The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-10-06
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

Pope Leo is said to be suffering
from nervous depression.
The British government will send
two regiments to Halifax.
Thin Aluminium is being used in
France for visiting cards.
A scotch farmer has arranged to do
all his work by an electric motor.
Texas reports that the pecan crop
this season will be the finest in many
years.
Frogs, which are a valuable food
crop in Belgium, are protected by law
in that country.
Governor Waite will call an extra
session of the legislature of Colorado
| in short time.
French Canadians are returning to
Canada IN large numbers from the
New England states.
The ST. Louis police are dangerous.
During the past four months they have
killed six people.
1t will be a year before power on
| very large scale can be furnished by
the Niagra Falls tunnel.
Chicago has but 1000 of her un-
employed laborers at work cleaning
and repairing her streets.
The yellow fever mortality at
Brunswick, Ca, is exceedingly light.
The cases all seem to be mild.
1t is reported that hundreds of
small pearls have been found in Grand
river west of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Toronto people are now kicking be-
cause the street cars run few minutes
after IL o'clock on Saturday night.
An agitation is going on in Canada
to have the law repealed which al
lowed man to be sent to prison for
debt.
The Dominion government has pro-
hibited the importation of dried figs
from Smyrna, because of the cholera
there.
Several families of pauper imni-
grants have been detected at Mil
waukee and will be sent back to
Europe.
Emperor William is much pleased
with the reception the Hungarians
gave him at the Austrian army ma
neuvers.
New York's obelisk is to have a
gilded aluminium cap. The monolith
is believed to have had gilded top
originally.
A straightback steamer left Chicago
for Buffalo, last week, with cargo of
al; 800 bushels of corn, the largest of
its kind ever carried on the lakes.
| Secretary Herbert has fixed the cali
Der of the new magazine rife for the
navy at .233 of an inch, the smallest
adopted by any of the foreign powers.
The electric light has been intro
! duced into new -four mill near to the
supposed site of Calvary and close to
Damascus gate Of Jerusalem.
Peekskill, N. Y, is held in a state
of terror by band of organized rob,
bers Most of the houses of any i'm
portance have already been robbed.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has scheme
which Emperor William favors-to
| annex Alsace to the Grand Duchy Of
Baden and to annex Lorraine to
| Prussia
1t is estimated by the Canadian au
thorities that at least 100000 pounds
of opium, refined in British Columbia,
are annually smuggled into the United
| States.
Sailors wages on the Great Lakes
are now fixed at $3.50 per day.
| After fight of four years to maintain
the rate Of So day, the unions have
given in.
During the past forty years the pop
ulation of France has increased by
2, $50, 900 only, and 80 per cent Of
this increase must be put down to inn
migration.
More than 100000 young trees,
it is officially reported, have been
| planted in Switzerland in the last seven
years in the effort to "reforest" that
country.