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COLT,, ALBANY. D EVIST 6ATCBS1T Et V.A. T CLEV OREGON. THE LITTLE FOLKS. Two Tair ships are Failing, Sailing over the sea, Williels ship and mv ship, Full ax full can b ; Ride by ide, my Willie says Like as piu to pin. b, :he happy, happy days When our ships come in ! mg. '.lie our eiupB are sai. aiiii! over the n a.- W'il.ie'e ship ai,d my ship, Full a I nil can be, Sa; -.ug on the sunny tide, Qrieving would be sm : Soon or kite, and side by side, S'uall our shi s ccniein. BL, Xicholaa for ihtober. mean. There we found Mr. Owl surrounded by a great company of sparrows, bluebirds, wrens, robins, all excited and noisy, flying about, sitting on the trees close by. hovering, over the cage, and all showing signs of rage. It seemed as if they felt their enemy was in their power and they would like to tear him to pieces. They could not very well attack him, as he was in the cage, and the small door, which was open, was scarcely large enough to allow them to make a combined assault. Soon, when it began to get dnsky, he came out of the cage in the midst of the commotion and started for the woods near the houoo, the small birds in full pursuit, screaming and scolding. As we saw no more of them, we suppose mat ne reached ins sliolter in safety. I would like to know if small birds ever are able to destroy this devourer of themselves and their little ones. Celia Thaxter speaks of a largo white owl that she saw sitting high on a rock, surrounded by snow-birds. "The snow-birds swept in a whirling crowd About him gleefully. And piped and whistled long and loud, But never a plume stirred he." I remain, dear Mr. Jack, yours truly, J." E. D. Jack never heard of a case where Jackson Dctancjri Boll A Funny Stoi-y ffor the Hoys. He had felt an irritation around there for two or three days. Some of the boys said that it might be a wood-tick, and others asked him to lift the cur "tain of the past and see if he couldn't remember of sitting down on a nail. He was a little worried for fear that he was to be attacked with cerebro spinal meningitis or a paralytic stroke, but Emory Pathfinder, the boy at the cor ner grocery, scouted the idea. " No sir," he remarked, as ho dusted -out from, behind the herring box, "it's my opii:vun that yer sroin' to have a bile" " And he added that, if he only had time, he could sit down and tell Jack son a hundred stories about biles which had aiSicted Kings, Queens, Emperors, Congressman, Aldermen, actors and policemen big biles and small. The next morning Jackson got out of bed feeling tfiat he had a boil. There was no longer any doubt about it. He undertook to sit on the edge of the bed and draw his pants on, but he didn't sit there more than a second. He got up and kicked over a chair, and said that a woman as old as his mother ought to know more than to stick pins in his bed. In bending over to pull on his boot he struck against the washstand, and he made a clear jump of six feet seven inches, and turned around to see who struck him. He finally walked very carefully down stairs, fat down on the edge of the sofa until breakfast was ready, and then got a pillow to put on his chair. His stern old father elevated his eye-brows a yard or so, laid down his knife, and says he : " Jackson Delancy, what in thunder do you mean ?" Jackson slid the pillow bacfc and sat down on his hip and tried to smile. His j father had told him months before that walnuts were productive of boils, and j he had been stealing walnuts from the j garret all summer. Prudence and dis- j cretion, therefore, warned him to say nothing about that boiL " Jackson Delancy, why in the name of General Zachariah Taylor don't you ! sit up straight in your chair and eat i jour breakfast?" roared the Puritan I father, as he saw his son's position, and Jackson sat over on the other hip and began telling about a cave in a sewer in order to occupy the old man's mind with other and nobler thoughts. When breakfast was over he wander ed out. He didn't feel like sporting around, and he lay down under an apple tree and tried to calculate whether it was seven days, seven weeks or tseven months before boils came to a head. He was reposing there when the wind shook down an apple. It ought to have hit him on the head, if at all, but it didn't ; it struck that boil. Jackson uttered a yell and leaped up, and as he tenderly rubbed the boil he said he'd be shot to death with peach stones if he didn't put a pound of powder under that tree before he slept. Then he heard the fire-bell ring, and he dusted down to box sixteen, forget ting all about his boil until a fireman shoved him against a tree-box. He didn't care whether the house burned 3ip or not. He went over and leaned against a store, but they threw water on him, and he wended his melancholy way to his lather's house, crept up stairs, sat down on his leg and went to reading .a dime novel. He wondered if Big Foot Wallace, or Buffalo Bill, or Capt. Jack ever had boils, and it made him shud der to think of crawling into a cave to escape the Indians and hitting his boil on a jugged rock as he went in. When supper was ready he stood be fore his father and told him that all 'Other boys of his age stood up to eat, and he'd like to try it for a week and see how it seemed. " Stand up to eat !" thundered the old man, as he looked wildly around for a weapon "sit down, sir, or I'll make you think Vesuvius is having another eruption !" Little did they know that boy's feel incrs as he sat down, and no surveyor could have measured his relief as he got up from the table. The next day was Sunday, and he was sent to Sunday-school. He knew he -couldn't sit down, and he ran away and -went to Windsor, but didn't take much .comfort, as a hack ran against his boil and the Chief of Police threatened to lock him up for