Corvallis Gazette.
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VOL.. XVI.
CORVALU8, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1879.
NO. 28.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. 8. WOODCOCK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
(OBV4LLW
UHEGU.
OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD
COCK A BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
Special attention given to Collections, Fore
closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate
and Road matters.
Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm
Lauds, on reasonable terms.
March 20, 1870. 16-12yl
F. A. CHENOWETH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CSBTALUt, : J : OKEUOBT.
JS0FFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second
Street. 16-ltf
J. W. RAYBURN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CORVALLIS, t OBEOU9.
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and
Third.
2SiJSpecial attention given to the Collection
of Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf
JAMES A. YANTI8,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
OKYAl.l.I.
OREGON.
tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the State. Special attention given to
matters in Probate. Collections will receive
rompt and careful attention. Office in the Court
ouse. I6:ltf.
DR. F. A. VINCENT,
DENTIST.
COKVALLI8. - OREGON.
rFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER
Max. Friendley's New Store. All the latest
improvements. Everything new and complete.
All work warranted. Please give me a call.
15:3tf
C. R. FARRA, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AMD SURGEON,
f FFICE OVER GRAHAM A HAMILTON'S
Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf
J. BLUMBERC,
(Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor's
Market,)
I X
THE NEW
L-- I
T o jet:
x L
Corvallis, - Oregon.
(OPP. SOL. KING'S LIVERY STABLE, SECOND STREET,)
Must sell, to make room for a large invoice of
New Goods to arrive,
Dry Goods,
Clothing:,
Boots Ac Shoes,
Carpets and
Fancy Goods,
At PRICES NEVER BEFORE offered to the
Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity.
DRemember the new IX L Store, opp. Sol.
King's Livery Stable, Corvallis.!
Corvallis, April S4,
10:17m3
The Breakwater at
Cape Foulweather,
Is a necessity and owing to an increased
demnad for
OOOIf IT OUR LINE,
WJ HAVE THE PLEASURE
OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THM LARGEST AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
the
past, shall be
County to buy
COKTaLLU,
KECIOB.
Q.ROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, FTJRN-
ishing Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc, etc.
j83arGoods delivered free to any part of the City.
Produce taken, at highest market rates, in ex
change for goods
March 7, 1878. 15-lOtl.
NEW TIN SHOP.
J. K. Webber, Pro.,
MAIN St,. - OOBVALLI8.
STOVES AND TINWARE,
All Kind.
S9-A11 work warranted and at reduced rates.
lfclStf.
W. C. CRAWFORD,
DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
TEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
" etc. Also,
Musical Instruments &o.
Repairing done at the most reasonable
rates, and all work warranted.
Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. 14:50tf
GR4HAM, HAMILTON & CO.,
COBVALLI8 ... 0BE60K.
DEALERS IN
Xrugs, JPaints,
MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, ME STIFFS,
OILS,
CLASS
AND
PUTTY.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS
FOR MEDICINAL USE.
And also the the very best assortment of
Ever brought to this market, and oar motto, in the future, as it has been in
'SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton
Goods 25 per cent, less than ever before.
We also have in connection a large stock of
oots and Shoes, Hats and Caps,
.privately by our Mr. Sbeppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cents on tne
dollar, which will be kept separate from oar regular stock, and will extend the same bargains to
customers who will give us a call. As a sample of our psices, we will sell
Shoes from 26cito wti2.
Boots from 01 to $3 SO.
Hats from 35o to 1 VS.
Buck Glo-ves, SO cents.
Silk Handkerchiefs 38c.
Grass Cloth S cents.
Kid Gloves,' TS cents to 01.
Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office.
Sheppard, Jayeox & Co.
17:1m3
Serving a Writ.
CorvallisMayjrjJSTi
CORVALLIS
Livery, Feed
. AND..
SALE STABLE,
9X si in 8t., Corvaliis, Oregon.
SOL.. KING, - Porpr.
