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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
Doing the Right Thing.

The train was Just pulling out Of
Weston, Mo-, for St. Joe, when one of
the passengers in the smoker put his
head so far out of the window that a
man near him felt it his duty to utter a
note of warning.
"Yes. it is little risky" replied the
down, ''but l was looking for grave
ploughed under and forgotten"
"How did they happen to bury him
there?"
ITS sad story, gentlemen-very
sad. 1t was just ten years this month,
and was living here then. 4 stranger
came in from the West with three
horses to sell, and he acted so queerly
that we clapped him in Jail. He never
denied that he stole 'em, and one
night the boys turned out and hung
him to tree back there. That used
to be our way of discouraging the busi-
ness. and believe it is still practiced
further west. We buried him near the
tree, and it was his grave I was look
ing for"
"Never denied it, eh?" queried one
of the listeners.
"Never did, although we gave him
every chance. just a week from the
time he was hung we found out that he
was an honest, honorable farmer. liv-
ing about forty miles below us. While
he hadn't stolen the horses, he had
killed man, and he no doubt believed
we were hanging him for that. We
felt mean enough when we discovered
that he was no horse thief, and that all
he had done was to pop man over, and
Kansas man at that, and he must
have been sadly puzzled over our con-
duct. We made such reparation as we
could however.
'.In what way?"
"Oh, we rounded up the grave.
passed resolutions of sympathy for the
wife, sent the horses on home, and a
few months later I went up and mar
ried bis widow. She's in the next car
behind"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
A Dogs Good Sense.

A rare instance of brute intelligence
was witnessed on Chestnut street the
other evening in dog which was at
the wrong end of the rope; a drunken
man was at the right end or. in other
words the relative positions of the two
should have been reversed. The at
tention of several men who were pass
ing was first attracted to the pair by
the antics of the dog The brute-that
is, the four-legged one-was almost a
fully bred pointer, and when first no.
ticed, was jumping up in the most sim
gular manner. each jump succeeding a
tug of the rope in the hands OF the
man. At times the canine, man, and
rope would become tangled in the most
inextricable snarl as the man and dog
made their way up the street
Just watch that dog" suddenly said
one of the men who were looking on.
'.He knows more than the man, by
Jove!"
The man, dog, and rope had just got
out OF d snarl, when the man gave the
rope vicious tug. 1t WAS then no
ticed that the rope, which was about
the thickness of a lanyard was fastened
around the dogs neck in a slip knot.
no collar being around the dogs neck.
At each tug OF the rope it was plain
that the brute-the fore-legged one
was almost strangled, and when the
strain was removed the dog made his
regular jump. One of the onlookers
Indignantly started to rescue the suf-
fering quadruped, when he was stopped
by one OF his companions, who said:
''I4et them alone. just see what the
dog will do.'
The deg had just completed one of
his jumps, when it was seen that he
had taken the rope in his teeth and
thus relieved the strain on his throat.
He then trotted along contentedly un-
til the man gave another tug and pulled
the rope from between the animals
teeth. This had evidently gone On for
some time, to judge by the WEAKNESS
of the dog. But the animal pluckily
tried again and again and succeeded
each time in saving himself a elok-
Inquirer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
A Small Boys Heroic Independence.

A Lewiston little boy declared a
philosophic independence and accept
cd the consequence in so matter-of-fact
a way last week that it may make a
story, even il it is not so very funny.
His mother dressed him up in flannel
shirt Friday and sent him to school.
The shirt irritated his cuticle, or, in
other words, he itched. When he came
home that night he was cross and very
cross for so small a boy and he declar-
ed that he and the flannel had parted
company for ever. The next morning
as his mother prepared to dress him
for school the boy drew the line at the
that shirt" A brief debate ensued, in
which the boy appeared to have form
ed his opinion and decided to stick to
it. The question when put to the
house, was carried by the boy, who
would not don the shirt. "If you will
not wear it," said his mother, Il shall
send you back to bed" Back to bed
he went. He got no dinner. After
noon came. A neighbor went in to see
him--his mother telling her that she
had bad boy up stairs. The boy lay
there in bed, wide awake. his little
cheeks flushed with the situation but
showing no sign of change of heart.
Don't you want to go to school?"
asked the neighbor. SCHOOL," was
the reply. II shall never 90 to school
again" Don't you want TOP" Eyes,
but can't. I've got to stay here"
"All your lifep" "Yes'm," was the re-
ply, ''all my life. I shan't ever get up
again, prob'ly." What could a moth
er's heart do against SO philosophic an
acceptance of the termination of a life
career as this? What but kiss him at
tea-time and go down and buy the lit
tie bunch of pluck some downy little
undershirts that should never tickle
him even oncel-LeaOisto7a Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
HE SWEARS OFF.
how His Wife Induced Him to Give Up
the Practice of Smoking.

