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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-08-11
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Mr. Hugh Fisher went Il ihilomssl
this noon.
w I Casey and wife, q PfiAesilIe, are
in tie city.
Attorney Fay, Of The Qfeapn Pacific,
was in the city this noon
Prof W W Davis is iHssk pg arrange
ments to locate In PhiloinAtil.
G f Brosneli and aiaiiy sent TO
Millers today for seveFas kags outing.
Mary d Sedgwick, II lie ALBANY pub
lie schools, was res Tered II Chicago
yesterday.
Mrs + L Thompson sssd non came mp
from Portland this nesl and will 90 10
the Bay next week.
Mr. aud Mrs Robert fls6szn. Mrs Jason
and Mrs John ) Morgan LETT
this noon for Yaquina By
Judge r s S railan wknt 10 Portland
this noon 10 meet his dazghsef PEI, who
will arrive in Portland tomorrow from
Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs Miilari Hayes and shi.dsen re
turned to-day fiou1 aNAxgt sish Mrs
Richards, Mrs iI's sister, at Aitany.--
lort aills News.
Mr. Pierce Of Albany. an old settler in
The willamette valley, was visiting his
niece, hrs May Kaiser, in this city
Salem Statesman.
MIR Ed HUSTON. the popular type wFi-eF
IN The Farmers. and Merchants = Insnr-
ance Cos Office for several years. has been
promoted 10 the position OF book xeeper.
Peter Zieroif, Thomas samueis and
John Simpson with their families spent
last Sunday at Sodayilie. Enroute they
passed through Lebanon, which is de- |
scfibed ss pretty little city OF l5o0 in.
babiiants and possessed OF system of
arc lights.-Corya5lis Times.
Tie San Francisco Merchants excur-
sion party arrived in Albany this noon
rom Eugene and were given ride 10
Idanha this ailernooa Tomorrow they
vii! go 10 the Bay AID most Of them re-
turn to san Franciseo By the steamer
.allIng then. They we're in charge OF Mr.
. 4 wardlow, The popular passenger
agent
RRFnAY
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-08-11

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dache. Small Bile Beans.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-08-11

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
The welland Canal.

The total revenue for the year was
$3.50, ,35l, an increase of g., 2292 over 1890.
There was refunded on grain in 1890
toll to the amount of s4l ,635. and in
1891 to S49. .S34. The latter figures, SAYS
the Cleveland Leader, represent 216, SOL
tons of grain which passed down the
Welland canal and were transshipped
at Canadian ports to Montreal, and
upon which a rebate of Is cents ton
was made The total quantity of grain
which passed down the Welland canal
To Montreal was 295, 500 tons as against
22s, ,5l3 in the previous year. The Juan
tity on which full tolls We're paid
shipped from one United States port to
another United States port shows de-
crease from 345, ,932 to 302, 10. The in
ference being, judging from the figures
already given, that a large amount of
traffic has been diverted to the ST. Law
renee route. The bill passed by the
United States congress authorizing the
levying of tolls upon Canadian vessels
passing through the Sault canal is caus-
ing a great deal of discussion among
the owners of Canadian floating prop
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
WOMEN ON DUTCH RAILWAYS.

Long Hours and small Pay for Doing
Comparatively Light Work.
The British consul at The Hague says
that, as regards the employment of
women and children on railways, il is
stated that the latter are mostly made
use of at the several railway works
their parents being glad of the one or
two fiorins they are able TO earn for
comparatively light work. They are
occasionally put TO similar work on the
permanent way, being paid at the rate
of IS or 50 cents. The women are
chiefly employed in cleaning the car
riages, working on an average eight
hours a day on the state railway, with
light work on alternate sundays, and
getting IL forins % cents wages per
fortnight; on the Holland railway ten
hours a day without Sunday work.
with daily wage OF / fiorin 30 cents,
or else watching the lines, turn about
with their husbands, the ''wegwach-
tiers" OF cantonniers On the state
railway their work averages twelve
hours tthe men taking the night duty
and they are paid at the rate of 25
cents a day, being lodged besides; the
husbands earning 80 cents a day. On
the Holland railway the average hours
OF work are about the same, the woman
receiving pay at the rate of - cents a
day, l form G5 cents a week being,
however, deducted for the lodging al
lowed them.
For women with families the work is
considered trying, especially when they
are kept on duty as long a. sixteen
hours, as i the case at certain points.
where the traffic happens to be very
heavy. rs regards the general condi-
tions under which the persons in the
employ of the great Dutch railway
companies carry on their work, the tes-
timony Of the numerous witnesses ex-
amIned by the commission, with few
exceptions, went to show that they are
well satisfied both as to the wages they
receive and as to the treatment
awarded them. One witness was of the
opinion that the wages of railway
servants compared favorably with those
of most factory hands
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
THREE KINDS OF RUBIES.
The Oriental Is Most Valuable and Is OF
ArteriaI Blood Color.