Bhouting "murder !" when there was no murder. The boil hasn't headed yet. It won't for three days to come, and it will be tender for two weeks. There is no joy in this world for Jackson Delancy. His mother thinks he has chills and fever, and she has found him lying on his face so often that she is afraid they are going to lose him. The old man has got a thrashing laid up for him fer running away from Sunday-school, and 11, Trorn newer so many fires and and bass-ball matches as since that boil ii that nasi bov in the house. He was -down at the gate as our reporter passed loaf nio-ht,. and when he was asked if o Wnt would be any inducement him to turn a handspring he shiy ered all over and bis hair stood up at the bare thought of turing a hand spring with that boil on him. Detroit Jrree rress. Payingfllm Back. fToro Mmes a letter Riving a true incident that happened the other day in New Jersey : rxiTiT tr. Ane. 8. 1874. Tw .T . rK-t-THE-PcxFiT-1 would like to teU you of something that occurred under my own eyes to one of those creatures who, as you 11 u ,n loon silent." To us, who IV' SZTuZ.a i thfl country, the in -... inf0rflat Ti(7 A dav or two ago, after a severe thimder-Btonn, James, tne coachman, found that several birds had shel tered themselves in a small tool-house near . ... imnntrthAm was an owl. ne put it into an ola canary-bird cage, and fc .,t,t it Vr. not in lnnk t. It 18 not Often th.i n 7ta an near a view of one of these nr,v.n. nrMtiiriw. The cage was then placed just back of the bouse on a frame made to ;ii-!r. Tlifira he sat all day, not moving from the perch, occasionally relling hi eyes, but not seeing much, as those or Tans "are more useful to him at night than in th2,.dayih' we had almost for .h.t nnr owl was there, when we heard Inch a clatttering while we were at ; supper Mr rn to the door to see what it could small birds succeeded in killing an owl. It is quite common in Great Britain, I'm told, to use owls as a kind of bird snare. The sleepy bird is secured and exposed in open sight during the day time. Very soon numbers of small birds collect, and, thinking at last that they have their enemy in their power, they hover about and taunt him in every possible way. But the owl only blinks at them in the most tantalizing manner. He knows, wise bird ! what it all means, and that the birds are caught in their trap ; for thus congre gated, they fall easy victims to the hunters, while he is left unharmed. From ' ' Jack- in the-Pulpit, " S't. JS'ich Jas jar October. Trade Prospects. The New York Tribune, in an edito rial article on the future prospects of trade, closes as follows : So far as the progress of events and available statistical information enable us to make a comparison with the state of trade which prevailed in this country I for two or three years after the panics of 1837 and 1857, and in England after 1837, ' 1S47, 1857 and 1866, the result is re- I niarkably favorable to the present period. To begin with, very little commercial rottenness has been developed in Great Britain, our great customer and creditor. The same remark may also be made of the state of affairs here. On the whole our banking system has been more pru dently handled than it was in the years previous to 1837 and 1857. There 'have been some great abuses, as some recent failures show, and as indeed is appar ent from the official statistics, but after all the banks bid fair to come out of their difficulties in better shape than they did twenty and fortv years aco. The above observations apply with still ' Plne and greater force to banking in Great ' erowtb. 8UC,h Britain. While, therefore, we do not shut our eyes to the features which are common to the present depression and those which have preceded it on each side of the Atlantic, and would earnestly recommend the history and philosophy of such depressions to the careful study of our merchants, manufacturers and bankers, we think the country will escape from the consequences of 1873, having suffered less distress than our ancestors did in atoning for their ex cesses. So far as panics are concerned, there is nothing new under the sun. The English Wheat Market. Two months ago, in the first of a series of articles on the probable effects on prices of an abundant crop of wheat throughout the world, we gave it as our opinion that if the English yield was large the average English prices might be expected to fall about 20 per cent. , thus bringing the original quotation down to 50 shillings the quarter, and perhaps still lower. As a fall of the English price implies an equivalent re duction in the American, the impor tance of so great a change in the value of breadstuff's justifies the prominence we give the subject. The course of prices in both countries has been in ac cordance with our conjectures, which, indeed, had no better and no worse foundation than the anticipation that what had happened in former years, under similar circumstances would prob ably happen again. Tue decline has been somewhat more rapid than we ex pected, but judging from the quantities sold there is little reason to expect a re action. The following shows the average prices, as officially ascertained from the returns of the officers of the excise, of the sales at 150 designated market towns for the ten weeks from July 4 to Sept. 5, inclusive : Wtk tndeil Average. Week endetl Average. July 4 oils. 8d. August X oSs. 6a. Julv 11 HJs. '.Id. August 15... 5Ks. Julv IS eils.lOd. August 22. .. 578. 2d. July 25 60s. 54. August 29. .:. 54. fid. Aug. 1 598. 