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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1877)
" TTBLISnKD EVEBT FBIDAY, BY COLL. VANCLEVK, l N THjE REGISTER BUILDING, Corner Ferry ami First S!rett. TERMS IN APVAXC'K. Ow 0O1TV. c r. ; One copy, fix months. 1 J loclulntof twenty, each i-opy r2 00 Single copies........... .-- T. n wins Snlwcrilxo-H outside of l.mn comity will be ffruvrsred ill rent cvira fJ T for the year ms that is the amount of instUKC per annum which we are reiiiiired to iy on each paixjr mailed by us. Agents for the Kcsrlst-cr. The following named rent'cinen sire author ize! tol twelve n ml receipt tor subscriptions to the KEOIsTKR In the locjiituca memionei r .. . . nrownsvisl. . t" raw t o rd v i 1 le. ll:tlsey, ....II;irrisbnrs I.,eb:mm. Siw.M. ,. .Junction 'ity. Seio. Salon. Mesnrs-iKirk & Hume Robert lilass W. P. Smith O. P. Tompkins M. H. Olanirhton A. Wheeler S(o Messrs: Smith A Urnstleld. . . J. 11. Irvine Thos. H. lleynolds But after all why should we prick bine pa;nt into our surfaces when we can Jye ourselves permanently blue by simpiy swallowing excessive doses oi nitrate of silver ? The process is per fectly painless, anil it has the advantage of coloring notonly the cuticle but the ent ire tissue of the botly, as any one can readily ascertain by first dyeing himself deep blue and then sinking experimental shafts in different parts ot his person. The truth is, the white man is a mis take, lie should have lwen born blue, and since lie now knows that to be blue is to bo healthy and piobably wealthy and wise and that nitrate of silver will turn him quickly and permanently blue, he should throw away his blue glass and his blue clothing, and swallow the largest doses of nitrate of silver that his physician can be induced to prescribe. Ar. i 21tnt'.s. The I5i Horn CiolU FlelOs. I'Aitl!)Y t Hi:: 1'OI.IIHAI. (5-l'EST. FRIDAY APRIL, G, 1877. Paddy and Dimmy were playing a game of marbles in earnest. You see The Big Horn mountain country has long offered a gigantic field for mental speculation, and its history is not un connected with gray old tiadition. It has been regarded as the very soul and centre of the Indian country, and has presented dangers to the hardy pioneer that have long held in check the ardor of his curiosity to explore the forbidden mvsteries of its serried peaks and ridges and rocky canons, tome of the adven turous scouts and gold seekers, eluding the vigilance of the Indians, have pass ed through the country, but they have been compelled to travel like fugitives, in the night time, and consequently re ceived but littlo idea ot the true charac ter ot the country. Many a ghastly, grinning skeleton, bleaching in the lone ly defiles of those mountains, attests the implacable hatred with which the sav in HUE Neither Dr. Ponza nor Gen. TMeason ton was the first person who made use of the alleged medicinal properties ot the color bine. Dr. Ponza discovered . that b,lne glass exercised a most bene ficial influence upon insane patients, and thereupon Geu Pleasonton tried it, and was so delighted with its effect that he published a pamphlet upon the subject Both of these distinguished men wore, however, anticipated by the traditional monkey, who painted the tip of his tail j sky blue and complacently remarked ; that the effect was "neat but not gaudy." He, doubtless, did not fully understand tho hygienic properties ot blue, but of him it may certainly be said that le painted better than he knew. Bey one a doubt his blue tail outgrew the un cultivated tails of his fellow monkeys, and thus illustrated the value of blue, centuries before Ponza or Pleasonton en tertained the least idea of being bor;i. It is a narrow conception of the use fulness ot blue which requires us to use it in the shape of blue glass. It blue glass is good, so is blue paint, blue cloth, and blue curtains. This truth has already been dimly perceived by one or two of Gen. Pleasonton's disciples, but it was left for a returned missionary to prove that blue in any form always re tains its wonderful tonic properties. The missionary in question spout a large part of his life in New- Zealand,- where he moved in the best heathen circles, and enjoyed the friendship of the most ' eminent cannibals. The New Zealand- er is addicted to tattooing himself in a great variety of patterns and colors, and the mssionary soon noticed that those who were tattooed bine were much more stalwart 'than red, green or yellow heathen. He found,- moreover, that a heathen who tattooed himself blue above the waist and yellow below, would soon develop