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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
Some Things it's Hard to Understand.

| Why an endless procession of drinkers
from a public dipper, will, without any
exception, drink close to the handle.
1 Why half the human race was not
born without hearing, and the other
half without speech. Then the takers
might talk on in uninterrupted flow
and the hearers exercise their especial
gift without their present puriency to
! speak.
! Why people will GO into society to gel
bored when they can get bored just as
well at home.
Why the young lady who will eagerly
chew boarding-house mince pie, will
cheerfully eschew clearinghouse
meat.
Why q mans stomach will so ever
lastingly squeamish at home, and at the
eating-house display a faith like grain
of mustard seed
Why a woman will makes excuses for
her bread when she knows it is the best
she ever made, and she knows her COM
pany knows it.
Why 'young gentleman" swears so
much louder and more copiously when
strange young ladies are within earshot;
or, in other words.
Why the desire to make fool of ones
self springs eternally in the human
breast.
Why we are SO much angrier against
him who shows us our error than h1m
who leads us therein.
Why everybody is so prompt to
answer "How do you do?" when you
ask them that inevitable question. And
Why you seem to be perfectly salts
fed with the information contained in
this echo.
Why ones piety strengthens when his
health weakens.
Why people will get married when
courtship is so sweet.
Why man who claims to have found
marriage deluslon will again embrace
that delusion upon the first convenient
opportunity.
season when it is least agreeable.
Why it is much easier to be polite to
people whom we shall probably never
see again than to those whose good
opinion We have every reason to cult1-
vate.
Why boys should run after the
girls when there is whole houseful at
home.
Why Jane finds Sarah's hateful
brother SO attractive, and why the
hateful brother of Jane finds favor with
Sarah.
Why man should court the good
opinion of another, when he can never
hope to secure his own self-respect.
Why it is SO much easier to close a
door in summer than in winter, con-
sidering that exercise is generally con-
sidered distasteful in warm weather and
pleasant in cold.
Why one feels bad when appearing in
company in shabby garb, knowing well
that ones shabbiness gives more pleas
ure to others than ones rich clothing.
Nothing makes Dakota man SO mad
as to call him zebra He doesn't know
what In thunder a zebra is, and has to
answer back at disadvantage.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

There must be snme meaning in this
climbing" He went forward a
few rods, to where the banks trendcd
upward into high bluffs, crowned by
towering frs, through the top
branches of which white feecy clouds
sailed along, so near the sky did
the tree-tops seem. Down under the
cliffs the river ran perfectly smooth,
almost like a mirror, and broadened
out to the opposite shore. Far back,
along the current, he could still see
the rapids shelving down. 1t was
crowded at the bottom with leaping
fish, whose numbers gradually thin
ned out toward the center, while near
the top, close to the edge of level
water, one solitary fish, Of powerful
fin and tail, breasted the steep
stream. Now forward a leap, then a
slide backward, sometimes farther to
the rear than the next leap made up
for, then steady progress, then a slip,
but every moment nearer, untilclear-
ing foam and ripple and spray at one
bound, it passed the edge and swan
happily in smooth water.
II was inside the dragon gate.
Now came the wonderful change.
One of the feecy white clouds sud-
denly left the host in the deep blue
above, dipped down from the sky,
and, swirling round and round as if it
were waterspout, scratched and
frayed the edge of the water like a
fishers TROLL The carp saw and
-darted toward it. In moment the
fish was transformed into white
dragon, and rising into the cloud,
f1oated off toward heaven. A streak
or two of red fire, CLEAN of terrible
eyes, and the flash of white scales
was all that Gojiro saw. Then he
awoke.
allow strange that poor little
carp, common fish that lives in the
river, should become great white
dragon, and soar up into the sky, TO
live there" thought Gojiro, the next
day, as he told his mother his dream.
''Yes," said she; ssand what les
son for you. See how the carp per-
severed, rising over all difficulties,
never giving up till he became
dragon. I hope my son will mount
over all obstacles, and rise to honor
and to high Office under the govern
ment."
"Oh! oh! now 1 see," said Gojiro.
"That is what my teacher means
when he says the students in Toxic
have>a saying, "I'm a fish to-day,
but hope to be dragon to-mor
row." when they go to attend ex-
animation; and that's what papa
meant when he said, THAT fsh's son
Kotuku has become white dragon,
while l am yet only carp"
So on tho third day of the third
month, at the feast of flags, Gojiro
hoisted the nobori. 1t was a great
fish, made of paper, fifteen feet long,
and hollow like a bag. 1t was yel-
low with black scales and sLreaks Of
gold, and red gills and mouth, in
which two strong strings were fas-
tened. 1t was hoisted up by rope
to the top of high bamboo pole on
the roof of the house. There the
breeze caught it, swelled it out
round and full of air. The wind
made the fins work, and the tail flap,
and the head tug, until it looked just
like carp trying to swim the rapids
of the Yellow river-the symbol of
ambition and perseyerance.-Er,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE.
LONGINGS.

