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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. B. CARTER, Editok and Proprietor. Per Tear, Biz Month. Three Months, TERMS: (coin.) a so i so 1 o INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Corvallis Gazette. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Iff. I 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. 1 TsT. 1 Inch 100 1 3 00 600 8 00 1200 2 " 8 00 6 00 7 00 12 00 18 0O 8 " 8 00 6 00 I 10 00 16 00 23 00 " I 4 00 70013 0018 00 8000 k Col. I 6 00 1 9 00 15 002)OOI860tr " I 7 50 12 00 18 00 35 00 48 00 yj " I 10 0015 00250040006000 j " I 15 00 20 00 48 00 60 00 1 100 00 VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS. OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1879. NO. 23. Notices in Local f!n!nmn m Mntiiw line each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines, Nonpareil measure, $2 60 for first, and $1 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 advertisement on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1 square) 12 per annum. All notloes and advertisements intended for publication should be handed In by noon, on M. 8. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, COITAIXIS, OBEGOS, 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 Lands, on reasonable terms. March 20, 1879. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, : t I OREUOST. ST-OFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second street. 16-ltf THE NEW I X L I X L J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, OBEU5. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. "Special attention given to of Notes and Accounts. the Collection 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTI8, Attorney and Counselor at Law, T O It, El 9 Corvallis, - Oregon. (OPP. SOL. KING'S LIVERY STABLE, SECOND STREET,) Must sell, to make room for a large invoice of New Goods to arrive, Iry Goods, Olo tiling,, Soots Ac Shoes, Carpets and. Fancy Goods. At PRICES NEVER BEFORE ollerea to tne Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. CORVALLIS, OREGON. tlflLL 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. 16:ltf. ITFRemeniber the new I X L Store, opp. ssoi. King's Livery Stable, Corvallis. Corvallis, April S4, 1870. 16:17m3 F. A. VINCENT, DENTIST. CORVALLIS, OREGON. (FFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER v 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 SURGEON, "OFFICE OVER GRAHAM 4 HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-2Gtf J. BLUMBERC, (Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor's Market,) Is a necessity WE HAVE THE PLEASURE CORVALLIS, OREGON. rjROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, FURN- ishing Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, etc, etc ja-Goods delivered free to any part of the City. Produce taken, at highest market rates, in ex change for goods March 7, 1878. 15-lOtt. NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN CORVALLIS. TOVE8 AND TINWARE, All Kind. , atAll work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. GENERAL MERCHANDISE . . ... m i L -1 11 1 Ever broueht to this market, and oar motto, in the future, as it has been in me pasi, snaii oe SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton County to buy Goods 25 per cent, less than ever before. We also have in connection a large stock of Soots and' Shoes, Jtiats and uaps, Privately by our Mr. Sheppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cento on the dollar, which will be kept separate from our regular stock, and will extend tne same Dargaius w customers who will give us a call. As a sample of our psices, we will sell SlioeM from SJOc to Boots from 1 to 3 SO. Hats from 35o to 1 Buck Gloves, SO cents. Silk Handkerchiefs 38 c. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, 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 GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., CORVALLIS . OREGON. DEALERS IN Drugs, Paints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STIFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paper ever brought to this plaoe. AGENTS FOR THE AVEIILL CHEMICAL PAINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. ("Physicians' Prescriptions Care fully CMifSWM. 16-2tf The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, and owing to demnad for an increased GOODS I IV OTTJFfc XIIVE, Grass Kid Cloth. S cents. 