great breadth of chest and power of lungs, while his yel low legs would shrink and dwindle into comparative insignificance. The mean ing of these could not be misapprehend ed, and the missionary forced to believe that the effect of blue pigment, intro duced under the human cuticle, is in the highest degree beneficial. It would not be difficult to show that blue clothing has alsa a stimulating et- iect upon the wearer. Daniel Webster always wore a blue coat, and it is need less to Temark that he was simply full ot intellect. Andrew Johnson was also addicted to blue coats, whence doubtless be derived that wonderful strength of mind that irrevereut persons mistook for obstinacy. The blue uniformed Federal soldiers overpowered the gray legions of . the South, and the blue-coated French troops which had nniformly beaten the white coated Austrians, were neverthe less defeated by Germans dressed in uni forms ot a still darker shade of blue. It should be noted, however, that blue clothing, while its influence upon the brain can not be doubted, has littlo or no effect upon the body. It stimulates the intellect, developes courage and oth er moral qualities, but it does not affect growth and development of the physical Ira me. Thus, the wearing of the blue stockings undoubtedly stimulates the in tellectual powers of New England ladies who write poetry and advocate the im mediate reformation of everything, but there is no reason to suppose that it de velops that is to say, that it improves the proportions In short, it does noth ing of the kind. AU the evidence goes to show that blue stockings benefit the mind and not the muscles, and in this respect blue clothing ot any sort is much inferior to glass or tattooing. We need not, then, waste our time by dressing in blue or by sitting under blue glass. Tattooing is what we really need. A blue band two inches wide, . pricked upon the forehead would doubt .. less prove a sovereign prophylactic against headaches, while those who have the courage to have their heads shaved and their scalps tattooed with Antwerp blue will develop brain power at a rate which will astonish their warmest ad mirers. If Talmage were to baye both his legs tattooed blue, his eloquence would become so vigorous that nothing but a cast-iron pulpit could withstand it; and if Don iatt were to employ some skillful anatomist, to ascertain the probable locality of his brain, and to tattoo it with care and thoroughness, he ; might develop sufficient intellect to dis cover whether he is more o" a fool than - a knave, and thus relieve bis present distressing uncertainty. Instead of pain fully undergoing gymnastic tortures, young men covetous ot muscle nWl only tattoo their arms and chest in order to rival a Yale oarsman in physical ' Krengin, ana coma maintain their di , . restive powers unimpaired amonn- ail I "tie horrors of the boarding house table by simply tattooing a broad blue belt i around the lower vest pocket region. at the start that neither of them was a i age owners of the laud regard the pres vcry good boy. lint they were the ! ence of the pale-faced explorers, and the Die school, and one or I dangers the pioneers ot civilization must illllll.lvir llln wiv , V, I liiv iui ijiuuvil limit. But ail who have passed through They settled which it should be once j the mountains agree upon one point every four weeks by a game of marbles, j the country presents every indication of The winner was allowed to sit in a par- being rich in its Ftore of precious metals, tieular seat and to tell tho other boys j Indian traditions received from mission whoro they should sit. Tho e whom ' ary lips, have located prodigious mines biggest boys , 1 , . . . K . ... . , (' T 1 T - 1 .1 . right ot ruling over the other boys, j lie liked he placed near the windows. whore they they could enjoy themselves looking out. But when Dimmy was the head boy he made all liaddy's friends fag for him, and of course Bad dy bulldozed Dimmy's supporters when luck was on his side. It happened that liaddy had been unusually lucky. Four times in suc-ces-ion he . had won the game, and for sixteen long weeks Dimmy and his friends had been deprived ot even a peep out of the window . in school hours. This time Dimmy was bound to win a game. "I bet you've been cheatin'," he sr.id. 'Beform is necessary." ot gold in those comparatively unknown mountain fastness. 