A feeling Of longing
Now draws me away
From home and Its loved ones
To wander astray,
Far over the hill-tops
The clouds hang In air,
Agiow in the sunbeams.-
She waits for me there!
The shadow-winged ravens
Move slowly along.
And Joining their party,
go with the throng.
F. They soar O'er the mountains
pass rock and tree;
o JOY behold her!
she tarries for mt!
Size roves through the forest;
The signal sing;
The note of the sOng-bird
O'erjoyed with the spring.
She liDg-rs and listens,
And whispers with glee;
He sings IL SO sweetlv;
He sings 1t for mel"
The last beams of sunset
Are gliding the hight;
My loved one still tarries,
She fears not the flight
By brook-side she wanders
The green meadows through,
And darker and darker
Nights shadows pursue.
! glide through the bushes,
A wandering star,
She starts and khe trembles;
What CLEANS from afar?"
",Tss only my lantern,
Ny dearest and best,
And at your feet, love,
For here am blesi!"
-Tronslated from Goethe by Geo. W. Baeiseye.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

It is estimated that the time wasted by
women of the United States in looking
under beds for men at night, if devoted
to work, would result in years time, in
making II 900 pairs of suspenders for
theiheathen.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
Sculpture
CURED
From q Merchant.


DAYTON, w. T., Feb. 10, 1879.
w. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 7O2 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
The Truss purchased of you about one year ago
has proved q miracle to me- have been ruptur-
ed forty years, and 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 as easy as an 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-
satisfied and happy with the comfort it gives me
to wear it 1t was the best $40 ever invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me, and
viii be clad to answer any letters ON its merits.
remain, yours respectfully,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

A DIPLOMATIC ANswER.-The old man
Smith, of Richield. is self-suffcient
sort of fellow, and prides himself upon
his riding abilities. One day he espied
his young hopeful leading colt to water
gingerly, and remarked: "Why on
earth don't you ride that beast?" "I'm
'fraid to; 'fraid he'll throw me-" Bring
that hoss here" snapped the old man.
The colt was urged up to the fence, and
braced one side by the boy while the old
man climbed on to the rails and stocked
himself on the colts back. Then he was
let go, and the old gentleman rode
proudly off. Paralyzed by fear the colt
went slowly for about twenty rods with
out a demonstration. Then like light
ming his four legs punched together, his
back bowed like viaduct arch and the
old man shot up in the air, turning
seven separate and distinct somersaults
and Lit on the small of his back in the
middle of the road with both legs twisted
around his neck. fastening to him the
young hopeful anxiously inquired: "Did
it hurt you, pap The old man rose
slowly. shook out the knots in his legs,
brushed the dust from his ears and hair,
and rubbing his bruised elbows,
growled: "Well, it didn't do me dunn
bit of good. You go home.
These days no one is safe from the
charge of plagiarism. Brown went to-
church last Sunday thing unusual
and upon being asked his opinion of the
Clergyman, said: ssOh, his sermon was
very good, but that prayer, beginning
with Our Father think he stole en-.
entire. know have heard something
that it was strangely like. ~ Boston
Transcript.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

Nothing makes a Dakota man SO mad
as to call him zebra. He doesn't know
what in thunder zebra is, and has to
answer back at disadvantage.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

