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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. B. CARTER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) Per tear, . . fclx Months. ... 1 bree Boaths, . . THVA1TFT,V TV A TV A Wnt. 9 so l a 1 03 mi 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. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I 1W, 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. 1 liSl 1 Inch 10OI 3 00 6 00 j 8 00 ia"5 2 " 1 3001 500 7 00112 0011800 8 " I 8 00 1 6 00 I 10 00 I 16 00 M 00 4 " 4 00 7 00 13 00 18 00 20 00 X Col, f 6 00 I 8 00 IS 00 20 00 I 85 00 " 7 0 12 00 i 18 CO 85 00 I 48 00 j " 10 001500 25 00 4000 WOO 1 " 15 00 I 20 00 I 40 00 ) 60 00 I ICQ 00 Notices in Local Column, 20 cento per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 13 lines. Nonpareil measure, $2 SO for first, and Si for each subsequent Insertion in ADVANCE' Legal advertisements charged aa 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. 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 . f . 1 - 1 T T J . - -1. m ten ieet nigu. miums. j. xwwm;it w rvg 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.