A young benedict in this city, says
the Kansas City Times, tells good
joke on himself which illustrates the
influence wife has over. her husband,
provided she can reach his pocket-book,
The young husband is in charge of a
department of one of the larger retail
Main street stores, and before many
months hopes to become a member of
the firm. He is addicted to smoking,
and i'll moment of weakness confessed
to his wife that his cigars cost him 81
day. 'Do you smoke 1O-cent CT
gars?' she asked. He replied in the af-
firmative. and the young bride. who
had ideas OF her own regarding eeono-
my, asked if he wonld not give her in
the evening when he returned home 10
cents for every cigar he had smoked
during the day for pin money. She
explained that her idea was to break
him of smoking, and as he acknowl-
edged he wanted to quit, but did not
have the courage to do SO, he readily
consented to the proposition.
81 was as good as my word for one
month";" he said the other evening, land
kept faithful account of the number
of cigars smoked each day. Some
times it would be nine, but more often
er it was dozen. When the month
had passed my wife informed me that
l had given her $32. That made $64
had spent for cigars and my salary was
only $3.50 month. saw it would not
do. l had numerous consultations
with my friends before getting married
as to whether young man could af-
ford to marry ON a salary of 81 800 a
year and had been told that he could
if he wasn't too extravagant in his no.
tions. There were only two things to
do, quit smoking OF tell story every
night when l got home. - would
hardly give me time to put on my
smoking jacket before she would ask:
''Now, how many today?" Her tone
expressed so much confidence that
would have to 'fess up, and at last 1
told her that, with her permission,
would swear off. She readily consent
ed, and 1 haven't smoked cigar
Siuce.n
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
A Menagerie in an Ulster.

I had little idea when I boarded q
Third avenue car that bowled quietly
along past Eighteenth street last even.
ing, says N. Y. Herald reporter, that
it contained an invisible menagerie in
transit.
There were only two other passen-
gers in the car-an elderly woman,
who seemed to be running pony ex-
press, as her arms were loaded with
bundles, and a man in heavy ulster,
with his head down as if asleep and APP
parently nursing an uncomfortable
Jag" had not been long seated
when the noise of fighting cats was
heard directly under the seat where
the lady sat. In an instant the pony
express was in the air and the bundles
flew to all parts of the car.
kill themr' she shrieked. "Con-
ductor, let me off the car-quick!"
The conductor stepped forward to
calm the terrified woman, but she re-
fused to be pacified until her bundles
had been gathered up, the car stopped,
and she had reached the sidewalk in
safety, where she gazed after the car
with the look of person vino had been
snatched from the jaws of death.
The conductor then began an inves-
tigation. Suddenly the cats broke out
again, but this time in the coal box.
There was look of having met and
captured the enemy on the conductors
face as he graped the car-hook and
quietly raised the lid. But only the
silent. dusky Jumps of coal met his as
tonished gaze. He closed the box with
a bang, while the horror that comes
from the first suspicion of Jams" crept
over him.
Suddenly he jumped back and look
ed down, and well he might. for the
voracious growl of bull-dogwas heard
at his feet. But he saw nothing there
except the company's barred trap for
catching the change that falls from the
hands of passengers.
Then the chirping of birds was
heard above his head, and the whole
cage. Another instant and it was a
small African forest of howls and cries
of wild beasts. The conductor looked
at ME, but only the alternate of per-
plexity met his gaze.
A conviction of having "got 'em'
was settling on his face when he
noticed the edges of quizzical smile
creeping up above the coat-collar of
the man in the ulster. Then he .'tum-
bled." He asked the man if he were
making that noise and was answered
with burst of laughter that could
not be controlled any longer.
The gentleman would not give his
name, but said he was a weil-known
ventriloquist and had travelled all over
England and Europe giving exhibitions
of his art. He apologized to the con-
ductor, but said there was a certain
kind of women he met in his travels
that always excited an uncomfortable
desire in him to spring menagerie un-
der them. He got off at Grand street.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
The Latest Fads In Bangles.

