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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1875)
MOLLY KOOO. fin the year 179S, Gey the poet, in conjunction with Pope and Swift, rnmnesad UOUd on Mies Hut Moe?, which appeared U AKsts Journal Aug. JW. The iroduction waa written in Tory droll vein, which tickled the ear of the public and created a great sensation at the tune. Miaa Mogg waa the daughter ot an inkeeper at Worthinghaai, and waa poaMHMed of remarkable beauty. In this drott eotn cnsition the wita seemed to hare found almost every rhyme that would match the name of their aersiae.) Tbe schoolboy delirhte In a play-day, The achoohnaeterw Jot is to flog, Tbe milkmaid's delight hi la Msy-day, X Bat mine ism sweet MoUyMcgg WUl-o'-wiup lexli the traveler a-gadding Thmngh ditch sad thtwaih qaagmire sad hog. So light can e'er set me s-pedding Bat the eyes of my sweet Molly Mogg. For gtrinesa in otter men's breeches - Yonr gamesters will palm sad wiH cog; But I envy them none of their riches. s Bo I palm my sweet Molly Mogg. The hart than half woaaded in ranging. It here and there leaps tike frog ; It's so fixed on my sweet Molly Mogg. I know that Vy wita Us reottt That women at best are a. dog, : Bat I m not so easily frightened , From loving my sweet Holly Mogg. A letter when I' am inditing. . . Comes Cnpid and gins me a Jog. And 1 fill all my paper sad writing Of nothing bat sweet Molly Mogg. I f eel rm In lore to distraction. My senses are lost In a fog, And In nothing can find satlafactioa But in thoughts of my wcctMolly Mogg. If I would not give up the three Graces, I wish I were hanged like dog. And at court all the drawing-room faces. For a glanee si my sweet Molly Mogg. ' For thorn faces want nature ead spirit, ' And seem as cut Wit of ft lag ; June, Venus, sad Pallas' nam Unite la my sweet Molly Mogg. Were Virgil save with his Pbillia, And writing another Eologue. Both his Pbillia and fair Amaryllis He'd give for my sweet Molly Mogg. When she umilee on each guest like her liquor. Then Jealousy seta me agog ; Te be sure she's a bit for the vicar. And so I shall lose Molly Mogg. THE POWER OF SUPERSTITION. A. California Bit etch. ii. mi s . - - I was fond of the soietioe of nhvsioc nomy. From my youth up I was noted or my proclivity lor reading the charac ter of a man from his faoe; and I finally became such an adept in the art that I ould occasionally guess the very thoughts vi uie individual wnose oountenanoe was studyincr. Soon after the gold fever broke out I came to California; and here, I must eenfeas, among what else there was to interest me. I had a errand onnortnnitv lor exercising my skill upon all sorts of xaces, seen under au sorts of circum stances, from the highest triumph of suc cess to the deepest despair of failure. I -first tried my luck at digging gold my self, but sodh tired of that, and believing I could get money faster and with less labor, I opened a kind of grocery and provision store, and went regularly into uie Business 01 trade, Paying most of my articles at Sacramento, getting them hauled to my quarters and disposing of them at a fair advance to the miners and others. " My store, as I dignified my place of trade, consisted of a rude skeleton of poles, with a sufficiency of cheap muslin drawn over them and pinned down to the eartn, and was stocked only with the most salable articles, of which flour, pork and whisky found the most ready mar ket, especially whisky. In the dry sea son it was very dusty, and evervbodv seemed to be dry with a thirst which mere water would not quench. If a man was successful he wanted whisky to bring Vila Iuv4 U . 3 M 1 - if unsuccessful, he wanted whisky to bring his spirits up to the altitude of his body; if it chanced to be a little cool, he wanted whisky to warm him; if it was very hot, he wanted whisky to cool him; sl A warVliab-s ist wwm A make him bright and active; he needed wuiHH j as nignx to rest mm, and. make him sleep well; he wanted it when he bought, and when he sold: when he won. and when he lost; when he stood up, and when he sat down; in short, whisky was the great regulator of all human feel ingsthe genuine elixer vilco and con sequently x did an immense business in wiusKy. Now this, though somewhat irrelevant, brings me to my story. My store being the headquarters of vthat locality for whisky and provisions, -A was brougnt in contact with- nearlv every specimen of the genu homo that ventured in that region ; and such an other conglomeration of white, black and red sucn anotner mixture of gentlemen, laborers, mountaineers, gamblers, thieves and assassins it would be hard to find outside the limits of California. Of oourse I had a chanee to study all sorts of faces to my heart's content, but hav- Hie art, an ordinary oountenanoe, or a man governed by ordinary passions, whether gentle or brutish, did not inter est me. I wanted to get hold of what is termed a character,, or one whose ex ternal would give no indication of his internal to any but a connoisseur; or one that would really puazle you to tell what to think of him. ' Among the many, such I at length found. At first I did not ntice him did not think of him. At a casual glance cnere was notning to disiinguuui htm rtrom the herd. He came in quietly, un- obtrusrvelw, purohaaed a quantitv of ffltror, pork and tea, paid for the same in gold dust, and went out about his busi ness. He repeated his visits at different -intervals, perkaps some half a dozen times, before he attracted . my attention rto anything peculiar in his appearance, -and then I should have been at a loss to i say what I saw more in bim at last than at first. He was apparently about twenty-five Tears of age, of medium height and slender figure, of a dark complexion, regular features, with dark, straight hair, dark eyes, and a beard that covered the lower part of his facejn all of which there was nothing remarkable nothing fstriking. He was quiet not talkative; had nothing to say except about the 'business he c&meon,got what he wanted when I was disengaged, paid for what he .got- like a gentleman, and generally retired with an ordinary '' Good-dav, or -some similar civility. And yet, as i have said, he began to attract my attention at .last, and I began to wonder why. Waa ft because he was so quiet, reserved and f gentlemanly, ; and .. did, not purchase -whisky like the rest and oocasionally get excited and boisterous f At all events, he had begun to interest me in some way; and the very -faot, perhaps, that I , 1 .1 A11 1 .3 oioser scrutiny, a - deeper etody of the xnan. ; ;i' f: s ,.