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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
THE Hat TRICK.
How the Merchants' Exchange Jokers
Worked 1t Upon Visitor.

How the Merchants' Exchange Jokers
Worked 1t Upon Visitor.
A large, good looking and evidently
good-natured man walked into the ex-
change room in the Board of Trade
building the other day and was soon an
interested, not to say anxious, specta-
tor of what is known on Change as ''the
hat trick"
The large man wore a glossy new
derby hat.
A member of the exchange walked ND
to him, neatly lifted the hat off his head,
and in moment the newcomer saw
what he supposed was his hat flying
across the room.
1t had been propelled by kick. Sew
eral others made a rush at it, and it
was sent hither and thither like foot
ball.
The man looked on in amazement.
Presently the hat came his way and he
seized it. He gave the now dilapidated
headgear brush or two with his elbow,
looked it over obviously, then put it on
and started hurriedly for the exit.
Before he could make his escape the
hat was again seized and again became
the center of rush.
Once more the man got the hat, clap
ped it on his head, and was rushing
away when he was intercepted by the
man who had originally taken it from
the visitors head.
With great politeness the joker hand
ed over the visitors own hat, as glossy
and perfect as if it had just come from
the hatter's block, and took the old hat
in return.
The visitors surprise increased. He
scrutiniZed the new hat 1t was GER
tainly his. Then he Joined In the gen.
eral laugh. He had simply been init
lated into the mysteries Of the Board of
Trade hat trick, the first point in which
is a bit of sleight-of-hand work by
which hats are changed and the stock
hat, kept for the purpose, is kicked into
the ring of jokers.-Buffalo CONNER
cial.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Points About Matches.

A commission appointed by the
French government has been investi-
eating the manufacture of matches,
with the object of ascertaining if there
was not some substance whose substi-
tuition for phosphorus would render
that industry one in which men and
women could engage without becoming
the victims of horrible and fatal forms
OF poisoning. The commission has just
made its report, and the conclusions
reached by it are Of great interest.
There is, the commissioners say, moth
Ing that can replace phosphorus as a
quick and convenient means to start
combustion. Other chemicals would,
indeed, be safer for the employees, but
none Of them is even approximately as
safe or useful from the standpoint Of
the public. 1t is evident, therefore, that
the use Of phosphorus must continue;
but, though that is the case, it by no
means follows that the manufacture
of matches must be at the cost of hum
dreds of lives every year. By using
proper precautions, the commissioners
declare, in the ventilation Of factories,
in the structure of machines and in the
personal habits of the work people,
practically all danger can be removed.
In the best-regulated establishments
measures have already been taken that
put an end to the diseases that a care
less and unscientific use of phosphorus
produces in those that handle it. A
startling feature of the report is it's as
sertion that the match factories owned
and conducted by the French govern
ment itself are precisely those in which
the conditions are the worst
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
THE ELECTRIC SUCKER.
A Germans Account of q Wonderful F1sf
Found In the Nile.

In an article in Ueber Land und
Nicer on electrical Phenomena In the
Animal World" Dr.. Frolich tells about
a sucker first found in the Nile and its
tributaries by modern scientific men in
1881, but well known to the ancient
Egyptians as the "sucker thunderer
god" being worshiped as such in a
sucker god temple in the city Of the
thunder sucker, or Oryrrhynchos. The
reason they called it the thunder suck
er, instead of the thunder fish, was
because they knew Of another fish,
known to the English speaking people
as the electric cat (fish), to the Germans
as the zitterwels, or the shad that
makes one tremble. 1t grows to length
of about foot, of which the head and
nose take up quarter, and at the deep
est part measures more than a quarter
of its length.
Just why the modern scientific men
did not know of this fish before is a
question lay1nan finds it hard to an
swer except that the sucker is a bottomy
fish. The old Egyptians probably learned
of the animal after Nile food, when
a mud puddle left by the receding wa
ter. He saw funny fish struggling in
the water, and, out Of desire for
knowledge, reached for the fish and
touched it. If there were any disciples
of the philosopher hard by, they proba-
bly, saw the philosopher act surprising
ly-as the stole Indian did when he got
hold Of galvanic battery. Thereafter
the fish was worshiped, having name
which associated it with the "thunder
god of the skies, although the ancients
knew nothing of electricity according to
the learned Of today.
A peculiar thing about the various
electrical fish is that should one swim,
even at considerable distance from a
human bather, the bather would know
of its proximity by an electrical sem
sation," while many of them have bat
teries actually fit to kill horse on con-
tact. Thege fish are far ahead Of the hu-
man beings in the matter of weapons,
''for they stun their prey at a great dis
tance in the water -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Vanished from Human Ken.

