The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-27
EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS.

fpht between lion and ten DulldOSS,
but the trouble is to find the lion.
After the fight the trouble would be to
find the bulldogs.
A AQUEBEc paper says that steamers
are rapidly supplanting sailing vessels
in the lumber trade. Five large ocean
steamers are now taking in full cargoes
of lumber at that port.
THE people of the United States
use annually about sew en- postal cards
for every man, woman and child; that
is to say, their total consumption for
year reaches 4OO,O00,000.
The conference of American ma
tions will meet in Washington in
October. It is believed all the states
of North and South America and Mexi-
co will be represented by delegates.
AN odd scene occurred lately in two
hay fields not an eighth Of mile
apart at Lancaster, Penn. In one,
all work was stopped for the day by a
pouring rain, while in the other not a
drop fell all day.
The experience of superintendents
of the railway mail service is that the
best men are the ones who resign,
while the least efficient neither quit
nor die. An effort is being made to
bring the salary to such point that
good men can be retained in the ser
vice.
JUSTICE MILLER, of Iowa, and JUS
tice Field, of California, are the two
men now On the supreme bench, who
owe their places to President Lincoln.
The other two whom he appointed,
David Davis and Noah H. Swayne,
are dead. Justice Miller is nearly IS
years old.
THERE are in the East End Of Lon
don nearly one million people, 10 per
cent. of whom never know what it is
to have enough to eat or have regu-
lar home to live in. There are over
two hundred thousand people in fam
lilies of which the head never earns
nnore than five dollars week. When
the rent is deducted from the earnings
there is not enough left to buy any
but the most wretched food, such as
would cause indignation if it were
offered to convlcts here.
JOHN 1. BLAIR, the New Jersey rail
road king, who recently testified in
legal proceeding that he was worth
from O,OoO, 600 to $6o,ooo,ooO, say:
that he laid the foundation of his for.
tune by trapping when boy. 1t wa:
in 1909, while living on the homestead
farm near Blairstown, that the spirit
Of getting took possession o
him, and he began trapping for rabbits
He caught them by the dozen. Th'
local market being dull, he walked tt
Easton, Penn, twenty miles away
and after dickering with the various
merchants, sold lot of skins for 81
This was the first money he eve
owned, and Mr. Blair declares that Ii
then felt richer than he ever hss since
despite his wealth.
EDISON is reported, in a conversa
ton with an interviewer who solicite,
his ideas on the subject of the pre-
jected worlds fair in New York, q
saying that he would take an acre c
space in such fair and completed
cover it with his inventions, of whic
he has no less than seventy now ur
der way. "Oae of the most peculia
and now promising good results" sal
Edison, sis what l may call fa
sight machine" By means of th
extraordinary invention he hopes
DS dUiC W hCICooO ttlO LduS5S Va 'AoAS
by hundreds of miles, SO that, for IL
stance, ga man in New York coul
see the features of his friend in Bosto
with as much ease as he could see
performance on the stage. That" h
added, "would be an invention worth
a prominent place in the worlds fai
and I hope to have it perfected Ion
before 1922
No merchant needs to be told tn
discounts mean wealth. In fact, /
retailer can afford to lose them. N
tice few figures: Suppose you ha'
$4,000 at 6 per cent, invest $l,O(