The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-07-12
Gorballis 6a5ette.
GENERAL ITEMS.

there are 5575 lawyers, big ard
little.
Brazilian freedmen are to make
demonstration in celebration of
their independence.
The whole number Of active
Christian Scientists now in the
country is estimated at 100000.
During the last ten years Ameri-
cans have contributed $2O,O00,000
to relieve suffering caused by dis
asters or epidemics.
Old 'S9, in which have fallen
tie Samoan, Denmark and Johns
town disasters, began with total
eclipse and will end with a total
eclipse.
The United States fish commits
sion hatched this year 100000
eggs of the toothsome shad-less
than half as many as last year.
A Georgia farmer prevents his
COWS from jumping fences by cut
ting off their lower eyelashes.
which makes a fence look three
times as high as it is.
Eifel, the builder Of the tall
tower, claims his decent directly
from William Tell. There have
been historic doubts as to the ex-
istence of Mr.. Tell, but this will
settle them.
A Dakota newspaper paints the
following unique advertisement:
"It John Jones, who twenty years
ago deserted his poor wife and
babe, will return, said babe will
lick the stuflin' out of him."
Colonel Ingersoll is getting
ready for his summer vacation and
he will spend the greater part Of it
at Saratoga. 1t is in hotel life.
with plenty of cheerful company
around him, that the colonel loves
best to commune with nature"
Russell Harrison's latest business
venture is the erection of new
hot swimming bath at Helena.
Mont. The bath is to be 120 feet
square, and the water as it flows
into the bath from the sprigs will
drop a distance of forty-two feet
IN a cascade.
The old rule that no divorced
woman could be presented at the
English court has been +escinded
Any divorced woman with whom
no fault rested is admitted by .spe-
cial permission from the queen
after her majesty has satisfied her'
self that the applicant was free
from blame. ...
At Gippsland, in Australia, they
have earth worms six feet long
They live in burrows on the slop
ing sides of creaks, and are some
times turned out of the ground by
the plow. They have a curious
smell, like creosote, and fowls re
fuse to touch them, but old natives
. Of the district say that oil made
from them is good for rheumatism
Laura Hutchinson told a frienC
about one amusing resource con
stantly employed by the poe
Wordsworth when he wanted tc
secure thought. If it came tt
him at dinner, or when otherwise
surrounded by his family, ''he al
ways jumped up and thrust his
head into a cupboard or out of the
door until he had made it SO mucl
his own that he dared to return.
A lens for seeing when unde1
the water is described by its dis
eoverer as producing an efec
which is both astonishing and de
lightful. It gives distinct vision
of objects twents or thirty feee
off, the eyes loss of extended sigh
when under water being because
an entirely different focus is re
auired. The spectacles which pro
vide this can be made by putting
two watch glasses of thre-quarter
of an inch in diameter and an incl
radious back to back, or with tht
concavities outward.
The man who thinks it does moi
pay to, advertise should look int
the facts a little more closely