1 he lather DeSmet story, not having been realized in the Black Hills, the thorough exploration j ot the l)ig Horn country must prove it a tact or forever dissipate it as an idle j Indian dream. The mystery which has so long ' shrouded the Big Horn country must ! soon be penetrated. Since the ratifica ! tiou ot the recent Fioux treaty, which j opens up this part of Wyoming Territo j ry for the use of civilization, the Big j Horn country will be thoroughly ex i plored. There are too many thousand i men tinea witn me restless energy, i "i i . - - . , , . , II !.t .t .11x o ne picked Kauilv s pocket ot ins . meir uioou neaieu wun uie goto, iever, marbl;-bag, and ran awav behind a tree ! to let the country remain any longer in to chip all the marble-, especially a fine j its unknown state. No danger that chmee alley, so that they shouldn't roll the red man can lay m the path ot the true, liaihiy pretended not to know ; what was going on, but he did know i all the time. ! W hen the game liegan 1 lie whole school j gathered to see the contest. As soon a it was over each jumjied tip, crying, 1 'i've won," and each immediately an- j swered the other, "You bavn't." j "Von shoved when you aimed at j that black marble," said Dimmy. i "I didn't, besides, you snatched it ! away. I should have hit it it you ; hadn't, -iiy marble went right over that spot," answered liaddy. "That don't make any difference, you didn't bit it." "It does make a difference pioneer will deter these men ana pre vent them from following the sunny valleys and scaling tho rugced eaks ot those hazy hills. OnKiJia Herald. Twenty-two Years ii Prison. Here is a little story says the Hart ford Courant: Twenty-two years ago a young man in New Haven was eu gaged to inarry a young woman there. r or some reason sue transierreu ner promise to marry, it not her affections, to another person. The first suitor, who was a respectable mechanic, disap proved ot the match, and declared that his rival was a disreputable person, who would lead his affianced a wrelced life, and that while he could surrender her himself, he would rather she should die than marry that man. Accordingly, and as he said, solely to save her from the awful fate ot such a degrading mar riase. he killed the cirl. He did not attempt to conceal his deed; he justified it, and regarded himself as the savior of the giri's happiness. lie was tried for murder and acquitted on tfie ground ot insanity, -although he stoutly denied that he was insane, and said that he had acted upon his cool conviction of what was good for tho girl, and was ready to suffer tie penalty ot the law for the homicide. Acquitted, he was remand ed to the county jail by the court; he remained there seven or eight years, all the time protesting that ho was in his right mind, and that the State should either hang him for murder or release him. He was then transferred to the State Prison at Wethertield, by what authority it does not appear, under no sentence. There he has remained until this day in the same state ot mind, ap parently rational on all subjects, except that he insists that he .had a right to kill the girl to save her from dishonor; and that if the State thought otherwise it should have punished him as a mur derer. This is the story of Willard Clarke, who has petitioned the Assem bly to remove him from the State Pris on to the insane asylum at Middletown. If he is insane that is where he belongs. If he is sane he has a righi to his liberty, having been once acquitted on trial for his lite. So far as it appears he has now been in jail nearly a quarter ot a century without authority ot law ; for if there is anywhere existing a legal com mitment ot Clarke as a lunatic, the State Prison is not a legal place for the confinement of lunatics who have not been convicted of crime. It is quite time that the Assembly relieve the State ot the disgrace of such slip-shod proceedings. Hasty ?Ieal-. Americans are proverbial for hasty eating. The student swallows his food unmasticated, and hastens back to his books. The merchant bolts his meals to save time for business. The glutton eats as fast as ever he can to keeD pace with his neighbors and get his full share. It is not enough to fill the stomach with food. Digestion begins in the mouth ; and unless the mouth does its share ot the work the stomach is required to do a double portion. When the food is sent down into the stomach in lumps, the abu;ed organ does its best to digest it, but fails because it has no means for grinding food. The mill is in the mouth, and mastication, if done at all, must be done there. The gastric juice can not act upon solid food and allows it to go undigested, fermentation en sues, and dyspepsia, dysentery, cholera morbus, and a dozen other diseases re sult. Fight ounces of food, well