The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
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Manufacturers Of corn-cob pipes can
get cobs enough.
The streams of Colorado are to be stocke,
with 400, 900 brook trout eggs.
with quail from California.
There is six feet of snow on the SUNNI
between Carson and Lake Tahoe
i Over $4,000, GOO have beer subscribed
for cotton mill at Beayer Dam, Wis.
The Biloxi, Miss, cannery is booming
and employs over 100 white men and bows
/ The new building for the New Yorl
Produce Exchange is to cost Sl,6s5, ,A6
The worst kind of rheumatism is the spar.
room-atism Burlington Hawkeye.
There is talk at Brockton, Mass, about g
tooth pick factory, to make 10000 picks ar
hour.
Newark manufactures, $50, 9S5, ,766 in
1880, show a growth of one-third IN ten
years.
! It is probable the Virginia Legislature
will abolish chain gangs and the whipping
| post.
A Philadelphia doctor has been fined $50
for not reporting case of smallpox which
| proved fatal.
Census tables give $40, $50, 275 as the
capital invested ia the oyster business in
this country.
The two most important things in this
lower world both begin with the letter M
money and myself.
The Iowa House, by small majority,
has declared that it is improper for mem
bers to accept railroad passes
There were lO,O4s, GI5 cigars made in the
Indianapolis district last year, an increase
of about one million over 1880.
1t is reported that the machine shops of
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad Tor that
division will be located at Lexington.
The Little Rock Argus says that in the
dictionary of the future the word Colonel
will be simply defined as ''an Arkansas
man."
Ramsdell Of the Republic washington,
D. c. offers purse of SIS for the best letter
contributed by lady declining an offer of
marriage.
The number of cattle in New Mexico is
estimated at 100000 head. yielding for
market about 1000 head annually.
At the Republican primaries at Seattle,
w. T., yesterday. only eighty-four votes
were cast, out of a voting population of
over 800.
A company with $4,000 capital has been
organized at Jackson. Mich, to manufacture
willow-ware, wooden-ware, brooms and
broom racks by convict labor.
They are burning brick in Northern
Dakota with twisted hay. It is claimed
that kill of brick can be burned in twenty
four hours by the use of this material.
Irish turnips and potatoes are selling in
New York for less than the home product.
Large invoices of carrots, onions and celery
are on the'way across the Atlantic.
The New Haven Register wants a gospel
car attached to all railroad trains Yes
just imagine the interior of such car with
the train two hours behind time!
H. B. Evers of London, England, has
purchased in the last few weeks, in Missis-
sippi, 700, 900 acres of land from the Levee
Board and 100000 acres from the State.
Railroad engineers have commenced the
work of locating the railroad depot and the
Santa Margarita Valley, San Diego county
Cal.
Coal shipments from Seattle, w. T., dur
ing January aggregated 1877 tons, and
were in excess of the shipments of any
previous month in the history of the port.
The tallest mountain in New Mexico is |
Mount Badly, north of Santa Fe, which has
an elevation of Is, 2O2 feet Mount Taylor,
west of Albuquerque, is second, having an
altitude of II, 200 feet.
The thousands of tons of wheat which |
were, short time ago, piled up at the
Waitsburg depot, w. T., haye been re-
moved, the last having been placed on the
cars about the middle of January.
When Brown complained of a rush of
blood to the head, Fogg endeavored to ease
his mind by reminding him that Nature
abhors vacuum, and Browns blood rushed
to his head worse than ever.
It took Harvard student only two years
to conquer Latin, but he was four years
learning how to throw lassoo so as to en-
able him to earn $50 per month on Texas
Free Press.
A Yankee bicycle dealer has tilted the
happy thought of presenting a pair of
crutches and box of court-plaster to each
purchaser of bicycle. He is monopolizing
the etrade.-Norristown Herald.
Eight out of every ten men in this country
will do more hard work to trace back the
pedigree of horse or dog than to establish
The fact that they were related to the most
noble King in Europe.
Real estate at Seattle, w. T., is selling ,
IS never before, and at figures at least 100 !
Der cent higher than those of one year ago,
md in some instances 200 per cent higher.
During January 200 investments we're re- i
,orded, the average consideration being .
ully 81 200. One hundred and forty was h
,ha higher number ever before recorded Ii
d one month. X