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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
A NEW YEARS MYTH.

.Irhe peasants of Translsvsnia have supersf
tion thaf. at the moment when the old year mer,
into the new the cattle speak, but in languA pe III
known to men. and that whoever hears thena diet
Pile wood on the FIRE, Wilhenina,
Here's Caspar come home from the plain
The wind whistles bleak ct the Intel,
The frost-fairies tap on the pane.
Tonight the Old Year is departing
WITH steps that tardy but sure;
Between the wild gusts OF the nighs-wind,
His FOOTBALLS are heard on the moor.
The herdsmen have gone from the pastures
To their huts on the edge OF the pines
The mixers crouch close in their novels:
The miners lie low in their mines.
For tonight when the Old Year expiring
To the Coming Year waves his farewell,
Uplifting their heads in the cow-pens
The cattle strange things will foretell-
In words so unearthly and weird
That the wolves to their coverts will fee,
And the imp-lights will fade in the marshes
And the ovlet will cover in her tree.
And if unto ears that are human
Go floating the mystical words
That, just as the Old Yt ar out-passes,
Gush forth from the lips of the herds
Deaths dart like q thurderbolt flashes
and lifeless the listener falls,
As the New Year sets foot on the threshold
And his shadow towers up on the walls.
Hoi Caspar, the herds must be taking
The step of the New Year arrives
Draw your cloak over yo1r head, W1lhelmina,
On our knees let us pray for our lives
journal.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
For ali Fesnale Complaints

nothing equals DR.. Pierce's Favorito Pre-
ecription. It is q most powerful restorative
tonic, also combining the most valuable
nervine properties, especially adapting it TO
the wants of debilitated ladies suffering from
weak back. inward fever, congestion, inflamma-
neuralgic palms. Mr.. G. W. Seymour, drug
gist, of Canton, N. z, writes DR.. Pierce a.
follows: "The demand for your Favorite
Prescription is wonderful, and one man
stated to me that his wife had not done Q
days work in five months, when she COM
menced taking your Favorite Prescription,
took two bottles and is now on the third bot
tie, and is able to do her housework alone
and milk fourteen COWS twise day." DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is sold by al
dealers in medicines
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
WANTED.

stAfan wants but little here below.
Nox ,WAnss that little long,
ST1s not with me exactly so,
But It's so in the sonRs
NV wants are many, and If told
Would muster many . score.
What nrst want is daily bread
And canvAs-backs-andW wine
And all the realms of nature 81 read
Before me whom dine.
-Four courses scarcely can provide
My appetite to Queil
With four choice cooks from France besides
To dress my dinner well.
What next want, at prineely cost,
Is elegant attire:
Black sable furs for winter frost,
And silks for summers wear.
And cashmere shawls and Brussels lAce
My bosom's front to deck,
And diamond rings my hands to grace,
And rubies for my neck.
want [who does not want> wife
AHectlopate and fair;
To solace all my woes of life,
And all its joys to share.
OF temper sweet, of yielding viii,
OF Arm, yet piacid mind
With all my faults to love me still,
With sentiment refined.
And as Times car incessant runs,
And Fortune fills my store,
want of daughters and of cons
From eight to half = score.
want (aias, can mortals dare
Such bliss on earth TO crave7
That all the girls be chaste and fair
The boys all wise and brave.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

No UNCERTAIN SoUND.-When man
discovers great truth it is his duty to
proclaim it to his fellow-man. The use
of DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs can
not be too strongly recommended to the
invalid public. To. those who have
tried it, nething need be said-their ex-
perience is their proof, pure and posi-
tive as Holy Writ. To those who have
not tried it, these truths cannot be too
often repeated. It is a certain vege-
table specific, which aids faltering ma
ture against the triumphs of dyspepsia,
bilious diForders of every kind, malari-
GUS fevers, constipation of the bowels,
liver complaint, Spring and Fall de-
bility, etc., etc. It costs but little, and
can always be at hand. It is the poor
mans friend. It saves doctors bill
and the slime lost in riding five, ten OF
twenty miles after him besides being
free from all the poisonous medica
ments of the pharmacopmia. It viii
not stimulate you to-day to leave yor
weaker tomorrow. Its benefits art
permanent.
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Pith and Point.

