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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
o1D-F1sH1oNED WIyyERs

| Ihe. New Haven Palladium has been
searching history for colder winter than
the present, and selects 1T41 as a speci-
men. In that year the snow, which Gov
cred the whole country as early as the
18th OF November, was still found the
the next April covering the fences. In
january, tent was maintained on
Charles river, Boston, for the entertain
ment of travellers. From Feb. %.
George Washington's ninth birthday.
until March 6, the people crossed the
sound on the ice every day from STRAIT
ford, Conn, to Long Island, distance
of three leagues. Even as far east as
New London the ice extended into the
sound as far as could be seen from the
town, and Fishers Island was united
to the main land by a solid bed. On
March %, the Boston NeaUs Letter re-
ports that the people living on Thomp-
sons Island had crossed over to Dor
chester to church on the ice for the fif-
teen preceding Sundays As late as the
9th of July, letter from New London.
Conn, reports on the east side of the
Connecticut river a body of ice, as large
as two carts can draw, clear and solid,
and adds very artlessly that .si it might
he there month longer, We're it not that
so many resort out of curiosity to drink
punch made out of it." On the 18th of
July snow was still lying in a mass in the
town of Ipswich, Mass, nearly four feet
thick. But the most marvellous record
OF that season is the statement made by
Alonzo Lewis, author of the annals of
Lynn, Mass, that Francis Lewis, the
signer of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, drove his horse from New York to
Ba1nstable, the whole length of Long
Island sound, ON the ice."
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ASTRONOMY.
ATMOSPHERE OF JUPITER.


An estimate by Mr.. Burton, printed in
the Monthly Notices. of the Royal
Astronomical Society fixes the depth of the
atmosphere which surrounds the planet
Jupiter at from three thousand to nine
thousand miles. This result is deduced
from four years study of the shadows of
Jupiter's satellite cast upon the disk of
the planet during transit across it.
r. WHAT MAKES THE SKY BLUE.
1he ethereal blue color of the sly is
due to minute particles of matter which
hoat IN the air. Were these particles
removed the appearance of the sky wor1ld
be dead black. It is fact in ontics
that exceedingly fine portions of matter
dlsperse or scatter the blue rays of light.
snil coarser portions scatter all the rays.
making white light. The atmosphere is
full OF aqueous vapor, the particles of
which diffuse white light in all diree-
iuons When the particles are enlarged.
they become visible in the form Of
clouds. That the diffusion of light in our
atmosphere, the blue coloring of the sky
aud the colors of the clouds, are due to
the presence of matter floating in the air.
mas been conclusively proven by Tyndall.
On passing a beam of sunlight through
glass tube, the beam is rendered brill.
1antly visible by the reflection of light
from the dust particles floating in the
ar contained in the tube. But on re- I
moving the dust particles, which is done
by hltering the air by cotton wool m,
causing the air to pass over flame, the
beam of light is no longer visible in the
tube.-aScientifc american,
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An old lady called on us Wednesday
to advertise her hotise for rent. We
offered to write it out for her. but ahe
said she had it with her. She took sats,saaS
laid her iauf On q table, then picked It
up again and placed It on Her lap pv the
side of her reticgIe. Size iobened The
reticule to get at the advertisement. wh4n
the muf rolled off on the floor. We "a
stored it, and she then arose and car,i;aasa
it across the room to desk where she IA.
posted it very carefully. Then she re-
summed her seat and reopened the fst-
cule, and after apatie1tt search among HI
contents, brought ont d folded handkerl
ehief. After unwintling the hantlI.sasr,,-
chief with extreme canton, she broduced
. package Of newspapers. Thss aha
slowly unfolded, layer after layer, antil
she came to o half page of note paper
That was the announcement OF rent.
There we're only three lines of it, but IL
was there, just as perfect and unimpaired.
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4 nEs1nRn AMA1oE.