masticate!, will afford more nourishment to the body than a pound hastily bolted. One of the best ways to avoid eating fast is to eat hard, dry, food, which requires much mastication before it can be swal lowed. Drinking freely ot water or other beverages at meals encourages hasty eating, besides being a serious evil of itself. If the beverage is either hot or cold, the evil is still worse; hence tea and coffee and iced water are justly condemned as accompaniments of meals. the same as if I'd hit it. It's mine. I . That Sri fkkd Cat. The other day when a Detroit boy of fourteen bought a st n lied cat at auction the crowd de rided him and had a great deal of tun at his expense. They didn't know that boy had a heap of genius and a moun tain of bright ideas, and he didn't tell them. Yesterday morning the lad opened out in a vacant lot on Cass ave nue, having the help of several other sreniuses. A clothes line was stretched Its ust j trom a eg driven at the sidewalk to a An Interesting Item. fence fifty or sixty feet away, and not over a foot trom the ground. By means of straps around the body and two iron rings, with a'stou fish-line to pull on, the cat could lie drawn alonz the rope like a flash and hauled through a hole in the lence. When things were in working order the stuffed feline was Besides, j placed at the slake, the boys got behind the fence, and the number of dogs that tried to give that cat a cold shaking up was almost lxyond count. They strain ed every nerve to catch her as she was drawn along the rope, and as they tol lowed her through the fence, believing they had aTTead sure thing, two boys on either side of the hole let tall four stout clubs with militarj precision. Each dog seemed to realize the whole joke in a minute, and the way he started for home nearly killed the jokers. Detroit J ree V -f. em, I've shall keep it." "You shan't." "You did just tho same with that yellow marble and that red one." "I didn't. They're mine." "Jhey am t either. I've got and I shall keep 'em." "We'll see about that, what about that white alley." "Nothing." "I guess you'll find something. got that and I shall keep it." "I'll bet yon won't. It's no better than stealing." "Who'll stop me?" "I will." "I can lick you," shouted Dimmy. 'You can't and wont," answered Baddy. "You darsen't fight." "I darst to, but I won't." "Why not?" "Because I can keep my place with out fighting." "You can't. I'll lick you." "Oh, no." "Tell ye what," said Dimmy sudden ly cooling down, "let's leave it to Un cle Sam." "Leave what to him ?" "Well, to say whether those three ! wore a natent tin-un hat on t.hn south. marbles and that alley ought to be 1 oast corner of her head, and her hair Coi i.dn't Stoop to Conquer. -Yesterday a young woman was prome nading up Krie street. There wasn't much that was remarkable about her and she was homely. But she was "so stylish." She was laced and tied back lid she looked like a hoe-handle, and she took steps tour inches long. She The Derrkft, which is published in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, is re sponsible for this yarn : Yesterday afternoon an old oilman with crude petroleum dripping from his clothes and his legs enclosed in tight boots entered the Derrick office and asked : " Want an item ?" "We remarked that we were on the lookout for such articles, and he pro ceeded : "Wa-al, I tho't so, and I've got the dumbest item you ever hearn' tell on. 1 struck an ile well on my lease on Mon day, an' she flowed a stream of ile 100 feet high, straight up for half an hour. Then she kinder died down, and ceased working. One of my drillers was stand ing over the hole when she suddenly spurted agin, and blast my eyes if it didn't take that driller right up with it. The stream was a powerful one, you 6ee, and he went up 100 feet. Y'ou've seen those little balls as dance about on top of those little spurting fountains, such as they have in the The Shock liiat Killed n Wife. Bishop William Smoot has long been looked upon as a liberal Mormon, be cause he has kept himself free from the polygamous abomination, and has also condemned Brigham Young's systemat ic robbing of the poor people. His wife was a very superior woman, and they had lived happily together, raising a large family ot children. Bishop Smoot has often been heard to say that polyg amy was an invention of the evil one, ami his wife had often said that its in troduction into her house would kill her, but still she .did not dream that such an event was even a possibility. About two months ago, however, with out her knowledge, .vmoot took a con cubine and brought