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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
Along Buggy Ride.

A gentleman from our distant sister
State of Kansas is visiting in this city
for few days, who drove all the way
from Kansas TO New Hampshire in Q
top buggy drawn by O single horse.
This is Thomas II. Kinney, of Wells
vile, Kan. Mr.. Kinney left the fertile
soil of the garden of the West on the
5th day of October. He carried only
what baggage he could stow away in
the buggy-box, travelling thus in light
marching order. His horse was q native
Kansas 4-year old colt, sired by the
celebrated Gen. Mitchell. which follow
ers of the turf have often heard of.
They started out In the early morning,
and travelled three days without incon-
venience. Then, for the first time in
his life, the horse was shod. Later on
the shoes were taken of and reset, and
afterward en- route he was shod SEQ
ond time. This was all the shoeing
necessary. The roads were all sorts, ol
course, and once or twice. on account of
rain and other causes, Mr.. Kinney had
to stop over for day or 50 at time.
But he met with no accident, and ac-
complished the whole 1,529 miles in
fiftynine days, arriving at Charlestown,
n. H., both horse and himself, in the
very best condition. NorsDich (Cosass.
Bulletin.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
4 Colored Bows STORY Of the Sea.

Charles Tuttle, coIored boy, who
ran away from his home in Ellington,
Conn.,, three years ago, has returned,
and has sailors yarn to spin to the
wondering countrymen. He has been
as a whaler, and says his ship got
blown from its course, and food and
water gave out. After three days, lots
were cast among the crew in order that
one should give his life to sustain that
of the others. The blank was drawn
by an old sailor, and he being a favor
ite, there was cry from many that his
life should be saved. It became evi-
dent that mutiny must prevail. The
captain and party and other sailors
formed sides and armed themselves
ready for bloody fight, but just then
there came cry Of ga sail, " and every
sailor dropped his arms and good feel
ings were restored.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
why Alexis Made a Trip Around the
World.


A correspondent of the New York
World, writing from st. Petersburg,
says:
You remember the vague rumors
concerning the marriage of the Grand
Duke Alexis, the handsome youth about
whom SO many society bellies in New
York went half wild at the time of his
visit to the United States. The story
has never been told in print except in o
very fragmentary way. Among the
dena0iselIes d'honaneatr of her Majesty,
the Empress, there was a pretty and
attractive girl, the daughter Of high
official who was member of the Coun-
Gil of the Empire. She was attached to
the imperial household and lived in the
palace Alexis fell in love with her
fell in love over head and ears, which
was very wrong for a Grand Duke. He
declsred his love and found it recipro-
Gated, and with the headstrong impru-
dence of youth he proposed to elope
with her and be married. She, poor
girl, did not weigh the consequences,
and probably was not aware what a
mess she would make by accepting his
offer. One day while the court was at
Moscow the twain met by appointment,
sought priest and were united. The
marriage was kept secret for two or
three months, but marriage, like MUIR
der, will out, and this case proved no
exception to the rule. When it bee anne
known there was scene such as does
not often happen. The Emperor swore
and the Empress cried, and the whole
imperial family was in funk. Alexis
was talked to in o very plain, old-fash-
ioned way. It was determined to send
him on a long journey in the hope of
curing him of his love, and so he was
started on the voyage that brought him
to America aud took him home by way
of Japan and Siberia. Mrs. Alexis was
sent out of the empire by special
train, and the eye of the police was not
taken from her until she was safe over
the frontier. The priest who performed
the ceremony was packed off TO Siberia
in spite of the protest that he didn't
know the parties, and that he married
them just as he would have married
any other couple. They didn't let on
names la RaGsse as Alexis Alexandra
witch and Marie Pau1ovna, which are
| about as traceable or suspicious in tn is
country as John Smith and Mary Jones
| would be in New York. Alexis came
back after an absence of three years,
and he is now commander of one OF
the crack ships of the Russian navy.
It is intended when the Grand Duke
Constantine, present Grand Admiral.
has passed away to make Alexis his
successor, and SO his voyage round the
world cannot fail to do him good. The
wife and the priest are still in exile, the
former in Switzerland and the latter in
Siberia.
Alexis has repented of his folly, and
the family quarrel has been partially
smoothed over.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
Current Paragraphs.

