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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

One night about three years age, while
some experiments were trying in New
York with some automatic sender, some
of the boys probably prompted by jeal-
ousy of the ability of Mr.. George Idamil-
Ter, of Pitsburg, who has the reputation
of being one of the best operators in the
country, were struck with the idea of
rushing that expert individual. It
was the work of a moment to switch the
automatic on Pitttsburg and call up. As
luck would have it, Idamiller answered
and was told to get ready for five thou
sand word special. The preliminaries
having been arranged he unexpectedly
told them to go ahead.
Well, they start off at very moderate
rate for few minutes, then they increase
it to the average press rate, and then be-
gan climbing on him gradually, until 40
and then 45 words minute were reach
ed; still not break, Forty-six, At and
then 80 came tearing along, making the
Morse sounder buzz and whirl like a
circular saw in full motion. BY this
time several of the boys in Pittsburg
were attracted by the unusual excitement
Idamiller seemed to be laboring under !,
and went over to his table to see what
was going on. Not daring to say work
for fear of interrupting him they could
but gaze in astonishment at the marvel
GUS work of both sender and receiver.
Fifty-five words to the minute Like
lightning his hand seemed to fly over the
paper, and a dozen points would have
been worn down only to snatch another
that had been sharpened by one of his
admiring colleagues. and kept on, filed
with determination not to allow that man
in New York to rush him, if he never
took another word. But the climax was
reached when they turned the automatic
up to sixty words q minute, averaging
five letters to the word. Poor George
dropped back, his pencil dropped from
his hand, his eyes closed as he family
murmured, g Hank Cowen, Patsy Ayers,
Democrat.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

CALCIUM. is the metallic base
of lime, and was obtained by Sir Hum
phrey Davy from that material by means
Of galvanic agency. During the process
the product was received in vessel
filed with naptha, in which it was ex-
cluded from oxygen, and consequently
which resembles teat of silver. If at
mospheric air be admitted to it, it alb
serbs oxygen rapidly and burns with an
intense, white light, and reproduces
lime, which is an oxide of calcium. The
name of metal is derived from c0Ic, the
Matid word for lime. AS obtained by
the fusion of sodium with iodide of cal
cium, it is light, yellow metal, which is
very malleable, and slowly decomposes
water at ordinary temperatures. It en-
ters into com b1nation with oxygen,
chlorine, bromine, iodine and sulphur,
when heated with them. Calcium ap-
pears to enter the composition of nearly
all pig-rons, but not directly, and, al
though found in cast-irons, has not
been found in wrought iron. It behaves
in regard to iron, very much like the al
kaline metals, and, like them, does not
possess sufficient fxity to enter largely
into combination with iron, and it is
thought to injure the quality of that
metal to some extent. The chloride of
calcium, or chloride of lime, as it is
more familiarly called, is a most import
ant compound in the arts from its prop
erty of bleaching vegetable tissues. In
the bleaching of linen, and in paper
making, the saving of time caused by
the use of this substance is incalcuable.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

BUTTER WoRKING.-The opinion of a
Journal of Chemistry is worth knowing,
and it says: Do not work too much nor
too fast. Work slowly until all is thor
oughly and evenly absorbed, otherwise
the butter will not be of uniform color.
Working it too fast will destroy the grain,
and the butter becomes saley and hard
like in its texture. Let it stand or put it
away in the tray for twenty-four hours.
Then work it enough to remove all the
buttermilk, or surplus brine, so that the
butter may become dry or like piece of
cheese. Mold into rolls, and set these
away for twenty-four hours, or until they
become hard and firm. The cloth should
be cut in pieces of exact side width.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

DRuGGING BABIEs.-I think it will be
found that the increase in the sale of
opium, about which there has been some
outcry, is due to the school boards. A
poor woman, obliged to send her child
rem to school, is left with the baby. The
girl who in past times would have attend
ed to the baby whilst her mother went to
her work, is at school. The mother must,
therefore, choose between stopping at
home to watch the baby and forfeiting
the money she can earn out of doors, and
going to work and leaving the baby to
shift for itself. It may not be natural, but
it is perhaps Ineligible, that she should
compromise with her maternal instincts
drugging the baby, SO that while she is
absent she may console herself with re-
fecting that baby cannot possibly be in
mischief, and that it does not need her
care. If the establishment of a creche were
compulsory. condition Of the establish
ment of a school board, the sale of iaud-
anum, take it, would very sensibly de.
crease.-MaWair. A
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

