The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
PASSING EVENTS.

mated at 100000 gallons.
| The old Cincinnati postoffice is to be
rebuilt at Eden park for an art school
A Danbury, Conn.,, man swallowed
live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
proposition has been made to erec
q monument to Gen. Grant in Buffalo
N. T., by popular subscription.
The last blow to the roller-skatine
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the bi
cycle, and it has become popular there
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
OF comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near.
ly as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared, and bring to the
work a sort of rudimentary education
Prof. L. E. Richards, the Yale pedes
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure
Last year he made twenty-one hun.
dred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is soon to open at Allegheny, for the
use of its employees, library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open.
| ing of the Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as a popular summer re.
sort the school is fast taking the place
OF the camp meeting.
In a recent issue of a we'll known
! French journal appeared the follow
Nn nj GIc-
| tinguished and healthy looking man to
be scured patient in a doctors wait.
ing-room. Address, etc.
AS two men were fishing in a mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw a
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
The Lmlanq Wasp in this manner:
s'Fhe foam-covered coursers of the
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel the welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain
A horse was thrown down in New
York few days ago by the iron shoe
of one foot coming in contact with
the cover of a manhole for the cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while the other foot touched the
iron rail of the Bleecker street horse
railroad.
In communication to the Acade M
Se des Sciences. M. Duclaux states tn e
presence of micro-organisms in the
earth is essential to the germination
of seed. His experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on the
surface as well as those which deyel-
op in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, the
Indian residents are more sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of justice. They surrounded the
houses of seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When the militia arrived they only
found heap of ashes.
Tracing-pa may be made by i'm
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpentine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint of
turpentine is said to give good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for, two or three days before using it.
Within a few days 18O omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
age of $50, and one brought only SIS.
At a later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average of $50
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use of camping out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Take slip of paper and place
thereon, in figures, your age in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days.
Multiply the sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the figures 3.768;
add two, and then devide by two.
Subtract from the result obtained the
the number of your years on earth,
and see If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For it's private work the Bank of
DEVILS Lake. Dakota, has adopted
rather peculiar but very suggestive
vignette. The base is sheaf Of wheat,
on which rests silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of JUS
tice and in the other lance. At his
left is a map of the lake, which forms
the place for writing the amount of
draft or check, on which are the
words, "Give the devil his due.''
A few days ago Watervliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by stranger to
act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents GER
tifcate. Soon after two men visited
him and showed him paper, the one
he had signed. 1t was a contract to
purchase $5, 900 worth of wire. He in
vited the men into his barn, where he
snatched the paper from the hands of
the one that held it and drove both
from the premises with pitchfork.
1t is said that three or four thickness
es of common wire mosquito-netting.
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