The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-01
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A friendship that makes the least noise
is very often the most useful; for which
reason prefer prudent friend to zeal
GUS one.
An exchange says: "Good wives are
wanted in the Northwest. Surely this
is not strange. Is there any place where
they are not wanted?
Dressy young ladies have determined
to wear epaulettes on their shoulders;
but they cannot do it very well with low
necked dresses.
A Philadelphia paper says that Boston
women at Swampscott bathe in. white
kid gloves and bonnets. This is singu-
lar; most people bathe in water.
It requires a great deal of badness and
a great deal of caution to make great
fortune, and when you have gotit, it re-
quires ten times as much wit to keep it.
A man cannot rip, tear and darn with
out being considered ill-tempered and
profane. Woman can, however, and
there is where she gets the best of man.
The average life of farmer is &C
years. At IS he may safely begin to re-
turn borrowed tools, pay old debts, and
to ask forgiveness for cheating in horse
trades.
We should manage our fortune as we
do our health-enjoy it when good, be
patient when it is bad, and never apply
violent remedies except In extreme ne
cessity.
After reading that Ramichundar, Alb
durrahman Kahn and Nena Sahib have
concluded to act together, no sane man
will deny that England is in pretty
tight place.
Keep Your Heart for Little Birdie" is
the title of the latest song. We are glad
Birdie is going to let the young man re-
tain his liver. Women are generally
generous.
els the train behind time?' inquired
gentleman at the station. ''No. surr,"
replied the porter; ''it's not behoind
tonne, surr, but it's just behoind the
bridge beyant there.
The mind is nourished at cheap rate
neither cold, nor heat, nor age itself can
interrupt this exercise. Give, therefore,
all you can to o possession which ameli-
crates even in its old age.
To detract anything from another, and
for one man to multiply his own conven-
fences of another, is more against nature
than death, than poverty, than pain, and
the rest of external accidents.
"Guns alone can uproot the vile weed
of Mormonism," says DIR. Talmage.
Now, who ever heard of uprooting a
weed with gun? Might as well talk of
shooting crows with crowbar.
In most quarrels, there is aefault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are
necessary to the productions of a spark;
either of them may hammer on wood for
ever, and no fire will follow.
In the chime in the tower of ST. Anne's
Episcopal Church in Lowell, is bell in
scribed as gift of the late Ole Bull in
1857, he having appeared in a concert
there to raise funds for its purchase.
Words of praise, indeed, are almost
as necessary to warm child into
genial life, as acts OF kindness and
affection. Judicious praise is to chill
dren what the sun is to flowers.
TO make anything very terrible, OBJ
scurity seems in general to be neces
sary. When we know the full extent of
any danger, when we can accustom our
eye to it, a great deal of apprehension
vanishes.
It was in Rondout, N. Y, church
that a city minister, after the fine singing
of an anthem, said: "Now that the choir
have had their little fun, we will COM
mence the worship of God by singing the
nine hundred and eleventh hymn.
A great deal of sickness in children
may be avoided by parents eating the
green fruit on their place themselves.
A united effort in a neighborhood is
necessary to make this remedy effectual.
Hens and children are prone to ramble.
The secret of usefulness in life con-
sists in not haggling for ideal condi-
hons, but in making the most of actual
No real man or real church
aver insists on having good chance, nor
yet fair chance, but only chance.
The trouble about taking medicine
warranted to cure all diseases is that if
may not know exactly what is wanted OF
it, and in that case it will go fooling
around in the system trying to cure you
Of some disease that you have not got.
A city firm engaged in the provision
business in the basement of Quincy mar
ket was called upon by a new customer,
the other day, who remarked, q pre-
sumo can buy goods as cheap here as
anywhere else p +" Oh, yes" replied
The senior member, g in fact we are al
ways under the market"
The maelstrom attracts more notice
than the quiet fountain a comet draws
more attention than. the steady star:
but it is better to be the fountain than
The maelstrom, and star than comet, fol-
lowing ou: the sphere and orbit of quiet
usefulness in which God places US
DIR. John Hall.
The Beers of South Africa have very
useful social custom. When Boer lady
has daughter in society, and a young
man calls to see her, the careful parent
sticks pin in the candle; when the can
die burns down to the pin the young
man knows his time is out; he picks him
self up and leaves. Beers of more civil
lied society might be managed in the
same way.
As many persons at this season lay
rew carpets, it would be well for them
to bear in mind that gaudy, bright
hued carpets are complete mistake, as
also are large, geometric or spotty pat
terms. A carpet is a background to al ]
the colors in the room, and it is only by
taking care that the carpet is subdued in
tone and the colors well blended that
any too positive predominant hue can Ee
c0unteracted.