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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-12
Changing the armament OF Troops.

BUCHAREST, August 1lth.-Bulgaria has
decided to change the armament of her
troops, and 10000 rifles were ordered. Por-
tions having been delivered, caused the re-
port that Russia was sending arms to Bull
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-12

A correspondent writing from Susanville
under date of August 18th furnishes the an
nexed news
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
Normal and Abnormal Action.

Spontaneous action is the first law of
all organs and functions. Created for
this purpose, it is to them what gravity is
to matter Only two kinds of action, nor
NAL and abnormal, are possible. The for
mer consists in a natural, legitimate ex-
ercise; the latter in departure from ma
ture, it's perversion and outrage.
All normal action is right and good, be-
cause in accord with the laws of our be-
ing, while unnatural action contravenes
and infringes upon these laws and thereby
inflicts pain.
The physical functions, when in normal
action, create health, and are inexpress-
IDLY delightful, while their abnormal ac-
ton causes disease and sickness, and is al
ways painful. In like manner virtue and
vice are the resultants of normal and abb
normal action.
This definition of the effects of right
or wrong action of the functions. whether
physical or mental, is fundamental and
universal. This test and touchstone of
all our feelings and actions is as true as it
is sweeping, and when applied to all or
any of what we may do or say, is abso-
solutely infalliable and is a correct rule
and guide for all human conduct. 1t is
worthyof our most profound considera-
ton.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
London in Winter.

Some one has said that in order to get
a very good idea of what London is like
at this season of the year you have to
poke your head up foul chimney and
keep it there few minutes. There is
not so very much exaggeration in that.
If you go out for walk you come back
with face and hands grimed with SCOT,
with your collar and wristbands as
black as if they had been worn month
in a coal mine, and with your lungs full
Of sulphurous-favore smoke. Inside
the house everything is half spoiled.
Picture frames get black, and heavy
layer of dust and SCOT deposits itself on
ali the books. A brass chandelier turns
dark and corrodes in week. Silver
begins to look like dirty bronze. To
look clean and feel comfortable are
simply impossible. A''boiled shirt" IS as
black as chimney-sweeper's rag after
two hours wear. For days together 1t
has been as much as one can do to find
ones way about the streets, and on
Christmas eve the Oldest Londoner could
not perform that feat. There Is much
more horrible darkness than that OF mid
night, and it is that OF midday In LON
don during fog. Literally, 1t is dark
ness that may be felt--and smelt too, and
papers have been writing leading articles
on the subject recently. but cannot see
that it has done the least bit OF good.
The fog seems to have no respect for the
press. "What is to become of us?" asks
the editors. The only thing to do, if
one can manage it, is to rise up and
shake the dust-or, rathes, the greasy
soot-of this monstrously overgrown and
mephitic city off the soles of ones feet.
So many people cannot live together in
one place with health and comfort. Some
of us must go. A good many Ego" much
against their will, brought up with
sharp turn by bronchitis or some form
of lung disease. The rest of England,
and half of Europe, is strewn with the
victims of London. Yet there are people
so infatuated as to call it a healthy city,
and they pretend that the mortality re-
turns prove it, although it is well known
that thousands who receive their death
wounds in London go abroad to die. The
losses in great battle are not to be
reckoned only by the dead who are
picked up OF the field.-Co,r. N. z.
W0rld
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
Which is Best ?