''Have you seen my new Shakespeare
banglesp" asked Genevieve.
Shakespeare what?" replied the aston
ished listener.
'.Is it possible you don't know? See
white wrist. The entire forearm was
covered with narrow, plain bands of
oxidized silver. There must have been
twenty or twenty-five of them, and
through the center of each ran row
of lettering, embodying suitable SEN
timent from the great bard. One from
Cymbeline ran: Her pretty action
did outsell her gift, and did enrich it,
too," and one from Coriolanus was
still prettier: Now the fair goddess
Fortune fall deep in love with thee"
But this Shakespeare idea is rather
DID," said Genevieve regretfullye as she
replaced the slender bands. ''To be
utterly swagger one must have the new
name set It's very discouraging
and wearying work, this keeping up
with the procession, I assure you.
You see I had just completed my
Shakespeare set when the name set
came out"
''And that is-''
"Oh, yes! You must have Brace
let for every letter in your name, with
one letter cut in each band, and your
friends must present them to you. But
I had actually forgotten the Kendall.
That's the very latest. The latest of
everything is the Kendall, you know.
Well, the Kendall is the chime bangle.
That can be made in silver or gold,
and has only three strands, each with
its own tiny bell that rings out the
most delicious little note, the first one
high and clear, the second little
deeper, and the last the deepest of
them Aiding, dang, dong, don't you
see? That was one of the clever Mrs.
Kendal's inventions. She's very
clever, Mrs. Kendall is. IN z. Eve,a-
ing San.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
An Eye to Business.

Most young men have felt a longing
to be independent and have formed
visionary ideas of what they'd do il
fortune should drop into their hands;
but Portland youth has hit upon a
highly original way of asserting his
good luck, should it come. '.If were
left $100.O00," said he, "I'd strike my
boss for rise in pay the next morn
ing."-Le,odstoa1 journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
Sauerkraut and Champagne.

Nine. Janauschek. who is fond Of
German cookery, has invented new
and remarkable dish. 1t has been the
habit with lovers of sauerkraut to pour
q bottle of Rhine wine over the picked
cabbage. Janauschek, with the inspir-
alton of genius. has substituted cham
pagne for the Rhine wine with great
success.
4 cave discovered near Chico, CAL,
Is said to rival the famous Mammoth
CsFe of Kentucky. -.--...
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
STEAMSHIP.

From San Francisco.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01

This Company reserves the right 10 chang sailing
dates without notice.
N. B.-Passen.ers from Portland and all
Willamette valley points can make close
connection with the trains OF the Yaauina
route at Albany or Corvallis, and if destined
to San Francisco should arrange to arrive at
Yaquina the evehing before date of sailing.
Passenger and freight rates always the
lowest. For information apply to ID. w.
Cun,nins, freight and ticket agent; Corval.
lis, or to c. C. HOGUE,
Acting Gen. F. and p. Agent, Oregon Pa.
ciiic Railroad Co., Corvallis, Or.
c. H. HASWELL, Jr.
Gen. F. and P. Agent. Oregon Develop.
ment Co., 304 Montgomery St., s. f.; Cal.
REMEMBER the Oregon Pacific Summer
Excursions. Lowrate tickets are now on
sale from all Valley points to Yaquina .and
return.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01

Buffalo has commercial concern
whose firm name and style is Irish s.
English"
sgfr. Q,
The debt of Canada at the beginning
Of the present year was s284, 5l3, SAL.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01
An Orange Wrapper.

Some genius has invented a ma
chine for wrapping oranges that does
the work of three men,. He SAYS it can
wrap $500 oranges in one hour.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
INSURANCE.

