Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-08-21
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Last year America imported only
S,OOO,OOO bushels of potatoes.
Automobile building gives employ
meDt to 10000 persons in France.
In future women will be allowed to
take degrees in the University of Dub
lin.
Alderney is the only place in the
British islands where tobacco is now
untaxed.
Six hundred men are regularly EN-
ployed on the new steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm.
japanese is the latest language to be
| added to the list taught at the Uni
veristy Of Chicago.
In London twenty-nine autograph
letters and manuscripts of John Keats
were sold for f1,O7O.
l. Wisconsin Is first in lumber and tim
bef products, and Minnesota leads in
| Touring and grist mills.
Prussian railway cars have only
about three-tenths the carrying capac-
ity Of those used in the United States.
During the last three years twenty
two millionaires have died in England.
Their average age was seventy-fve
years.
Compared with 1901 the population
Of New Zealand 1851, ,O63, including
43, ,143 Maoris) shows an increase last
year of 2O,263.
Before he had reached his twelfth
birthday young Handel was known
throughout Germany as a brilliant
composer and virtuoso at the court Of
the Emperor.
The Uganda Mission, in Central
Africa, begun twenty years ago, has
now 1910 church buildings, seating
126, $50 persons, erected chiefly at the
cost of the people. I'd.
Several new comic papers make
their appearance in Paris every year.
Rire, which was founded ten years
ago, had so much success that it has
since had about twenty imitators, most
of which were short-lived.
Artificial teeth and "uppers" for
boots and shoes are among the new
substantial business firm in Boston Is
considering a proposition to take up
the work of manufacturing paper
hats.
Several Chinese cities have erected
temples in honor of Ii Hung Chang.
His tomb also has the form OF tenn
pie. Two of its inscriptions are: "An
countries In the world mourn him"
and He changed heaven and revo-
lutionized the earth"
Capt. 8. P. James, who was asso-
ciated with the Royal Society's com
mission on malaria during the investi-
CATION in India, says that in India,
anyway, the kind Of mosquito that
carries malaria rarely, If ever, flies
more than half mile from its breed
ing place.
The Pennsylvania terminal to be
erected in Manhattan will be the big
gest railroad station in the world, with
accommodations for handling 100000
passengers a day, or about 100000
or 100000 a year. From sixty to
ninety trains will enter and leave it
hourly. The tunnels will be. lighted
and trains moved through them by
electricity.
A German professor has been inves-
tigating the causes of insanity among
women, and has come to the conclu-
sion that If women are admitted into
competition with men the inevitable
result will be a tremendous increase
of insanity among the women. He
finds that the percentage of women
teachers who become insane is almost
double that of the men teachers.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell says too much
importance is attached to college ath-
letics. In letter to the senior class
of Pennsylvania he says: You have
lost out of college life that which 1t
were better to have kept. We played
hard in my college days, but we talked
of our sports less than you do. You,
[ fear, care too little for your intel
lectual athletics. Athletic sports are
meant, as I see them, to insure that
the body shall be made and kept
sound"
1t is said that Mascagni seeks dra-
mat1St'S laurelS. Inc composer mas
written three-act comedy, which
will be staged in October. A Rome
newspaper, the Menestrel, is quoted as
making the following very discour-
teous comment on the composer:
Composer, leader, newspaper man,
lecturer, professor and conservatory
director without job, likewise play
wright, Mascagni would hop around
st. Peters on one leg if he could get
an audience" .s.-.
Old furniture collectors in this city
have lately been driving prices high
er and higher. The rage for. Chippen-
dale and Sheraton patterns Of the finer
lines is greater than ever. Chairs es-
pecially fetch astonishing prices. Even
dealers are paying in some cases as
much as $50 for a single Chippendale
chair of rare pattern, though it be out
of repair. A collector in this city paid
the other day $279 for Chippendale
armchair. Chairs of less unusual pat
tern are sold every day for $40, $50
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