OWNING BOTH BAKJNB I AM rKif AKJSD
to offer superior accommodations in the Liv
ery line. Always ready for a drive,
3-OOI TEAMS
A.t Low Bates.
My stables are first-class in every respect, and.
competent and obliging hostlers always
ready to serve the public.
FOB HIRE.
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,
XjXJRMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE
has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he
hopes to be favored with a share of the public
patronage. All work warranted, when made
under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning
promptly atienaea w.
Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft.
Grain Storage !
A Word to Farmers,
TTAVING PURCHASED THE COMM0DI
ous warehouse of Messrs. King and Bell,
and thoroughly overhauled the same, I am now
ready to receive grain for storage at the reduced
Bate of 1 cts. per Bushel
I am also prepared to Keep Extra, White
Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling
me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared
to pay tne
Highest Market Price.
for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a
snare ot puDiic patronage. x. J.
(Jorvaius, Aug. 1, 187 H. 15:3ZU
REASONABLE CHARGES
FsrUeslM attention Paid t
Horse.
ELEGANT HEARSE, CAKKIAGEB AJSU
HACKS FOR FUNERALS
Lamps and Wall Paper ms,jan.-3,i879.
l:lyl
ever brought to this place.
AGENTS FOR THE
AVERIll CHEMICAL PAINT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER.
WParsMaM' Prescriptions Care
fully Compounded.
LANDS! FARMS! HOMES 1
HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim
proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY,
very desirable,
FOR
These lands are cheap.
Also claims in unsurveyed tract for sale.
Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under
t.ViB Soldiers' Homestead Act. located and made
final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose 01
the balance to me.
Write (with stamps to prepay poetige).
R. A. BENSELL,
Newt o: t, Benioa county, Oregon.
lfltf
JOHN S. BAKER. PRO
CORVALLIS,
OBEfiOH.
HAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR
in Cervallis, I will keep constantly on hand the
cnoicest cuts 01
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL
Especial attention to making extra Bologna
Being a practical butcher, with laree ex Deri
ence in business, I flatter myself that I can give
satisfaction to customers. Please call and give
me a trial. JOHN S. BAKER.
Dec 6th, 1878. 15:49tf.
Corvallis Lodge So 14, F. A A. Sf.
Holds stared Communications on Wednesday on
or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good
standing cordially invited to attend. By orde
W. M. r
Some forty years ago there lived on the
western shores of Ireland a certain gen
tleman, who was by profession an attor
dev at law and a member of Parliament.
Previous to setting out for London to at
tend his Parliament duties, he gave into
the hands of a bailiff a writ which he held
against a gentleman who resided in a re
mote part of the country, and instructed
the bailiff to have a personal service made,
but on his return some months afterward,
he was not a little surprised to learn that
the writ was not or could not possibly be
served, inasmuch as the party against
whom it was issued kept himself closely
confined to his house, and furthermore, it
being found highly dangerous for a stran
ger to appear in the neighborhood as two
or three sturdy fellows, armed with
shillalahs, were constantly prowling
about the place, whose intentions were no
doubt to thrash the first unfortunate
bailiff whom they could lay hands on.
The M. P. had a tenant named Tom
Macnamara, a very shrewd fellow, and
quite an adept at minor matters of law,
and who was usually called on to decide
litigious disputes between the tenantry,
by whom his opinion was considered as
good as the Lord Chancellor. The M. P.
having sent for Tom, made known to rum
the failure of the bailiff to serve the writ
and the cause assigned, and asked him if
his fertile imagination could not enable
him to devise some plan by which it could
be accomplished. For a few moments
Tom appeared to be in a deep meditation ,
then, taking a sudden start, ne ex
claimed :
By jingo, I have it ! Give me the
writ, and he must be either the devil or
Dr. Faustus if I do not shove it into his
mitten."
