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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
New This w eek.
CiYy ELECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the Annual
City election of city officers for the city Of
Corvallis viii be held at TIE office OF I. j.
Blair on
Monday, May Gsh, 1886,
For the purpose of electing Mayor. RI
cor,ler, Marshal, Treasurer, and one Coun
Gilman from Ward No. l, 2 and respect
lively.
Witness my hand and seal this 23ld day
Of April, 1855.
Z. II. TAYLOR,
City Recorder.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
Pine Laces and E,nbro,dsries..

Ladies our new stock of fine laces ard
embroiaeries have arrived and are worth
your attention. J. NJ NOLAN.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
CHINA AND JAPAN AGREE.
BLOCKADE OF FoRMosA RAISED

PARIS, April l9.-The blockade ol For
mosa by the French was raised the 10th
inst.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
THE BREACH wIDRNING.

THE BREACH WIDENING.
LoNDoN.-April 3O.-There has been a
continuous exchange OF dispatches between
Earl Granville and DeGiers since Saturday.
1t rs apparent that the breach is widening.
ENGLISH VESSELS WARNED.
VIENNA, April 20.-The frendblatt learns
that the English government has warned
English traders at Black sea ports to be pre-
pared to leave.
IRELAND AND ENGLAND.
KILLARNEY. April 20.-The prince and
princess of Wales left for Dublin to-day.
The people cheered, firedmllitary salutes and
sang national anthem in demonstration OF
their loyalty as the royalt visitors left.
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS.
DUBLIN, April 20.-The al party on
their way to Dublin from Killarney stopped
at Limerick and were welcomed with most
| brilliant reception. They were also present
ed with an address. During the journey
between Killarney and Limerick the prince
and princess met with some hostile demon
strations.
CHINA AND JAPAN AGREE.
| SHANGHAI, April ia protocol has
been signed for the withdrawal of Chinese
and Japanese troops from Corea. japan
valves her claims to an indemnity.
| BLOCKADE OF FoRMosA RAISED.
PARIS, April l9.-The blockade ot For
mosa by the French was raised the 10th
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-24
CORVALLIS, OREGON, APRIL "a, 1885.

DR.. Douglas has just said: "Although
the general feels no worse after his ride and
walk, there is slight return of neuralgia
pain and pain at the bose of the tongue.
Therefore 1 shall stay all night.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
CAUSE AND CURE OF SICK HEAD.
ACHE.

This complaint is the result OF eating too
much and exercising too little. Nine
times ont of ten the cause is in the fact
that the stomach was not able to digest
the food last introduced into it. either from
its having been unsuitable or excessive in
quantity. A diet of bread and butter,
with ripe fruit or berries, with moderate
or continuous exercise in the open air suf-
ficient to keep up a gentle perspiration,
would cure almost every case in a short
time. Two ~teaspoonfuls of powdered
charcoal in a half glass Of water and drank
often gives instant relief. Sick headache
with some persons comes on at regular in
~tervals, and is the signal of distress which
the stomach puts out to inform us that
there is an over-alkaline condition of its
fluids: that it needs a natural acid to re-
store the battery to its normal working
condition. When the first symptoms OF
hea dache appear, take a tablespoonful Of
lemon juice, clear, fifteen minutes before
each meal, and the same dose at bed time.
Follow this up until all symptoms are
passed. taking no other remedies. and you
win be able to go free from this unwelcoms
nuisance. Many will object to this be
cause the remedy is too simple; but many
cures have been effected in this way.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
A WHISKY DRINKERS STRANGE
BURIAL.