FECUNDITY OF THE HERRING.-It is diff
cult to convey an adequate idea of the
number of the individual fish which may
compose a shoal of herrings, says Cham
ber's Journal, and it has been avered that
they would speedily impede navigation
were it not for the vast number of agen-
cies that are at work to prevent an undue
increase of their number. AS the result
of recent inquiry, we have been informed
that the quantities which man takes from
the water for food uses do not represent
tenth of what are captured by the sea
birds, or devoured by marine enemies.
AS the herring is the only fish of which
statistics of the capture are collected
and tabulated, we are in possession
of figures which afford us a rough
idea of the numbers annually with
drawn from the sea for food pur-
poses. In recent year sufficient her.
rings were taken to fill u million barrels,
and as each barrel contains on an average
seven hundred fish, We have thus num-
ber equal to seven hundred millions.
This quantity, it must be observed, repre-
sents cured fish only, and only those
which are caught in Scotland under the
superintendence of the Fishery Board. 1t
is pretty certain that as many herrings
are captured and offered for sale as fresh
6sh and "reds" as are cured for the mar
kets in Scotland and offered for sale as
salt herrings; which gives US the pro-
digious total of fourteen hundred millions
withdrawn annually from the sea; and
even this number, vast as it is, does not
include what are used in the form Of
white bait, or those which are sold as
sprats.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

APPEARANCE OF EvIL.-An incomplete
idea is apt to be false idea-it i neces-
sary to take the whole in order to make
it valuable. Causeur remembers good
country parson who preached series OF
sermons on practical morality, and very
interesting and instructive they were. A
lad in the village who had heard only
one of them was coming out of an
orchard one day, his pockets bulging
with stolen fruit. He met the parson,
who noticed his efforts to conceal the
stealing apples?" asked the minister.
eyes, sir" answered the boy, sheepish-
ly. And you are trying to hide them
from me?" continued the good man.
eyes, SIR" said the culprit, and then
added, his face Frightening up, ssyou
said last Sunday that we must avoid the
appearance of evil.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

There is young sculptor in certain
city who says he is certain that republics
are failures, and ought to be at once
swept from the face of the earth. He says
ne sent model clay group representing
Truth Guarding the Temple of Justice,
to the Congressional Committee for app
proval, and it was returned with letter,
declining with thanks, his humorous,
but inappropriate design of female
bareback-rider keeping deadheads out of
ire with tent-pin.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

A prominent Congressman took his
daughter to task the other evening be-
cause she permitted her lover to stay
awhile after 10 o'clock. ssLa, pa said
she, 1--WE were only holding . little ex-
ira session
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

In order to get rid of the numerous ap-
plicants for free passes an Eastern steam-
boat company have caused the following
notice to be conspicuousIy posted in it's
steamboats, "In those days no passes
were given. Search the scriptures Thou
shalt not pass.'-Judges iii, %. The
wicked shall no more pass.'-Nahum i. Is.
None shall ever pass.'-Isaiah xxxviii 10.
This generation shall not pass.- Jeremiah
ii, 40. so he paid his fare and WENT
Jonah /, 81 Under the last quotation. in
large letters, is the word West
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

THE POWER OF PRAYER.-An excellent
lady in this city tells what trial to her
her first husband was, being scoffer at
holy things, and how, after vainly re-
monstrating with him for years, she at
last organized prayer campaign con-
cerning him. "and in less than three
weeks from that time, his horse ran
away with him and he was thrown out of
the buggy and killed. ~. Y. World.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

No man starts in his professional ca
reer wise, strong and thoroughly fitted
for his work. One must gain wisdom
by experience, strength by exercise. and
fitness by reiterated, and at first often
Intellectual endeavor.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

