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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1880)
tSSOID XTXRT nUDAT, IN THE REGISTER BUILDING, Corner Ferry ami First Street. COLt.JVAK CLE VE.. ". :. PROPRIETOR. . ' - - v ... TERMS IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year.... 2 50 One codv.sIz months. 1 SO 4 Ingle copies Ten cents. Ayeata Iter the Beirlater. The following named gentlemen re author ised to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the KJEOI8TKB in toe localities mentioned : Messrs. Kirk A Hume. 1 Brownsville. Robert Glass..... Crawtorrtsvllle. Seth Hayes .- Haisey. O. P. Tompkins. ...Harrtetrarg FRIDAY... JANUARY 0, 1880. ; SCIENTIFIC mSCELLANY. ; Berlin rejoices in the possession ot a scientific cooking association formed by ladies of the city. It has a school of instruction in cookery, and a qualified chemist cp'on members of the society lectures in practical chemistry. A lab oratory lias been established, in charge of the chemist, for the examination of articles of food, and also of ntensils employed in cooking. Although the near approach to the earth of seTenvl comets has been koown, the least distances of only two have ever been determined with any degree of accuracy. On July 1, 1770, a comet was within 1,390,000 miles of the earth the closest approach ot one ot these bodies of which astronomers have any certain knowledge. Its apparent diam eter was two and one-half degrees, or nearly fire times the apparent diameter of the moon.- It is not surprising that the apparition ot each a monster should cause a panic of terror among unenlight ed and superstitious inhabitants ot the earth. After some JS,000 examinations, Dr. Jeffries affirms that about one male in twenty-five is color-blind to a greater or lees degree. . He fiuds the detect to be largely hereditary, although some times eaased by disease or injury. Tn the former case it is incurable, but in the latter it may be only a temporary difficulty. - The electric light has been tonnd a useful signal in surveying. In late work on triangulation in Algeria, it is stated that the light was seen at a dis tance ot one bnnd.ed and Eixty Jour miles. From a study of the action of tea, Mr. TV. J. Morton has arrived at these conclusions : As with any other drug there is a proper and improper use ot it. In moderation it is a mild and harmless stimulant. Its immoderate nse leads to serious symptoms, such as headache, vertigo, ringing in the ears, tremnlousness, nervousness, exhaustion, irregular action ot the heart, and dys pepsia. Many ot the symptoms r excessive tea-drinking are such as may occur without a . suspicion ot , the real cause. ' Recent comparative measurements ot the crania of eminent men and ot crim inals show that, while a capacious in tellect requires a Jarge skull, a large eraniam is not always attended hy a high order ot intelligence- The crania et considerable number ot criminals were found to have av capacity much above the average. . - A-recently discovered fossil animal, Arnphicalias fragUUmius, is described as a monster considerably more than on hundred feet iq length, with spinal vertebra six feet across, hind . legs four feet long,' and a large and powerful tail. Imagine the monster , in lite, standing on its bind legs in the. water and catching its prey, with its fore paws, and a picture is presented to the mind from the ages long agone. A recent estimate of the date ot the neolithic period by Mr. Sidney B. J. Skertchly, an English scientist, furnishes a good illustration ot one of the pro cesses by which the ages of the different epochs in the history of mankind are hypothetically determined. It is known Jjhat during a long period prior to his toric times the implements of the human race were made solely of .stone." There relics, with the bones of prehistoric man and contemporary, animals, are bow found covered by the earthly de posits ot ages. The earlier forms of etoue implements . were very roughly fashioned, while at a much later date they i were well formed and . polished. From-, these IsqLs the stone age is con sidered in two distinct periods the pal eolithic (old stone) and the neolithic new. stoned The latter nprmd. el though ot mncb shorter duration than the former, is regarded with greater in terest on account of its nearer approach, to historic times. It is the probable date of this period which j&lr. Skertchly discusses.- The European district of the FenUnd oceapies- on area of thirteen hundred qarernils bordering the great bay the-Washu The inland portion consists ot peat- bariea in wnicii are found neoJKbie- implements; Betweeu tbe peat and the sea a wide stretch ot Bii; EscA Las been gradually deposited by the waves:. As this land bas.beenJ built up, from the time of the Roman occupation at least, bankshave been erected to reclaim the newly-formed ground. The dates of these banks are known, and thus verv accurate esti mates can be made of the rate at which the deposition is going on in different parts. The maximum rate is 59 feet per annnm. The geological evidence shows that, as the sitting went on and the area became converted into land, peat grew and gradually spread over the land. In the course ot time, however, the climate became unfitted for the growth of peat, which ceased to form. Hence a wide stretch borders the Wash, on which no peat ever ex isted. From the Roman banks to the sea is a distance ot four miles, for the accumulation