75 cents to 01. Gloves, Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Sheppard, Jaycox & Co. 17:19m3 Corvallis, May 7, 1870 JOB PRINTING. THE Gazette Job Printing Douse IS NOW PREPARED TO DO Plain and Ornamental Printing, CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ..AND. SALE As neat and Cheap as it can be done by any Office on the Coast Bill Beads, Hote heads. (statements. croc i Ball Tie els. Circulars, Baal a cms Cards. Visiting Cards, STABLE, Labels. Baa all Pasters. jkd. veio 1 Blanks' ...it Wataa. Order Books, Unas. OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND 5 Variety. Scoop bonnets are worn. Side satchels are de rigueur. Skirts are beautifully short. Are blacksmiths forgers ? Kit Carson's family is destitute. A shirt front is a thing to be studded. A new North Carolina baby weighs 28 pounds. Dr. Carver can't find an Englishman to shoot with. In the vegetable race whoever saw the tomato ketchup ? Of Nellie Grant's eight bridesmaids, all but two are married. It is the season for finding a dime in last year's white vest. Terrible forest fires are raging north of Muskegon, Michigan. It can't be pretended that Hanlan's victory is a Tyne's affair. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany pays $3000 per year for pens. Iowa wants to change the name of Skunk River to a less redolent one. A Mallorville, N. Y., genius has in vented an ant-proof sugar package. Gen. Taylor's "Destruction and Re construction " has met with a large sale. A New York belle has ordered no less than four spring bonnets, at $30 each. A Sioux Citv. Ia.. bov rides to school on a donkey his dinner-pail hung on its ear. Mr. James James Gordon Bennett will, it is said, go tiger hunting in India next winter. The strike of longshoreman still troubles shipowners and shippers in New York. A man break his heart ? " sneered the widow Pilkins. " Perhaps he does, as a lobster breaks his claw, and another grows again." The natives of Lord Howe's Island, in the South Pacific, petitioned for four school masters and some iron pots. The gentle aborigines evidently contemplated giving a party. These beautiful lines will sing them selves to many a sorrowful heart : White winged angels met our cblld On tbe vestibule of life. " Little boy," said a woman to a boy who had been impudent to her, " have vou a mother? " " No ; but pap wouldn't marry you if there wasn't a housekeeper in the whole dang land." Thev hap a stuttering mim on the wit ness stand in Kansas City the other day, and after the lapse of twenty -eight min utes he had only got an far as : " D-d-d-d-damfino." A sharp, thirsty man now walks into a barroom and asks if he can " put up" his silk umbrella for a drink. The bar tender acquiesces, the chap gets a drink, raises his umbrella and walks out. The little one made a beautiful an swer without knowing it. " What ! kiss such a homely man as papa ? " said the mother in fun. " Oh, but papa is real pretty in his heart," was the reply. There are some people whose lives are like molasses with a spoonful of vinegar in, and others wliose lives are like vine gar with a spoonful of molasses in it. A man spent three weeks in an unsuc cessful effort to teach his parrot a verse of Scripture. The same bird, in the succeeding four weeks, learned to swear fearfully without a teacher. Parrots and boys are nearly alike in this respect. Simpkins refused to get his wife a new hat, and soon after his little girl came in and said, " Mamma, won't you buy me a monkey to play with when you go down town?" "No, darling, wait till you are older, and then marry one as I did, " replied the grief -stricken wife, with her tears b rsting out afresh. Confusion. Bfailn mt., Corvallis, Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. jsSr-Orders by mail promptly mates furnished. filled. Esti- AUCU8T KNIGHT, CABINET MAKER, AND UNDERTAKER Cor. Second and Monroe Sto., CORVALLIS, OBEGOS. Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of Work done to order on short notice, and at reasonable rates. i ftt reasonaun A wife in the house is worth two in the I Coryajlia, Jan. 1, 1877 refit. " Vfcltf street. OWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED s to oner superior accommodations in tne lav- ery line. Always reaay ior a anve, G-OOX TEAMS At Low Rates. My stables are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public. SEASONABLE CHARGES FOB HIRE. Particular attention Paid Baardi ma- Horse. ELEGANT HEARSE. CARRIAGES AflU HACKS FOR FUNERALS. From tbe Burlington Hawkeye.l It was rather late one morning when Mr. Willaby got up, and was vaguely conscious of a confused recollection of things, but he didn't say much and tried to appear as cheerful as he knew how Presently breakfast was announced and the family took their places at the table, but Mr. Willaby was amazed, as he sat staring at six little wooden boxes of axle greese ranged solemnly in front of his plate. " Where, under the sun, he said, with a puzzled intonation, " where in thunder where did all this axle greese come from i "Oh, is it axle greese?" asked his wife, with charming simplicity and in nocence, just a trine overdone. " lou said last night when you brought those cans home that they were oysters and would be nice for breakfast. I thought you had better eat them right away, as