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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1875)
' T "nT.TSir T, vz r. T E- ALB;r OREGON. FUES1I TOPICS fcAUOOX-K3ETEB8 in Richmond, Va., in order to evade the Civil Bights law, Pt up signs behind their bars bearing the inscription : " Urini. st -..v.: to i tilSjWUIit. Caler Cushiko has officially informed Uncle Sam that his draft on Spain for 580,000 -will be promptly honored. This i the amount agreed upon as indemnity for Barriers butchery. ;Thb editor of the Chicago Time calls ilia German neighbor the "muscular -and unclean ruffian that controls the Stoots-Zciiitng." How pleasant it is to dwell together in unity. The New York Tribune wants to ar range our little Presidential matter so as to reader the incumbent ineligible for re-election, but have him retired as a Senator-at-large for life. That would be so nice for the Senator-at-large. The Michigan Legislature has voted down a bin which contemplated the transfer to the State University, for dis section, the bodies of inmates of alms houses, prisons and houses of correction, whose remains were not claimed for bnrial bv friends. Thk Erie Canal Commissioners have given notice of a material reduction of the canal tolls for the season of 1876. A reduction of 33 1 per cent, is made on Jjrain ; 30 per cent, on lumber, and 50 per cent, on general merchandise. It really looks as if we were approaching an era of cheap transportation. CincAc.o leads every other city in the world as a pork-packing point, and if she goes on increasing her business in this respect in the future as she has in the post, that city before many years will have a practical monopoly of the whole business. The number of hogs packed there last season reached the enormous figure of 2,362,974. A New Origans physician shot him self through the head. The jury looked into his room, saw upon the table before which he sat the Picayune with a long report of the Beecher trial, a dilapidated picture of Beecher, and another of T? . 7 - , -t , -vucuuo uu, auu unanimously rendered a verdict of " justifiable suicide." : He was insane, of course. ! : They had a lively Civil Bights row at Waveriy, Mo., the other day. A white man took a negro into a saloon, and de manded drinks for him The barkeeper protested. Man on the other side of the bar insisted. Barkeeper then chased the negro out of the saloon with a revolver. A second negro appears on the scene and protests. Barkeeper shoots second negro dead, and fires two ineffectual 1 i i i' A. . .. ' The following are the totals of the appropriation bills passed by the last Congress for the next fiscal year, taken from the official copies of the laws : Pmrtnffice $ 37,534,3(11 PrawKins 80,000,ono Sundry civil expenses .KWi Army 27,9:a,nno Itrialativs, cipcntit, and judicial ... 18,t,228 Bivcrs and harbors 6,6fi2,078 VJ 17,001,306 Indian ..J 5.074.554 ui M.y.xT.ia ............... l,Otl,9nO rfcrtincatitm 850,000 Military Academy...., 34,740 Total . for 187V76.. ..$172,294,7(56 w.s. O'Brien, of San Francisco, whose immense riches were so suddenly acquired in ' bonanza " speculations, is a. son of Wetmore O'Brien, a poor but respectable citizen of Minneapolis, Minn. He arrived at the mines with but fifteen cents in his pocket and worked as a laborer, taking mining stock in payment it wgt- ill ueu oi . iaiuih-j , v iiii.il lie could not get. His fortune is estimated at 8250,000,000. Young man, put fifteen cents in your pocket and gb "West. ;- : YorjjJG man, if you are looking for a wife, go to Marion county, Iowa. Ac cording to the . Burlington Hawkeye three rowdjis lately insulted a woman in Bella, in that county, and the old Pella can girded up her loins, picked up a dray-pin, and moved immediately on their works ; she . -scalped one,.' ; and knocked the stuffing out of the other, and hardly left a whole bone in the third. Young man, marry that woman and make her start a laundry you'll be taken care . ior use. i Gbbmasi does not propose to allow France to concentrate troops on her ''eastj rn frontier as an experiment. If France acmses herself with a show of troops, looking toward the Rhine, Germany jauII do likewise. - The time for mooter fajal of the stronartli of their armies fey France and Germany has not, however, arrived. The French are not ready for their re yenge. Their army is not prepared, but is in the confusion arising from a change of System. . Besides, France is not pre pared with allies. ' Outkb J onxsoN, one of the witnesses in the Beecher-Tilton case, is a singular Bort of a man. While holding the dis- ' tinctivn m'iiw Mt rfimMa1ia(fl fllA Unitarians and the Spiritualists, he has for several years been n"t"g'Tg editor of an orthodox paper, first &e Inde pendent and then the Christian XMion. In the latter Tie has been the virtual ""or, air. Ueecher being little more than figare-head. - Johnson has been prao "S gross hypocrisy, or else he regards Geological opinions with indifference.'' arranging the committees of the ew United States Senate, the Creen statesman seems to have been al entirely overlooked. . A. J. 'a name Bres only once in the entire list, be- mg sandwiched between two obscure Senators at the tail-end of an unimpor tant committee: This is probably owing to the failure of Andy to . turn, up at the Democratic caucus. His absence, it seems, was owing to sickness, but at the time it was reported and believed that he would hold himself severely aloof from all political gatherings haying- any semblance of a caucus.