The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL EmS OF I'm EhESls
A mechanical device recently pat.
ented pastes paper labels on 100, ,000
tins in ten hours.
A rabbit with two we'll developed
horns was recently shot in the fields OF
Chase county, Kansas.
A local South Shore train came into
collision with a Grand Trunk local at
St. Lambert, Canada, and August
Bourbon and James Coudry were
killed.
Four hundred years ago only
seven metals were known. Now
there are 81, 80 of which have
been discovered within the present
century.
If Chinese children do not obey their
parents, and the latter whip them to
death, the law has no punishment for
them, as obedience to parents Is the
cardinal virtue
W. T. Woodward, the Kentucky
horsebreeder, Is going about telling his
friends that he has been cured of rheu-
IldGiSHu ny ing O1u ClCSGI1S
carbons in his pocket.
Two New York men have invented
an electrical dental mallet for use in
hardening tooth filling, the tool having
a central bar, which strikes back and
forth as the current is made and broken.
The com bination of lamp, bell and
brake for cyclers' use has been patent
ed, the bell being set in the back of
the lamp in position to be struck by
a clapper attached to the brake plunger.
The tramways, omnibuses, and un-
derground railways in and around
London within a radius of five miles,
carry each year, it is calculated, about
453, 600, 900 passengers.
While the museums and galleries of
Berlin, Paris, London, etc., are usually
open to the public free, the Italian gall
leries and museums usually charge a
franc or more for admission.
A Georgia coroner's jury brought in
the following verdict: ''The deceased
came to his death from a railroad in the
hands of receiver, and the same is
manslaughter in the first degree"
The only electric traction adapted for
crowded streets is the Vuilleumier sys-
tenn, Professor Sylvanus P. Thomp pson
contends, supplying current through
contacts in the roads surface.
The most wonderful astronomical
photograph in the world is that which
has recently been prepared by London,
Berlin and Partisan astronomers. 1t
shows at least 6S, 900, 900 stars.
In Delaware two brothers lived for
forty years within eight miles of each
other, attended the same church and
frequently traded with each other with
out knowing they were related.
Writer'S cramp is prevented by
new device which consists of frame
which. with the pen or pencil, forms
tripod to slide over the paper, the body
of the tripod being hollow to hold hot
water.
Frozen butterflies are often found on
the snow by mountain climbers, and
the insects are so brittle that they
break unless carefully handled. When
taken to wamer climate they recover
and fly away.
silesian coal mines are provided with
which are bombs filled
with compressed oxygen to be used in
cases where miners are penned in un
derground chambers and in danger of
suffocation.
An Illinois firm is to manufacture
journal box, in which
an oil chamber Is set in the bottom of
the box, with series of flexible fibres
from the oil to the journal to
act as wick to feed the oil into the
bearing.
Schoolboys should beware of licking
pens or blots with their tongues. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Marpmann, of Leipsic,
there are microbes in ink, and it may |
be dangerous to prick the skin with
pen.
Saville Kent, a naturalist, has an
owl, or 'morepork," as he calls it,
which plays possum, stiffening itself |
out until it appears as part of the
branch of tree in the naturalist's !
yard.
Notwithstanding all the efforts Of in
ventors, no one has been able to dis
cover a substitute for leather. For |
shoes, betting, harness and a thousand |
other uses, "there's nothing like
leather"
The annual convention of the |
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and !
Dredge Engineers. in session at Chi
cago, passed resolutions favoring 81 i
foot channel in the Chicago river and
the construction of the Nicaragua canal
by American capital.
By the Youghiogheny Gas Coal Com
pany's purchase of 800 acres of land
from Captain s. S. Brown, several days
ago, United States Senator M. A. Hanna
will become the coal king Of Pittsburg
district. Mr.. Hanna's company now
produces 1000 tons of coal day. It
wants to increase the capacity SO as to
make it greater than any other company |
operating in the district,