Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

WItNSn
The number of marriages in Man
haitian and Bronx this year will be
greater than ever in their history.
The Ancient Mechanical Society of
Baltimore celebrated it's 10th anniver-
sary recently.
An attack of melancholia caused Mrs.
Samuel Miller, of Portchester, N. Y,
to cut her tongue with pair of scis-
sors.
The oldest existing church in New
Hampshire is the Congregational at
Hampton, which was organized in
August, 1888. - - -
The state prison building at Sing
Sing, N. Y, has been condemned by a
committee of the New York State Pris-
on Association.
The best maple syrup comes from
the north side of the tree, but the flow
is not so large as when the tree is
tapped on the south side.
At recent auction sale at Zurich
more than 1000 gold and silver Swiss
coins of the 10Th to the 10th centuries
were disposed of.
On the big steamer Oceanic there Is
no seat at the table marked ID, nor a
cabin bearing that number. This is q
concession to superstition.
In Connecticut the percentage of
criminal population to the l 1000 inhab-
itants has fallen steadily from 2.48 in
1896 to 2.33 in the present year.
The Noah Webster Association,
which has just been organized at Hart
ford, Conn, will procure funds for the
erection of library building in MEM
ory of the photographer.
The vegetable ivory of Ecuador is the
nut of native palm. The exports
amount to 1850 tons per annum, of
which two-thirds 60 to Germany and
one-sixth to the United States.
New York wants museum of "Liv-
ing History and Court of all Nations,
to cost several millions, exhibiting con-
temporaneous art and manufacture
from every country in the world.
Thunder storms are more frequent in
Iowa than in. any other part of the
world. The average is one about every
fourth day. Sumatra has SO in year,
and Rio Janiero 81.
That the spores of mildew are dis
turbed by snails and worms has been
proven by Mr.. F. L. Stevens, of the
University of Chicago. The mildew ap-
peared in the path these creatures had
taken over fresh leaves.
! Funds are being collected in Dem
mark for the purpose of bringing to
their native land the remains of two
famous Danes who were buried abroad,
Tycho Brahe in Prague, and the poet
Jens Baggensen in Kiel.
The German firm of Krupp are said
to be making trial of some light FIVE
centimeter field pieces which are con-
structed of compressed paper. The
good service of paper in car wheels sug-
gested the experiment.
A Chicago workingman has discov-
cred process by which plate glas
can be made from Stag, the waste ma
terial in iron and steel manufacture,
and the Federal steel trust proposes to
build plant to turn out the new
product.
The whole of the dry land on this
planet scarcely exceeds $4,000, 900 Of
square miles. Forty millions are un-
der caucasic sway, leaving, as Profess
sor Keane says, not more than IL, 000,-
600 for the now reduced domain of the
other divisions.
To permit the use of a photograph
gallery at night, pilotographic-ligh
stand has been patented, comprising
vertical distributing pipe, with
branches to carry the burners, with ad.
Unstable refectors to throw all the
light in one direction.
Judge Scott, of the district court at
Omaha, has decided that the forcible
entry of saloon for the purpose of rob-
berry is not burglary under the law, for
the reason that the word saloon" does
not occur among the buildings men
toned in the statutes in the list of
places subject to burglary.
The life-sized bronze equestrian
statue of Frederick the Great, by J. l..
Gerome, the French sculptor, which he
will exhibit at the Paris exposition,
has been purchased by Peter Gibson. OF
Cincinnati, and Immediately after the
exposition it will be shipped to this
country.
James s. Galloway, of Hillsdale,s
Mich, has just pur chased the whols of
Morgan county, Ontario, 39M square
miles, for the white pine timber upon
it. He could cut nearly if not quite
100, 900, 900 feet, but intends to hold
most of it, awaiting developments.
Mrs. Marie Melms, widow of Charles
Melms, the poineer Milwaukee brewer,
died in Germany recently and was cre-
mated there. Her remains have just
arrived at Milwaukee through the me-
dium of the United States mails. This
is said to be first use of the mails for
such purpose.
Solon Borgium, Partisan sculptor,
has; been in South Dakota for the last
three months making models in clay of
Indians for the Pairs exposition. He
found some fine specimens of the Amer
Jean aboriginies among the Sioux at
the Crow Greek agency, South Dakota,
and succeeded in working up a half
dozen models.
1t is said that Admiral Dewey's son
receives sample every time an article
named for Dewey is put on the market,
whether it be cravat, q collar, g
hat, cigar, brand Of whisky or any
thing else. He has adorned his room
with these samples, and it is probably
the most remarkably decorated room
in America.