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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. 33. OIfcTIER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS (coin.) Per tear, . Mix Mouth. Tbree Months, 9-i SO 1 SO 1 O INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Corvallls Gazette. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Iff. I 1 M. 3 M. 6 M. 1 YB. 1 Inch 100 1 3 00 5 00 8 00 12 00 2" 20Q500 7 0012 0018 00 3 " 300 600110 00116 0012200 4 " 4 00 7 00 18 00 I 18 00 20 00 X Col. I 6 CO I 9 00I1SOOI2000I3500 Vi " I 7 fO 12 00 , 18 CO 35 00 48 00 yj " I 10 00 I 15 0J 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 " I 15 00 I (20 00 40 00 j 60 00 100 00 VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1879. NO. 21. Notice in Local Column, 20 cent per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines. Nonpareil measure, 2 50 for first, and SI for each subsequent insertion in ADVANCE. Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication. Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1 square) $12 per annum. All notices and advertisements intended for publication should be handed in by noon on Wednesday. M. 8. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, CVRVALLls, o : UKEUU.V. .FFIOE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK fc BALDWIN'S Hardware store. Special atlentioa given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate and Road matters. Will also buy anil sell City Property and Farm Lands, on reasonable terms. March 20, 187t. 1G-I2yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I'ORVA IiUB, : : OBEUOIf. S'OFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second street. 16-1 tf J. W. RAYBRURP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVilLIS, OKI .. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. "Special attention given to the Collection ot .Notes and Accounts. ib-ltt JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, (OKVALLIS. - OBEflOW. VyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive Srompt and careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 16:ltf. . DR. F. A. VINCENT, I JE TV T I S T. CORVALLI8. OREGON. fkFFICE 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 AND SURGE0X, rjFFICE-OVER GRAHAM k HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN St.. - CORVaLLIS. STOVES AND TINWARE, All Kinda. arAll work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. J. BLUMBERC, (Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor'f Market,) CORV1LLII, OKEHOll. (GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, FITRN- ishing Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc., etc. g&Goods delivered free to any part of the City. Produce taken, at highest market rates, in ex change for goods March 7, 1878. 15-1M. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, cte. Also, Musical Instruments Sfco. 7Ar Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., CORVALLIS - - - OKKOOX DEALERS IN Drugg, Paints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STUFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTIY. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paprr ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERILL CHENICAL PAINT SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. THE NEW I X L I 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 Sc Shoes, Carpets and Fancy Goods, At PRICES NEVER BEFORE offered to the Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. ERemember the new I X L Store, opp. Sol. King's LAvery Stable, Corvallis. Corvallis, April 4, 1870. 10:17m3 The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing to an increased demnad for GOODS I IV OUR LINE, WE HAVE THE PLEA8URE OF STATING THAT WE HAvt THE LARGEST AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and our motto, in the future, as it has been in the past, shall be "SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton County to buy Goods 25 per cent, less than erer before. We also have in connection a large stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Privately by our Mr. Sbeppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cents on the 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 Slioee from S6c to Boots from SI to 3 SO. Hats from 5c to SI VS. Buck Gloves, SO cents. Silk Handkerchiefs 38o. Grass Cloth S cents. Kid Gloves, 75 cents to 01. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Sbeppard, Jaycox & Co. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. ! 7:1 9m3 ALLEN & WOODWARD, Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING. CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, Oil, GLASS, ETC., ETC. School Books tatloneny, feo. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines the market affords. JSS- Prescriptions accurately prepared at half the usual rates. 