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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12
Jewel Robberies.

nj. Jehan Walter, q French journalist,
relates, apropos of the robbery of the
Dudley diamonds, several anecdotes
about jewel robberies. He tells how a
speculator presented q report to the Di-
rectory making out that the celebrated
church of Lorette contained G1O. 600. 600
worth In diamonds, etc. Barras and Gar
not informed BOnRparte of the fact. but
the young General refused to march ON
the place because he would have to ex-
pose corpse of 10000, and would prob
ably find nothing when he got there. In
time he did manage to seize on the
church, and found that all the diamonds
had been replaced by glass. M. Walter
also tells how the mother of the late
French Emperor, the Queen Hortense.
when she was leaving France after the in
vaaion by the allies, was stopped on the
high road by the Marquis de Maubreuil.
who searched her carriage, and took away
EGO, 600 worth of diamonds, which have
never since been heard of. This story is
all the more remarkable as there was a
great fuss made about this MARQUIS de
Maubreuil toward the close of the Second
Empire. He had . lawsuit with his wife,
and an outcry was raised against the Mar
quis continuing member of the Legion
of Honor. It then. came out that he was
one of the royalists who had aided the
Prussians to pull down the statue of Ma,
poleon from the top of the column of Ven
dome, and that while engaged in this he
had tied an order Of the Legion of Honor
to the tail of his horse, and dragged It in
the mud. Yet toward the end of the reign
of the Third Napoleon he wore the red
ribbon and was IN receipt of govern
ment pension.
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Cheaper sewing.Machines.

Ihe Senate Committee on Patents has
been wrestling for two years with the
question OF extending the patent of A
3. Wilson, of the ssfour-motion faad >,
1or sewing machines. The original
patent was issued as lone aoo as .fnne
10, 1907. 1t Is said to be the most val,,a-
PIE monopoly of the kind in existence.
~ SnouAo never have been renewed. Had
u expired with the original letters pat-
et euS' 1ne inventor, would have been
apunoantly compensated for his idea.
II Is esumated that the actual cost of
:u aVerage sewing machine, not count
Troyaltles on the best machines aggregate
$4O. -Four companies form i6e mo
noRoly, namely, the Howe. the Wheeler
q wilson, the Singer, and the Wilcox &
S!lops. The backbone of this conbina-
.1 sIon mas been broken. Within two or
Gnree years other important franchises
wiz expire. Not one of them should be
renewed. Sewing machines are now al
most as common as washtubs. No fami-
" hardly Is without one. The. yerv
poorest and the very richest alone dis
pense with this labor-saver.
Ihe extension of patents ia a much
more serious matter than the people seem
20 reahze 1t is surely vastly more SO than
could have been anticipated at the time
the patent system of the United States
was adopted. Every branch of industry
now pays tribute to inventive genius.
and especial care is needed TO prevent
excessive exaction. A few years ago one
might examine all the implements in use
upon farm, indoors and out, and not
md single patented article. At the
present time they are to be found by the
dozens. The Prairie Farmer esti-
mates, in a careful and timely discussion
of the patent system, that the indirect
taxation of agricultural industry through
the Patent Office Is largely in excess of
the entire taxation of the farmers for the
support of local, State and national gov
ernment, including tariff. This is no
exaggeration. Neither is the Washing
ton telegram an exaggeration which
states, in speaking of the Wilson patent,
'' a monopoly of this feed-motion for
seven years more would be worth from
$40, ,0O0, 900 to $50, 900, 600 to the owner.
and would cost the people four times as
much"
The extension would have been Sc
cured could money have done it, We
need not despair of the republic. It is
by no means true that Sc every man has his
price, and hereafter every click of the
sewing machine viii be protest against
that wholesale slander. The disgrace OF
such men as Schumacher and King is off
set by the honorable record of such men
as compose the Senate Committee on
Patents. Chicago Journal.
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Changes In the Body.

When science discovered that the hu-
man body underwent an entire change
during period of seven years, it was
considered very remarkable, but DR..
Lyon Playfair read letter not long ago
before q British Social Science Congress,
wherein he declared that all the par
ticles Of the body changed every six
weeks. The same eminent authority
wisely declares that the substance of all
our sanitary science, accumulated by
ages, might be summed up in the preg-
nant advice of the prophet, '' Wash and
be clean" !" This learned physician. says
that for thousand years after the civil
zation of the Egyptians, the Jews, the
Greeks and the Romans faded, there
was not man or woman in Europe that
ever took q bath. To this fact he at
tributes, In a large measure, the wondrous
epldemics of the middle ages, which cut
off one-fourth OF the population of Eu-
rope the spotted plague, the black
death, the sweating sickness, and the
terrible mental epidemics which followed
IN their train-the dancing mania, the
newing mania, the biting mania, and
witchcraft
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Those Oregon Girls.

