The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-04-27
poRg1oH ssws. AND GOSSIP.


! It is said that in London every fourtl
person receives gratuitous medical attend
Ance.
Gambstta's eye 10 in the possession of
German Prince. aud the jaw Of Mollsrs i
in the museum at Ciuny.
| In Italy zss now operas were producet
between 1851 and 1860, and 534 betweel
1868 and 1881. making a total of LOB;
J operas ia 30 years.
| The statue of Lord Beacousfeld in Londor
will be unveiled by Sir Stafford Northcote
on the anniversary Of the famous leader
| death.
The British war ship Iron Duke. which
cost million and q quarter of dollars t.
build. costs nearly quarter of . million
annually to keep At sea.
English railroads have paid, since 1876
over IS. O0O, 900 in damages for personal in
juries to passengers. In 1876 81. .z35, ,00(
! were paid in this way.
Messrs. Moody and sankey are expected
to return 80 America in April, and com
! mence evangelissie work again in London.
England. in September.
Sir VIM. Jenner says that in Italy, chill
dren when not nursed are fed on q pap o
boiled bread mixed with garlic and OIL
| washed down with sour wine and water.
Russian florists have arrived at San Reno
and Ventimiglia, and are contracting fol
the purchase of all the flowers in the prin-
A Mohammedan paper says that an in
habitant of India, who is eig hty years old
has just paid 80. 600 rupees for the hand oi
a girl OF eleven, and the marriage will soor
take place.
The Hungarian colony at Bukowina, il
eastern siiesia, has proved failure, and
the 20, 600 colonists are abandoning the
| country, the crops having proved insufficient
for their sustenancs.
Great Britain, stimulated by the example
of the United States, is actually making
some effort to reduce the principal of hel
debt, having reduced it by f7,0O0, 900 OIL
s35, 900. 900 in the past year.
The London Economist says: It is be-
yond all doubt that India has enormous
capabilities as q wheat-producing country,
| and the conclusion of those who have in.
vestigated the matter is that she can pro-
duce much more eheaply than America.
Lord Duffsrin thinks he can keep the
peace in Egypt with 6,l47 soldiers and
! 6, $50 gendarmes, differed with a sprink-
ling of Europeans, at cost of $500, 900,
provided it is clearly understood England
will interfere, upon row arising. with her
feet.
The Government Of Guatemala has de-
ciared Livingston, on it's Atlantic coast, to
be free port for the importation of foreign
merchandise, for consumption in a district
about fifty miles square. Livingston is
Guateniala's only important seaport on the
Atlantic coast.
the people of Stuttgart were amazed to see
floating from tower in the middle of the
city large red flag bearing the inscriptions,
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" and, ''In
memory Of the Paris Commune, 18th March,
1871"
France Is the best customer for the strong,
heavy, dark colored wines of Dalmatia,
which are especially good for blending with
worthless kinds from other countries.
England takes about half the total export
of Hungarian wine from Trieste, and France
only about ninth part.
Operations have commenced by which, at
a cost of sI,25O. 600, New-street Stati.n,
Birmingham, Eng, will be converted into
the largest railway depot in the world It
will cover total area of 45,0GO square
yards, or over eleven acres, and will have
three platforms each l,c0O feet long.
English sportsmen are adopting paper
houses in lieu Of tents. Shooting boxes
twelve feet square are easily transported,
and being impervious to water are salts
factory from = sanitary point of view. These
little cottages viii be used at the seaside
the coming season, not only for bathing
houses. but as residences by bachelors who
desire seclusfon.
The Sanitary Inspectors at Paris lately
stumbled over sn establishment where ope-
rstors were busily engaged in manufactur-
ing ground acorns and burned wheat into
a stiff paste which was then stamped into
coffee beans. These were then colored with
an alcoholic solution of colophone, ''to give
them rich Mocha color" and packed in
bags for SALE