Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-12
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The Texas Legislator has passed
.aw providing for the determination Of
prairie dogs.
Tobacco smoking has been recon-
mended by some doctors in the treat
ment of consumption.
Five years abstinence is said to be
required IL the inebriate's cure is to be
absolutely permanent.
| A full-sized farm horse at work will
require twelve pounds of crushed oats
and thirty pounds of hay a day.
II the earth were equally divided
among its Inhabitants each persons
! share would be about 231a acres.
Out of every 1000 pounds of beef
consumed in Great Britain in 1901 at
| An obdurate screw nail may be
drawn if piece of redhot iron is put
Oh the head of it for minute or so
and the screwdriver Immediately af-
terward applied to draw it.
Marriageable young ladies in China
usually wear their hair in long sim
gle plait, in which is entwined bright
| scarlet thread. The thread indicates
that the maiden Is awaiting a connu-
bal partner.
There are 140 members of the North
Dakota Legislature, and Of them fifty
one are farmers and only two are law
yers. Norwegians and their descend
ants are very largely represented in
the politics of North Dakota.
The various boards of guardians in
Lincolnshire, England, are considering
a scheme for converting tramps into
respecta BILE and industrious citizens.
The main idea is the establishment of
| ramp settlements in the neighborhood
Of several of the towns.
The New York Tribune observes that
the new animal houses in the Central
Park Zoo give wild beasts a wider
range. of comfort than the tenement
dwellers in the crowded districts of
the East Side of Manhattan have
known for generations.
In Lynn, Mass, 24,0OO,OOO pairs of
shoes were made last year; in Brock
ton, 100000 pairs, and in Haverhill,
100000 pairs. These three cities,
therefore, turned out enough shoes to
supply one pair for two-thirds Of the
population of the country.
OF those taking civil service exam
nations for appointment in federal de-
partments last year SO per cent receiv-
ed the required percentages and 81 per
cent fell short of it. OF those who
passed the examinations 25 per cent
were and IS per cent were not appoint
I'd.
The cries of sea birds, especially
sea gulls, are very valuable as fog
signals. The birds cluster together on
the cliffs and coast, and their cries
warn boatmen that they are near land.
Some years ago in the Isle of Man
there was a fine for shooting such
birds.
A strange tale is told of hawk at
the mena gerie in Central Park, New
York Two birds live in the same cage,
and some time back one of them de-
veloped a tumor in the leg. The other
bird thereupon attacked the tumor
with it's claws and succeeded in lane
ing it.
The Greek government annually i'm
ports silkworm eggs from foreign
countries, distributes them gratuit-
ously, and has experiments made in
It's agricultural stations to learn the
best methods of silk culture from the
kingdom. No other food than the
mulberry leaf is gwen to silkworms
in Greece.
Long distance telephony makes good
progress. st. Martins de Grand has
just succeed in ringing up Nice on the
telephone and speaking through. The
distance is 96O miles. Telephone lines
will soon be opened between London
and Brussels and between Paris and
Rome. On the latter line the charges,
it is understood, will be 3s I'D for three
minutes conversation from a.. m. to
9 p. NJ, and Is Sd after.
The age of a tree is determined by
the number of rings of wood its trunk
contains. The woody fiber is slower in
growing in winter than in summer,
and consequently distinct rings are
formed, each representing a year. By
means of these rings the gigantic
cross-section of California tree, 1,341
years old, is used at the New York
Museum of Natural History as a his
tory chart, and as such it shows in