A Hartford juvenile, who has always
declined to eat oatmeal, although his
mother has urged it upon him as a
Strengthening diet, suddenly surprised
her by one morning eating liberal
plateful and calling for more. When
she asked for an explanation, he replied:
ST am bound to eat oatmeal till get
strong enough to whip Georgy Scott"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

49," said Hood, addressing the gate
keeper, who was very hoarse, Hyou
haven't recovered your voice yet 2" ssNo,
sir" the man answered; "I've caught a
fresh cold" But why did you catch a
fresh one? Why didn't you have the old
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

The Hackensack Republican truth
fully says: The swell who has nothing
to- do but stand in front of hotel and
ogle the women is about as much use to
the world as last years birds nest.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

There was man in Paris, who when
he went out, was always robbed Some
body said: s.Why don't you carry pis-
tols?" He replied: Suppose did-why,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

SCOTCH DEER FORESTS. Scotch forests
are most lucrative to their owners. The
rents paid are enormous, and not many
years ago would have sounded incredi-
BILE. Lord Dudley paid a rent of e5O0O
a year for the Reay forest. The $4,000
represent 5000 deer, as far as may be
computed, and some $4,000 acres over
which they roam, comprising some OF the
loveliest Of Scottish scenery. The deer
are the finest in Scotland, often attaining
eighteen stone, and they possess the pc
culiarity of forked tails. Lord Dudley
did not seem very keen about his deer.
Months of the season will pass away be-
fore he begins devastating. The deer OF
other forests seem to find this out, and
when hard beset flee for safety to the
Reay forest The Scotch have great
regard for the original Lord Ward, who
first took pleasure yacht into the almost
unknown northern waters of Scotland,
and set an example to tourists in pene-
trating to the fnrthermost recesses of the
land. Last season Lord Dudley had the
famous Black Forest in Argyllshire, be-
longing to Lord Beadalbane, paying
E45O0 The forest stretches for twenty
miles, the haunt of the finest red deer; !;
and the sport has been excellent, though
Devastating is exceptionally difficult in
this country. Lord Aveland is credited
with almost the best shooting last season
in &c lone Glenartney's hazel shade" The
Inverness-shire shootings reach total
rental of some e65, 900 year. It is all
very well for Professor Blackie, in his
Br0ena0r Ballads, to denounce the in
cursions of the Saxon A London
brewer shoots the grouse, a landlord
stalks the deer" The regret of the Gael
is not that they come in such numbers, as
that there may be a falling off in number
of his southern guests. The visitors fur
nish employment, promote trade, put
heaps of money in brisk circulation, and
increase the comforts and savings of the
peasants. IF they can really reclaim the
wastes, and find sufficient food of en-
ployment to fave Highlanders from emil
grating, doubtless SO much the better,
but the issue is problematical and cer-
tainly remote. Society.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

Said he, as he stole one, (" I seal nv
love with q kiss. And she, snitino the
action to the word, replied, 6 seal mine
with whacks.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

The postage stamp knows its place
aft er it has been licked once.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26
z. H. BURNHAM,
HOUSE PAINTING,
eaAINlNe AND PAPER HANGING.

ALL WORK IN MY LINE PROMPTLY
attended to on reasonable TERMS Paper
hanging speciality. Orders may he left at
Graham, Hamilton and Co.'S drug store, or s. g
McFadden's carpenter shop.
Corvallis, April Z, 1879. l5tf
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26
Latest Medical Endorsements.