2Mayl6:18tf JOB PRINTING. Mr Physicians' P etcrlptions are tally Compounded, 16-2tf FRESH GOODS AT THE BAZAR FASHIONS Mrs. E. JL. KNIGHT. COBTALL1B, - . - OKKOOX. Has just received frem San Francisco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery Goods, Dress Trimmings, Etc., Ever brought to Corvallis, wh'ch I will sell at prices that defy competition. . st fncj for Mine. Leuioreal's reliable Patterns. 25aorl6:17tf THE Gazette Job Printing House IS NOW PREPARED TO DO Plain and Ornamental Printing, As neat and Cheap as it can be done by any Office on the Coast. Bill Heads, l etter Heads Mote heads. Mil einents, Pi ojfraromes. Ball Ticket. invitations Circulars, Jsautlaesa Cards. Visiting Cards, labels. frraall Poster. Kmvelopea. . leiral Blanks, Bank Notes, tDlppi7 iteceipis, Order Books, Dune, TC. kte., Bte LANDS I FARMS! HOMES I T HAVE FARMS, (Improved and uuim proved,) STORES and UlhL PROPERTY, very desirable, FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. ' Also claims in unsurveved tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under the Soldiers' TTrimratMri AM Im. j i- - " iw.ku auu uiaue final proof on lest than 160 acres, can dispose of Write (with stamps to prepay postage). Address, R. A. BEN8ELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon January 7, 1878. I6:2tf J-Orders by mail promptly filled. Esti mates furnished. AUGUST KNIGHT, CABINET MAKER, AND UNDERTAKER, Cor. Second and Monroe Sts., roRVtixis, - - obbcioh. Keeps constantly on band all kinds of FURNITU3E. Work done to order on short notice, and at reasonable rates. Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1877. 14:ltf Some Samples of New England If It and Hnmor. I Arthur Oilman's recent Lecture. On the morning after the first delivery of this lecture in a Massachusetts town, the driver who was taking me to the sta tion said to me : "That was pretty toler able good, what you gave 'em up to the hall last night. I hav'nt seen nobody that didn't like it, but Old Deacon Fry, and he never likes nothing. He said it might be well enough for light-minded kind of folks, but he thought there was parts on it was dreadful shallow. The principle of mirth is not a deep one, but it is as innate in the mind as any other orieinal faculty we possess. More sayings and incidents provocative of true mirth can be found nowhere than in our Northern States, on all subjects. We are apt to find only what we look for, and thus peculiar wit often has to be ex plained to people m good set terms. Frequently the speaker has no adequate conception of the foroe of his own re marks. "I'm kept so busy with this big estate my brother left me, said a sharp Yankee lawyer, "I declare sometimes I almost wish John hadn't died. 1 re member having read, in a letter from a tourist in our Northwestern States, a des cription of the difhculty of shooting the rapids of one of our Northern rivers, and the slow process of poling up stream again. Two of the settlers undertook to dispense with the usual boatmen ; the boat was upset, and the two adventurers were swept rapidly down the river. A tall, gaunt shopkeeper ran down the pier, crying, Save the read-headed one! For heaven's sake save that man with the red head!" This started the people to work, and they saved him. The tall, gaunt man waited to see that life was not quite extinct, and then turned away with the remark, " I wouldn't have had that man drowned for consid'able. He owes me $16." " Well, there's something in that," said one of the bystanders. " I expect a man don't know how valuable he is in this world till he owes somebody some money. Then folks wants to know where he's goin'." A stage-driver in the White Mountains, when asked what he thought of the Wotch, replied: " WeU, I was born around here, you know, and I don't mind it so much. But if I should go down to New York, I reckon likely I'd gawk around considerable myself." A dozen years ago there used to come a rusty old dealer in farm produce to Boston. One Saturday night, having sold everything but a keg of apple-sauce, he exchanged this in a tailor's shop for an overcoat, which the tailor told him fitted him perfectly. Next morning, on the meeting-house seps, all his friends began to disparage his purchase. " Why, it s all puckered up behind ; it don t touch you nowhere." ." Well," said the farmer, 1 couldn t see it behind when J. bought it, but I took bis word for it; he seemed to be a nice sort of a man. But I guess I ain't got much the worst of this trade, after all. I guess when he comes to eat well down into that air keg of apple-sass, well down toward the middle, 1 guess he'll find it just about as puckery as the ooat is." During the existence of the Dorr rebel lion in Bhode Island, the leader of the