MARRIAGE AGREEMENT.-Last Friday
there was fled with the Napa county Re-
corder an instrument rarely seen. It
was an agreement made at Knoxville,
April 9TH, between James W. Thompson
Jagged 30) and Varney e. Brookins (aged
15), worded as follows: ssThis indenture
witnesseth that the parties named do
hereby intermarry or marry each other
under and by virtue of, and in accord
ance with the provisions of section 75,
Civil Code, and do now assume the re-
spective duties of husband and wife.
That the parties do hereby join in this
declaration of marriage, each promising
and convenanting with the other to as
sumo and carry out during their natural
lives the duties and obligations of mar
riage in the sight of man and God. -"
Register
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
Influence Of Electric Light.

DR.. Siemens recently gave, before the
Royal Society in London, an account of
some very interesting and important ex-
perlments which he had beeu making,
with view of determining the influence
of electric light on vegetation. The ex-
periments had been made with mustard,
carrot, bean, cucumber, melon and
other quick-growing plants. These,
which had been planted in pots, he had
arranged in four classes or groups. One
class was kept always kept in the dark,
another in the light of day as long as
possible, third always in the electric
light, and the fourth was exposed to day
light and electric light in succession. It
was found that the plants would not live
long when kept in the dark, but they
would thrive about as well in the electric
light as in the daylight. But those did
best of all which were constantly ex-
posed to both daylight and electric light
in succession. DR.. Siemens' experiments
extended through only about two
results are conclusive or final. But he
has reached the conclusions that plants
do not require any rest during the
twenty-four hours; that their growth
may be materially quickened by giving
them the benefit of electric light at
night; that electric light will produce
chlorophyl in the leaves of plants, and
promothe their growth and that injurious
effects upon plants are not caused, to any
material extent, by the small amount Of.
carbonic acid and nitrogenous COM
pounds generated in the electric light
arc. DIR. Siemens further expresses the
opinion that the effects of night frost
may be counteracted and the ripening of
fruit prompted by means of the radiation
of heat from powerful electric arcs. If
these results shall be confirmed by
further experiments which DIR. Siemens
is making, the practical value which these
facts will have in horticulture is mani
fest. They will also afford new facilities
for the investigation of some important
scientific questions as to the influence of
natural light on vegetation. DR.. Siemens
gave his audience beautiful illustration
of one of his experiments by putting
some budding tulips in strong electric
light, which in about forty minutes,
caused the buds to open out in full
bloom.
In view of these facts, may not this
light be made serviceable in tobacco
plant beds, Fastening the growth and
improving the quality of the plants?
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
A REMARKABLE CURE,

SAN Francisco, Oct. 20, 1879
W j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 70z Market street, San Francisco-Sir
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 Gu RED him of his painful rupture ON
both sides in a little over six months The steel
truss he had before l bought yours caused him
cruel torture, and it was happy day for us 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 this subject
Yours truly, VIM. 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, NJ. D.
Surgeon and Physician.
Irusses Forwarded to all parts Of the United States
ut our expense on receipt Of price.
send Stamp for Illus tra ted Catalogue
and Price List.
Giving full information and rules for measuring.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07

The two important events in the his
tory of man are when he examines his up
per lip and sees the hair coming, and
when he examines the top of his head and
finds the hair going.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
GENERAL NOTES.

PRESIDENT HAYES has been made an
L. l.. d., by Yale college
A METEOR of large size appeared to the
people around Macon Ga, on the 2nd inst.
Mr.. WEAVER, the greenback-labor par
tvs nominee for president, has written his
letter of acceptance.
THE supplementary European confer
ence, in session at Berlin for a fortnight or
more, has adjourned.
jim ELLIOTT, the well-known prize
fighter, has been sentenced for years in
the Sing-Sing prison, for burglary.
Gov. MURRY, the recently-appointed
Executive of Utah, delivered the Fourt-of-
July Grafton at Salt Lake city.
The fifth annual eight-oared race over a
four-mile course between Yale and Har-
ward was won by the former in "a minutes
and 81 seconds.
The racer Clifton, owned by Dawes, of
LaChine, Canada, and valued at $4,000,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
A HEROICBOY.
How Twelve Year Old Lad Saved
His-Sister from the Flames