The makers of the Ball corset
have a bonfire two or three times
year to burn up the corsets that
women have worn a week or two or
three, and taken back to the stores
because they didn't like 'em.
How many corsets get burned,
do you think ? One in three thou
sand.
That means that when three
thousand women try the Ball cor
set, one of 'em makes up her mind
that it isn't the corset for her.
That's too bad! A corset that's
right for two thousand nine hun
dred and ninety-nine women ought
be pretty nearly right for the 9TH
er one. Her husband must have
his hands full?
We have a primer on Corsets for
you at the store. 1919
F. A. CARTER.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
NEW BLANKS

Warrant of Commitment to House of Cor
rection and Justice Executions. New and
approved forms. For sale at CALIFORNIAN
Office
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
Personal ITEMS.

Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham;, ninety
years old, has retired from his posi-
ton as Il director of the Waterbury
bank
Since the death of Judge Kelley,
Gen. N. p. Banks is spoken of as
Father of the House." his first term
in that body having been in 1854,
six years earlier than Judge Kelley,
four years earlier than Mr.. Holman
of Indiana, and eight years earlier
than Mr. Randall of Pennsylvania
One of the survivors of the famous
charge at Balaklava lives in Hart
ford, Conn. He is Joseph Howe, an
ornamental plasterer, and carries the
marks of battle on his face and neck,
which were badly cut by pieces of
shell. Although Howe came to this
country % years ago, he has never
been made an American citizen.
Gen. Hooker, a member of the Miss
issippi delegation in Congress, was a
gallant Confederate soldier, and lost
an arm. His left hand was wounded,
and he wears a glove on it almost
constantly. Major Powell, chief of
the geological survey, was brave
soldier on the Union side, and he, too
came out of the war minus an arm,
his left one. He and General Hooker
are intimate friends, and their hands
are of the same size, so when Major
Powell wants a glove he buys pair
and says: Send the other one to
Hooker" Likewise, when General
Hookcr's glove gets a little worn he
orders a new pair and says: Send
the other one to Powell
The late Horatio Allen of Mont
rose, n. J., ran the first locomotive
that was ever used in this country
He was sent to England in 1896, by
the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co,
to buy the rails and three locomo-
tives for Il railroad of Is miles, which
they wished to build in connection
with their mines III the Lackawanna
valley. Having performed his com
mission and built his road, Mr.. Allen
could find no one to act as engineer
on the locomotive he had imported,
the task being considered most dan
gerouS: so he took hold of the lever,
and ran the engine several miles
down the track and back, to prove
that it was safe.
William Black, the author, tells a
good story of an American auto
graph collector living i'll London:
1T was the most deadly stratagem
of the kind | ever heard of 1t was
theinvention of friend of mine, who
now confesSes to it as one of the sins
of his youth. He wrote a letter to
each of the persons whose autograph
he coveted, describing himself as a
ship owner, and asking permission
to be allowed to name his next vessel
after the particular celebrity he was
addressing. 1t was a fatal trap.
Nearly every one fell into it. Even
poor old Carlyle had no suspicion,
and, in replying to the bogus ship
owner, expressed the hope that the
vessel to be named after him might
sail into happier haven than he had
ever reached
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
OSTRICHES IN AMERICA.

There are certain old traditions
about the ostrich which, | have been
told by the owner of the California
ranch, are fallacious. He says that
the ostrich does not bury his head in
the sand and imagine he is unob-
served by his enemies On the con-
trary, lie is a very pugnaciOus bird
and always ready for a fight. Nor
does the female ostrich Law her eggs
III the sand for the sun to hatch them
To do them Justice, they are quite
domestic. and deserve a better repu-
tation. Nor is the ostrich ever used
for riding, as he has an exceptionally
weak back; any person might break
it with Il blow from an ordinary
cane.
His strength lies i'll his great breast
and his feet He has one great claw,
and very small one, and with ter
rible precision he can bring down the
large claw with Il cruel force that
Will tear open anything not made of
Sheet-IrOn
Savage birds AT best, they are dan
gerously SO during breeding time
The twenty-five birds brought to
our California ranch trusted TO their
instinct and laid their eggs during
the California winter, which CORES
ponded to their summer south of the
equator. In being the rainy season,
their nests were filled with water
and the eggs were chilled; SO the first
season of their American soIourn was
a failure
The ostrich makes its nest by roll
ing in the sand and scooping out
hole some six feet in diameter. and
excepting an incubator house, the
California ranch requires no building
for the use of the birds, though the
land IS divided off into pens fenced in.
each about an acre in extent, for the
use of the breeding birds, every pair
occupying one such enclosure
The ostriches live upon alfalfa and
corn. Alfalfa is cultivated all over
the ranch; it resembles our clover,
and grows to crop some six times
a year--[St. Nicholas for January
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
Application for License.