insurgents drew up his men on the sum mit of a hill near Providence. Pointing to the advancing troops, he said: " Yon der, my men, come the enemy, the aris tocrats who would rob you of your suffrages. Fight 'em to the last gasp, and, if yon have to retreat, do it with your face to the foe, selling your lives dearly at every step you take, and (as the troops came nearer) as I am a little lame I guess I'll start now. " A small bov was hoemcr corn in a ster ile field by the roadside, when a passer by stopped and said: " 'Pears to me your corn is rather small. " " Certainly. " said the boy, " it's dwarf corn. " " But it looks yellow. " " Certainly, " replied the boy, " we planted the yaller kind. " But it looks as if you wouldn t get more than half a crop. " "Of course not, said the boy, " we planted her on shares. " The Judge's Joke On a very cold day two men were driv ing along a narrow road, in opposite di rections, and one or the other would be compelled to turn out. This would not be an easy job, for the snow was nearly two feet deep on either side of the road ; so they drove close to each other before they stopped. One of them drove a light sleigh, while the other had two horses hitched to a heavy load of lumber, and it was but natural for the driver of the heavy team to suppose the other would give the road. But this, he who drove the sleigh did not intend to do. He was a witty man, and, as he failed the position of judge, he was held in awe by most of the people near where he lived. "Turn out ! exclaimed the judge, as soon as the teams had come to a standstill. "I won't do it," answered the other, stoutly. "xou had better, replied the judge ; "if you don't, I'll very soon show you what IU do." The man eyed the judge keenly for a short time, and then, fearing that the man of law might go to extremes, he got off his sled and commenced tramping snow so that he could get his team out of the road. The judge sat quietly in his sleigh and watched the teamster at his ' laborious task, which lasted half an hour. At last it was accomplished, and the two teams were ready to resume their respective tourneys. "Now," said the teamster, addressing the judge, "I would like to know what you would have done if I had not turned out?" "Why," answered the jndge, with a dry smile, "if you had not turned out, 1 would. A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him. rnkn -nrll-1Vk ilrkAQ tcA. A 1 Ql T Cm J fill lllTTt XilOV 11JVU VlL' ' UVW . .M...p from a sinful world will never distin guish him from a perishing world. jonn no we. A Base Ball Romance. In the bulk window of a Chestnut street auction-house is exposed a magnificent mahogany malace, tipped with elaborately worked silver. For over an hour a very seedy individual, with red hair and a broken nose, lingered about the window with such a mysterious manner as to lead the officer on the corner to believe that his intentions were not good, so he "took him in" on general principles. When theothcer related to the court his ground for arrest, and, finding them not tenable, the magistrate quizzed the pris oner as to who and what he was. "What were you doing there ?" queried tne uourt. "Nothing, Jedge, simply admiring and "Admiring what ?" "That bat, Jedge, the beautiful base ball bat." "You are evidently an admirer of the game of base-ball, interposed the court. " No more, 'Squire. Was once. I'm a martyr, I am. I'm no good any more. It's gone down now, has the game. How I could scoop in a fly-scraper? Shy thet inkstand at me, Jedge. Toss her sharp. Bounce her now. Hot, me boy, an' I'll show yer how to stop her. No, they won't have me no more: I'm played, they say. Gimme something. Bu'st off that table-leg and gimmme a smack at that inkstand, lire her this way hot, and if I don't show yer a homer, yer can send me down for good. Ten years ago I was a big crab on the field; short-stop, yer know. All broke up now. Couldn't get a job now scraping the stick. 1 could skin over the bases like greased lighten ing runs. Throw open the door once. Just hold her open two minutes, and see me get up and git. But, I reckon, I'm no account now'days, though." " You don't look as though you'd bring a prize, " put in the court. "Not for beauty, no. But for scars, Jedge; for scars, I'm prime cheese; head of the heap. I'm a martyr, I am, but no body would guess it. " "A martyr to what? said the court. "To sky-scrapers, Jedge; daisy-cutters homers, yer know. Taking 'em hot, right off the tip of the bat. Oh, yes, I'm a martyr. Do you see that hand ? " and he exposed a palm about as broad as a deal-table, with five horribly-damaged fingers starting from its edges. "Them tells the tale. All of them busted time and again. Had 'em druv in clear up to the second jint, and pulled out with tweezers dozens of times. Every finger broke