they didn't smell as though they would keep very much longer." And then Mrs. Willaby removed the cans, and her husband sat looking at the teapot and thought so long, that his coffee was as cold as a rich relation when he thought to drink it. Lumber Interests of the Pacific Coast. So far as estimates can be made, the sugar pine mills having connection with San Francisco could manufacture about 41,000,0000 of feet annually, making a grand total of over 550,000,000 of feet, exclusive of what might be turned out by the Sonoma County mills along the route of the North Pacific Coast Rail- Toad. It is probable, however, that not more than one-third the amount of lum ber estimated above will be manufactur ed for the San Francisco market and for eign export, as the present prospects of the trade do not warrant the large pro ductions of previous years : and it is be lieved that nearly all the exporting mills on the coast will this year manufacture much less than last year. The amount of business done will depend largely upon the amount of logs on hand at the several mills. Those having none in boom will not be likely to get out any lumber. Besides the mills enumerated, there are numerous mills scattered along the coast and dotted throughout the State which manufacture for purely local consumption. These are commonly of smaller capacity than the exporting mills, and are frequently of portable construction, erected for tem porary use ' in small bodies of timber. The largest pine mill on the coast is at .Fort Ciamble, Fuget Sound, owned by Pope & Talbot, and the largest redwood mill at Eureka, Humbolt Bay, the prop- rty of D. is,. Jones & (jo. Besides the San Francisco and other home markets, there is a large foreign demand for Pacific Coast lumber. The Puget Sound mills offer the best facili ties for shipment of lumber by deep water vessels Dickson, De Wolf & Co., Welch & Co.; Hanson, Ackerson & Co. , Renton, Holmes & Co. ; J. W. Grace & Co. ; Adams & Taylor; Pope & Talbot. The first two firms, shipping from mills at Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, are the principal exporters of Puget Sound lumber doing business in San Francisco. The foreign countries to which lumber is 'extensively shipped include Chile, Peru, Mexico, Australia, Sandwich Islands, China and Japan. d5, 000,000 feet is an approximate estimate of the foreign export of lumber from Puget Sound, not including the shipment from British Columbia ports, for 1878. The estimate from the books of the American firms in this city shipping direct. There is also considerable lumber reshipped to foreign ports from San Francisco, of which no account is to be had, and which is erroneously reckoned in our annual home consumption. Most of the lumber brought to this city comes by water. In the Puget Sound and Oregon trade vessels are employed with carrying capacities ranging from 250,000 to 1,000, 000 feet. The bark Cassandra Adams, owned by Adams & Taylor ; Top Gal lant, by Renton, Holmes & Co. , and the ship Saaamore. belonging to Pope & Talbot, have each a carrying capacity of fully 1,000,000 feet. Trinidad is the only redwood port of entry shipping by deep water vessels. Redwood is brought to this city chiefly by schooners carrying from 80,000 to 240,000 feet, and by rail and transit lighters from Duncan's mill, Russian River. The number and char acter of the vessels engaged in the lum ber trade is so constantly fluctuating that it is impossible to give any list of them which would be either accurate or satisfactory. Corvallis, Jan: 3, 1879. l:lyl J. C. MORELAND, (city attorney.) ATTORNEY AT LAW, PORTLAND, . . OKEGOH. OFFICE Monastes' Brick. First street, between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf Consumption of Coffee. America is fast becoming, if she is not already, the greatest coffee-consuming country on the globe. Coffee is not longer a luxury, but a necessity of the humble home as well as the abode of the rich. We import annually, in round numbers. 300.000.000. pounds of coffee the value of which is $25,000,000. This is every year increasing, and in a greater ratio than that of any nation on the globe. Our increase during the last twendr-five years has been 8V. per cent against 2 per cent, for Europe. The substitutes for coffee which have met with such favor in other countries, are not popular. in America. We can hardly understand now how the world got along before the days of coffee. The Greeks and Romans never got a scent of the glo rious beverage for even centuries after it was used in Ethiopia and A by sinia. Dur ing the sixteenth centurv it was carried down to Egypt from Arabia, and about the same tune its fame began to spread over Europe. Artificial Ice. A skating-rink offering sixteen thousand square feet of artificial ice in one sheet, is in successiui operation in rnew iom. xue projector, Mr. Rankin, is widely