TIE labor market in the Luzerne
(Pa.) GOAL district is reported glutted.
Scranton, with population of 81, 900,
cannot now give steady employment to
5000 men. Carhondale, sixteen miles
distant, with population of 1000
men, cannot employ 1000, and SO it is
all along the Lackawanna valley.
SHRFFIRLD has not yet recovered from
there by the terrible Yankee manufac-
turers. Well, it does look little
alarming. just imagine what commo-
| tion it would create among our Western
Grangers if the English farmers would
commence exporting corn to Illinois.
Two of the old cannon used in the
Revolutionary war at the old fort at
Cambridge, Abpeville county, s. c.,
were sold for $5 each the other day,
and were sent to Charleston. The can
non were about three feet long, with a
bore large enough to shoot a lemon,
and could easily be carried by mus
cular man.
The production of opium in Asia
Minor, which in former years averaged
annually from 2, 900 to 5000 baskets or
cases, each containing $50 pounds, has
o..
crop now averages from 4 900 to 5000
baskets. Out of this quantity, which
is shipped at Smyrna, the United States
take about 1000 cases.
SOME time ago, w. W. Corcoran, of
Washington, offered to the Columbian
University an estate valued at $3.50,
900, as an endowment fund, on condi-
tion that other friends of the institu-
ton would raise within certain period
an additional sum of $1oO, 900. The
Executive Committee of the University
now announces that the requisite
amount has been subscribed in Mary
land, the Middle and New England
States, and in che District.
The gold and silver production of
the district of country west of the Mis-
souri, river for 1874 is stated as fol-
lows
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

TIE LOST I" MURnno. The famous
stolen picture of Murillo, which was
found by MIR. Schaus, picture dealer
of New York, has been returned to
Spain. There are comparatively few
so-caIled picture dealers who would
have recognized the priceless treasure,
even If they had seen il, especially in
it's damaged condition. BY fortunate
chance the persons who had somehow
or other come into possession of it took
it to Mr.. Shaus, who is eonnoisseur
as well as q dealer, and in the most
graceful manner he has returned the prize
to the country from which it was stolen.
It is an incident which viii always be
recorded among the interesting anec-
dotes of celebrated paintings.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

THREW TOO HARD.-A boy in Lam
caster, Penn, fourteen years old, broke
his arm in curious way, day or two
ago. He was -bafliDg with other
boys, and expressed determination to
throw snow ball over the top of bell
tower. He made several unsuccessful
attempts, and in making final 50 good
effort " the bone of his right arm was
broken square of between the elbow
and shoulder. He was standing in the
middle Of the street at the time, and
hadno opportunity OF striking his arm
seems to be no doubt that the bone was
fractured by an unusual exertion OF
muscular force. The other boys present
say that his arm cracked like q
visfnl |"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
Home and Happiness.

There can be no doubt that the truest
happiness is ever to be found at home.
No man without home can be long and
truly happy. But the domestic group
can be productive of happiness only
when it is assimilated by affection, and
kept in union by discreet friendship.
Then it tends to produce as much hap
piness as this world is capable of and
it's sweet repose is sought for by all
the greatest. What can be compared.
in our intercourse of life, with the atten-
tions of our family, with their exilarat-
ing smiles and undissembled loves All
this raises the gentlest and most pleas
ing emotions, and calls forth all the
sentiments of uncontrolled nature.
What are the raptures of ambition, the
pleasures of fame, the delights of honor.
in comparison with this Utterly worth
less and insipid. Hence it is that we
see senators and heroes shutting out
the acclamations of an applaudinp
world TO partake of the endearments OF
family conversations, and to enjoy the
prastling of their little children in their
harmless pleasures. This is one OF the
purest sources of mirth It has in
huence, too, in amending the heart;
for innocence is communicated by COM
ing in contact with it; and the sweet
simplicity OF children tends to purify
the heart from the pollution that it has
acquired from moving in the world and
mixing with men. Into what an abyss
of moral degradation should we not be
sunken were it not for women and
children? Well might the Great Author
OF evangelical philosophy have been de-
lighted with the presence of children.
and found in them-what he in vain
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
DrsrRuorror or MAs.EArrna.-1