ot which 1700 years have been required. Between these banks and the peat lie twelve miles of silt land.which at the same rate of formation would be accumulated in 5100 years. Adding these numbers together gives C800 years as the least possible age ot the newest peat, by which the neolithic implements are covered. Two Swiss estimates have been made from different data, each confirming this result - Fort,er evidence leads Mr, Skertchly to conclude that the commencement of the neolithic era it England must date back 10,000 years and perhaps 20,000. One om.ee ot peach kernels is found to contain a grain of prussic acid a fatal quantity. m A prominent feature ot the reunion ot the army ot the Cumberland, last week, has-been the numerous and emphatic expressions in vindication ot Gen. Rob ert -Anderson, the defender ot Fort Sumter. These declarations coming from soldiers of the late war in defense of the dead comrade, are honorable to their anthors in the highest degree,-and will effectually put to rest all questions as to Gen. Anderson's fidelity to the union recently started by a magazin? writer. Official returns from WiscoriMii show a majority of 2-1,494 tor Smith, repub lican, for governor, and 28,061 for Guenther for secretary of stale, a repub lican gain of 16,000, and the largest majority ever given any candidate in the state. Brooklyn, New York, the " city ot churches" is about to get a reputation also as the " city of the big debt." She now owes forty-two million dollars and sees no way to pay any considera ble portion. " Jennie, darling,' he said, a they sat cosily side by side io the big old fashioned arm chair, whose generous arms had often encompassed a similar pair, " my sweet girl, and the fire blazed and crackled, and snapped its lively glances ot light out i;i the dark ening rxm ; " my dearest one, and the fitful shadows came and went into the apartment, making grotesque fig ures upon its handsome walls ; " light of my life," and her pretty head nest led confidingly against ins manly vest, through whose folds the beating of his tender heart was plainly audible ; " my beacon light and l.e pressed in his honest palm her little hand oh, so little ! and he said : " my little pet," and outside the wind blew tierce. while the dashing rain smote hard against the pane, lightening the peace ful influence of the glowing grate ; my own dear girl," and the tremor in his voice was born of purest love ; " my guiding star," he said he Raid well, blest it we know what else he did say ; but that was enough. With a woman's mtution she knew Ins mean ing, and she scooped him in. According to Worcester The gazelle a smalf, beautiful antelope the an telope is " an animal limited for veni son." It it was hunted for fun it would be a'l the same, showing how dictionaries beat about the bush with out saying much. - The animals are so much mixed that the poet was undoubt edly right when singing and saying that he never " loved a deer gazelle." It is so in politics, business and everywhere else in lite. , The man whom, you boost up the tree not only forget to toss you down some of the fruit, but is as likely as not to pelt, you with the chawinoR., Hereafter when we " boost" well take the fruit in ad vance. Yon hear n. . The subject for conversation at an evening entertainment was the ' intelli gence of animals,' particularly dogs. Says Smith " There are dogs that liave more sense than their, masters." " Justso," responded Fitznoodle, " I've got that kind of a dog mye!f." An exchange informs a correspond, ent that the liousac Tunnel is under the Hoosac Mountain in Western Mass. achusetts. This how that the moun tain has not been moved, and that the tunnel is not over the mountain. The thoughtful girl who tells her gentlemen callers what her other gen tlemen friends are going to give her Christmas is taking time right by the top-knot. Ask Clark. ' Families are now. laying in their Winter's fuel. It is regulated by the number of big girls in the family. .. ,. i - - The wife who utilizes he' . husband's9 shoe brush ori the cooking stove opens the door b the divorce court. . -' Effect of Tjitooir-aavlitBT Machinery. The roost valuable work that is now being done, in an intellectual point of view, is what may be called the popu larization of science in those branches which have a direct bearing on the struggle tor life. For a long time science, in a sense, disclaimed to make itself plain to the average man. It was set forth in ponderous and heavy books, only rccesslble to the learned minority. But now the great effort is to simplify. Begehot, Sumner, Wells, Jevons, Cer; muschi,and nearly all the economists of the modern school, write and lecture in a stj-le which can not be comprehended by the masses. There are also cheap publications and monograms upon vari ous economical subjects intended to convey instruction in a popular form. Whenever error begins to exercise any influence on the course of events, all these appliances are at once brought iuto operation for its extirpation. One of the most venerable fallacies with which we have to deal is that labor-saving machinery reduces the area ot employment. There are traces ot it as tar back as the time of Louis XIV, and Queen Elizabeth. It seems at the first glance, to be an obvious truth that if a machine be invented to do the work of ten men, nine will be deprived of a job. But it the matter be searched further it will be found that human wants are