- - ! The St. Loui Globe thinks Tilton's dinner-table conversation must have com- I meneed with White-souled Elizabeth, j pour the libation of soup for the guests J of this our tent upon the fervid sands of oaiiy life," and continued thus : "Mr. Tilton, brandinliing a carver over his head in luminous circles, and plunging it into a boiled turkey. Ha ! lis ! with my good sword, Excalibar, I will unseam thee, from the nave to the chops, and fix thy bead upon our battle ments. Wilt thon (to first gueet) have meat dark as the curtains of Kodar, or white as the neck of the Northern swan ? (She says she will have some.) Dressing ? (She nods,) Thus over it I pour a foaming Niagara of egg sauce. Quoen of my soul, the goblet sip.' " Under tlie act of Consrreas offerinar 160 acres of land to any person who would plant forty acres of them to trees and cultivate them for eight years, about 1,100 persons had taken up 170,000 acres of land in Minnesota, up to January. This was an encouraging effort, consid ering the brief space of time elapsing after the amendment of the act. By the effort of the State and private and asso ciated effort, it is estimated that 20, 000,000 trees are now growing in Minne sota, beside those planted under the Congressional act. A report on the sub ject says that the cost of planting and of cultivation is marvelously small, in many cases not exceeding from two to five cents a tree. rOLITICS AND TOLITICIAXS. ScHrrrLER Couax lectures will have a financial value to him of 6,000 this sea son. A majority of the members of the In diana Senate are lawyers, and in the House there is a quorum of farmers. Mr. William Armstrong, of the Cleve land Plahxdcnler, is a candidate for the Clerkship of the next House of Repre sentatives, and is now in Washington looking after his chances for the nomina tion. Andy Johnson is accused of having bribed nine members of the Tennessee Legislature, and thus secured his elec tion as Senator. The matter is causing quite a sensation in Tennessee, and a committee of the Legislature is investi gating the charges. Horace Maynard, who has just been appointed ' Minister to Turkey, repre sented the State of Tennessee at large in the Forty-third Congress. He is a lawyer by profession, and began his career as a member of the Thu-ty-fifth jongress, oeing elected to eacii succeed ing one except the Thirty-eighth. Four out of the five Represents live of South Carolina in the Forty-hird Congress were colored men. ' Messrs. Raney and Ransier were born in the State, Cain in Virginia, and Elliott in Boston. Mr. Raney was re-elected to the Forty fourth Congress, and Mr. Smalls, also colored, succeeds Mr. Cain. Senator Booth, of California, has been tackled by the insatiate interviewer. He said that in the present condition of public affairs he shall enter no caucus. He was elected as an Independent, and shall so conduct himself. He admitted that there might be circumstances which would induce him to act with one of the parties, but he did not say which. A Washington dispatch says : " Tom Ochiltree, United States Marshal of Tex as, who was superseded last winter dur ing the spasm of removals in Federal offices, has returned to Texas to assume the duties of the Marshalship, his suc cessor having not been confirmed. This is the first case under the Tenure-of-Office act, a fact which has created some amusement in view of Andy Johnson's entrance into the Senate. j The Baltimore Gaztte (Democratic) says : "Mr. Tilden is, we are told, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the Presidency. Now we desire, as they say in Congress, to put in a word just here, for this is the assumption at which we revolt, our conviction being clear and the sooner our friends in New York understand it the better that, in view of the past as well as the almost certain future, no candidate will bo taken from New York. IcClellan was vir tually a New York candidate, his New Jersey home on the heights of Orange being but nominal; Gov. Seymour,a public man whose ill-hick in no degree detracts from his high merit and just distinction, was purely New York ; and the Greeley absurdity had the same root. After this series we really think the Democracy of the couutry ought to be excused from any New York preference A Washington correspondent records the following pleasant incident : The first official act of Mr, Ferry,, of Mich igan, the new President pro tern, ht the Senate, was -to administer the ath of office to the Hon. Newton Booth, the new Senator from California, and it was there that the gentlemen met for the first time. During the afternoon Sen ator Ferry, in a hasty note to Senator Booth, referred to this fact as a pleasant circumstanee.'Hhe introduction - of the latter Senator to the Senate being co incident with Senator" Ferry's election to the office of President pro tern. and, ex pressed the hope that the incident might prove a bond of continued friendship. Senator Booth, in acknowledgment of the compliment, wrote a pleasant note to Senator Ferry, in which he said j "I hope the coincidence will prove the com mencement of a pleasant and friendly acquaintance." ' ' " ' ' " The following1 preamble and resolu tion were introduced .in the Arkansas Legislature, on the last day of the ses sion, by Maxwell a colored Republican member of the House, and unanimously adopted; Whebeas, It is now fully ascertained that the present Htate government has been, and will be, by the general government, folly sustained; and, ' - j------?