her Into the house with his wile, who was in delicate health at the time. The terrible shock virtually killed her. She gave birth to her fourteenth child, failed rapidly, and went to join the throng of broken hearted women in the graveyard on tho beach. cities. yours or mine." "All right ; they're mine, and he'll say so. He was looking on all the time. But I'll leave it to him. So the two boys shook hands and made up, and said that whatever Uncle Sam said should be right. They promised to do just as he said. When he bad heard what they had to say he gave liis decision. "The black marble is Baddy's." "No 'tisn't," interrupted Dimmy. "How do yon know ? You didn't look at the tracks in the mud." "Well, did I say I'd get down oh my knees in the mud and look at the tracks ? Not by a long chalk. You didn't either of you say anything about my doing it. The black marble, as I said, is Baddy's ; so is the red one." "'Tain't either," again broke in Dim my. "You've lieen on his side all the time. I was a fool to leave it to you. Besides I didn't and wouldn't it I'd 'posed you'd have said them marbles was his. He shau't have 'em. But I'll just wait and see what you say about the white alley. "I say it rightly belongs to Bad " "I won't hear. Yah ! yah ! yah !" and Dimmv made that sound familiar to boys which effectually drowns all other sounds. Then he burst into a wail and aery. "Boo boo! It's too bad ! It's all a lie ! He didn't win the erarae. I won't hear a word you say. I don't care so much for myselt, but, Uncle Sam, I'm disappointed in vnn ! I thought vou was a good man and you ain't. Tell ye what, Bad, don't le's have anything more to do with this old duffer of a Sam. s be- gin all over again play another game Tt. wppfc. You don't wau't to take the lead again on old Sam's word. ; Or if you don't want to spoil the knees of your trousers again, le's pull straws to see who shall have it. j The bell ranz about this time, and Had coolly walked into the school-room and took bis old seat without listening to Diramy's proposition. J2oston A.d- verttver. descended into her eves with "idigtical ly studied confusion." Near prostiect street she dropped a little red bow with a gold pin attached to it and it flutter ed to the edge ot the sidewalk. She stopped and looked at it. It might as well have fluttered to the edge of the universe and dropped over for anything that she could do to get it. She walk ed around it two or three times, gazed sadly at it and then walked back to Bolivar steeet, got a small boy and paid him ten cents to come back and pick up the bbw. As the boy rejoined his companion he remarked: "Darned if I ever seen a woman so proud. She wouldn't even pick up her own things from the sidewalk." But it wasn't pride. Charleston Herald. Plucky American- Colonists. Mr. Moore, of the American Colony of San Xavier, has again given the Indi ans a touch of the "grit" in his charac ter. The savages stole fifty cows from his eon ; he immediately assembled elev en men and a recently rescued captive as a guide. They rode seventy leagues into the heart of the Chaco before com ing up with the marauders. A fight ensued and - the cos were retaken. The Cacique fled, urging a French; boy, a captive, with his lance to keep up with him, a bullet fired with marvelous aim by one of the colonists rolled the savage dead from his horse, and the boy was free. Suddenly eighty Indians of another tribe fell on the little band, wnieu met tue auacic m two aivisions. Fourteen Indians were sent to the hap py hunting grounds in five minutes. The rest fled, and the heroic little party returned to San Xavier. Utienoa Ayres Standard. Freemasonry is growing rapidly in England. The Grand Lodge was estab lished in 1717, and there are now 1,C00 lodges and nearly 500,000 members m England and Wales. In Scotland and Ireland there, are- over one thousand lodges. l es ; wa'al. that's the way this 'ere thing acted, and there's that air driller right up on top of that hundred fut column of crude ile, and he's dancing around like chaff" m a fanning mill. What do you think of that 'un ?" The fellow told it soberly, as if ho was passing the contribution-box, and we didn't feel'like telling him it was a whopper, but we asked : "How long has he been up there?" "About four days and four nights." "He must be very hungry by this time. Doesn't he come down to get something to eat?" ' "Why, we'uns just put a plate of bash in this 'ere stream of ile, and it takes it up to him, you see. An' it's mighty handy, as he finds his victuals already greased, and he doesn't need any butter." "But he must have frozen to death before this time. Don't you see it doesn't look reasonable that he could stand the cold weather so long.3' "Why, man, we've 6ont him upon this same stream, bed and bedding, a small stove and wood, an' we're going to build him a small house, an' then he can live up there as comfortable as a nrince." 