Having the writ, he proceeded on his
journey. Un his arrival in tne neighbor
hood, he made his way towards the ponce
barracks, which was situated within a
half a mile of the gentlemau s residence,
against whom the writ was issued, and
concealed himself behind a fence, where
he had a view of the barracks. After a
short time he saw two of the police com
ing toward him, but as soon as he was
aware of being seen by them he went in
side the fence again, and appeared to hide
himself: but when the police came up to
the place, they looked over the fence and
saw Tom crouched up against it. They
took him into custody, and, on being
questioned as to the cause of his hiding,
he said that he had always a horror of
police, and wished to avoid them by every
means. He was next interrogated as to
his place of residence, and in answer
stated that he belonged to a certain dis
trict naming one which at that time was
infested by " Terry Alts," and where four
of the police had been killed a short time
previous and on being asked as to his
destination, replied that he was on his
way to Galway to take shipping for
America. The police at once came to the
conclusion that he was a " Terra Alt."
who had committed some depredation
and was about to escape the country, and
they decided on taking him before a
magistrate for examination. The nearest
at hand happened to be a gentleman
whom Tom was in quest of.
The party set out, and on their way
they encountered two men with shiile
lahs, who expressed their sympathy for
the " poor prisoner," and muttered im
precations against the police. On arriving
in front of the house, the magistrate put
his head through an upper window, and
was informed by the police that they had
a " Terra Alt " in charge, who was about
to escape the country when they appre
hendsd him. The magistrate ordered his
domestics to admit the party. It was not
long before he had made his appearance,
and after dieting from Tom the infor
mation which he had already given the
police, he informed him that he had no
doubt whatever but that Tom had com
mitted some heinous crime and intended
to escape, but that he could not commit
him to prison until further proof could be
una againsi mm.
Indeed, your Honor." said Tom. " I
never did harm man or mortal. I am a
poor, honest, laborin' man. as the charae
ter which his Reverence, Father Meehan,
the priest of the parish, gave me, will
show ; and hisR everence has known me
since I was the height of your Honor's
knee."
" Have you that character about vou ? "
!J 4.1 " 1- .
saiu me magistrate.
I have, your Honor." said Tom. tak
ing from his pocket the " character,"" and
handing it to the magistrate, at the same
time saying that his Honor would get all
tne necessary intormation therein.
When the magistrate unfolded the
"character," he became deadly Dale, and
glanced about the apartment as if looking
for some weapon, which Tom seeing.
called on the police for protection until
he got clear of the house and neighbor
hood.
" lake tne rascal out oi my sight," ex-
claimed tne magistrate he s more
rogue than fool."
uo you mean to acquit me, sir in
quired the constable, who had not yet
comprehended tne anair.
" Of course," said the magistrate
" don't you perceive that he has been plav
ing a trick on us in order to serve me with
a writ ( "
" Service acknowledged, your Honor,"
said rom.
men tne party leit the house, and on
their way they met the " shillelahs," who
were overjoyed when Tom informed them
that his Honor had liberated him.
Tom, having thanked the police for
their service, put on a fair quantity of
steam until he got out of that locality ;
and as he approached the house of his
master, he heard the sounds of revelrv
at night," for the M. P., who was an ad
mirer of the social board, had been en
tering a party of his friends at dinner.
who were at the time doing honors to the
merry God. On being informed that Tom
had returned, the M. P. summoned him to
the presence of the party, and their laugh
ter made the welkin ring as Tom, in his
own peculiar humorous way. related the
means to which he had recourse in order
toserve the writ.
Power of Memory.
In his recent lecture on " Memory,"
Ralph Waldo Emersom gives many most
interesting facts. Among the other things
he said : Nearly all of the world's most
remarkable orators, poets, statesmen, wits,
soldiers, philosophers, scientists, etc.,
were men of tenacious memory. Quin
tillion had said that bis memory was
genius. While this was true in the main,
it did not always follow that men of
genius possessed it. Isaac Newton was a
remarkable exception. He could not re
member oftentimes his own great works
without trouble, and Newton's genius was
undoubted. Themistocles, on the other
hand, remembered everything. " I would
rather teach you how to forget every
thing," was the reply. But this was. wit,
and not reason, said the lecturer. It has
been said that the affections or feelings
were the greatest incentives to memory.