The pretty French maiden who drives
four-horse team at Sutter Creek, Cali
fornia, is not considered much of q phe-
nomenon by the Oregon folks. A Port
land editor receives her story with this
comment IS That French girl is a good
girl. That we would not be so ungallant
as to dispute. But where is our Lane
county girl that put in eighty acres of
wheat, then took the district school and
waIoped all the big boys in the pre-
cinct into decency and subiection2 Eth
and when you are talking about girls
with pluck, just bear in mind that
Oregon can produce just about four
thousand, now married, to be sure, and
many of them grandmothers, each of
whom whAcked am OK team from the
Missouri river to the Willamette Valley /;
stood guard against savage Indians on
the plains, scaled three ranges Of noun
tains, reached the promised land In
triumph to raise family of thirteen
strapping boys and girls, and never laid
eyes on store-made bonnet for fifteen
years. Don't mention your California
girls, please. =
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Wanted to Make Sure Of It This Time.

Yesterday tall and nlasculine-appear-
ing female, who clung to a diminutive
looking specimen of man whom she
called husband, entered Griswold street
life insurance Office and requested to see
the insurance man. The agent ushered
the couple into a reception room and
asked them to be seated. In few
minutes the woman opened the CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Insurance man, I'll
tell You my business here. You see that
man there, pointing to the pigmy who
was quietly seated at her side s'well,
he's my husband-my third husband,
and want to insure his life for three
thousand dollars" The smiling agent,
with an eye to business, rubbed his
hands complacently and politely re-
quested the little husband to 60 with him
to the office of the company's examining
physician, short distance up the street
After the Iihputian had been rigiHy
examined the doctor wrote out certifi-
cate as to his possessing the necessary
qualifications which entitled him to life
insurance, when the two returned to the
insurance Office, where the Amazonian
female was impahently awaiting them.
A clerk having drawn up the necessary
papers she took out O roll of bills and
paid the first installment on the policy.
which document she folded carefully to-
gether and hid IN the depths of her skirt
pocket. On taking their departure the
prudent wife turned to the insurance
agent and thanking him for his prompt
ness in making out the policy remarked
that &c she wasn't going to be fooled this
time" The agent politely asked for an
explanation of this strange remark, where
upon she replied that her first husband
had died on her hands before she knew
of the existence of such an organization
as life insurance company her second
husband was blown up on a steamboat
after they had been married week, and
before she could get policy made out !;
and now that she married Joseph that
very morning she wasn't going to
run another such risk, she therefore
concluded to have things fixed up at
once. Now, Joseph DEAR" said the af-
fectionate wife as she hustled her spouse
down the stone steps leading to the side
walk, "you and me can spend a honey
moon just like two loving turtle doves"
Free Press.
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but only the guilty need fear the trial,
the innocent viii surely pass the ordeal
unharmed."
AS l said this, I fixed my gaze upon
the dark visitor, my suspected man
never saw more wretched and ghastly
countenance, nor a greater struggle in
any living being to keep calm and un-
moved exterior.
The egg began its round. Some took
1t gravely, some lightly, some turned
slightly pale, and some laughed outright.
nearer to the man for whom it was in
| tended. could see that he was trem-
blng-that his very lips were getting
white
It's your turn nowi" said at length,
in a cold, stern tone.
"Mine!" he answered, with ghastly
attempt at smile. !" Why-why-
should IL take it2 Poor Wilson was
my-my friend"
Let him prove so now l'' I said.
All eyes are upon YOU Take the or
deal sent by heaven, and prove your in
nocence-if you can."
He glanced hurriedly around. All
eyes were indeed upon him, and with a
look of awakened suspicion he made one
desperate effort to be calm-then seized
I
The next moment it was crushed to
atoms, and his hands were wet and stained
as if with human gore.
A wild yell burst from the crowd.
A despairing shrek came from the lips
of the guilty wretch and falling, rather
than sinking down upon his knees, he
cried out
tfGod of mercy, forgive me! I did
kill him 1 did kill him! for his gold |
his gold Oh, cursed gold! Oh, God OF
heaven, forgive me /"
I And how many before him? !" de-
manded l.
"ThreeI threel Oh, God of mercy
forgive me I"
There was another wild yell, or rather
howl of fury-a rush like wolves on their
prey-and the poor wretch was seized,
almost torn limb from limb, and dragged
furiously away.
In less than ten minutes from his con-
fession he was dangling from neighbor-
ing tree, swinging by the neck.
80 died the murderer, whose name I
have suppressed, because he had respect
able friends, who are still living.
I will only add, that believing him
guilty, I had previously prepared the egg,
putting red eoloring matter in it, expect
ing to see him crush it through his su-
perstitious fears of supernatural dis
covery. They promised me reward for
the detection of the murderer-but this
/ declined. Justice was all I had
sought, and this I had obtained.
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MOLLY hEOGG.