-..- " .-' After tins I prolonged bis visits as much as I could without causing him to -suspect . did .,. so- intentionally. , The things he wanted I generally had some trouble in getting, and filled up the in terval by remarks about the. weather, the country, the mines, the success of some and the failure of others in a word, anything I could think of to induce con versation, watching him furtively all the while. He answered easily and readilT. and yet with that peculiar land of reserve that was not suggestive , of v, tending -toward familiarity, i,; His replies, how ver, evinced a man of mind and eduoa- fcinn arwl T Iviiran -v mm 1. lit. m . I -r" mil wwui iur selfish dreamer, if I may use a Daradox- ,wl t, V. L T we?. um un expresses my idea. One dav. I gonmnW touched upon the sreneral miDPrHtinn. of mankind, and, to my surprise, 1 8aw that lift wut intav-AaTAl TT . i . - uu ojD uiianirea expression, and brightened, and emitted , wwgo auu peculiar gleam; and my attention being thus directed to hia eve. uuukus we was a nad never seen one exactly like it one capable of being so apparently open down to the soul 'while concealing ao much. It was off its fraard now: the dnnr was open to the soul the man; and I looked an rv K o. .l M . , . 37 TlT , aPowx& anct aw that the soul of that man waa a dark ww- a uameieas lear caitia mar like an electric ahnnlr- TkU Bn I shudder of dread. No wonder I had not been able to read him before; the man had been vmrinoi n imnuhM. 1, ' O - MMJMOWWIO llliWlft. T ln .1 4-1. l C 1 1 uou a.aj oi uie mystery, and to mm. anil T tioI u. tt l a . , juo woo lubertvect in Buperstitdans he was superstitious Mom.. , ut i AToou men may oe super stitions: btul TrtfiTi alnn V..cn J " v , tAnxtuoo they carry a hell of wild fancies within them. Thus it was with this man, as I could see by his eye, and I made his fanOV work urtnn rum T Un. ries of sorcery, of witchcraft and magic, w Kuutus, iiooKODiins and devils tall he becamn vtuln wrifV oompreesed lips and trembled, in epite of O va aa V V KXaVAy (Uv OVAX1C7 times superstitious, why, you ask, did I thlrilr tilt ft man mnnvafitiraid Alan 9 , ..'A.KV.WMSU0 I den tally thrown him off ; his guard and refl1 Vim onnl anil uwvmillv Kwmnui ii was not naturally nervous and credulous. Fear could only arise from the self-oon- 1 1 1 1 . l r 1 t T 1 wm?u uiuwioun ui a past wiuKeu txeecu ninn maa V l.li whu a primiiiai, But let me hasten along to the denoue ment. It chanced tliat no other person was present when this conversation occurred about tile superstitious fancies ef men, and as soon as we were ; interrupted by the entrance of another customer my dark visitor left somewhat abruptly. After that he did not come so often as he did before, and never renewed the con versation that had so agitated him, and never, in fact, entered into any other that he could possibly avoid. I kept my thoughts to myself, but made some cas ual inquiries about him, and learned that he had been so fortunate as to se cure a capital " lead," from which, with his partner, another young man, he was taking out gold in quantities that prom ised to enrich bth; and that both had the good-will and esteem of all who knew them. One dark night, about three or four weeks after this, I was startled from my sleep by wild, prolonged shrieks, and cries of " Murder ! murder ! help ! help I" , I jumped, seized mv revolver. an.l darted out into the open air. The cries and screams' still continued, corning from a bend of the river about a hun dred rods below. In a minute I was joined by five others, all well armed, and together we ran as hard as we could to the place from which the alarm proceed ed. When we arrived there at least thirty men were collected in and around the tent of the dark man I have been desoribinsr, and he it was who had oHven the alarm. His partner and companion nau Deen murdered and robbed, and he himself had been sliehtlv cut acroan the faoe and gashed on the left arm, and he was all excitement, lamenting his dearest friend, and vowing vengeance against the assassin. It was some time before we could tret at the parti cnlarR. and we then learned that both had been sleeping side by side, when an unknown robber had crawled under the light can vas, stabbed one to the heart, and taken a large bag of gold from under his head. With this he was escaping when the present narrator awoke and seized him, and received the wounds which had compelled him to relinquish his hold Ijights were brouerht. and there, sure enough, was the bloody confirmation of au tnat naa been related. I shall make no attempt to portrav the intense excitement, the wild rage and consternation which this daring murder occasioned. Hivery man felt that, if the assassin escaped without his just pun ishment, there -would no longer be se- cuniy ior any one in our hitherto quiet and peaceful valley, and solemn oaths were taken to hanp- the wretch, if found. upon the nearest tree. A large reward was offered for his de tection, and every gambler that had ever been seen about there was more or less suspected, and I believe that, had any man been arrested on the following day, he would have been hung first and tried afterward. I said less than any, for I had my own suspicions, and I contrived