so, dear"
Little Nan opened her eyes and
stretched ont her arms with sleepy
yawn, as the summer morning, all rosy
and sweet, peeped into her garret cham
Der.
81 wish l didn't have to get up SO soon !
l wish the FIRE would make itself, and a
Pitcher Fairy would bring the water from
the spring, and Broom Fairy would
sweep the kitchen and grind the coffee,
and good Brownie would bring us a
lovely breakfast already cooked! Pm
tired of sitting cinders and washing disnes
l wish / was lady, like Miss Antasia !"
But she wasn't a lady, and Pitcher
Fairies and Brownies didn't grow in her
neighborhood; SO little Nan had to shake
off her sleepiness, and jump up to her
work. The sun was just coming up over
the edges of the rosy clouds the robins
and the orioles were singing with all their
might; the morning glories had hung out
thousand pink and purple and speckled
bells, to welcome the sunshine, and the
pinks and mignonette in the garden were
sparkling with dewdrops. How sweet
they smelled, and how lovely everything
was in the cool, fresh, beautiful morning !!
Little Nan came back from the spring
with her cheeks like roses and her eyes
as bright as stars. She danced about her
work as lightly as any Broom Fairy ever
did; and the fire was made, the breakfast
cooked for grandmother and the dishes
washed up afterward, long before Miss
Antasia raised her drowsy head from her
great soft feather pillows. When she did
the sun was streaming across her bed,
hot and bright. The flowers on her
dressing-table dropped in the heat; the
dew was dried up on the roses outside.
Miss Antasia yawned and stretched her.
self. 20, dear, how hot it is How tire
some to have to get up and dress ones
self! | won't do it. I'll have my break
fast in bed"
And SO she lounged amongst her pill
lows, and drank her coffee, and nibbled
at her toast. and had no appetite, and
complained of the heat. and sighed and
fretted like person oppressed with grief.
She had nothing in the world to do but
to amuse herself and take her ease, and
now nothing amused her; and she tossed
about in her fine bed, and did not find
half the rest there that little Nan took on
her hard cot in the garret.
Ii only she had some useful work to do,
how much better she would have felt
She missed all the dew and freshness OF
the morning; she loses all the purest
of life, for no one can be happy that
walks through the world with idle hands
and selfish heart
Little Nan had the best Of it; for hon
est work brings double blessing, and We
serve God best when We do our duty to
men.-Baptist Weekty.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
Pugnacity of the Salmon.

1t is now nearly forty years since I
first began to watch their habits, and
year after year I have witnessed the
terrible fight carried OH among the males
! for position. They are beautiful and
strong when they first arrive, but in two
| or three days they become covered with
| ugly scratches, and black fin and tail
| torn to shreds by the teeth. In about
eight days these wounds begin to tester
| and spread, assuming whitish color
Hence, from the changed appearance the
| fish affected are vulgarly called scabbed.
In about fourteen days mould or fungus
fully develops itself over the wounds,
and then these fish generally sicken, and
may be found in large numbers almost
unable to move in the eddies and shall
lows of the river. / have again and
| again stood on the bank within few
feet of them in the stream, and so reso-
lutte and absorbed did the males seem in
their hostile work that they were utterly
oblivious to the presence of any one
nigh them. That the wounds thus in
ficted is the origin of the disease l
firmly believe, and what makes it more
probable is the fact that have only
known one of the females thus affected in
the upper waters. From the evidence
given it now seems that the disease
attacks male and female alike. This
may be explained by supposing that,
after the diseased fish have been swept
down to the lower pools, and the sickly
and healthy yet mingled together, and
the fungus fully developed, it becomes
infectious and seizes others in the lower
waters. Again, the fact that all varieties
of the salmon are equally attacked
points to the same conclusion. The sea
trout and what are called the little red
fish come first; the male ard female be-
ing nearly equally divided, few fights or
deaths occur. Next come the brown
nosed grey fish, and shortly after them
the ''buttoners," SO called, from a spot
below the neck. Among the two latter
there are at least q dozen males for
every female fish, hence bitter fights and
widespread disease and death ensue.
Lastly, about March, comes small
variety with snow-white bellies, and as
the proportion of males and females
among these is reversed, SO also are the
results. / observe that it is popular
theory with some of the witnesses that
the disease arises from the salmon being
unduly detained in the fresh water
This theory appears to me to be totally
unsupported by reliable testimony. /
may state as fact that In small pond
in this district there has been small
salmon kept for two years and another
for one. Both continue lively and APP
parently in good health, catching both
flies and minnows. Sure these observa-
tlons go far to prove the origin of the
d1sease.-Land and JVater.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
serves no thanks, and because he wishes
to make the return of the money impos-

