The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-24
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ABOUT !, l,IOU Indians are being led ct For
Walsh, NJ. T.
| Motana expects to ship this year 10000
sheep to the Eastern markets.
The circulation of standard dollars for the
week ending Feb. IL, VIZ. slT3, $685.
The bee-beetle can draw forty times its
own weight.
Sixty citizens of Phenix, A. T., have agreed
not to receive rnutilated coin.
Charles H. Foster, the noted spiritualist
medium, is deemed incurably insane.
The Central Arizona Mining Company pro-
duced 81, 60S over expenses last month.
The Nortern Pacific Company is putting
up mammoth ice house at Glendie, M. T.
The Utah and Northern Railroad has had
little experience with snow blockades this
winter.
A German colony of three hundred or
four hundred fanatics is to locate near
Glendive. NJ. T.
There is three feet of snow along the line
of the Atlantic and Pacific road in Northern
Arizona.
! The eggs of the cheesemite are so minute
that a pigeons egg would hold fully lOO,-
600, 900 of them. .t
| The sea anemone can at its pleasure turn
inside out, and again assume its natural
shape and appearance.
| HI n, L.,
A. T., which yielded SO handsomely two
years ago, is to be resumed in short time.
Considerable sickness prevails in the Val.
ley of the Verde, "a. T., at the present time,
and several deaths have occurred in the
past two week.
Ice houses at Yakima City, W. T., have
been filed lately. The ice is clear and
about seven inches thick. It is gathered
about a mile above town.
The census figures show that more than
three-fourths of the people in the United
States live at an elevation OF less than 1000
feet above the sea.
There is in Springfield, Mass, a piano
~
John Jacob Astor, both of whom were at
that time piano makers in Lendon.
The grasshopper has between his throat
and his stomach an apparatus called a
gizzard, with more than 200 teeth in it. for
grinding his food.
It has been reckoned that single aplhis,
or plant-house, may give rise in one summer
to a quinti,lion. 900, 600, ,00o, 900, 000, ,000)
of little ones.
Every city in the United States with but
two exceptions, Cleveland and Detroit, have
license system, which produces a revenue
from 5000, 900 to 100000 annually.
White alligators found in BRAZIL travel
far and we'll on land. Their skulls and
bones are frequently seen in the forests.
and they deposit their eggs in the woods.
A Mexican who has been placer mining in
Weaver district, Nj. T., recently brought
into Antelope Station, two nuggets of gold
which weighed four lbs and seven ounces.
There was a net balance of $s,2I9 70 in
the Washington Territory Treasury on the
10th of January. The receipts from all
sources during the quarter ending December
3lst were $50, 93s 70.
Mutilated, worn or otherwise uncurrent
United States silver coins of standard fire.
ness will be received at the Mint in sums of
three dollars and upward, and paid the
rate of one dollar per ounce.
The Los Angeles Herald says: The losses
of sheep already in the three counties of Los
Angeles, San Bsrnardino and San Diego,
are variously estimated at from forty to one
hundred thousand head. In portions of San
Bernardino county whole focks have been
annihilated, to the last hoof.
The Newhall, CAL, oil wells are produc-
ing about two hundred barrels per day at
present, and the profit over and above all
expenses, is two dollars per barrel, thus
making $4OO per day clear profit.
Clarence Stewart of Riverside, CAL, last
April stocked a pond with ZIG carp about
two inches long. Last week he drew off the
water and found his original fish weighing
one and half pounds each, while. there
were 1900 carp ranging in from one to four
inches in length.
There lies buried near Naples, not only
the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, but
another which fourished 1000 years before
Christ, the ancient city Of Cuma. Few
remains now exist to stimulate the mind
of the traveller.
More than one-tenth of the Inhabitants
of the United States live in ten cities-New
York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago,
Boston, st. Louis, Baltimore, San Francisco,
New Orleans, and CTeveland-whose aggre-
gate population is 5.O33, ,760.
The whistle of locomotive can be heard
3, 800 yards through the air; the noise of
train 2. 800 yards; the bark Of dog and
the report Of a musket can be heard hSoO
wards; the roll of drum or an orchestra
!, 500 yards; the human voice travels LOCO
ysrds, the croaking Of frogs, 800 yardsi the
chirping of crickets, 800 yards. s.
No Frenchman can help thinking more
highly Of the Republio. now it has been
Semonsrrated that its most prominent
citizens can accede TO and retire from
power. causing no moro cnmmotion than
that brought about BY the DROPPING -cf
psBbls INTO : l6ks Toronto Gibbs.