my plot in secret, and made a confidant of no one. The murderer! Vrrnno man Tvna oa - rf r .j-- - " cently buried as surrounding circum- bmjuoct) wuuia permit, and ms compan ion, my superstitious friend, grew more moodv with srief. and refused tn wnrlr his "lead" anv more, and nrrmrwfvl selling off his rock and tools, and qui t tiriflr the oonntrv altocethar. T t hfnV Im would have gone at once, only that I told him it would not look well to leave without an effort to discover; the mur derer, as Soma tjaodIm mirrrtf. ' Kn mali cious enoncrh to saw he lrnAw nran Attune? of the matter, and ss get hi into trouble. lie turned very pale, and declared he would stow a vnir if Via thmiirht Vw tnat -means he could discover the assassin of his dear, dear friend. On the second afternoon following the tracedv- almost evarv inrliwidnn.1 in trio vicinity, the friend of the murdered man among the rest, assembled at my store at - L ' , 1 , 1 I t t . my particular request, x nad loid tnem I had something to communicate concern- incr ill a frm! rlwd. atiiV T tVirmo-ht it nn unlikely I should give them some clue to j.1 : When nil had coHaHmtI. nn1 wnnoul themselves as I had directed, in a umi. circle before my door eager, expectant, excised J. came forward, holding in my hand an egg. Then I made them a short sneAch rm the BnriArittitiona nf nunlriml which I contended had their origin in uiTNcmras uuna revealed iroin the Other world by God's good providence for the nrotectirm of thaJnTtomnt nnrl th nn. ishment of the guilty, and among ' other uiuigs, x menoonea now tne - ghosts of their victims would often haunt their mnrrlATAra. . nrtmnjtlKni, tliAm " l their Crimea how land and sea had been snown to give up their awful secrets and how it had been asserted that if the CUiltV Wretch Vinilld nlnAA nia honla upon the body of the man he had secretly Buun, uiey wouia nieea airesn. C A , -m .. -- ojxix now, genuemen, oontmned, I hold in mv hands, as nm a. fAnt any I have named This simple egg, so fair to the view, contains the murderer's secret. Let him but take it in his hand. a An. M "w WW a a . anu tne rrau sneu wiu crumble to pieces and show to all that it is filled with the blood of the victim, ou'will excuse me, gentlemen, for putting you all to the test. We do not know , aanh nfhtnm secrets the murderer of the young man wo muuxi yeau)roay may oe. among us ; but onlv the auiltv need fftar the fn'al ue innocent will surely pass the ordeal unharmed" As I Buid this. I fixed the dark visitor, my suspected man ; I never saw a more wretched and ehnstlv countenance, nor a greater struggle in aujr living Deing to Keep a calm and un moved exterior. . The egg began its round : Some took it gravely, some lightly, some turned slightly pale, and some laughed outright. But on it went, and came : nearer and nearer to the man for whom it was in tended I could see that he was trem bling that his very lips were getting white. j "It's your turn now!" I said at length, in a cold, stern tone. i " Mine I" he answered, with a ghastly attempt at a smile. "Why why should I I take it ? Poor Wilson was my my friend" 1 " Let him prove so now !" I said " All eyes are upon you. j Take the or deal sent by heaven, and prove your in nocence if you can." j He glanced hurriedly around All eyes were indeed upon him, and with a look of awakened suspicion he made one desperate effort to be calm then seized the fatal egg with trembling hands. The next moment it was crushed to atoms, and his hands were wet and stained as if with human gore. j A wild yell burst from the crowd. A despairing shriek came from the lips of the guilty wretch ; and falling, rather than sinking down upon 'his knees, he cneu out " God of mercy, forgive me ! I did fcOl him ! I did kill him!) for his gold ! his gold ! Oh, cursed gold ! Oh, God of neaven, forgive me ! j- " And how many before him ? " de manded L 1 "Three! three! Oh, God of mercy forgive me ! " There was another wild 'yell, or rather howl of fury a rush like wolves on their prey and the poor wretch was seized, almost torn limb from limb, and dragged iunousiy away. j In less than ten minutes from his con f ession he was dangling from a neighbor inflr tree, swmcinc bv the nvV So died the murderer j whose name I have suppressed, because he had respect able friends, who are still; living. I will only add, that; believing him guilty, I had previously prepared the egg, putting red coloring matter in it, expect ing to see him crush it through his su perstitious fears of a supernatural dis covery. They promised me a reward for the detection of the murderer but this I declined. Justice was all I had sought, and this I had obtained. Wanted to Make Sure of It This Time. Yesterday a tall and masculine-appearing female, who clung to a diminutive looking specimen of a I man whom she called husband, entered a Griswold street life insurance office and requested to see the insurance num. The agent ushered me coupie into a reception room and asked them to be seated In a few minutes the woman opened the conver sation with : " Mr. Insurance man, I'll tell you my business here. You see that man there," pointing to the pigmy who was quietly seated at her side; "well, he's my husband my! third husband, and I want to insure his life for three thousand dollars." The smiling agent, with an eye to business, rubbed his hands complacently and politely re quested the little husband to go with him to the office of the company's examining physician, a short distance up the street. After the Liliputian had been rigidly examined the doctor wrote out a certifi cate as to his possessing the necessary qualifications which entitled him to a life insurance, when the two returned to the insurance office, where the Amazonian female was impatiently awaiting them. A clerk having drawn inp the necessary papers she took out a roll of bills and paid the first installment on the policy, which document