The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
oURING THE HIocoUeH.

CURING THE HICCOUGH.
The Reese River (Nev.) ReUeille tells
the following A young gentleman who
attends the Austin public school had
been told that sudden shock or fright
would cure the hiccough, and the other
evening, while he was studying his les
son for the morrow by drawing picture
of the schoolma' am on his slate, his re-
spected progenitor was seized with fit
of hiccoughs. The old gentleman was
tilted back in his chair, with his feet
resting on the stove, and the young
hopeful concluded to try the cure on
him. Just as the old man was "rast-
jumped up and yelled ''Firep' The
old man was just getting out cuh-cuh,
but he never got it out. He gave
jump which tilted over his chair, and
Ia endeavoring to regain his lost equi-
hbrium his feet few up against the
table, upsetting it and a student lamp
which stood upon it, and his head land
ed in the ashes on the stove-hearth.
The old lady, hearing the racket, came
running in from the kitchen and tripped
over the old mans PROSTATE form,
knocking down whatnot with lot of
glass and china ornaments. When that
boys father arose from the wreck, and
shook the ashes and splinters of glass
out of his hair and clothes, he was
cured of the hiccoughs, but there was
look of sternness in his eye; the boy
says he knows it was ssstern" look
feelingly 'tstern," as he can testify.
He says fright is splendid cure for
the "hiccups, but that the "stern"
look it occasions is three hundred thou
sand times worse than the ss hiccups."
He can't play tag now, as he says his
mother has forbidden him, and he sits
on the edge OF the seat at school and
lies on his front when in bed, and silent
" murmurs that the old man can hiccup
his consarned old head off before he will
ever again try to cure him.
THE DOG HEADED MONKEY.
A full-grown specimen of the dog
headed monkey from Abyssinia has been
presented to the Museum of the Uni
versity of Geneva. This Abyssinian
monkey is characterized by the long
hair on it's cheeks and the greater part
of it's body. Il vas held in veneration
by the ancient Egyptians, and enjoyed
3 certain celebrity from the rank that it
occupied in their cosmogony. Its fig
ure is engraved upon the monuments of
ancient Egypt, and there have been
found mummies of the animal well pre-
served. According TO Ehrenberg. this |
monkey served as the emblem for the |
arts and sciences, music and astronomy, |
and especially for speech and hiero-
glyphics, or letters, over which he was |
to preside. It is for this that
she Abyssinians now call it totG. Hor-
apollon reports that this monkey was |
consulted In the temples tablet, reed
and ink, presented by priest, were
used as tests to ascertain il the partic- /
alar animal belonged TO the race that
knew how to write. This representa-
i've of Thoth also symbolized the iudg-
ment of souls; and upon one of the
resented with balance in hand weigh I
ing the actions of men. In other places
il is represented writing with q reed. I
Ehrenberg also supposes that it Is the
locks of this monkey that have served
IS the models for the perukes figured
upon the heads of different divinitiee In
the Egyptian mythology.
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AoooD-LooK1Na house girl, employed
IN family in Detroit, received pres
ent Of muf the other day, and in : /
day or two after the lady Of the house
discovered 3 receipted bin in her hus-
bands desk, reading !. For one mufE-
$40. /" She hadn't had new mnH. and,
when the man came home to supper |
that night the old girl was gone and
. new one was wrestling the dishes
about.