There are three kinds of rubies-the
oriental ruby, the spinel ruby and the
balas ruby. The first is the only true
one, according to the Jewellers Review
The latter differ considerably in com
parison from the first The true is
composed almost exclusively of alum
ina. In the latter are only yseven-tcnths
of alumina, the remainder being chiefly
magnesia. The color, moreover. Is due
partially TO the oxide of chromium,
substance of which the genuine ruby
has not a trace. In commerce the balas
ruby has much inferior value to the
spincl. This is generally of a vivid
poppy-red color: the balas is of a violet
rose. although Pegu has furnished white
and white violet spinels, and Suder-
mania even blush gray ones. 1t can be
seen at once. therefore. how extremely
erroneous would be classification of
gems by color or general appearance
alone. The primitive form of the spinel
ruby is like that of the diamond, eight
sided, which distinguishes it at once
from the oriental stone. The color of
the genuine ruby il that of arterial
blood or pigeons blood. as IL Is called.
1t is extremely hard and after the sap
phire Is the hardest of the corundumS,
which renders il difficult to understand
why the earth so rarely gives it up.
Its tint is as beautiful by artificial light
as by day, and its powers of refraction
SO great that ancient belief credited il
with power of emitting light. The an
clients even supposed that il would shine
through clothing with undiminished
power.
The largest ruby known is one men
toned by Chardin having been en-
graved with the name of Sheik Sephy.
Another noble ruby is in possession of
the shah of Persia. Its weight is put
at one hundred and seventy-tive karats.
A third, belonging to the king of
Usapar, was cut into a hemispherical
form, and in 1858 was bought for thir-
teen thousand eight hundred and sixty
six dollars. 4 ruby possessed by Gus
tavus Adolphus, and presented to the
czarina at the time of his journey to st.
Petersburg, was the size of a small
hens egg.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27

In Marianne North's "Recollections
of Happy Life" is a description of
tame snake. Its mistress would some
times twist the creature in the great
plait of hair she wore around her head,
and once threatened to 90 down, thus
decorated, TO dinner party of rather
aristocratic people, One of the snakes
own eccentricities serves To distinguish
it among all other reptiles of similar
nature which have served as pets. IL
was as fond of glittering things as its
mistress, and when she took off her
many rings and placed them on differ
ent parts of the table il would 90 about
collecting them and stringing them
on its body. II would then tie itself in a
knot. so that the rings could not be
taken off until it was pleased To unite
itself again.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
Hypnotic Marvels.

Paris continues to marvel at hypnotic
mysteries. In the course of his expert
ments at the Charity hospital, DIR. Luys
the other day effected so complete an
INSTRUMENTATION" of the human body as
to transfer a voman's sensibility into
tumbler of water. The tumbler was
then taken out of the subjects sight,
when she started as If in pain if the
water was touched, and swooned If II
was drank The water is said to have
retained its sensibility for considcra-
BILE time a wonderful discovery made
by Col. Roche was also confirmed, the
sensibility of hypnotized subject be-
ing transferred to Photographic mega
tive of the same person, a pin-scratch
across the hand of the plate causing the
subject to Shrek with pain and to be-
come marked in few moments with a
similar scratch on the hand.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27

A pretty fable about a pansy is cur
rent among French and German chill
dren. The flower has five petals and
five sepals- In mostpansies, especially of
the earlier and less highly developed
varieties, two of the petals are plain in
color and three are gay. The two plain
petals have a single sepal each. and the
third, which is the largest of all, has
two sepals. The fable is that the pansy
represents a family, consisting of hus-
band. wife and four daughters, two of
the latter being stepchildren of the
wife The plain petals are the step
children, with only one chair; the two
small gay petals are the daughters with
a chair each, and the large gay petal is
the wife with two chairs. To find the
father one must strip away the petals
until the stamcns and pistils are bare.
They have fanciful resemblance to an
old man with a flannel wrap about his
neck, his shoulders upraised and his
feet in a bathtub. The story is probably
of French origin because the French
call the pansy the stepmother.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
THE CHAMPION MEAN MAN.
He Was Too Mean TO Live But He Man
aged to survive.