she folded carefully to gether and hid in the depths of her skirt pocket. On taking their departure the prudent wife turned to the insurance agent and thanking him for his prompt ness in making out the policy remarked that " she wasn't goiag to be fooled this time." The agent politely asked for an explanation of this strange remark, where upon she replied that her first husband had died on her hands before she knew of the existence of i such an organization as a life insurance 'company ; her second husband was blown lup on a steamboat after they had been married a week, and before nhe nonld cut a nnliov m.ila and now that she married Joseph that very morning sue wasn t going to run another mi eh tirV hVia fKoi-ofni.0 concluded to have things fixed up at once. - mow, josepn dear," said the af fectionate wife as she hustled her spouse down the ntonn Hten laftrlinrr yv tno mi walk, "you and mei can spend a honey moon just like two loving turtle doves." r.j - . , r xyeiron r ret: jrrew. Jewel Robberies. ' M. Jehan Valter, a French journalist, relates, apropos of ( the robbery of the Dndlev diamonds. r: Severn MiMvlntaa about jewel robberies. He tells how a speculator presented a report to the Di rectory making out that the celebrated church of Loretta contn.inA1 1 n nnrt ruvt - VVJV., VUV worth in diamonds, etc Barras and Oar- not informed .Bonaparte, of the fact, but the young General refused to march on the place because he won 11 nawo fe op pose a corpse of 10,000, and would prob- .1.1 XL J il. J I , ... uif uuu uuuiuig wnen no got there. In time he did manage to seize on the church, and found that all the diamonds had been replaced by glass. M. Valter also tells how the mother of the late French Fmrvmr tViA rViiu TTnv4-nnnn when she was leaving France after the in- : 1 11 ,1 , anion, uj me aiues, was stopped on the high road by the Marquis de Maubreuil, who searched her carriage, and took away 20,000 worth of diamonds, which have never since been heard of. This story is all the more remarkable as there was a creat fnaa mstAa armnt fnia Afa...;. - MMUUUAO aubreuu toward the. close of the Second -r-mpire. . lie nad a lawsuit with his wife, and an outcry was raised against the Mar auis oontinurn 0- a memlwr nf t.ha Tn'm of Honor. It then-came out that he waa one of the royalists who had aided the PrnHfll'ana tst Ymll jsvnm 4Va a4-n4.A ' -XT- poleon from the top of the column of Ven- had tied an order of the Legion of Honor tn frlA foul nf Viih ttrwaA .mA Zi. the mud Yet toward the end of the reign of the Third Napoleon he wore the red ribbon and was in receipt of a govern ment pension, i 1 i Cure for Chilblains. An " Old Soldier " writes to the In dianapolis Journal . Better than every- plied, and a sure cure, is to soak the irossenieei m Btrong, warm lime-water. We soldiers used to mix it nearly to the OOnsistenOV Of whitA-wnutn ' Tt will the itching in five minutes, and will per- .......v.ai j vwo au atwW nupuuHyuoB, . uei w stew njiuaiu ui onmi.iiie aeaa ssinwul freely rub ofL - Apply every eTening tm- WUk VUIV JLcl VM( . TEEATMEST OF THE DROWNED. Two Things to Be Done s Restore Breath ingri Restore Animal Heat. We give publication to the following method and rules, devised and prepared by the Committee on Accidents, etc, being a modification of rules furnished by Dr. Beech, of Coldwater, Mich., and of those published by the Life Saving Society of New York, which have been adopted and printed by the State1 Board of Health of Michigan: Buns 1. Bemove all obstructions to breathing. Instantly loosen or cut apart all neck and waist bands; turn the patient on his face, with his head down hill; stand astride the hips with your face toward his head, and,, locking your fin gers together under his belly, raise the body as high as you can without lifting the forehead off the ground, and give the body a smart jerk to remove the mucus from the throat and water from the wind pipe; hold the body suspended long enough to slowly count one, two, three, ropB, five, repeating the jerk more gently two or three times. , Bens 2. Place the patient on the ground, face downward, and maintaining all the while your position astride the body, grasp the points of the shoulder by the clothing, or, if the body is naked, thrust your fingers, into the armpits, clasping your thumbs over the points of the shoulders, and raise the chest as high as you can without lifting the head quite off the ground, and hold it long enough to slowly count one, two, three. Re- Elace him on the ground, with his f ore ead on his flexed arm, the neek straight ened out, and the mouth and nose free. Place your elbows against your knees and your hands upon the sides of his chest over the lower ribs and press down ward and inward with increasing force long enough to slowly count one, two. Then suddenly let go, grasp the shoul ders as before and raise the chest; then press upon the ribs, etc. These alternate movements should be repeated ten to fif teen times a minute for an hour at least, unless breathing is restored sooner. Use the same regularity as in natural breath ing. BuxiE 3. After breathing has com menced, restore the animal heat. Wrap him in warm blankets, apply bottles of hot water, hot bricks, or anything to re store heat. Warm the head nearly as fast as the body, lest convulsions come on. Rubbing the body with, warm cloths or the hand, and slapping the fleshy parts may assist to restore warmth, and the breathing also. If the patient can surely swallow, give hot coffee, tea, milk or a little hot sling. Give spirits spar ingly, lest they produce depression. Place the patient in a warm bed, and give him plenty of fresh air ; keep him quiet. Beware! Avoid delay. A moment may turn the scale for life or death. Dry ground shelter, warmth, stimulants, etc., at this moment are nothing artificial breathing is everything is the one remedy- all others are secondary. Do not stop to remove wet clothing. Precious time is wasted, and the patient may be fatally chilled by exposure of the naked body, even in summer. Give all your attention and effort to restore breathing by forcing air into, and out of, the lungs. If the breathing has just ceased, a smart slap on the face, or a vigorous twist of the hair will sometimes start it again, and may be tried incident ally. Before natural breathing is fully re stored, do not let the patient lie on his back unless some person holds the tongue forward The tongue by falling back may close the windpipe, and cause fatal choking. Prevent friends from crowding around the patient and excluding fresh air ; also from trying to give stimulants before the patient can swallow. The first causes suffocation ; the second fatal choking. Do not give up too soon. You are working for life. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it In suffocation by smoke or any poison ous gas, as also by hanging proceed the same way as for drowning, omitting effort to expel water, etc., from wind pipe. In suspended breathing from effects of chloroform, hydrate of chloral, etc., proceed by Rule 2, taking especial pains to keep the head very low, and prevent closure of the windpipe by the tongue falling back. . The Snake-Stone. An extraordinary cure, by the applica tion of the snake-stone, of a Tamil woman who was bitten in the right foot by the terrible tic' polonga of Ceylon, India, is mentioned by Mr. J. Mulvaney, Staff Surgeon, R. N. The woman was far advanced in pregnancy, and in fifteen minutes after being bitten was in convul sions. In an hour and a half the native doctor arrived and immediately applied to the bite a snake-stone. Numbness of her legs and part of her body had set in, with loss of sight. The snake-stone ad hered to the part for four hours, when it dropped off and the woman began to re turn to consciousness. The next day she was delivered of a dead child, livid and swollen. Ultimately she recovered The snake, which was three feet eight inches long, was captured and chloroform was administered to it on lint saturated and tied to -a stick, which it inhaled with great gusto, following the movements of the stick in every, direction. In an anaes thetic condition, the fangs were exposed and a lizard impaled on one of them, which died in two hours. A chicken was next treated in the same way, and died in twenty seconds. The snake-stone has a wide-spread reputation as an infallible cure for bites of all the most venomous snakes. 8ir Emerson Tenant and nu merous otner authorities attest its efficacy, which is doubtless attributable to its absorptive power, derived from its cellu lar structure. It is disk-shaped, black and sinks in water. The late Farraday found that it consisted of charred bone, blood and coloring matter. Changes In the Body. When science discovered that the hu man body underwent an entire change during a period of seven years, it was considered very remarkable, but Dr. Lyon Playf air read a letter not long ago before a British Social Science Congress, wherein he declared that "all the par ticles of the body changed every six weeks." The same eminent authority wisely declares that the substance of all our sanitary . science, accumulated by ages, might be summed up in the preg nant ad vice of the prophet, " Wash and be clean." This learned physician says that for a thousand years after the civili zation of the Egyptians, the Jews, the Greeks and the Romans faded, there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath. To this fact he at tributes, in a large measure, the wondrous epidemics of the middle ages, which cut off one-fourth of the population of Eu ropethe spotted plague, the black death, the sweating sickness, and- the terrible mental epidemics which followed in their train the dancing mania, the mewing mania, the biting mania, and witchcraft. Cheaper Sewlng-Machlnes. The Senate Committee on Patents has been wrestling for two years with the ?tUenf Patent of T B. Wilson, of the "four-motion feed" for sewing machines. The original wimT , u td be the most valua TfeBimnopl7 of the. kind in existence It should never have been renewed Had it expired with the original letters pat- hnn,W,mTeatr' would fc" been abundantly compensated for his idea. ... It is estimated that the actual cost of frL'Ttf86? machine, notcount mgroyalties," w about $12, while the realties on the best machines aggregate 3u. -tour companies form the mo nopoly, namely, the Howe, the Wheeler & Wilson, the Singer, and the Willoox & Gibbs. The backbone of this combina taon has been broken. . Within two or three years other important franchises will expire. Not one of them should be renewed Sewing machines are now al most as common as washtubs. No fami ly hardly is without one. The" very poorest and the very richest alone dis pense with this labor-saver. , The extension of patents is a much more serious matter than the people seem to realize. It is surely vastly more so than could have been anticipated at the time the patent system of the United States was adopted Every branch of industry now pays tribute to inventive genius, and especial care is needed to prevent excessive exaction. A few years ago one might examine all the implements in use upon a farm, indoors and out, and not find a single patented article. At the present time they are to be found by the dozens. The Prairie Farmer esti mates, in a careful and timely discussion of the patent system, that the indirect taxation of agricultural industry through the Patent Office is largely in excess of the entire taxation of the farmers for the support of local, State and national gov ernment, including tariff. This is no exaggeration. Neither is the Washing ton telegram an exaggeration which states, in speaking of the Wilson patent, " a monopoly of I this feed-motion for seven years more would be worth from 810,000,000 to 30,000,000 to the owner, and would