| A woman has recently been detected
In England who has been driving cab,
IN the guise of man, for the past ten
| years. She was born, it seems, at Taun-
ton. Somerset, where her father was land
agent to a nobleman. She had great
liking for 6 handling the Ribbons r and
learned to drive horse while very young
| When little more than fourteen years of
! age she was married to an army surgeon
by the name of Honeywell, and her
name, as q married woman is Margaret
Honeywell. The two lived together so
unhappily that at length she ran away
from home and went to London. She
there met with woman who had form
erly been farm-seryant to her father, and
who had married cabman, and from
what she heard in regard to the cab
driving business, she resolved to earn an
independent living In that branch of in
dustry. BY wearing her hair short, and
by judicious use of clothing, she man
aged to present the appearance of a
short, stout man.. Her face being of
masculine type, her complexion horid, and
she having an impedinent in her speech,
caused by defective palate, conspired
to render the Illusion perfect. For three
years in London and six In Liverpool
she piled the whip as cab ess man. her
sex being unknown and unsupported by
all, with one exception. During that
period she was on several occasions
placed In a peculiar and delicate position.
but came out from each ordeal without
even suspicion of her sex being aroused. 4
On one occasion noted bOne-setter In
Liverpool examined her knee, which she
thought had been injured, but which
turned out to be only affected with rheu-
matism. Although he treated the COM
plalnt successfully, he seems to have
noticed nothing peculiar in the forma-
ton of the limb. Mrs. Honeywell states
that during the time she acted as a cab
by she saw notice in anewspaper that
her husband had failed in business. The |
one exception referred to is woman /
who has been known as 'tBin Seymour's /
wife for some years, and who has also I
been in the habit of taking her sshus-
bands dinner to the cabstand daily. In |
all probability the public would not have /
heard for some time Of this female cab
driver had it not been for her unfortu- +
nate share in theft which caused her
arrest and discovery.
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CAUGHr4rIASr

For some months London iuyenile
put money In his purse at the expense of
blind beggars. His plan was to follow
the victim, throw piece of meat to his
dog, when the animal, thus adroitly en-
gagged with bone, did not interfere
with the mere abstraction of few cents
from tin cup. This process had MANY
successes, and but one failure. Even
dogs are uncertain. Evidently q fine
specimen held the bind mans penny
catcher In his mouth. It was a little
wooden bowl, and there were three or
four coppers In it; but the dog had had
a fine bone,in the morning, and the boy.
who depended on that, depended
irrationally. As he put his hand on the
coppers the dog seized him by the throat.
Assistance from the police was necessary
to compel him to relinquish his hold.
And the boy, did the thought of prison
stir his soul2 Not in the least. He was
busy with the other subject. He said,
ssAnIu ungrateful dog. That is unnatural.
impossible even. This dog, therefore.
must be mad z sAnd this fancy pros
trated the youth to such degree thatl,e
was taken toithe hospital and died short
" after, his case being stated by The
physician IN attendance as most aeuta
case of hydrophobia.. A
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JOsH BTLLING3 sEz


1t don make enny diffrenae what +rod
Or profeshun yu put yer son at, for if he
ever succeeds at emmy, he haz got to dc
It by adding dignity to the one he adopts,
Emmy bizness that is lawful IL honara.
DEL and no buzness, simply, ever made
emmy one respektabel. .
Bnty is a women's prerogatiye. but
buty IN man IL the next kalanaitv to
being afool.
The man who kan think kan never be
lonesum. a1ss9
1t is no particular kredit to say oy q
man, that =" hiz word iz az good az hiz
bond. ,"
Superstishun IL the child ov ignoranse
and fear, and IL worthy ov it's parents.
f1ckshun IL narrow strip ov very
productive land, lieing between the
domlnyuns oy truth and falsehood. owing
allegiance to neither.
The fakulty to decide between right
and wrong, and the power ov memory.
make reazon, and the planning ov things.
and the doing ov them, il mans chief
buzness.
Z A hungry man needs no bill ov fare.
Old age llys to rekount the trials oy
its youth, and from Abraham's time
down to now, haz always mourned the
growing degenerasy ov the times.
Thare never haz lived a man vet who
was willing to swop off a truth for lie,
not if he knu it.
The man who hasn't got emmy habits
hasn't got emmy thing that he kan call
hiz own
The best way kno ov to tighten our
burdens, IL to look around and find sum
one who haz a bigger load than we hav,
and then pity them
Poverty IL a CRATE blessing to sum
folks-az long az they are poor they
are endurable.
Neither a good or a bad example haz
ever yet been wasted on the world.
The meanest buzness that emmy one
kan follow IL to trade in sekrets.
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ANOMALIES.

