The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-03-19
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The japanese have started rail
factory at Osaka, and it is said that
nails made there are as coed as those
imported
The metric system has its opponents
even III France. A writer in recent
number of Les Nondes vehemently
deneunces 1t.
a railway company in Italy lately adj
vertised for 1000 servants at 1.8 francs
(36 cents) a day, and 26 900 applica-
tions were received.
An effort is making to secure teIe.
graphic communication between Paris
and the principal cities OF France by
system of underground wires.
According to official statistics, 49,
727 669 stamps were affixed TO patent
medicines in England during the last
financial year, yielding a revenue to
the Government of nearly S700 ,FNa.
The Nature says that the ascent of
Mount Hecla was made last summer
by Miss Th Petnrsson, daughter of
the Bishop of Reykjavik, for the pur-
pose of geological investigation. Her
rep. rt Of the condition of the larger
craiers indicated that AN eruption on a
grand sca'e was impending.
Few weeks ago 20 members of the
Scottish Food Return Society sat down
to repast consisting of six courses,
namely, lentil and parsley soup, haricot,
bean pies, haricDt-beap omelettes with
sauce, hominy padding, pearlmeal
y"ddins and tapioca and apples, all of
which exclusive OF cooking, cost at the
rate of33d. e cents per head.
To dilute bay rum use dilute spirit
instead of water. When water is used
the combination assumes mlky-white
appearance and is utterly devoid of the
usual oder given ont by good bay rum
This is due chiefly t. the insolubiiity in
water OF the essential oils contained in
the spirit. Bay rum, when applied
moderately to the hair without reduc-
ing, is not Injurious.
James Croll concludes that ssthe true
temperature OF the sun is not very
different from it. effective temperature,
and that it is not much less tIlan TO-
600 degrees if we only consider the
ab-orptian OF the terrestrial atmosphere,
nor much more than 90 600 degrees ii
we iake into consideratioly the abSorp-
l;on by the solar sphere, estima-
ting the latter SIS OF ihe total radia
ton OF the san."
c. a. Asiibn'ucr is the authority for
the statement that since the discovery
OF pc r'lenm by Colonel Drake, il,
1850, Pennsylvania had produced up
to the end OF 1879 not less than 1872
262 $50 barrels OF crude oil, valued at
$40. .709G72. His theory ofthe origin
of the oil is that the oil lands are the
mere reservoirs which contain the pro
duct of the decomposition of vegetable
and animal Life of tile Deyouian epoch.
An Iowa husband furnished his
wife $50 TO by silk dress, but in
stead Of so doing she put the money in
the bank, let i; remain there for
eighteen years, added to it whenever
she could, aud the o:lier day paid off
q mortgage on the farm. Is comment
necessary?
sTnere's great difference between
housekeeping and boarding OUT" said
Mr.. Young husband; "tor when board
ed out had TO wait sometimes half All
hour for my dinner, but now | have it
jus. when can get it,"
Major Reno, sentenced to dismissal
from the United States service for
drunkenness aud diSgracetul conduct,
some time ago begged the President to
permit him to resign. This small con-
ISOLATION To an unfortunate officer who
had rnined himself by in.emperance
was generously granted. Strange to
state, the resignation which should have
followed Immediately has not taken
place. Instead, however, great mum
Der Of Reno's friends are beseeching
President Hayes to SO modifv the sen
tence OF the Conrt-martial as to keep
the bacchanalian warrior in the army
II is not the best plan III the world for
civilians to revoke the sentences Of
martial courts, but it it must be done
in this case, aud Reno must be kept in
the army, let it be as private soldier
for year. Ifhe keeps perfectly sober
during allthat lime and performs his
duty conscientiously, let him be made
a Second Lieutenant and lett to work
his way back to his old rank by long
course OF good behavior and sobriety.