cost the people four times as much." j The extension 1 would have been se cured could money have done it. We need not despair of the republic. It is by no means true that " every man has his price," and hereafter every click of the sewing machine wiH be a protest against that wholesale slander. The disgrace of such men as Schumaker and King is off set by the honorable record of such men as compose the! Senate Committee on Patents. Chicago Journal. Over a Precipice. Mr. Joseph McKee, proprietor of the American House, on First avenue, this city (says the Pittsburgh Commercial of Jan. 29), gave a party last night at his residence on Mt. Washington, between that borough and Temperanceville. A party consisting of Miss Kline, James and William Kline, . a young man named Mclntyre, and another person, whose name could not be obtained by the re porter, started to the party. They went up to Mt. Washington on the Incline Plane Railway, and there got into a car riage belonging to Jackson's livery stable, in charge of a driver named Duffy. The carriage started for the residence of Mr. McKee, and after traversing the road along the edge of the precipice down in the direction of Temperanceville, it became so dark that the driver became alarmed for the safety of his passengers. He stopped the carriage, and at his re quest Mclntyre mounted the box, while Duffy with a latern walked on be fore. They had only proceeded a short distance when horses and carriage went over the precipice, rolling over and over for more than a hundred feet. The frightened driver summoned assistance and it was some time before rthe carriage or its occupants could be found Wm. Kline during the rapid descent of the vehicle managed to kick open the door and was thrown out. Strange to say he was only slightly injured The others also fell out at various points on their perilous journey, and were, after a lone search, found quite seriously injured J juiss Mine was found among some rocks on the hillside, and it was impossible to reach her, and finally it became evident to those present that she could only be rescued by means of a rope. This was procured, and by its aid the young lady was enabled to reach the top of the hill. She was found to have sus tained quite serious internal injuries, to gether with several cuts and bruises on her head and body. James Kline re ceived a deep cut on the head, and was also injured internally. The other pas sengers were more or less severely cut and bruised : One of the horses was found on the railway track, about 300 feet from the place at which the accident occurred A passing train was compelled to stop until his mangled body could be removed The other horse and the car riage had not been found at the time our informant left the scene of the catastrophe, about eleven o'clock last night. The Klines reside on Sarah street, South Side, l . Those Oregon Girls. The pretty French maiden who drives a four-horse team at Sutter Creek, Cali fornia, is not considered much of a phe nomenon by the Oregon folks. A Port land editor receives her story with this comment : That French girl is a good girL That We would not be so ungallant as to dispute. But where is our Lane county girl that put in eighty acres of wheat, then took the district school and walloped . all the big boys in the pre cinct into decency and subjection ? Eh f and when you are talking about girls with pluck, just bear in mind that Oregon can produce just about four thousand, now married, to be sure, and many of them grandmothers, each of whom whacked an ox team from the Missouri river to the WaDamette Valley ; stood guard against savage Tnliann on the plains, scaled three ranges of moun tains, reached the promised land in triumph to raise a family of thirteen strapping boys and girls, and never laid eyes on a store-made bonnet for fifteen years. Don't- mention your California gMsplease."- , , ' Tbu' IR-k Aa A rViAvsrwrm A found its way into the hive of one of our t. 1 : ,, lnfa-ndAT ssfl faring AanA . ,n1 imbedded in wax. The mouse, havina a tot wiyvui VAC7rv JUAHU 1UTS IO Bteai honey, but unfortunately aroused the inmates- and before hn nonld Anl v.;- way out again was stung to death. By ouu uj . wwmwoiuuji pob . All, and OUX. KonsRT bemui to dinHAminaiA a. -O vwu which bees cannot tolerate ; but finding it impossible to hustle him over the ram- n.fd aa f n AXl. M 1 1 "t . v vuKtt , utuayiuQ tney went energetically to work and sealed him up in wax hermetically sealed him, in fact, so that not the slightest odor escaped to make the hive unpleasant for the high-toned, extremely neat and cleanly inhabitants. Schoharie (2V. Y.) Repub lican, j .. RIOTOUS LAW-MAKERS. Disgraceful Row in the Pennsylvania House o Representatives. A dispatch from Harrisburg gives the following particulars of a disgraceful scene in the lower house of the Penn- Slvania Legislature : " Mr.- TaHey, emocrat, of Delaware county, made a motion to refer the petition of citizens of Lancaster city contesting the seat of D. P. Rosenmiller, a Republican, as mem ber of the Legislature, to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Republicans raised the point of order that uie petition was not properly before the House, that body having not been legally organized when the petition was originally introduced Speaker Patterson ' decided against the Republicans, when an appeal was taken, and his decision was sustained by a large majority. Wolfe, Republican, of Union county, raised the further point of order that it required two-thirds of those pres ent to take up the petition under the suspension of the rules. The Speaker rendered an adverse decision and enter tained a motion to adjourn. Wolfe sprang to his feet and insisted that he had a right to be heard on his point. The Speaker declared him out of order, as no appeal had been taken from his de cision, and a motion to adjourn was not debatable. Mr. Wolfe insisted that he