The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-13
SHORT BITS.

SHORT BITS.
Joaquin Miller thinks of becoming a
lecturer.
| The middle-aged person is liable to run
to waist.
| There are nine women in the London
School Board.
Wilkie Collins says he has earned
$3.50, 900 with his pen.
Feelings cannot be relied upon as
Judges of right and wrong.
George Macdonald, the novelist, will
not visit America till 1881.
| Twin clowns should have their salaries
paid in double-loons.
| Congressman Hawley, of Connecticut,
was born in North Carolina.
| The present Governor of Colorado was
once respectable carpenter.
Ex-Secretary Robeson's Boston resi-
dence has been sold for $4,000.
A little slang now and then is rel
lshed by the most high-toned men.
Algernon Sartoris, husband of Nellie
Grant, is again in this country.
Col. Grant, the explorer and COM
panion OF Speke, is seriously i'll of
pleurisy.
| When a man is out of money any
change that may come to him is for the
better.
The the habitual drinker feels de-
preston of spirits when his demijohn
runs low.
The man who has mutton-chop
whiskers should not complain of hair in
butter.
Senator Bruce is the youngest mem
Der of the United States Senate, thirty
nine.
The worst old topper in the world would
| be glad to draw sober breath, if he
| had it.
Mr.. Gladstone shows his age, and has
little wisps of dry gray hair falling before
| his ears.
Louisa M. Alcott, the actress, has sent
100 books to the newsboys' reading-room
| in Boston.
It will take So, ,OO0, 900 to take the CEN
sus, and then the people will not know
| what to do with it.
Mr.. German, who is to be Senator
from Maryland used to be good catcher
in a base ball club.
The material for making yeast is rising
so much in the market that brewers must
lift up the price of beer.
The man who runs push-cart, shout
ing fish for sale, is an orator who carries
everything before him.
Nature can not stand everything. If
young man will wear a fur cap he must
make up his mind to loose his hair.
The wants long felt in Paris have all
been supplied. That city supports
forty mine daily political newspapers.
The Rev.Anna Oliver, who bought out
Brooklyn church, is making it sue
cessful, and will soon have it paid
for.
The crookedness of the ministers to
China makes it appear that our consuls
have more regard for the chromos than
the tea.
Edison is very absent-minded The
other day he left his little daughter in
the cars, going off in complete forgetful-
ness of her.
George w. Williams, the first colored
man elected to the General Assembly of
Ohio, was formerly resident of New
castle, Pa.
There is no safety in starving out poor
washerwoman. The celluloid cuffs and
collars are liable to ignite and explode at
any moment.
Gov. Cornell signes the first message
with a gold pen made from Egyptian
coins 1000 years old, which has lately
been presented.
The age of Abraham johnson, who
lives near Scranton, Pa, is 1O8 years.
His health is good, and his memory re-
markable.
Mrs. Nancy Smith, admitted to the bar
at Keokuk, was banqueted by her
brethren in the law. Feed at the very
outset.
One of the sons of the late Charles
Dickens, Frances J. Dickens, is an in
spector IN the Canadian Northwest
mounted police.
The worst case of stage fright" is that
of the man who thinks that he has passed
up So 30 gold piece instead of dime
to the driver.
Carlos Lopez, of Colum bus, Ga, aged
eighty years, has just had letter from
his father in Spain, aged 115. The old
man was we'll.
A Chicago mans nightmare turned
out to be the shadow of his wife's foot on
the bedroom wal, instead of an unearthly
monster with five horns.
The eldest son of the Crown Prince of
| Germany has delicate constitution, and
has been suffering severely from fall he
had recently.
Switzerland is this winter almost one
mountain of snow; trains, steamboats, and
telegraphs have been in chronic state
of interruption.
Mrs. Grant says that the happiest
period of her life was when she lived in
Ga1ena, ILL.,, in small brick house and
had one servant. And she said it was the
Generals happiest time.
The mother of General Grant has been
lifelong Methodist, and her cheerful
hositality is well remembered by old
-preachers who formerly travelled in
Cleremont county, Ohio.
/ It is now said "Gulliver's Travels"
have been dramatized for the London
Gaiety. Swift wrote s.Brobdingrag, y
4 but printers blunder made it 'sBrob-
dingnag,' and SO it has remained to this
day.
London now has, and apparently not
before it was needed, a Society for Pre-