- " tm " -.. ---,--,' WHEKtA.s, It Is the duty of all peace-loving citizens to lend their aid to tbe lawful authori ties of this State, to build up the country, and to encourage indnntry, edncation and immigra tion, to the end that we may be an enlightened, protrrjeroas, free and happy people ; be it - -' Jlesolved, That we, individually and collect ively, do now publish to the people of the United Btates, that peace and quiet How prevail, and, to all who demre to come unonr us, that we will receive them with open hearts and warm welcome, promising them safetv to person and property, and freedom of speed. CHIT-CHAT FOEJJTTLE FOLKS. HVr:-c pooled,, . After the Ion and roerrv day " :'"!'ff I.jttJe cousin, tired of play Soft, let me whisper in her ear Th-re in better place to rest, nw-dar Come, let us go up-atair. She docn't waken. Now, eyes so briaht lnlrr a curtain, out of sight 'Jr'nl- Cannot I Ret a glimpse of you f Oivep, civep, cr-ep, ruouee, creep, Cauf.ouKly np the dimple ohoea Peek, peek-a-boo, boo! t."SiilnTM,e! then, Uttle Birl. 1 7,tl"kle your ear UU ray erl 1 his curl of your tangled hair HaW COU"t he '"'"P1: One; two, three , - - w, j xooims me - t oolinjf me, I declare ! Ellen Tmry Atden. Vrlncess WlnKcarrlbre. ; The Princess Wimgcarribee breakfasted on wild strawberries and cream, dined on cimls and whey, took dew instead of tea, and generally made a hearty supper of honey. She was dressed in silver gauze, which the gossamer spiders had woven for her; she lived in a hollow oat, siept on green moss, and yet she was not happy. " So one day she set out to seek her fortune. She met a little striped, yellow snail and said to him, " Little snail, I want to be happy." Then the little snail put out its little horns, and ran at her like a little bull. The Princess ran away looking over her shoulder, and blundered up against a robin. " How very stupid of you, you clumsy little girl, to tread on my toes like that,"" said tilt robin, standing on one leg and tucking up the other. "Oh, don't be angry, dear robin," said the. Princess Wingcarribee, "but teach me how to be happy." " Haven't you made me happy, dear goose?" answered the robin, and the Princess went on her way disconsolate. What are you crying fori" asked a little blue butterfly. "I want to be happy," Princess Wingcarribee replied. " Oh, is that all (" said the little but terfly. "Come with me and I will soon show you how." Away flew the butterfly, right and left, backward and forward, and Prin cess Wingcarribee ran altar it ; but when ' she had run for about a mile, it flew right away, and she saw it no more. " Yon tiresome, deceitful little thing." cried Princess Wingcarribee, and she burst out crying and shook her fist. "What is the good of doing that!" said a sleepy voice. The Princess turned, and saw a dor mouse that had crawled out of its bed and was stretching itself. " It's too cold to get up yet I sliall go to bed again," said the dormouse ; and he crawled back into his hole. " You lazy little wretch, I'll give you cold pig," cried Princess Wingcarribee, and she took some water up in the hol low of her hand, and poured it into the dormouse's hole. Then she went nn old woman's Cottage, and asked her to lend her a pair of bellows. " What do you want them for, my dear?" asked to old woman. . " I want to blow in upon a rude, lazy dormouse that crawled away and went to bed before I had time to tell it that I wanted to be happy," answered Princess Wingcarribee. . . . " Oh, very well, then, my dear," said the old woman,i pretending to be deaf, ' ' you shall have my tongs as soon as they are hot enough,' and she took up her pair of tongs, and put them into the fire. "Your bellows, I said," screamed Princess Wingcarribee. "Yes, I hear, my dear," answered the old woman with a nod. " You shall have them when they are hot enough." And so they went on until the tongs were red hot. Then the old woman took them out, and made a snap at Princess Wingcarribee's nose. " Oh dear, oh dear t" cried the Prin cess, as she ran away, " what a world this is ! I want a pair of bellows, and an old witch promises me a pair of tongs; and I want to be happy, and she tries to snap my nose off 2" " " Bow-wow !" said a little dog. " Ah, it's all very well for you to say bow-wow, but how would yon like it i" snarled the Princess. "Bow-wow," said the little dog again, and wagged his tail, and trotted off. - " You're a puppy," the Princess called after him; but the little dog didn't ruiud " Oh, I do so want to be happy," said the Princess to a bee that came buzzing by. " I bee, you bee," answered the and away he boomed. bee, " I.suppose you think that a joke, but it isn't grammar," cried the Prii-Kn Then a wasp came and stung her. "Aren't you happy now?" it buzzed. " You spiteful, wicked creature, how dare you ask such a questidn I" she an swered. " Well, you ought to be I've done my best that's all I've got to say," re plied the wasp, and off it went like the bee. Then a lark began to sing, and the Princess called up to it: " Oh, you dear, sweet lark, you must know how to make people happy what ought I to do V i " Come up to me," said the lark. " But I can't," the Princess answered. ! " Try," said the lark. So the Princess jumped and jumped, but she could not get n into the sky. . " Make haste," said the lark, I " It'3 no good," said the Princess. So