What strikes us most markedly in
reading the book of the rocks Is not SO
much the strange forms which are por
trayed in it's pages, as the fact that SO
many Of them are extinct. Indeed, ex-
cept in the very newest of formations.
it is extremely rare to come upon any
forms which can even approximat tely
be considered identical with any how
living on the face of the earth.
All are vanished species. What Is
more, when we once get clear OF any
formation it is the rarest possible oc-
currence ever again to see any of tho
species of fossils characteristic of it.
Each period of the worlds history had
it's own fauna and flora-that is, it's own
assemblage of animals and plants-and
once they disappear they are gone for
ever. Yet, within the historic period,
we know of the determination of only
a few animals, and of no species of
plants at all. Even then the extinct
animals have, in every instance, met
their fate at the hand of man.
The dodo, a curious bird of Mauritius,
and the so1itaries of the Islands of Re-
uuiOu dllu fSOurlS uGZ were cACtIuludlSu
by ruthless seamen within the last two
centuries. The moa of New Zealand
lived long after the Maoris reached
these islands. The great aux and the
Labrador duck have ceased to exist,
from an identical cause, within the
memory Of man. The Philip Island
parrot is still more recent loss, while
the only mammal which can be said for
certain to have been utterly destroyed
from off the face of the earth is the
gigantic sea COW (rhytina) of Behring
Strait, though, when it was first dis.
covered, and took the taste of the sea-
men who liked oily beef, its numbers
were small, and seemed on the wane.
These, and few other species Of less
interest, form the total extinctions Of
which history preserves any record.
But in the rocks composing the earth's
crust there are the remains Of thou
sands, which disappeared ages and
ages before man came upon the earth.
Our Earth and Its Story.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
Not Often Really Frightened, but Now and
Then Perhaps q Little Startled.

Not Often Really Frightened, but Now and
Then Perhaps q Little Startled.
81 don't suppose man in my busi-
ness is apt to get frightened very much, I"
said the retired burglar. Hes all the
time expecting things to happen, and
he's always on the lookout for them.
Still, suppose that any man, unless he
has an absolutely cast iron nerve, and
such men are very few, is likely at
times to be startled I know that am.
For instance:
ST went into house one night, and
after cropping around down stairs for a
while in the biackest kind of darkness
went up stairs. There found an open
door. I had located from the outside of
the house the windows of the room that
the door knew where the bed ought to
be. 1t was there, and I went along the
side of it until came to the head.
found chair there with mans clothes
piled up ON it. picked up the trousers,
and as I began to feel in the pocket
br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-rl went an alarm
clock on the bureau, not foot from my
head, and out Of bed jumped man,
humping square against me, Of course
not knowing was there, but knocking
me endways and tumbling over on the
floor himself
ST certainly was startled by that
alarm clock, make no mistake about
that, and have no doubt in my own
mind that the man that jumped out Of
bed was startled when he fell over me,
but I didn't stay to ask him about
that. New York Sun.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Forests OF Spain.

