The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
Things in General.

Some idea of what first class iron
clad feet would cost the United States
may be obtained from few French fig
ures: An ironclad was launched at
| L'Orient last month which had been
nine years building, and cost 20, 900, 900
francs, or about $4,000,000. It will
take another year to fit this costly ves-
sci for action.
More than 1000 years before Christ
glass was made with skill which
showed that the art was old. 1t IS sup
posed to have been known to the Ante
diIuvians.
The receipts of the greatest day of
the Centennial were $1l9,6 while the
best day of the New Orleans enterprise
has brought only 81, 900, hardly more
than half the average daily receipts in
Philadelphia.
Lemons sell at wholesale in New Or
leans for less than one third of a cent
apiece; cocoanuts, 8 cents; bananas re-
tail at Is to IS cents bunch; Louisi-
ana oranges 81 barrel sugar, Al to 6
h., for 25 cents, large oysters on half
shell, 3 dozen for 25 cents, very fine
and fat. Everything else is cores
pondingly cheap, except butter and
poultry.
Spools are made in immense numbers.
One factory turns out 100000 gross
day and consumes $500 cords of birch
wood annually. The number of yards
of cotton on spool is determined by
the size of the spool. The cotton is
never measured, but the spool is gauged
to hold 100, 200 or 500 yards.
There are about 2OO,O commercial
travellers IN this country. Their average
salary is 81 800 year and expenses.
Over 900 belong to associations for
mutual protection, life insurance, etc.
The authorities of Rock Island, S. G.,
have prohibited bicycle riding on the
principal streets between the hours of
8 o'clock in the morning and in the
afternoon.
Invalids who depend upon cod.liver
oil to sustain their vital forces should
lie careful to get pure article. Cot
ton seed oil is now doing for the cod
liver product what it long since accom-
plished in the matter of olive oil.
The City of Mexico has 16 daily pa
pers. They correspond in size, general
appearance and typographical accuracy
with third-class daily papers in the
United States, but are far behind them
in general management.
"Inever knew thing to be right that
I have not fought for gladly, and I
have never asked whether it would
make me popular or unpopular" said
Mr.. Beecher to his congregation the
other day.
A great many persons think the capi-
tai of Louisiana is New Orleans. This
is incorrect. By the State constitution
adopted in 1879 the seat of government
was changed from New Orleans to
Baton Rouge.
Stories of the performances of ele-
plants which are making their annual
round indicate that the circus is again
on its fourishing way. Elephants are
crossing bridges with their usual eau
ton, are stealing apples from the street
corner on their procession, are know
ingly performing wonders. There is
no chance for the monkey when the
elephant begins to move and the spring
heralds its coming.
A letter describing the markets of
New Orleans says that everything is
sold by the eye, and there is no stan Hard
of measure. Nine -tenths of the hun
dreds who sell in the noted French
market of the city do not know what
bushel or peck is. They buy their
vegetables by the lot ard place them on
little piles on tables. These piles
are of different sizes and prices. The
buyer looks at the piles and buys that
which he thinks is biggest and best.
Sometimes buckets and boxes are used
to measure, but they are of all kinds