Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-21
Brcvities.

uVisC t0OiuS,
The Grand Ronde river has been
very high and has caused the destruc.
ton OF much property.
Droves of cattle are being driven,
lately, from Eastern Oregon TO Idaho,
to be disposed of for beef.
Cincinnati BARRIERS now have to SUBJ
NIT to "breath inspection" on the
part of the bosses every morning.
A short time since some workmen
plowing in a field, in Union county,
Oregon, turned up lot of human
bones.
A meteoric stone weighing about
5000 pounds, is reported to have fallen,
recently near Momzouk, the capital of
Fezzen, Africa.
The Tehauntepec canal bill has pass
ed the Mexican Congress with the pro-
posed amendments. A determined ef.
fort is being made to stop brigandage.
There is good sense in this "new
motto for merchants:
"Late to bed and early to rise,
Never get highland advertise"
Wendell Phillips is preaching in
Boston. In one of his sermons recent.
ly, he said when the devil pours out
one dollar, Christianity must pour out
two.
Out in Nevada, they say, when a
white man kills an Indian that he, pres
sents him with ticket of admission to
the red mans happy hunting grounds,
Thus facetiously do they intimate that
he is in truth dead>head.
stTo the parent whose son dies in in>
fancy" says the Louisville Courier
journal, "there must be something pe>
culiarly soothing in the though that,
no matter what may be the fate of the
child in the next world. it can never
become member of baseball club
in this !"
A clergyman, w'a recent sermon, in
Now York, quoted an anecdote of an
old merchant who instructed his clerks:
When a man comes into store and
talks Of his honesty, watch him; if he
talks Of his wealth, don't try to sell to
him; if he talks Of bis religion, don't
trust him dollar"
A lad of fourteen years. named Lit
tie, while playing in the saw mill ol
the Marine Railway ut Cincinnati, on
Monday, his clothing caught on re-
volying shaft, and he was whirled
around it severl hundred times before
the machinery could be stopped. He
luckily escaped with only broken leg
The Utica Herald, discoursing Of
the arrest of Il Harvard students, who
passed the night in station house
says shat the vagaries Of students have
been too patiently borne by residents in
the vicinity of colleges A few appli-
cations of Law would do more to pre-
vent the occurrences OF outrages thar
all the warnings and rustications' il
is in the power of Faculties to admin
lister.
In the absence of any other messen
ger, colonel sent word to the band By
the surgeon, that some music was
wanted
Cant blow note," said the drum
major, "for we haven't had anything tc
eat yet"
"No excuse at all, said the doctor
''blow away; there's always plenty o
wind in an empty stomach.
Some music teacher once wrote that
"the art of playing a violin require,
the incest perception and the most sen
sibility of any art in the known world.
Upon which an editor comments in tn,
following manner: "The art Of pub.
fishing newspaper, and making 1t pay
and at the same time making it please
everybody, beats fiddlin' higher than !.
kite"
The highest class of black bear skim
are used for making the martial head
gear OF the British footguards, com
monty included under the term o
Household Brigade" The guards
man is rather an expensive article a
to his head covering. Out of som,
5000 bear skins now in the Hudson
Bay Company's ''bear ROOM" oDl
about 400 are suitable for army pur
poses, and fine skin fetches as mucl
as g5.
A bearded girl has made her appear
ance at Glad Spring depot, Washing
ton county, Va She is four years old
and has moustache and whiskers. tn
hair on the forehead extending to tn
eyebrows. Very heavy hair extend
below the shoulders. The child j
sprightly, with fully developed liml
and well formed body. The arms
shoulders and back are covered witt
soft brown hair. a
) II has lately. come 10 light that som