Paper can be manufactured from iron.
If a taIIow candle be placed N d gun and
shot at q door, il win go through With
out sustaining. injury; aud If muaket
ball be fired into the water, 1t viii not
only rebottnd, but be fiattened; If fred
throughia q pane Of glass, it win make the
hole the size of the ball without cracking
the glass; # suspended by thread IL
VIII make no diference, and the thread
viii not even viibrate. Cork if sunk two
hundred feet IN the ocean viii not rise
on account of the pressure of water. In
the Arctic regions, when the thermome2
ter e below zero, persons can converse
IneFe than 3. mile distant. DR.. Janison
asserts that he heard every word of q
sermon at the distance of two miles.
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B4D SPELLING

Frequently. cases of bad spelling crop
out among the professions, and some lam
| entable instances of weakness in this
respect come to light among the g hu-
manitarians. For instance, a vo,,no
lawyer In an interior city one early morn
ing locked his office door and left upon
1t this mysterious legend: ssGon to
brexfus. In small New England
town druggist was surprised and dis
turbed to receive at the hands of a dirty
looking customer the following prescrip-
ton ''Pleas give the bare st,mpthin
to fizick him Is cts worth. " During the
war letter written by rebel soldier to
hls sweetheart was captured, wherein the
writer said: eve will lick the vanks
tomorrow if godlen1ity spares our lives. %
Some wonderful things in the way of di-
rectlons appear on letters passing through
the mails-for example, the letter di-'
rected to Pittsburgh Judge, indorsed.
= Io the onerable gug." The proprie-
tor OF country store once worked him
self into brain fever endeayorinc to
make Ineligible the following note,
given to him by small boy, the son of
one of his customers, ssmister Cream
Wunt You let my boay hav a pare of
Easy toad shIlz % However. he was
probably not more horrified than the
schoolmaster who received letter from
a man who wrote !: 81 have decided to
inter my boy In your scull.'
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VALUE PER POUND AvoIRpUpo1s
METEoRoLoGT.
THE PHuosopHr or n.1.

/ n.
10 understand the philosophy of this
beautiful and often sublime phenomena.
SO often witnessed and so very essential
20 the existence of plants and animals. a
te" facts derived from observation and a
long train of experiments, must be re-
membered.
1. We're the atmosphere here, every-
where, and at all times, of a uniform
tempera.1re, we should never have rain
han or snow. The water absorbed by il
IN evaporation from the sea and the
earth's surface, would descend in an i'm.
percephble vapor, or cease TO he ali.
soroed by the air when it was once fully
saturated
Ihe absorbing power of the atrnos
phere, and consequently its capacity to
retain humidity, is apportionatelye greater
IN warm than in cold air. The air near
the surface of the earth is warmer than
it is in the region of the clouds. The
higher we ascend from the earth the
colder do we find the atmosphere.
Hence the perpetual snow on very high
mountains in the hottest climate.
Now, when from continued evapora-
tlon the air is highly saturated with
yapor, though it be invisible and the
sky cloudless. if its temperature is sud
denly reduced by cold currents descend
ing from above, or rushing from higher
to lower latitude, its capacity to retain
moisture Is diminished, clouds are
formed, and rain is the result. It con-
denses, cools, and like a sponge filed
with water and compressed, pours out
the water which its diminished capacity
cannot hold.
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THE WoRLD OF SCIENCE.
zOo1oGYssw@ @
TEE NUABER OF EGGS, IN A HEN.

@N@AAESE1Es OE EGGS, IN A HEN.
The Rptral Nc,c Yorker sayss A
craous point Of inquiry among zoolo-
R1sss has been, for long time, How
many eggs are there in the Ioyary of n
hen9 To determine this, q German
naturalist short time since, instituted
some careful investigations, the result of
which showed the ovary of q hen to con-
6an about 600 embryo eggs. He also
found that some twenty of these are ma
fured the first year, about 12Oduri1ig the
second year, 135 during the third, ia
dur1ng the fourth, and during the fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth years the num-
ber decreases by twenty annually, it con-
9equently following that after the fourth.
or at most the fifth year, hens are no
longer profitable rs layers, unless it NAV
be In exceptional instances.
Some interesting experiments were
also maFle short time since,s IN Ger,
many, to determine the comparative
tecandlty of ducks aud shens---that is,
1om which of the two the larger number
OF eggs can be obtained IN thesame time.
For this purpose three hens and ducks
were selected, all Matched in Febuarv.
and nourished with suitable food. The
following autumn the ducks had laid 225
eggs, while the hens laid none. In the
next February the laying season began
again with the ducks and continued nm,
interrupted till August. They showed
no inclination to sit, but became yerv
thin, although they afterwards fattened
mp somewhat. The total number of eggs
laid by the hens amounted to 257-or Sc 4
eggs each-and 392-or 131 each for the
ducks. Although the eggs of the ducks
were rather smaller than those of the
hens, yet they proved to be decidedly
superlor in nutritive material, SO that the |
superiority In productiveness was decid- |
edly with the ducks. |
In regard to the means or possibility
of deciding the sex of eggs, much differc'I
ence OF opinion exists. But NJ. Genin. i
IN communication to the French
Academy of Sciences, says on this sub
Ject that he is now able, after having I'M
vesIgated the matter carefully for
several years, to state that all eggs. con-
tanning the germ of males have wrinkles
ON their smaller end, while female eops
are smooth at the extremity.
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4 sURGIcAL coEEEe1OA::

