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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

There are men i'll this world, and
women, TOO, who take special delight
in BIT of gossip. They chew upon it
as lovingly as Illuminating animal
ehews its cud, and seem 60 obtain an
enormous amount OF nourishment from
il. Ifa kindly thing is said, they are
l:stless and uninterested but the
moment piece of scandal scents the
air, they snuff the morning breeze and
begin to enjoy Themselves. Il vile
story is as braciAg to them as oxygen
to the lung of an honest man. While
You are present they are as polite as if
they had swallowed dancing master,
but when your back is turned they sud-
denly remember some very disagreeable
thing that somebody told them ON the
authority of some one else,- who heard
it directly from some one else. A short
memory for good things and long
memory for evil things is their peculiar
ity. Such people have large appetises
and there is a great deal Of food Tor
Them in THE wicked world. If, as
Sydney Smith said of Talleyrand, they
had no teeth, no roof to their mouths,
no nnulva, no lary,lx, no trachea, no
epiglottis, no anything they would new
ertheless gurgle scandal AMI make soci.
ETY. miserable.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
s.Jnst Like Her Brosher.-

A young gentleman somewhat nu-
merous in social circles, took his sister,
a wee miss, to see family the other
day in which he is regular caller
The little girl made herself quite a;
home. and exhibited great fcndnese for
one of the young ladies, hugging her
heartily.
elbow very affectionate she is.' said
tie lady of the hoase.
eyes; just like her BROTHER" re.
sponded the young lady, unthinkingly.
Paterfamilias looked up sternIy over
his epectacles, the young man blushed,
and there was CONSIDERATION in the tam.
lily circle.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

What cut him to the heart, far more
keenly than her coIdness at the sociabIe,
was 10 haye her say in ber note, res
ponding to his demand for "his letters
and photograph" that ";Ia had traded
off his letters FOR milk-pans. the last
time the peddler came round, and the
children had nailed up his photograph
in their playhouse in the barn loft, and
she couldn't get it down." lie wished
thea be bad asked for it before.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

0BV Dumis,

ssBy gum.''
Or. and Mrs. Defoe sat before a
cheerful fire in their home the other eve.
ning. There had been a lorg period
OF silence when Mr.. Defoe suddenly ex.
claimed as above.
"Nhat is it, dear p'' she responded
"Say, we've got tired of playino
games, and what do you say to private
theatricals go
tIlow ?''
"Why, we'll get three or four of the
ne'ghbors to join and we'll meet at each
others houses and have regular PLAYS. q
That will besplendid % she gasped.
Hanged it it WON'T Wonder We
never thought OF it before Twenty
dollars will get us all tie scenery we
want, and each one can furnish his
| own wardrobe: by gum we've got
the ides now 20
"What solt of play could we play?''
she asked, as he marched un and down
with tragic step.
lie stopped short "Don't you renaem-
Der started to write play about five
years ago I'll finish it and we'll
bring it out. Now, let's see how the
| characters run: There is Count Dom
doff,' who is IN love with Geraldine,
the tair' l'll be the 'Count,' Of course,
as he is the hero. He kills four men,
rescnes Geraldine from several dangers,
and there is q good deal of kissing and
love-making, and a happy marriage" !"
"And I'll be 'Geraldine' I"
"Yon Oh, you couldn't play that
part. She must be young and vIvac-
ious. Let's see! think I'll cast You
for Hannah who keeps bakery near
park in Paris"
sd like to sec myself PLAYING Elan
NAH il a bakey, would ~ she def
antly answered, ''If you can play
'Dumdoff,' l know 1 can play 'Geral.
dine"
ooh, no, you can't, my love You
are little stiff in the kncos, and how
you'd look throwing yourself in my
arms as the villsfnS pursue. | shall
cast that little Widow d. for 'Geral-
dine.''
s'Thcn there'II be two 'Gersl.iines' of
us! If you can play 'Dnmd"tf,' with
your lame hack aud caiarrb. know
C1H pay 06Ialulno w til tnlS lItltc
lsmeness in my lett knee"
snow You listen TO reason, Mrs. De
toe. You aren't built tor q sGera:dibe;'
You are too fat yonr feet are too large;
you haven't got the voice for it,
"Atri you'd make pretty 'Count
DumlofT,' you would % she fred back.
'You want TO get that crook out OF
your back, that bald head shingled
over, your month repaired and your
eyes touched mp with paint brush !!
| think I see you killing tour villains
ha la ! ha %
"Womai,! do rot anger me 20 he said
in deeptoned voice, as he rose up.
"A"d don't you anger your 'Geral-
dine either"
Geraldine! Why you don't
know skyborder from flat 20
"'numioffn And you don't know
skye terrier from the big fiddle in the
orchestra ?''
"''rrs well. Wen have no playing
here 20
"Then you needn't! When I play
Hannah in the bakery TO let you hug
and kiss the Widow d. or any other
wcman al! over the stage, you'll be
three or four Count DumdoffS p
"I'll burn The play, jealous woman -
s'lt ynu don't, will, vain man 20
Then they sat down and resumed
their former occupation OF looking into
the fire, and the disturbed cat went
back to her rag aud her dreams.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Does drunkenness afford a sufficient
ground on which a wife can demand a
judicial separation from her husband i?
This question h as been considered by
French lawyers and decided in the af.
iirmative. The petitioner, shortly after
her marriage, discovered that her hns-
band was confirmed drunkard. The
plea of habitual drunkenness was dccid-
ed by the tribunal bef;,re whom it
came in the first instance, to be inadmis-
sable bat the Court of Appeals at
Paris has overrnIed this view and es-
tablished principle new to French J,lris-
prudence, that husband who. is aa ha-
bltual drunkard has no power to COM
pei his wife to live with him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Last Friday while two prisoners al
the penitentiary were making teit g
each having hold of rail at the ends,
and upon throwing it down, the ligh;
end rebonnded, striking one of the pris-
oners, young man named Roner, in
the temple, Knocking him down He
was taken To the prison. where he lay in
an unconscious atate until the next
morning, when he died.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

