The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-10-20
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

and Things Carefully
Corra1led.
The telephone from Chicago to New
York covers $50 miles.
In Chicago the other day a two
{ story house was stolen bodily.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about $7,000,000 year.
Many women are candidates for
county Offices in Kansas this year.
James A. Garfield is to have mon
ument in Fairmount Park, Philadel-
phia.
According to the police census the
total number of men out of work in
Chicago is 70, ,4S6.
A towel IN the Kentucky building
at the fair is said to have been used by
5000 Kentuckians.
Comparatively few children have
attended the worlds fair, despite the
half rate admission.
Over one-6fth of the whole num-
ber of people in the United States have
visited the worlds fair.
More than 100000 have been
used 10 congressional debate since the
silver repeal question has came up.
The mink is one Of the most cum
ming of animals, and will steal fish and
game from hunters for its own use.
Salt blown from the ocean during
the recent hurricane has destroyed
trees and plants about Mantle, Conn.
The North German Lloyd steamship
company of Bremen announces the
addition of twelve new steamers to Its
fleet.
The sun throws verticle rays on the
earth's surface only upon an area
equal to about tbirty-ive square miles
at any one time.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government to pay rent for the school
houses and churches used as hospitals
by the armies during the war.
Chinch bugs are to be killed in Mis-
souri,, as they have been this year in
Kansas, by turning loose among them
bugs inoculated with disease. .
Kansas farmers have been taken in
by swindlers, who sell compound
alleged to double the amount OF butter
from given amount of cream.
The canal between Georgia bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
1000 miles, is nearing completion.
A volcano in Ecquador that has slept
quietly for "a century and A-half woke
up the other day and poured forth
great amount of hot lava, smoke and
ashes.
Artificial India-rubber from cotton
seed oil IS one of the latest industrial
products, and claimed to possess COM
mercial adaptations of peculiar practi-
Cal value.
The Victoria railway bridge over the
St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada,
contains three millions cubic feet of
masonry and ten thousand, five
hundred tons of iron.
The first notice of the use of coal is
in the records of the Abbey of Peter
borough, England, in the year $50,
which mention an item of twelve cart
loads of 'sfossil fuel"
The indebtedness per head in Colo.
rado is $2O6. Even Kansas, which
has always been an insatiate borrower,
has only succeeded in running up a.
mortgage debt of Sl70 per head.
America is conqueror once more in
the international yacht race. Lord
Dunraven's English yacht being de-
feated by the Vigilant near New
York. There was an immense crowd
in attendance.
In Germany, when the vote Of the
jury stands six against six, the pris-
oner is acquitted. A vote of seven
against five leaves the decision to the
court, and a vote of eight against four
the prisoner is convicted.
In digging well in Carol county,
No., recently, farmer claims to have
found at depth OF sixteen feet,
stream of water in which were floating
numbers Of whifo ualnnte fnnefhar