in six places; five times six, thirty; thirty breaks on the right hand, thirty busted on the left. Twice thirty, sixty; five twelves, sixty. Five ain't worth a continental. Pulled in for gazing and meditating on a prize bat. This is to hard!" " It is indeed hard," said the court. "Do you see that smelling apparatus on my countenance? Looks as though it was too big for my face, don't it? I sac rificed her. Once it was the beautifulest nose as ever your eyes sot on, but a ball took her on the fly, with three, fingers. But I'm no good. Oh! no, I don't un derstand the game. Can't even gaze on a prize bat, or meditate, but am run in. Send it hot. I'm on the home run, and you might as well put me out." He was put out on the street, and was heard to say, as he went through the door, that he knew he would be called up to die for the cause some time, to save it from disgrace. Oriental Pedestrlanism. Lazy as we are wont to consider the Ori entals, many of the " matches against time " achieved by them may bear com parison with the best of those now pend ing among ourselves. An Arab donkey boy will go at a run all the way from Cairo to the Pyramids and back again, without any visible signs of fatigue. A Sikh dispatch bearer will scamper through miles of jungle in the dark, shaking a bunch of metal rings to scare away the tiger and hyena. Four meagre Hindoos, who appear barely able to carry a hand bag, will take a heavy pal anquin, containing an officer and all his belongings, over the ground at a smart trot for hours together. Even more mar velous are the achievements of the Per sian Shatirs (professional couriers) , who, trained from their very childhood to feats of strength and activity, daily accomplish distance bordering upon the incredible. Not many years ago one ot these men reached Terheran fully two hours before his appointed time, having covered an immense tract of very difficult country in fourteen hours of almost incessant run ning ; but his chief, so far from praising him, simply remarked: " Could you not have done it in twelve ? " and on his re turn journey the indomitable man actu ally did so. The occupation is a danger- our one, not only from the extraordinary exertions which it demands, but also from the fact of the runners being so tightly girded that a fall or even a stumble would be certain death. Persian chroniclers re late that a certain native prince once promised his daughter to any man who would keep up wren ms cnariot an tne way from Teheran to Ispahan. A cele brated shatir undertook the task, and held his own till the gate of Ispahan was in full view, when the shah alarmed at the prospect of having to make good his rash promise, let fall his whip. The runner, knowing it would cost him his life to stoop, contrived to pick it up with his feet. The treacherous monarch then dropped his ring, when the shatir, seeing that his fate was sealed, exclaimed re proachfully: "Oh! king, you have broken your faith, but I am true to mine!" picked up the ring; and fell dead on the spot. The very simple reason why the world is full of gossip is, that those who indulge in it have nothing else in them. They must interest themselves in something. They know nothing but what they learn from day to day in intercourse with, and observation of, their neighbora. w)aJ these neighbors do, what they say, what happens to them in their social and .busi ness affairs, what they wear these ber come questions of supreme interest. Anecdotes of Hoses Cheney. When the Hon. Moses Cheney was a member of the Legislature, at Montpel ier, Vt. , his eccentricities were continu ally peeping out, and his originalities were often made to bear with telling lorce upon certain members that he thought were not on the square. Pride and affectation were particularly obnox ious to him, and he never let a ehance of giving a hit when he saw any person put ting on airs, un one election day a cnap lain for the session was to be elected One by one the resident clergymen of luontpeiier were nominated, but all de clined serving. Mr. Cheney rose in his seat, and in a deep, sonorous voice, ex claimed : " What various hindrances we meet, In coming to the mercy seal." There was a sudden hush fell on the assembly. The next clergyman that was nominated accepted the orhce. One day an important motion was un der discussion. The members dilly-dal lied over it all the forenoon session, then it was laid upon the table. A second time it was handled in the same way. ine tnird tune it was brought up Mr Cheney arose, and said : " Mr. Speaker, I want to tell a story Deiore this measure is discussed. .Parson Noble, who resided in Chelsea, was a man who was not afraid or ashamed to work. He had his winter's wood cut sled length in the woods, and borrowed a yoke of oxen from one of his neighbors to haul it