The way ministers are found gnil,y
OF kissing other women but their own
wives, psoves that you may roll q man
under the wheels of theology for years,
yet you can't squeeze all human nature
out OF him.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

You could very easily tell that times
were better, If you had no other means
Of aseertaiaing, by the news of the labor
strikes all over the country. When
times are hard, the poor workingmen
labor patiently on half wages. When
times are good they strike and don't
w.rk at all Il beats the fifteen pazzle
to know whether they are better off in
the hard or the soflstimes.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

The average sehool-hoy will 60 in
swimming this month not SO much be-
cause he likes it. as because il il danger
oas and offers death az an attraction
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

General Hagood desires to be the
Democratic Governor OF South Corlina.
a London cockney would pronounce
hnn a good mai. ter the place. bat tile
colored votes ofthat State never drop
their h'a and will probably express an
opposite opinion,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

ity'
David Davis is getting 50 heavy
that report says that il makes him tired,
to sleep.
Boucicault is in London. His wife
is going They used to prefer different
continents.
The Philadelphia Bulletin suggests
that telephone messages be called shell
ograns." 1t is play on the word
hello and not ON.
A western minister put to flight d
crowd of cnrbstone ioafers ON recent
Sunday by seEding the deacon out with
the contribution box.
A boot heel is only about an inch
high, and yet, when man is driving
for train, and that portion of his boot
flies off, he suddenly feels as though
he had been dropped out of a window.
Woman may have thousands of esti-
mab!e virtues, but falling to map on her
MUD the mysterious architecture of a
new style hat, which floats past her
window on a eighbor's head, is not
Que of them.
a Connecticut man invented a ien-
lists chair that could be adjusted to
4,G91 different positions, aud boy
who occupied it one day five minutes
broke it in trying 30 get himself in
satisfactory position. !
When hole works into an umbrella
it always seems TO locate itsclfiI q
vital spot, and then it co-ape=ates
with the umbrella itsefin wild and
generally successful endeavor to drop a
quart OF rain down your neck every
time you use il.
France has society for the encourage
ment of poetry. A great deal OF the
poetry written now-a,days.is so poor
that it needs encouragement, aud it is
for that purpose that poetlcal depart
mcut Las been organized: in the Con
gressional Record. .s.z..
s'Fancy Farmer" asks:s' How do
you keep weeds cut of Your garden 20
Bless your soul we don't We tried
having hand-orgau play Iinafore 10
them, but as they still kept on growing
we concluded that it was best to go
fishing and let them grow.
lyon get up all kinds of brick here,
don't y"u ?'' inquired man at one of
our leading brickyaris. eyes, about
all. What do you want?' The man
edged toward the front OF the yard as
he replied, "Cambrics would do" and
then cambrics at his head in every
direction az lie took bis flight.
Young man to photographer Are
my pictures done ?'' Artist: "Let's
see," Carefully scanning the young
man's face and then the photographs he
holds IN his handy, "whats the nane?'
Young man Tin astonishmentl. "Joncs
SIR" Artist (having discovered the
rame on them): "Oh, yes: these are
yours"
Yes, SAID Mrs. Goodington, sadly.
''he was indulgiag in seqnestefing exer-
else. His horse got frightened at some
thing or other and reci:rocated him to
tie sidewalk. When they toek him
up they found bad fractioussln his leg,
and it had to be cor,putatcd to save his
life' And the old lady didn't say
another word for at least fifteen
minutes. She was thinking as she
afterwards said of the 'sdreadful sight,
in the con6rmatory"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

