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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
The Top Rails Only.

From the Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent.
Noticing that Captain w. HI. Harri
son of the executive department has
been relating some of his war tales to
a Constitution reporter, we asked Sam
Everett if he could not give us an in.
cident of his experience in the valley
of Virginia. Sam said he wasn't much
on yarns unless he had some of the old
Thirty first Georgia to laugh at them
but he would venture to give us one.
Gordon's division were encamped upoE
a thrifty farm that was fenced with
pine rails, something unusual in that
section of country. General Gordon
knew that his men were obliged to
have wood to cook with, so he issued
an order for them to use only the tor
rails, and under penalty ofsevere pun.
ishment not to disturb any others
Next morning when the general awoke
not rail was left to show where this
fence had been, and the captains were
ordered to report at once as to the dis
obedience of the order. Among Others
Captain Harrison of the Thirty-frst
handed i'll his report. 1t stated that
he only allowed one man at a time tc
GO for rails, and that each one took a
top rail, acting strictly in accordance
with the general orders. Ofcourse the
last men to go found the top rails at
the bottom. General Gordon made
soldierly bow and announced that the
investigation had ended.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
Maud SIS Fastest Half Mile.

| From the Chicago Herald.
Although the telegraph says that
Maud S. made the fastest half mile or
record during her trot against time at
Narragansett Park, there is a tradi-
tion that has been accepted by horse
men hereabouts that "a faster half
mile than 1:O3 1-2 WAS trotted at
/ Chicago five years ago Strange as it
may appear, Maud s. herself partici-
Ipated in the event. IL she could be
consulted about the matter she would
,probably tell her present admirers
hhat one pleasant afternoon, note
worthy in the trotting calendar as the
dey when she first beat 2:11, she
tnotted from the quarter pole to the
thEee-quarter pole in LOS flat. That
was Sept. 1S, 1880, and horsemen are
fond of telling how the queen of the
turfscrushed all records, and almost
oMt-stripped time itself, on the Chica-,
goitraek that day Two days before
she had tried to beat Pill Ia, and
failed sby a quarter of a second. But
on that auspicious day she started on
her journey at a moderate gait, arriv-
ing at the quarter pole in 34 3-4 Sec
onds- Then she Strengthened out for
the half, and sped down the back
stretch like a chestnut streak. The
half-mile pole was reached in 1884
seconds, and the spectators on the
grand stand could hardly believetheir
stopwatches. On she went along the
lower turn at an amazing pace. When
the three quarter pole was reached all
the watches showed 1:37 3-4 from the
start. If the first quarter be subtract
I ed from this it will show faster hall
mile than was made at Narragansett
Park, or has ever been made anywhere
else-to wit, LOB. Then she went on
and completed the mile in 33 seconds
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

duce a wonderful growth of grain.
These plains rival an American prai-
RE in productiveness. If we had not
an advantage in SO many railroads to-
collect and bring our grain to market.
cheaply, think they would beat u.s.
We have better transportation and
communication in every way for our
agriculturists. They have petroleum
in greater abundance, I think, than we
have. l think it is just as good as
ours. But they are not as skillful vet
in refining it. You can get it for half
the price. They put on a big tariff to
keep ouls out. They burn petroleum
and candles in the palaces and houses,
and gas in the streets. The great light
at the big balls is furnished by host
OF candles in great copper and brass
They not only protect petroleum,
and are thereby getting large
manufacturing interest. There is
not much American capital in the
country now. Formerly there was
some trade at St. Petersburg, but now
it is all gone. There is large colony
OF Englishmen there, who have grown
wealthy in trade, but the policy of the
Government does not encourage them
and their numbers are lessening, VII
mans, OF Baltimore, built the railroad
from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and
owned large interest in it. But he
sold out some time ago. He made a.
great deal ofmoney in the transaction
The Russian Government is inf1exibly
set against the Jews. They will not
let them trade there, unless they are
citizens subject to the Car. The Jews,
came to the United States and got out
naturalization papers. Then they
went back, began to trade, and soon
owned whole towns. When called OH
to perform military service, they pro-
duced their papers,"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
The Kiss Happened.