The senses or passions lead men to re
member. Napoleon cared nothing for
Alexandrine verse, but not one line of
his army returns was ever absent from
his mind. Scipio knew every man by
face and name in his army. Seneca could
repeat 2000 words of a poem once heard.
Mittendates, who commanded an army
made up of all nations of the globe, con
versed in all their representative lan
guages. The Prince ot Orange on one
occasion saw Orotms standing by out ot
curiosity during the roll-call of one of his
regiments. Having heard much of Grot his,
he asked him if he could remember the
inames he had read. Grotius astounded
the Prince by giving all the names in re
verse order. A great scholar had once
been deprived by an enemy of a much
loved book. His enemy thought he had
conquered, but the scholar rewrote the
book from memory.and defied the enemy.
As a further illustration of the memory
being strong when the feelings are en
listed, the lecturer said a man never for
gets a debt due himself, nor, as Dr, John
son says, who kicked him last. The late
John Brown, of Ossawatomie and Har
pers terry fame, was fond of sheep farm
ing, and had at one time 3000 sheep, each
one of which he could single out from
any other flock into which it might have
strayed. In his own town of Concord his
neighbor, Able JNorton, who dealt in
horses, was very fond of them, could and
remember at a glance any oiie of the hun
dreds of animals that he had ever seen.
Horses which had been sent years ago, to
various parts of Massachusets by Mr.
Norton sometimes came back to Concord,
and were at once recognized by him as
they were driven along the street.
Personal and General.
Bancroft is at Newport.
Garfield wears a big hat.
Boston is to have a Vermont club.
Chandler believes in vivisectionalism.
School book agents lobby in Detroit.
Boston's bricklayers receive only $2 a
Blaine is the discussed and much-cus't
man.
Californians
corn.
Louisiana
mist.
New coal combinations
vania.
Corvallis Gazette.
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Wednesday.
eat beans popped like
wanted rain, and it just
in Pennsyl-
A chicken always says
drinks.
grace when it
coming back to
ira Lodge Ho. 7, I. O. O. F.
Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in
their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem
bers of the order in good standing invited to at
tend. By order of N. G.
An Irishman said that if Queen Vic
toria did not die soon the Prince of Wales
would live long enougn to see his son
made King.
There is something about the term
"brass band." that is particularly un-
aesthetic. A brazen confraternity is far
more elegant, without lacking perspica
city. Boston uramcript.
How to Pay a Compliment.
To pay a compliment is to tell the
truth, and to tell it as though you meant
it; and the only way to do this is to mean
it. If a girl is pretty or accomplished, if
she plays well, or sings well, or dances
well ; if, in a word, she pleases, why in
the name of common sense shouldn t she
be told of it ? Don't blurt it out before
everybody. That will only make her feel
uncomfortable and make you appear
ridiculous. Say it quietly when opportu
nity offers, but say it strongly. Convey
the idea distinctly and fully so that there
may be no mistake about it. cut don t
say it " officially." Formality is about
the coldest thing Known. More than
one maiden has been made happy say
for half an hour by a man's taking the
trouble to say a pleasant thing about a
toilet that he liked, and many of fashion's
follies have been given up by girls when
they noticed a discreet silence concerning
them on tne pare oi tneir gentleman
friends. A bewitching black-eyed beauty
once said to a gentleman, "I like to have
you say sweet things to me, it seems to
come so easy and natural. in general
terms, it may be said it is always better
to sav an agreeable than a disagreeable
one, better for all parties. The gallant
who. when a voung lady stepped on ins
foot while dancing, ana asKea paraon,
said, " Don't mention it ; a dainty little
foot that wouldn't hurt a daisy," not only
told the truth, but doubtless felt more
comfortable than the boor, who, when his
foot was steDned on. roared out : "lhat s
right ; climb all over me with your great,
clumsy hoots.
