The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-11-17
Facts and Figures.

Ten Thousand tons of sand are annually
dug from Nevering mountain, near Reading,
Pa, for use in the boundaries of that place
The new cotton mills started at the South
since Jan. 1, 1882, will run $50, 900 spindles
and consume l20, 900 bales of cotton yearly
when completed.
China claims to have invented cannon
1900 years ago. She seems to have been
satisfied with her first invention, as che has
made no progress in cannon making since.
The largest theatre is the new Opera
House in Paris. 1t covers nearly three
acres of ground. Its cubic mass is 4, 2s7, ,OOO
feet 1t cost 100, 100000 francs.
The largest city in the world is London.
Its population numbers S,o2O,s7l people.
New York with population of about L..
556, 900, comes fifth on the list of great
cities.
The largest suspension bridge will be the
one now building between New York City
and Brooklyn. The length of main span is
1855, feet inches; the entire length of the
bridge is 5,9S5 feet.
The honey crop of 1882 is not expected to
greatly exceed that of 1881, which was an
Indifferent one. California's crop In 1875
was 720, 600 pounds This year it is cslcu-
lated at $50, 900 pounds.
Mrs. Langtry, the English beauty, was to
have made her first appearance at Abbey's
New York theatre on the night of Oct. 80,
but the building, with all its magnificent
scenery, was destroyed by fire in the after
noon; loss $780,
Coinage executed at the o. S. mint, dur
ing the month of October: Gold, 3.474.
0o0; silver, S2,37l, 800; minor coin, s79. 900;
total, 1924, 100. $265, 597 of silver ) cent
pieces have been transferred from the treas
ury to the Philadelphia mint to be coined
in like amount of dimes.
On the 2lst ult the stage running be-
tween Canyon City and The Dalles was rob.
bed of through male sack, which contained
some $1,000 in gold dust and greenbacks.
The sack was discovered last week, about
one and one-half miles below Canyon City,
buried in gravel bed. 1t had been cut
open and the contents distracted. A num-
Der of Cinnamon have been arrested
An exchange estimates that Washington
Territory will this year send abroad 355,-
O0O,0 feet of lumber, 200, 600 tons of coal.
1000, 900 pounds of hops, 100000 cans of
salmon, 5000, 900 bushels of wheat, s,oO0,-
900 bushels of oats. 100, 600 bushels of DO
? tatoes and 100000 pounds of wool. In
cargoes of 1900 tons each, this quantity of
produce will loadsover 900 large ships, or
three every day of the year except Sundays.
Quite sensation was created at circus
at Marquette, Mich, recently. In the act
where circus rider, disguised as a drunk
en- tramp, falls into the ring and wants to
ride horse, the ringmaster threw the
drunkard out, aud with much seeming in
dignation asked why there Were no police
men around to keep order. A German po-
llceman, who was standing by, and who
knew the man belonged to the circus, felt
indignant at having the police abused, SO he
took the alleged drunken man, and notwith-
standing the circus people tried to explain
the circumstances, he was hustled off to the
lookup, and the act was left out. After
the show the proprietor went to the Jail
and got the performer out, and abused the
policeman little for being so oficious
The policeman said: ''Vell a choke is q
choke, but ven a man zay we're is de bolice
and Wy don'd dey arrest dat drunk man,
den de Marquette bolice is in dot vicinity,
and don't you forget it, Mr.. Circus, bet
you"