There was no answer, and after going
half block he shouted out again:
=" You man, there-walk up here and
paw your fare 70
One of the young men sat opposite
dummy" and he squeaked out in
replys
s.Drive on the old hearse r.
" "What What's that ?" shouted the
driver, pushing the door clean open.
ssOh hire hall r. was the reply.
s'See here, mister, you've got to pay
your fare or get off /" exclaimed the
driver, winding the lines around the
brake.
"Grashus ." me IF there's going to
be fight let me OFF, shouted the old
lady, and she rushed down the car and
made clean jump from the door.
Now, then, are you going to pay
your fare ?'' said the driver as he en-
tered the car.
"Pay be-hanged," was the muttered
reply; F. Va ,.++a, 10. o,,+ e., ,,no-h.,.
ugly I" whispered the other young man
to the driver.
"I don't care if he's as ugly as John
Jacob Astor he's got to pay his fare
or off he goes l''
The driver slid down to the end of the
car, spit on his hands, and continued
''Come, now-out with your fare, or
off you go r.
There was no reply, no movement,
and splitting on his hands again he
called out:
'Well. here you come /" and grabbed
" dummy" by the shoulders. His OBJ
ject was to jerk the fellow" out of
doors, and expecting struggle he put
Ill r. okr off
It was very successful. The driver
went out of the ear heels over head,
with the straw man on top of him, and
the young men leaped eff the front end
of the car just as the victim was trying
to get his thumb in the straw mans eye.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
THE YOUNG FOLKS.

Running Away from Mamma.
Running away from mamma
BareheAded up the street.
Kicking the dust into yellow smoke
With little roRutsh feet.
Tossing it over his clean white dress
Into mis- stocking hes.H,
Checking the little wooden horse
Thlt trundl's along on wheels.
Dreaming awav, with wide blue eyes,
Aud speculatiug why
God won't give him the golden ball
That drops il the quiVerinR sky
WHAT is the use of that pretty pink cloud
SsiliDg away SO high
II he can't have ride in itf
And it's no use to try.
If that woman grew with glasses on.
If this house ia papas:
Why that nice red COW won't talk tn hin,
Looking scross the bars.
Into the neiShbors' gates and doors,
Under their cherry trees
Into mischief and out again
Wherever he may please.
Wandering at last to the old church stspa
Little horse aud aI,
Clim bAnR up l2bcriouslY-
Too bad If he should fall:
Pushing in with dimpled hands
The great doors, strong ana tall,
Letting the warm, sweet summer light
Slide down the shadowed wall,
Standing still, in the solemn hush
OF chancel, nave and dome,
Thinking Ii is prettier
Than the sittlng-room at home.
Not bit afraid, ali no indeed,
or the shadows, vast and dim,
Quite at home, and cure It was made
All on purpose for him.
The old, old story comes up to me
Written 30 long ago.
About the heavenly temple,
Where you and must go,
The beautiful, waiting temple,
That has no room fol sin
Something about little child
And the way of entering In.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A SINGING Hlonse.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
says Mr.. w. O. Fuller, placed on
our table yesterday that great natural
curiosity, the singing mouse, spoken
OF In o. communication from Green
vile, published in this paper several
the ordinary sized mouse, with sarne
appearance, differing only in the PEE
cuIiar siza and shape of its ears, they
being longer and wider than usual, re-
sembling somewhat those of q donkey.
He Is secured in diminutive tin SOUR
rel cage, with whiri1gig attached plays
necessarily, never seeming to tire.
sings the whole night through without
cessation, and at times 50 loud that q
person could not sleep in the sane
room. His songs resemble those Of
canary birds more than anything else.
but with much greater variety Of tones. :
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

position but the founders are conf
dent of being able to secure women
for the places, and are resolved to
lannch the Institution upon that basis.
The college will have attached to it
preparatory school where young women
who, going out from the various
academies aud seminaries, find them
selves insuficiently prepared to enter
college, may complete their prepara-
items. The course of study, after enter
ing college. is four years. tits supposed
that majority of the girls graduated
from the boarding schools and desiring
to enter Wellesley will have to spend
from one to two years in the prepara-
tory department.-Nes York Tribune.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
THE BOATING HEN.