Lobster Catching.
The lobster is often caught in a kind of
trao or lobster-pot." as it is called. It is
made with narrow strips of board or lath,
nailed upon strong hoops, so as to give it
an oval form upon the top. Inside are
placed stones to sink it to a certain depth.
At each end of the hoop is a network of
cord fastened to a small hoop in the center
of the net. Through this noop ot six
inches diameter, perhaps the lobster
struggles to get the bait placed inside the
cage, Hut when once he nnas himseu a
prisoner : for he cannot retreat at the
same door by which he entered. The
situation of the trap is marked by a buoy,
and is visited at intervals to remove the
game and make room for others. They
are sometimes caught with merely a piece
offish tied to the end ot a string the
lobster conveys the bait to his mouth
with his claws, and will let you draw him
to the surface, if you do it quietly, so as
not to alarm him, but if he is frightened
in the least be is off like a flash. You
must grasp him the instant his horns are
out of the water. In this country the
lobster is found from the coast of New
York, northward ; the best are taken on
the rocky shores of New England, north
Cape Cod. Fishermen at Mansfield and
Plymouth, Mass., catch lrom ou,000 to
100.000 a year, which are sold to Boston
dealers. Great numbers have been put
up in cans and shipped abroad. The
packing houses at Portland, Me., send
large quantities to England. It is said
that the demand for canned lobsters in
America equals the supply.
The Thirst Torture.
The originators of this cruel device re
lied upon the torments of thirst as more
powerful than mere corporeal suffering
The prisoner is for several days confined
to an extremety oi salt diet, without salt
or water. When two or three days have
passed the craving lor water becomes in
cessant, and the sufferings of the tortured
man apbroacnes the bounds of insanity
Efforts are then made to obtain confes
sion bv subjecting the sufferer to the
Wilkie Collins is
America.
Some watchmakers frivP -nnifl-.ru. ,',.1-
nor time.
Iowa pound keen
bouncers. " r "
m In West Virginia Sherman is called a
Most of the necroes wlin rant i vnn.
sas have situations.
Hayes and Grant is the lat. iW T
comes from Maryland.
Worth, the man milling-. ii;ovnc s.
ii 5 , j. j WHV; WO iu
the survival of the fittest.
It is nOW SUSTjefitfiH that T-To ra
Dean is a monnd bnilflfli.
Wilhelmi H VGI S WART'S n.Tnrf.riinry ortvr
or than " Bi JiminedHv i 6
j
Mineapolis. Minn.
barrels have struck. Hoop la i
A providence net owl wTiiriYial o Vim-.
glar and nearly put his eyes out.
Mrs. Ole Bull, of MftrliKnn Wia ;
translating Norwegian novels. ' '
Edith O'Gorman, " the escanerl nnn. "
is raising rows in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Oliver, who sued Sim
wishes to lecture in Pittsburg. '
Ihe Kansas Historical Kniotrr hM
John Brown's old colt revolver.
A Kansas editor savs that wnmon arp.
not vines, but trees. ScmhvH9
The journalistic dead beat ho lo-rm
to haunt Niagara and to praise hotels.
If Sherman becomes President he will
be commander-in-chief of his brother.
All our agricultural exchano-na
ing about the raising of beet for sugar.
A Kentucky minister hanged himself
because he thought he was a hypocrite.
A Montreal babv has di pd fmm flip ef
fects of quack medicine "for infants."
Ex-Minister WashhiimB ia iriaitinor re
latives in Minnesota. He does not like
Texas.
The Atlanta Constitution is art rrm &h
on Zach Chandler that it lobks like sand
paper.
Schumann savs that the vmre f.riat.
blames has more strength than ten that
praise.
A Georgia farmer kills snakes, lavs
them in a furrow and plants corn in tha
furrow.
It was David Davis
Housekeeping.