Atall the Saratoga hops the children
are allowed to use the hop broom from
Sto9. There can be no more beautiful,
picture than to see hundred little
white angels flying around the ball
room to the music of the waltz.
Recently Mrs. Astor's little gr
Ethel, danced with Freddy Living
stone, who, in the excess of his limo
cent love and joy, put his arms around
her neck and kissed her. This made
every one in the States ballroom
laugh.
"Oh, Ethel, Pm ashamed to thinl
you would let boy kiss you," sale
her mother.
"Well. mamma, I couldn't help it,
said Ethel"
"You couldn't help it?" exclaimed
her mother.
'No, mamma. You see, Freddy an6
l were dancing the polka. Freddy
had to stand up close to me, and al
at once his lip slipped and the kiss
happened. .'-Correspondence Missouri
Republican.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
Shooting Stars and MeteOrites.
From the New York Sun.


Prof. Ball, the well-known astrono-
mer royal for Ireland, makes a concise
distinction between shooting stars and
meteorites, which are popularly re-
garded as the same. In the case of
the former Prof. Ball remarks one
special point, namely, that certain
great showers are periodical, and al
ways come from the same parts of the
heavens--the inference from these re
curing periods being that the orbit of
the earth then cuts the orbit in which
a mass of these is moving. With this
fact of recurrence is another, viz, that
certain comets are periodical, and,
from a comparison of their supposed
orbits with those OF groups of these
bodies, connection between them IS
supposed, whatever may be the origin
of comets, which is not yet known.
Meteorites, on the contrary, remarks
Dr. Ball, are never known to come from
the direction of comet path, and, if
carefully examined, are seen to befrag-
ments of some rock or rocks. closely
analogous. too, to our earth svOlcan-
ic rocks. The professor thinks that,
examining all the planets in turn, it
seems improbable that the meteorites
originate from any of them, it being
much more likely that they We're in
former times of greater volcanic ac-
tivity driven up from the earth itself,
and they again, after the lapse OF ages,
meet the earth in it's orbit.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
Where Public Schools Fail.
I'm the Brooklyn Magazine.

From the Brooklyn Magazine.
1t is a curious fact that many city
boys reach the end of the school course
without being able to tell what a mon
key wrench is Or describe cross-cut
saw, or define the uses of a turning
lathe, while q piston. steam box or a
throttle valve are all far beyond their
ken. They can, however, tell the num-
Der of elementary sounds in the Ian
guage and the significance of the whole
cluster of diacritical marks, all OF
which soon fade out OF their minds.
In the limited time that the,
state has the privilege of teaching
children in the Twelfth Ward, itseems
absurd to proceed with them with the
circumstance that marks the work in
the schools on the Hill, where the
children will stay twice as long; yet
this is the present system. To change
it means the risk of a demagogic cry OF
one school for the rich and another
for the poor. Accordingly, the poor
suffer. Some liberty should be allow
ed to a principal to suit the education
be directs to the necessity of those
under his care, that the boy who must
be bread-winning at twelve, shall not
be despoiled of valuable time IN ascer
tanning to shade the fourteensounds
OF the vowel ia. "aae ~ fs
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

1t is stated upon good authority
, that the late stifening of stocks were
, engineered by the bulls for the purpose
uf unloading nonspaying dividend Sc
. curities upon Innocent parties
which they were partially successful.
: The names of a dozen or more stocks
are given which pay. little OF nothing,
: but have been doomed up to SO and
= even above par. People are warned
against the folly ofreckless buying OF
stocks just because the market is going
up. If you buy for investment, besure
that you will receive fair interest on
your money and investigate carefully
the condition and prospects OF the
road of which you become a part
owner. ~ ~ r
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

From an official report recently
published it appears that the number
of cooperative establishments now
in operation in Germany is estimated
to be about 5000, or, to be exact, at
trhe date of the publication, 6, soc,
against 3.6S9 the previous year. The
membership of these associations ag-
gregates about 100000. The bust
ness transacted in 1884 reached the
astonishing figures of $75O,OOO,O0o.
upon working capital of S16O,oOO,-
900, 100000, 900 of which represent
ed shares of stock, a reserve fund, and
the balance borrowed capital. These
are very encouraging statistics, and
well worth the attention of our work
ing people, who may be able, with the
safeguards ofstringent laws in the man
agement of these cooperative associa-
.tions, to realize the practical solution
iof the labor problem. AttsA
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
me shield you froaa .aIltthe world. !