8d. Sopt. 5 ... i'Jh. 9d. The quantities sold at these 150 towns increased from 43,901 quarters for the week ended August 29 to 64,693 quar ters for the week ended September 5, against 41,050 quarters for the corres ponding week of last year. In the same week over 290,000 quarters of foreign wheat and wheat Hour were imported into the United Kingdom an unusually large amount. From these facts it may be seen that the fall in the price of wheat is not due to the unwarranted operations of speculators. New York Tribune, Sept. 23. The Black Hills Gold Hoax. The facts in regard to the Black Hills region, gleaned here and there, from j officer, soldier and civilian of the late I expedition are coming to light, about as i follow : First, there appears to have i been found, extracted and brought '' away from the Black Hills by the en tire expedition, about $3 worth of gold. ; Second, it is pretty conclusively under j stood by some that the ore from which the said gold was obtained was irn- ported that is, the hills were "salted !" 1 Third, the area of land valuable for cul i tivation is so very small that it is lost : in the great lengths of only moderately ; good soil. Fourth, the timber- land is composed of spruce, vellow- and Cottonwood of stunted as is usually found in the stretch of land between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains. Fifth, that the Black Hills region is not par ticularly rich, either in soil, timber or mineral wealth, and is in every respect just such a neighbor as one might ex pect to find of that mysterious country lying to the north of it, known by the natives as "The Bad Lands." Why not, then, let Red Cloud nnd Spotted Tail and their followers enjoy their possession of that region undisturbed ? Chicago Journal. A Peculiar Conveyance. A Florida correspondent says : "I 1 wonder if a description would serve an ! artist as a model for a sketch of equip age much in favor in Florida. Imagine ; a small, short cart, perched high on ! two wheels drawn by a cow than I which the ' lean kine'' in Pharaoh's I dream were never leaner so miserable that all hair stands uj the wrong way i (the representative cow has generally lost one horn aud the most of her tail), I and then curled up on the floor of the cart an old colored woman, extremely I dilapidated as to cosume, smoking the j stump of a pipe, and one or two younger ; women in front, with a man, whose at j tire is more picturesque than servicable, j sitting on the shafts driving. This ! conveyance, animal and all. aonears to j be peculiar to Florida ; certainly I have never seen anvtnmg lKe it elsewhere, ana it would be quite as strikincr m a Horsewhipping a Prince. We have had several instances of late of the democratic tendencies of what we have been pleased to regard as the aristocratic and "effete monarchies" of the old world. The summary pun ishment of the nephew of the Czar of Russia for squandering his mother's jewels upon a wandering actress is a case in point. A recent incident whih occurred at Dresden, and which hith erto has appeared only in the German papers, furnishes a still more striking illustration of the general fact. A son of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg re cently arrived at a railway station in Dresden, to which a restaurant is at tached. His HighnesB entered the room to get his lunch with the crowd, and the idea of placing himself upon a level with the common herd not comporting with his princely dignity, he vaulted upon the lunch-counter and sat down upon it, much to the disgust of the common herd, who were standing up. A waiter requested him to sit down, but his Serene Highness refused, and ordered his lunch served. The waiter thereupon informed the proprietor of the antics of this extraordinary customer, who was sitting upon the place intended for the provisions. The proprietor came round in front and remonstrated with his Highness, but in vain. He then ordered him to get down or ne would take him down. His Highness notified the proprietor if he gave him any more of his jaw he would slap his face. The latter, not having the fear of princes before his eyes, used his jaw all the more vigorously, and his Highness, true to his word, did rebuke the vulgar Boniface by slapping him. This was all that Boniface had been waiting for. He quietly removed his coat, and pro ceeded to disturb his Highness in his enjoyment of gcmuetlichkcit (a free-and-easy time), and did it in a manner which was at once frisch, frei, und froli (fresh, free, and happy). He seized him by the coat-collar, and down came the House of Oldenburg pell-mell to the floor. Then he went for the scion of the ducal house, and gave him a first class, old-fashioned, democratic pum melinfi', without regard to pedigree, or previous condition, or possible conse quences. After the drubbing had pro ceeded far enough for immediate pur poses of improvement, the police were called in, who wit h some difficulty res cued what was left of his Highness in a condition, which, to say the least, was not favorable to his sitting down upon lunch-counters. The punishment was sufficiently stern to prevent the repeti tion of the indecorum. Time was when the action of Boniface would have been sacrilegious, and to have laid a hand upon the Lord's anointed, even if he persisted in dancing a horn-pipe in the krout-barrel, would have been high treaso. That time has passed. The Berlin papers took the matter up and discussed it, and all arrived at the ver dict, " served him right." The pater nal Grand Duke took the matter up and discussed it. He had the good sense not to make any complaints about the chastisement which Lad been inflicted upon his hopeful, or to write any dip lomatic letters about it. On the other hand, he dispatched the Prince to a dis tant castle, a. sort of family summer re sort, where he is to remain until he learns good manners. Chicago Tribune. A Thirty-seven Days' Fast. A man named Van derVeken was dis covered, on the 11th instant, stretched insensible on a bed in a garret in this city. He was taken to the hospital and then gave signs of life ; but it was not till the