The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-04-17

A scientific journal says that there is
no properly recorded instance of a
railroad locomotive ever attaining a
speed greater than eighty miles an
hour, and that higher speeds are myth
cal.
Senator Palmer of Michigan is the
owner of fine homestead farm. and
he plants tree there for every Senator
who visits him. Edmunds' is a beach,
Jones' mulberry, and Shernan's
soft Eastwood.
Flower culture is suggested as one
of the most attractive and profitable
occupations which women are fitted to
pursue Two New Orleans ladies went
into the business few Years ago, and
are rapidly growing rich.
A well-known character of George
Eliot's novel of ''Daniel Derondo" de-
livercd lecture in London the other
day This was ''Myra," or, more ac-
curately, Mrs. Ayrton, who is supposed
to be the original of the famous Jewess.
Hinton Rowan Helper whose ''lm-
pending Crisis'' created such sensa-
ton about thirty years ago, is living
quietly in New York engaged in prose-
cutting a large claim against Brazil and
in writing a work on South America.
Mrs. L. L. Sherman of Great Falls,
Mont, secured a divorce from her hus-
band recently, and Immediately mar
ried her lawyer. At the reception that
followed the wedding her eX-husband
was said to be one of the bithest
dancers.
The Indians on the San Carlos reser-
-. yft..1 Z tly-
fond of sweets. Sometimes in one
store barrel of sugar will be sold in a
day in quantities of 5 and 10 cents
dians foa candy.
Some ladies in Germantown have
adopted an ingenious plan for raising
money for the building fund of a
Church. They get together every Sat
urday and make q lot of fresh candies,
which they readily sell, and the pro-
ceeds go to the fund.
Queen Victoria at Charlottenburg, ac-
cording to the Paris Figaro, asked her
daughter what bad become of the bath
chair which she sent her in 1859. With
a smile the Empress replied: 1.-The
Emperor has bren using it constantly
ever since he fell ILL"
John Jacob Astor owns the most
valuable manuscript in this country,
Judging from the price paid. 1t is the
Sforza Missal, for which S;15, 800 was
! paid. 1t is dated in the fifteenth CEN
fury and comprises 434pages of vellum
: bound in red morocco.
1t is said that railroads in this coun-
try are returningto lemon color for the
| body of passenger coaches. The Prov
| idence & Worcester and the Philadel
phia & Reading roads arc making the
change. Experience shows that yel
low outwears any other color.
President Adams of Cornell Uni
versity and President Hyde of Bowdoin
College are said to be the only two
Maine folks claim that President Hyde
is the better player. A match to de
eide the question would be interesting
Queen Natalie of Servia is described
by Mr.. Edmund Yates us ''decidedly
of the fine woman order; tall, broad
and massive, with large features ano
black eyebrows and eyes and blacl
hair, which she wears down her back
as the sayin' is as poor Sl>etchley usee
to say, like a horses tail"
John Boyle O'Reilly writes from thu
heart of the Dismal Swamp: This
place is wonderful and beautiful. 1t il
a desolate land crying for attention
and reclamation. This is the most de
famed land on the earth. The Disma
Swamp is the greatest sanitarium Oh
the American continent"
Empress Victoria has turned invent
or. She drew plans from which writ
ing-desk has been manufactured whicl
enables the Emperor to write whethe
lying in bed or standing up. 1t il
available in any position, and the me
chanism employed is said to be intri
cate and remarkably effective.
Emil Kreitmeyer, employed as q
farm hand by the Communistic so
ciety at Economy, Pennsylvania, ha
been notified that he has succeeded t.
the title of Baron Kreitmeyer and to
considerable estate in Germany. Ii
his youth he married gamekeeper'
daughter and was disinherited.
Francis Murphy, the temperance re
vivalist, attributes much OF his sue
cess to the fact that while speakin:
he, never permits himself to say hars
OF unkind word about the drunkard o
about the saloon-keeper. A quotatlo
from the Talmud seems to fit in here
THY friend has friend, and tn
| friends friend has q friend; be dis
| erect"
The Duke of Marlborough, who
now in New York, is said to have be
come f,.lunciied to his wife and ha
come over here fer IL years probation
as il were. Alter that he will retur
10 ..AIri-f." FIlg'lna' and lcmarry th
wife oi l:s youth, ior whom, rs is we
know. lle has always entertained an
expressed the deepest admiration an
affection.