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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11
Wedding Bells ,

stMake my costumes and hats as hand
some and becoming as possible, but en-
treat you, Monsieur, have them free from
the am bride, look"
"Mademoiseile is eccentric. Does she
wish to hide her bliss and marriage from
the world?" "By no means. But my
happiness is a personal matter, and 1
would rather tell every one when 1 am
welded than to have the fact proclaimed
by my toilet"
'Then the robe de ceremonie-must it
be white, with orange blossoms?" smil-
ingly asked the great modiste.
'Indeed no! shall leave all details to
your good taste and superior judgement;
only let the robe be tinted and the flowers
wild and colored. shall call to morrow
to see your samples and designs for my
complete outfit. Good morning, mon
sieur."
The great artist then turned to your
correspondent. saying: Pardon me,
madame, for OBTAINING you, but that lady
is one of my choice customers, and if you
will call in one month from to-day you
shall see her complete toilets, and prom
ise you they will be charming and unique"
Four weeks later we asked the artist:
call these costumes for the one lady?"
GAIL except the dresses for the four
bridesmaids" was the reply. Then wom-
"How about the white robe and the
orange blossoms?"
Madame can see for herself"
Upon form in the room was an exqnis-
ite dress in the most delicate possible
green, entrain, with overgarment and
drapery of a silvery gauze, studded all over
with tiny beads, having the effect of a
young, pale tinted spring rose leaf, covered
with spider's web, upon which tracery
thousandsof dewdrops sparkled and glis-
tened in the sunlight. A fringe, arranged
was in the same sheen shadings, and each
tassel was finished with pear shaped
dewdrop. The 1oopings of the gauze dra-
perry were secured with clusters of pale
pink crab apple blossoms and sprays of
hawthorn, which also adorned corsage and
sleeves, forming an effective and most
beautiful costume. This was the leaf and
now for the four buds, the dresses for the
four bridesmaids, which were all in deli
cate colors, contrasting with the robe of
the bride, for green, you know, can go with
any and every color-that is, if the tints
are perfect as in nature. One costume
was of blush pink, another cream, a third
lilac or heliotrope, and the fourth doves
breast, all elaborately trimmed with Ian
guedoc lace and garnitured with flowers.
to match those on the costume of the
lovely bride.
A reception toilet for the bride was in
rich shaded satin, ruby and gold, entrain,
the latter being trimmed with plating
diyiden by Mechlin lace, and embroidered
with amber and ruby beads. The front
Of the skirt was decorated with cascades
of lace and bouquets of magnolias. The
bodice of satin was covered with flowers,
save where flowers of amber and ruby
beads sparkled in EN- mbroidery and added
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11
Drouyn de LHuys and the Carman.

!
Some years ago a curious scene
was enacted in the Continental
Hotel, then called Maurigni's Hotel.
M. Drouyn de IHuys had come
over to England, accompanied by an
Italian Private Secretary, who had
previously been in the service of one
Of the uncles of the King of Naples.
NJ. Drouyn de rHuys was sitting
down to dinner with few friends,
when the Secretary rushed into the
room, pale as a corpse, and trembling
in all his limbs; with him was cab
man. Hastily ringing the bell, the
porter ordered bottle of port, and
on it's being brought up, proceeded to
pour out glass after glass, which the
cabman drank. Then he took some
sovereigns out of his pocket and
handed them to the cabman.
"What is the meaning of this?"
asked M. Drouyn de 'lHuys. But the
Secretary was too agitated to reply,
and the cabman said that he did not
know. He had driven the Secretary
across London bridge and back
home by Waterloo bridge. 1t was
very foggy, so he had gone slowly.
On setting down his fare, the fare
had told him to get off his box; he
had embraced him, and had asked
him to come in. And with this ex-
PLANTATION the cabman pocketed his
sovereigns, took another glass of
port, and withdrew.
At length the Secretary explained.
The cabman had saved his life. He
had wished to see the London
bridges. After driving some time in
a dense fog, the cab had stopped. A
mysterious figure had appeared, at
tired in sort of white apron, and
made signs to him to hand some
money. As the figure spoke, he kept
one hand in a capacious pocket of
his apron, in which, no doubt, was
lodged pistol. Whilst he was de-
batting what he should do, the cab
man had gallantly driven away.
Clearly the mysterious figure was
one of the chiefs of a London
Camorra; the cabman would be
marked down by it's members for
having saved him, and would lose
his life. Dimly it occurred to the
guests that this chief of the Camorra
was tollman on Waterloo bridge,
but they said nothing; and the Sec
retary sped back to Paris the next
day, where for years he used to re-
count to his friends his providential
escape, and to explain how London,
like his native Naples, had its
Camarro.-London World.
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The Dignity Of Housekeeping.