A CITY that scots people-Pittsburgh
BEST known general General de-
bility.
AN article you can always borrow
Trouble.
A mother-in-law in house is a we'll
spring of jawy.
The last gentleman in a lady's
thoughts is generally the first as well.
"CoRN bread ?' said an Irish writer ;
"we haven't got it; an isn't it corn
bafe ye name ?'
THE bed on which O Partisan husband
poisoned his two wives was sold at a
fancy price to Nine. Tussaud recently.
AND thus they went foot and foot
Two soles with but single squeak,
Brcgans that clump as one.
SUNDAY school teacher Sun
day we'll have the death of Moses"
Overioyed pupil" Then he did die at
last"
HEAVEN bless you," said JOIN.
Henry, sit was the preitiest fight you
ever saw. She punched away at the
ivory keys like mad, and the piano
forte nobiy.
DIR. JOIN HALL says that in England
people are divided into churchmen and
dissenters, but that in America they
might properly be divided into church
men and absenters.
LADIES should remember to keep
their mouths shut when going out of
q warn room into the air. In fact, it
wouldn't hurt anything to keep them
shut at some other times.
The clergy of Schenectady have ad-
dressed circular to their parishiohers,
requesting them to die at such times as
may make it convenient to be buried
on some other day than Sunday.
An genealogical numismatologist
wishes to know If the cein known as an
angel (from the root not of all evil, but
of the Greek s' Aggelos y, was equiva-
lent to :" one sent. .'-Inderendent.
"MY son." said mother to her little
boy, years old, "who above all others
will you wish to see when you pass into
the spirit world ?'' s'Goliah i'' shouted
the child, with joyous anticipation,
"unless,' = he quickly added, s'there's
bigger fellow there
TIE O6zor, newspaper of Agram, in
Croatia, adds to each announcement of
death, the name of the medical practi-
tioner who attended the deceased.
This gratuitous advertising will be of
great benefit to the most numerously
mentioned of the medical gentlemen,
is adding, as it inevitably must, to a
mans engaging him to attend his wife's
relatives.
A CONTEMPORARY gives the following
advice to a correspondent I'VE have
to decline your article on the Decline of
Aristocracy. We have left out several
of our own articles this week, and yours
is worse than any of them. Take our
advice, and write few very short
pieces; write only on one side of the
sheet; write plainly and then take
your pieces and burn them in the
kitchen fire."
THE BEAUTIFUL sNow.
Oh, the SHOWS the beautiful enows,
Wetttng your ankles and dampning your toes,
Binding your eyes and tickling your nose,
Filling your gloves till your hands are I" half
frose -
Under your neck-tie, melting 1t goes,
Down your backbone like a trip-hamnered rose
stufnng your ears and spelling your clothes.
Making you think, as 1t shiver1ng blows,
That it came all the way from where Boreas grows
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

TIE propriety of giving condition
medicine to horses, cattle and sheep was dis
cussed and admitted by many of the Agricult-
ural Societies throughout the State last fall,
and We believe that in every case but one
they decided in favor of Slseriddn,s Cavalry
Condition Posoders. Good Judgment.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
The Specie in Circulation in Germany.

Tue German Government has, since
the war with France, coined new gold
the amount of $275, ,O00, 600. Prior to
this issue of gold coin there was in cir
culation about 1875, OOO, 900 silver
money, which had previously sufficed
for all the wants of the country. The
effect of putting the gold coin into cir
culation while the silver was still on
was that the price of silver fell sudden
~, and gold was at a premium. There
are still, after two years effort to
retire it. 800, 600, 600 of this silver
money adoat, and as silver is the cheap
est, everybody uses it, to the exclusion
of gold, and gold continues steadily to
be exported
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

SEA FoAM BAKING PowDER.-In an
other column will be found the card OF the
Co., who have won an enviable and solid
reputation as the inventors ard proprietors
Of 1.-THE best Baking Powder in the world. IS
All through the Eastern States il is UNIVERSAL
ly used, and countless praises are daily re-
ceived from dealer and consumer. Those
who have used it will have no other and
those who have not have yet to learn the de-
lights to be derived from sweet, pure bread.
-AaleTic0n KetospdDer ReDortey
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