known in connection with the ice trade, particularly the West and south, where the ma chines for procuring ice are largely used. The present enterprise is notable chiefly for its magnitude, the area oi ice produced being very many inches larger than any thing of the sort previously attempted Something like nine miles of gas piping is required for the circulation of the re frigerating fluid, which is pumped through the Dines after having had its temperature sufficiently reduced in a freezing chamber some two hundred and hity ieet long, in ice is liquified by means of salt and other solids. The principle involved is simply that of the ice-cream freezer. A tight floor was laid over a surface two hundred fofit hv eighty feel : on this floor a net work of pipes was laid, and the whole . . . - . i . ' i r . covered dv two or mree uiciies oi waici. On pumping the refrigerating fluid through the nines the water is frozen and kept so cold trial tne sunace oi me k io kept dry, though the atmosphere of the work is warmed by half a dozen large furnaces. The effect might have been carried out eouallv as well as much more profitably at midsummer, wnen a suaiing- rink would have neen more oi a noveity Mr. Rankin informs as that the tempera ture of the refrigerating liquid is raised hut ten degrees while on its nine-mile journey. A Funeral Joke. Colonel Isaac O. Barnes, of Boston, had an old fnend, Kidder Marshall, to whom he was warmlv attached, and wnen Mr. Marshall died felt it his duty to attend the funeral, which took place in itch burg. It was a hot. sticky day in summer. and the ride from Boston in the cars was anvthine but pleasant. Arriving at the house of the deceased friend, he found a large gathering in the parlor, which was . , mi i , i 1 warm and ciose. ine coionei weugeu himself into an arm chair several sizes too small for his ample person, settled him self as best he could and "fidgeted." It so chanced that two clergymen con ducted the services, which were so pro tracted that two hours had passed before the last "amen" had been said. In the midst of the solemn pause that followed it, Colonel Barnes, who could hold in no longer, turned to the gentleman next him, and in a voice pitched in a high key, said: "Did you know Kid?" "I did," said his fellow-mourner, in a deep, hushed vni(e. "He was a nice fellow, wasn't he?" piped Barnes. "He was," answered his neighbor, still in the same mournful tone. " Vs. and a mighty smart fellow, too," ormHrmnH the colonel, now giving his shrill voice fair play, and wiping the r.aln from his forehead : " If he'd had the running of this funeral, he'd been on der ground an hour and a half ago." Perils of the Chase. Correspondence of St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Belknap, Northwest Texas, April 29. An incident transpired some time ago in the Wichita Mountains, which rise along side the stream of the same name in Hay lor County, bordering on the great Llama Estocado of Texas, that well illustrates the stealthy character of the Puma, or Mexican lion. The ani mal is an inhabitant of the lofty moun tain ranges of Mexico, and quite often met with in the Chenoti Range which looms up between the Rio Pecos and Rio Grande, this side of El Paso, and in the extreme wilds and howling wildernesses of West Texas. The Puma is occasion ally encountered in the mountain settle ments on the Texas frontier. A few evenings ago a Texas frontiers man and hunter named Franklin, a dwel ler on the lonesome banks of the head waters of the Little Wichita, left his ranch for the purpose of bagging some wild turkeys and other game for break fast next morning. 'lhe hunter was dressed m the broad slouched hat so common in Texas, with boots over trousers, a six-shooter belted to his waist, and his -trusty rifle slung over his shoulder. His venture was quite successful, Franklin being a center shot. Following the banks of the Little Wich ita, he brought down three fine gobblers with his piece, and, huntsman-like, tied all of them with a leather thong, slung the turkeys over his shoulder, and started tor his sylvan home, or rather camp. lhe shadows of night had already par tially fallen on the murmuring river, and the sombre gloom of deep solitude fallen on the trees that lined the banks of the Wichita. Franklin was plodding along in the dim shades, unconscious of danger from man or beast, when he felt a sudden shock, as if a great load had been precipitated on his back. Utterly amazed and stunned, the hunter arose from the stooping position into which he had been thrown, and grappled with his unknown and mysterious assailant. Hsi first idea was that it was some devil-fish by some curious chance turned loose on land. A fierce combat ensued. His assailant grappled with him, but seemed to direct his strength against the freight he car ried on his back. Franklin could not use his gun or his