Where is there any higher station than
the ordering of the house? While the
husband has to vex himself with outward
matters, while he has wealth to gather
and secure, while perhaps he takes
charge of the administration of the State
and everywhere depends on circum-
stances; ruling nothing, I may say,
while he conceives that he is ruling
much; compelled to be polite where he
would willingly be reasonable, to dis
semble where he would be open, to be
false where he would be upright; while
thus for the sake of an object which he
never reaches, he must every moment
sacrifice the first of objects, harmony
with himself--a reasonable housewife is
actually governing in the interior of her
family; has the comfort and activity of
every person in it to provide for, and
make possible. What is the highest
happiness of mortals, if not to execute
what we consider right and good, to be
really masters of the means conducive to
our aims? And where should or can
our nearest aims be but in the interior of
our home? ALI those indispensable and
still to be renewed supplies, where do
we expect, do we require to find them, if
not in the place where he go to sleep,
where kitchen and cellar, and every
species of accommodation for ourselves
and ours is to be always ready? What
unyarying activity is needed to conduct
this constantly recurring series in un-
broken living order How few are the
men to whom it is given to return
regularly like star, to command their
days as they command their night; to
form for themselves their household
instruments, to SOW and to reap, to gain
and to expend, and to travel around
their circle with perpetual success and
peace and Lowell It is when a woman
has attained this inward mastery, that
she truly makes the husband whom she
loves master; her attention will re-
-quire all sorts of knowledge; her activity
will turn them all to profit. Thus she
is dependent upon no one; and she pro-
cures. her husband genuins indepen-
dence, that which is interior and
domestic; whatever he possesses, he
beholds secured; what he earns, well
employed, and thus he can direct his
mind to lofty objects, and, if fortune
favors, he may act in the state the same
character which SO well becomes his
wife at home.
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A Delicate Question.

When man waits on young woman
for two or three years, without propos-
ing marriage, although monopolizing
her society, and preventing the approach
of other suitors, what should she do?
Terminate the acquaintance. She need
not tell him plumply that their intimacy
must cease-that would look like fishing
for an offer, which is an unmaidenly bus
iness-but she can stop the intimacy.
Then if his intentions have really meant
something, he may wake up to the idea
that 1oye-making which does not end in
an offer of marriage cannot be pursued
indefinitely. No lady of self-respect toll
crates impertinent assurance in man,
nor does lady choose her intimate
friends among men she deems lacking
is apt to be the sufferer. She waits in
which she is ready to give q favorable
answer, andsat last she finds she has no
exchange in kind for her affection, and
perhaps has to tremble at the wedding
of the man to another lady. This is a
bad business, and girls should avoid get
ting into such entanglements, and should
not be lead into them. It is mean
thing for fellow to pay marked atten-
tions to girl and then desert her unex-
pectedly. Episodes of this kind have
been known to end tragically.
ARTIFICIAL FuE1.-A new kind of
artificial fuel is now manufactured in
Germany. It is made in the form of
of bricks or blocks out of peat, coal
dust and other combustib1e materials in
combination with seagrass, seaweed or
similar vegetable substances. One or
more of the materials being first boiled
in water to a jelly, the latter is then
carefully mixed with the combustible
articles in powdered state until pasty
mass is obtained. The resulting mix
ture is compressed in molds of suitable
sixe for bricks, which are dried in the
open air; after having sufficiently hard
ened, the bricks are furnished with
coating of pitch, thus forming strong
protecting surface against atmospheric
influence.
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Buskin and Gladstone in Conversation,