I'm the year 172s, Gay the poes, in conjunction
Mary Moge, which appeared in asess 1csss-sai Aug.
a. The Prodgcsaoa net was % Written % e very ron vSn
great sensation at the TINA. AIiss Mogg was the
daughter q 4 an tnksepsr e Worshinghs1n and was
a @ Iss % S ,1 sn ,s cro4 com
rhyme that would match the name OF their heroine
The schoolboy delights in play-day.
~. The SSnoo%asssE,s s,.sj III z 3 e aogs
But mine il sn sweet Molly Mogg.
Through ditch and througA QpsgnEre and bog,
No Light can eaer ses me a-Peddin@
But the eyes Of my sMeek Molly Mogg.
For guineas in other meats hreoches
But sa sss noas S Ps e .E sea ecn.. n os
SO palm my sweet Molly Hogg.
The hart tha4ss half wounled In RANGING.
It here and there leaps nke frog;
But my heart can nevsR he chAnginE
Its 90 hxed on my sweet Molly MOGg.
know that ~ wits Via reoasea
That women at best are ea0g,
But I'm not 80 easily frightened
From loving my sweet Molly Mogg.
A letter when ham indifina.
Comes Cupid and gives me togs
And M Al my paper and writing
feel I'm in love 10 distrackaon.
Ny senses are lost in fec.
And IN nothing can nnd sa&iafec&ion
But in thoughts Of my sweet Molly Mogg.
II would not give up the three Geaoes,
l wish I were hanged like dog.
And at court ali the drawing-roo faces
For glance at my sweet Molly MoEg.
For those faces wapk nature and spirit
And seem as cut Vnt of = leg:
June, Venus, and PallAa' mexk
Unite in my sweet Molly MoRg.
Were Virgil alive with his pAiliis.
And writing another Eclogue,
Both his Phillis and fair ArnarvfIis
He'd give for my sweet Molly lEogg.
When she smiles on each guest like her liquor
Then jealousy seta me agoG:
To be sure eheas bit for Che vicar.
And so shall lose Molly Mogg.
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WORK AND WORK.

A husbandman, who many years
Had plowed his helds and sown in tears,
Grew weary with bis doubts and fears.
Itoil in vainl These rocks and fands
VIII yield no harvest to my hands:
The best seeds rot in barren lands.
Ny dropping vine In withexing;
no promised grapes its blossoms bring
NO birds among its branches sing.
Ny nock Ia dying on the plan,
Inc heay'ns are brass-they yield no rain;
The earth Ia iron-I toEl In vain-~ -
While yet he spake breath had stirred
His dropping vine, like wing Of bird,
And from its leaves voice he heard:
/" The germs and fruits Of HE must be
Forever hid IN mystery;
Yet none can toll in vain for me.
mightier hand, more nkfIled than thine
Must hang the clusters ON the vine,
And make the fields and harvest shtne.
Man can but work; God can create:
But they who work, and watch, and wait,
Have their reward, though it come late.
"Lsok up to Heavenl Behold and hear
The clouds are laundering in thy ear
An answer to thy doubts and fear"
He looked, and 10 q cloud-craped- car,
With trailing smoke and flames afar,
Was rushing from distant stAR.
And every thirsty dock and PLATA
Was rushing mp to meet the rain
That came to clothe the field with grain.
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Curious and Interesting.

