Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-07-24
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A flock Of ostriches at Phoenix,
birds.
The United States has $4,000 post
ooffices. Germany is next with 49,
623. and Great Britain third with a.
400.
Golden eagles are increasing In the
| Scottish highlands, owing to the ef-
forts made by large landowners for
their preservation.
Flower growers in the South Of
France and other favored climes find
1t profitable to send the products Of
their skill to British markets.
The navy, which gives England the
supremacy of the seas, costs $685.
100000 a year, or little more than
the United States pays in pensions.
Berlin has now a bachelors club"
divided into small fats, with smok-
ing and dining rooms in common,
where single men can live at moderate
rates.
!, The number Of theological students
in Germany has diminished gradually
from 4,267 in 1880, to 2,149, or less
than half. although the population has
doubled since 1880.
Oregon spends for the education Of
children $12 year per capita; Col
orado, $11; Illinois, $11; California,
$40; while Kentucky expends only
1892; South Carolina, $1.39; Missis-
sippi, $2.06.
The Patron-Your picture isn't bad,
but the drawings a bit off, isn't it?
The Artist-How's that? The Patron
Why, the clock says ten past ten,
and the right time now is a quarter
i to four.-Pick- k-Me-Up.
The United States is almost goat
less country compared with others.
and the importations Of goatskins,
young and old, aggregate $3,500,O0O a
year-which represents the slaughter
of 100000 goats and kids.
Until lately children under fourteen
used to pay half fare on the Vienna
tramways. but the rule has been alter
| ed SO that any child above three feet
and one and one-half inches in height
/ will in future have to pay the full
fare.
| King Leopold of Belgium never
wears gloves. He is very proud of
his hands. which are perfect in shape
and appearance, and on which he
spends great deal of time. His
/: beard also comes in for large share
| of attention. .a
! That low lying territory Of the Mis-
| sissippi should at times be overflow
! ed is not surprising If one considers
i that the Fathers of Waters" draws
! supplies from twenty-eight States,
draining one-third Of the area Of the
! United States
The Brooklyn bridge has lost place
| as one of the wonders Of the world
since the building of the Williamsburg
steel bridge, a mile farther UP the
/ East river. and the bridge now build
/ ing to Blackwell's island will be more
wonderful than either.
Captivity changes animals nature.
A lion captured when it Is full grown
will always be treacherous, but lions,
tigers, leopards or other carnivorous
animals that have been born in cap
tivity can be tanned till they are as
gentle and affectionate and safe as
poodle dogs. ~
There are in New York City to-day
4 1920 millionaires, as against 294
twenty years ago and twenty-five in
1858. There were no AlilIionaires in
| the city 100 years ago. The first per-
son to reach that distinction was John
Jacob Astor, who became a million
aire about the year 1920.
| Breaking away from a wagon at
\ Rheims, France, a horse dashed into
passing motor car, and leaped into
| the back seats. The chauffeur was
struck by its forelegs and thrown
| into the road. Passers-by were treat
ed to the novel spectacle of horse
| driving alone in an automobile.
The Berlin newspapers tell of a
wonderful baby giant which was re-
Gently brought by his parents before
| the medical faculty of that city for
examination. He is the son Of q
Ddk0E dl DEicpOES, duU. alLuOuRn Only
eighteen months old, stands three and
half feet high. He measures thirty
six inches round the chest
The difficulty in damaging a war
| balloon in midair was recently shown
by tests made in Austria. The expert
menters anchored balloon at a
height of 1000 feet and had gunners
who had not been given the distance,
to try to disable it. It required
| twenty-five shots to find the range,
even approximately, and not until the
sixty-fourth round was the balloon hit
That each ring on rattlesnake's
rattle represents year of the snakes
life is a popular but an erroneous be-
lief. As matter Of fact, new
ring develops every two Or three
months, and the snake, by the time it
died, would have sixty or seventy
rings at least, were 1t not for the
fact that when the rattle becomes
unduly long, accident breaks it off,
either wholly or in part.
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