next day that he had strength to speak. Then he asked what day it was and on being informed that it was the 12th of August, said: "I have been there these thirty-seven days." A little latter he became better able to speak, and in reply to questions, he in formed the doctor that early in July he had been suffering from a spitting of blood. He was alone in his garret, but expecting that he would be better, and not wishing to trouble any one, he lay down on the bed. Here, however, he found himself becoming so weak that he could not rise, and though he tapped on iiie wmj, no one appeared to nave nearu ; riatnr(, R rl ,,,:11f Q;oa ear his bed was a pitcher of ' r r him water, and he was able, by means oi a small can, to get some out of it from : time to time. Little by little he lost I his remaining strength, until he found I himself unable to move. He could not speak and his sight became dim from i time to time, until all power of vision I faded. Still his sense of hearing con tinued most acute, and he says he could detect the smallest sound, though ut terly powerless to articulate a syllable. He is now recovering, and it is expected will, with care, be thoroughly restored. Antwerp ( Holland) JPreeurseur. Evils of High Heels. Heels upon boots, shoes and other foot gear htve been in use about three hundred years. In these three centu ries the height of them has varied from a single ply to nearly three inches, pen dulating as it were from one extreme to the other, at irregular periods of time. High heels are open to general objec tions, and perhaps all heels are open to some, in addition to the ordinary ill effects of medium to high heels, espe cially when too short a tiptoe gait, jammed toes, soft and hard corns, bun ions, ingrowing nails and flat footedness there is one mischief not usually taken into account. That is, a loss of calf. A comparison of ancient and me diaeval art will show this. The loss is both in volume and elasticity of gait. The cause is in fact that a high heel re lieves the calf of its full tension, and thereby deprives it of its due exercise, upon which muscular as well as other development depends. In women the effect is more marked than in men, but not so general, the use of high heels be ing less steady and less extensive among the gentler sex than among the sterner ; bnt, wherever high heels .have long pre vailed, whatever be the circles of so ciety, the slender calf registers the ef fect, and the pad follows the high heel as an effect does a cause. The Small Boy. One of the saddest things about the small boy of the pres ent day, says the New York Tribune, is the uncertainty which seems to attend him as he bounds along through life. You can't always tell what he is going to say. At a Sunday school service held not long ago, an amiable clergyman, endeavoring to illustrate the necessity of the Christian profession in order rightly to enjoy the benefactions of Providence, spoke as follows : " For in stance, I want to introduce water into my house; I have it pumped. The fipes and faucets are in good order, but get no water. Now, why do I get no water?" The reason, he wished the young people to see, was that he had made no communication with the main in the street. But the boys were too intent on plumbing and water rates. " Now, why do I get no water?" "I know," shrieked a little one ; "yon don't pay." AccoBDraa to Dr. Maginn, no cigar smoker ever committed suicide. Jeff.'s Album. When Jeff". Davis was confined in Fortress Monroe a photographic album, containing family photographs and those of his staff and distinguished Confederates with him, was stolen from him. Some time in August last one D. E. Moore, who was an Iowa soldier, and one of the guard at the time of the theft, mailed a letter from Waterloo, Iowa, to some person at Erie, Pa., of fering the album for sale, fixing the price at $45. The Erie man, instead of responding to Moore, sent the letter to Jefferson Davis. Davis wrote to ex Senator George W. Jones, of Iowa, at Dubuque, sending him the letter, and asking him to get the album, if possi ble. Moore was found in Iowa county, and the album seized from him under a writ of replevin by an officer. The trial as to the right of the property was postponed to the 15th inst., in order to give Mr. Davis time to furnish the evi dence of his right and title to it. The Danger of Wet Coal. People who prefer wetting the win ter's store of coal to lay the dust on putting it in the cellars, do not, we be lieve, generally know that they, are lay ing up for themselves a store of sore throats and other evils consequent upon the practice. But so it is said to be. Even the fire damp which escapes from coal mines arises from the slow decom position of coal at temperatures but lit le above that of the atmosphere, but under augumented pressure, iiy wet ting a mass of freshly-broken coal and putting it in a warm cellar, the mass heated to such a degree that carbureted and sulphureted hydrogen are given off lor long periods of time and pervade the whole house. The liability-of wet coal to mischievous results under such circumstances may be appreciated from the circumstance that there are several instances on record of spontaneous com bustion of wet coal when stowed into the bunkers or holds of vessels. And from this cause, doubtless, many miss ing coal vessels have perished. Lon aon Meatcal Mecord. There is a young woman in Marshall county, i.an., said, to De neiress to an estate of $15,000,000 in England. The yarn runs that she was brought to this country by a gypsy, having been stolen from her parents that she is a member of one of the noblest families in Great Britain that the old hag who brought her here confessed to these facts upon the bed of death. The young woman has received a letter from an English lawyer who asks her to come over and take