The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-22
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&c III Astoria, Oregon, VIII buy Il Darfel
Of flour.
Santa Barbaba, Cal, has an artesian
well which yields over ,OOO,0 gallons
of water daily.
During the recent cyclone in Missis-
sippi a negro boy was blown off his
mule into a creek.
Colonel Cash, of South Carolina, had
seven duels arranged for when he sud
denly fell i'll and died.
There died the other day at Chill,
Ind, pony of the mustang variety
that was foaled in 1887.
Even the Chinese have caught the
base ball fever, and they have organ
lied club at Marysville, Cal.
A St. Louis doctor says that cocaine
not only destroys the will power. but
will make a villain out of the honestest
man in the world.
Roam Dog. the big medicine man Of
the Sioux, finding his mother dead and
his reputation gone, sent a bullet
through his heart last week.
The phylloxera is spreading in the
vineyards of California. Another dis
ease called root rot has also appeared
to aid in the work of destruction.
Joseph Pinion, OF Temple, Ala,
found II rock about twenty miles from
that place in 1868 that would cut iron,
and he says there is great deal OF it.
A man in New Jersey, who was in
very destitute circumstances. applied
to the town for help. He asked for
some money and pair of patent leath-
er slippers.
At Hamilton, Ont, man who bor-
rowed an umbrella and did not return
it has Just been sentenced to jail for
one year. A timely warning to the
wise is sufficient.
The most common stock expression
in the language is probably ''Well,"
used as, an interjection. 1t may be
given more meanings than any other
meaningless word of few letters,
just before water was reached in the
new artesian well at Monte2uma, Ga,
some strange articles came from it,
consisting of Jumps of coal, fish scales
and bone. clear amber-coloredr rosin and
bits OF soft wood.
There has been long search for a
two British steamers foundered. 1t has
at last been found. 1t is a very small
coral patch with only fifteen feet OF
water over it.
The French are acknowledged to
have the finest guns and projectiles in
Europe. Their Ferminy shell has been
shot through an armor plate twenty
inches thick, and come out with its
steel point uninjured.
In the old church of San Miguel,
Santa Fe, N. M, is a bell that was cast
IL Spain in the year 1856. 1t was
brought to Mexico by Cortez, and af-
ter the fail of Montezuma Indian slaves
carried it to New Mexico.
Americans are becoming more and
more popular in Paris. AS in London,
they are the fashion. The spread-eagle
citizen is less conspicuous, and the
present quiet, observing tourist is well
coined with admiration.
Ivy planting and tree planting make
college cOmmencemcntS the true time
of .'lrbor days. Some love for trees
may be the result of the ceremonies,
and arbor day orators may be produced
from the graduating classes.
An early portrait Of the poet Brown
ing, soon to be published in q collec-
ton of his poems, is said to represent
4 youngish man, with dark hair, rather
ill-shaped whiskers, and q decidedly
Hebraic cast of counteHance.
4 well-known London firm of re-
freshment contractors recently adver-
tised for 1000 additional walters, md
n
sponse, the whole of the candidates
claiming to have had experience.
The largest single check ever given
was by John ID. Taylor, treasurer. of
the Pennsylvania Company. 1t was
drawn payable to order of Lee Living
ston & Co, for $14, 256, 1876 on the Ma
National Bank of Commerce, of New
York City.
The lumber from which the gallows
was constructed on which John Brown
was executed is owned by resident of
Harper's Ferry, who is waiting for
some relic hunter to come and take it
off his hands. The modest sum OF ST.
800 is asked for it.
One of the finest collections of coins
in the South is owned by Captain Bas-
com Myrick, of Americus, Ga. He
started it number of years ago from a
bag of old Spanish and French coins
that he received over the counter while
cashier of Il bank in Forsyth.
There is quite a colony of well-to-do
colored men in Atlanta, Ga, numbers
of whom have made small fortunes
since the close of the war. The ma
jority of them were slaves and started
life poor, but pluck and persistence
have given them a firm standing finan-
cially.
A moccasin was killed near Smith
vile, Ga. and out of curiosity the boys
made a post-mortem examination of
his body. To their amazement they
discovered that he had swallowed a
snake of length nearly equal to his
own, less the head, which had been
chewed off.
A cordial farmer who is preparing
to receive city visitors, says: ''Ourpoo
relations have written to say that they
want to inhale the country air for
about three months. Well, if they can