1 - i- -i 11 is tace was as innocent, oi uecen as a piece ot tanned leather, and when he asked to have his name put down as a dead-head ubscriber for the information he had given, we didn't have the heart to hurt his feelingsly refusing. A Tramp's Lovk for Lahor. The aversion ot the lordly tramp to any form ot manual labor receives fresh proof al most daily. An ordinary able-bodied tramp will work harder, sutler greater privations and expend more brain force in an effort to beat somebody out ot a nickel, than would be required of him to earn an honest living for a week. At Logan, Ohio, a few days since, a number of tramps were arrested and placed in the lock-up, preparatory to being put to work on the roads, according to a pleas ant custom in vogue among the miners. The haughty instincts of the tramps re belled at the prospect ot shoveling. It was tor them a moment ot awful trial, but ingenuity, born ot desperation, tri umphed. In their lonely prison cells the tramps carefully removed what clothing they had and stuffed it in the roaring stove, and when the cruel task masters came to marshal them forth with pick and shovel, it needed no ar guments to convince them that the pris oners weie in no tit condition to face the winds ot winter. Our correspondent does not relate whether these waggish vagrants are to be supplied with cloth ing at the expense ot the citizens, or kept on indefinitely in their present state around the warm stove in the lock-np. It will cccur at once, though, to all in telligent persons, that they have by this happy discovery virtually abolished in voluntary servitude iu cold climates, and for this they will no doubt receive the honest gratitude of their kind. Cincin nati Gazette, i There does seem to be something mighty cureous about this blue glass. A German woman in Sacramento keeps an asylum for stray cats. Stray ducats, probably. The people have been 60 absorbed in politics that the usual number of hun ters' lies have not been told nor pub lished this winter. Tne Boston people are raving over Phoebe Couzzin's eyebrows. The most extravagant expressions are two Phoabel to express their admiration. What is the difference between proxy line and a truant school boy caught rabbit hunting ? One is gun cotton and the other is caught gunnnr. Picking pockets at funerals is a fash ionable Eastern amusement. The President of the Swiss Republic gets a salary of 1,800 per year, and thinks it is too much. Madri-Uras seems to make a man dry. One Memphis saloon-keeper sold eight hundred kegs ot lager during the festivities. Orders have been issued on the New Y'ork Central Railroad to give three card raonte men a grand jump into the first ditch, v A New "Fork barber gives a man shave, a cigar, a box ot tooth-picks and a shine for 12 cents, and, moreover, asks him to call again. - The Order ot Caucassians, a work ingmen s association, anti-Uhinese in principle, is spreading rapidly through out California. It is a secret order, with a membership ot over lo,UUU at pres ent. So severe has been the cold during the present season that the eucalyptus trees, planted upon the shores of Loui siana bavous to counteract the malari ous atmosphere, have beeen seriously in jured. Mrs. Middlerib says, speaking of ef fective irony, her husband's heelless hose present the most striking speci mens of sock chasm she ever saw. A man out in Ford county caught 22,- 000 rats last year. We can't imagine what use he has for so many rats, un less he is going to start a hotel or livery stabie. "Gentlemen," remarked a Kansas horse thief to a vigilance committee, just before the aerial dancing began, i s tun, but I object to this practical choking." But they capital pun-ished him, jest the same. Richard A. Pennell is in training in New York for the performance of the extraordinary feat of holding a 1,000 pound cannon m his hands while a blank cartridge is discharged from it Undertakers are buying front seats for the exhibition. aivini, me actor, married in a very romantic fashion, lie had been com missioned to take a packet to a poor mg.girl in London. He saw and loved. She became his wife, and, as the mistress of his splendid mansion, is now treated with the distinction due a Princess. JOB PRINTINGr. Venezuela has its first steam print