Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-12-23
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Third-class railway fares in India
are less than farthing (half cent?
mile
Tea seeds resemble small hazel nuts.
They are sown in beds to grow thickly
together like cabbage.
Bats and their parasites are held re-
sponsible, by an Italian expert, for
the transmission of plague in some
cases.
Mrs. Mary A. Kidder, eighty-two
years old, and one of the oldest au-
thors in New England. continues to
write poetry.
A Masonic medal has been struck to
commemorate the Duke of Con-
naught's induction as grand master of
English Free Masonry.
Matiida-I think that Frank was
wholly disinterested in asking me to
be his wife. Uncle George
ested? He was positively reckless.
Canadian governmental reports show
that, at the present rate of consump-
ton of timber for paper, the forests
of the Dominion would supply the
world with pulp for $40 years to come.
Nidah, Ca, has population of 1000
people, all of whom live in tram cars.
The town hall consists of two cars
knocked into one, and church has
also been provided by the same, de-
vice.
In q Berlin insane asylum is pa
tient, it is said, whose hair changes
color with her temperature. When
she is cool and quiet her hair is
light yellow, but when she is restless
and excited it becomes auburn.
Sir William Gordon MacGregor,
fourth baronet of his line, Is an in
mate of the workhouse at Leytonstone,
a London suburb. The first baronet
was sergeant surgeon to George Nv.
The fourth is suffering from locomo-
tor ataXia.
Napkins became popular in France
sooner than in England. At one time
it was customary at great French din
ners to change the napkins at every
course, to perfume them with rose
water and to have them folded diff
ferent way for each guest.
The Arabic used in the Koran diff
fers as much from the Arabic used
in ordinary conversation and inter-
course in the East as the Latin differs
from the Italian. The Koran Arabic
is that Of the literary classes; the col
loquial is that of the common people.
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, has been studying the al
most total absence Of insanity among
negroes. He believes it is because,
being newer to civilization, the race
has not run through so many differ
ent and crucial experiences as the
white race.
The one poem most often translated
into every language of the civilized
and uncivilized world was written by
a woman-"The Ode to Aphrodite," by
Sappho. Shakespeare's works have
borne the test of but three centuries;
Sappho's have stood through twenty
five centuries.
Don Emilio de Ojeda, the new Span
a great favorite in Washington. He
has distinguished appearance, speaks
English f1uently, has a wide knowledge
of literature and as a painter easily
might have made career. Senor de
Ojeda is, besides, a man of ample for
tune.
Congressman Robert W. Davis, of
Florida, was out hunting south of st.
Augustine when a large black bear
took to hunting him. The Congress
man took a shot at Bruin and then
fed, but the bear was gaining and the
fugitive climbed tree just in time
to save himself. He remained there
several hours before help came and
scared away his pursuer.
Nikola Tesla, the student Of cleo
tricity, was drawn for jury duty in New
York City, but was excused from ser
vice because he is opposed to capital
punishment, and could not agree to u
verdict of guilty, when by doing so he
would endanger a prisoners life. Mr..
Tesla does not agree with those who
would return a verdict of guilty in a
murder case while disbelieving in the
death penalty, holding that they are
not responsible for the law as it stands.
William X Vanderbilt and Grover
Cleveland received, respectively, the
largest and smallest checks ever issued
to individuals by the United States Gov
ernment. At one time Mr.. Vanderbilt
owned $5O,0OO,OOO worth of Govern
ment bonds, and on this amount drew
annual interest of $2OOO,OOO. At the
close Of Mr.. Cleveland's second admin
istration it was discovered, in settling
up his accounts for salary, that the
Government owed him one cent A
check for that amount was forwarded
to him, and as 1t has never been pre-
sented for payment it is probable that
the recipient preserves it as curiosity.
The famous French geographer,
Elisce Reclus, who is now in his seven
ty-third year, lives at Brussels In great
seclusion, the only place where a
stranger can meet him being at vege-
tartan restaurant where he takes his
meals. He has been a vegetarian all
his life, and declares that the time will
come when Europeans will look On
beef-eating with the same horror that
we do on cannibalism. One day he came
10 friend pale and agitated. MY wife
is deceiving me-" he exclaimed; and
when his friend looked at him in aston
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