DESTRUCTION OF MAN-EArERs.- The
destruction Of man-saters, tigers and
leopards, by means of strychnine,
proved so effective in the Coinbatore
districts in Madras that the loss of human
life has been reduced to nail during the
present year, and the number of cattle
killed has been much less than usual.
Fifty-three tigers and thirty-twO cattle
killing leopards have been destroyed
of them poisoned by bats prepared by
order of the village magistrates, and
the others by shooting and trapping.
Although the wild beasts thus disposed
of were most OF them only cattle killers,
it is stated that by their destruction
there is much less chance OF man
eaters being developed.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

REPELLINa ANTs.-Some years ago,
says a correspondent of the London
Times, at my house in the country, u
colony of ants established themselves
under the kitchen flooring. Not know
ing the exact locality of the nest, I en-
deavored to destroy the insects with
treacle, sugar, arsenic, etc. but, al
though slew numbers thus, the plague
still increased. At last, bethinking
myself that ants dislike the smell OF
tar, procured some carbolic acid and
diluted it with about dozen times it's
weight of water. squirted pint of
the mixture through the air-bricks
under the flooring, and my enemies
vanished that day, never to return. It
has always been successful. For crick-
cts, etc., also, q little of this sent into
their holes acts as an immediate notice
to quit.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

The New York Tribune recently sued
to recover moneys alleged to be due for
advertising. The suit was defended on
the ground that the advertising had
been obtained by misrepresentation as
to the circulation of the Weekly Trib-
el'ae, which was claimed to be consider
ably over, while, the defendant alleges,
it was considerably under, 100, 600.
The court made conditional order for
the production of the company's books,
and the e. ,r the present, the 70 eed-
ing rests.
A BACHELOR in Omaha, Neb., who
was the fortunate possessor of house
ready furnished, recently effected most
advantageous arrangement. He found
pleasant family anxious to take
boarders. and willing to take his house
and furnish him with board and part of
the profits for the rent. This arrange
ment worked very pleasantly for the
bachelor until the other morning, when
he awoke and found the family gone
and himself with house full of board
ers to provide for. At last accounts he
was trying to extricate himself from the
dilemma.
THERE recently died in the north of
France at the age of eighty three, a
miser who lived alone, and whose hut,
when examined by the authori-
ties after his death, proved q
sort of gold mine. His pillow alone
contained Is, 600 francs in gold pieces
of the time of Louis XIV and XVI. He
had taste for old pieces. He had
been robbed many times, and the
thieves were generally detected through
the antiquity of the money they stole.
The total of the sums robbed from him
in his life, for which men have been
convicted and sentenced, reached 100, 900
francs
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

AS Mr.. MoRrTERR NYE, Mayor of
Lapcrte, and Mr. William Trowbridge,
of New Castle, we're taking extremely
front seats at the Metropolitan the
other night. Mr.. Nye, says, says he,
!" There's Morg. Wier :" and he pro-
ceeded to whack Mr.. Wier across the
shoulders with his cane. Mr.. Morg.
pen to be Morg. Wier at all, but the
fellow that looked like him. It toOk
all the eloquence of the Mayor Of
Laporte TO pacify the man that looked
like Wier. and all three took q little
lemon in it.-I,sdiGnGpotSs it. Herald.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

THB word IS bonanza" has been freely
launched upon the sea of journalism,
and. is likely to become household
word. a Nevada paper says it is Span
ish, snd means s. fair weather at sea. -
Applied to mines it means g q body of
rich ore. When Spanish miner
strikes good vein, he replies to the
query How are you getting on ?''
in his own language, /" Oh, ir en- boz
nanza, which means in American slang.
IS Oh, we're all hunkey. .dory II
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

BECAUSE Mrs. SiddOna declaimed her
request for the potatoes or asked for
gravy in the same tone that she cried
Intirm OF purpose, give me the daw-
gers, most modern tra9edians feel Il
their daty to say tHow do Won do 2ss
with sepulchral emphasis that sends
shivers down the hearer's spinal column.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

SINCE the famine set in IN Asia Minor
SO, 600 people have emigrated from
various parts of the country, half of
whom have succumbed to disease.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Foundling.