- "A troublesome murder case In WiscOaT
sin has just been settled by a verdict aS
Elkhorn. DIR. Martin is a prac4icinv
physician in Raymond, Racine county
His son A. p. Martin, oficiated- as the
doctors collector, DIR. Martin attended
a farmer named Derrick West, during
spell of sickness, and West disputed the
bill presented by thesson. West was re-
solved to stands a Lawsuit or even death,
rather than pay what he regarded as an.
exorbitant bill for saving his life, and
the collector went at him with danger
GUS knife and killed him A. p. Martin
was tried for homicide, and the jury
called it manslaughter in the second de-
gree. After the verdict had been pro-
nounced, it was discovered that one of
the jurors had expressed an opinion
about the case previous to the trial On
this ground the verdict was set aside and
2 2, new trial granted. Martin. was NOT
satisfied with the manner In which his
surgical operation had b en- viewed and
treated in that court, and, fearing a rene
tltlon, OF the verdict there, he applied
for and obtained change Of venue To
NValworth county. There Martin was
found guilty of murder IN the irzt de-
gree. He did not like this verdict any
better than the other in fact, it. dis
agreed with his ideas of comfort infinite
ly worse. The case was appealed to the
Supreme Court, which decided that the
defendant could not be convicted of nur
der in the first degree after having been
found guilty of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree. The court remanded the
case back for a new trial. lha
next time the jury found a verdict
OF manslaughter in the. third degree,
probably as kind of compromise and to
get rid of the case. Martin viii have to
be satisfied with this opinion of his sur
gical ability until he can get hold of an
other subject.
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HIsTORR AND GEOGRAPHK.


CHANGING THE KARTH's GnoaRAPHY.
Several projects which are likely to
slaange the features Of geography to
1aane EXTENT have been furnished 70 The
american Geographical SocietY. and are
worthy of notice. The Suez; canal. al.
ready successfully carried out, has sen.
nrAted entirely the continents of Asia
s'Ad Africa. The Isthmus canal. be-
nNeen the Pacific ocean and ta1a Car
'zA1aean sea, vii, in like manner. u,l,es,,
<1Hapleted, divide the North and gaa,t1,s
A1arAcan continents The prow,oaaa
xyiand and Delawaxe shin aa,,aI -
Oennecs the waters Of the Ghesapeal.,
md AslawaEe hays. by way Of tle. s,saaa.s
mas Kayer' v1n convert the large p.,,;,...
sla1 10 nailes long from norfl, =, ss.... s.s.s.
and over sixty-fiye miles v;,,s g - -
widest part comprising mora sl,a,, 4,....s -
xOurfhs Of the State Of T)alo.-.,..-
ccEntiea Of Northampton ana A,..,..-. -
Va and neqfly all that portion g 49,, -,
Ind on the eastern Shore or an. vs,.sa, 9.
fi,tae less than 8, 900 square nSlAas;..sa.
an island. Another ship canal * x -
"a the Peninsula of Earnstable f.s,ss, -,
zaainland of Massachusetts. Bcea,s 81
klae latter enterprises, It Is tEaulAht. n.isl
sOon be acsornp pEEiisl,eds as the benefits Is
american commerce that VIII come from
tIlala aisa mort manifest
ApRgcAN f1ph.
The Eiau govern naeslt Ids recentIY
ssk s..ksfs <.r5sfsS sS&Ssssxs -. sksss 49, a. 80
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fact is, fellows of that sort never do more
than pick up bits. They are never
thorough. They can't be relied upon
wouldn't take him in my office, and Il
don't want him in my family-that's all. :
And 1,dtc,Janaf1sas was right
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METALLU URGY.
VALUES OF METAL