the lark got tired of waiting for her, and went up quite out of sight. She sat down and began to cry again. A duck took pity on her and waddled up, and said, "Quack, quack," quite kindly. " Get-away, you nasty thing," said the peevish Princess. " I'm not a nasty thing, I'm a duck " the duck answered ; and the Princess could not deny it. .But she would not talk to the duck, bhe crawled into a rabbit-hole, and there she found Mrs. Babbitt nursing ever so many baby bunnies. j ; . . ; w ,. s " Oh, you must be happy,' ma'am," cried the Princess, taking up one of the warm little babies and raddling it. . " Yes, if their father doesn't eat them- he ' has a weakness that way," Mrs. Rab bit answered. : s . vj -,:-. "Eat them eat his babies oh, the brute I" shrieked the Princess. : " I've known him to do it and, after all,, to be honest, I must own - that chil dren are often plaguesome little thinjrs." Mrs. Rabbit drily. Then the Princess put down the baby and ran away1 She thought, if Mr. Rab bit sometimes ate his children, and Mrs. Rabbit talked in that way about it, that Mrs. Rabbit might, perhaps, eat Aerv She met a cat, and the cat said, "Mew, 'Thank you, pussy,' said ' the nttla Princess, who coujd not pronounce quite all her words properly, for trying to 'muse me ; but I want to be happy. ; " I'm a nappy one," said pussy, and she purred herself off to sleep. - "She doesn't know how to pronounce her h'g," said the little Princess. : Next she met a cart-wheel rolling down a hill all by itself . . " Such fun !" it said, as it went by. " I've run away from the little boy that was trundling me." "Oh, that? the way to be happy, is it?" cried the Princess, and she lay down and rolled But she didn't get much fun out of her rolling she only scratched and bruised herself. . -' "Ah, that's because I hadn't any one to tronble me," she said, when ' she got up at the bottom of the lull. As she went up the hill once more, she met the little boy who had been trun dling the wheel. " Ah, little boy," she said, "I've met your wheeL It has had such fun. It went right splash into the pond down there, 'and is swimmine about lookinr ss comfortable. Please trundle me. " The little boy was very angry at hav ing lost his wheel, and so behaved very rudely. ' " Trundle ye ! Ill trounce ye, you Soung hussy," he cried. He was a ttle coward, of course, or else- he wouldn't have talked about trouncing a little girl. "I'm not a little hussy I'm a little princess," Princess Wingcarribee indig nantly rejoined. j " You a princess ! with yonr clothes ! all in rags and your face all in scratches," nam me iittie ooy ; ana ne trotted down the hill, pantirg after his truant wheel. He stopped, when he had got a little way down, to shout back "You say you're a princess. Have you got a mother that is a queen, and if you have, does she know you're out?" " No, she doesn't," answered Princess Wingcarribee " if she did, and heard you talkimg like thai, she'd box your ears, you rude little boy !" i " Then go back to her, and make your self happy l" shouted the little boy. ! " Why, that sounds like sense," said the Princess to herself. And she went back to the hollow tree, i and got, as she deserved to get, a good scolding from the Queen, who was mak ing her runaway little girl's moss bed. I Teaching a Dos to Perform Tricks. We have taught our dog to go into the corner when commanded in the fol lowing way : By attracting her atten tion to a piece of meat held rather out of reach, and eraduallv enticing hoi- toward the corner, then talking to her all the time and instructing her how to stand, frequently repeating the word we wish her to particularly notice, viz: "corner." After standing a second or two we give her the meat, lengthening the time of standing between each lesson. Now, when we point to the place and say "corner," we find she walks in of her own accord, and of course is re warded after Another of her tricks is waltzing. This is done by holding a piece of meat high, and moving it in a circle, saying," waltz," and gently scold ing when she jumps. She stands up and walks, or rather runs, upon her hind legs, exactly as we move the meat Now she will do it without meat when we say waltz. Another trick is jump ing over, through and under the back of a cane-bottomed chair. Tlus we taught her by holding a piece of meat and standing some way behind the chair with her upon the seat; then, showing her by pointing what we required her to do, we said " over," and she of course jumps over for the meat; the same " through " the bar and " under." Of course she tried at first to do everything in the manner easiest to herself, but by practice she soon found it was nOj use. Another trick: we ar range the chairs in a semi-circle round the room, and make her run over them upon the seats; this was done by entic ing her from one chair to another. Now we allow some distance between each chair, and she runs round as quickly as possible, and stands up upon the last one, waiting for her tit-bit. A dog of ordinary sagacity can be taught almost i anything by kindness and perseverance; ! but if yon lose your temper, or are im- ' patient, they are ruined, becoming either stubborn or nervous. The great thing is to talk to dogs, and encourage them, ' and make companions of them. A Model Boy. 1 ,i i - . The boy ought to be is extracted from a work by Lady Barker, the ifiitwxiii! utrncrmuon oi wn&t n. lanthropist: "If I could make a model boy, IU tell