Place a tobacco pipe in such posi-
ton, on the edge of the table, that if it
were left unsupported it would fall to
the ground. A poker may now be sus-
pended from the pipe, in such manner
that the weight of the poker will be sus-
tanned by the pipe. The looped string
on which the poker hangs should be as
close as possible to the bowl of the pipe,
and the end of the poker must fall under
the edge of the table. The center of
gravity in this case is below the center of
suspension, and the pipe consequently
supports the poker.
If little thread be well soaked in q
strong solution of salt and water, and
then dried and tied to ring, not much
larger than wedding ring, you may ap-
ply the flame of a candle to the thread,
which will burn it to ashes, and vet ii
will sustain the ring. The cohesion of
the fbrous particles of thread having
been destroyed by the action of the flame,
the ring is now suspended by the cohe-
sion of the particles of salt
Wrap a piece of clean writing paper
tightly about the cylindrical handle of
the poker, and the paper may be held
over the fame of a lamp or candle for
some time without being in the slightest
degree injured or burnt now wrap a
similar piece of paper around the cylin-
der of wood, and hold it over the flame,
which Will burn it almost immediately
This experiment shows the difference be-
tween the conducting powers of metal
and wood, the heat being conducted
away from the paper by the iron almost
as rapidly as communicated, whilst wood.
being bad conductor of heat, takes fire
almost Immediately.
Suspend a poker by two strings, and
insert the extremities of them into the
ears. A blow given to the poker will now
produce, through the medium of the
strings, a sound equal to that of great
bell.
This shows that the vibrations given
to the metallic mass of the poker by the
blow are much more readily communi-
Gated to the ear by the strings than
through the air. Thus, on the same
principle, the boiling of kettle, inaudi-
BILE in the air, may be distinctly heard.
even from the beginning, by resting oae
end of the poker on tke vessel, and ap-
plying the other to the ear So also the
beating of watch placed at one extremi-
ty of a long beam of timber may be heard
through the timber at the other end of
the beam by person who holds his eal
to the wood, although it is totally inaudi-
BILE in the air.
Place in small glass bottle hot water
near the boiling point, colored deep
| carmine with cochineal place the same
at the bottom of glass jar of cold water.
Immediately the light hot colored water
in the phial will be displaced by the
heavier cold water In the jar, and will
ascend in beautiful crimson clouds to the
top of the jar.
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Bad for Massachusetts.

The report of the Massachusetts, Board
of Education shows that 60, 900 children
in that State are growing up In ignorance.
That is, about one-fifth of the whole
number of children between and 16.
This is fearful exhibit in 80 populous
a section, where private instruction is go
easy Of access, and where the public
schools provide amply for all. One
reason of the amount of ignorance in
Massachusetts, is the demand made by
the factories on youthful labor, the
scantiness of labor in manufacturing
towns. and the necessity of all the mem
bers doing something for the support OF
the family. The remedy for the evil, ac-
cording to the Boston Post, lies In a
stringent factory act, and q law for COM
pulsory education. The Post considers
the present state of affairs off the road to
true civilization.
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Tn Bnn As 4 SoAvrNerR.-A A =

THE BKR As A SoAvENaER.- 4 mouse
found its way into the hive of one of our
amature bee men. not long since, and the
intruder was found dead and completely
imbedded in WAX. The mouse, having q
sweet tooth, crept into the hive to steal
honey, but unfortunately aroused the
inmates, and before he could find his
way out again was stung to death. By
and by decomposition set in, and Mr..
Mousey began to disseminate bad smell,
which bees cannot tolerate but finding
it impossible to hustle him over the ram
parts, as they do other nuisances. they
went energetically to work and sealed
him up in wax-hermetically sealed him,
In fact, 50 that not the s1ightast odor
escaped to make the hive unpleasant for
the high-toned, extremely neat and cleanly
inhabitants. Schoha On " Rep,t6-
Iicdn.
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wit and Hunor.