s Ke-daw! Ke-daw u q young hen CRIED,
While sfratttDg through barnyard wi0
a Ke-dawi Ke-daw I've done feat
In ehickendom it can't be beat !"
I've laid the finest egg to-day
That any hen in town can lay;
So, little chickens far and near,
Just bow your heads when appear.
Old mother hens, you needn't sneer
There never was an egg so white,
shall go frautic with delight !"
i" Ke-daw! Ke-dawi' rang clear asd loud
There never WAS hen 80 proud.
The older hens were grave and staid,
They said Z" When other eggs are Laid
Six or q dozen at the most
Ny child, you won't care much to boasts
Your utterauces will be more soothing
When laying eggs becomes no new thing
Each turned and called away her brood,
This young hen thought their sctions xude
g How envious these old DANES are!
Ny triumph, though, they shall not mar
With bitterness my heart would sicken
If were such an envious chicken"
Now, while this scene was going on
Our dame had left her nest alone,
And, spying out splendid chance,
A weasel threw furtIve glance
At this same egg.
He rolled It from its downy nest
wanton act be It confessed
It's golden freshness there to test.
BACK. IN 01Su 1ontueE, came our uoAO
Her grief Is not for tongue or pen
She gaZed upon the empty shell
OF that first egg she loved so well;
Had she but known enough to cry,
Tears would have trickled from her eye.
Now in this egg-shell we may nnd
A simple moral left behind.
In boasting, don't be premature,
Lest disappointment work your cure
Ere you parade your triumph round,
Be sure your egg Is safe and soundi
dependent.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
A Terrible Disclosure.

John Martin, an old Mexican, who
lives few miles below this place, has
a small garden-ranch, on which is stu
ated fine spring. A few months since.
this spring not supplying sufficient
water to irrigate his garden, Martin
employed some three or four Indians,
and began to clean out and enlarge it.
After digging down a short distance he
found an immense quantity of loose
rocks of all sizes, which he proceeded
TO remove. After doing so he found
several human skeletons On making
this discovery the Indians became
somewhat excited, and expressed de-
sire to stop work but, after much per-
suasion, Martin succeeded in getting
them TO work again, and in q short
time took from the spring nine skulls
and other bones belonging to the hu-
men frame. The Indians refusing to
work any longer, and the water coming
in 60 fast, he was compelled to give MP
work for the time. Martin is confident
that there are several more yet in the
spring, and as soon as possible will re-
move them. Those taken out were
buried short distance from the spring.
The skulls are evidently those of white
persons, of all ages and sexes-infants,
children, and adults. Besides these
were found glass bottles and sther con-
veniences used by emigrants in camp
ing; also a quantity of flint arrow
heads, such as are used by the Pit
River Indians, and in one of the skulls
was found split ball. The Indians
profess to be wholly ignorant of the
matter, yet all the circumstances give
evidence that an emigrant train was
murdered here many years ago, and that
the Indians are the authors of it,
Motl0c (CGk Independent.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
Wellesly College for women.

The new Wellesley College for
women, at Wellesley, Norfolk county,
Mass, is to have course of study not
exactly tho same as that prescribed for
young men in most of the principal col
ieges, the elective plan being carried
further than In these institutions. But
the course is no less comprehensive.
and contemplates no less thoroughness.
The officers of the college are all to be
women. Some question is made as to
whether at present women can be OBJ
tanned who are qualified by education
and executive skill to take the highest
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

Boston, where purse of $1,000 was
given him by the citizens. The British
government gave him gold chronome-
ter. The Fredonia, which Capt.
Burke commanded during the war, was
a special object of the hostility of Capt.
Semmes, of the rebel privateer Ala
bama, but escaped him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12
T,sszu Enol;sh Postofica navs The !

TIE English Postofice pays. The re-
ceipts for 1873 amounted to $26. TAG, 900,
the expenditure at the same time was
S1s, ,965, 900. leaving surplus of no
less than $7,775, 600. There are ~, 600
persons employed in the department, OF
whom many are women, this number in
Guiding 10, 800 Postmasters, s, 600 clerks,
and about 10000 sorters, carriers and
messengers.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

THE physicians of Jackson. Mich.
have banded together, and give notice
that they viii refuse to treat any per-
son who is thirty days in arrears for any
doctors bill. An unusually healthy
season is expected.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

JOSEPH WoLF, who lately died in
Jasper county, Missouri, aged SO, boast
ed that he had heard the inaugural ad-
dress of every President of the United
States to date. This is to be received
with caution; It isn't likely that any
man could go through all that and live
to see his S0th year.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

CRoUP can be cured in one minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and
sugar. The way to accomplish the deed
Is to take q knife and CRATE and shave
on IN small particles about q teaspoon
ful OF alum then mix it with twice its
quantity Of sugar to make it palatable.
and administer it as quickly as possi-
pie. Almost instantaneous relief will
follow.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-12

SoAnD flannel before making, as it
shrinks in the first washing. This
shrinking is usually caused by using
too much soap and washing them
in too cool water. Never use soda Tor
f1annels.