you what he should belike. He should love cold water and hate a he. He should be frank and un suspicious, as becomes a noble, trusting nature, and yet he shoidd be neither silly nor soft. He should have plenty of manias. He should have an appetite like a wolf, for I should wish him to be tall and strong; but he must not be a bit greedy. He should not be ashamed of loving and reverencing all that is good and holy and pure, but with nothing of the mollycoddle about him. He should have a fine, sweet temper, yet he should be, as the Yankee song says, An okered man in a row, and he should know how to take care of liimself with his fists. " Indian Vengeance. Bob is a Shoshone Indian who1 for several years has worked at odd jobs for Jimmy Thomas, Reese River Valley. He is a steady boy good to work, yet a true Indian. Bob had two brothers, who, a short tune since, mysteriously to , the Indian mind, sickened and died. Tn some way these two Indians had been mixed up with a Shoshone squaw, and the report prevailed that she had bewitched Bob s brothers so that they had died. Bob came to town -2 the other day, and upon his return passed a Shoshone com vpodia. Moccasin, another Shoshone, met Bob and told him that the squaw was then in camp, and advised him to , , Bob dismounted from his horse, which Moccasin held, and, finding the squaw, beat her to death with stones, and then burned her body. The squaw had borne a bad character, having two half breed children, and it may be that this fact in some measure justified, ia the e ad, the killing, for to their credit, be it said, before the advent of the white man the Indians were chaste, punishing, even to death, all lapses from virtue. t Sheriff Emery, when these facte came to his knowledge, arrested Bob and confined him in the county jaiL But as the proof of the killing t"zTZ Indian testimony .which is not adimssible Trtl-rr iob yesterday set at liberty. The Indians generally think X ?fe 6 wronS -River Tah Case op Youb Evrs The way people abuse their eyes is amazing, lhey try them, strain themi and overtax them in all manner of ways. And when their eyes begin to weaken with ill usage andage, they are too proud to give them the aid of glasses which they crave. Furrowed; cheeks, sallow com plexions, and white hair can be hidden under enamel and rouge and dyes but there is no fashionable, nostrum that can cover up weakness of yes. Spec tacles proclaim the defect which they mitigate, and are looked upon by those whose minds are as weak as their eyes, !. .P'f. ifiraity ; and sooner than saddle their noses with them, they saddle their lives with semi-blindness. FARM ASD HOME. - Our Little Milk-Maid. Who's that coming in the nnowT onr little milk-maid ; don't you know From the valley Junt below. See her spray-like ringlets blow ; Mark her color come and go; Watch her catch the falling snow. What If I might shape her fate ! ' Would she have a grand estate, And a famed and lordly mate? Pearlie such a fortune ? Xof Little maids that come and go With their milk-pails, sun or snow, Need no gold or silken chains, Lordly halls or vast domains ; Such would heart-aches brins, and pains. A thrifty husband, rue as steel, Children In whose love to feel All her little sorrows heal Such for Pearlie wrmld I crave : A nappy home, an honored grave. Oive ourlittl. milk-maid brave. -Cincinnati Times. , " Minor Farm Topics. ! Manxjkes of all kinds, or highly con o unrated manures, should be kept in b demerits or under sheds till drawn to u itj lieia. . hkee bushels of good sand, mingled iuii mux a DtisUel of cement, makes an excellent mortar, which is not liable to uo uuuougeu Dy storms. ID 1 UUTwn J - - " . r, r , 18 recommended in an x-ngusn journal for waterproofing boots. Ane wrrwr adds: "Melt thoroughly i-ouiur, miu. navmg well warmed the boot, apply the paraffine with a brush or piece of flannel before a fire, to allow of the leather absorbing the liquid. I eJ?led the aboye and it answers ad mirably, resisting snow-water during a We have some big land-owners in America, but Abd-el-Kader-el-Kerim beats them. He is the richest land owner in the province of Constantine, and he also owns 2,500 horses, 17,000 mules, 120,000 oxen, and sheep. He is a great hunter. hounds numbering 250; beside these ne has 60 of a fancu l wkii, used in the chase of the gazelle. ' Thb London Omnibus Company have lately made a report which discloses some interesting information not only to farmers but to every owner of a horse. They have in use no less than 6,000 horses ; of this number 3,000 had for their feed bruised oats, 16 pounds ; cut hay, 7 J pounds ; straw, 2 pounds ; and the others, unbruised oats, 19 pounds, un cut hay, 13 pounds. The horses which were fed on the former, and consumed 26 pounds per day, could do the same work as well, and were kept in as good condition, as those receiving 32 pounds, thereby causing a saving of 6 pounds on each horse, amounting to 60 per day, or $22,300 per annum on the company's 6,000 horses. Wild castor-beans being suspected as a cause of the loss of several head of stock in South western Kansas, the Lsg islature is taking the matter in hand, with a view to protecting live stock against it. The committee appointed to investigate the subject referred it to Prof. W. K. Kedzie, chemist of the State Board of Agriculture, for an analysis of the bean. The result is, that it contains no other matters than those common to all castor beans, but that one of