serves no thanks, and because he wishes
to make the return of the money impos-
sible."
''Tt is from Heaven itself, the mother
cried. 'George, feel it in my soul that
you are to be cured.
The next day the mother and her blind
son sought rooms at quiet little house
in the city, and the day after that they
were among the earliest patients OF Doc
tor Amnesty.
The first examination of Georges eyes
were unpromising enough, and tae doc
tor wanted to see him daily.
There were weary days and weeks that
followed, and it was curious that the
mother was always hopeful and the son
always despairing.
At last it almost irritated him to hear
her speak of hope to him, and one day he
turned on her with the first burst OF pas
sionate impatience she had ever expert
enced from him.
Mother" he said, ''for the love of
heaven do not talk to me as if it was a
sure thing that 1 am going to sea
again. I want to think it doubtful,
almost impossible. If you should make
me expect cure, and then it should
not come, don't you see that I should
90 mad? I think I should dash my
head against the wall. can only live
by expecting nothing"
After that the mother held her peace,
but whenever she went out of that
darkened room, those who saw her.
marveled at the light of Joy in her
eyes.
At last the time came; the bandage
| was removed, there was just one wild
cry; .,
lay at the doctors feet, swooning in
his great joy.
It was weeks before he went home
again, but the good news preceded
him.
who had agreed to keep the place open
iment
Solomon read the letter in full fam
lily conclave He little knew how his
niece longed to snatch the pa er from
his hand and read it for herself; nor
| did he heed the tears that swan in
her dark eyes, tears of such deep, un-
selfish Joy as only loving woman
knows.
Another letter came afterwards to
tell when the widow and her son were
to return.
1t was Susie who walked over early
in the afternoon, carrying with her a
| basket of dainties for the travellers
| supper.
Susie's black eyes danced, and the
heart sank within her as she set the
table in the little parlor, and lighted a
fire in the kitchen stove, ready to make
| fresh cup o. tea whenever the widow
| and her son should arrive.
And at last the travellers came, as at
last everything does come, if we wait
| long enough for it.
They had expected to find an empty
house, and they found instead warmth
and brightness, good cheer and Susie
Hale.
Had George Graham grown through
his trial into mans perception of a
girls charms, or had his eyes been
holden before that he could not see?
I only know that that night, for the
first time in his life, it dawned upon
him that another woman might some
day dispute with his mother the en-
pire of his heart.
But it was not until five years af-
terwards, when Mr.. Grant had taken
him into partnership, and Mr.. Grants
niece, Susie, had become his wife, that
George Graham ever guessed from
whose tender hands had come the gift
by means of which he had been re-
stored 10 hope and happiness.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

Two elegantly dressed gentlemen met
in Galveston. One of them asks how
the other Jared this Christmas. oh,
very well," he replied. ..my wife pre-
sented me with beautiful silk dressing.
gown" "Of course you reciprocated,
responded the other. "Of course; !
always do that. I bought her new
wood-saw. The one she has been using
for the last five years was about worn
out, and it took SO long to get wood Tor
breakfast in the morning that used to
get hungry lying in bed. But that new
saw will help matters along, l reckon. "
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

about 1t.
"we.l, Phillippa," said Mrs. Dale.
| when her neice came back, 'shave you
decided ON your character YETI"
''Yes," said Phillippa quietly, will
be Cinderella"
''Who?" asked Mrs. Dale, putting her
hand behind her ear.
"Don't you remember, Aunt Theo, the
little brown-skinned girl who remained
at home when her sisters went to the
princes ball"
"What very odd choice?" said Mrs.
Dale.
'sIt is" said Phillippa. "well, always
did like to be different from other people
Aunt Theo."
''The masquerade ball was brilliant
success. ''Undine," in silver green
Grape and white water lilies, was as love-
ly as a dream. ''Sapho" was tall and
pale, and delightfully."- classic; but there
was one drop lacking in the cup of fem
enine happiness. Mr.. Mortimer, for
whose benefit half the bellies of Niagara
had dressed that evening, was not there.
80 provoking of Philippa," said
Aunt Theo, ':to go and throw away all
that money"
''My dear" said Mrs. Dale, "a good
deed is never thrown away. And really
that Cinderella idea of the little girl s
wasn't SO bad-ha! ha! ha! She did
stay at home when her sisters went to the
ballw
''She will never learn wisdom" said
Mrs. Dale with some asperity. cts so
strange she don't care about such
things"
But, as it happened, Phillippa did care
u. Il
moment she was standing on one of the
starlighted verandahs, without, with a
pink Shetland shawl around her shoul-
the windows at the walters.
''Miss Phillippar'
She started guiltily.
ssOh, Mr.. Mortimer! / am not doing
wrong, am I?''
He smiled as he drew her arm through
his.
''But why are you not dancing, in
side?"
CT preferred not, tonight"
Little Phillippa," said Mr.. Mortimer,
standing still under the shadow of a
dropping elm, s'you are equivocating
now; and, as it happens, I know the
truth"
81 don't understand you,' said Phil
lippa::
She has told him all about your deed of
kindly charity, and he has told me-
eyes," said Phillippa in a low tone,
''my uncle gave me money for dress,
but preferred helping Elise to going to
the ball"
You told your aunt you We're going
as Cinderella"
''How do you know? But that's not
strictly true" laughed Phillippa. ST was
| to be Cinderella. And so am"
''Then, Phillippa, if you are Cinder-
ella. will you let me be the Prince?"
'Mr. Mortimer
Sweetest, 1 have been looking all my
girl" said Mortimer, "and now that
have found her, shall not willingly let
her 60"
81 mean, love, that I want you for my
wife"
| Mr. Dale could hardly credit his own
ears, the next day. when Hugo Mortimer
formally requested of him the hand OF
| his youngest niece in marriage, and Mrs
| Dale lifted her hands and eyes to the
| ceiling.
'sTo think that it should be Phillippa,
| after allt' said She
AS for "Undine" and ''Sappho," they
swallowed their modification and con.
graduated the little Brown gypsy as cor,
daily as possible.
After all, said shrewd Uncle Dale,
Phillippa invested her hundred dollars
the best of any of your
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

