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The Bossier banner., 1891-11-19

The chief secret of personal COM
fort lies in not suffering trifes to vex
us, and in cultivating our underground
OF small pleasures.
The Bossier banner., 1891-11-19

The girl some years at boarding,
school often wishes eiter she is married
that she had gone to hqpsekesRipa
sgha0l
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
Hats OF in the Synagogue,

The vexed question of chats on OF
chats off, during public worship was
settled at the annual meeting of the
Anshe Chesed congregation, at the tenn
pie on Scoville avenue. The old Jewish
custom of the male members Of the con-
gregation wearing their hats during
public worship has always been in vogue
in this congregation. A number of the
younger and more progressive members
have objected to the custom, and it has
caused more or less discussion for several
years. The older members held tena-
ciously to their hats, and the younger
ones bided their time until they should
have sufficient majority converted to
their views to change the custom.
The matter was brought up at the an
nua1 meeting, which was very largely
attended. The hat question was dis
cussed at great length, and several very
warm speeches were made on both sides.
1t was finally put to a vote, and the
members who are opposed to wearing
hats were victorious by decided ma
jority. The decision was that hereafter
the congregation shall worship with hats
off, but those who desire to retain their
head covering will be permitted to dc
so.-C1eveland Leader and Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

A Turtles Nest.

In the town of Patten, place distant
from tidewater over ninety miles, there
is great curiosity, known as the ''tur-
ties nest" For ffty-two years a turtle
has come annually to the nest to deposit
her eggs. Over half century ago she
selected her nest, then in an open field,
but now in a yard in front of resi-
dence. A relative of the owner of the
house branded the date 1871 upon the
turtles back, and it can be plainly
traced now. She comes about the same
date each year, and her first few days
are passed in inspecting the ancient
nest, the yard and surroundings.
Later she digs a hole in the ground
and there deposits her eggs. This year
she left forty-two eggs, but as many
were carried away and the others often
disturbed, only about dozen of the
eggs Matched out. The owner Of the
house has ten Of the little turtles, none
more than twice the size of a postage
stamp. The old turtle always departs
after laying the eggs; the warm sand
and sun serve as an incubator.
This turtle has been seen at the Drew
Dead Water on the Mattawamkeag
river, fully fifty miles away from the
nest. Her weight varies from thirty to
thirty-fve pounds, and 1t is said she was
as large when branded as she is now.
Each June she comes to Patten, and is
always welcomed by old and young
Bangor (Me.) Letter.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
ParneIl's Brother.

According to an Atlanta paper a
seedy looking man, not quite fifty and
wearing discouraged and colorless
slouch hat, with suit to match, stood
before the bulletin boards in Atlanta the
other day to get a glimpse of dispatches
about the death of Charles Stewart Par
nell. The man was John Parnell, a
brother of the Irish leader, who has
spent the latter years of his life tending
fruit trees on little farm seventy-fve
miles from Atlanta. 81 cannot believe
that he is dead" said he. ''The only
thing that makes me believe the report
is the statement that he died suddenly.
There were twelve children in our fam
lily, six of whom are dead, and every one
of the six died suddenly. Our sister
Fanny, who died last, was found dead in
bed. Charles, and in fact all of us, are
subject to attacks of nervous prostra-
ton, and if he is dead this must have
caused his death. He loved us all, and
but short time ago he wrote me most
affectionate letter."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
E11V w
The Great Prestige of Royal
Baking Powder er1vied
by all competitors.

The envy shown by other baking powder man
ufacturers of the great prestige of the Royal
Baking Powder is not at all surprising.
For thirty years the Royal has been the stand
ard for purity and strength in baking powders,
and has been placed at the head by every board
Of official examiners whether State or National
The Royal Baking Powder Company controls it's
cream Of tartar factory and the processes for
making the only absolutely pure cream Of tartar;
it sends its product to millions of homes all
the world, supplies the Army and Navy the great
transatlantic steamers, the finest hotels and
taurants, and is recommended by the best chefs
and authorities On cuisine in every land. It's
sale is larger than that Of all other cream of
tartar baking powders combined; it has
friends among housekeePers than any other
Similar article.
~ These facts bitterness to the makers Of the
inferior baking powders; hence their advertise
ments, filled with malice, envy and falsehood,
against the Royal. z#g1@ -DEfit@ - e.>
:. Consumers recognize case Of "sour grapes"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND
SAVAGE LANDS