In Dale county, only a few miles from
old gentleman who had given the best years
of his life to hard work and free living.
He was a free eater and a free drinker. He
was devoted to his matutinal. anteprandial
and evening tod, and he did not hesitateto
say that a good article of corn juice was
about the most satisfying thing he ever tast-
ed. He was an eccentric individual and
noted far and wide in the neighborliood as
being in most of his ways peculiar. Well,
he discovered less than two months ago
that he was approaching his end, and be-
gun to make his final arrangements. He
called his family around his dying bedside
and made a last request, He read how
Bob Ingersoll had employed a secretary to
take down his last words when the end
should come, so that the Sunday school
and Dorcas society books could not forge,
as he appears to think they would, a final
retraction of his unbelief. The Incorporate
old man would beat Ingersoll. He would
determine that his last end should be in
keeping with the past acts of his life and
not a denial of his habits. Only the
immediate family was to attend the funeral:
others were not expected and did not
attend. When the coffin was ready to be
lowered into the tomb the eldest son drew
the lid and exposed the face to view. He
then moistened the lips of the dead clay
with whisky from a bottle provided for
that purpose, took a drink himself, passed
it to each member of the family present,
all of whom drank freely, when the death
dealing poison was placed in the coffin with
the lust of the incorporate old man, and
his remains laid away toawait the resurree-
ton and judgment. This wasall in accord
ance with the dead mans last articulate
request. 1t is not a newspaper exaggera-
ton, but the solemn truth. The reporter
has every assurance that it really did hap
pen. Possibly it is the most singular
funeral scene that had taken place in Ala
bama since it was the home of the red
men and their papooses. beads, bows, etc.
-Ddrson (Ga.) appeal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
JONAHS AND MAsCOTs.
The Imaginative Nature Of Most Base
Ball Players.

Are ball players superstitious ?" a re-
the New York nine. "Well, kind o'looks
SO, = he replied, as he hooked his crooked
little finger in a button-hole. "You see
! have been a ball player and a manager of
professionals for fifteen years, and know it
will not do to go against their supersti-
tons"
Joe Gerhardt. Il second base, always
spits on a bat at the desperate stage of the
game. 1t gives him wonderful luck.
Curious thing about the players who spit,
they are the hardest workers. Joe has
been a splitter ever since he became a pro-
fessional. and it has stood him good luck
all the way through. Daniel Leary always
says his prayers before he comes to the
ground. If any of the boys are with him
he asks them to kneel, too, and puts up a
good prayer to win. One day he prayed,
and no sooner had the game opened than
he made a good hit and got a three
Dagger third base.) He yelled out: 4
bpii you SOs tlAlt L L. LOU CdllIiDl iildht
him believe that prayer has no effect. /
think it docs. because it gives him assur-
ance and makes him work like a hornet.
| once managed the New Bedford Club.
We had little yellow dog. We always
Struggled the animal through the seats
and got him on the edge of the grounds.
We never had better luck. 1t was owing
to his color. Dogs with decided colors.
such as solid black, white, brown or
yellow, make good mascots. But the spot
colored ones are classed with the worst
JonalIs, cross-eyed darkies. The little
dog was run over and killed. Our luck
departed. Did you ever notice how people
when they are travelling want to get on
trains with base ball players9 The reason
is that a train was never known to run off
with them on board. There is only one
case on record where a train ran off with
base ball players aboard. Then it is a
source of great wonderment why players
never die in harness. That is easily ac-
counted for from the fact that no man is
accepted as a professional player unless he
is strong, healthy and active and has a mag
nifieent constitution. Joe Start and Bob
Ferguson have been playing for a quarter
of a century and are still good. Another
superstition ! forgot to mention is that
many clubs are averse 10 having their
pictures taken. Nothing will induce them,
because they think it is bad lnck."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
THE LOST
Mr.. D0nneiIy's W0rk-A New idea by a
French Author.

A good many people have been charmed
with Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly's remarkable
book about the lost Atlantis. and felt the
force of some of his facts and arguments
to prove that the Egyptian tradition re-
lated by Scion and preserved by Plato was
a rue story, and that such an Atlantic
continent, or island, did once exist. The
Hartford Times says on this subject: 1t is
argued by the ex-Congressman from
Minnesota that the Azores now form all
that there is left of what was that great
continent, and that the now submerged
and lost realm was blessed with a mild
climate, and became populous, the seat OF
the worlds prehistoric civilization, and the
home of the arts. Now comes a new idea,
promulgated by Mr.. Z. F. Berlioux, pro-
fessor of geography in the faculty OF
letters, Lyons. That gentleman has lately
published, at Paris, a learned work, en-
titled lies Atlantes: Historic de lAtlantis
ct de l'Atlas Primitif, I'M Introduction a
l'Histoire de Europe"
Mr.. BerllouX apparently believes that the
desert of Sahara, and the Atlas mountains
more especially, have arisen from the sea,
and that the Atlas region contains many
evidences of having been upheaved from
ocean depths with the still existing re-
mains of the monumental tastes of some
~long-extinct people. The evidences that
the desert, at least, once formed the bed OF
the sea, are of a different and more I'M
p~ressive kind than those upon which the
French scientist appears to rely. They
were first noticed, amid all his sufferings
by Captain Riley, of the Hartford brig
Commerce, that was wrecked on the ives
coast of Morocco in 1915, while he wal
being driven inland through the desert b,
his merciless captois. He could not resisr
the powerful impression that certain mode
rate but rather sudden ridges which he Ell.
countered as he rose gradually into the in
terror of the desert, and which marked tn,
western limits of broad table-lands, mus
surely be the lines of ancient sea-beaehes
NJ. Berlioux goes a little (but not much
farther north and takes the Atlas noun
tains. His argument for the s~o-callct
Lost Atlantis" of the Greek geographer
is by no means conclusive. but it is at leas
interesting.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
TRAIN TALK.