BoNApARTE DURING THE CONSULATE
BOnaparte's costume at this period is
worthy of record. On ordinary days he
wore one of the uniforms of his guard 8
but he had decreed, for himself and his
two colleagues, that on all occasions or
grand ceremonial each should wear red
coat, made in Winter of velvet, in Sum-
mer of some other material, and en-
Droidered in gold. The two consuls,
Cambaceres and Lebrun, elderly, pow
dered and well set up, wore this gorgeous
coat with lace, ruffies and sword, after
the old fashion of full dress; but Bona
narte who detested all such adornmenis,
got rid of them as much as possible His
hair was cut short, smoothed down, and
generally i'll arranged. With his crimson
and-gold coat he would wear black era
vat. a lace frill to his shirt, but no sleeves
ruff1es. Sometimes he wore white vest
embroidered in silver, but more fire.
quently his uniform waistcoat, his uniform
sword. breeches, silk stockings aud boots.
This extraordinary costume and his small
stature gave him the oldest possible ap-
pearance, which, however, no one ven
tured to ridicule. When he became En-
peror, he wore richly-laced coat, with a
short cloak and plumed hat; and this
costume became him very well.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

The wife of Mr.. Jonesmith had the
misfortune to be more good than beauti-
full. On the San Rafael boat, the other
day, the writer overheard this lot of con-
versation: Brownjones: '"That fellow
Jonesmith Is outrageously unfaithful to
his wife, Smithbrown: For example?"
Brownjones: .sOh, don't know any
particular instance" Smithbrown "Ah,
are you plysiognomist-you think he
looks like it, Brownjones: "Never saw
him I think she looks like it. y
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

A man is just as much afraid of the
the things in which he does not believe
as he is of those IN which he does be-
lieve. No one believes in ghosts, and
yet everyone who goes through a dark
room alone firmly expects one to catch
him and carry him off.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

A New York fashion paper says: sour
first class young ladies wear nothing but
decorated garters." The mild weather
there must be very welcome.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
FRANKLIN CAUTH0aN. m. o.,
P PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
forvaIIfs Ore1ou

Special attention given to surgery and diseases
of the Eye. Can be found at his Office in rear of
Graham, Hamilton Co.'S Drug Store, up stairs,
day or night.
June 8, 1879. l6-23tf
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27

emn black eyes, s'take that money and
pay Mrs. st. George, and say no more
about it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-27
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,

FORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE
= has given his patrons perfect satisfaction,
has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he
hopes to be favored with a share of the public
patronage. All work warranted, when made
under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning
promptly attended to.
Corvallis, Jan. 1850. 154Slt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-11

