The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-07-11
Personal and General.
Bancroft is at Newport.
Garfield wears a big hat.

ooA agents LOBBY IN Detroit.
day. 'ooo''o oniy 90
Blaine is the discussed and much-cus't
man. oo'
Callfornlans eat beans popped like
mist. anu ~ Jus'
New coal combinations in Pennsyl-
vania.
drinks. "on ~
Wilkie Collins is coming back to
America. eA "
Some watchmakers give neither tick
Iowa pound keepers are called "hog
houncers.
In West Virginia Sherman is called a
business wrecker.
Most of the negroes who went TO Kan
sas have situations.
Hayes and Grant is the last ticket. IT.
comes from Maryland.
Worth, the man milliner. believes in
the survival of the fittest.
1t is now suspected that Henry CLAW
Dean is a mound builder,
WIhelmj never swears anything stone-
er than Bj Jjmjneddy!"
Minneapolis, Mimi. coopers on f,onr
barrels have struck. Hoop La. +
A providence pet owl whipped bur-
glar and nearly put his eyes out.
Mrs. Ole Bull, of Madison. Wis. is
translating Norwegian novels.
Edith O'Gorman, &C the escaped nun. y
Is raising rows in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Oliver, who sued Simon Cameron.
wishes to lecture in Pittsburg.
The Kansas Historical Society has
John Browns old colt revolver.
A Kansas editor says that woman are
not vines, but trees. Scrub oaks?
The journalistic dead beat has begun
to haunt Niagara and to praise hotels.
Ii Sherman becomes President he will
be commander-in-chief of his brother.
All our agricultural exchanges are talk
ing about the raising of beet for sugar.
A Kentucky minister hanged himself
because he thought he was a hypocrite.
A Montreal baby has died from the eff
fects OF quack medicine for infants. !"
Ex-Minister Washburne is visiting re-
latlves in Minnesota. He does not like
Texas.
The Atlanta Constitution is so rough
on Zach Chandler that it looks like sand
paper.
Schumann says that the voice that
plames has more strength than ten that
praise.
A Georgia farmer kills snakes, lays
them in furrow and plants corn in the
furrow.
1t was David Davis, and net Fritsch.
who sang, The wind that wa It's my size
to thee. %
The Zulus used to worship fire and
water So did the republicans, without
any "and.
Sir William Harcourt is accused ,of
| being the cap and bells of the liberal
opposition.
The Springfield Republican asks for
healthful open air amusements for mill
operatives.
Colorado welcomes negro exodusters.
1t wants 1000, according to Colorado
Ratral Life.
The Utica Observer thinks that the
eloping young lady of the period is the
lily of the valet.
Mr.. Thomas II. Nelson, late United
States Minister to Mexico, is visiting
friends in Brooklyn.
The German Empire has 21 universe
| ties, with l $50 professors, and more than
II 900 students.
1t is better to be a storekeeper in the
. Custom House than to dwell in the tents
of unrighteousness.
A Pennsylvania clergyman asks wht
was the first mathematician The pig
for he gave the square root.
i At Leadville, Col, hotel, the regi,
try shows the arrival of a man with hi
wife and seventeen children.
Il Two Main farmers discovered tina
beans planted between their rows of DO
oes drove away the potato bug.
} The wasp is a stem m-winder.-HERAL1
i p. I. In a hornit is /! How's that for
! singing retort ?-Nea0 York Neaos.
Whenever Hamlet appears to the pub
lie through a spirit medium he alway
: claims to have been killed with cabbage
Il De Toequeville prophesied that if tn
' American negroes were ever emancipai
, ed they would be extirpated or expelled
A Berlin professor will in the cours
of an evening drink three quarts O
oSA3 0iAN O SAHoo VI 0Aa III q AAAS5AAs
! J cap.
Johnny Dwyer, the prize fighter,
j the whistler of his art. He decorates hi
/ opponents with nocturnes and eyes o
d black and red.
General Butler thinks that the demo
Gratis are not square on the greenbac
question, and advises no alliance wit
fhem.
e Messrs. B. Gratz Brown and Robert J
!. Burdette will speak before the Missou1
4 Press Association, at Columbia on th
t 9th inst.
e Despotism is said to be SO severe i
: some parts of Russia that no man ma
d even repeat joke. There are no negr
I. minstrels here.
= A Kansas man who once ran for Coz
= gress fell into well the other day, an
= he thought he was going down into th
Il House restaurant
n Miss Fanny Davenport says that Irwin
ii is the ugliest man she ever saw. She ha
n made $50, 900 on her tour and is now
San Francisco.