A newly married couple were enroute to
Washington by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. There are many tunnels OIL this
road on the other side of the Ohio river.
All through Ohio the face of the young
man wore occasional looks of pain, despite
his great joy. He seemed to want some
thing. Apparently he yearned.
Over in West Virginia the train entered
a tunnel. Upon emerging into the light,
the young mans face was seen to wear a
studious expression. He was thinking.
At first he seemed p%erplexed, then inter-
ested, then triumphant. He had had a
revelation. Then he smiled with a firm.
manly, continuous smile, and his eyes
peered ahead for the first sign of a yawn-
ing cavern in the mountain side.
The bride was happy and demure.
Whish shadow rumble darkness
The veil is drawn. 1t is another tunnel.
Light again and the young man looks
happier than ever. The brides cheek dis
ports a gentle blush-a modest, experienced
DitSHy olSCOsCINDit Ohiy w bhN lHitldlcu
and enyious. No perplexity, no anxiety
now. The revelation has been tested and
found a success.
There are many tunnels, but not enough.
If the whole line were a tunnel, the bride
and groom would not care how slow the
train proceeded.
The man who has not lived to bless the
builder of tunnels does not know what
happiness is. He is but little above the
brute which never troubled the Creator for
passing clouds over the moon on prayer
meeting night.
But our bridegroom was not one of these
parties. He appreciated all the blessings
which man and nature had bestowed upon
him. He did not miss a tunnel.
But all things must have an end. Day
light always to the newly-married.
Straw berries and cream must be paid for
at the cashiers desk. Within the blissfnl
cucumber hides a microbe. Our young
husband goes for a drink of water. While
on this GRAND his eager eye catches signs
of another tunnel.
OF course he fears his birdie will be sore
afraid if left alone in the darkness, and he
hastens to her side. Quick move his feet.
but faster moves the train. Darkness
gathers while he is yet half a dozen seats
away. But the brave man does not falter.
He gropes along, he reaches the seat Cor
thinks he does,) and slides into it. Deep
are the shadows and loud huns the train.
A scream, long and vigorous sound
of scut1iing-a thump or two-and the
bright light of a May day breaks upon the
scene. The young husband trantically en-
deavors to disengage himself from the
grasp of an angry colored woman sitting
in the seat just behind his bride. He at
length succeeds, and retires sullenly to his
seat, wiping his mouth, and occasionally
splitting upon the floor, as if he had bitten
through a worm in a fig.
The tunnels come and go, but their
shadows are scarcely deeper than those
upon the face of the young honeymoon.
-GLJr1a0 Herald
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
A special Notice to our Readers.