A friend of mine had once the
and Gladstone at country house.
He lost no time IN setting them by
the ears-I mean in introducing them
to each other; and very curious was
the conversation to which he had
the privilege of listening. Ruskin
propounded all sorts of wild theories,
and Gladstone gravely demolished
them ALL The poet set up success
sion of political ninepins, and the
statesman, with earnest, smileless
face, quietly knocked them down.
Ruskin, slightly nettled, fell back on
little quiet chaff and managed to
annihilate the jokes in the same way
that he would one of Sir Staford's
arguments, and of course came to
grief in the attempt. Talking of
being "nettled," Ruskin frankly ac-
knowledged-well, one hardly knows
how to put it. He shall speak for
himself. II have sympathy" he
says, Gin my enforced and accidental
temper with Dean Swift" ssDoest
thou well to be angry?" was the
question addressed of old to Jonah.
And the prophet answered.: 81 do
well to be angry" So does Ruskin,
IN This own opinion, whether the
merits of Whistler or the gayeties of
the Second Empire or the Sunday
amusements Of the people be the
theme of discussion. Writers who
pen jeremiads on the decay of most
things that are supposed to be good
and great in this world do not neces-
sarily give you the impression of
supposlng themselves to be affected
by the general decline. So it is right
to say that Ruskin, at all events, is
the most modest of men. Said the
father of an old Oxford man to Rus
kin: "My son is quite enthusiastic
about your lectures, and SO are all
his friends "What an immense
triumph" quoth the lecturer; adding,
with a smile: "Are you sure they
listened? If I could be only certain
that they heard what I said to
them-that I had their minds for a
few minutes-it would be very grati-
flying to me-"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11
How to Manage a Kitchen.

ga clean kitchen makes clean house,
is saying which has great deal of
truth in it. As all the food Of the family
has to be prepared in the kitchen, and as
most working people have their meals
and sit in the kitchen-indeed, as the
one day room has to be parlor, kitchen
all to the many honest families-it ought
to be clean and neat, or it will not be
comfortable.
First of all the windows and the fire.
place must be kept clean and bright.
No room is cheerful with dirty windows
and a dusty fireplace. Every morning
the room must be carefully swept, and
any hearth rug, MAJ, or piece OF carpet
must be taken out of doors and beat
daily. The hearth mus5 be cleaned
every day, and the stoves brushed
Cupboards want great care to keep
them free from dust, cool and neat. Sup
posing there are two cupboards, one on
each side of the fireplace, it is well to
keep one for stores, as groceries, etc.,
one for crockery. Everything should
be clean that is put in the cupboard, and
there should be place made for every
different thing, SO that if you wanted any
thing, in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of every pan or pot used in cook
ing SO clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. Hyou neglect this you may be
the cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many families have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, if the food is not made
poisonous, it is spoilt by not being
scleanly cooked. Be very particular
about this
It is good plan to have jar of soda
in some handy place, where you can,
whenever You wash up, take bit and
put into the water. It is very cleans
ing.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11

No dorg to love, none to karess; how
can ever my sadness express? Chunk
is defunct, ded as nale-hushed is his
ibarkin' and still is his tale. Oh, such a
tale, white on the end; opht did he chase
it with waggle and bend; chase it with
reposed on the ground. Now he's ekstinct,
ded as male; where am his bark and the
wag Of his tale? "Why did you die ?''
sadly none; twas il from pizen or swal-
lerin a bone Z" No waggin' tale, no beam-
in eye, answers question or gives a repli:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-06-11

A widow who lives in secluded part of
Michigan talks very imperfectly by reason
of having lost her palate, and her two
daughters, aged and 12. can only speak
the strange language they have learned of
her, though their vocal organs are perfect.
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Latest Medical Endorsements.
MARrINEz, CAL, Feb. II, 1877