possession. And she is going over, to the great grief of all the marriage able young men of Kansas. If a man passes off a counterfeit $10 bill on you, don't keep it all to your self, but circulate it around among your friends. Richard Himself Again. The irrepressible Detroit Free Press man writes : "It has never been defi nitely settled to the satisfaction of the public who the Man in the Iron Mask was, but generations to come will know all about Dick Palmer, who got inside of something worse than a mask. His mother sent him after a brass kettle, which one of the neighbors had bor rowed, and on the way home the boy turned the kettle upside down and put it on his head. Another boy struck it a blow, and it shut down over Dick's face as close as a clam in his shell, one of the ears digging into his head be hind, and the other pressing on his nose. The victim jumped and shouted and clawed at the kettle, but he couldn't budge it. A man came along and lifted at it. but Dick's nose began to come out by the roots, and the man had to stop. A crowd ran out of the corner grocery. Dick's mother was sent for, and the boys jumped up ana down and cried ' Oh goilv ! without ceasing One boy said they would have to take a cold chisel and drill Dick out of the kettle, and another said they'd have to melt the kettle off, while everybody tapped on it to see how solidly it was on. Then they tried to lift it off, but Dick roared ' murder ' until they stonoed. Some said grease his head, some said grease the kettle, while the boy's mother sat down on the curb stone and cried out, ' O Richard, why did you do this ?' The crowd took it coolly : it wasn't their funeral, and a . . ... ... -i? , i boy with a brass kettle on nis neati isn t to be seen every day. Tears fell from the kettle, and a hollow voice kept re rjeatinc 'I'll never do it again.' Fi nally thev had Richard on the walk, and while one man sat on his legs and another on his stomach, a third com nressed the kettle between his hands, ... n and the boy crawled out, nis nose an scratched and twisted out of shape, a hole in his head, and a bump on his forehead. His mother wildly embraced him, all the boys cried 'Hip la! and little Richard was led home to loaf around on the lounge and have toast and fried eggs for a week." Interesting Statistics. A contributor to the columns of the Cincinnati Trade Lint shows, by a se ries of interest inar statistics. " the proportions between labor, material, capital and oroducts." in the several great industries of the country. Food and its preparations represent a capital of $198,874,861 ; wages, S'25, 780,682 ; material. $482. 402.947 ; products, $600, 365,501. Iron and manufactures of iron have a capital of $198,365,115 ; wages, $73,027,976 : material, $103,208, 218; products, $322,138,698. Textile fabrics call for the employment of more capital and a greater number of hands than any other nine industries enumer ated, while iron and its manufactures yield a larger amount of money in earn ings to their employes than any other employment, the relative pay being higher. Food, having a productive value of $600,000,000, employs relatively but few hands, and pays them relatively the least. The manufacture of com mon clothing employs the largest num ber of ha ds, and pays the largest wages. The highest paid labor is the iron mduntry. because it calls lor the most- skilled laborers in its several trades, producing many varieties of cu rious and peculiar work. In the manu facture of textile fabrics, an immense number of hands are employed ; but comparatively a small number of them are able bodied laborers, great num bers beinc women and children, and a vast amount of work, in proportion done by machinery- The Wrong House. In Philadelphia there are numbers of houses exactly alike, and some times there is such a quantity of them in a square that a man who lives near the middle has to begin counting at the corner in order to ascertain which s his house. Mr. Bradbury, a few nights ago, came home late, and, as he was thinking of something else, he for got to count. When about two doors from home he ran up the front steps of Mr. Petty' residence, with a conviction that it was his own. His dead latch-key opened the door readily, and Bradbury, after groping around in the dark for the hat rack, knocked against it and upset it. Mr. Petty was up-stairs, just about to go to bed. When he heard the noise he went to the head of the staircase and listened. He discovered that there wa a man in the hall below, and he knew at once it was a burglar. So he went back to his room and got his revolver. Then he shut his eyes and fired at ran dom. The noise waked Mrs. Petty, and she began to scream violently. Then Brad bury felt certain that there was a baud of robbers up-stairs engaged in butch ering Mrs. Bradbury and the children. As he started to creep softly up the staircase to reconnoiter, Petty began to steal quietly down the staircase to look after the burglar he had killed. They met on the first landing, and, although both were terribly frightened, they grappled, for both knew it would be a struggle to the death. After fighting desperately, the combatants rolled down the stairs to the floor beneath, while Mrs. Petty sprung the rattle for a po liceman. Just as Petty got the upper hand of Bradbury and was mutilating his noso with his fist, the police burst the front door open and strucn a lignt. i nen an explanation ensued, and Bradbury went home. You have, perhaps, seen a prize egg plant at an agricultural fair. Well, Bradbury's nose resembled that in size of color and shape : and now he not only counts from the corner -when he comes home, but he has the front of his house painted white, with a locomotive headlight over the front door. " Bridging " Type. A feature of London is its bridges, and, while eminently