pistol, but struck at the varmint with his fist, and endeav ored to free himself from the intruder much after the manner of the character in the Arabian Nights, on whose back was saddled the Old Man of the Sea. At last the animal, for such Franklin at length perceived it to be, succeeded in scampering off with one of the turkeys, followed by the hunter, who now drew his gun as well as knife. He fired one shot at his assailant. But this only en raged him, and the animal, making a deadly spring, alighted on Franklin, at the same time planting its claws deep into his neck and cheeks. The hunter s also fearfully torn and mangled about the arms, legs and other parts of the body, where the sharp teeth of the brute were rapidly planted. Alter this last spring, when the animal had fastened its ugly claws in his face, Franklin plunged his knife into his enemy, vho fell dead on the ground. On examining the " varmint the hunter found it to be a Mexican lion of large size, buch was his own enfeebled condi tion, after such a death struggle, that it was with difficulty Franklin reached his ranch, where his wounds were dressed. A Brilliant Victory. The capture of the City of Mexico, in 1847, by the United States troops, was effected by less than seven thousand men. The following brief description is from a speech made by lien. James Shields. un the loth day ot August, 1H47, ten thousand men crossed the mountains and entered the romantic vallev of Mexico. It was an adventurous movement. That army abandoned its communications, its supplies, its very possibility of re-enforce ment. That was its condition, and yet isolated as it was, small in numbers, as it was, it fought tbe battle and gained the victory at Contreras, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, and on the 13th day of September 1847, it stood before the ramparts oi Mexico ; and bow many men stood before those ramparts, all told? Six thousand six hundred men on the 13th day of September, 1847, crossed those ramparts, captured the city, a city con taining two hundred thousand inhabi tants, and defended by thirty thousand disciplined soldiers. Give me any other instance of the kind in history. Why, sir, the army was hardly sufficient to police the city after they captured it. When I, myself, stand here and look back at that, it looks even to me more like fable than reality. I shall never for get the insignificant appearance we cut when we got into the great plaza of the city of Mexico. Happily, though they thought we were only the advance guard of some tremendous army. I recollect the old English mililaire who was there, and after he looked at the little band he said : "'Is this the army?' "'Yee,' " ' Well,' said he, ' all I have to say is this, you Americans are not only the bravest neoDle I ever heard of. but the most audacious people on God's earth, to cuiiie iicie witu ducu nit oimj ao .ucn Brain and Mnscle. There is no more valuable class of men in any community, so far as results are concerned, than those who work with muscle the class generally known as " laboring men." Their coadjutors the men who labor with brain are, how ever, equally valuable. Outside of what is called " professional life," they depend upon each other. There is an avoidable partnership among them, and they are each other's best friends : The one di rects the other performs, and both ac complish. The distinction between the two classes is made in reference to the direct means by whichjjach one supports himself, and fills his place in life. No body pretends that the " working man " does not think, any more than that the worker by mind cannot saw wood or dig a mine. But the old notion that the law yer, the clergyman, the doctor, the school teacher, the newspaper man, "et id omne genm, do not labor, has been exploded. There is many a spectacled eye and thin, white hnger, that tells the secret ot solid hard work. The brain, like muscular organism, de velops and wears out with hard work. They are machines that cannot last for ever, lhe sleepless watch in your pocket grows rickety in time ; and the forty-ton locomotive breaks down at last. The one is gold and the other is iron ; but both must work and rest, and, like any other machine, the part which does the most work, wears out first. The sturdy black smith's legs and appetite are good, and his mind still bright, when he can no longer wield his hammer. The student's eyes wear out before his hands. The little fact of the destruction of parts of our being by hard usage, shows, in the failure of particular mental faculties, that " headwork " is hard work. Brain needs rest. It is a noticeable fact that men famous for some special intellectual power, begin to grow old in the power first. Napoleon's great ness lay in his wonderlul stragetic and executive ability. The prison of Elba could not hold him. The bare rocks of St. Helena