THE COTTAGE HEARTH Is, as its name indi-
Gates, a home magazine, and to those who are
acquainted with it, needs no higher recommen-
dation than to say it is better than ever before
For ten years it has had a steady growth both
in circulation and literary quality, and now is
Il most excellent home magazine, crammed full
of good things, among which there is always
something to amuse or instruct every member
of the family. Its poetry is by some of our
very best writers, its short stories entertain
ing, its descriptive sketches most attractively
written, and its articles on gardening and
other home subj ects are ofgreat practical value.
Special features of this interesting magazine
are original stories and poems by the best
American writers, and among its recent con-
tributors we notice Edward Everett Hale, Lucy
Larcom, Celia Thaxter, George Macdonald,
Louise Chandler Moulton, joaquin Miller,
Mrs. A. NJ. DiaZ, Thos. 5. Collier and b. p. Shil-
laber. Its departments of music, fancy-work,
Horticulture, fashions, receipts and household
hints are filed each month with articles of
great practical worth, and Will prove invalua-
Bile to ladies. We would especially
to our young readers the Young Folks De-
partment where they will find puzzles and
games, with prizes offered for correct solu-
ton. In fact, the magazine from its old-time
fireplace on its front cover, all through its we'll
printed and eautifully-illustrated pages, is
wholesome and interesting, and taking the
magazine, all in all, we do not see how Il family
can get along without its monthly visits. We
are therefore glad to call our readers attention
to the fact that we offer the COTTAGE HEARTH
for a year, free of charge,
LIST. To anyone not noto a subscriber who
will send us $l.50 for a years subscription to
this paper.
Cd. To anyone of our subscribers who will
send us the name of a netO subscriber to our
paper with $3.50.
Sd. To anyone of our present subscribers
who will renew their subscription and send
75cts. additional, $l.75 in all
If You want to see the Cottage Hearth before
ordering it, we will send you "A free sample
copy. Address,
The MONITOR. MoodstOWn. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
WRINKLES.


Be economical.
Clean castor bottles with shot.
Wash the hair in cold sage tea.
To brighten and clean old alpaca wash
in coffee.
To remove ink stains soak in sour milk
over night.
To brighten carpets sprinkle with salt
before sweeping.
Mix stove polish with vinegar and a tea.
spoonful of sugar.
To polish a stove rub with a newspaper
instead of a brush.
When cooking beans add one half tea.
spoon of saleratus.
To remove tea stains from cups and sau.
GERS scour with ashes.
For burns apply -four wet with cold
water, as it quickly gives relief.
When sponge-cake becomes dry it is nice
to cut in thin slices and toast.
If the oven is too hot when baking place
a small dish of cold water in it.
To remove mildew soak in butter milk
and spread on the grass in the sun.
If nutmegs are good, when picked with
a pin oil with instantly ooze out.
To clean furniture that is not vanished
rub with a cloth wet with kerosene.
To prevent mustard-plasters from bis
tering, mix with the white of an egg.
To prevent lat-irons from searching,
wipe them on a cloth wet with kerosene.
To brighten or clean silver or nickel-plat-
ed ware, rub with a cloth and -four.
Water in which borax is dissolved is
good for the hair, and also to whiten the
face and hands.
When there is u crack in the stove il
can be mended by mixing ashes and salt
with water.
When clothes are scorched remove the
stain by placing the garment where the
sun can shine on it.
SEARCHED shirts will iron easier il you
let them dry after starching SO you will
have to sprinkle them before ironing.
The wings of turkeys. geese and chick
ems are good to wash and clean windows,
as they leave no dust nor lint, as cloth.
To brighten the inside of a coffee or tea
pot, fill with water. add a small piece Of
soap and let it boil about forty-fivt
minutes.
To remove grease from wall paper lay
several sheets of blotting paper on the
spot and hold a hot iron near it until thu
grease is absorbed.
To exterminate budbugs dissolve alum
in water and apply to the bedstead with &
feather. Be careful not to touch the paint
OF varnish.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
VOL. II.
IF ONLY THE HEART COULD FORGET.

If only the heart could forget
The torture and grief of the years gone by,
The hopes of our childhood that shattered lie,
The lightning that Glove through Il cloudless
sky.
The graves with our sad tears wet!
Then the birds might MARBLE a song of glee,
The winds blow sweet DER the happy sea,
The future Il vision of glory be,
Ifonly the heart could forget.
For the world has no room for grief.
The wave dashed shore turns her cheek to the
sun.
The starlight shines when the day is done,
Ger the fire-swept plain the grass will rum;
Fen the hurt bird finds relief
In the song that pierces the tempest wrack;
The sweet flowers spring in the cyclones
track;
The soul that trusteth shall know no lack,
For the burden oflife is brief.
-Iya.uI N TInIs,.f
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

I'll make a cup Of strong coffee
Fright, said the bottle.
And so the bottle stands still beside the
cruet on Mrs. Barnaby's dresser; and Tom
Barnaby is still a sober man. -Chicogo
Herald.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