these matters is an acrid principle which acts as a powerful cathartic, and sometimes also as an equally powerful emetic, so , powerful as to be fatal. Prof. Kedzie had been collecting data upon this point from his students for some time pre viously, and was ready to give an intel ligent answer. Choice Receipts, etc. The method employed by professional workers in hair-cur ling is as follows : Wet the hair to be curled, wrap it smoothly around a cylindrical stick or tube of proper size, tie it in place ; then put it in water and boil it two or three hours ; remove it from the boiler, wrap it carefully in a newspaper, and bake it in a moderate oven for an hour. Thus treated, it will stay in curl permanently. Pickled Oysters. Select one quart of fine large oysters. Put them over the fire in a saucepan, and let them boil two minutes. Then remove the oyster with a fork into a deep dish. Take two teacupfuls of the liquid in the saucepan ; add to it one cupful of vinegar, a few blades of mace, a teaspoonful of tin ground black pepper ; the same quantity of allspice. Simmer together over the fire, and pour over the oysters. Serve them cold. A Laundry Secret. Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic powder, put it into a pitcher and pour on it a pint or more of water, and then, having covered it, let it stand all night. . In the morning, pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle and cork it, and keep it for use. A. tablespoonf ul . of gum water in a pint of starch made in the usual manner, will give to lawns, either white or printed, a look of newness, when noth ing else can restore them after they have been washed, A genuine erasive soap that will re move grease and stains from clothing is made as follows : Two pounds of good Castile soap ; half a pound of carbonate of potash, dissolved in half a pint of hot water. Cut the soap in thin slices boil the soap with the potash until it is thick cuuugu w moiu in cages ; add alcohol, half an ounce ; camphor, half an ounce ; hartshorn, half an ounce ; color with half an ounce of pulverized charcoal. As a rulc warm water and a soft cloth are all that is required to keep glass in good condition; but water bottles .and wine decanters, in order to keep Jhem bright, must be rinsed out with a little muriatic acid, which, is the best substance for removing the fur " which collects in them. The acid is far better than ashes. sand, or shot ; for the ashes and sand j in by accident, the lead is poisonous. Richly-cut glass must be cleansed and polished with a soft brush, upon which a very little fine chalk or whiting is put ; by this means the luster and brilliancy are preserved. . . ..." '. ; The Law of the Road. : . " : 1 The'' great leading rule is that no one has the right to be in the middle of the road,, except when no other person:' is present to claim his right to the '-use of one-half the highway, which ..claim : he has ''precisely the same right1 to assert when .traveling in .the same ? direction that he has ; when ; he meets another. This is the ! law of every State in the Union, and, so far as we are informed, of every civilized country ; and all persons violating it are liable for all damages resulting from their conduct. ; " .' ' When ; teams meet, the American law is that each turning to the right, shall give half the road. The custom and the law of England requires teams to turn out to the left as expressed in an told doggerel : - ' Tba rule of the road is a paradox quite t - . In riding or driving aloDg, If.you keep to the left yon are sure to go right. If yon keep to the nghi you go wrong. " In passing, the person in front is re quired to turn to the left, so as to allow the person in the rear, who is traveling at a moxe rapid pace, to pass by on his rierht. Where teams approach at ri?ht angles, 4 mwiuouwug roaus, it is the duty of mo ueraon who, Dy turning to til" right, would pass to the rear of the other team to pull up and allow the other to pass. In wide streets in towns' aud cities. these general principles should always be observed, though, from the necessities ui me cow, persons are less strict in keeping on the proper side of the, street, being frequently obliged, with proper mi uio iiguBj oi outers, to pass to the other side, tn obstruction. A parson with a light vehicle meeting or desirinfir to mua s hauTn'1i,Jan especially if the latter is going up a hill, will generally turn out without requiring the man with the loaded wagon to give half the road, hnffha Ion- . such obligation in any case, and under an ciiuumnuuiuBB requires each to give half the road, lmlean Kir uun'ont obstruction it is found impossible to do If a person hannena in ha place on the road or street, a person comincr in collision wif.ii Um ; titled to damages if, by the use of ordina- jr mm iramuuuoie oiugence, ne could have avoided it. Line Stock Journal. ; The Manifold Writing Process. Bv the followino- Hanlen. it is aauI that. aWi-nt. inn 200, copies of manuscript may be taken u iitui uw;a. ill F'T1 l'M I'Mfl1 HI lb IS similar to that of oiled rumor Hiitnvof.l with a pigment, except .that in this case the colored paper is placed beneath, with the colored side uppermost, and urjon it. inHfcvul nf unHti Tier nanAV a cVtAa4 of firm, thin. Very dry old paper is laid uutb win lane up me color wimout-ao-sorbing it. There may be a pile of five, or even ten. such Livers, of nlfonrafo colored and oiled paper, and when it is written upon