The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-17
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taxes.
Guiteau has space fifty feet long to -e1.
ercise in.
Crops never looked better. ray the Kan. 9
sas papers. |,
The Mormons have powerful lobby in
Washington. II
Maine takes care to preserve her forests
against tires. II
Three Iowa counties are ovsrrun with
horse thieves.
The raisin crop of California is estimated
at 81, 600 boxes.
Indiana feels cheerful at not being
pivotal State in 1884.
Indianapolis at present is termed the
footpads paradise.
Wendell Phillips comes out against com.
pulsory vaccination.
The New York World is issued from its
new Office at cents.
banker of Dysart, Iowa, has rare
coin, twenty centuries old.
Red Wing Mimi, made 81, 10000 worth
of flour in the past year.
The Cincinnati, midwives and BARRIERS
ply the vaccinating lance.
Tomatoes cause soreness in the roofs of
some persons mouths.
The cost of London's Fire Department ia
about $500, 900 per year.
Over 1000 people have asked for tickets
see Guiteau's execution.
A volcano of very cold air has been found
in Grant county, Oregon.
The Southern States report this years
| wheat crop in a fine condition.
| The New York World claims to have
press that prints 80, 900 an hour.
The Erie canal has paid New York State
total of $40, 900. 600 over its cost.
During the year 1881, Chicago received
l,47e. 994 head of beef cattle, and 6, 46O,4l7
head of hogs.
An English company has concluded the
purchase l, 800, 900 acres Of land from the
State of Mississippi.
The Oldest member Of British House sf
Commons was 81 years old when the young.
est member was born.
New York has never been more crowded
than it is this winter. Tho hotei'keepers
are making fortunes
Australia has much larger acreage OF
wheat than Great Britain, while our acre
age is IL times as great.
There were 2.02e shipwrecks last yea'
= and 1874 lost th=ir lives in consequence.
This is a large increase on the losses IN lSSo'
: China imports $1,000 chests of foreign
opium annually. Average smokers an
spending 25 cents per day for it.
, The present tea crop of India is "lmos
Al. SEQ, COO pounds, of which $4,000, oo'
pounds will be exported to England.
The grain feet lit is estimatedl. OF thi
wear from San Francisco, will number NOR
than 425 ships of the largest class.
There were mined last yssr in Pennsyl
: vania %. .54s, 500 tons of coal, an excess
e l66. 623 tons in comparison with 1851.
Kansas has a population OF 10000
Its gross area is $1,000 square miles, IL
II Guiding $50 square miles Of river and cree
y surface.
e According to Prof. Young. the total qua,
IL titv of light emitted by the sun is equal
'e about 6, 800, ooo, ,ooO 0oo ooo Oo0 600, ,ooo ot
+. candles.
N Iowa has 6, 300 miles of railroad. and tn
l. ia more than the entire railroad mileage
:. New ENGLAND, and second only to that
,d Illinois.
-. The wheat acreage of Northern Dako
has increased over 2O0, 600 in year, whit
:. nearly every State in the Union shows
. large decrease
'e The Australian Colonies are the richie
,i' in the world Among their posesslens a
)n so. OOo, 900 sheep, and the total popaiati'
ip is only 5000. 900 souls.
M During the past year the State wh'
nj after New York, was the destination OF
LARGEST number Of emigrants was Hilneis,
which 54,46l were bound.
TIL. total area of land suitel for whe
:! ,.,l+ure in the United States is not less tn
II A7o 600. 900 acres Our entire wheat CT
tst FOR one wear would not suffice to SOW
,in vast an area.
SEES II is estimated that there are 100000
To men under arms in Europe at the pres'
rty time. and that the annual cost, direct
nd indirect, of these enormous forces Is
80 less than 81, $40, O0o, 600.
nd The eucalyptus tree now borders ms
~ of the roads aud avenues crossing the
q, man Campagna, and. wherever they n
been planted by the monks, they u
driven off the malaria and fevers.
t' Two Milwaukee men have been down
And Guatemala and bought 1000 acres Of la
will and. it is said. that next spring will s.
de- colony of Wisconsiners in Central Anne
- trying to get rich by raising coffee.
nal During the past year, 1852 persons
in London of the smallpox. OF these
had been yaccinated and 637 neglected
ilow nrecaution, the remaining $40 being do'
roes. ful OF the population Of London. 80
,ere. oot, are vaocinassd and 1870 600 arc nos.