That boy of yours is not adapted for
the undertaking business" exclaimed an
undertaken to the boys father. who In
ouired why he had been discharged.
what the trouble with him? lie
hasn't a realizing sense of what u due the
afflicted. Day before yesterday Mrs. b
buried her fourth husband. ! sent the
boy up to learn at what hour b wished
the ceremony to take place, and he asked
Der what her regular time Of day MAS foI
buryinc husbands. I expect TO lose hes
trade entirely. -Gsasoa Courier.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Vital power is infused into the system, every
organ regulated, every secretion purified, the
nerves OF motion and sensation strengthened.
the brain refreshed, the appetite renewed, the
digestion improved by that irresistibie vege-
table restorative, Dr. Walkers Vinegar Bitte's.
IL does moi change disease from one form 10
another-it kills disease.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Victims of alcohol who have discovered your
terrible mistake, you have only to let rum and
tobacco alone and resort promptly To the IA
nous temperance restorative. Vinegar Bit
tiers, in order to be cured, not only of your
original ailments, but OF those which the poi
son you have been taking has caused. II VIII
put you on your feet again.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Turkey red table damask, sixty inches
wide, made by the Renfrew Mills and war
ranted never to fade. This is strong talk,
but they say so and we believe them.
Eight new patterns just opened at Hum
phrey's.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Our stock of Canton floor mattings, at
&c.,, $780,, zoe. and 25c., are better in quail
ity than we ever sold before. We bought
them direct of an importer at his closing
out sale, and our tariff of charges will be
found much lower than elsewhere, either
in city or country. Come and see them.
4. B. Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Just opened, 8 packages of nice medium
weight unbleached sheeting muslin, elegant
goods, 80 inches wide. at Sc. 40 inches wide,
10 cts; AZ inches wide at II cts. per yard.
Also heavy yard wide bleacled muslin at
3 cts. n yard, as heavy as Wamsntta out
hardly 50 fine. May wear as wellor better.
L. b. Humphreys y Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

We have a good hook lace shoe for men
at 81. 80, and the same in youths at s1.20.
These are fine goods and will do honest
wear. We also have a nice grain button
shoe for ladies at s1.25, the best we ever
had at the price. f. B. Humphreys " Go.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Belated husband: ''Some of the (hic)
boys at the offs gone'way on (hic) vaca-
lions, y know, an-an short-handed, y
un'stan', an I've bee-been film vacancy.
Eats homes truth, M dear, S help me-
Wife-''You seemed to have filled the
vacancy pretty fully. Y. Times.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Boys percale shirts with collars at AZ
cts. Bows cheviot shirts with collars at 40
cts. All kinds mems shirts at Hum
phreys.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

4,S00 yards calico, Simpsons best goods,
warranted fast colors, at &c. a yard. All
the new spring styles just received and
opened at Humphreys.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

New stock of mems light weight merino
shirts and drawers, just the thing to put
on in place of winter weights, at Hum
phreys.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Ladies' Balbriggan hose, extra length,
regular made, no seams, 20 cts. Same
goods. silk clicked, double heels, 25c. All
sizes, all colors in children's ribbed hose,
6 to 81, 12 cts. a pair. f. B. Humphreys
& Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Children's button shoes at soc. to Sl.0o
The real genuine solar tips at Sl.0O per
pair. L. b. Humphreys " Go.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Short lengths of neat plaid wooden cassi-
mere. at 25 cts. per yard, worth 30 cts,
Just the thing for children's suits. E. b.
Humphreys IL Co. u
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Ladies dressed kid button shoes, the new
style toe, stylish and durable, $500 a pair.
E. B. Humphreys u Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
.RICKLAYING AND PLAsTERING.

The subscribers announce that they have To-
Gated in Woodstown, and are prepared to exc
cute orders for bricklaying, piastering and all
kinds of mason work, by contract or by the
day. at reasonable rates. Residence, Newtown,
I'd door south of Railroad, East Side.
6Jm. SLOUGH a. BRO.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

THAT we can, in connection with the MONITOR,
secure you IA subscription to any paper OF
magazine published, at Il much lower pflce
than the regular rate, and you Will DO wen TO
let us know if you are contemplating Il SUP
scription to any publication.
The MONITOR, Woodstown, Nj.