He Was Too Mean Live But He Man
aged to Survive
The meanest man | know of lives
in Kansas" said DI. Asa Doolittle, a
member Of a travelling fraternity at the
Lindell, remarks the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. He Is a farmer worth a
cool one hundred Thousand dollars. His
wife was taken suddenly i'll, and nc
came To town to consult me about her
case. ] told him that / could not pre-
scribe intelligently without seeing the
patient, but he declined To incur The
expense of a visit. i charged him one
dollar for the prescription, and he spent
half an hour trying 10 beat me q Jwn 10
ninety cents. He made me write the
prescription in English. then bought
the drugs and compounded IL himself
to save the apothecary's fec. One of
the INGREDIENTS was cap icum. He
thought he had some 1T home. but was
mistaken. and had to come back to
town, a distance of four miles, after ii.
BY the time he had succeeded in saw
ing about twenty cents and wasting
two dollars worth of time, his wife
was dead and the medicine a dead l-ss
on his hands. That so wore on Lima
that he fell i'll. He took the medicine
prepared for his wife, but that only
aggravated his malady. When he final
ly recovered he sued me for ten thou
sand dollars and was beaten and had To
pay costs. He then went before the
grand jury and tried to have me indicted
for malpractice"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
BEAUTY IN THE LIP.
Some SavAges Pride Themselves on Size
Others on Deformtty.

Some SayRges Pride Themselves Size.
Others on Deformity.
Among the Babines. who dwell to the
north of the Columbia river, large un-
der lip is regarded as type of beauty.
4 small incision is made in the lip dur
ing infancy and a fragment of bone
inserted. This is replaced from time to
time by larger and larger fragments,
each operation being attended with
severe pain, and, according to the
brooklyn Eagle. at length pieces of
wood measuring not less than three
inches in length and one and half
inches in width, are inserted, causing
the lip to protrude to a frightful extent.
A similar custom exists among the
Paraguay Indians. and the labnets
worn by the Botocudos are inserted in
a slit made in the lower lip. The BotO-
cudo has been noticed to take a knife
and cut piece of meat on it and tumble
the meat into his mouth. Among the
Hydahs Queen Charlotte islands il is
considered a mark of the lowest breed
ing to be without this labial ornament
of the lower lip. When a young woman
and an old one quarrel the elderly
dame will reproach the younger one
with her youth, ineXperience and gen.
eral ignorance, pointing, We're further
proof necessary, to the inferior size of
her lip. This lip of beauty is not, how
ever, peculiar to these aborigines. but
is common among some of the African
tribes The Berrys. for instance, who
inhabit Sanbriat, tributary of the
Nile, insert in the lower lip piece of
crystal an inch in length The Bougo
women in similar way extend the
lower lip horizontally till it projects
far beyond the upper. The mutilation
of both lips is observed among the
women of Kadje in Segseg, between
Lake Tsad and the Beuwe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
ELECTRICAL FLASHES.

SMALL electric lamps are being tried
by the London police in place of the
old-fashioned oil bulls eye. The eN-
pcriments have proved very satisfactory
thus far.
TELEPHoToGRAPHY is at present in
teresting Partisan experimenters and
causes the Figaro To predict that ''soon
may he seen in Paris the image of a
man smoking in st. Petersburg"
APPLICATIONS for space in the electric
ity building at the worlds fair aggre-
gate SIS, 900 square feet, while only 49,
900 feet are available. Foreign nations
have already been assigned Gs, 900 feet,
and several of them are urgently ask
ing for more.
An English railroad has just contract
ed for 10000 incandescent electric
lamps to be placed in their cars The
lamps are in box placed over each
passenger, and by dropping a penny in
the slot the light will burn for half an
hour over the passengers shoulder. 1t
then goes out automatically.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
q LITTLE HUMOR.

