The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-18
Wise and Otherwise.

One hundred women arc studying
law in American colleges.
A fight is daily looked for between
the soldiers and the Modoc Indians.
An Irish editor congratnlates himself
that half the lies told about him amt
true.
Better rations and better pay are to
be the rule henceforth in the French
army.
In the city of Naples there are 4o5
Catholic churches and 5000 ordained
priests.
Tom Thumb has bought yacht,
hired a goose pond, and is going to try
a pirates life for time.
Three thousand English babies are
annually smothered to death by their
mothers sleeping upon them.
The Chinese claim that Noah's real
name was Ah-Boo, and that he was q
Chinaman residing near Pekin.
Within year the consumption Of
opium in this country has increased
about 100000 ounces per month.
Sevastopol is being repaired, and will
become again the strongest fort and the
most important town on the Black Sea.
New Hampshire still hugs Puritan
ism. Her constitution contains Prot
estant qualification, for certain Offices.
The value of the manufactured pro-
ducts of Massachusetts, 10 years ago
was 37,0oO,0OO; now it is $1,000. 900.
A blushing school girl entered Ten
nessee newspaper Office the other day.
and asked for sthe papers for week
back" Pannier2
II go through my work" reprovingly
said the needle to the idle boy; "but
not until you are pushed through" said
| the boy to the needle.
Cameron was once a printer, which
will account for all his bad habits, and
73, which will account for the hopeless
ness of his improvement.
A lady having said that she would
make but very poor sailor, a nautical
bystander replied: "You would make
an excellent mate thought"
An old fogy in giving advice to boys.
as is the wont of his kind, says 'keep
at your helm and steer your own ship.''
They generally do it, but It is rough
on the ship.
A California Indian belle lately at
tempted to introduce the before the
fall fashion of nothing and hoop-skirt
as promenade costume in the streets
of San Francisco.
A young woman, whose pocket had
been picked in an omnibus, admitted
that she felt the prisoner pressing her,
but thought that che was only inteDd-
ing to make love-"
A Connecticut woman has been reliev-
of an eel which has inhabited her stom-
ach for years. Eels are good, but even
Izaak Walton wouldn't have cared to
make fish pond of himself.
An old lady named Brown has just
died in London, leaving 81, 500, 900 and
nobody to inherit it. This will cause
vast commotion among the two or
three families of that name in the Uni
ted States.
i A totally depraved Kentucky boy
recently threw handful of cartridges
into the coal scuttle at church. and
watched the effect Presently the fire
was replenished. the cartridges went off;
and also the minister and congregation.
Humanitarianism has cropped out in
new form in Boston. Among the la
test institutions of that city Of jubilees.
is a mending and repairing society
composed of women, who undertake to
sew on buttons, darn socks, and perform
other kindly services for unprovided
bachelors.
The father of a boy whose veracity
is not SO marked as his back, asked The
teacher why it was that his son didn'i
have better acquaintance with figures
and was considerably electrified when
the teacher tenderly observed, Il really
don't know, unless it is because figures
won't lie." .ae
That was a good though rather 9
severe pun, which was made by stu
dent in one of our theological seminaries