THERE Is, probably, no way in which
we can benefit our readers more than by
recommending to them for general use John
sons Anodyne Liaiment. It is adapted to al
most all the purposes of Family Medicine !:
and as 3 specific for coughs, colds, whooping
cough, soreness OF the chest lame stomach,
rheumatism, splitting OF blood, and all lung
difficulties, it has no equal that ever we saw
or heard or.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

New YEAR's CAKR, ExcEnrKNr.
One and one fourth pounds of sugar !;
one pound of butter half pint of cold
water; two eggs three and one-fourth
pounds of fiour; one teaspoonful Of
soda dissolved in hot water !; four table
spoonfuls of caraway seed sprinkled
through the -four rub the butter, or
chop it up with the -four dissolve the
sugar in water, mix all well with beaten
eggs; cut in square cakes bake quickly.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

An ingenious physician In Paris
Remaudot by name-m more than two hundred
ing the news and gossip OF the day. for the
amusement of his patients. From this news
papers grew and became advertising mediums
for all classes OF goods, especially Elmwood
and Warwick Collars
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
True Hospitality.

True hospitality of the home is never
loudly and noisily demenstrative. Ii
never overwhelms you with its greeting,
thoug h You have not doubt of its per
feet sincerity. You are not disturbed
by the creaking of the domestic ma
chinery, suddenly driven at unwonted
speed for your accommodation. Quietly
it does its work, that it may put you in
peaceable possession of its results.
He is not the true host, she is not the
best hostess, who is ever going to and
fro with hurried action, and hurried
manner, and heated countenance, as il
to say, "See how hospitable I can be =
but rather the one who takes your COM
ing with quiet dignity and noiseless
painstaking who never obtrudes atten-
tion, yet svery attentive all the while ;
who makes you, in one word-the most
expressiveword in the Enghsh tongue
to be at home. There is no richer,
deeper, larger hospitality than that.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
WmHoFr's ANrr.PraIop1c on FnyER

WmHoFTs ANTI-PERIODIC OR FEVER
AND AoUE ToNIc.-This invaluable and stand.
ard family medicine is now household word,
is indorsed by themedical profession, and pre-
scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoft's
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men OF the country, and il
worthy of euch Endorsement WHERLocK
FrNLAY & Co., Proprietore, New Orleans. FoE
SALE By ALL DRUoaIsrs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
Pianos and Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for $500.
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125.
Good secondhand pianos, $3.50 to 5000.
Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
DIR. j. Walkers California Vi1a-

Dir. j. Walkers California FffE.
egar Bitters are purely Vegetables
preparation, made chiefly ffoIli the na-
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Calesor-
mia, the medicinal properties of which,
are extracted thcrcfrom withottt tic use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, :. What is tho cause Of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERs?" Our answer is, thatithey remove
the cause of disease, and the paticnt rc-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and & life giving principle,
perfect Renovator and Invig6rator
of the system. Never before IN the
history of the world has a medicine been:
compounded possessing the rcinarkabae
quantities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing th9
sick Of every disease maa Is heir to- They
are a gentle Purgatiye as well as a Tpuic-
relieving Congestion or Inhanimatiop Of
the Liver and Yisceral Organs in Biiio1rs
Diseases. fs sfla
The properties, of DE. VA BKzE's
VINEGAR BIrTERs are Aperent. Diapporetic.
CarrninatiSe, Nutritious. laxative. Diurctlcs
Sedatire, Counter IrrStant, Sddoti6c, ,SAlterR
tive, and Anti Billions. n, . tcssS ~ s.iS
Il. H. MCDONALD s$ co.,
Drngglsts and Gen. sts. San Francisco California
and cor. Of Washington and Charlton SITS, n. Y.
Sold by all Druggtsts and Dea1ers-
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

TIE names of victories may be erased from
our battle flags; but SILVER-TIPPED Shoes
viii Eever become obsolete. They are Ana
tional Institution.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

TIE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAn Co. q
. Finished Nail Ia the best in the world.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

THIS is indeed the age of perfect
hotels. The Sherman House, at Chi
cago, has fire-alarm connecting every
room with the main Office has none but
brick partition walls has Paris floors,
with cement between all joists, and in
have recently been largely reduced.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

vEGETABIs PULMONARY BALSAMg
Most approved. re1ta BILE and we'll edy
for Cougbs Colds ptinIl Get the oesasSrse
Price 81; smalTbo CUTLER BROS d CO., Boston.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

