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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The president Of the Berlin police
has published a resoript of regulations
for the purpose of dealing with unlaw-
full competition in the medical profess
sion.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

Padlocke are being manufactured
with an auxiliary chamber, which car
ries an explosive to be fired by ham
mer inside the lock and give an alarm
when the lock is tampered with.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29
Wheel Nuts With Handles,

An improved nut for wagons and
other machinery where the nut would
soil the hands if touched has a project.
ing knob on one side which fits in q
hole drilled in one jaw of the wrench
to prevent the nut from slipping out.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

It Is announced that Italian ex.
periments on vegetable life with Roent-
gen rays have shown that the effect Ia
identical with that of sunlight
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

SlTQ Permanently Cured. No fits OF nervousness
Itto after first days use Of DR.: Klines Great
Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $500 trial
bottle and treatise. Dr. r q. KLINE, Ltd, $50
Arch street, Philsdelphia, Pa,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

New Jersey was the first state per-
mitting the right of suffrage to women;
this was done nearly 100 years ago.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

A mixture of acetylene with oil gas
in the proportion of one to three, has
been adopted on the Prusian State rail
ways for lighting cars
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

''Red rain dust" from a heavy fall
at Melbourne in 1895 has proven iden-
tical in composition with ordinary soil
from volcanic rocks.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

Naples is to be connected with
Mount vesuvius by direct railroad
line, which will connect with the cable
line running to the top of the volcano.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29
HOW's THIs9

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known FL, Cheney
for the past Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and fin
anatally able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, D.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Price Toe per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills -.rc the best.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

An Atchison woman says she neve,
thinks Of opening her husbands mail
unless 1t Is marked private
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

In the town of Chile most shops are
open till midnight, and during the
hot afternoons, when everybody takes
a siesta, they are locked up.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The Russian pood. measure OF Ca
pacity in handling grain. is equal to
S6.1 pounds.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The people waste terrible portion
of their lives in trying to be prettier
than the Lord ever intended them to be.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

1t is asserted that plate glass will
make more durable monument than
the hardest granite.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

Piso's Cure for Consumption Is the best
of all cough cures.-George w. Lott,
Fabucher, La, August 26, 1895.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29
Typewriters are being manufacture

IypeWrlterS are being manuIactured
which will write ON books, the ma.
chine being mounted on frame with
an open space In the centre, through
which the type Jewelers. are driven down
ON the page by the keys on the top Of
the machine.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The waters of the Grand Fall of Lab.
rador have excavated a ohasm 80
miles long.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

We have noticed that every maj
with a big mustache is very fond q
soup.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

A woman never gets SO old that she
outlives an attachment for the wedding
presents which were given her.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

A miorobe that lives and multiplies
in strong alcohol has been discovered
by Veley.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The turtle may be slow, but he usu
ally gets there In time for the soup.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

1t takes eight times the strength to
go upstairs that it requires to accom-.
plish the same distance on a level.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

The average velocity of the Gull
stream is three miles.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29
from the same :


from the same:
"For years l was AIA
unable to do my Ak3 \;
work. could not - IT\M3 &
sleep nights or rest MAN al
days on account of N / IN -
continuous pains inl q ! NJ.
my stomach and ~ VTZ ~.
back. l was unable II IA
to digest my food. II \ r
Headaches and ~ Akt
painful urination GM
were frequent, and X
!: E; g, !: : ! !; :
my hearts action ~ IN
became increased. ~ n nN|
1 left my farm and I NJ ~ Ne
retired to city life, | i I 10
for / was a con- 7A
frmed invalid, and ~
the doctor said Irettred to city Hfs
would never be we'll again.
"Soon after I happened to use four
boxes of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People and since then have been
free from all pain, headache and dys-
pepsia. l eat heartily and have no ap-
petite for strong drink or tea or coffee,
and feel twenty years younger.
"My weight has increased 4e pounds,
cannot cay too much for DIR. Will
liams' Pills and claim that they have
cured me. JOHN b. COOK"
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this sixteenth day of February, 1897.
A. P. Barker, Notary Public.
To people run down In health from
whatever cause-drink or disease-the
above interview will be of interest.
The truth of it is undoubted, as the
statement is sworn to, and we reproduce
the oath here. For any further facts
concerning this medicine write to DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Scheneo-
tady, N. Y.
The name and address Of the subject
of above interview is John B. Cook, of
2O3 South 9Th street, Lyon, Iowa.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-29

vII . r,urr rns SPRING EYE GRAIN
MILL iinSA 'o' BAG CNEEOlES......
Plain or with Cutter. The best needle In the mar
ket. Used by all seek For sale by all gen.
eral merchandise stores, OF by
WILL & FINCK CO.,
$50 Market Street. San Francasco, Cal
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
The Retired BURGLAR.