In order to keep house acceptably, one
must be endowed with method, judg
ment, taste and self-control ; but as these
rarely meet in the same person, many
houses are conducted solely by means of
one or the other, while many more are
run at the expense of neither, and the re
sult is a hand-to-mouth kind of house
keeping, creditable to nobody, affording
anxiety to all and pleasure to none. To
be a good housekeeper should be the aim
of every one who has a house to keep, be
it palace or cottage ; and this does not
merely include living in a state of con
stant warfare with the ubiquitous ogre,
Dust, which lies in ambush in every
crack and cranny, nor in preserving the
paint unspotted, the glass unclouded, the
closets in perfect order, and the floors in
such condition that one could eat of them,
as the saying goes, all this may be ac
complished, and yet the house answer
only the description of a well kept inn ;
good housekeeper must call herself an
unprofitable servant, when she has dic
tated the terms upon which the home
may exist, unless he has not only attended
to the bodily requirements, not only seen
to it that the meals shall be well and
regularly served, that the apartments
shall be well and regularly served, that
the apartments shall be aired, lighted and
warmed, that the servants shall be neat
and civil, but that the eyes shall be de
lighted as well as the palate, the mind be
nourished a well as the body ; that each
individual shall dwell at ease, without
dread of a possible hitch in the house
hold machinery, if he fails to pursue a
prescribed and wearisome routine. Who
has not seen people moving in their own
homes, as if afraid of doing some mis
chief, who had the air of being about as
much at home as uninvited guests ; child
ren who Btood in awe of the best parlor ;
sons who felt so ill at ease under the
paternal roof-tree that they made haste to
exchange it for the happy-go-lucky at
mosphere of the billiard saloon ? Surely
housekeeping as well as Sabbath was
made for man, and not the reverse, as
many seem to suspect. It is not neces
sary that we should exhibit wood-carving,
ormolu, and palissy pottery in our new
houses, but it is imperative that we should
have freedom and absence of constraint,
that we should be able to treat our family
and friends with more respect than our
possessions. Let there be nothing in the
house too good for human nature7s daily
employment, if it is going to be astumbling
block to any ; let us have nothing under
glass cases, but everything for use and
profit, remembring that it is quite as im
portant to provide pleasure for the house
hold as food and clothing. Let us not
live in such dread of a " week's warning"
that we dare not ask a friend to dine, or
order a roast for washing day, nor allow
ourselves to be disturbed by a morsel of
dust, or a nicked dish to destroy our
equanimity, if wO would keep house for
the purposes of happiness and comfort.
Harper's Bazar.
and not Frithch.
who sang, "The wind that va ts my size
to thee. "
to worship fire and
republicans, without
accused 'of
the liberal
The Zulus used
water. So did the
any " and. "
Sir William Harcourt is
being the cap and bells of
opposition.
The Springfield Beoublican asks for
healthful open air amusements for mill
operatives.
Colorado welcomes necrro exodusters.
It wants 2.000, according to Colorado
Rural Life.
The Utica 'Observer thinks that the
eloping voung lady of tne period is the
my oi tne vaiet.
Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, late United
States Minister to Mexico, is visiting
mends in .Brooklyn.
The German Empire has 21 universi
ties, with 1,250 professors, and more than
it.vw students.
It is better to be a storekeener in the
Custom House than to dwell in the tents
of unrighteousness.
A Pennsylvania clergyman asks who
was tne nrst mathematician. The pig
for he gave the square root.
At a iieaavuie. uoL. hotel, the reeis
try shows the arrival of a man with his
wife and seventeen children
Two Main farmers discovered that
beans planted between their rows of po-
a oes arove away the notato bue
The wasp is a stem-winder. Herald
P. I. In a hornit is ! How's that for
stinging retort? New York News.
Whenever Hamlet annears to the nub
lie through a spirit medium he always
claims to nave been killed with a cabbage
De Tocqueville prophesied that if the
American negroes were ever emancipat
ed they would be extirpated or expelled
A Berlin professor will in the course
of an evening drink three quarts of
beer, and a glass of gin for a night
cap.