Market weak. prices without quot
able fair export a, MAN .r Ssf s
price last can s5 10 nothing done in future closing
oslo ~ sellers option, Year sl9 79aslJ 755i;,;i
H HsF u %S .s Il p s ssand y M fn, %
held moderate active trade ssies 1000 y Picked He
Shoulders. a7Ge, Pletlei Hams ioaio'.c. Smoked
H9m5 20 y &c s nntnarv nneaSqes Long
Clear 5e or Clear ese Long and hort Clear ball
Clear December. date yesterday Goa SD DisI I'D
and iish' "t e9@7 7S Pigs 7s Grass red. Gs@e'c
rm with slight portion q tie decline fair
trade ID cash los very moderate business on slesase &C
setung price last cali ssoc. ~ les OF Grade si.c
November 81 2asoc CLOSING 80 ga oVS. 90 ,e5. I
ceIabcr So q Zoe closing ~ e oc 80, 'I "a
s25as.3Oc. closing as s30o laird Can--eDteine,r
5 oc. December se65sS e.; Year l5assoc
90 huyeI, o. ton sseassoc Jan s. r., 20 500 Re
fined quoted s65c Continent --hU IIlsI'-Stncay me
grades duh an1 rather weak STAG rsn. FAR TO cnoice
Wo 1s Ped9 t. choic s - 9e are crei@cr
Gn.es 25S5oe esisn Srea@ery ro9I o - CF", o Se
l6a24c: Western Factory Poor 10 Fancy, ]. - 70
change aud qaet state Factory Fancr 10 alao.
later an '1 seS Iong Island and New
Jersey 2odaOc; STATE 70 9ise West
TIcE-strsdy snd iai " active Caroline ant Loui.ilua
&C. Prime to Choice, 6',a0'ic.i Eangoon 5'sa6c, duty
Flax seed ; s. ~ -
SUGAR-l.aw dull. unchanged Far 70 Good Refining ~
a77sc CenirIuca &c, sales 200 bhas Ceutrinea
; sc DemeTara Damaged &c: Refined easier am more
active al decline crushed ard Powdered lo'e Sraht-
lated lose cut Loaf. lOas STANDARD A. loe Coniee
TONERS "a 10 ~. GA A. 9's19 g.,
SPICES-GeneTallv frm unchanged; demand Eoou loI
Pepper Pimeufo Csrssla aud Nuialegs -,
saLT-Bu6 n good demand. nIm Factory firm with
High ct receipts and fair demand.
STEARINE-D ull; Western. sc. city. s'sa9c.
TALLOW-Steady; sales, lOOOop u, O's@o'loc'
TEA-SteRdy moderate demand.
TDBACCB-Sced Leaf quiet sales dJl cases fehn-y
wanna 1870 private I9' do II &C.. 10 ONO, Dos
e.: 400 New private terms 4Hu DAeS n2Na a.
as Kentucky active . % hhds- ll42c
WHALFBONF- QUIET and unchanged.
WOOL n>iuess was OF moderate proportions; The De
auds ere simulated v low Drccs stOrks are large and
hoiners Will % accept current OllH SAFES, I"S"9
Domestic Fleece IS Q4SC 2.NUu 70 stare COMING 47c
- GOO n INV aahed 3"C32c.. 10000 Uuwa he's
NJ np.sota private 2l.OH spring Texas Z5oIfs:
- do - 66c: 100 % ~cuured Fast lndi
&c. 5000 b abs, 3 G.. 5000 % English tOmins g.
% Domestic Soils. at sc; la.oHO q Territory
10 FaI aIfOrnla, 500 Colorado, 600 u Gc5--i
Cape. 10000 l Garrett No- l'pt A west
COmbiug 6J bags Domestic Pulled. az on prlNa,e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-11

nrrner az i3 short RID. nrmer at 43 LONG Clear.
nrner az as short Clear hrner a 46|. Hams.-LOng
I'M dnl NJ 90. shoulders 81. Beef-Infta Mess
ami AZ 10 Extra Mess dali Prime Mess dull
Lard-lUmc e.trr -tcadv ~ 1864 Iaow- ffint
Ciir aul 80 Cd. Iunenne-sprts du a. - 81 hosIn
ION. rron DUH fitt: Fine. 10 Sd Cheese
Aufercln hoice steady 81 Iarc Ou steady at 81
Fnnr-Exfra state. duI - %. Whear-NO J. White,
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dull 20. 80 600 . 49,.
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tHvFgPOoI, -ert lt-l:30 ?. isfufs quiet and
Corn. 4.lOLd. liked Western
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eerrel- ifrudnr ESQ o centas Arerican
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