The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-10
PASSING EVENTS.

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ers.
Chinese failures at Portland, Ore
gon, of late, have been frequent and
settlements small.
Two vessels are on the way from
Hong Kong with seven hundred coolies
for Victoria, B. c.
Every county in Indiana except two
is represented bv democratic Office
seekers IN Washington.
Experiments show that the heating
value of wet coal is 25 per centless
than of that which is dry.
1t is calculated that the Mazatlan,
Mexico, custom-house will this year
collect So, 100000 in revenue.
Byron's original MS. of his poem,
"Fare thee we'll, and if forever" was
lately sold in London for about $SS.
Only three hundred copies of the re-
port of Guiteau's trial were printed by
the government. and most of these are
in the hands of spectators.
The United States steamer Chicago,
the last and largest of the new steel
cruisers built at Roach's ship-yard,
Chester, will be launched June %.
Hon. Daniel Agnew, ex-chlef justice
of the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
has been chosen to address the alumni
of Western university. He is one of
the oldest graduates.
The Yuma Indians, who numbered
three thousand fifteen years ago, are
now reduced to fifteen hundred. Their
chief, Pasqual, is supposed to have
long since passed his centennial year.
''Banish the devil of modern arith-
metic from our public schools" said
Hon. Henry G. Robinson in speech
on public education in Hartford the
other day. cit assaults the brain and
imperils the life. 1t develops pre-
cocity, and precocity is Immature, and
immature is a monster"
The four-story brown stone resi-
dcnce, No. 1909 Chestnut street,
which was presented to Gen. Grant by
a committee of Philadelphia citizens
Immediately after the close of the civil
war, will be sold at auction on June
II. The committee paid S33, 900 for
the house in 1865, and furnished it.
Parlor-cars are now constructed
with bay windows. Some on the line
between New York and Baltimore are
fitted with series of five such win
dows, each about seven feet wide and
tritle higher than usual. They COM
promise central light about three feet
wide, from which two smaller lights
defect in contrary directions. There
is no projection beyond the outer line
of the car, the DETECTION of the wings
being inward, and there is no extern
sion beyond the limit of safety.
The late Franz Abt, the seng-writer,
was surprising gourmand. A
.goose," he used TO say, sis very
pretty bird, but it has one great fault;
it is a little too much for one and much
too little for two.'' Coming out of a
restaurant the other day, looking SUI
premely happy, ''Herr Kappelmeis-
ter" said friend to him, ''you seem
to have dined we'll" ''Ycs, 1 had a
fair dinner; it was turkey ''And
was there good company around the
boardr' Eyes, good-but small; just
two, indeed, the turkey and myself"
An intelligent physician has dis
covered that color blindness is very
rare among girls, though it is common
among boys. From this fact he draws
the conclusion that in most cases color
blindness is due to a want OF early ed
ucation in discriminating bctweei. col
ors. Girls are taught to become
familiar with every shade of color,
while boys receive no instruction what
ever in colors. Hence, boys frequent
ly show an ignorance of colors which
is confounded with true color blind
ness, but which girls rarely show.
The professional amuser" has be-
come an institution of New York So
ciety. At dinners, concerts, club ban
quets, and parties they are in con-
tinual demand, and a popular artist in
this line is perpetuaily on the 90. The
stupid half hour after the coffee is
served, which usually falls on party
of dinners, and which was formerly
filled with tedious 'or tiresome speech
es, is now admirably utilized by the
professional amuser. He goes in as
one of the guests, dimes, is profession
ally Jolly for an hour after the dinner IS
over, pockets a fee OF $50, and dis
appears.
The story goes that a democratic
congressman from Pennsylvania COM
planned because republican postmas
ter in his district, whom he accused of
being an ''offensive partisan,' was not
turned out. The postmaster had de-
clared publicly that should Cleveland
be elected no man of character and nc.
woman of self-respect could enter the
white house. He was asked how it
was he could consent to hold Office
under man whom he despised so
much. "I'll tell you," said the post
master. eff Cleveland hasn't got
spunk enough to turn me out I'm just
mean enough to hold the office"
The people of Atlanta, Ga, are much
pleased by the visit of Gen. Hancock
to their city for the purpose of pur-
chasing land for United States bar
racks there. Congress appropriated
S15, ,O00for the purchase of tract of
land, and 100000 for buildings and
improvements. 1t is said that a tract
of sixty to one hundred acres, well
watered and well wooded and convcn-
iently located. ought to be obtained
for the money, while the remainder of
the appropriation would provide Tne
buildings and improvements. 1t is