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. IL, 1879.
W. j. Hene, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co, 7O2' Market street, s. F.-Sir: In re-
gard to your California 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
1t is the best Truss ever offered to the public
Yours truly, J. H. CARoTHERs, M D.
Endorsed by a prominent Medical In
stiute.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 1879.
". j. Horne, Esq.-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 I
frankly state that from the time my attention
was first called to their simple, though highly
mechanical and philosophical construction, to-
gether with easy adjustibilty to persons of all
ages, forms or sizes. 1 add this further testimony
with special pleasure, that the several persons
who have applied to me for aid in their special
cases of rupture, and whom l have advised touse
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. d.
Proprietor Hygienc Medical Institute,
rol 10 CTR Con Eror
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CURED
From p Merch ant.

DAYTON, W. t., Feb. 10, 1879.
". j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
The Truss purchased of you about one year ago
has proved a miracle to me. have been ruptur-
ed forty years, and worn dozens of different kinds
Of Trusses, all of which have ruined my health,
as they were injurious to my back and spine.
Your valuable Truss is IS easy as old shoe, and
is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords
me so much pleasure. can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy any
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme-
diately. never expect to be cured, but am
satisfied and happy with the comfort it gives me
to it 1t was the best $40 ever invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me, and I
will be glad to answer any letters on its merits.
remain, yours respectfully,
D. L. BUNNELL.
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A REMARKABLE CURE.
SAN FRANCIsCo, Oct 26, Is

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 7O2 Market street, San Francisco-Sir I
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CURE
your valuable truss has effected my little boy.
The double truss purchased from you has PER-
FECTLY CURED him of his painful rupture on
both sides in a little over six months. The steel
truss he had before bought yours caused him
cruel torture, and it was happy day for us all
when he laid it aside for the CALlFoRNIA ELASTIC
TRuss. l am sure that all will be thankful who
are proyidentially led to give your truss trial.
You may refer any one to me on this subject
Yours truly, WM. PERU,
638 Sacramento Street.
This is to Gritty that have examined the son
of VIM Peru, and find him PERFECTLY
CURED of Hernia on both sides.
l.. DEXTER LYFoRD, M. D.
Surgeon and Physician.
I17esses oraoarded to all parts of the United States
at our expense on receipt Of price.
send Stamp for Illus trated Catalogue
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Giving full information and rules for measuring.
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It has beeen demonstrated that U.S..
soldier can pass 325 consecutive days in
q guard-house and not improve his
morals q bit.
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Why He WoULD Nor BE BLED.-A
singular story is told apropos of the
story of Prince Oscar of Sweden, in
Paris, concerning the objection his an
cestor Bernadotte always had to being
bled. His medical advisor, who was a
disciple of DIR. Sangrado, insisted in
vain that it was necessary for his health !;
the King was obstinate. At last crisis
came, and when Bernadotte heard that
the doctor declined to answer for his life
if he would not consent to bleeding he
gave away But before barring his arm
he made the operator promise that he
would never divulge what was to be seen
on it, and the doctor made solemn VOW
which he broke. A Phrygian cap, with
the motto Death to the Kings" was
elaborately tattooed above the elbow.
The dashing soldier when he picked this
regicide maxim into his skin never
dreamed that one day he would come to
be King himself.
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send US your address and we will send you full
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California Elastic Truss Co.
702 Market Street, S. F.
III ALL'$
SAFE AND LOCK co.

Have been tested by the most disastrous confa-
graons in the country.
They are thoroughly fire proof.
They are free from darnpness.
Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about 200 of these safes are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous conlagrations in the
country, there is not single instance OH record
wherein of them ever failed to preserve it's
contents perfectly.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-11-20
The .cempIr ofDinna.