Spain is waking up to the necessity
of reafforesting her mountains. The
little king recently went to village a
few miles east of Madrid and planted
a pine sapling, after which 1900 chill
dren selected from the Madrid schools
tributed among them, with the inscrip-
ton "First arbor day instituted in the
reign Of Alfonso KILL, 1885," Similar
festivals are to be held yearly in DIFF
ferent places and the children are to be
taken out to see how their trees grow,
in the hope that they will foster tree
planting in their districts.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
The Dear Old Lady.s Mistake.

Old Mr.. and Mrs. Shuman from Bryan
went to town, and in going to the hotel
for dinner saw crowd around the JUS
tice court. The old couple, with pardon
able curiosity, inquired the cause of the
gathering. They were informed that a
man was on trial for beating his wife.
Edging their way through the bystand-
ers to get look at the prisoner, the old
lady whispered to her husband:
"What a murderous looking creature
the prisoner isl I'd be afraid to get near
him"
"Hush ~ warned her husband. "That
Isn't the prisoner: he hasn't been
brought in yet. F"
eft isn't2 Who is 1t, then?"
''It's the judgep p'-Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
FAIR PLAY.
He Didn't Like Beans, but He Ate
Them All the Same.

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Mark Twain lived some forty years
ago, in the limits of very wild, half
crazy frontier mining camp. This was
divided into two parties, the so-called
Boston crowd" which contained the
better element, though few Boston men.
and the Missouri crowd" which was Il
pretty bad lot, though not composed
exclusively of natives. of Missouri.
Fights to the death were of daily and
nightly occurrence, gambling outfits
were in constant demand, quarreling,
bullying drunkards were omnipresent
and few used water except to wash
now and then in the little mountain
stream flowing through the diggings.
Despite it all there was a strict camp
etiquette, which was recognized and
considered law by all, and it was of this
etiquette that Mark Twain told me an
example.
A Boston man" was eating break
fast early one morning at table near
the open door and the half-bar, half
restaurant of the place. He was just
finishing his plate of pork and beans
when two Missouri men passed along
and saw the Boston" man and his
breakfast. They stopped within foot
or two.
Look at that!' said the bigger of
Missouri" men contemptuously, "dO
you see what that nk-blankety-bl blank
Boston thing is eating? Why, down in
them things to our horses. Only the
brutes eat that grub down there"
Presently the bully stepped inside and
sat down opposite the Boston" man, at
the same table. When the plate of
beans had been eaten, the Boston"
man called out to the bartender:
"Pete, give me another plateful. Pile
it up. like 'em.''
When the heaped-up plate came the
Boston" man, quick as flash, had
pulled out his revolver, had the "Mis-
souri, man covered with it, and then,
pushing the full plateful of beans
across the table, told the Missouri
man to "eat it and like it, or he'd shoot
him like the dog that he was" The
bully had his choice between beans or
death, and he knew it. When he had
eaten every bean he was made to say
that he liked beans, and then, and not
till then, did the Boston" man put up
his pistol, paid for both orders of beans
and left the saloon
''Now," said Mark, 'the reason the
Missouri man didn't whip out his gun
and shoot as soon as the bean-eater's
back was turned was because Of camp
etiquette. Each man had his fun with
the other, and they were even. If the
Boston man had been shot the Mis-
souri, man, as quick as news could fly,
would have had his body filed with
lead from the revolver of every man in
camp, regardless of party. You see we
were quite sticklers for fair play in
those days."-New York Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
A Headsman with a History.

On the little island of Ustica, forty
miles from Palermo, Italy, there died
recently man who for years was the
terror of the people of Naples and the
kingdom of the two Sicilies. He was
Gaetano Impellizzeri, once the heads
man under Ferdinand II. Of Naples.
The useless executions attributed to
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
HoW's THIs.7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. ]. Cheney
for the hast Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood aud mucous surfaces ol
the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls family pills are the best.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Too Much Reform.