Is the title of the long expected new book
by J. w. Buel. For more than two years
the book world has been waiting for this
and there is great interest over it now that
it has appeared. If there is any limit to
human interest it is reached in this great
book, in which is gathered the most heroic,
startling marvellous and thrilling adven.
lures and discoveries that have marked the
highway over which human progress has
marched from savagery to civilization 1t
is a record of the finding of all lands and
descriptions of the first visits to the wild
races of the world, following step by step
each era of the worlds progress. 1t is Pro.
fusely illustrated with 800 beautiful original
illustrations and number of magnificent
double page platesin oil colors. ...ae
This work viii undoubtedly have very
large sale. The well known house, the
Pacific Publishing Company. San Francisco
and Portland, are general agents for it,
They offer inducements to agents. See
their advertisement in another column.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
They Eat as Dickens Told Them.

A good story is told at one of the no
tells here about some of the English di-
vines. who are in the city in attendance
upon the Methodist ecumenical council.
1t was noticed that at the hour set down
for dinner on the card posted in each
room giving the rules of the house these
English preachers would gather about
the doors of the dining room and when
they were opened would make wild
rush inside, and to seat themselves hasti-
ly at the first table they reached and to
begin to eat as quickly vas possible.
The landlord was puzzled to know the
cause Of this strange conduct on the part
of his foreign guests. Inquiry developed
the fact that these reverend gentlemen
had before coming over posted them
selves ON American customs by reading
J Dickens American Notes" and '1Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit." The scene in the latter
descriptive of the effect of the hotel din
ner gong causing everybody to quit
whatever he was doing and make rush
for the dining room lest he should fail
to get any dinner they took as gospel
truth and were governing their own con-
duct accordingly. = Washington Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

SPECIAL investigation by Brad
streets of the conditions and pros
poets of New England's leading
industries shows the influence ex-
erted in several lines by the de-
preston in general trade and
changes in methods of doing busi-
ness growing out of the growth of
business and manufacturing in the
west. Leather, boots and shoes
and wooden goods trade reports are
as a rule not very encouraging. In
cotton manufacturing, trade and
prospects are classed as fair. The
paper industry is conceded to have
suffered least from the prevailing
quietness. The one New England
industry which above all others is
prosperous and running on extra
time is that of rubber manufacture
ing. The reason for this lies in
small stocks now carried and the
practical stoppage of production,
owing to the control Of the market
by syndicate and to late political
complications in Brazil. Paper
mills are running on full time,
The Maine pulp mills are especi-
ally we'll situated, and that state
is rapidly becoming the center OF
this class of production. The spring
trade in cottons promises well,
and mills are now running on full
time.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
CONSIDERABLE discussion is o

CONSIDERABLE discussion is go.
ing on in England and in the east
ern states over the fact disclosed
by the recent British census, that
while all other religious denomi-
nations in Ireland have decreased
in the number of their member.
ship during the last decade the
Jews have increased 2S1 per cent
This great influx Of Jews into Ire.
land is really a curious fact, and
as yet no one has offered reason
able explanation Of it. It is evI-
dent that if it keeps on at the same
rate for another decade or two
Dublin will be a new Jerusalem
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
DOM PEDRO.

Pedro the Second, ex-emperor
of Brazil whose death is announced
by the dispatches, was the head of
the direct male line of the house
of Braganza, the royal house of
Portugal since 1910. Measured
by his literary and scientific accom-
plishments, by his enlightened and
beneficent political career, Dom
Pedro was TIE best constitutional
sovereign of his day and genera
ton. He ended the slave trade
by decree in 1850; he won the
free navigation of the River Platte
for Brazil in 1852; he crushed that
monster of cruelty, Lopez, the
tyrant of Paraguay; his influence
secured the passage of the prelim-
mary measure of emancipation in
1871; he made free education
almost universal through his en-
pire; developed the commercial
prosperity of his country; sup
pressed the political power of the
clergy; placed the national finan-
ces in good condition, and un-
der his rule slavery was finally
abolished, railways built, telegraph
and cable lines built in every
direction; and the the navigation
Of the great rivers Amazon and
Platte promoted. He banished
the Jesuits and ordained that
their property should escheat to
the state. During his absence in
Europe the action of his daughter,
the regent Isabel, precipitated the
revolution of 1889. She recalled
the Jesuits. On his return in 1889
the emperor signed decree of
general emancipation, and the
planter class, who were ready for
emancipation, but not until COM
pensation had been voted, Or
ganized a revolt and proclaimed a
republic. The emperor was
forced to abdicate; the people
knew that Brazil was safe under
Pedro, but dreaded the succession
of his bigoted daughter, the
Countess d'Eu.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
Illustrated Ranortinc.