practical in their special service of promoting travel and tramc, each has its library ot tragedies and romances. Of all this, history and legend are full, while each day's police record adds its quota. Quite out of the range of ordinary use, or misuse, of bridges is a practice connected with the Blackfriars, and one which I never saw mentioned m print. As 1 was one time talking with the night editor of the leading London daily, the foreman of the typographical department reported to him that they were half a dozen hands short. " How's that ? " asked the editor. "Discharged for 'bridging,'" was response. After the foreman had gone, my Yankee curiosity caused me to inquire what this strange offense might be. " Bridging type is one of our princi pal sources of annoyance and loss," said he. " When a compositor is throw ing in his case, if he happens to ' pi ' a handful, instead of carefully sorting and distributing the type, he shoves it into his pocket ; or, if a printer is trans ferring a stickful of matter to a galley and accidentally ' pi's' it, he also se cretly thrusts the mass into his pocket and resets the whole ; and the type these printers have secreted they quiet ly dump into the Thames on their way home at night, while crossing the iilacK friars Bridge, over which a majority of them pass. o extensively is this dis honest and lazy habit practiced, that there are tons upon tons of tpye in the bed of the Thames, and hardly ever is a body dragged for without the hauling up of quantities of type metal. This same habit prevails in the large cities of the United States, although not so extensively as in England, per perhaps ; and New York printers, who sink their "pi in the Jast or JNortn rivers, while crossing on the ferry boats to their homes in Brooklyn or Jersey City, are also described by the London phrase as having "bridged" their type. Fireside Friend. Illinois contains nearly four times as many residents as the city of .Fhila delphia. A Lady Seventy-one Years Old Blows Out Her Brains. One of the most lamentable suicides that we have ever been called upon to chronicle, took place in Jones county, at a late hour on Monday night. Mrs. Jonathan Holmes, an old lady 71 years of age, deliberately blew out ner own brains with a shot-gun, producing in stantaneous death. About midnight the family were alarmed by the report of a gun in her room, and upon going thither found the old lady lying dead upon the floor, with nearly the whole of the upper portion of her head blown off. She seems to have placed the muzzle of the gun against her forehead and pulled the trigger with her foot. Mrs. Holmes, lor the greater portion of her lif e, lived in comfortable circum stances. She raised a family of chil dren and a number of grandchildren. She had a great deal of trouble during the latter part of her life, and there is hardly any doubt that her troubles preyed upon ner mind, until ner reason became impaired, and that it was in this mental condition that she commit ted the awful act. In addition to her troubles she has. for some time, been in bad health. Macon (Ga) Tele graph. Botanical Photography. Leaves of any kind may be beauti fully photographed by the following simple process : Place five cents worth of bichromate of potash in a two-ounce bottle of olain soda water, aud when most of it has been dissolved pour off some of the clear liquid into a plate and thoroughly saturate a piece of ordinary writing paper in it. Then lif t out the paper and allow it to become almost entirely dry in a dark room. Thus vour " plate is prepared, ine iei should then be placed upon the now bright yellow paper, a piece of soft black cloth and several thicknesses of newspaper under the latter, and the whole inclosed between pieces of glass nf the same size and held together by clothes-pins. Expose tothe sun so that the light will strme iuu upon tuts ieai until the paper has turned a deep brown : then take the paper from the frame and put it in clear water, which must be changed every few minutes until the yellow part becomes per fectly white and the photograph re mains. Death of the Elephant. Natural ists say that the elephant, like the whale, is being driven into extinction by the persecution of mankind. In In -i . i t i i . . uia me mmiera nave pursued mm so far inland that he is scarcely more com mon now in the habitable part of that coun try than is the red deer in England ; and in Burmah and Ceylon only ha the huge and docile animal a refuge from extermination. The Revival of Trade. The Toronto Olobe, speaking in a re cent issue of the revival of trade in the United States, remarks that the fact that a few days since $3,000,000 worth of New York Central railway bonds were sold in London at 105 is sufficient proof of itself of a return of confidence in American securities, and of the pleth ora oi money in the hiUropean ex changes waiting for investment. This is but one straw which points to better times. Business men in New York ore- diet a sound and healthy fall and winter traffic. Orders from the interior mul tiply, and collections are made with ease. The export trade in grain has been stimulated by the recent ad vance of wheat in the Liverpool market. It is known that the last year's grain crop has been pretty exhaustively depleted by the uninter- mitted orders for export, and the do mestic as well as the foreign demand for the grain of the current year must keep accumulation down and transport ation active. Xhe consequence is, that the f eeUng in the great business centers is excellent, nor are any apprehensions felt of a change for the worse. The re ports from the Internal Revenue Office are as we have already pointed out of a highly favorable nature, as com pared with those for the same time in 1873. In short, the general tone of the talk is hopeful and assured, and the confidence in a revival of trade gains rapidly in strength as the season ad vances. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Failures in Business. Peter Cooper failed in making hats, failed as a cabinet-maker, locomotive builder and grocer, but as often as he failed he " tried again," until he could stand upon his feet alone; then crowned his victory by giving $1,000,000 to help poor ooys in time to come. Horace U-reeley tried three or four lines of business before he founded the Tribune, and made it worth 1,000,000. Patrick Henry failed at everything he undertook until he made himself the ornament of his age and nation. The founder of the New York Her ald kept on failing and sinking his mon ey for ten years, and then made one of the most profitable newspapers on earth. Stephen A. Douglas made dinner tables and bedsteads and bureaus many a long year before he made himself a giant on the floor of Congress. Abraham Lincoln failed to make both ends meet by chopping wood ; failed to earn his salt in the galley-slave life of a Mississippi flat-boatman ; he had not even wit enough to run a grocery, and yet he made himself a grand character of the nineteenth century. Gen. Grant failed at everything except smoking a cigar; he learned to tan hides, but couldn't sell leather enough to pur chase a pair of breeches. A dozen years ago he " brought up" on top of a wood pile "teaming it" to town for $40 a month, and'yet he is at the head of a great nation. Russian Horses. An English writer says : A specialty of renown in Russia are the little horses of the Mushik. They are hardy in the first instance, as everything is in Russia, and they are quick and strong. Two of these little horses, hardly large enough to be called ponies: will draw a plow all day with a pause at noon. They are now largely exported (under the name of Litthauers) to Prussia, and in some places have altogether dispossessed the oxen of their old privileges. I worked f with them on one of the estates of Bar on Jfiuce, where they were fed upon chaff of any description, even of lupines, very successfully, condimented with some potato refuse from the distillery. In harvest time, when the little miee had to work like brewers' horses, I ad ministered to them some bran, and they grew fat even under so unfavorable cir cumstances. We soon had some twenty more sent down, and so we would spare them a little, and send them into the inclosure with the foals now and then Two of them were able to draw the Champion reaper all day long, and got two pecks of oats each as an encourage ment. They, too, laid on flesh during the time. V X mean to say that they are the most useful animals for easy agri culture existing, as we used to work them. Miss Dickinson. Anna E. Dickinson has been confined to her bed or room for the greater part of the last six months. It is only with in three weeks that she has been able to walk more than a few minutes at a time. During the last two years she has been given over by her physicians repeatedly ; and, as they said, nothing but her indomitable will earned ner through. It is the old story overwork by a highly nervous organization, re sulting in vital exhaustion, and threat ening to end in paralysis. She was ob liged last winter to cancel over hfty en gagements, owing to her failing health. She is now rapidly recov ering, but is afraid to make en gagements for next winter. She will probably go to England, but is not yet strong enough to venture on the voy age. Her innumerable mends will be surprised at these statements, for she has carefully kept the true condition of her health concealed, but they will be glad to know that there is now no fur ther cause for fear. MAJUNk The following spirited poem we dip from SiA Atlantic for October. It is by Bret Harte, in fata very best vein ; the scene being laid at SI Bafrngto Mine, Northern Mexico. j Drunk and senseless in his place. Prone and sprawling on his face, More lite brute than any man Alive or dead By his great pump out of gear. Lay the peon engineer. Waking only just to hear, Overhead, Angry tones that called his name. Oaths and cries of bitter blame Woke to hear all this, and waking, turned and fled " To the man whoU bring to me," Cried Inteudant Harry Lee Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine " Bring the sot alive or dead, I will give to him," he said, " Fifteen hundred penox down. Just to set the rascal's crown Undernerth this heel of mine ; Since but death ' Deserves the man whose deed, Beit vice or want of heed, Stops (he pumps that give us breath Stops the pumps that suck the death From the poisoned lower levels of the mine ! No one answered, for a cry From the shaft rose up on high ; And hutting, scrambling, tumbling from below. Came the miners each, the bolder Mounting on the weaker's shoulder. Grappling, clinging to their hold or Letting go, As the weaker gasped and fell From the ladder to the well To the poisoned pit of hell Down below ! " To the man who sets them free," Cried the foreman, Harry Lee Harry Lee, the Eug.ish foreman of the mine Brings them out and sets them free, I will give that man," said he, " Twice that sum, who with a rope Face to face with Death shall cope. Let him come who dares to hope ! " " Hold your peace ! " some one replied, Stauding by the foreman's side ; " There has one already gone, whoe'er he be I Then they held their breath with awe, Pulling on the rope, and saw Fainting ilgures reappear, On the black rope swinging clear. Fastened by some skillful hand from below Till a score the level gained. Ana out one alone remained He the hero and the last, tie Whose sklllflll hnnrl made fa.at The long line that brought them back to hope and Haggard, gasping, down dropped he At the feet of Harrv T.ee Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine ; " I have come." be