II don't think l was ever very much
scared" said the retired burglar, "but
have been as much scared by slight,
little things, that were of no real &C.
count, as by anything else. For in
stance, by the scratching of Il rat, start
ing up suddenly and running around in
the wall. was never moro disturbed
than I was once by the absolute still
ness Of room that was in. 1t was
dead and oppressive, and couldn't &C.
count for it.
IL swung my lamp around and saw
the usual things that you might expect
to see in such room-it was a dining
room-including a clock OH the mantel.
1t was a pendulum clock, one of the
kind that has little clear space in the
lower part of the glass front, through
which you can see the pendulum as it
swings back and forth. Tho lamp sim
ply swept across the face of the clock,
as I swung it around, but all instant
later l realized that had seen no pen.
dulum swinging back and forth behind
that clear space. 1t wasn't swinging.
The clock had stopped.
II set my lamp on the shelf ant
opened the door of the clock and started
up the pendulum, and then | heard the
regular ticking of the clock. Aud tina
was all that was wanted. But what {
relief it was to hear it I could sort on
the spoons now with cheerful spirit. ,
New York Sun.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
A Baked Bonnet.

During q recent rainstorm q society
woman was caught in Il sudden down.
pour and was compelled to run homo in
very undignitiod haste. Her dignity,
however, wasn't damaged as much as
her bonnet. The latter had been q
dream Of beauty when she started out
1t was a perfect nightmare whom she
reached homo again. She thought that
little heating would bring it about all
right. The kitchen fire had gone out,
but she put the bonnet in the oven and
prepared to build the fire. Just as she
had got all the materials together the
doorbell rang. 1t was caller. The Wis
itor was great gossip, and she had a
brand new bit Of scandal to tell. The
two women became very much absorbed
in their chat. During the course of it the
servant girl, who had been out for the
afternoon, returned and passed back into
the kitchen. About an hour later the
two gossips in the parlor began to notice
queer odor coming from tho kitchen.
The truth CT the situation suddenly
flashed upon the hostess, who immedi.
ately rushed out into the kitchen. There
she found to her horror that the girl had
built the kitchen fire and her lovely
bonnet lay in the oven roasted to- crisp
Philadelphia Record.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
The NIasarwa Busllman.

Here is solitary figure, that OF a
Masarwa bushman, engaged in digging
up bulbs as a food supply. These Dulos'
small, round and smooth and OF a sweet
nutty favor, are exactly the same as
those for which the guinea fowls are
searching so eagerly. They may Dc
called the bushman's bread, and when
game is scarce or hunting luck Is out
they serve as "a n4ainstay against utter
starvation. .,o
Tho bushman collects his bulbs III inc
shell Of a tortoise and presently Will re-
turn to tho protecting bush penea'A
which he and his family slept last hlSht'
After that he will perhaps visit snare
he set yesterday to ontrapa duyker' one
Of the small untclopes OF South A1rlca'
or, failing the capture of the little PUCK
he NAV try to stalk a paauw Win h1s
how and poisoned arrow or follow 'Ne
troop of guinea fowls on the on cliahce
of securing a head.-London Spectator
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
A London Cook.

There is celebrated cook in London
about whom it is said that he makes an
income of over G2, COO a year. He is at
tached to no house.
This is how he earns his living: In
his own brougham he sets out toward
evening for the house Of some rich man
who is going to give d dinner at which
every dish must be above criticism.
Here he alights, and, making for the
kitchen, goes through the process OF
tasting all the soups, sauces and made
dishes, advising, when his palate sug-
gests, little more salt here, a pinch OF
herbs there, a dash Of sugar i'll this en-
tree, suspicion of onion i'll that sal
mis-, etc.
This done, he pockets his fee of
guineas aud drives Oh to the next din
uer giving patron who has hidden hin
to his feast in this strange fashion. Hls
nightly list comprises many houses al
through the London season. -Phlladel
phia Ledger.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
Question Of Headlinc2.

One who has done institutional work
among the Italians for years wonders
why the printed stories of ARRAYS among
those people always are headed stabbed
ly an Italian" etc. When the Irish or
the Germans fight, attention is not called
to their nationality i'll headlines, yet
whenever a man with an Italian sound
ing name commits crime this distlnc-
ton invariably is drawn. Italians fail
to sec the Justice in it. This particular
man whose life has been spent among
the Italians is curo that they do not
have recourse to the stiletto as often as
is represented. They are quick and sud-
den in quarrel, Lut SO arc the Irish.
Why, then, should the Italian be singled
:. for obloquy?
Often, too, it is Greek with mu-
tiAated name who gets into row and IS
credited with being an Italian. In the
lower Italian quarter the Greeks and
the Italians are hated rivals, and their
similarity in names leads frequently to
confcundng their Municipalities, when
there is no need, according to this OBJ
server, of bringing the nationality into
the question at all New York Press.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
What Is Style?