This was built, ss Pliny says, on a soft
foundation, 10 guard against the shocks Of
earthquakes The foundation, therefore.
wss laid IN q swamp, wood and charcoal
were inte-posed % absorb tho wet, and the
arches from q sub,crrauean labyrinth, IN
which water stagnstes, all ot which is 90 at
the present day. The supersruciure bears
sil tbe evidences Of an ediGce which was
destroyed eight ,imos, aud took two hun.
dr,d aud eighty years in building sud re-.
huilding IL now consists Of several walls
~ immense blocks Of marble, the fronts Of
which are perforat with smslr cavities.
toto which we're sunk the sbanks Of The
brass aDd silver plates, with which the
walls we're faced Iu several places where
tho walls have fallen, they have exposed
corulces and mouldings - q former cdifce.
against which the new walls had been
built up. Some Of the vast prophyry pil
Iars which formed the front portico aiIl
De PROSTATE before bot others were
brought by Constantine 20 his new city of
ConsianiInOple. The hoatheu temple was
displdsied 70 build tic Christian church
OF So 5ophis, In which these pillars arc
again 70 become the great support Of an
anti Christian sdihco. But the most In
terosiing circumstance of the building o.
me is the great illustration 70 gives Of the
aots of the Apostles. Here is the place
where st. Panl excited the cOmmotion
among the silver and brass smiths who
worked for the temple and over TIE way
was The theatre, toto which the people
rushed, carrying with tbem Gaius snd
Aristarchus, Pauls companions Hence
they bad a full view ~ the magnificent
front of tie temple, which they pointed
out as that (which al Asia wOrshiped. 4"
and iu their enthusiasm they cried out.
"Greai is Diana OF the Epheslans!" 90
} whom such temple belonged.
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Aboui smuggling.

Who wound have imagined that dog
had been mado sorviceablo az a traveller
and thus earned Tor his mastor inward
OF 100000 crowns And yot an incident
like this happened about thirty years ago
One Of those industrious beings who
know how To make chaldron Of coal
out ofa billet OF wood, determined. in
eXtre me poverty, 10 engage in trade. Hc
preferred that kind Of merchandise that
occupied the least space, and was calcu-
lated to yield tie creator profit 10 bor-
rOwed n spail sum Of mopoV from
friend, and repairing 20 Flanders. hs
there bought pieces Of lace which, with
out any danger, he smugglSd into France
in the following manner:
He trainod an active spaniel to his
purpose lie caused him to be shaved
and procured loa him Tho skin ofanothor
dog Of the same hair and same shape.
He then rolted tho lace around tho boiy
Of tho dog, and put ovor il the garrnont
OF the stranger so very perfect that it was
impossible 30 discover the trick. The
lace being thus arranged in his pcdes-
trian DandbOH, hc would say 10 his do
cile messenger, "FOrward, my friend"
at these words tho dog would start and
pass boldly through tho gatos Of Maliues
and Naleuc:ouue3 in the face Of the VIII.
liant officers placed thero to prevent
smuggi.nR Having pssae1 tho bounds,
he would wait for his master a. = ltu3
distance in the open country. Thero
they mutually csrssssd and felstsd, aud
the merchant placed hiS package in
place ~ security. removing his occupa~
ton ~ often ~ necessity required.
Such wa the success Of the snugg.er,
that IN i've or six years, bo amsssed o.
handsome fortune and kept bis csrriagn
knvy pursues the prosperous; = miss
chievous neiYhDor betrayed tho laco
merchant, and Notwithstanding his Of
forts 20 disguise his dog, no was watched,
suspected aud discovered.
How far does tho cunning Of some sui.
mails oHtend7 Did the spies OF Tho Gus
tom House expect him a. ono gate. he
ssN them At "a distance, and would in
instantly start toward another. Were
tho gates shut against him. Inc ovorca,ne
every obstacle; sometimes he.loapod over
the wall, ~ others passed secrstoly boz
mind carriage, or, running between tho
legs Of travellers, be would thus accom-
plish his aim. One day, however, while
swimming stream near Mauncs, ho
was shot, aud died Jon the water. There
WAS about b 900 crowns worth Of lace, the
loss Of which did not affect tho mastor,
but he was iuconsoiablo for The loss Of
the dog.