In connection with the suicide of Gen
eral Boulanger, feat has been accom-
plished by one of the Paris weekly pa
pers which shows to what perfection of
dispatch illustrated reporting has now
been brought. On Wednesday, on the
reception of the news of the generals
death, The Illustration sent to Brus-
sells two members of its staff, one a
craftsman, the. other a photographer.
On Thursday morning these artists had
photographed the general lying in state,
as well as the hotel in the Rue Montoyer,
and had even improvised representa-
tion of the scene in the cemetery. They
then took the train, and arrived in Paris
on the same day with all that was need
ed for the illustration of that days issue
of the journal. An interesting detail is
that the proofs of the photographs were
taken and the artists drawing executed
during the railway journey back to
Paris.-London News.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

aud as a good sewerage system
promises health, thus preserving
the life of our people, it should be
among the first improvements
constructed, therefore, most re-
spectfully request that after the
sewerage system named in request
No. 2 is completed or so far under
way as you deem proper, you
take all necessary proceedings
which are practicable to cause a
free wagon bridge to be construct
ed across the Willamette river at
Corvallis and in the meantime
that you take such immediate
steps as you can to assist in getting
the present owners of the ferry at
Corvallis to make it a free ferry
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

FIVE years ago Rev. Hugh Pen
tecost was a Presbyterian min
lister of great prominence in
New York. Doubts drove him to
a Unitarian pulpit; then he be-
came an agnostic. Our understand
ing of an agnostic is a man who
doesn't know; doesn't deny Oh
affirm, simply doesn't know. From
an agnostic Pentecost became an
atheist. From atheism he flung
himself into anarchy, and was all
anarchist in Chicago. AS anarch-
ist he was the editor of the Twen
tieth Century. Now he announces
that he will cease to be an editor
and will be a lawyer. The inter
esting question arises in Pente-
costs career, "What next?"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
A WALL street broker of Ion!

A WALL street broker of long
experience and marked financial
success lately talked about the
millionaires he had met. For
several years he was closely asso-
ciated with Jay Gould and other
millIonaires, and said that the
fortunes of Wall street men are
greatly exaggerated in most in
stances. He doubted whether
Gould could clear up his obliga-
tons and get out Of the street with
much over $50,000,000. He
thought Russell Sage might be
worth the sum of $70,000,0O0.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is probably
worth between $125,O00,0O0 and
$150,000,0Oo, and John d. Rookie
feller's interests are so widespread
and SO prosperous that nobody ex-
cept himself really knows how
rich he is.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

CHARLES F. CRISP, of Georgia,
has been elected speaker of the
house of representatives, the thir-
tieth ballot being the decisive one.
Mills followed closely as second in
the contest, but the withdrawal OF
Springer made additional strength
for Crisp, and thus secured his
election. Crisp is a southern man
of ability and conservatism, and
his choice will bring the coinage
question into prominence in the
campaign next year. 1t means
that the democratic party of the
south and west are in direct oppo-
sition to the doc trinal ideas of ex-
President Cleveland and his fol
lowing on the money problem:
and it virtually comedies that
money and tariff will be the issue
in the presidential race to follow
Crisp is certainly safer, shrewdel
man than Mills.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

The meeting of congress Monday
foreshadows some interesting and
important events before the close
of another year. Its complexion
in the house is made up mainly
from the democratic party, and the
republicans Will have but little to
do with the legislation of that
body, but it will meet a stump in
the senate and executive. The
democrats will have a hard row
to hoe in all respects the coming
wear,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
Walking Back to the Big city.