GRAIN elevator Rye whisky.
THE first thing boot-mAker uses is the
last.
A TENOR has real teeth and false-set-
too.
MINISTER of the interior-A country
clergyman.
If thy enemy wrong thee, buy each of
his children q drum.
THERE is nothing more depressing to
thermometer than cold weather.
AN African Why am in
toxicat an like q wash-bowl? Case it am
debasin'
AS SOON as a young woman gets some
steady employment she stops fainting
away at the sight of mouse.
THE man who went to sleep on rail
road track found his rest was q good
deal broken-and his leg too.
"I'M not much for shtump spakin', -
declared a candidate at Dubuque, ssbut
for honesty and capacity and integrity
bate the divil-so do.
A STORY is going the rounds of lady
who wears a hustle made of railroad
bonds. The husband of such Great
ure certainly ought to be pacific male.
"WHAT'LL you ask to warrant these
horses good z" asked q buyer of horse
dealer. "Oh, don't trouble yourself.
I'll warrant them good for nothing, was
the reply.
IT was duet this time. Two servant
girls, at Cleveland, Ohio, kindled a fire
with can of gasoline, and then passed
through glory's morning gate, just as
slick as could be.
Our in Wisconsin horse kicked and
killed q book-agent, whereupon the citi-
zens made donation party for the horse,
and he now has oats enough to last him
full horse lifetime.
A CHICAGO man woke his wife the
other night, and, IN a startled tone of
voice, informed her that he he had swal-
lowed dose of strychnine. g Well, you
fool" said she, g lie still, or it may
come mp"
PRIDE takes an early start In San Fran
cisco. When q lad breaks loose from his
mothers apron-strings and secures po-
sition at $3 per week, the first thing he
soes after that is to hire a Chinaman to
run errands for him.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel says: ssThe
story that an English capitalist is nego-
LlALlng 1Or the purchase OF the M1lWHu-
kee elevator arose from the gentleman's
dropping in at restaurant and asking
for 'af dozen holsters" /"
You never saw such q happy lot of
people as we had here yesterday, !" said
landlady In Indiana to a newly-arrived
guest =" there were thirteen couples of
them" 'sWhat thirteen couples just
married r. "Oh, no, sir thirteen
couples just divorced"
HE gazed down from the windows height
Into the yard below,
Where pensive clothes-lnes wildly toss'd
Their shadows 10 and fro.
He pressed his face against the pane
ct was the Christmas eve)
moisture gathered his nose
He wiped it with his sleeve.
AN elderly couple, evidently from the
country, entered Broadway drug store,
in New York. The lady, who seemed to
be the leader and manager, said, ss I viii
take some lemon soda water Then.
turning to her worser half, inquired I:
Hiram Elisha, what will you have
yours seasoned with r. Hiram Elisha
responded thus: s will take ginger in
mine it always does my ooFns good,
Suaan I"
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RIOT0us LAWMAKERS.
DasgrRcefu1 Row In the PennsyIvania
House of Representatives

Disgracefal Row In the PennsyIvania
House of Representatives.
A dispatch from Harrisburg gives the
following particulars of q disgraceful
scene In the lower house of the Penn
sylvania Legislature !: Mr.. Talley,
Democrat, of Delaware county, made q
motion to refer the petition of citizens Of
Lancaster city contesting the seat of ID.
p. Rosenmiller, Republican, as mem
her of the Legislature, to the Committee
ON the Judiciary. The Republicans raised
the point of order that the petition was
not properly before the House, that body
having not been legally organized when
the petition was originally introduced.
Speaker Patterson decided against the
Republicans, when an appeal was taken,
and hls decision was sustained by q large
majority. Wolfe, Republican, of Union
county, raised the further point of order
that it required two-thirds of those pres
emit to take up the petition under the
suspension of the rules. The Speaker
rendered an adverse decision, and enter
tanned a motion to adjourn. Wolfe
sprang to his feet and insisted that he
had right to be heard on his point
The Speaker declared him out of order,
as no appeal had been taken from his de
clsion, and motion to adjourn was not
debatable. Mr.. Wolfe insisted that he
was not out of order, when the Speaker
commanded him TO take his seat, and Wolfe
refusing to obey, he called into requisition
the services of the Sergeant-at-Arms who
proceeded to execute the order of the
Chair. The Republicans Missed the pro-
ceeding, and the Democrats applauded
it, Wolfe continuing yelling at the top of
his voice until the Sergeant-at-Arms
seized him. The hall of the House pre-
sented scene of indescribable confusion,
and the Republican members rushed to
the defense of their colleague and
wrested him from the hands of the
Sergeant-at-Arms La the midst of the
commotion the Speaker adjourned the
House. During the melee pistols were
drawn, and for a time it was feared that
blood would be she'd
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-12

BAYARD TAYLOR has delivered eighty
three lectures this season, and has forty
four more to give. No wonder they are
getting thin.
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THERE are in the whole world a1,o,,.
64 cities with 1OO, 900 inhabitants, ..,'''aS ~
With over 200, 600 12 with frono j. i,oo - :
Uo0 OO down TO 50O, 600 40 with frrs,,, s,,s,
600 to 300, 900, and so with f,n,E ,,, 4o,' sss,'-
600 to 2O0, 900. 80 A Ae's-