to his yard. But he was troubled with the very first load he got on the sleigh ; the oxen could not, or would not, draw it an inch. The old parson coaxed and whipped, and whipped and coaxed, but there they were, and there they staid. His neighbor, the owner of the oxen, thought they had been gone a long time, and got anxious, so he jumped on his horse and rode out to the woods to see what was the trouble. Parson Noble was sitting on a log wiping the perspiration from his face with his handkerchief. " In trouble, Mr. Noble?" " ' Yes, these confounded oxen won't do a thing.' " ' Let me take the whip. Stand one side, sir.' " The old parson gladly gave up the whip and place. The farmer walked around the sled, saw that there was noth ing to hinder the load from starting, took his place by the side of the oxen, gave one smart blow with the whip, at the same time giving a yell that woke up the echoes in every direction. Of course the load started, the parson trotted on be hind, filled wdth wonder. ' ' There, sir, handing back the whip, ' just let them know that their Bedeemer liveth, and there will be no more trouble in getting along.' " The motion was carried after a few min utes' discussion." S. H. B. The Green-Eyed Monster. The True Story of Grandfather' g Clock. He is a German, and he drops into the office nearly every day. He c&'jue m yes terday just at our busiest moment, and began: ' Dot sdory boud (i reenf odder s (jlock aind so. I know all 'boud dot. I dold you und I vand dot misgorrecded by der Kisbadch. Ven I vas a leedle ppy my greenmoder's hoospant own a gread pig clock. Der house was doo pig for id, id vas so large, and dey had doo put id on a shelluf. Greenmoder's hoospant vas a cendenarian mosd eighdy years young, und he dink more proud dot glock as he did py five cend. "Dot glock vas dwelve o'glook for dree years, und all you had to do vas to loog ad id, taKe der twelve muidipiy iu by dree, subvide any number vat you dink of, und den kess ad de dime. "Von day de old man died. Ve god along oxackly as usually undil der Irish man vot geeps der Deutsch groceries store game to der houses. He hat a padge mit him mit a man pehindt it. De man hat a glp like vise also alretty, unt der groceryman set he vas a gonestaDie. ne hat a pill 'gainst de olt man, und he took der glock py misdake for do liggerdade dot pill vot he owe my greenmoder's hos pant. " Dot's der firsd dime dot glock vend in dree years, so helb me job, und it didn't sdob undil id god py der bawn ogsionears houses. Dod's so. I goon nexd day und dell you some more." We hope he will. The trap door is being edited and the dog is in the cellari A Snail that Would not Starve. An Egyptian desert snail was received at the British Museum on March 25, 1846. The animal was not known to be alive, as it had withdrawn into the shell, and the specimen was accordingly gummed, mouth downward, on the table, duly labeled and dated, and leu to us fate. Instead of starving, this contented iraateronod simply went to sleep m a quiet way, and never woke up again for four years. . The tablet was men piaceu in tepid water and the shell loosened, when the dormant snail suddenly re suscitated himself, began walking about the basin, and finally sat for his portrait, which may be seen of life size in Mr. Woodward's " Manual of the Monusca. " Now, during those four years the snail had never eaten a mouthful of any food, yet he was quite as well and flourishing at the end of the period as he had been at the beginning. Small Change. We were bridesmaids at a funeral a few evenings since, and everything went merry until the minister, who had just returned from church, mistook our coat for his own and hunted through the pockets for his Bible. He fished up a pack of cards, a paper of fine cut, and a flask which some evil disposed person had placed there. We looked at the groom, shook our head deprecatingly, and told him that he shouldn't have worn that coat at such a time. All eyes were focussed on him, and he turned as red as a danger signal. We didn't get a smell of the wedding cake. Lr. Kroeger was tranquilly eating his breakfast recently, when his boy broke the silence by asking him for fifty cents to go to the minstrels with that night. Mr. Krceger promptly refused, on the ground ot hard times. Mr. Krgsger's boy is moix- than a boy, end when sets his heart on having any thing he generally succeeds in getting it; so, when his father refused to comply with his request, he moved over by his mother, and soid: "I guess I'll tell ma what the cook said to you last night. " Mrs. Kroeger's eyes flashed like two balls of fire. " You're a nice man, " she said, sarcas tically, " to come home and pet me. aijd kiss me, and call me your little dew gemmed tulip, and then go and receive the caresses of the cook. You