Wrecks of the early winter theatrical
season are already seen in New York
managers whose ventures have failed
after few nights out of town, tired
looking actors who seem to have walked
home, and bedraggled looking women,
whose faces tell plainly of their disap-
pointments. It is the old story of poor
plays, poor houses and the refusal of the
ghost to do his weekly little pedestrian
act. And yet in. the main the theatrical
outlook is very good, for with big crops
comes plenty of money and an army of
people to be amused. But it is the sur
yival of the fttest. The poor plays are
not patronized, and the managers of
many come to grief. There are many
familiar faces on the Rialto today, men
and women who started off month
ago filled with hope. Some of them will
be glad to shovel snow for a living be-
fore spring.-Foster Coates in Mail and
Exnress
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

A FRUIT grower in Umatilla
county claims to have discovered
a means of doing away with the
destructive Goblin moth. He
floods his orchard every spring,
and his theory is that the moth is
drowned when ready to leave its
winter quarters in the ground. AS
proof that this is efficacious, he
states that his orchard is not trou-
bled, but his neighbors are obliged
to spray their trees repeatedly.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
1892.
Harper's Weekly.
ILLUSTRATED.
ILLUSTRATED.


HARPER's WEEKLY for the coming year
will contain more attractive features,
more and finer illustrations, and
u create, number of articles of
live, intense interest than will be
found in any other periodical. Among these
latter will be a series. of articles on the
twenty-five greatest cities of the world,
including five hundred Illustrations. The
Columbian Exposition, the Army and Navy,
great publicsevents, disasters on land and
sea, and the doings of the celebrated people
of the day will be described andillustrated in
an attractive and timely manner. The de-
partment of Amateur Sport will continue
under direction of Casper w. Whitney The
best of modern writers will contribute short
stories. and the most distinguished artists
will make the illustrations. The editorial
article of Mr.. George William Curtis will
remain as an especial attraction.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
THREE PETITIONS FOR CONSID
ERATION.

The following headings for peti-
tions to the city council are pub
lished for the benefit of our citi-
zens. Their merits should be
carefully considered by all interest
ed parties, and properly discussed,
before going to the deliberations
of the city's legislators. They will
be circulated for the peoples
perusal, and should be read with
care and judicious consideration.
Persons wishing to have their
names appended will have the
liberty to sign one or all the peti.
tions, according as they may deem
expedient with their Judgment,
shortly.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

Mr.. BLAINE is unquestionably
the choice ofa great majority Of the
republicans for the presidential
nomination next year. The pres
ent floating reports indicate that
the secretary is agreeable with the
drifting sentiment of his party in
his favor. Blaine and Mckinley
sounds pretty nice, and it may
prove the winning card of 1892.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

FROM the annual report of the
fifth auditor of the treasury it ap-
pears that the expenditures for
the consular service have exceed
ed the receipts for the first time
since the year 1856. The expenses
show an increase of $63, ,112 over
those for last year, and the fees
show a falling off of $61, $40. The
consular fees collected during the
year amounted to $97S,142. The
falling off was under the head OF
invoice and currency certificates.
The decline in the amount of In
voice fees would seem to indicate
that there have been over $4,000
fewer .dutiable importations Of for
eign goods into the United States
in the year covered by the report
than in the preceding year. Ac.
cording to the report there were
paid to the states under the direct
tax act during the year $11, Az, ,715
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

IT is said that DIR. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes is rapidly failing. DR..
Holmes is purely American, born
and bred, and we look upon his
literature as the product of a great
and good man, noble and true~to
humane principles, and grand and
glorious for brilliant manhood.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

From April to August last year,
our exports of machinery to Brazil
were $214,621. During the same
time this year they were 1924, ,104.
The Mckinley bill did it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

FROM New Jersey and Tennessee
come reports of men freezing to
death already this fall. It would
appear as though in those sections
''a hard winter" is indeed probable.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

WOODRUFF, the defaulting demo
cratic treasurer of Arkansas, stole
$290,513.62. The Arkansas folks
are making great efforts to get
back the sixty-two cents.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

The GAZETTE will appreciate cor
respondence of news items from
neighboring localities. Newsy CORES
pondence is what We want.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

The mayor of Seattle has re-
signed his office and stepped down
and out. The administration Of
the city government was a boring
burden, and it soon had telling
effect upon his health.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
MONEY TO LOAN.

Money to loan at s per cent interest on
farming land in Benton county. Enquire OF
J. r. Markley & Co. Office oyer the post
Office, Corvallis, Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11

The gentle rain last Monday
gently rained and "blowed" and
clustered. Poetry, you see.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-12-11
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