Johnny Uwyer, the prize hghter, is
the whistler of his art. He decorates his
opponents with nocturnes and eyes of
black and red.
General Butler thinks that the demo
crats are not square on the greenback
question, and advises no alliance with
them.
Messrs. B. Gratz Brown and Robert J
Burdette will speak before the Missouri
Press Association, at Columbia on the
27th inst.
.Despotism is said to be so severe in
some parts ot tfussia that no man may
even repeat a joke. There are no negro
minstrels here.
A Kansas man who once ran for Con
gress fell into a well the other day, and
ne thought ne was going down into the
House restaurant.
Miss Fanny Davenport says that Irving
She has
Well -Authenticated Wants.
We read of the giant Ferragus, slain by
Ortande, nephew of tha celebrated Char- -lemagne,
?'Sl8 fe5t Ligh. Farmum, a
Scotchman, who lived at the time of
Eugene 11., King ot Scotland, measured
Hi feet, and LaMare, in his voyage to the
Straits of Magellan, reports that on the
18th day of December he found at Fort
Desire several graves covered with stones,
and having the curiosity to remove them,
he found human skeletons iu and 11 ieet
long. Coming to more reliable evidence,
it seems certain that a height of even
more than nine feet has been attained. In
the museum of the Trinity College, Dub
lin, there is a skeleton eight feet six
inches in height. In the museum of the
Keval College of Surgeons ot England, is
another eight feet two inches in height,
and another in the museum ot 5onn
eight feet. The giant who was shown in
Bouen, in 1836 measured eight feet four
and one-half inches. The Emperor Maxi-
min was one inch shorter ; bkenkins and
Platerus, physicians of the last century,
saw several of that stature, and Goropins
saw a girl nineteen years of age, who was
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Times.
agony endured by Tantalus when in the
midst of the infernal lake, whose waters
he could not touch. On all sides the thirst
distracted prisoner beholds water water
for which he would sacrifice e vervthinar i is the ucrliest man she ever saw.
but which he cannot touch except upon I made 650.000 on her tour and is now in
the conditions oi coniession. ban Francisco.
Clothes Moths.
"Clothes moths are always worse in the
summer," writes tne itev. J. vj. wooa,
than in any other part oi the year ; out
there is one plan by which they may be
bafned. It is simple, and can oe expressed
in two words ' brown paper.' There is
no such protection against the clothes
moth as brown paper. Years ago I pur
chased an enormous rug of white wolf
skin, which has been an inestimable
benefit to the whole lainiiy. ivery sum
mer I wrapped it up in brown paper, and
not a motn nas attacnea it. ny ine
clothes moth should have so great an
aversion to brown paper I cannot tell, but
such is the case. I find that the profes
sional furriers employ the same plan, bnt
do not disclose that very simple secret.
Annually thousands of sealskin furs are
handed over to the dealers for preserva
tion during the summer, and nothing is
done except wrapping them up in brown
paper, and letting them be nntil the
dawning of autumn. There are, of course,
instances where furs and other similar
articles must of necessity be left exposed
during the summer time. Let every price
of wool or fur be violently shaken every
morning, and not a clothes moth will har
bor in them.
Mr. Beecher's Horse.
An amusing incident is related of the
recent visit of Henry Ward Beecher to
this city as chaplain of the Thirteenth
New York regiment. The horses for the
field and staff of the Thirteenth were fur
nished here, and when the stont and solid
looking bay selected for him was led out
Mr. Beecher inquired whether he was
perfectly safe. The stable proprietor re
plied in the affirmative.
"Perfectly safe and reliable?" asked the
chaplain.
"Perfectly so," replied the proprietor.
"He will go anywhere, and is not afraid
of the military or cars. There isn'ta mean
thing about him."
Mr. Beecher looked the animal over for
a moment and then quietly remarked : "1
wish he belonged to my church." Hart
rd Corr. New York Times.