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. II, 1879.
". j. Horme Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, s. F.-Dear Sir:
In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, would say
that have carefully studied its mechanism, ap
piled it in practice, and do not hesitate to say
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
it is the best Truss ever offered to the public.
Yours truly. J. H. CARoTHERs, M. D.
Endorsed by a Prominent Medical lnsti
lute.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 1879.
". j. Horne, Esq--Dear Sir. You ask my
opinion of the relative merits of your Patent
Elastic Truss, as compared with other kinds that
have been tested under my observation, and in
reply frankly state, that from the time my at
tention was first called to their simple, though
highly mechanical and philosophical construction,
together with easy adjustblity to persons of all
ages, forms and sizes. 1 add this further testi-
monial with special pleasure, that the several
persons who have applied to me for aid in their
cases of rupture, and whom I have advised to try
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of your improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SAITH, M. d.
Proprietor of the Hygienic Medical Institute,
635 California street, San Francisco.
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A Remarkable Cure.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 1879.
W. IT. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 720 Market street, San Francisco-Dear
Sir: / am truly grateful to you for the wonder
full CURE your valuable Truss has effected ON my
little boy. The double Truss purchased from
YOU has PERFECTLY CURED him of his pain
full rupture on both sides in little over six
months The Steel Truss he had before I bought
yours caused him cruel torture, and it was hap
Nv day for lis all when he laid it aside for the
CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS. am sure
that all will be thankful who are providentially
led to give your Truss trial. You may refer
any one to me on the subject. Yours truly,
WIN. PERU, 638 Sacramento St.
This is to certify that have examined the
of VIM. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY
CURED Of Hernia, on both sides.
L. DEXTER LYFoRD, M. D.
Surgeon and Physician.
1russes foraedrded to all parts of the United
States at our eape'ase, on receipt OF price.
aend stamp for illustrated Catalogue
and Price List.
Giving full information and rules for measuring
California ELAsIlc Isuss
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SAFE & LOCK COMPANY,
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-08
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
TThe DEMOCRAT Is responsible for none OF
the views expressed In the communications
under this head; but no communications VIII
be printed except FROM responsible partes.l
ASSUMED PRERuGATIVE OF NEW
ORLEANS DEsIZENS.

10 the Editor OF the Democrat:
Public streets are common property, to the
use whereof all the inhabitants Of q city are
entitled in common-sic stdtait lea. But the
owners Of those extensive depots Of slaves
for sale used In times Of yore by John Hagan
and Walter r. Campbell, and situated at the
corner OF Esplanade and Chartres streets
seem to think that this law is not worth the
papurMs on which 1t Is ciphered, and tha
they have the right to exclude the puDh
from the free use Of the adjoining street:
These extensive buildings have Wlthlh u Ihe
last month or two been pulled down, ana t 1ls
large mass Of bricks extracted from t atrs w rs
the extent of two-fifIhs, II not hall, q ne
breadth Of the street and q ao or to of
the life and property Of amateurs OF buggy
or carriage ride Those privileged Rr nIRt'es
do not feel disposed to have the public nufs-
ance removed any neighbor Or Ct citizen has
net;one and at the expense Of the delinquent
owners-eareant juris publci uiotatores;
LEX.
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Down on the Darby.

plymouth County Ia.1 Sentinel. Rep.l
While the amiable idiocy that prevailed in
Congress during the reconstruction days was
at his height, the Niger was enfranchised.
He was invested with the ballot on the
pretty theory that he WIS a man and brother,
with an infusion Of sand In his make up.
1t was given him on the schoolgirl notion
that affection for the party that gave him his
freedom would make him Its perpetual in
strument.
But the nigger Is less serviceable to the Re-
publican party as q voter than he was as q
slave.
He needs too much coddIing-too much
protection.
He can only vote the Republican ticket
when surrounded by q Gordon OF Republican
bayonets.
There Is no grit in him.
There Is more voting energy and party
strength In q dozen raw IriShmen than In a
thousand well-fed niggers.
There Is not an ounce OF stalwartism In a
ton OF Niger.
The more Niger the less strength.
AS slave, the picturesque misery OF the
nigger was an unfailing armOry of party
weapons; as @ freeman, there is no romance
In him-cowardice Is not romantic.
All over the South he is throwing his ballot
for rebels and traitors, when he votes at all.
He is too cowardly to vote his convictions,
or too stupid to have convictions.
When the stalWarts get into power In 1880
he must either be disfranchised or compelled
to vote right.
The free niger Is fraud.
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Chinese Six Companies with reference to q
supply Of labor for Mississippi direct from