MARY f. COBLEIGH'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate Court, held at the Probate Office
in st. Johnsbury, in said district, the 5 tn
day of Jan, a. D., 1890.
Elmore c. Cobleigh, Administrator upon
the estate of Mary E. Cobleigh late of Burke,
in said district, deceased, makes application
to said court for license to deed certain real
estate standing in the name of the said Mary
E. COblegh in her name Eliza NJ. Cob
leigh, which real estate was at the time of her
decease held in trust for the estate of Hosea
Cobleigh, late of Burke, deceased of whose
last will and testament Simon NJ. Bartlett is
the executor. Said real estate being the same
premises decided the said Mary E. CObleigh or
to her Eliza Nj. Cobleigh by H. c. and 10
sephine Bruce by their deed dated the 9th
day of December, A. d. 1855 Said premises
situate in Charleston in the county of Or
leans and State of Vermont.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court
that said application come under cOnsidera-
ton and be heard on the st day of Febru-
airy, a. D. 1890, at the Probate Office in st.
Johnsbury and, it is further ordered, that
all persons interested be notified hereof by
publication of notice of this application and
order thereon, three weeks SUCCESSFULLY in the
CALIFORNIAN, newspaper printed at st.
Johnsbury, before said time of hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and
if they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest
3S-4O WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
Application for License.
HOSEA GARFIELD.s .EsTATE


STATE OF VERMONT. Caledonia District IS.
In Probate Court, holden at the Probate
Office in st. Johnsbury, the Sth day of
Jan. A. ID. 1889.
Charles ingalls,, Executor of the last Will
and Testament of Hosea Garfield late of
Sheffield in said district, deceased, makes APP
plication to said Court for license to deed
certain real estate to one Joseph Chesley OF
Sheffield aforesaid, which the said Hosea
Garfield was in his lifetime and at his de-
cease, under contract in writing to convey to
the said Joseph Chesley, his heirs and assigns
said real estate consisting of twenty-one
acres of land with buildings thereon situate
in Sheffield aforesaid and the same premises
decided to Hosea Garfield by Hiram Drown
and wife.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court,
that said application be referred to a session
thereof, to be held at the Probate Office in
said St Johnsbury, on the 25th day of Janrl-
airy, A. ID. $50, for hearing and decision there
on; and it is further ordered that all
persons interested be notified hereof by pub
LEGATION of notice of said application and
order thereon, three weeks successfully in
the CALIFORNIAN, printed at St Johnsbury
before said time of hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place and If they
see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest
37-39 WALTER p. SMITH Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-23
Insolvency Notice.

STATE OF VERMONT, District of Caledonia.
S., Court of Insolvency. In the matter of
John l.. Frye of Danvile in said Dis
trict insolvent debtor.
Notice is hereby given that John l..
Frye of Danville in said district, the
18th day of Jan, a. ID. 1890 filed his pc
tition in Insolvency in the office of the Court
of Insolvency, in St Johnsbury. in said dis
trict, and a meeting of the Creditors of said
Insolvent Debtor will be held at the Probate
Office in st. Johnsbury aforesaid, on the 25th
day of January, A. ID. 1890, at 10 O'Clock
a m, to prove their debts and choose one or
more assignees upon said estate.
And notice is also given that the payment
belonging to said debtor to him or for his use
and the transfer of any property by him are
forbidden by law.
BY order of the Court Attest:
WALTER z SMITH. Judge