me shield you frcdaa iaIltthe world. 7
Her eyes shone into his.
"My love my preserver, my king,
he hears her whisper fervently.
"But lam poor, nowg gdear," he adds
little sadly My beautiful home is
in ashes. 1 have nothing left but my
self. love you Madge and will work
for you-but perhaps it is wrong for
me to ask you to'come to me thus"
eff you were beggar in the streets
and still be yourself should love you
and come to you, now that I know
you want me-" she says fondly.
After this of course, is a carriage ar
irving in which they are glad to accept
shelter and Miss Kirby's aunt, fash
ionable lady who has come thus early
to bear her away from Elm Lodge, is
shocked to find that very respectable
seminary for young ladies burned to
the ground, and her dear niece sitting
blackened and but thinly clad on q
garden seat with the'master of the Elm
Lodge, also in the same predicament.
'sWe are to be married as soon as We
get comfortably dressed smilingly
observes Miss Kirby to her aunt.
They are bowling over the country
road and the professor suggests that
Mrs. Netherton, Madge's aunt shall
drive them to a relatives house when
they may find some of the comforts OF
life.
Because 1 am to be married tc
your dear little niece this morning."
he says gently, but with some amuse-
ment.
"On the whole I am glad of it, :"
says Mrs. Netherton and we think she
is wise to make the best of the mat
ter.
So you see Madge did not marry her
absent lover, but became the wife OF
a man twenty years older than her:
self in whose kingly heart she found
her earth a heaven of,love and Joy.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

Recent statistics show that isstyear
in the number of newspapers con-
yeyed in domestic mails, the United
States was first with S52, 1SQ, 1902;
Germany next, with 439,os9, 800;
France third, with 310,1Ss, 636;
Great Britain fourth, with 152,739,-
100; while Italy follows with Ss,5O9,-
179. In the number of letters dis
patched in international mails, the
positions are reversed, Great Britain
ranks first with 46, ,Os1, 500, and the
United States fifth with %, 569, ,l2O.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
The German population of the Unit

The German population of the Unit
ed States is over 12,OOO,OOO and
there are German newspapersspub-
lished in nearly every state and terri
tory. The German Newspaper Direct
ory, published by Tobias Brothers
of New York, containing a complete
listof the newspapers published in the
United States and Canada, shows a
large number, with an extensive ,circu-
lation in many instances. MasSachu-
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
are the only New England states hav-
ing any. Those having the largesteir-
.culations,ar published in New York,
Pennsylvania and some of the western
states. There are eighty religious
newspapers in the list.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

Some remarkable remains of a
mammoth have been discovered near
Yreka, CAL, by some miners. They
comprise mammoth horn, jaw, teeth,
vertebra and other bones. Theywere
found 45 feet below the surface. 1.-The
horn is FIVE and half feet long, in the
shape of a COWS horn, and is eight
inches in diameter at base. The teeth
and other bones are of mammoth
size. An animal built in proportion
to them would weigh at least ten tons
when alive. The teeth, horn, ETC.,
give evidence that the animal wasaof
the bovine species.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

The contributions for the Grant
monument at Riverside, New York,
come in very slowly. The aggregate is
still less than one hundred thousand
dollars. Thisis somewhat disoourag-
i&g as the original design was tQae' col
lection of ONE million dollars. 1t is
probable that the city, State and Ma
tion will be called upon to lend g help
ing hand.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
The refusal of the Queens Privy

The refusal of the Queens Privy
Council to interfere in Riel's caseis not
final nor decisive against HIM. They
simply relegated the responsibilities
of the case to the Canadian Govern
ment, which will have to decide for it.
self whether Riel shall hang or not.
This question is now agitating all
portions of the Dominion. If Riel is
hung, he will be made a martyr to
freedom by the French people of Can
ada. If he is imprisoned for life at
hard labor, he may be speedily forgot
ten. Those who wish to save his life
quote the example of the United States
in allowing all the participators in the
rebellion to escape the hangman,
while a majority of the English speak
ing people insist that Riel richly de
serves to die on the gallows.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04
WATCHING AND WAITING.