vanned, "tn clnim Beth rewards. Senor, my name Is Ramon ! I'm the drunken engineer I'm the coward, Senor " Here He fell over, by that sign Dead as Btone ! Pith and Point. Men of color Painters. Eye servants Spectacles. Letters of credit; I O U. A common cant A mendicant. The Emerald Ishs Greenland. Cast iron Spent cannon balls. The end of the world Money-mak- stamp act Treading on people's on a bar Rapping for ing. A toes Soundings drinks. The Houston (Tex.) Chronicle gayly exclaims : " Glory to God ! Two dollars received at this office yesterday ! Bring in your wash bill." A good way to restore a man appar ently drowned is to first dry him thor oughly inside and out, and then clap a speaking-trumpet to his ear and inform him that his mother-in-law is dead. New version : Mother, may I go out to swim ? No, my darling daughter. Wear your clothes, my cherubim, For there isn't any water. A spread eagle barber announces that he is " Prof essor of Crinicultura,1 Abscision andCraniologicalTripsis." It is not often that four such high-priced words get into a single sentence. A POLrriciAN, wishing to compliment a well-to-do farmer, said : " You must have begun life early to accumulate such an estate as this ?" " Yes," replied the farmer, "I begin life when I was a mere baby." A gentleman of mechanical turn of mind took off the gas meter to repair it himself, and put it up again upside down. At the end of the quarter it was proved with mathematical correctness that the gas company owed him $8.50. "Don't cry, my little fellow, don't cry, said a kino -hearted stranger to a ten-year old, who was busy churning his tears with both fists as hard as he could. I ain't a-cryin'," snappishly retorted the urchin, "I'm only washin' the dirt out of my eyes." That was shrewd advice of a learned lawyer to a pupil : " When the facts are in your favor, but the law opposed to you, come out strong on the facts ; ana when the law is in your favor, and the facts opposed to you, come out strong on the law." "But," inquired the student, "when the law and the facts are both against me, what shall I do ?" "Why, then," said the lawyer, "talk around it." FotJR doctors tickled Johnny Smith, They blistered and they bled him ; With squills and anti-bilious pills And ipecac they fed nim. They stirred him up with calomel, And tried to move his liver, But all in vain ! his little soul Was wafted o'er the river. The Luxury of New York Their Tables. Hotels and Destitution in Nebraska. There are at least 5,000 people living in eleven counties on the Western bor der of Nebraska who will require to be fed the coming winter. This is the es timate of Gen. James S. Brisbin, who was commissioned by Gen. Ord to visit the people of these counties and ascer tain their numbers and needs. It is in the presence of such a fact, and the near approach of what may be a severe win ter, that, notwitnstandmg the enorts making for relief by State and local or ganizations, we earnestly urge an im mediate appeal to the Secretary of War to authorize Gen. Ord to issue 400,000 rations, more or less, according to their actual necessities, people, just as was to these distressed done in the case of the people of the South in the season of the recent hoods. Omaha Herald. Corn Burning Not in 1874. It appears probable that the West will never get rid of the reputation of beintr compelled to burn corn for fuel. Be cause, two years ago. freights were so high and corn was so plentiful that it would not bear transportation, and was the cheapest fuel obtainable, Eastern papers, which know no better, fancy that corn burning is going on now. A Washington city paper laments over the fact that " Western farmers are actu ally burning their grain for fuel, while Eastern laborers are starving for the necessaries of life that are thus wasted, the high prices of tf ansportation ren dering it impossible fo put the grain in market." Western Rural. It is only thirty vears since the first electric telegvaph line was established, and at this time there are many more than a million miles of telegraph wires j in us. It is a matter of much interest to those who visit New York to keep posted about the hotels. Recently there has been quite a rivalry among the first-class hotels about their bills of fare, each striving to set the best table for its guests. We speak more particu larly of the hotels on Broadway and Fifth avenue the Grand Central' being the largest and most centrally located, and elegantly furnished. Of these four or five leading hotels, the bills of fare are covered with the names of the most luxuriant viands ot the season. The bill of the Grand Central, especially, de serves setting apart as a notabte speci men of modern culinary skill in the number, variety, and richness of its dishes. It contains no less than eleven courses for dinner, and gives the hours for no less than six meals every day, for the moderate sum of from S3 to $4 per day, including, of course, an elegantly furnished room for each guest. It would seem from this that the tours of our travelers and the visits of our business men become rounds of pleasure as well as of business. " Waifs from Ararat." Under this name, and the shadow oi the storied mount, a newspaper flour ishes, edited by Americans (of course). The paper contains some curiou'i and interesting local topics, quotes the price of girls as wives in the Armenian villages, varying from two to sixteen pounds, and discusses the pa as ant no tion that the world rests on a large ox, which, being irritated by . fly tosses its head and causes earth quakes, and the belief of the natives in the neigh borhood of the mount t'aat impassably barriers surround Arara t to prevent its being desecrated by raortal feet, while angels keep guard or, the summit lest one piece of the indestructible wood o tha ark should be borne away.