The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-11-14
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Mrs. Chandler, the widow of Zach,
is building residence in Washington
to cost 100000.
Armed with a pitch fork. a woman of
Pike County, Pa. drove away six
tramps from her barn.
Miss Marry Garrett is taking the
lead in a movement to promote the
higher medical education of women.
A wren in Eastern Bradford, Pa.
built nest in the sleeve of a garment
that had been hung up in the yard to
dry.
Lord Albert Edward Godolphin 0s-
gone to Ceylon to become d tea-plant-
ter.
The Original Package is the name
chosen for a paper to be published at
Old Orchard. Ne, during the summer
season.
An effort is being made at Chatta-
nooga to raise a fund for the erection
of an equestrian statue of the con-
federate Gen. Forrest.
Senator Edmunds is reported to
make $50, 600 year by his law prac-
tice. Some of his arguments have
brought him $40 word.
The professors and tutors of Column
bia College wore gowns at examina-
tions for the first time this year. in ac-
cordance with vote of the faculty.
A pet doe at q Missouri penitentiary
gave birth several days ago to twins.
This is said by those who are up in
natural history to be of very rare oc-
currance-
Capt. w. d. Andrews of Toronto has
received from King Kalakaua the med
al of the ROYAL Order of Kapiolani in
appreciation of his eminent service in
life-saving.
DR.. Gatling, the inventor of the
Gatling gun, is said to be at work on
new artificial ice machine, which he
believes, will make Ice at one-tenth the
present cost.
DR.. John G.. Rolfe. teacher in the
Latin department of Harvard, has ac-
cepted an election to an assistant pro-
fessorship in the University of Mich
igan, and will enter upon his duties in
the autumn.
While campaigning in Kentucky in
the early days of the war Gen. Garfield
bought farm near Prestonsburg for Il
few hundred dollars. Recently Mrs.
Garfield sold the tract TO spectators,
receiving $1,000 for it.
There are 265 applicants for admis-
sion to the "pleb" class at West Point.
OF this total 43 are alternates and
.nan therefore try the examinations
only case of a failure to pass on the
part of their respective principals.
At the celebration of the fiftieth an
niversary of the invention of the post
age stamp. held recently in England,
u stamp was shown worth 100 guineas.
1t was from the British Guiana COL
lection and showed a rude postmark
On pink paper.
Thomas Alva Edison. who is often
referred to as Yankee inventor" !"
is not Yankee at all. though he looks
anore or less less like one. He is of
mingled English and Dutch ancestry
and was born at the village of Milan,
in Erie county, Ohio, Feb. II, 1S47.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York
World has rented and is living in con-
siderable style in the famous Menier
Chocolate Palace in Paris. Its pecul-
Iarity is that each room has separate
decoration and furnishing after the
manner of some one nation, and no
two are alike.
Nineteenth century realism has at
tained its eliminating point in the
cathedral at Manchester, England,
where the late General Gordon. of
Khartoum fame. is portrayed on a
stained glass memorial window in the
chancel, arrayed in a .shooting-jachet
and knickerbockers-
Gen. Won Caprivi. the new G ermaD
chancellor, never has pipe out of his
mouth when he is awake except during
his meals,a he drinks beer by the gal
don. He is most deliberate in his move
1nents and always meditates for min.
ute or two before answering the most
sriting question.
An old couple who were married in
1868 called at the county clerks office
recently to ascertain If the minister
who performed the ceremony had made
a proper return as required by law.
says the indianapolis NeUs. They were
happy to find that everything was ac-
cording to law.
NyfuS w. C1clu, Is Sdla 10 wear TWO
watches. One. an elaborate affair
valued at 81, 500. is worn to please q
friend who presented itsto him, and
the other, an ordinary gold watch, is
worn to tell the time of day. He does
not use the fine watch for fear of be-
ing thought too "showy."
Here are some interesting opinions
from Mr.. Gladstone: THE three
handsomest men of their time were
the late duke of Hamilton, Sidney Her.
bert, and Cardinal Manning; the three
most naturally eloquent speakers OF
their day. the duke of Argyll, the late
lord Elgin. and Bishop Wilberforce
Lord Beaconsfield was the most inter.
esting political character of the cen
tury, not excepting Mr.. Pitt"
Lady Anne Blunt and her daughters
are in Egypt. They have adopted
Arab dress, and their house, which is
on the borders of the desert, is as
primitive in construction as ordinary
Arab habitations. Wilfrid IBluut i:
with his wife and daughters, having
foregone politics for simplicity of life
diet. dress, and customs. Lady Anne
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