did. He had begun to wear out. The literary world has never pro duced a more versatile and active intellect than that of Walter Scott. He used every part of his brain at once, and used it in cessantly. When his mind gave way, it broke all over. He died almost an idiot. The most brilliant of American wits and humorists, John G. Saxe, who, until the the sixtieth year of his life, was the de light of every iovial company he entered who was resistless in his funniness, has sunk into a settled melancholia. He writes no more. He sits at home, in the very abiectness of the blues, and refuses even the presence of his dearest friends. His intellect is as good as ever all but the jolly part. That is worn out. lhat the brain may work, ana work hard, is as plain a truth as is the hard ness of the laboring hand. That it needs rest and variety, as much as the stomach does, is proved to us every day. Hawk-eye. Australian Enterprise. New York Times. The Public Library of Melbourne, Aus tralia, is justly "the glory of the town." It was opened in the infancy of the colo ny, February, 185(5, .and is chiefly due to the exertion of Governor Latrobe and Sir Redmond Barry, who is-now a Judge of the Supreme Court, and was one of the Commissioners te the Philadelphia Exposition. Sir Redmond siezed the moment to ask for a grant from the Legislature when the revenue had in creased from 300,000 a year to 3,000, 000 within some three years. I is probably the best entirely free public library in the world. All the appoint ments are as handsome as in a wealthy gentleman's private library, and contrast most agreeably in that respect with tne miserable condition of the Astor Library, where, in the alcoves, it is often difficult to procure a chair, and still more so to find one which does not show a probabil ity of breaking down beneath its burden. The librarians, who are persons of Intelli gence, with a knowledge of literature, are specially instructed to render every as sistance to the reader in prosecutjng tne branch of inquiry upon which he is in tent, and so thoroughly popular is the library in its character that it is sought by persons ot every Kind ot crait to aid them in their work. The mag nificent rooms are divided into al coves, and in one you may see a classical student eager over his Greek, in another a mechanic looking up some recent improvement in his art. There is no asking for books and being only al lowed one at a time. Any one may range where he will, and take out any work he may desire at pleasure. The sole condi tion attached to the use of the library is that those with dirty hands must wash them before handling the books, and a lavatory is at hand. There is no such provision at the Astor. ueneain tne library are fine galleries of art, also per fectly free. Melbourne had all this when she was 35 vears old, and here is JSiew York, over two centuries old, and can show nothing like it. The Melbourne Library, brilliantly lighted, is open till 10 at night. The Astor Library closes long before sundown. One of Henry Fox's jokes was that played off on the late Mrs. , who had a great fondness for making acquaintance of foreigners. He hrst forged a letter oi recommendation to her m favor of German nobleman, the Baron von Sed litz Powderzt, whose card was left at her door, and for whom a dinner was imme diately planned by Mrs. , and an in vitation sent in form. After waiting con siderable time, no baron appearing, the dinner was served ; but during the sec ond course, a note was brought to the lady of the house, with excuses from the baron, who was unexpectedly prevented from coming by the sudden death of his aunt, -the Duchess von Jpsom baltz whieh she read out, in thecomnanv with out any suspicion of the joke, and to the entertainment of her guests, among whom the facetious author. From Briea-Brac Series. Newspaper Men. One of the greatest trials of the news paper profession is that its members are compelled to see more of the shams of of the world than any other pro fession. Through every newspaper office, day after day, go all the weak nesses of the world, all the vanities that want to be puffed, all the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speak ers that want to be thought eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed in the editorial columns, all the men who want to be set right who were never right, all the crack brain philoso phers with stories as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger nails in mourning because bereft of soap, althe boys who come to stay five minutes but talk five hours. Through the editorial and reportorial rooms all the follies and shams of the world are seen day after day, and the temptation is to believe in neither God, man nor woman. It is no surprise to me that in this profession there are some skeptical men ; I only wonderjournaliste believe anything. Talmage.