A post office has been established al
Texas City, with. Mr.. Siicott as F. VI
The saw mill is heing pnt mp as fast as
possible, and all of the machinery has
arrived. The lumber for hotel is on
the ground. Two general merchandise
stores are to be placed ut this poii's.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

A man who is too lazy to work in his
garden will think nothing OF walking
six miles to see circus performance.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

In another week Clara We're de We're
will be seen raking the garden, with
stockings on her hands. and q hat on
her head large enough. 70 make a cover
for a.wash board.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Somebody oninnatcdatC Chicago. I
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11
Emfie Zoia reniari

Victor Hugo comps.
we smile
lie. People fireq
the same WREN the
touched On III rary arl
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

Think thrice before you drink twice
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-06-11

gate.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

The Examiner & Chronicle" of New
York city. the leading organ of the Bap.
fist Church. contained on Friday last the
following paragraph in regard to min.
lister about whose shortcomings there
have been plentiful rumors for several
weeks:
sit is with surprise and grief, not rea-
Oily EXPIRE ssed, that We refer 20 the deep
disgrace which has fallen on one so wide.
iy known and warmly esteemed as Rev.
u. A. Peitz. d. D., pastor of the Baptist
Church of jamestown, New York. The
iatts came out last week, and the pastor
was under the necessity OF instantly re.
signing and leaving town. 1t would be
too much TO suppose that all the facts
have yet been made public, but it can.
not be-doubted that he had been guilty
OF an improper intimacy with an inter-
esting young woman employed as his a.
manuensis. Ii is simply horrible to
think of such fall on the part of such
o man-probably the most widely known
and influential Sunday school man in the
Baptist denomination. We are told by
friends who have since seen him in Phil
adelphia that his penitence is of the
deepest character, but penitencc has not
power to wipe out reproach of this
kind" No other allusion is made to the
doctor or his offcnse in the paper.
1t is weil-settled belief the Phila.
delphia Record says. that il Bcecher
would keep his mouth shut no one would
mistake him q Christian.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

The Alexandria Ca-otis says: A par.
agraph In our Washington correspondent
two OF three days ago stated that if those
who had invested money In the WASH
ingcvn and Ohio Railroad, or TO whom
TIA, road was indebted in any respect.
would agree TO have their claims against
1t scaled down 10 sixty OF seventy cents
In the dollar. parties were ready and
willing 20 take hold Of IL and extend it
al once 10 Winchester. Also that under
existing circumstances il will be 6 years
before n final decree for the sale of the
road can be obtained, aud when that de.
cree shall be issued and the sale be made,
the creditors viii not receive as much rs
is now offered them" II saws that s3l, :
900 have already been used in fees. and
advocates the removal of the road from
the control of the court.
The Gasene adds that the proposition
should be accepted immediately for the
sake of the creditors and the city. and
also that the road may be pushed to
Winchester and the coal fields.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28
Positioa orWoaen An Chi.