miserable, frog-eyed runt, for two pins I'd go over there and rake the eyes out of you!" "I, ah!" stammered the lord of the manor, when his wife broke in " Oh, yes, Til I, ah, you!" and tui suddenly to the boy, she demande explanation of the whole an air. "Will you give me fifty cents?" " Yes, " she responded, " what did she say to him?" " Give me the fifty cents first!" said young hopeful. " I'm opening the year on the C. O. D. principle. " He soon had the money, and relieved his mother by telling her: " Last night the cook came up to pop, and getting pretty close to him and " O, you wretch, " hissed Mrs. Krce ger. " And when she got beside him she smiled very sweetly, and said: " The boy moved cautiously toward the door, and his mother yelled: " Come out with it!" " And when the cook got pretty close to him, she whispered: Mr. Kroeger, the potatoes are getting pretty low, and you had better get an other barrel in a day or two. ' " Then the boy got outside as fast as possible, while his mother sank into a chair. Mr. Kroeger lifted his morning paper before his face to vail the smile which made it look like a calcium light. Fighting Yanderbllt. The City of Bochester, N. Y.., and Vanderbilt are at sword -points just now, and if the fight between the two parties is not compromised soon, there may be serious trouble. Several weeks ago the Common Council of Bochester instructed the Mayor to enforce the city ordinance prohibiting the running of the trains of the New York Central and Hudson Biver Bailroad through the city at a rate ex ceeding eight miles an hour, or switch ing cars across any street of the city. The Mayor requested the Superintendent of the road to comply with the ordinance, and the Superintendent said he would conform as to the requirements as to the rate of speed of passenger trains, bnt the up-grade west rendered it almost iju possible to get freight trams out of the city at that rate of speed. In reference to the ordinance prohibiting the com pany from using or occupying any por tion of the street, lane, alley or square within said city for the purpose of mak ing up any train or switching any car or t cars, under a penalty or ou tor eacn offense, he said it could not conveniently be obeyed; and neither could the one prohibiting loading and unloading pas sengers or freight on any public thor oughfare or premises. Several arrests have already been made for violating the above ordinance. Jiut the Mayor and the railroad officials declare that it is im possible to keep passenger trains going if the law is enforced, as the depot is in the heart of the city, and the tracks cross all north and south thoroughfares. - Mr. Vanderbilt says the whole action is a piece of malicious spitework because he refused to build an elevated railroad through that city at his own expense, which would amount to about $1,00(1,000, which he could not do. He offered to build the road if the city would pay half the cost, but the representatives of the city wanted him to pay all. He says if this prosecution is kept up, ne win carry the track around the city; but he does not think the people of Bochester would be so indifferent to their own in terests as to compel him to do this. How a Toad Undresses. A gentleman sends to an agricultural paper an amusing description pf " How a 9 Toad Takes off His Coat and Pants." He' savs he has seen one do it, and a friend has seen another do the same thing in the same way: " About the middle ot July l lound a toad on a hill of melons, and not wanting him to leave, I hoed round him; he ap peared sluggish and not inclined to move. Presently I observed him pressing his elbows against his sides and rubbing downward. He appeared so singular that I watched to see what he was up to. After a few smart rubs his skin began to burst open straight along his back. .Now, said I, old fellow, youtave done it; but he appeared to be unconcerned, and kept on rubbing until he had worked all his skin into folds on his sides and hips; then grasping one hind leg with both his hands, he hauled off one leg of hi a pants the same as anybody would, then stripped the other hind leg in the same way. He then took his cast-off cuticle forward be tween his fore-legs into his mouth and swallowed it; then, by raising and lower ing his head, swallowing as his head came down, he stripped off the skin un derneath until it came to his fore-legs, and then grasping one of these with the opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped off the skin; changing hands, he stripped the other, and by a slight mo tion of the head, and all the while swal lowing, he drew it from the ne.;k and' swallowed the whole. The operation J seemed an agreeable one and occupied i but a short time." In tl.e spring the thoughts of the young i turn to love, anu ;or me oia to bowuk I hens.