The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-06-27
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
Our enterprising tonsorial artist, Fred
Hide, has painted his shop inside and
out, and we understand from him he is
going to make regular palace of it be-
fore he stops. Success Fred.
Modieska while in Hartford was the
guest of Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner,
and she met Mrs. Harriet Beecher
she played in Poland when she first
went upon the stage.
Father Giovanni, the famous Italian
tenor, has become immensely fat, and
continues to draw wonderful crowds to
the Roman churches whenever he sings.
To keep him in the church and from ac-
cepting the offers of operate managers it
is said that he has been given more than
princely salary.
"Ha! ha there is blood on the moon,"
he cried, striking an attitude in imitation
of the tragedian he had seen at the the
ter the night before. "What, hot We
mother suddenly walked into the bed
room and spoiled the whole first act with
trunk strap"
The will of Thad Stevens provides for
the sale of his iron works. If after his
debts and bequests are paid there remain
$5O, 900. horse of refuge for homeless
and INDECENT orphans is to be built. The
sale will take place June 6, and it is ex-
pected that there will be surplus of
$75, 200.
The Emperor of Austria rises at five
and retires early, being unable to attend
opera every evening, as he would Like to
do. He likes neither Englishmen nor
their literature. He has soft, musical
voice, and is a good dancer, a fine horse
man and a crack shot.
Miss Della Wheeler, aged sixty-five
years, the only sister Of Vice President
Wheeler, died suddenly at the home of
the Vice President, at Malone, N. Y, re-
Gently. Vice President Wheeler was alb
sent in the Adirondacks, where his sister
had prevailed upon him to go on account
of his health.
This is the epitaph which wag wrote
on the gravestone of banker, who was
notorious while he lived for extorting
high interest =
Here lies old twenty-five per cent;
The more he got the less he spent;
The more he got the more he craved;
If he gets to heaven we'll all be saved.
A jolly tar, having strayed into show
at fair, to have look at the wild beasts,
was much struck with the sight of lion
and tiger in the same den.-"Why,
jack" said he to mess-mate, who was
chewing quid in silent amazement,
shouldn't wonderif next year they were
to carry sailor and marine living
peaceably together !''-"Ay," said his
married companion, cor man and his
WIFE"
A little girl surprised company of Wis
itors by her knowledged Of the Creators
works. At the dinner table she ex-
claimed: "God made all this big world in
Just six days. God made me and every
body else. He made mamma, too, but be
forgot 70 put any hair on her head, and
papa had to buy it for her" When the
mother got through interviewing the
young miss, after The eoapauy dispersed,
the little one wished she had been built
like washboiler.
A man having buried his wife, waited
on the grave digger, who had performed
the necessary duties, to pay him his fees.
| deavored to get the knight of the spade to
abate his charge. The patience of the
latter being exhausted, he grasped his
shovel impulsively, and, with an angry
look, exclaimed "Doon WI another
shilling, or up she comes" The threat
had the desired effect.
Four thousand men assembled in q
Boston theater to see wrestling match.
Thirty thousand persons in New York
paid dollar apiece to see three worn
out men walking around track. And
| when a clergyman announced on Sunday
morning that a collection would be lifted
in the evening to iquidate the debt of
the church, three hundred persons as
sembled, and the collection amounted to
nine dollars and half
A Westminster Justice taking a coach
in the city, and being set down at Young
mans Coffee-house, Charing Cross, the
driver, demanded eighteen pence as his
fair the Justice asked him if he would
swear the ground came to the money.
The man said he would take an oath ont.
The Justice replied, Friend, I'm magis-
trate," and pulling the book out of his
gave the fellow sixpence, saying, he must
affidavit.
Dean Swift having preached an assize
sermon in Ireland, was invited to dine
with the judges and having in his SER
mon considered the use and abuse of the
law, he pressed somewhat hard upon
those counselors who plead causes which
they knew in their consciences to be
wrong. When dinner was over, and the
glass began to go round, a young barrister
retorted upon the Dean and after sew
eral alterations, the counselor asked him:
eff the devil was to die, whether person
might not be found. who, for money,
would preach his funeral ?" "Yes, said
Swift, g! would gladly be the man, az
would give the devil his due, as ha !
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