insatiable, and that they increase with the means of gratifying them. It is, in fact , in this respect that civilization differs from barbarism. Science had long been sat isfied as to the soundness ot the econo mic axiom But it takes a long time tor abstract truth to win its way in the world. When political parties are be ginning to he organized on the notion that machinery -is taking away the bread of the pe ple, it is time to resort to the inductive method by which alone old opinions can be revolutionized. This is partially done in a mono graph recently published. The author is Fred Perry Powers of New York. Some of the illustrations presented are quite strong and convincing. A writer holding the opposite view having as serted that eighty compositors and proof-readers, tour pressmen and two presses do work in the Tribune office of New York which in the processes in use by our fathers would require 267 presses, 534 pressmen aud 5,000 com positors and proof readers, the author upsets the whole calculation by merely inquiring : Did the Tribune as a matter ot fact employ 6,000 men ? If it did not, how can the 5,500 men be said to have been thrown out ot employment ? He holds that if the steam press had not been inverted, the Tribune would not be issuing its vast number ot sheets at four cents a copy. He adds :" When one thinks of type making and press making and paper making, it is appar ent that the application ot steam to printing has vastly increased the num ber ot persons employed in the trade." Some of the other illustrations which he gives are more clearly worked out. He takes the case ot the corn shelter, as follows : To shell the crop of 1877 by hand, at the rate ot 5 bnsbels per man per day, would have required the labor ot one year ot over 860,000 men. Just think of the degree to which it would enhance the price ot corn nuless the men employed in shelling, lived like the fellaheen of Egypt. The best shelling machine with two men, will shell 1500 bushels per day. . Less than 6000 men shell the whole crop. Have 854,000 been thrown ont of. employment by the corn shelter ? Such a question needs no answer." If labor saving machinery should have a marked effect anywhere . in reducing employment, it should be in the ordinary vehicles of transportation superseded by the railway, but statis tics show that such is not the fact. Mrl'Powers on this head says : " The census returns indicate that in 1850 the manufacture, of' carriages and wagons employed 15,590 men, while in 1870 it employed 54,928. During tho same period tlie number of the horses in the country increased not so rapidly but yet largely from 4,336,719 to 7, 145,379. u The number of carriage and wagon makers increased over 200 per cent." During the same period the number of persons engaged in carriage building went up from . 1,554 to 15,931, which must be regarded as an addition al employment-';- Colonel Carroll Dl Wnght, of Bos ton, contributes the following facts in a paper read before the Local Science Congress : " To produce the goods now manufactured annually by Mass achusetts, and to carry on the work of her railroads without the employment of labor saving machinery and steam power, would require a population of 9,000,000, in place of 1,650,000 as at present, and this by a low grade of labor.,, .. Tbia vast estimated population of 9,000,000 in Mastachns. setts would be : required to produce what is now produce!, and to be sup ported on present means. I leave the man who cries out against labor saving machinery to contemplate the result." Another and very convincing illustra tion is drawn from the knitting ot socks and Cardigan jackets. A Congression al commtttee on the Marshall knitting machine reported thet about 3,600,000 pairs of these socks were made per an num. It then proceeds as follows : " By band a woman could knit four pairs a day for which she received 33 cents. By the machine si e could make twenty pairs and earn $1 33 per day. On a hand frame a man could make five jackets a day at a cost ot 58 cents ; with a machine a girl can make forty eight in a day, for which she rej ceives nearly $1 50. Of these jack ets 2,400,000 are made annually. These illustrations are culled from the monograph from the mass of facts there presented. That they are con vincing as well as interesting will lie apparent even on the most careless reading. A 4'nriona Cuhc. The Olean Times rc rdi a most singular case something entirely new in all our reading. It is, in lart, ti e turning of 'a child's hair from a Uaiiti tul auburn color to whri, the result ot fright. The girl is a dan j'-u-r of Craudell of Baden Brook, an I -! is nine years ot age. Several wi. U- ao tvo or three drunken men came along, and by their hideous actions and dread ful arpearance frightened the little girl terribly. She broke into a paroxysm ot grief, aud cried three hours without cessation, though her parents and friends used every means in their power to quiet her. Shortly after this terrible fright the girl's pretty golden locks began to turn gray, the change continu ing until now a large portion is as white as that of old age. She is in good health, and has no physical ailments which might cause this wonderful change, and beyond doubt it can be at tributed only to the serious fright de scribed above. Jay Uonld. Mr. Gould's millions now crowd close to those of Vanderbilt. He is a man of finer texture than the old Com. modore's son. He doesn't tun to