An the long night poor kitty was lying
Out on the doorstep, the dear little pet
Crsuched in corner and feebiy crying,
Please let me in am hungry and wet.n
Nobody showed her morsel Of pity,
And wildly the T hin and the tempest did roar;
Nobody cared that poor little kitty
Was crying, " Please open the window or door
" Give me corner, no matter how narrow
Only shelter from weather ad wind;
have no nest like the mouse sparrow,
cold, dripping doorstep is all can hnd."
Long after daylight we heard the faint moving.
" KITTY !" cries Jenny, and springs out of bed,
steps to the door to see what she Ia doing,
And finds the poor creature is very near dead.
But JENNY soon had her wrapt up in her tier,
Aud Efie and Bella brought milk in disn,
And Clip was delighted, and Tom lit the hre,
And kitty soon had all kitty could wish.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

AIFoNso the Twelfth is the title Of
the new monarch Of Spain. .
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
Height Of Human Beings.

NJ. Silbermann draws proof of the
equality of the sexes from somewhat
novel mode of studying the human spe-
cies. He finds that the average height
of the individual in France, male and
female, is 1.600O4 metres, when stand
ing with the arms hanging by the side,
and two metres when the arms are ex-
tended above the head. Two persons
lying extended would measure four
metres, which is to the earth's meridian
as 1 to 10, 200, 600, precisely as one
metre is to the earth's quadrant as to
1O, ,OOO, 900. Four metres, therefore, or
the average measure of welded pair,
he calls the base of the harmonic pro-
portions of the human race, in which
woman fills one-haf the measure, and
therefore is by right equal to man. A
more interesting result of M. Silber-
mann's measurements and studies is his
conclusion that the average height OF
the human race has not changed since
the Chaldean epoch, four thousand years
ago. This strangely confirms the view
of the substantial identity of the races,
in which the family of man is now di-
vided. with those which existed in the
beginning of the historic period.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19
Whales as a Motive Power.

lt could hardly be otherwise, and the
s' s'divine fitness of things" still exists
It was all well enough when whales were
necessary to the light of the world that
they should be killed for their bfubber;
but now, in the days of coal oil and gas,
when the incentive to whaling is nearly
gone, it seems all right that new utili-
of the deep. To the philosophers who
have been racking their brain and pom
dering on this great waste of power, a
little paragraph published in a Halifax
newspaper must open a world of light.
This luminous statement is to the effect
that on the 23d of November the Ameri-
can fishing schooner Sultan, while
riding at anchor on the Grand Banks,
with 150 fathoms of cable out, was
taken in tow at the rate of twelve knots
an hour by a whale which had become
entangled in the cable. After an hour
and half the monster was cut loose,
and got his harness for his pains. This
might be the germ of great discovery.
Why should not whales do service in
the sea in the same way as horses on
the land? We can fancy some New
Bedford mariner, who has made the
habits of the whale the study of his
life, training school of young mon
sters. First. to test their utility, he
might try them with a small boat; but
TO find out their power he must ship
aboard a fishing schooner and hitch one
of his immense steeds to the anchor.
ALI that is necessary is to form q stock
company, buy up Coney Island for a
stable, and make application for the
privilege of taking the merchant ma
rine to and fro. stThere's millions
in it."-NeaO York Tribune.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

Ir is estimated that during Decem-
Der last two hundred ,1ewspapers-
daily and weekly-suspended publica-
tion in the United States, and that dur
ing the entire year of 1874 no less than
90, 600 pOo0 were lost in the newspaper
business.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-19

TIE HOUSE OF Representahves at
Washington has passed a general law
granting to railroads the right of way
through the public lanes of the United
States. The bill provides that the right
of way through the public domain
shall be granted to any road duly or
-ganized under State or Territorial law
to the extent of 100 feet on each side
of the road,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19
The Bird and ts:e Bamboo.