The following table of the respective
values of metals is not without interest
The first four are SO rare as to be sold in
minute quantities, yet their rates are
given for the sake of comparison with
the others
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as when SHE started from home with it.
nan an honr before. In this age of reck-
lessness n and shiftleasness, such an in
stance OF carefulnessdeseryes more than
n passing notice--Dan6,uy Nesvs.
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4GR1oULrURE.
FRoPAaATIoN OF POTATOES BIZ oUrrrsI

PROPAGATION OF POTATOES By CUTTINGS.
Potatoes of large size are said to be
produced by monk in France bv cut
ting two side shoots from each stalk
when it is from i've to seven inches high.
and setting them in good, rich, mellow
garden soil In few days they send
out roots, and form tuberss about as
early and in as large quantities as the
original stalk, while the latter does not
seem to be injured by the moderate
pruning. The experiment also seems to
have been successfully tried elsewhere
previously. The plan may be found
especially servieeable in the propaga-
hOn of new and rare varieties for seed.
INVESTIGATION OF THE POTATO DrsEAsE.
Announcement has already been made
of the selection of Prof. de Barry. Of
Sfxasburg, by the Royal Agricultural
Society Of England, to make a series of
Investigations into the life history of the
potato fungus, for the purpose OF. filing
mp certain blank in our knowledge of
the Development of this destructive OBJ
5ect. This gentleman, in CARRYING ont
his investigations, has lately discovered
that the disease is not propagated by
detective tubers, and that, although the
1H1yceli11n WIS distinctly apparent in the
stalks Of plants raised directly from dis
eased tnbers, neither gonnidia nor
germs were evolved. He also expresses
the hope that he has at last discovered
She resting places Of the oospores. or
the active primary germs of the fungus.
This is the special point upon which.
further information Is needed, and may
the proper means Of preventing
HE continnahce Of the disease in any
given locality hy waEhiing agriicultuiristslI
sealpst planting their potatoes in spot
saaere they must, 81 some time, mev-
ltably be destroyed 80. t f..@...s ]
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ALaERIA, it appears. stands ffnf
among countries noted for their rnineraa
waters, in respeetsof the number, varie-
~, and hygisnic properties Of har
springs. In most cases ruins in tho I'M
mediate vicinity attest the fact OF the old
Romans having appreciated the curativa,
qualities of the waters quite as much as
the Arabs Of the present day do,
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| r
Professor Hosmer, of Washington
University, Missouri, lectured ON
Words . in ST. Louis the other even
ing. The speaker criticised number Of
quaint expressions and others that were.
characterized by some oddity, awkward
ness, or other peculiarity The first was
remark to the following effect: saI
hain't hooked his handkerchief neither
Besides 'twan't his'n. It's onr'n: az
Bill. He said that many expressions.
which we set down as intolerable for
their grammar or pronunciation, were
once strictly proper, and In many cases
have been given up for poorer furnssl
In speaking of the double negative
which occurs in the preceding passage.
the lecturer quoted similar expressions
from Martin Chuzzlewit," /" and the
writings of Shakespeare Tha word tsaxse
was for centuries used In tho bess s6s
ciety, and an Anglo-Saxon grammar
would suggest better way of accounting
for g OUR" and "yourn " than Go
suppose they were the mere blunders Of
Doors.
The lecturer cited some lines sent 10
hun in valentine years ago: =
BY these four lines OF meter
I'd have you for TO know se
That 20 seek iovyer
Am goiu, for to 60.
In vindicating Patty's taste IN English.
he said there was not thing III those
lines that was not once held TO be strictly
correct.
After quoting Ghaucer. to prove THAT
" Let her slide was classic phrase.
the lecturer amused his audience wiish
the following Berkshire ditty:
But to'ther young man looked shy at me.
And from her seat she Ran w. ssFSE so
Let's you and GO our own way,
5 IA ss And wen let shSo5 hs es,n &
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a MEafPHIs doctor treated patient for
asthma. when his disease was kidney
complaint. a jury has put SO, 500
plaster on these fortunate glands.