Or . h0n per day at home. Terms free. Address
SGE u GEO. SrnssoN & Co.. Portland, Maine.
Ch9R A WEEK. Agents wanted everywhere. For
u & % outfit 25c. FRITcn s. WALKER, Dayton, Ohio
TH x n per day made by our agents selling
n sbbV staple grtfcles used In every family.
Address a. h. hi Her o.. i64 B sndnlph- Chicasfr
DURE GRAPE WINE. Price redused to 75c per
II gal Send cash or ref. to VIM. Ram say. Pelia. IA
Hall's Comb'n Rire-PYoof SAFE, good az new A5o
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29
Ingenious ExecuttYe.

After spending nearly two years in
making improvements in his ditching
Or excavating machine, Gov. Randolph,
of New Jersey, has brought it to per
fectisn. The machines used for dig
ging ordinary farm bitches require the
services of two men and four horses,
and with this force will excavate a
drain suitable for tile laying, three feet
deep and four thousand feet long. in a
day. This is equal to the labor Of over
sixty men in the same time. Under
favorable circumstances, in loamy soil,
the machine has dug equal to the labor
of 100 men at the cost of II men. If
this statement is correct, many millions
of acres of land now unproductive can
be brought cheaply into cultivation, and
the production of an enormous guam
sity of other land can be greatly in
creased. Larger machines will be
worked by steam power where excava-
tions are to be made, 1evees and en-
bankments built, etc.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

A YOUNG lady in Paris, KY, remarked
to a companion, in conversation, the
other day, that she would never paint
her cheeks again before attending a
funeral. g Why not?" asked her
friend. Because, replied the young
lady, g I was painted up when I at
tended q funeral, last summer, and
never wanted to cry so bad in my life,
and was getting my handkerchief ready,
when glancing around at -, I saw
that coarse, yellow skin of hers through
the tear tracks, and it looked horrible.
never had such hard work to hold my
tears in since was born. I'm done
painting for funerals"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-29

yo1or of The mountain's
peak.
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The American Newspaper Union numbers
over 600 papers, separated into seven subdtvis-
ions. For separate lists ann cost OF advertising,
address q. p. SANB0RN, ia Monroe st., Chicago
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03
4 Female Soldier.

A curious case of assumption Of sex
was lately discovered in Paris. A pen
stoned officer, named Senkeisen, now
nearly eighty years old, fell Ill and had
to be taken to the Necker Hospital
There the doctor in charge discovered
that the officer belonged to the female
sex. Her secret being thus detected,
the UjelIe de lG Uje5lle no longer hesita-
ted giving the story of her life. She
was fourteen when she lost her father,
a Ravarian Colonel, Her grandfather,
General Baron Won Senkeisen, had the
command OF Bavarian army corps.
Bavaria was then the ally of France
By some unexplained whim, this grand
father forced her to enlist in one of the
regiments of his division. She advanc-
ed rapidly in the campaigns of Ger
many and Spain, and was wounded
twice, and severely, at Waterloo. She
was then admitted in the hospitals as
an officer of the second class. In 1880
she obtained French naturalization and
pension. This woman has a glorious
character to boast Of, having received
letters of congratulation on her volar-
Gus deeds from Marshals Berthier,
Augereau, Suchet, and General Dupont,
who was sentenced to death for having
capitulated at Baylen with 10000 men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03
The Mothers HalIucinatiOn.

There dwells in New York city lady
who in all respects seems a sane and
sensible woman. She lost, five years
ago, an only daughter of great promise,
seventeen years old, and the idol of the
mother Since her child's death she
has had the room she used to occupy
cleaned daily and the untouched bed
pulled to pieces and made over. She
sits before vacant chair at the table
and carefully fills the unused plate, and
spring and fall, buys the newest and
prettiest things for "Addie," giving
away the last years garments "Addie'
having done with them There is no
appearance of mental gloom or disorder
about her, yet she carries this vagary
into every act of her life. Riding out,
no one ever sits beside her, as that seat
is filled by the imaginary air-drawn
daughter. When seats are taken at a
theater, her husband always get three.
You see the vacant chair between them,
"A e 81 sits 'G and Views TT the per-
Torrance. She is cheerful and happy,
and asked a friend of mine, the
other day, for the pattern of a wrapper,
saying f" Addie" kept her room so much
it would be serviceabIe, and several
days later, [ saw the poor mother
busily braiding cashmere sack for
"Addie." She will speak with all ra-
tionality for hours on all subjects, but
suddenly excuse herself, saying she
must go to "Addie" for afew moments.
Sitting beside the empty bed (to which
her daughter was confined for two years
before hel: death) she clasps an unseen
hand and talks hours together with her
phantom child. It is q strange case,
but by no means a sad one, since her
tender ministration to this viewless
"Addie' makes the mothers heart re-
joice. To all intents and purposes the
daughter seems to her to be with her
constantly. Her husband contemplates
taking her abroad, and the lady is al
ready packing up "Addie's" things
NeaU York Letter. -.. -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03