Mrs. Clara We're de We're
Has sadly come again TO town,
She thought to make brilliant match
And win her daughter nauch renown.
At men she smiled, ut.uhbeguiled
They saw the sEare and they retired,
The belle of full five e'seasons past,
She was not one TO ibe admired.
She made big eyes and sweet replies,
She wandered pensive by the sea,
She fingered, hoping, at the springs,
But all the boys said, mot for me-"
Mrs. Clara We're de We're,
But few rich suTtors are about,
Your daughter gave to some poor man
Before her charms are quite played out
Boston Budget.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-04

"A Southern paper says that God is
good to Pennsylvania, for when the
whales ran scarce petroleum was
discovered, and just as cheap South
ern coal and good iron ore threatened
to undersell the Pennsylvania mines
natural gas Was found.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-09

Howard whose combined height is exactly 70
feet and weight 1898 pounds. There are ] l
persons in the family and the father and his
six sons are able to lift $500 pounds.
The copper products of the United States
were 80 per cent. more in 1884 than in 1883
The largest gain was in Montana, which ter
ritory produced "A, 500 900 pounds against
"a, 900 900 in 1888 In Arizona the increase
was $4,000 and in the Lake Superior
country 8. 800, 900
The saddle which Geaeral Grant rode in
from all the battles from Fort Henry in Feb
ruary. 1862. until the surrender at AppOmat-
tox. is now the property of Col. A. H Mark
land, to whom it was presented by the Cen
eral himself. and it is kept in the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio.
A stroll through an emigrant train at
Pittsburg revealed Russians eating black
bread sandwiches, evidently brought from
the other side Of the Atlantic; Germans re.
calling themselves with wheaton bread, rancid
butter and smoked sausage, and Hungarians,
stunned by their fellow travellers, devourinQ
musty bread and limburger cheese of grea
age and proporiionate strength.
No less than 1888 relatives of
English titled families are quartered
on the public service. The drafts on the
treasury for the sisters and aunts of dake,
amount to S4S.S00,450 the brothers-in law
and nephews Of marquisses to SAL ,529 $50
and the cousins and others of earls to $240,
906,0l0 per anuum or total sum, going tt
prove John Bright's assertion that ''aristocra
cy lives on patronage" of 1881 1885, l0.
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Friend Of Women.

This title is often applied to Mrs Lydia Z
Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, by happy wives
and mothers VINO have been cured of distress
ing disorders and relieved Of pain and suffer-
ing by Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. l., H-of Strother. S c.. says in a
recent letter. "Yonr medicine has done me
sosmuch good that don't think can stop
taking it until am entirely well owe all
my good feelings to you. The doctor can't
get any credit for curing me, it is your med-
cine that has done me more good than any,
thing have ever taken" Dressmaker in
Findlav, @, says: II have derived so great
benefit from the use of your Vegetable
Compound that l recommended it in the
strongest terms, with the utmost confidence
and am sure it will cure the most stubborn
cases. | consider it very much better than
any other preparation made for all Female
Complaints"
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How French Women Dress.