Moung Edwin, Burmese, Who hes
been educated in this country With the
view Of sending him rs . Baptist mis-
siouary TO Burmah. lectured lately In
Baltimore. Speaking OF the deplorable
condition OF women in the East. owing
mainly TO peculiar religious teachings,
he says: "Girls in China arc believed
to have no s1uts, aud 10 kill them Is not
murder, and therefore not TO be pun
ished. Where parents are too poor to
support the girl children. they arc
disposed OF in the following way: At
regular intervals an appointed officer
goes through village and collects from
poor parents all the girl children they
cannot care for, when they are about
eight days old. He has two large hask-
cts attached to tho ends OF a bamboo
pole and siung over his shoulder. Six
infants are plsced in each basket, and
he carries them TO some neighboring
village and exposes them for sale -
Mothers who desire TO raise wives for
their SONS buy such as they may select.
The others are taken to the government
asylum; Of which there are many ali
through tho country. II there is room
there they are taken in, II not they are
drowned.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

THR BERLIS FISH SHow.-The Inter
national Fishery Exhibition, which open
ed in Berlin April 20, has proved q spien-
did success and it is gratifying TO read
in the German and English reports that
the exhibits sent out by the United
States form in every respect the most
remarkable collection in the Exhibition.
The floating hatchery Fish Hawk" at.
tracts especial attention.
In his opening address. tho German
Minister OF Agriculture. DR. Lucius, said
that the Fisheries Society through whose
efforts the holding of the Exhibition was
due, had met with the most obliging
support, not only in Germany itself, but
il nearly oil the neighboring countries.
and even in the furthcrmost zones Of the
earth. From the Baltic and the German
Ocean, the ice bound seas OF the north,
from the coasts Of Holland and England,
from the Switzer lakes, from the exhaust
less riches of the Mediterranean, from
the volga and the Black Sea, from
North & South America. from the coasts
Of the far East, from India, China, Ja-
pan, and the Malay Archipe!ago-the
fauna of the waters had been brought in
rare and wonderful profusion, with an
endless variety Of pearls, shells, and CO.
misunderstanding American.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28
Advice to Girls.


The lady who flls the chair OF profes
sor Of Domestic Science in the Illinois
Industrial University Inns been giving
sensible advice to Girls in a lecture
ut St. Louis. She called women the
worlds homo makers, insisted that re-
form in women's education was the ur.
gent need OF the times, and emphasized
the fact that intelligent cooks, educated
housekeepers and enlightened mothers
were beginning 70 be appreciated. Wo
men were not instinctively good house,
keepers any moro than men were good
mechanics or good farmers. 1t was an
error to suppose that in matters pertain
ing TO the home instruction was not
needed. 1t WAS said that common sense
alone was necessary, but common sense
and proper sense differed. Despite their
general unpreparedness ninety mine out
OF hundred girls would still persist in
getting married. This last assertion
which would be true il there we're men
enough. possibly supplies the key to a
remedy. Let it be enacted that 70 girl
shall get married until she can pass an
examination in domestic science.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

Wood pulp for paper making. is made
rs follows: The bark is taken off, and
knots. dark places. and decayed parts
OF the wood removed. The wood thus
prepared Is put into large cauldron
and boiled, and this extracts the gluti>
nous matter and resin, and renders it
soft. 1t is then put on large stone
grinder with water pouring on it all the
time. The grind stone wears Off the
fibres until they become finer than saw
dust, which fibres float away into q re-
ceptacle. The water is drained Off by
means OF fuzz or splinters of wood.
II is white and requires no bleaching,
and is ready TO be mixed with rag pulp,
or any other article Of strong fibre, and
receives the proper constituents TO be
made into paste, after which it is run off
into paper sheets. Whereas rags have
to be washed and bleached with chic.
ride Of lime, soda. ash, and alum, and
such strong chemicals to take out the
color. They are then picked to pieces
and made into pulp. The process by
which wood pulp is made, is purely me-
chanical. 1t costs but very. little. say
about one cent pound. -Portland
Maine Ifess."
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