The fact that we use the word "style'
in speaking of architecture and SOUP.
ture. painting and music, dancing, play
acting and cricket, that we can apply 1t
to the careful achievements OF tho
bopsebreakcr and the poisoner, and to
the spontaneous animal movements 55 Of
tbo limbs of man or beast, is tho noblest
Of unconscious tributes to the faculty
Of letters. Morals, philosophy and %s-
thetic, mood and conviction, creed and
whim. habit, passion and demonstra-
t;m-what art but tho art OF literature
admits the entrance OF all these and
Guards them from the suddcnness OF
mortality? All style is gesture, tho ges'
tnrc of the mind and Of the soul Other
Gestures change and fit; this is the ul-
innate and enduring revelation OF per
souality.-''style, by Walter Raleigh
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15

This is tie story Of an ugly man, as
told by a veteran of tie late war:
my cousin was tho ugliest man in
the regiment, " said the raconteur. 'Ho
was the ugliest man, in fact, l ever
saw. A general saw him and offered u
prize for the ugliest man i'll the army
to encourage competition. A rival regi-
ment had it's ugly man. The two were
brought together. The general was
there to act as referee. My cousin came
up smiling and looked contemptuously
at his adversary. The other freak gave
one lock at my cousin. Take him
away he shrieked, he amt human:
Then he covered his face and fed. 1t is
needless to say my cousin took the
prize. New Orleans Times Democrat.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
Defective Paper Making.

Paper makers are discussing tho pc
cullar fact that for many centuries there
have becn periodical Investigations into
the deterioration of paper. Recently
the Society of Arts in London appoint
ed special committee to make an in
vestigation Of this character. Old rec
ords show that fault has been found
with the quality Of paper in almost
every age, and most of the famous mu-
seums and libraries in Europe have
specimens Of pure rag paper which
show decay due to flaws in the texture
Away back in 1886 Peter II of Spain
issued proclamation commanding the
paper makers Of Valencia and Xativa
"to restore the paper to its old good
quality, unless they wish to be found
guilty Of fraud and punished according
iy." About 1890 an emperor Of Italy
directed that all public documents on
paper should be declared invalid. All
records covering tho previous two years
were ordered to be transcribed On parch-
ment in order that they might be pre-
served more securely.
1t is recalled that in 1875 the Academy
OF Sciences in Paris offered prize for
the best answer to this question, (Which
are the real reasons for the general de-
cline in the quality Of paper and which
are the best means to remedy the evil?"
This prize was never awarded, for the
reason that nobody undertook to com.
pete for it. Experts disagree as to Which
period in the history of paper making
produced the most durable and the best
quality of paper. Soon after the art Of
making paper was transplanted from
Africa to Spain complaints were made
and recorded that the Christian success
sors Of the Moorish paper makers were
making an inferior paper. At first thu
art was imperfectly copied. New Yorl
| Times.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
Her Father.

A little girl whose father was dead
and whose grandfather pursued the call
inc of shoemaking had often been told
that she had Heavenly Father who
would caro- for her in the absence OF an
earthly father, and had got things some
what mixed in her small brain. One day
the village sewing society met at the
house where sho was staying, and some
of the good women began talking about
her, a "poor, fatherless child. y She
bore it for awhile, but finally burst out
with: IL amt either I've got Heav-
emily Father, and he's shoemaker. -
Waterbury American.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
! VagcbOnd Pioneers.

In The Century there is an article by
Causes of Poverty" General Walker
says:
l will not inquire how many mute,
inglorious Whitmans or Thoreaus there
may be among the tramps Of the United
States, but it cannot be doubted that
the outcasts Of highly sophisticated
society embrace not few who in a
tribe of hunters or herdsmen or fisher
men would have had place and would
perhaps have been not useless members
of the body polite. Formerly in the
United States we used largely to rid
ourselves Of this element by throwing
men of that type out on to the frontier
While millions went west with I'M
dauntcd resolution, boundless energy
and staong ambition to make for them
selves and, their children homes in the
lands newly opened to settlement, there
went along with them no inconsidera-
BILE number who were simply uncom-
Portable under the requirements of an
old society. They sometimes made ex-
cellent pioneers up to certain point.
So long as all, the poorest and the
best, had to live in huts, wear shabby
clothes and live meanly while opening
up the country and making the first
hurried improvements upon the soil,
these men felt at home. But when the
mere camping out stage was passed,
when public decency began to make its
requirements and social distinctions
rose into view, straightway they came
to feel uneasy, uncomfortable, unhap-
Ply. Daily they cast more and more
chances toward tho setting sun, and be-
fore long they were again on the move,
"secking country" where they could
be as shiftless, irregular and shabby as
they liked The story Of the reputable
pioneer has been told in prose and in
verse; but the story of the pioneer vag-
abond, sturdy, courageous, possibly good
natured and honest, but intolerant OF
near neighbors and offensive to good So
ciety, has yet to be written.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15