The organ of vision is considered
the most delicate organization OF the
human frame; yet many who were born
blind have been enabled to see by surgic-
al operations, and the following, is an in
teresting fact concerning one of that
class: #
A youth had become thirteen years
of age, when his eyes were touched by
surgeon. He thought scarlet the
most beautiful color; black was pain
full. He fancied every object touched
him, and he could not distinguish by
sight what he perfectly well knew by
feeling-for instance, the cat and dog.
When his second was touched, he re-
marked that the objects were not SO
large in appearance to this as the one
opened at first. Pictures he consider
ed only partly colored surfaces, and a
miniature absolutely astonished him
like putting bushel into a pint.
Stanley the organist. and many blind
musicians, have been the best perform
ers of their time; and schoolmistress
in England could discover that the
boys were playing in a distant corner Of
the room instead ST studying, although
person using his eyes could not
detect the slightest sound. Professor
Sanderson, who was blind, could, in a
few moments tell how many persons
were in a mixed company, and of what
sex. A blind French lady could dance
in figure dances, sew and thread her own
needle. A blind man in Derbyshire,
England, has actually been surveyor and
planner Of roads, his ear guiding him as
to the distance as accurately as the eye
to others; and the late Justice Fielding,
who was blind, on walking into a room
for the first time after speaking few
words, said: 3'This room is twenty two
feet long, eighteen wide and twelve
high all of which was revealed to him
with accuracy through the medium of
the ear. Truly, ''we are fearfully and
wonderfully made. . sci .taat aal q.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03
Domestic Birds.
-Tha careful hen

THE careful hen
calls all her chirping family around,
FED and defended / y the fearless cock.
whose breast with ardor flames. as on he walks,
Graceful, and crows defiance. In the pond
The timely checkered duck before her train
Rows sarrulous, The stately-sailing swan
Gives out her snowy plurnage to the gale;
And, arching proud his neck. with oarv feet
Bears forward fierce; and guards his osiar-isle
Protective OF his young. The turkey nigh
reddens: while the peacock
spreads
His every-colored glory to the sun,
And swims in radiant majesty along
Der the whole homely scene, the cooing dove
Flies thick in amorous chase, and wanton rolls
The glancing eye, and turns the changeful neck.
-ThonapsOn's Seasons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-03
Burned to Death in His Castle.

A terrible affair occurred lately at
place near Saintes, in Charente Infe-
rieure, where a man named Tarin, after
shooting at his father and his brother,
set fire to their barn and burned cattle
and brandy to the value of 3O,O00f. He
then retired to the house, loopholed the
walls, and prepared to stand siege.
He had three guns and quantities of adj
munition. Five gendarmes arrived at
full gallop, and Tarin killed one and
wounded two. The other two gend-
armes, aided by the peasantry, surroun-
ded the house, reinforcements were tele-
graphed for, and before long, brigades
of gendarmes arrived from Pons, st.
Genes, and Saintes, under the COM
mand Of a captain the sub-prefect also
repaired to the scene of action. For 10
hours a force estimated at 1000 strong,
kept up a fire on the house, Farm re-
plying necessarily. Corporal Bouche-
RE exposed himself for a moment, and
was shot dead. At last NAVY, and old
soldier, volunteered to storm the house,
and he managed to get on the roof and
to pour bucket of flaming petroleum
into the house; while accomplishing
this Tarin wounded him slightly in the
forehead. The house was soon in a
blaze. and the assassin persisted in the
flames.