Friend-What Is the matter, old boy !?
Judge-Well, the fact is my wife and
/ never get along very well and of late
the relationship has become so un-
bearable that we both want divorce.
Friend-I see. Why don't you get
one?
Judge (sadly)-I have sent all the
bogus divorce lawyers to the peniten-
tiary.-New York Weekly.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

This world is like mint. We are no
sooner cast into the fire, taken out again,
hammered, stamped and made current
but presently we are changed.-Decker
and Webster.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
RESPONSIVE BOTH TO HARSH AND
SWEET SOUNDS,

The nerves are often painfully acute. When
this Is the case, the best thing to be done is to
Hostetter's stomach Bitters, q superb neryine.
No less beneficial is it for dyspeptic, bilious,
malarial, rheumatic, bowel ana Kidney com
wineglassful before retiring confers sleep.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Ho1Tr SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

"This excellent institution closes its fifth
year accredited at both of our universities.
Ex-State superintendent Hoitt is well
known in educational matters. The men,
ton of his name as master of the school is
q guarantee to all who know him, that
none but first-class teachers are employed
and that the school under his management
ranks among the first of it's kind. Nowhere
are boys better cared for."-San Francisco
Call.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

DR.. Peters. the African explorer, is
about to undertake a new exploration
of Somaliland under the auspices Of a
number Of wealthy Americans.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
TRY GERMrA for breakfast.

By special permit, and in mailing
packages approved by the postoface de-
partment, bacteria or disease tissues
may now be sent through the mails to
United States or municipal laboratories.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
She Knew.

Bilkins-How do you make a hot
Scotch, Miss Vassar?
Miss vassar-Call him an Irishman;
if that dosen't make him hot don't
know anything that will.-Exchange.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

"Enpec played mean trick on his
wife while she was away"
"What?"
Taught the parrot to scream, You
talk too muchp Exchange.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
Advertising i'm London.

Advertising in london.
1t is estimated that e., 100000 is spent
in advertisements and that something
like 1,5OO,OO 600 copies Of newspapers
are sold in London every year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18
AN Interpreter,

Mrs Nupop-Oh, you must come and
hear baby talk.
Uncle Bob-I shall be delighted-but
you must act as interpreter.-Truth-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

"The giraffe has a tongue eighteen inches
long" said Mrs. Garrill. "And knows how to
hold 1t, too," snapped Mr.. Garrill, who had had
q long curtain lecture the night before
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a
family medicine with us since 1861. B.
Madison, 2409 42d Ave., Chicago, Ill.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

The women can always depend upon
this: that man at bis meals viii ask
for something that 10 not on the table.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

| FITS.-Au fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No fits after tb be first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 90
trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline,
93l Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

The less girl tries to be nice, the
nicer she u, ,fs- =
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-18

tie of his absolute cure, free to any sufferers
who may send their P. @. and Express address
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

Thus have we gone over part
of the law of real estate, but have
not the time now to go into the
laws and rules governing mortgages,
leases and the like, but leave the
consideration of them for some
future time. Mortgages, at the
best, are unpleasant subjects, es-
pecially when we as second parties
thereto find them staring US in the
face. And when we come to con-
slider how many of them are stand
ing like wolf at the door and cast
ing their gaunt shadows across the
thresholds of many hard earned
Palouse homes, We long for sys-
tenn of laws that will protect man
against his own improvidence, and
render the mortgaging of the home
stead impossible.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27
Oil of Gladness never fails.

Oil of Gladness never fails.
Country produce taken in exchange
for photographs at Emery's gallery.
Get your confectionery, cigars
etc., at Williamson &Bulen's.
Emery takes Is photos, souvenir
size, for 81.
Mesdames Gender & Thompson,
milliners, are selling all pattern
hats and trimmed hats at cost.
Photographer Emery will leave
on July LIST, to be absent all sum-
mer, and parties desiring pictures
taken must come within the nex'
few weeks. The best pictures az
the lowest prices.
The Northern Pacific now makes
direct connections at Spokane WIN
both east and west bound trains
thereby gaining "a hours over otnel
routes. Only So hours to st. raul
1t will be to your interest to call Oh
or write to me before buying LICK
cts over other lines. J. S. KEEN asl;
local agent, Pullman, Wash ~"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