with a pencil or stylus, a copy in reverse will be formed on the lower side of each leaf of oiled paper. From each : of than arm-nt frwontv -im pressions can be taken, by placing writ lncr Vkaoer in ewmtsinh urifli Aali -rt subjecting the whole to the pressure of a rolling machine, then removing the impressions, renewing the writing paper, Anil RllbioifirfV fltO wnnla anmanl,n( wuw " w OUUlDlfUiW greater pressure than at first repeating toio ujkiuuou wiiii. increased pressure for each impression up to the twentieth. Had Seen Kings Enough. A Grentleman at Wnflhincrtnn vm ra auested bv a friend ts to the depot to witness the arrival of the xvong 01 me isanawicnes. " No, sir, not much," growled the gentleman. Have vou ever seen a tine in winr travels?" inquired the friend, marveling somewhat at his short answer. "Yes. SIT. retllied the o-entleman T was once guilty of seeing three kings." Then, after a moment's pause, went on to Sav : "And fcha-vnoaf. were war times, however." - , Jtua friend suggested he must have been in bad company. - . " Well. I don't know " uaiA flia man. tleman, "I thought I was in pretty good company at the time. I called to see mose Jungs in company with three Queens, another kinc a.nA nn tma-tmn and have never had any desire to see one 1.1 , -i mo ruyai lamiiy since. His friend saw . th nnint. aai.1 no passed, and shuffled on. A Dg Which Helped. A truckman in Tamaqua, Penn. : has a cur, which, to all appearances, is just as worthless as any other "yaller dog." His conduct the other proved him not only more intelligent but more industrious than many individuals of the human species. Eveiybody was engaged in cutting ice from the sidewalks and gutters, and Mr. Bog took his station by the gutter and worked perseveringly in removing the floating chunks as they came down, picking them np in his teeth, carrying them to one side, nd depositing them in the street, thus help ing to prevent the gutter from becoming choked up. The dog never was trained to do this work, but undertook it entirely upon his own responsibility. There are said to be no fish in that gutter. ; Cube fob Hvdkophobia. The recipe is thafpf M. Cassar, a French physician : Take two tablespoonf uls of fresh chloride of lime, mix it with half pint of water, and with this wash keep the wound con stantly bathed and frequently, renewed. The chlorine gas possesses the power of decomposing this tremendous poison, and renders mild and harmless that venom against whose resistless attack the artillery of medical science has been so long directed in vain. It is necessary to add that this wash should be applied as soon as possible after the infliction of the bite. The following are the results of this treatment : From 1810 to 1824, the number of persons admitted into Breslau Hospital was 184, of whom only two died ; from 1783 to 1824 there were ad mitted into the hospital at Zurich 223 persons, bitten by different animals (182 by dogs), of whom only four died. The Law or Suppeby SroEWAuts. In McLaughlin vs. City of Corry, 7 Leg. Gazette, 13, the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania heid that a- municipal corpor ation is responsible for injuries to a foot passenger caused by a dangerous accu mulation of ice and snow on the side walk. The principle laid down is this : "A municipality cannot prevent the general shpperiness of its streets caused by the snow and ice during the winter ; but it can prevent such accumulations thereof, in the shape of ridges and hills, as render the passage dangerous." This point is sustained by Collins vs. Council . Blufls, 32 Iowa, 324; City of Luther vs. Worcester, 97' Mass., 2C9. Albany Law Journal, ' Oat Meal. It is probably safe to say that if our farmers used more eat meal in their food there would be an increase of health: strength' and mental vigor. As a food it sits lightly on the stomach, is exceedingly digestible, seldom sours on the' stomach,' and ' is, therefore,' one of the most excellent articles of food that can be ,given to growing children. Eaten as porridge with milk, it forms a substantial and highly nutritious diet, both for Old and young. To persons who do brain work it is especially val uable, and in our cities those restaurants who serve oat-meal 'porridge are sure to be found out and patrpnized by that class of citizens who take their lunch down-town. Independent. ' , ; Long and Short Days. At Hamburg, the longest day has 17 hours, and the shortest 7 ; Stockholm, 18$ hours, and 5 ; St. Petersburg, 19, and 5 ; at Fin land 21i, and fit. At Wandorbns, in Norway, the day lasts from the 31st of May to the 2d of July, the sun not get ting below the horizon for the whole time, but skimming along very close to it in the north. At Snitzbergen the longest day lasts three months and a Persons and Thingrs. Eight thousand four hundred gas jets in the hew Paris Opcra-Houfle.wV; Of 26,840 Welshmen who live in Liv-, erpool 23,318 are church-goers, f j ; , f A tattle boy in Albany bit his tongue while rocking in a chair, and bled to death. ' ; ; 1 ' Mrs. Bobbins, of Conway, N. HV, haf added four young robins to her nest in ' 11 months. i . .:.l,si ! M ':':' ?: T - A nnimnriTr Tuwtlaala. - . furnish the world with his ought-to-bny- A MrjTNTRfVrA Tnnn TnaVpa t!ia winfor seem short by giving his note payable in. the spring. .:-,U TrtB "rTinir rif ttnrmali ' ia m-tinr i-rt .1. a newsrjftner in hn TmhliaKal in T)imnm and English. . , ' ;, . .. , .. :. Tun nnnilum 1 