A clergyman in the west country had
two curates, one comparatively old
man, the other very young. With the
former he had not been able to work
agreeably, and on being invited to an
other living he accepted it and took
the young curate with him. Naturally
there was q farewell sermon, and we
can imagine the feelings of the curato
who was to be left behind when no
heard the text given out, "Abide 20
here with the ass, and / and the lad
will go yonder and worship"
Sterne once declared in regard to tic
widely respected maxim, Ode mortuis
nil nisi bonum. that there was nothing
right about it but its Latin. This vie"
was evidently shared by certain Edln
burgh minister who, being asked tc
preach tho funeral sermon OF misery
brother cleric, chose as his text the
words, "And the beggar died. "-Cham'
bers' Journal
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
The Poetry of Nature.

The poetry of earth is never dead"
wrote Keats, and though the statement
sounds at first thought dangerously
sweeping one there is no doubt that If
he had been called upon to argue the
point he would have successfully main.
tanned his thesis. Regarded subjective
ly, the poetry of earth, or, in other
words, the quality which makes for
poetry i'll external nature, is that power
III nature which moves us by sugges-
tlon, which eXcites in us emotion, i'm
aglnatlon or poignant association, which
plays upon the tense strings of our SYM
pathles with the fingers of memory or
desire. This power may reside not less
III a bleak pasture lot than in para
dlsal close of bloom and verdure, not
less III roadside thistle patch than in
pea1.>that scars into the sunset. 1t
works through sheer beauty or sheer
subllmfty, but it may work with equal
effect through austerity or reticence or
limitation or change. 1t may use the
most common scenes, the most familiar
facts and forms, as the vehicle Of its
most penetrating and most illuminating
message. 1t is apt to make the drop of
dew Oh grass blade as significant as
the starred sphere of the sky.
Merely descriptive poetry is not very
far removed from the work of the re-
porter and the photographer. Lacking
the selective quality of creative art, it
is i'll reality little moro than represent
tation of some of the raw materials OF
poetry. 1t leaves the reader unmoved, be-
cause little emotion has gone to its
making Charles &. d. Roberts in
| Forum.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15

Tho puppet show is such an ancient
;nstitntion and has been popular IN so
many countries that its origin is qa a ns
obscured by the mists Of antiquity An
tinnories with chronological spectacles
have peered into this pristine log anu
d;sccrned 81 connection between the pup
nnt show and religious observances'
They have established the 1act ,n al u and
and marionettes are closely related anu
even advanced the theory that the snaa
ow puppets used in many lands q aen 1a1i
Nv tiInn tybcn all tho people saw OF reil
rions ceremonies was the shadows OF Int
eof1icintiug priests cast upon the walls {. o.
the sacred tont.-francls d. A1eoe' -
Narper's Magazine.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
Values of Autographs.

"Tho different values of different au-
tographs seem astonishing at first. For
example, q letter Of the Duke of Wei
lington's can be had for 10 shillings,
whereas a letter of Lord Nelson's will
cost you G5.
GLOW is that?"
"Well, Nelson is, of course, the more
popular hero. But the main reason is
that Nelson, who was generally at sea.
wrote few letters compared with We'll
lington, who was generally on land.
And yet neither of these reasons holds
good always Here are few prices
that may puzzle you: A letter Of Lord
Beaconstield is worth guineas, but a
letter of John Bright's is only worth 5
shillings, and letters of Palmerston, Sir
Robert Peel and George Canning are all
frequently priced under shillings.
"What is letter of Charles Dickens
worth?"
about guineas.
"And ono of Charles Lamb"
"From 43 to GG. -
"Byron?"
ga letter from Byron is worth fully
e10. but a letter CT Shelley is worth
more than double that sum"
"And Burns?'
ooh, G25 to $50 at least. "-Acad'
envy.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-15
A Mean Dog.

Ho was small boy-not such very
small boy-in an out of town school.
He had written composition. 1t was
upon the subject of dogs Now the
teacher of the school was man, and ho
was not popular. He was what the boys
called "mean." They disliked him thor
oughly, from the tips OF his SHINING
shoes to the ends of his pompadour comb
cd hair In tho composition there was q
story of q dog. 1t was the story OF q
yery mean dog, and as the composer OF
the literary effort came to the last llne
he read it emphatically and With great
distiuctness of utterance, and the hearts
Of all the other small boys ill the room,
as they listened, quakcd, half with &C.
light and half with fear, knowing what
was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at
tho upright couture of the master, as
the reader ended, "And that dog was &c
mean that his hair stood on end. 49,
New York Times