The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-27
FACT AND FANCY.

are about l24,0OO pupils.
! Large quantities of ralsins are being
! shipped daily from Fresno.
The Saturday holiday of the negroes
troubles Alabama farmers.
In Berks county, Pennsylvania, ma
ny horses are dying from lockjaw.
.sGlobe- trotting Americans is an
English description of American tour
! lists.
Natural history: If the swallow
had no throat there would be no
! swallow.
In California agriculture has dis
placed mining as the chief business of
the state.
Manganese mines of great value
have been opened in Independence
county, Arkansas.
At Athens, Ga, the other day, ne
gro was seen hauling buggy through
| the streets, to the back of which was
tied mule.
President Cleveland S stableman says
the president does not care much for
horses. In takin G exercise he much
prefers to walk.
An irrigating canal carrying eight
thousand inches OF water is to he built
| Gila rivers, Arizona.
The irst copper furnace in Cuba
will be put in operation in few days,
and the metal will hereafter he export
ed instead of the ore.
Small Mediterranean oysters, con-
sidered by gourmands as the most del
icaLe Of all bivalves, are now canned
for expectation from Italy.
/ ssTho birbt IF Il. loEpoI
in Vancouver, Washing ton territory,
to be the calling of one doctor up TO-
learn the address of another doctor.
A man in Early county, Georgia.
dug we'll in order to drain pond
on his farm, but struck bountiful
spring and now owns capacious.
lake.
Southern sweet-potato eaters can,
not understand the northern style of
boiling the potatoes. ''Faugh! think
claim in contempt.
An Essex, VT, man recently paid q
debt, it is SAID, of Sc, 600 with the hard
cash-all in silver-he had boarded up.
The box weighed $50 pounds, and the
new owner stays awake nights watch
ing it.
is now lying at the foot of Lib,
erty street. 1t is more than one hum
dred feet over all, and was originally
built for a yacht. All it's fittings are.
of mahogany.
There are about seventy steamers of
various sizes plying the St. Johns,
river, Florida, and it's tributaries.
The largest is the Alice Clark-592. II.
tons gross-while there are thirteen
under four tons.
An autopsy on a California horse;
recently made, showed that death was
caused by a 50-cent piece, which had
lodged in the animals heart and
worked itself into such position as to.
stop the flow of blood.
The American who has taken the
prize of 81 ,O00 and the order of the
Red Cross for the best portable field
hospital shown at the Antwerp expo
sition is collegeman and the head Of
a great cracker bakery.
Owing to the frequency of fatal mis-
takes through the great similarity in
appearance of morphine and quinine
a physician urges the plan of color
ing morphine red and enacting law
prohibiting the sale of white NOR
Dhine.
One of the Mexican editors who re- :
Gently travelled in the United States in /,
a well-intentioned effort to express his
delight at the busy air of Pittsburgh,
Pa, described that city in Il letter to u
Mexican journal rs "the workhouse OF
America"
i The French cooks at the Hotel Meth
erwood, New Jersey, took good time.
for pressing their claims against the.
landlord "a few days ago. They struck
before breakfast, and there being 17iS
guests in the house their back pay was
at once handed to the enterpris;ng
cooks, though it amounted to $4,000.
\ New York theatrical people COM
plain that they are not reaping the.
benefit they expected from the yacht,
races. The swarm of eastern visitors.
find their hotel bills so large that they
have nothing left for the theaters,.
while the yachtsmen from abroad live
on board their vessels, and very little
is seen of them on shore.
John G. Ward, who lives fifteen
miles southwest of Albany, N. Y, has
an apple orchard covering over thirty
i've acres and containing over two
thousand trees, in which every tree
has this year borne fruit, and all of
| WHICH,, CACCpC Il ACW VI luC CARLY
already gathered, are now loaded
to their utmost capacity.
An Ipswich, Mass, man started
twenty years ago to build house. He.
bought some land, laid out a garden,
and planted fruit trees. Fifteen years
ago he went down in Maine and
bought lumber. which he has from
time to time moved about to keep from
becoming valueless. The man is now
nearly 60 years of age. aud last week
commenced to dig the cellar.
The merchant tallors of Cincinnati
have just organized a protective asso-
citation, which includes all the leading
firms, and is designed to weed out
fashionable ''dead BEATS" A solici-
/ tor is to be employed to make regis
ter of non-paying customers, copies of
which are to be furnished to members.
who are bound to supply information