was not out of order, when the Speaker commanded him to take his seat, and Wolfe refusing to obey he called into requisition the services of the 8er gean t-at-Arms, who proceeded to execute the order of the Chair. The Republicans hissed the pro ceeding, and the Democrats applauded it, Wolfe continuing yelling at the top of his voice until the . Sergeant-at-Arms seized him. The hall of the House pre sented a scene of indescribable confusion, and the Republican members rushed to the defense of their colleague and wrested him from the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms. In the midst of the commotion the Speaker adjourned the House. During the melee pistols were drawn, and for a time it was feared that blood would be shed" Carious and Interesting. Place a tobacco pipe in such a posi tion, on the edge of the table, that if it were left unsupported it would fall to the ground A poker may now be sus pended from the pipe, in such a manner that the weight of the poker will be sus tained by tile pipe. The looped string on which the polfer hangs should be as close as possible to the bowl of the pipe, and the end of the poker must fall under the edge of the table. The center of gravity in this case is below the center of suspension, and the pipe consequently supports the poker. : If a little thread be well soaked in a strong solution of salt and water, and then dried and tied to a ring, not much larger than a wedding-ring, you may ap ply the flame of a candle to the thread, which will burn it to ashes, and yet it will sustain the ring. The cohesion of the fibrous particles of thread having been destroyed by the action of the flame, the ring is now suspended by the cohe sion of the particles of salt. Wrap a piece of clean writing paper tightly about the cylindrical handle of the poker, and the paper may be held over the flame of a lamp or candle for some time without being in the slightest degree injured or burnt ; now wrap a similar piece of paper around the cylin der of wood, and hold it over the flame, which will burn it almost immediately. This experiment shows the difference be tween the conducting powers of metal and wood, the heat being conducted away from the paper by the iron almost as rapidly as communicated, whilst wood being a bad conductor of heat, takes fire almost immediately. Suspend a poker by two strings, and insert the extremities of them into the ears. A blow given to the poker will now produce, through the medium of the strings, a sound equal to that of a great bell. This shows that the vibrations given to the metallic mass of the poker by the blow are much more readily communi cated to - the ear by the strings than through the air. Thus, on the same Erinciple, the boiling of a kettle, inandi le in the air, may be distinctly heard, even from the beginning, by resting o:.e end of the poker on the vessel, and ap plying the other to the ear. So also the beating of a watch placed at one extremi ty of a long beam of timber may be heard through the timber at the other end of the beam by a person who holds his eai to the wood, although it is totally inaudi ble in the air. Place in a small glass bottle hot water near the boiling point, colored a deep carmine with cochineal ; place the same at the bottom of a gloss jar of cold water. Immediately the light hot colored water in the phial will be displaced by the heavier cold water in the jar, and will ascend in beautiful crimson clouds to the top of the jar; Demand Greater than Supply. Piatt Evans, a stuttering joker, lived in Cincinnati as long ago as the time when it was considered capital fun to send a countryman to a store in quiring for things he would be certain not to find at the place to which he was sent. One day a fellow came, as he had been directed, to Piatt's store to buy a jewsharp. Piatt was a merchant tailor. He was busy with a customer as the man appeared, but observing that several of the " boys " had dropped in at the door, just to see what Piatt would do, he " took at onoe," and reponded to the in quiry for the musical instrument, " W-w-wait a minute." Having served his customer, he picked up a pair of glove-stretchers and approached the rural melodist with, " L-l-let me m-meas-ure your mouth," and, introducing the stretchers, manipulated them so as to transform the aperture into a horizontal yawn awful to see, and capacious enough to hold a dozen jewsharps. Removing the apparatus, he examined it carefully and deliberately, as one might scrutinize a thermometer or pocket compass, and then dismissed the unsuccessful searcher for jewsharps, as he said, in s tone of well-feigned disappointment, "W-w-we haint g-g-got any yonr s-s-size I " Bad for Massachusetts. The report of the Massachusetts Board of Education shows that 60,000 children in that. State are growing up in ignorance. That is, about one-fifth of the whole number of children between 5 and 15. This is a fearful exhibit in so populous a section, where private instruction is so easy of access, and where the public schools provide amply for all. One reason of the amount of ignorance in Massachusetts is the demand made by the factories on youthful labor, the scantiness of labor in manufacturing towns, and the necessity of all the mem bers doing something for the support of the family. The remedy for the evil, ac cording to the Boston J'asf, lies in a stringent factory act, and a law for com pulsory education. The J'oxt considers the present state pf affairs off the road to true civilization. . Batabd Tatmb has delivered eighty three lectures this season, and has forty four more to give. No wonder they are getting thin. WORK AND WORK. A husbandman, who many Tears Had plowed his fields and sown la tears. Grew weary with his don Ms sad (ears. " I toil in rain ! : These rocks and lands WIU yield no harvest to my hands : .The best seeds rot la barraa lands. " My droop4ng Tine is withrlae; : So promised