Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
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New Orleans and Galveston now ex-
port more wheat than New York.
The circulation Of American news
papers is 5000. .O0O, 600 copies year.
FTfty-six per cent Of those dying
from heart disease are over 60 years
old.
Albinos are found among all races Of
mankind and among animals and
plants.
Servia is only thirty-six hours by
rail from Paris. One can get there
without changing trahns, but it Is still
in the middle ages stage of develop
Hent.
Julius Kruttschmidt, Jr., went to
Yale IS freshman In a special private
car, Guadaloupe. His father Is fourth
vice president and general manager Of
Che Southern Pacific Railroad
give Beers, who still refuse to take
oath Of loyalty, are to be sent back to
South Africa from Ceylon, in custody,
In order to show them the absurdity of
their attitude" says the London Mail.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety, which in few months COM
pietes a century of work, has issued no
fewer than 1SO,OOO.OOO copies Of the
Scriptures, which are now printed in
nearly 400 different languages.
A new occupation is opening for
tramps in England. They station
themselves near police trap and warn
approaching motorists Of danger. and,
Gs a result, are rewarded with dona-
,tions Of small pieces of money.
The oldest woman college graduate
in Massachusetts,, If not in New En-
gland, DR.. Sophornia Fletcher. recently
observed her ninety fifth birthday at
Cambridge. For thirty years she was
the attending physician Of Wendell
Phillips invalid wife and has had
many distinguished patients.
u. H.. Hale employed on his farm in
Georgia negro boy named Joe. We
are having hot weather, joe" remark
ed Mr.. Hale, one blistering day in July.
'sYes, sir, boss" said Joe, refectively,
"ef I wuz OWN a man hot day, an
he wouldn' TEX dis one, fore de Lawd
I wouldn't know where to look for
one to pay him wild"
When President Roosevelt said that
a public officers reputation should be
Clean as hounds teeth" he was CIV
en- good deal of credit for inventing
an expressive phrase. Someone has
just dug up the fact that Sena tor Ed
munds used precisely the same words
ten or a dozen years ago in describing
q; Vermont applicant for Office.
When the work of draining the Zuy-
der Zee is completed it will be possible
for one to stand on dyke with the
water of the North Sea on one side
only ten feet below and on the other
side will be the farmers at work till |
ing the soil from twenty to thirty feet
beneath. The chimneys of the farm
houses will in some cases be below |
the level of the water on the other
side of the dixie.
Along the lines of the Southern Rail-
way there have been added this year
nineteen new cotton mills and eight |
knitting mills, which have added to |
the, total equipment O134 looms and |
1853 spindles- There are now under |
construction twenty three other mills, |
with an equipment of 14,O25 looms and |
5OO,312 spindles. making a grand total |
existing and in sight of 642 mills, 1885, |
TBS looms and 6.976, 800 spindles.
The ship canal from Lake Huron, In
Georgian Bay, almost due south to |
Lake Ontario, near Toronto, upon |
which work has been in progress for
several years, will shorten the lake |
route 25o miles. The highest point is
600 feet higher than Lake Ontario, and |
a drop of sixty-six feet in four miles,
at Peterboro, made necessary the |
building of the largest locks of the |
kind in the world. They are now COM
pleted.