WHAT / value most is my peace OF
mind That's strange, too. You've
such n small piece. ."-liarper's Bazaar.
BRACE make il a point To give the
devil his due" Bagley-''Yes? Would
you mind handing him that five you
owe me?'-N. y. Herald.
'HAvE You parrot that can swear?"
Yes" replied the bird dealer. 'Well,
I'll take it; | want 10 hang il up beside
the thermometer'- '-Washington Star.
He - ''IIave You hcard?" She -
"What?" He-"Miss Spinster is going
To be married" She-''O, yes, I've heard
that ever since can remember. Pick
Mc-Up.
WHAT was the matter with you?"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
PEOPLE OF ROYAL BIRTH.

PRINCE BISMARCK has seen statues
raised in his honor, which is a recogni-
ton few men live To see.
THE marquis of Lorne sympathizes
with strikes that are reasonable, and
has often been known to contribute his
mite TO a socialistic fund.
LEOPOLD, the king of the Belgians, Is
one of the most inveterate gamblers in
Europe, and what he doesn't know
about hand at cards is hardly worth
mentioning.
FOR several years to come the emper-
or of Germany will reside at Potsdam
both winter and summer. The reason
for this change is said to be the emper-
or's intention to have extensive altera-
tions made in the ryoal castle in Berlin.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
EDUCATION AND LEARNING.
Leading English Educator Points Out
the Difference Between Them

the Difference Between Them
people have a peculiar notion of
what constitutes an education" said
Prof John Cochran, one of Great Brit
aims leading educators, who is making
a tour of the United States, to a Globe
Democrat man. Il have seen many an
educated man who couldn't tell an ad-
verb from a proverb, a green root from
an ellipsis- And / have seen men who
had taken all the varsity degrees so
profoundly ignorant that a Digger In
dian might pity them. Too many men
forget that a school, whether it be the
log cabin affair of the American wilder
ness, with its three RS and a bundle of
birch rods, or the proudest continental
university, but furnishes him with tools
with which to dig for knowledge on his
own behalf-but puts him in the way of
securing an education A man does not
learn Greek, Latin, French or German
for the sake of knowing those Ian
guages, but to secure the key to the
casket in which is locked the wisdom of
Socrates, the eloquence of Cicero, the
reflections of Montesquieu and the phil
osophy of Kant. If the key is never ap-
piled, if the treasure Is not appropri-
ated, k knowledge of these languages is as
cerned, as the gun of Mark Twain's
Arab protector, which was never load
ed. A gentleman was recently bemoan-
ing to me that he was uneducated; |
questioned him. and found that hc had
read and digested everything in the
English language worth knowing
Shakespeare and the Bible, Milton and
Adam Smith, Browning and Herbert
Spencer were as familiar to him a. the
face of his wife. He was a mining en-
gineer, and knew more about geology
than half the professors of that science
He was a prosperous merchant, conver-
SAINT with the laws of trade; a banker,
who had made a practical study of
finance; a politician, who had studied
men and measures 50 accurately that he
became the recognized leader of great
party But he had never attended
school-had never stood up and par
roted a lesson 10 professor, and there
fore believed himself ignorant. ] said
to him: My dear sir, you are one of the
best educated men i ever met j wish
that you would open school for teach
ers and impart to our public educators
portion of your knowledge. They
would be then better able to earn their
salaries -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27

LONDON HOUSES.
Their Divisions Into Torrid. Frigid and
Temperate

Temperate Zones
far more serious drawback to the
average London house, considered a
home. is TO be found in the limits to
comfort in its interior, says the Specta-
tor. 1t has its torrid, its frigid, and its
temperate zones; and until some adjust
ment of its atmospheric conditions is
secured, though il will still be inhab-
tied, it will never be, in the best sense,
habitable.
The chill of London dining-room is
a thing never To be forgotten. though il
is not beyond remedy. 1t is commonly
said that country houses are too cold to
be endurable in winter. But we doubt
if there is anything in the design of
most country houses so ingeniously con-
trived to battle the struggle against
cold as the London ground floor. The
narrow passage leading directly from
the door of the dining-r room to the door
of the street is the cause of its main pc
culiarity. The larger the fire and the
greater the consequent discomfort to
those who sit with their backs exposed
to its rays, the colder is the draught
which plays upon the backs of the
guests on the opposite side.
Nor can this be matter for surprise,
so long as the whole supply of fresh air
rushes in ''cold drawn" from the street
in exact proportion to the exhaustion
caused by the fire in the room The
remedy is to warm the fresh air on its
way. Fresh air need not he cold air;
and where the length OF the inevitable
passage admits of double doors and a
stove, dinner chills" might be avoided.
and even the ground floor London
houses be habitable.
Want of space, owing to the high
price of land. is the main cause of fail
ure; and the result is seen in a tvo-fold
migration, curiousiy like the dual mi
grafton of birds. We either ascend 20
seek warmer climate in the upper re-
gions of flats, Just as the birds go up the
mountains To seek cooler temperature;
or we leave town altogether in order to
build more commodiously in the sub
urbs or the country. The double growth
of London, not only outward, but up
ward, is largely due to the discomfort of
the London dining
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
LESSER OF TWO EVILS.
why Chinese Pirates Welcome the Intro
ductInm of the GuIIIotIne.