On the top floor of a five story brick
tenement house No. 964 Third avenue
reside the families of Henry Seib and
jeremiah Morrissey. At s o'clock yes
terday morning fire broke out in the
apartments of the Morrissey family,
which rapidly spread, and the adjoining
rooms were soon in flames. The Seib
family managed to make their escape
without much difficulty, rushing pell
nell down stairs. Their neighbors
speedily joined them, and also gained
the street. In the haste and confusion a
baby belonging to Mrs. Morrissey was
left On the floor ofthe kitchen and the
strange commission was not discovered
until several minutes after the family
had left the building. Meanwhile the
fire had gained headway and the kitch-
Ell was filled with smoke and flame,
which poured in dense volumes from
the half open doorway.
Oswald Morrissey, the twelve-year-
old brother of the imperiled babe, rush
ed up stairs, entered the room and se!z-
ing the child in his arms ran back with
it to the street. His clothing had caught
fire, however and after he had been
rolled in blanket it was found that he
was badly burned about the arms and
legs, but the babe was uninjured. Os-
valid was attended by physician who
dressed his wounds. The damage done
to the building and contents amounts
to $500.
A pot of wax was set on fire, by acci-
dent on the third floor of the tenement
house No. 247 East Fifty-fifth street yes
terday. Mathels Thiel, who was attend
ing the pot, threw it into the hallway in
her fright and set fire to the house. 1t
was damaged $50.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
ODD SUPERSTITIONS.
Popular Fallacy Concerning the Vir
tues OF seventh Son.

It is believed that seventh son can
cure diseases, but that seventh son of
Il seventh son, and no females born be-
tween, can cure the kings evil. Such a
favored individual is really looked on
with veneration. An artist visiting Ak
minister in 1928, noticing the indulgence
granted to one urchin in preference to
others, and seeing nothing particular in
this child, addressed his mother as fol-
lows: "Tbis little man appears to be a
favorite; I presume he is your little
Benjamin." He is &. seventh son, sill"
said the mother. Affecting an air Of
surprise, I expressed myself at the in
slant as being one very anxious to know
what seventh son could do. The
mother, very civil woman, told me
that she "did think, to cure all diseases,
should be the seventh son of Il seventh
son.. but many folk do come to touch
my son." In April, 1926, a respectable
looking woman was engaged in collect
ing a penny from each of thirty young
women, unmarried; the money to be
laid out in purchasing a silver ring to
cure her son of epileptic fits. The
money was to be freely given, without
any consideration, or else the charm
would have been destroyed. The young
women gave their pence, because it
would have been q pity for the lad to
continue afflicted if the charm would
cure him.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
Some Things Not Geuerally KNOWN.

Coaches were first used in Boston in
1869.
The first paper money in New Eng
land was issued in 1859.
A mint for coming silver was estab-
lished in Boston in 1862.
Bears were very numerous within
two miles of Boston in 1885.
Horse racing on Boston Common was
complained of in 1869.
The first duel in the United States was
fought at Plymouth, Mass, in 1921.
Captain Kidd, the pirate, was arrest
ed in Boston and sent to England in
1899.
The Egyptians made glass and col
ored it beautifully 5000 years before
Christ.
For nearly eight hundred years Lon
don bridge was the only one over the
Thames.
The first child in New England was
born in Plymouth Colony in 1920, and
his name was Peregrine White.
The epoch of Abraham may be fixed
by that of Joseph, who went to Egypt
1,73O years before the time of Christ.
The original name Of Albany, n. Y,
was Beaverdyck. 1t was founded by
the Dutch in 1923.
The first armed vessel commissioned
by Washington sailed under the pine
tree flag, white flag with green pine
tree upon it.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, July 7.-Flour,-Good demand at
full prices Wheat-Activc firm and higher;
No. red winter, 95: No. Chicago Spring, 69
for cash; S9'a for July; S9'a for August; 81
for September; No. 3, Chicago spring, 79gSO
rejected; Co... Com-Strong; 35'4 for cash; 35 y
a35'a for August; 35>n for September; reject
ed, 33ls. Oats-Strong and higher; 24aa for
cash; PA for July; 23', for August; % for
September. Rye-Steady and in fair demand
at II. Barlcy-Steady and in fair demand: 76
Pork-Actvc and firm; l3.l2A9 1915 for cash
and July; l3.27la for August, 1926 for Sep
tember. Lard-Strong and higher; 6.77h for
cash; .SO9 .6S21z bid for August 6.S5 for
September. Bulk meats-Active; firm and higher.
Steers-l.7S; short rib, 7.O5; clear, 7.25 Whisky
steady and unchanged; l.O9. The ."Drovers
Journal" reports: Hogs Receipts, $4,000; ship
ments, 1900; active and firm; 5@l0 higher;
mixed packing, 4.l5@4.4O; light 4.2O@4.45;
choice heavy, 4.5Og4.6o1s. Cattlc-Recepts
3 200 shipments, 1000; steady; full prices; ship
ping. 4.4Oa 400; butchers, 2.3O@3.OO
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15

