Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-03-08

~~~~~~-~~~
Women who live in fats in London
are finding it almost impossible to en-
ploy servants, because they are SO COM
pletely isolated from the outside world.
At dinner given by Count Boni de
Castellane in Paris recently, dwarf
cherry trees loaded with. fruit were
used for ornament and the cherries for
dessert. The cherries, 1t is said, cost
81 each. The trees had been forced in
hothouses.
One of the most frequent uses to
which the telephone is put by French
! country subscribers Is that of an alarm
to wake them in the morning. Those
who wish to be aroused at a given hour
have only to advise the telephone ad-
ministration the night before of an
hour at which they wish to be rung
up.
The Land That Swings Like Ham
mock is the name given by Indians to
the territory about San Salvador, Cen
trail America. That city was entirely
destroyed by an earthquake on March
l9, 1873. but the people had grown
alarmed and had deserted it, SO only
five hundred were killed. 1t fourishes
to-day.
A recent careful count by a COM
petent person places the whole number
of buffaloes living to-day at only l,024.
DIR. William T. Hornaday says it would
have been as easy to count the leaves
in the forest as to calculate the num-
ber of buffaloes living at given time
during the history of the species pre-
vious to 1870.
The towers of silence" are two tall
towers in Persia, so called by the Par
sees. They never bury the dead, but
leave the body exposed on the top of
one Of these towers until the sun and
! the rain and the fowls of the air have
cleaned the bones of all flesh. Then
the bones are collected and placed in
the other towers.
There Is no doubt the first idea Of a
suspension bridge was suggested to
primitive man by the interlacing of
tree branches and parasitical plants
across rivers. Probably monkeys used
them before men did In very noun
famous countries, such as Thibet and
Peru, they have apparently been used
since the dawn of history, possibly
earlier.
Hoboken, N. j., is the most densely
populated city in the country. having
siXty-one inhabitants to the acre. At
the opposite extreme, New Orleans has
but two to the acre. Los Angeles, Cal,
and Lynn, Mass, are oddly bracketed
as having the most park space, an acre
to every twenty-eight Inhabitants. Jer-
| sey City has but an acre to every H.
4S8 inhabitants.
Boston is the richest per capita city
in the country and spends the most per
capita. If her wealth was evenly
distributed every inhabitant would
have $1,942 worth of property. Of
course, in aggregates New York is far
ahead of all the rest, having valua-
tion on one hundred per cent basis
of 4,735, 114. $40, or enough to pay the
national debt four times over, with a
comfortable balance Of 100000, 900.
Tacoma has the largest per capita debt
in the country. $l15.74.
1t is well-known fact that the en-
tire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the
rate of two feet century from Cape
Cod to Cape Hatteras. II it can sink
that fast, it certainly has no very solid
underpinning, and some day the props
may let go all at once, and where will
New York be? Vast tracts of Holland
are already far below the surface of
The sea, and the waves are kept out
with the great dikes, and science says
that Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
Ill the southern coast of the Baltic Sea
Ire sinking steadily. The entire cont
nent of Atalanta has gone down under
The waves. Why should not other con-
tinents follow?