duction of the Guillotine-
1t is said that the guillotine has re-
Gently been introduced by the French
into their colony of Tonquin. The
French. as all the world is aware, have
had. and still have, plenty of work TO
do in the way of eXterminating piracy
in that vast and as yet unremunerative
possession. And the method by which
they endcavor to eNterminate the pirate
(whcn they catch him, which, as a rule.
they do mott is that of decapltation.
That ceremony, according to the Lon
don Globe. has hitherto been performed
in the primitive and rather barbarous
native way The culprit, being placed
in Il convenient position, used to light Il
cigarette and wait for the executioner
to take Il shot at his neck with big
sword. Sometimes the headsman aimed
straight and sometimes he did not, and
a feeling had long existed among the
gentlemen of the piratical profession
that an execution thus executed was
distinctly an unpleasant process for the
patient Consequently the introduction
of the wood of justice" has by no
means produced the effect which the
French authorities desired and ex-
pected. Instead of being impressed
with the horror of this mode of execu-
ton. the natives of Tonquin are said to
be highly delighted with it. In fact,
they regard the guillitine as a most in
genious article de Paris, and they have
already witnessed one execution with
every demonstration of enthusiasm
DYING. they say, is made so delightful
Iy caev 10y this admirable invention of
the superior European intelligence.
The result is that considerable salts
faction is expressed in piratical circles,
and it is confidently anticipated that
piracy will shortly increase very con-
sidcrably, as nobody in Tonquin would
mind being abbreviated instantaneous
ly 10y the guillotine. Death, in short,
has lost most of its terror because the
process of dying has been rendered SO
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-01-27
NIGHT IN A GUIANA FOREST.
Chirps, Screams and Howis Combine to
Make 1t Terrifying.

Make 1t Terrifying.
The bats are settling themselves in
the hollow trees or under dense masses
of creepers, making mouse-lilIe chirp-
ings as they hang themselves up in
their places. Here and there u lumber
ing moth looking out for a safe retreat
until evening is fluttering lazily along
before retiring To rest. The owl and
goat-sucller shrink before the light and
also hurry off to their hiding places,
making room for the brilliant families
of day birds which are calling and
chirping from the treetops. The weird
voice of the bowling monkey now
hOrrifies the stranger, filling him with
wonder and recalling stories of ban
shees and ghosts retiring at cock-crow.
Then a flock of parrots or macaws is
heard screaming far overhead. their
glorious plumage flashing in the morn
ing rays in metallic tintS of golden
yellow. green and crimson. The din
would be almost unbearable were the
birds near at hand, but Longman's
Magazine says that. as they rarely fly
or perch low, their voices are mellowed
by distance. Congregating on the
boughs Of the highest trees-far beyond
the reach of the Indians gun or blow
pipe-they take their morning meal of
fruits and nuts, chattering away like a
lot of rocks in a clump of old elms.
Here and there a toucan making his
presence known by yelping like n
puppy. Looking up, you see the rich
colorS of his breast and wonder why
his beaI is so large and apparently un-
calmly. From the recesses of the forest
comes the ting of the companero, sharp
and clear as bell struck at moderately
long intervals. Other birds utter their
characteristic notes, most of these be-
ing quaint and curious rather than
musical. The birds of the tropics are
brilliant in their plumage, but are
almost wanting in melody, there being
nothing at all resembling the chorus
which makes the English woods SO de-
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