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VOL. XVI.
CORVALLIS. OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1879.
NO. 23.
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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.