ing-press. J he A at toned Opinion news paper, printed at t arracas, began using a power press, and the first edition was struck off in the presence of the Presi dent and his Cabinet, the event being the subject of great self-glorification among the people. Latel anil Most Reliable In formation about the BLACK I11LLS, Northern Wyoming and the jrrcat Indian War will always le found in the Oldest. Largest, Cheapest and BEST PA I'KR in Wyo- I ;.!; It nnff- Established in lSf7. Daily, tl a month -tlO a year. Weekly, 3 1110. $1 mo. $1..")0 1 year. fcO -single copy. 10 ets. It. Glafcke, 1'ublisner, Clieyenne, Wyo. VJnlSw in trie Chkyennk Jilack Hills FOR SALE AVERY PKSIRABLE business lot 66x100 feet, on the corner of Second and Washington streets, Aioauy. i iso, j-,ngme, isoner ana Ma chinery, together with a lot of furniture, lad ters, w nee i narrows, narrows. e., c., ail to tc sold otTcheup for cash, in consequence of re inoval on account of sickness. Enquire on the premises oi n,T.Ail UO Aiuany, Jan. yj, lai-ni Four Children At a Birth. Monday of last week, at Monterey, the wife ot Thomas W. Ingram died. She was taken sick on Monday morning and remained so for eight hours. She then gave birth to a fin, healthy daughter, which was followed by a second, still born; then the third, a daughter, was successfully launched cn life's journey, but the fourth child resulted iu the death of the mother. Ingram has now the twin daughters, besides twelve oth er children to care for. The mother was about the house on Sunday pursuing her usual domestic occupations, and her sudden demise has cast a gloom over a large circle of friends, among whom she was greatly beloved. Sacramento Union. So.vKixt; Boots in Whisky. Men who love rum will resort to almost any expedient to obtain it under adverse cir cumstances. 1 lie town ot JJeailham is under prohibition law, apothecaries alone being permitted to sell alcoholic stimulants. Tho other day a son cf the Emerald Isle entered a drug store there, and taking a bottle from his pocket asked for a quart f whisky. The sales man asked what use it was to be put, and the reply was "to soak roots in. The order was filled, and the clerk, after handing the bottle and its con tents, inquired in a conversational man ner, ! "What kind of roots are you going to soak?" i 3 Pocketing the bottle the customer re plied : ; "The roots of my tongue, be jabers !" OREGON FOR SOLID When you wish 'osters. Visiting Cards, Business Cards, Bill Heads, Letter Heads Envelopes, Ball Tickets, Programmes: Labels, Horse Bills, Circular, Pamphlets, SHERli i li: s EOT CULTIVATOR AND SEEDER. or in lact anything In tlie FrizitixTQ Lina call at the All Important Farts made of XRC1T, ana surasle as Iron can he. ' Mcstard Plaster. Take a table spoonful of molasses, more or less as de sired ; stir thick with mustard, and hav ing spread it on a cloth, apply it direct ly to the skin j it will not blister even if kept on tor an hour. "What shall 1 do to collect this bill of Watkins ?" a butcher asked his law yer. The man ot law reached forth bis hand for a retainer and said briefly. "Suet." Two women and a man are under arrest in Philadelphia. They comprise the Charity Relief Association. They hired a house, put out a sign, collected money from benevolent persons and pocketed the proceeds. I hey are said to have otierated in the same manner in other cities. The man professes to be a clergyman, ana iooks line one. J he women are glib, pretty and accomplished in the trick ot teiting subscriptions out of susceptible men. ALBANY It is foolishness for a man to try to make game of a boarding-house chicken by looking at it, under the impression that a steady gaze ot the human eye will make any animal quail. Adjustable to any require! Septa voile in motion. ITever Clogs or Chokes on StuYble or "Trashy" Ground. heavy man of Altoona. Pa., is Green, who weighs 406 .pounds. The Eli For a number of years he has not sleot in a bed. Up to some-six years ago he was employed as a locomotive engineer on the mountain division, Pennsylvania Railroad, but owing to his obesity and tendency to fall asleep while running his engine it became necessary to dis- cnarge mm Arranged for two, three or four horses abreast Lightest Draft Machine in use. t'overs and cuts all the ground. Broadcast Seeders wiU sow Mil klndtf of Krralu, wet or dry. EVERY RANTED WAR. I ask every farmer to examine my Seeder and Cultivator before purchasing an Eastern Ala chine. For further particulars address . JAMES siierriiTl, ' IIat-ri1urg, Oregon. t'ebruury 9, 1SJ7-U0V0 PRINTING HOUSE, CORNER PERRY & FIRST-STO.