The chief point to note about the dress OF
Partisan woman, no matter what her station
in life may be. is its appropriateness. She
does not wear a. costly garments usually as
the American of the same social class, but
they are always thoroughly suitable to her
position and to the occasion on which they
are to be worn French elegante, for in-
stance will neither 90 shopping in velvet
costume nor to q wedding or official reception
In cloth jacket or cashmere gown. she
never goes out on foot in superb and snowy
apparel, or appears at a ball In DARK SIX
made high in the neck and with long sleeves.
Etiqnette forbids her receiving even the most
intimate of her gentleman friends in her
morning dress, though this rule has been re
Taxed of late in favor of the very superb
morning toilets Of brocade and satin and lace,
which have been concocted for morning
wear by the leading Partisan dressmskers.
These, however, are simply reception toilets
for morning instead Of for afternoon wear
II she desires to go out on foot she dons the
simplest of costumes in dark cloth or CASH
mere. Her visiting costume NAV be as mag
nfcent as her purse or her desires may
make it, and the same may be said OF the
dress in which she receives callers on her lat
home" day. Her theatre bonnet is much
more snowy and dressy than her visiting one.
For street wear she dons a bonnet in very
dark velvet or felt. In the matter OF gloves
and chau.sure she is always irreproachable.
For evening dress the satin slippers and silk
stockings precisely match the toilet with
which they are to be worn. There was an
attempt made at one time to introduce the
wearing of scarlet hose and black slippers
with white evening dresses, but it proved
total failure. Neither were black slippers
and stockings ever worn in Paris with white
or pale-tinted ball dresses. That fashion
was not French; it was possibly English. and
unfortunately it was American.
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and hollow trees, changing the hiding-piace
% often % necessary, and carrying 1000 q
him every day for three months. until the
Mexicans gave up the chase. Del Munte tnen
disposed Of his Jewels and from this ana "a
rious other sources succeeded in raising 81
900 which he left in Dudley's cabin - q GIN:
He went away before the hunter discovered
how magnanimously his services had oeen
rewarded. Del Munte and Dudley did not
meet again until last fall when they revisited
the scenes of the Mexicsn's Vermont adven-
lures at the same time. They we're over
loved ct seeing each other, and since ootn
we're in abject poverty they were still more
happy at finding large sum of gold buc1ed
in one of the caves where Del Munse had
been hidden. Though the discovery was
Dudley's, he insisted that Del Munte should
have half of the monev. This money, when
/. probably part of the treasure that IS SAID
to have been hidden in Vermont about q cen
turv ago, and the search for which has been
for long time abandoned, was quietly re-
moved from the cave and exchanged in Eng
land for modern coin. and the two men are
now in Santa Fe, New Mexico. negotiating
for an extensive cattle ranch in which they
propose investing it.
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General News.

The wool clip of Oregon will this wear
reach IL 100000 pounds
An ostrich's egg is equal in weight to IS
hens eggs.
Seven miles of the railway from Suakim
to Berher have been completed.
The Governor General of Canada receives
u salary of $50 600 a year
Sir William Robinson has been appointed
Governor of Barbados.
There sre, it is said, liz 900 residents of
New Orleans who have not visited the Expo
sition.
The total available supply of gold in the
whole commercial world does NOT exceed
81 600. 000, 900
The pendulum of the clock in DR.. Tyng's
church in New York has not stopped since it
was first started, nearly twenty-six years ago
Even base ball has been turned to the ad-
vantage of the Barthoidi pedestal in some
places.
The Westinghouse Machine Company OF
Pi,tsburg, are shipping engines to Europe.
This is quite encouraging to machine produ-
GERS.
Great suffering has been caused bv an over
flow of the Mediterranean upon the Nile
delta, the inundstion extending beyond
Rosetta.
Ii is said that the electric lights at Sacra-
mento can be seen from the highland near
jackson, Amador County. distance Of sixty
miles.
The Irish jsuuting car. which has been
under the ban since the Phoenix Park tragedy.
has again come into favor. the Prince of
Wsles having used one on his recent visi, to
the lakes of Killarney.
The three men in England who bay taxes
Ga the highest assessed value of personal
properly are Giles Loder. Sis. o00, 900. Rich
ard Thorndike, $4,000 600, and Baron
Lionel Ro,hechild, sls, 500. 900.
Kentucky boasts family by tie name of
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Personal.

Queen Victoria is said to have. mounted in
silver. the ball that killed Admiral Nelson.
Nine Barrois, widow of the late presi lent
OF Guatemala, her younger children and 4
suite of friends and servants, arrived al Prov
idence YESTERDAY, on the way To New York
where Nine. Blrrios will reside with her
Oldest son.
The richest colored man in Philadelphia is
John Mckee, a real estate dealer. who il es-
timated TO be worth between 100000 and
S300.000 There ara two or three others in
the same city whose fortunes run up into the
hundred thousands.
The Queen, it is said, wants it to be known
that it will ever be regret to her that she
had no personal acquaintance with General
Gordon. His services were rendered for the
most part to foreign sovereigns. When he
was sent TO khartoum he was about to serve
the King of the Belgians. II was no part OF
her Majestv's duty to give personally her
thanks to the commander of the ever-victori.
Gus army, or to the conqueror of the Soudan,
or TO the man who was too good to be the tool
of treacherous South African politicians. So
the Queen never sent for him.