Chinese Six Companies with reference to q
supply Of labor for Mississippi direct from
China.
On the second instant q colored boy, aged
Natchez, and seriously Ii not fatally injured.
The candidates. fever has taken the place OF
the ansas fever In M fsslssippi, and Is proving
very serious.
Judge Amos r. johnson, Of Mississippi, one
of the leading lawyers OF that State, died in
Cincinnati last week.
The voters of Wilkinson county declare
that they will oppose all candidates for the
Legislature not In favor Of the repeal of the
lien law.
"A colored woman named Scinda, at Grenada
or in the nefghborhood. aspires to the charao-
ter of prophecies seer and preacher. She has
following OF sixty or seventy adults and Is
giving much trouble.
Carrollton Conservative: Generally speak
ing, we are satisfied that the crops are very
sorry. They seem to be- Clean but are very
small, and great deal Of the old corn Is too far
spent to make crop, Cotton may come out
greatly, but 1t is now unpromising.
A glorious rain fell on Friday evening, about
four miles north Of Aberdeen, the first in
many weeks. While 1t came too late for crops
that are In an advanced stage toward matur-
ity, 1t will greatly benefit those planted for d
late season.
By the Concordia Leader we learn that the
exodus fever is agitating Bolivar. About
thirty left there on the Grand Tower on Tues
day last. They came from places on Rattle
snake bayou, and were chiefly women and
children.
It costs only twenty five cents for candi-
date In Pike county to have his nomination
announced In the newspapers, such Is the
rivalry between the four journals Of that
county. And this, perhaps, explains the null
tiplicity OF candidates in Pike.
The condition Of the water In the lake at
Vicksburg necesstates the removal of the
wharfboat to point one mile lower down,
where there is depth of thirty-six feet of
water. This will be done speedily, and al
ready an extension Of the Vicksburg and
Meridian railroad has been commenced to
meet the requirements Of trade under the new
arrangement.
NatcheZ can present most gratifying NOR
tuary report. There have been only sixty
two deaths In that city for the past six
months, an average Of less than three week,
and showing death rate OF but thirteen In
1O00-smaller than any town In the Union.
For this small period the number of persons
married was 100, nearly twice as many as
died. This Is a favorable showing indeed
Grenada Sentinel, June 90: No rain yet
friday. About four or five days more OF this
weather and early corn will be reduced to a
half crop. Much corn that we know OF Is
now past the revlving influences Of moisture.
Cotton that has been we'll worked Is now suf-
fering, but spreading and branching. Where
1t has been cleaned during this dry spell it
looks weak and droops.
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what the Democratic House Gained.

The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago inter Ocean confesses that the Eemo-
Gratis have gained during the extra session
all of Importance that they set out to gain
We accept his own summary of the results:
l. Limiting the power OF the President to
use the military at the polls.
2. The repeal of the test oath.
3. Changing the method of drawing jurors
In United States Courts.
4. Modification of the law authorizing the
appointment of deputy marshals at elections
5. Creation Of the Mississippi river commits,
scheme of improvement OF that river.
6. Removal of the duty on quinine.
7. appointment OF q yellow fever commits
sion
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disgust Of the army. He asked Louis Napo-
leon what he should do under the eireum-
stances, whereupon the Empress Eugene said
bitterly: "When a man thinks of fighting,
cousin, he does not ask such question"
Louis Napoleon was convinced Of his cousins
timidity, and remarked more than once: !. II
a bullet should ever be found inside OF Plon-
Plon, 1t will be- bullet that he has swal-
lowed" "Plon- Plon," with which he was
dubbed after his iDgorious return from the
Crimea, has its English equivalent In "fub-a-
dub-dub"
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MISSISSIPPI.

Nayersville, Issaquena county, Is to have q
ne newspaper.
The crops In Chickssaw county are report
ed as fine as ever known before.
Macon paper says nine-tenths OF the
mers of that county are now buying corn.
The Mississippi Cotton Planters Associa-
non has opened correspondence with the
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Duplicate photographs may be had from neg
atives made at Washburn's twenty years ago.