A. Jackson Simpson, an old and high.
ly esteemed citizen of North Fork. Pen.
dleton county, died at his home on the
9th inst, after long and painful ill~
ness. He was about forty five years OF
age, and was a man OF worth and much
respected by all who knew him. He
leaves wife and seven children. just
before his death he professed religion
and expressed hope Of forgiveness OF
oil hiO sins. His funeral was largely
attended, tho burial service being con.
Quoted by Rev. ii. ID. Auyil.-Petersburg
Gazette, May 81.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

BALLoU's MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR
JuSE.-Ballou's Monthly Magazine for
June is perfect specimen OF family
serial, there being such combination of
all sorts of matter to .tercst old & young
illustrated articles, poetry, music, sto.
ries, and wit and humor. Five editions
of tue January, February. March, and A
pril numbers have been put to press, and
still the public call for more. We are
glad OF this. for Ballou's is one Of the
magazines that we can recommend for
family use and reading. The music is
alone worth more than the price Of the
publication. Published by Themes &
Talbot, % IIawley Street. Boston, Mass.
at 81 so per annum. postpaid. and for
sale at all the news depots in the country
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

lionE-MADE FEATHER DUsTER.-A
Feather Buster is an article, the conve.
nienco OF which every housewife appre
cales, but it is often too expensive for
many farmers to buy. For oil such,
some hints as TO how duster Of equal
utility and durability to store one may
be made at home from the feathers that
would otherwise 60 to waste, may be
useful. II beauty is not sought, any
round stick OF the proper size, such as
the end Of broom handle, will serve
for the handle OF the brush; il one hap
pens to have an old duster handle that
can be used oucc more, With q saw
make series Of grooves or deep notch,
es in the lower end OF th, handle. BY
the aid Of hammer the lower portion of
each quill should be so fattened as TO
pass into tue grooves. AS fast as the
feathers are put in they should be tied
with strong Irvine and as the work pro.
ceeds glue should be added, that the
feathers cay be tie more firmly fasten
ed. In this way new rows OF feathers,
followed by the Irvine and glue, may be
added, until the end is completely Gov
cred and the duster is Of sufficient size,
after which the finishing row of large
feathers, selected for the purpose, is pla-
cod around the whole. and tightly bound
with twine. Outside of the base of this
last row % feathers, neat strip of lea
Their may be glued both TO improve the
appearance and render the feathers more
secure. A brush thus made, will serve
all the purposes of purchased one, and
if the work is carefully and thoroughly
done, it is neat in appearauce.--AB,eri-
can Agric,ttWia.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

A METALLIC SHowER.-For several
hours, on the night of March 20, fall
of rain mingled with meteoric dust oc-
Cured at Catania, Sicily. The dust
contained fragments of iron, either in a
pure metallic state or in metallic parti-
cles surrounded by IN oxidized crust.
The fragments we're OF many shapes and
sizes, and were readily attracted by the
magnet. They only differed in size from
a shower of aorolites.
Such shows OF meteoric dust arc prob.
ably not unfrequent, though it is seldom
that they are so clearly indicated in
southern lands. In high ATTITUDES they
are shown by frequent and well marked
discolorations Of the earth's snowy man.
tie in places where terrestrial dust is q
practical imPossibility.--ScieHtifc diner.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-28

A FATAL RAT BITE.-About weeks
ago Mr. Harvey p. Fergerson, Of Eding-
burg, o., caught common house rat in
q -four barrel and attempted 10 kill Il by
smothering il with a meal sack. when
the rat fought for its life and bit him on
the top Of the thumb on the knucklc,
making only a mere scratch, which heal
cd up in fow days, aud nothing more
was thought of il until two weeks ago,
when the scratch began 20 pain him So
verely and showed signs Of becoming a
dangerous sore. After this it began 10
grow worse, and last week Dr.. Stockwell
was summoned TO treat the case. but
pronounced IL fatal case. rs his Whole
system was filed win poison frop this
bite. Everything was done 70 relieve
the man of pain, but without avail. and
on Wednesday lockiaw set in and symp-
toms of hydrophobia were also visible.
Wednesday night true symptoms Of that
disease took place aud continued 20 man
fest themselves until four O'Clock Thurs.
day morning, when death relieved the
patient Of his sgony.