1 t. Australia was 55.40O.0O0.V Tt ha ,lnnhll in twelve years. ' In the Oardner ffo, TVTotl,.?;af r . V .vuivu nMM ierence there are Hirtmn rtAnmna hahmm the ages of 90 and 100. The total strenfrf.n nf llu 1( forces of Great Britain was at the end: of last year 236,683 men. ' In Minnesota wood in 'nnlv o nnwi but then it takes a cord of wood to warm one side of a man up there. ' .; bigamist has gone crazy for fear of being i prosecuted for his duplicity. I VHESr Urn tlmrmnmnW m.a.J is - ...v.,. iuxtt.cix m degrees below zero in Sioux Falls, Iowa, " the people were afraid to go to bed. The foremen of f Vin ininrn eries are paid $10,000 per annum, which is more than a Circuit Judge gets. These hard times are enoucrh to maka a man hang himself. C. Aultman, of vAuibou, omy maae 130,UU0 last year. The pallium of an Archbishop ia made from the wool of a male lamb, which is usually killed for the purpose. ; A DBTroGisT in Lewiston, Me. , declares that over a ton of snuff is annually con sumed in that town in dipping, chiefly , by. women. Sm WmuAK Vernon Habcotjkt ia said to be retained as the counsel of the claimant, Orton-Tichborne, in a motion ' for a writ of error. In the next House of Representatives there will be eighty-six ex-rebel officers and j soldiers, and twenty-three Union. omcers and soldiers, , , , It is estimated mat Chicago will han- " die a hundred million bushels of grain this : year. Last year the quantity was nearly ninety-six millions. The Centennial buildings in Philadel phia will cover twenty acres, and fc ' lessen the fatigue of a thorough visit, an, elevated railway is projected. Mb. At.bxandeb Xbbmtts, of Dunn's Lake, Fla., has found skeletons of a by- ' gone race in the mounds on his planta tion, nine feet long, and traces of goldL. also. ' ' ' m - -lx England, recently, a tin of beef, which had been prepared for the soldiers in the Crimea in 1856, was recently , opened, and its contents found perfectry sound and wholesome. . . A Kentucky young lady, who prom ised her grandfather never to marry a certain young man on the face of tha earth, went through the interesting cere mony in the Mammoth Cave. The present city horse-car companies in New York, during the year 1874, car- , ried 140,500,000 passengers, or a number more - than three times larger than this population of the United States. Dotjbijs eagles to the amount of "' $860,000 were turned out in a single, day recently at the San Francisco Mint the largest day's work ever performed ' by any mint in the United States. A Jackson (Term.) man has built a house seven feet high and ten feet tryy twenty feet area, upon a wagon. It has two rooms and . four windows, and ao-. ", commodates his wife and three children, The Good Templars of a town in Cali f ornia have leased a column in the local 's paper for the promulgation of the tem perance doctrines, and hope by this in- .? genious device to make many oonverta, ? Some of the extensive prehistoric ruins in Southwestern Colorado, discovered by the Hayden expedition last fall, are of such hliputian . dimensions that they ' must have been inhabited by mere hu man wrens and swallows. Lenten dinners are becoming fashion able, the aim being, to give as great va- riety as possible in the kinds and cook ery of fish. A printed bill of fare on. one of these occasions mentioned fifteen different fish served in a multiplicity of : ways. ! A train on the Albany and Susque hanna railroad was lately thrown from the track, near Binghamton, by a broken raiL The palace car was thrown thirty feet and smashed, but fortunately : the passengers escaped without serious ' injury. Thbbb thousand bird nests have been . distributed at various points in the p"-Vi of Paris. They are made for the spar . row, titmouse, cuckoo, blackbird, mag pie and others and in the forms re-, spectively as the birds make them foe themselves. . y Fbom the Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners' report for 1374 it is. shown that the total receipts of -floor : have fallen off at Boston the' past year -slightly com over 40O.000 bushels, and oats nearly 350,000 bushels, whila wheat is not given.:; ?.-,,. " m ' 1 n - ' ' -, r, ,,..,.-'. j I The face of no living person is per mitted to be engraved for use on United States currency, which is a wise thing, the same as it is, wise never to name a ' child or a town after: a living person. " How a man will turn out ia "one of thoaa thmgs no person can telhv , i Gordon and Wagner, who were to have been hung at Thomaston, Me., last Friday, were reprieved for one : month pending the settlement of the eonatita-' tionality of the law authorizing the Gov-" ernor to fix the date oi execution, whiohr it is claimed, is a judicial act. . ' - s. ... 'r K' y v'i"; CBorrp, writes a correspondent, can be cured in one minute, and the remedw -is simply alum and sugar. The way to accompEsh the deed is to take a knife or ' grater and shave oft in small particles about a teaspoonful of ,alum ; then mix, it with twice its quantity of sm?ar to make it palatable; and administer it as quickly as possible, . . , , Os Wednesday night of last week a man was caught in the act of fastening a cross-tie on the trestle-work over Ilicka pola Bottom, on the Mississippi and Ten nessee railroad. He confessed that ha had recently thrown a train from the. track near thensame plaoe, and said he. expected the train to be dashed to pieoes this time, his intention being ta r5 thai passengers.