The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-01-03
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Ine GreaC Eastern IS broken up
She was 691 feet long.
Kansas has a collection of 1925
North American birds.
Gray, the oldest piano-lnaker il
the United States, is dead.
The wall at the French frontier
has already cost $675,0o0,000.
The cars propelled by compress
ed air run eight miles per hour.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is
a little larger in extent than the
United States.
The United States bought ovel
$2,OOO,OOO worth of eggs from
Canada last year.
The largest crop Of oats from
one acre over 1874 bushels-was
raised this season.
A sand pump near Boise City,
Idaho, recently brought up flint
idol from depth of 800 feet.
Union carpenters at St. Louis
get from $3.50 10 1926 for eight
hours; non union, $3.50 fol ten.
At Toronto the bricklayers must
give their bosses six months no
tice Of any change in wages or
hours.
In Austria carpet workers get
from $40 to $3.50 per week; wo-
men, ST. go to $2.70: children, 81. 10
to SIS.
Thread from a common nettle
was made so fine that sixty miles
of 1t meighed two and halt
pounds
Tnere has been an increase of
10000 spindles in the cotton man.
ufacture in Maine during the past
two years.
Carpenters at Gorlitz. Germany,
won strike to abolish the Gus
OF "showing papers from the last
employer"
Senator Beck is still an invalid,
and his physicians tell him he
nust do little or no work during
the present session of congress.
1t is only fifty years since DR..
Elizabeth Blackwell, who calls
herself the grandmother of the
medical women, took her degree.
Mr.. Carlile is billed as the prin-
cipal speaker at the New Years
eve banquet OF the Massachusetts
Tariff Reform League in Boston.
A. Z. Benson, of Excelsior
Springs, Missouri, has just had re-
moved from his skull minie-ba
which had lain imbedded there
since the battle OF Cedar Greek in
1864.
Recently published statistics
show that granite quarried and
manufactured in Vermont last
year, and the production of iron,
gold and copper, amounted to
$7,O00,000.
Probably the only postofIice in
world without a postmaster is one
in the Strait OF Magellan. 1t con-
sists of small cask chained to
the rocks, at which vessels of the
various nations stop to take out
mail and letters.
Jeff Davis eldest daughter mar
ried J. Addison Hayes, a Memphis
banker. about ten years ago.
They now live in Colorado, and
bave three children. Mrs. Hayes
is described as a lovely specimen
of womanhood-a tall, fine figure,
a loving countenance, dignified
but affable manners. She is most
agreeable in conversation.
The biggest locomotive in the
country is on the Erie road. 1t
has six drivers five feet eight
inches in diameter, 130, 400 pounds,
and measures fifty-two feet four
inches on the track, tender ex-
cluded. 1t has hauled eight cars,
vestibute pattern, distance of
eightp-eight miles, in two hours
and four minutes, making four
stops. Its cylinders are 20X24,
and its boiler extends the full
length of the locomotive, with a
fire box eleven feet four inches in
length.
A father sued an English school,
master for assault, because he had
caned his boy On the hand. The
magistrate before whom it was
first tried thought that the father
was right, for the reason that can
ing on the hand was attended by
risk of injury, and there were
''methods Of corporal punishment
quite as available, efficacious, and
not necessarily attended by any
risk, which the defendant might
have used.' The higher court,
though, decided that it was not
actionable.