Nearly one thousand years ago q
little female bird few into the MikE-
dos garden, holding in her bill a
very small seed, which she tried to
bury in the ground. The Mikado
wished to know what kind of seed it
was, SO be ordered q girl to get it
from the ground, but every time she
approached it the bird suddenly few
down and took the seed ia her bill
and carried it away. As soon, how
ever as the girl disappeared, the bird
returned and again buried the seed.
The Mikado gave very strict orders
that 30 one should touch it.
just one month after the day on
which the bird first visited the Mika-
do'sgarden be found on the spot where
the seed had been buried O plant
having a pair of small green leaves,
different from any he had ever seen
before. The bird now came to the
plant, and sang joyfully, and plucked
out her feathers and placed them
around it; and, no matter how the
weather was, she daily visited the
plant.
About this time a great many curl
Gus and useful things were imported
from China, such as books, pens.
bows and arrows, junks, etc. The
Mikado thought it very probable
that the bird came from China, as
when be first saw her flying she was
coming from the west.
BY the Mikado's order the new
plant was carefully tended and
watched, because be thought it might
some time become very useful to the
japanese. When it had grown
about twenty inches high a single
Chinese letter was discovered on the
stem, and two letters were also found
on the same stem to the right of it.
These letters spelled the word
Take" which the Mikado decided
was the name of the plant. "Ta ken
the word that is translated into
English as bamboo.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19
A Railroad Race.

The Scranton, Pa, Republican Of
Wednesday says:
George Shoemaker, engineer Of a
coal train of some fifteen cars. on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, had an exciting experience
a few evenings ago in the vicinity Of
Forks Station, on the Pocono Noun
tains. At that point there is a heavy
grade toward the Delaware Water
Gap, and when within two miles of
Forks Station, while the train was
going at the rate of ten miles au
hour, the coupling broke, cutting
some ten cars loose, and letting the
engine shoos rapidly ahead with five
cars, which remained attached Two
brakemen on the severed cars, see
ing they were left behind to the care
Of q swift momentum, became fright
ened and leaped from their positions.
As soon as they jumped off the
brakes were relaxed, giving the cars
full scope and increasing their yeloc-
ity. Mr. Shoemaker, who was some
distance ahead, seeingtbem approach
feared the Consequences of u collis-
ion, and increased his speed to avert
the catastrophe Of clashing with the
runaway cars. Accordingly be main
tanned a swift course, passing Forks
Station with a shrek, and startling
the officials at that place, who did
not know what was the matter. a
minute later the telegraph operator
dispatched to Scranton that train
No. 26 had passed the station at the
rate Of sixty miles en- hour. He had
scarcely sent the message before the
runaway cars came crashing through
the cut, and Numbered through the
station like a lightning flash, impell-
ed by the power of gravity. The
people in the vicinity of Forks Sta
ton were alarmed by this time
They thought all the coal ears in
Scranton were out for q holiday and
dash'ng madly 10 the direction of the
Water Gap. The operator sent a
second and more exciting message
than the first to the Scranton Office,
while the chase was being continued.
After 4 five miles run, Conductor
Shoemaker 50 ~slackened speed grad
ually as to render the shock of con-
tact with the pursuing train harmless,
and in this way brought up with no
injury save a good shaking aud q
fair share of excitement"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-05-19
Delivering wrlss 10 sherlG..


Many persons think that the deliv-
cry, in the absence of the Sheriff, OF
a writ to his deputy, or, in case no
deputy could be found, leaving it at
his known place of business, would
constitute a legal delivery. Such,
however does not appear to be the
case, as the following will more duly
explain Recently the Supreme
Court Of this State decided a point
of m appeal from the common pleas.
which is important, as it decides
what constitutes the delivery of a
writ to Sheriff. A writ of Teri facias
was put in the hands of q Sheriff.
On the return day the execution was
stayed and a new writ issued. This
writ was pat in a pigeon hole in The
prQtbonstary's Office, wherein writs
and other papers of the sheriff were
usually pat. The same day a writ
which represented another judgment
was delivered to the Sheriff. Coun-
sci held that putting the writ in the
pigeon hole was a legal delivery, and
the case was so decided. The OPP
posing counsel carried the case to
tbe Supreme Court, where the deci-
sion OF the court below was reversed;
or, in other words, the putting Of a
writ in a pigeon hole" is not . legal
delivery TO the sheriff.