fine houses, costly stables, and blooded steeds. At night when he dismisses his operators from the telegraph offices in his own house in Fifth Avenue, and enters up in a little book the telegra phic reports ot the receipts of the vari ous railroads which he own, he does not go to a club to carouse, to a ban quet to steam up with champagne, or to a theater ; he retires to the recesses of a peaceful library, and with hisyoung sons about him, reads the Latin classics, tbe world forgetting, but not by the world forgot by a large majority. The next morning early he has the telegraph doing lightning service, and he is sending an electric shock through Wall street as soon as the bulls and the bears come into that field for pasture. Mr. Gould j is a liberal man, although when he makes a bequest he does not have tlie information written in mani fold and fsent to all the newspapers. The first news New York had of his gift to the Memphis sufferers of $5,000 came trom Memphis, as did the news of tlie second gift ot $5,000. ; Mr. Gould, being a small man ot lit tle physical prowess, is naturally not disposed to put himself recklessly in the way of the horns ot . the bulls and the claws of the bears. There are some men in Wall street, as Mr. Goul 1 has reason to know, who wish to resent their losses with theii fists,-and are disposed to follow Major Selover's example and despatch . him bodily down into a con venient area. Accordingly, Mr. Gould keeps his office guarded by a stout Irish man, who prevents the intrusion of visitors, and he has usually a private way to get ont into the strtet. He has, too, it is, sajd, a big Italian book-keeper who accompanies him on many of his business trips about town, and stands ready to protect his millionaire employ er. iSt Ijouis IZtymblican. A Mlht mstaJte. . A careless telegrapher caused a panic in a domestic circle in this city on Mon day evening. A young woman tele graphed from Philadelphia to her mother in this wise : "Have received no letter. Am worried." The mes sage received by her mother was this : "Have received no letter. Am mar ried." The mother was surprised at this sudden announcement, and she gave the daughter a large piece of Iter mind. The operator had mistaken "worried" for "married," no doubt thinking the meaning was the same, and had wired the mother the surpris ing intelligence.--New York Trilnme. It was Sidney Smith who retorted up on some one who called him an every, day man "Well, if I'm an every -day mau you're a weak one.' r etfestrlama Abroad. Naughty Bait. And this is what the San Francisco Chronicle has to say under the above beading . " The pedal triumphs ot the feminine artists who walked rapidly into' popular favor here, and then departed for Oregon, seem to be combined in the webfoot country with amatory achievements as welL The Rev. Dr. Plummer of that city has been called upon to tie together Miss penman and Emmett Fitzgerald, whose industrious and valuable services as an assistant trainer in the Pavilion contest were generally admired. The yonng bloods of Portland, notably Messrs. Levison, Baltimore and Ilolman, focus ed tliiur affections on Alice Donley. Mr. Levison, through having known her in Indiana and a superior mustache resembling fine-cut tobacco, had the hinde track, and scored numberless ' laps, until a cigar-drummer spurted and cut him cut, amid a chorus ot chagrined yells from his rivals. The parting between Sadie Donley and seven rapturous admirers was excruciat j ing, and verged on the suicidal." I J .A Palatini Stable. Baron Rothschild of Vienna has a favorite horse, for whose accomodation h& lia-i had a special loose 1mx built at the fort of SI2.000. This elegant room i H-rms part of a i ew stahlo which cost $S0.''0(). ainl which has marble floors, t-M-au tic tiW painted by distinguished ; at iits, rings, chains and drain traps ot ' silver, and walls frescoed with splendid hunting scenes from the pencil 3 of emi nent animal-painters. The Baron's an nual income is fortunately $1,600,000. Secretary McCrary expresses the opinion that our Government has no need of Ministers in foreign countries. The public will very generaily indorse the opinion. Expensive diplomatic es tablishments should have gone out of date when telegraphic communications were invented. Consular agents and an occasional Envoy Extraordinary could thoroughly attend to all the di plomatic business our Government has in Europe. Bewaie ot cards. Many a young man has fallen into the hands ot a knave, and come within an ace of going to the deuce. Junction is going to have a bakery. Rosebnrg Star : Ijist Saturday evening, Adam fav died very suddenly at the resi dence of his son, G. W. Day of this city. Father Day was an old pioneer, having settled in Camas valley, this county, over twenty-tx years ago He was a native of New York State, and was almost eigbty tour years ot age. Mr. Day served in the war ot 1S12. Peace to his ashes. : OLD AND RELIABLE. Du. Saxford's JjrrEB IsvioobatobJ is a Staud.tr I Family Itemed v for - 2 ; l:sr'.-.s;'H of the Livor, Stomach and Lovrcls. It is Purely -VSfjil Vetable. It never .Debilittvs It is .. fl'LiverJ 1 has bfTt nurl4 5S" in m v trn(inc . find It 17 Hi A nnliK. S i li WT J. f j JJ, tor more than 35 years,! with unprecedented results.? SEND FOR CIRCULAR. v iJ upahh aa 199 B&OADW4T , i.n.oaarunu, m.u., aiwrouoinj AST DKIDUIST W1U TILL VOL' ITS KEf-irTATKM. 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