grapes its blossoms bring Mo birds amoaa its breaches sing. " If y flock is dying oa the plain. The hesv'nsar brass they yield no rain: The earth is iron I toil in Taia. Whlls yet ha spake a breath had stirred -His drooping vine, like wine of bird, And from its leaves a voice he heard ! " The germs and fruits of life mast be Forever hid ia mystery ; Yet aone oaa toil in vaia for me. " A mightier hand, mors skilled thaa thine Most hang the clusters on the vine. And make the fields and harvest shine. " Maa can bnt work ; God can create ; But they who work, and watch, and wait. Have their reward, though it eome late. " Leok (rp to Hesven I Behold and hear The olonds are thundering in thy ear An answer to thy doubts and fear." He looked, aad lo a cloud-eraped-ear, With trailing smoke and flames afar, Waa rushing from a distsat star. And every thirsty flock and plain . Was rushing up to meet the rain ' That came to clothe the field with grain. Wit and Humor. Grain elevator Rye whisky. The first thing a boot-maker uses is the last. A tknob has real teeth and a false-set-too. MuasTKB of the interior A oountrjr clergyman. If thy enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum. Thebb is nothincr morn dnrmwurinir fn a thermometer than cold weather. An African conundrum Why am in toxicat'en like a wash-bowl ? 'Case it am debasin'. As soon as a young woman gets some steady employment she -stops fainting away at the sight of a mouse. This man who went to sleep on a rail road track found his rest was a good deal broken and his leg too. " I'm not much for shtump spakin'," declared a candidate at Dubuque, " but for honesty and capacity and integrity I bate the divil so I do. A story is going the rounds of a lady who wears a bustle made of railroad bonds. The husband of such a creat ure certainly ought to be a pacific male. "What'll you ask to warrant these horses good ?" asked a buyer of a horse dealer. " Oh, don't trouble yourself. IH warrant them good for nothing," was the reply. , - It was a duet this time. Two servant girls, at Cleveland, Ohio, kindled a fire with a can of gasoline, and then passed through glory's morning gate, just as slick as could be. Out in Wisconsin a horse kicked and killed a book-agent, whereupon the citi zens made a donation party fqr the horse, and he now has oats enough to last him a full horse lifetime. " A Chicago man woke his wife the other night, and, in a startled tone of voice, informed her that he he had swal lowed a dose of strychnine. " Well, you fool," said she, " lie still, or it may oome up." Pride takes an early start in San Fran cisco. When a lad breaks loose from his mother's apron-strings and secures a po sition at $3 per week, the first thing he oes after that is to hire a Chinaman to run errands for him. ' The Milwaukee Sentinel says : " The story tliat an English capitalist is nego tiating for the purchase of the Milwau kee elevator arose from, the gentleman's dropping in at a restaurant and asking for alf a dozen hoisters." "Totj never saw such a happy lot of people as we had here yesterday," said a landlady in Indiana to a newly-arrived guest ; " there were thirteen couples of them." "What thirteen couples just married!" "Oh, no, sir; thirteen couples just divorced" Ha gazed down from the window's height Into the yard below! . Where pensive clothes-lines wildly toss'd Their shadows to and fro. He pressed his face ssinHt the pans ; ' (It was the Chrwtmaa eve) A moisture gathered on his noes He wiped it with his sleeve. An elderly couple, evidently from the country, entered a Broadway drug store, in New York. The lady, who seemed to be the leader and manager, said " I will take some lemon soda water." Then, turning to her worser half, inquired : "Hiram Elisha, what will-you have yours seasoned with f " Hiram Elisha responded thus : " I will take ginger in mine ; is always does my corns good, Susan." v An Ingenious Convict. A convict in the Massachusetts State Prison, the Boston Traveller says, Viy wrought out, with a pocket-knife, a pair of beautiful and highly-poushed ivory hands. They are a little over an inch long, and the fingers, nails, joints, and all, are perfectly formed and in perfect proportions. Between the thumb and forefinger of each hand is held a tiny red rose. The cuffs are fastened with sleeve buttons, and above the cuffs in each is a small piece of black ivory, representing the dress on the arms. In these there are golden rings or staples, so that they may be worn as charms on a watch or as ornaments for the ears. They were given by the artist who wrought them to a fel low prisoner, Who sold them for two dol lars, to obtain the means to bind some books and pamphlets which he had col lected in his cell. When tld by the chaplain that the State would furnish the money for tliat purpose, he replied that he did not wish to put the State to the expense when he . could meet it in this way himself. -. i i. Rather CmeL , As a minister and a lawyer were ridinjr together, said the minister to the lawyer "Sir, do you ever make mistakes in pleading f "I do." said the lawVe? l'nd.,7rPAt ,y?a do i'h the idal takes f inquired the minister. "Whv sir, if large ones, I mend them ; if small ones, I let them go," said the lawyer "And pray, sir," continued he, " do you ever make inistakea in preaching?" " Yes, sir, I do." f Asd wkat do you do with the mistakes!" Why, sir I d P tte if the same manner you do ones, and pass the small ones. Not long since " continued he, "as I was preaching, I meant to oK serve that the Evil One was the father of bars, but mado a mistake, and said the father of lawyers. The mistake waa small that I let i go." ""a40 80 Thebb are in the whole world ah e with 100,000 inhabiSSte S witii over 1,000,000 ; 12 with from 1 000 000 down to 500,000 ; 20 with t 800,000 to 400,000 ; S3 Vith from 000 to 800,000, and 90 with frS Si" 000 to 200,000. luy J :r:::i 'i I (...'' i -