In order to test the quality Of the
milk dispensed by the dealers to the
people Of Chicago, DR.. De Wolf pro-
cured fifty bottles Of the tactical fluid, as
sold by as many dealers, and submitted
them to Prof Patton, capable chem
ist, for analysis. The milk was obtained
soon after distribution in the early
morning, and put into clean wide
mouthed, glass-stoppered bottles. The
result Of the analysis is sufficient to
cause considerable alarm and indigna
ton on the part of the people of Chi
cago,-alarm at being furnished an un.
wholesome, impure, and disease-breed-
ing fluid, and indignation at being OBJ
liged to pay for it, the price of pure
and wholesome milk. Of the fifty
specimens submitted, Dr. Patton pro-
nouhces only sixteen as pure, the other
specimens being either skinned, wa
tered, or otherwise adulterated.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-15
THE DISMAL SWAMP.
Popular Errors In Regard to t---IIOW
1t is Situated.

| 1t is Situated.
The Dismal Swamp. says an ex-
change, is not vast bog sunk low into
the ground into which the drainage of
the surrounding country flows On the
contrary, it is above the level ground
some fifteen or twenty feet, as was de-
m monstrated by actual surveys. Instead
| of being a receptacle into which rivers
and streams enter and flow, it is, in real
ity, an immense reservoir that, in its
vast sponge-like bulk, gathers the waters
that fall from the heavens and pours
them into five different rivers, which
flows onward to the sea. Any one
would imagine that the Dismal" was a
| veritable charnal house that spread it's
miasma throughout the country. On
the contrary, it is the healthiest place
on the American continent The swamp
is formed entirely of green timber.
There is absolutely no decomposed
wood; one sees trees large lying all
around in the forests and swamps. The
two principal woods that grow in the
place are the juniper aed cypress, which
never rot. They fall prone to the ground
like other trees, but instead of the wood
decomposing it turns into peat, and lies
indissoluble by air and water for ages
perfectly sound. There is nothing in
the swamp to create miasma; no rising
of the tides and decomposition Of rank
vegetables; no marshes exposed to the
burning rays of the SUM- All is fresh
and sweet and the air is laden with as
sweet odors as the fragrant woods in
May, when the sweet odors of the flow
ers mingle with the pungent scent of
the pine and dogwood. In the ante BEL
lum, days all the planters were anxious
to hire their slaves to shingle makers in
the swamps on account of its health.
Mr. Reddick, a well-known contractor,
says he worked Il gang of fifty hands
for fifteen years in the Dismal getting
shingles and in all that time there was
not single case of fever and ague. I
have seen numerous affidavits of over
seers and contractors who have lived in
the swamp their whole lifetime; and
they never knew a death caused by
miasma or solitary instance of ague
and fever. The air is pure and sweet,
and the water tinged to faint wine hue
by the juniper, is as potent medical
drink as are the famous watering places
of the Virginia "mountain spas" It is
often used by naval vessels going on a
long foreign cruise, on account of the
healthful properties and also because it
keeps fresh and clear for years. 1t is a
strong and invigorating tonic, with a
very pleasant taste.