Ayers Pills promote the natural
motion of the bowels, without
which there can be no regular,
healthy operations. For the cure
of billiousness, indigestion, sick
headache, constipation, jaundice,
and liver complaint, these pills
have no equal. Every dose effec-
tive.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS

Wakelee's Squirrel Extermlnss% y.
the original and only article o. 'l;a ~
kind giving complete satlsfs an y.
Now reduced from 50 cts. TO oV. -
per can. For sale by II. }. Jaw
son, Pullman. Mchl-m'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27
FRENCH TANsY WATERS.

These waters are for the RELIEF anu III iii
of painful and irregular menses anu What
remove all distractions, no mat1e' srer
the cause, and are sure and saie Drg
time. Manufactured by Emerson 4 /
Co., San Jose, Cal, and for sale n:yIlmsr
Jackson, druggist, sole agent, ru"'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

By taking the Northern Pacific,
leaving Pullman at $3.50 a. m, you
can have four hours in Spokane.
Returning, leave Spokane at $50
D. NJ, arrive at Pullman 1925 p. m.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

Emery has reduced the price of
his cabinet photographs to $50
per dozen. All work must be fin
ished by July 1st, as he leaves for
the summer at that time.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castsrl@
When she was Child, she cried for Cass0r'~
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas''i'"
When she had Children, she gave them Cs1''
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-27


the states. At common law an i'm
preston upon wax or some tena
cious substance was required; a.
Lord Coke says: 'It is required
that the deed, charter or writing
must be sealed, that is have some
impression upon wax"
In the New England states and
in New Jersey, unless changed by
recent legislation, the common law
seal is required, although the
United States supreme court has
expressed the opinion that even
there an impression upon the paper
without wax, would be sufficient.
A further requisite is that the
execution be done in the presence
of one or more witnesses. At COM
mon law and in some of the states
this is unnecessary, but generally
in the U. S. witnesses are required,
the numbering varying with the
statutory regulations OF each state.
Two witnesses are required in this
state. The witnesses are required
in making proper attestation, to
sign their names to the instrument
and to witness the execution of 1t
by the grantor, though it is not
necessary that the parties should
sign in the presence OF witnesses, as
it is sufficient if the witnesses are
requested to subscribe the attesta-
ton clause and the signatures to
the deed are acknowledged by the
parties to be theirs.
AS a general rule it is not re-
quired to make deed valid, that a
certificate of acknowledgement or
probate be attached to it; but in
some states it is indispensable, and
perhaps in all the states the ac-
acknowledgement by married woman
is absolutely required in order to
bind her, and in most of the states
her acknowledgment must be taken
separate and apart from her nus
band But in all the states except
Colorado and Illinois in order that
a deed may be recorded and the
record furnish constructive notice
to subsequent purchasers and in
cumhrancers it must be acknowl-
edged and proved before some Off
Ger authorized to take such acknowl-
edgments, and a certificate of such
acknowledgment endorsed upon or
attached to the deed After the
deed has been signed, sealed, attest
ed and acknowledged the next re,
quisite is it's delivery by the grant
or and it's acceptance by the gran
tee. These acts are as essential to
the validity of the deed as the sign.
ing. AS long as it remains in the
possession of the grantor the title
is still in the grantor and no one
can acquire title of the grantee
But ifonce delivered, no subsequent
at of the grantor can impair the
validity of the conveyance.
The title is then in the grantee
and it cannot be recovered from
him except in one of the legal anC
formal ways recognized by law fol
the acquisition of property.
In the United States. from al
early period, every state in the
union has had a general registra-
ton law and officers appointed
whose duty it was to record all in
struments of conveyance. The oh
iect of recnrlinp q deed is to fnrnisl