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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. 03. CARTER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) Per TtW, Hi Mtnl Three Months, 83 80 1 M 1 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. 8. WOODCCCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, oKEeosr .FFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK 4 BALDWIN'S Hardware store. Bfwcial attention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probata and Road matter. Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm Lauds, on reasonable terms. March 20,1 87. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (UVAL),I, OBCUUN. .-OFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second treet. 16-ltf J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, tOKTALLIs, t OKtGOK. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. j2&Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Accounts. 16-1 tf JAMES A. YANTI8, Attorney and Counselor at Law, VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1879. NO. 30. THE NEW I X L I X L TORE iOKVAtl.IS, OREGON. ttTILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS " of the State. Special attention given to Blatters in Probate. Collections will receive tumpt and careful attention. Office in the Court uuse. 16:ltf. dr. f. a. Vincent, i is t r s t. COHVALLI8 OREGON, QFFICE 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. Msftf C. R. FARRA, M. O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, rFFICE OVER GRAHAM i- HAMILTON'S Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf J. BLUMBERC, (Between Souther's Drug Store and Taylor's Market,) t OR V A I.I.I, 0KKGO.1. G1 1R0CERIES AND PROVISIONS, FURN ishine Goods. Oiirars and Tiilmn. !.. to jfa-Goods delivered free to anv 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 St.. - CORVALLIS. 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, Olotliing-, Boots Se Shoes, Carpets lind Ian-ey Goods, At PRICES NEVER BEFORE offered to the Citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. Remember the new I X L Store, opp. Sol. King's Livery Stable, Corvallis. Corvallis, April 4, 1870. 16:17m3 8TOVE8 AND TINWARE, All Kind. All work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. W. C. CRAWFORO, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, TEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, " etc Also, Musical Instruments fco. yslr Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14-50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., WBTAU.U ... OKf.GOX. DEALERS IN Drag-s, Paints, MEDICINES. CHEMICALS, DYE STGFM, 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 place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity jind owing to an increased demnad for IJT OUR LINE, Y HAVE THE PLEASURE OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND best selected stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and onr 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 ever before. We also have in connection a large stock of Soots 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 paices, we will sell Shoes from SOc to Boots from SI to S3 SO. Hats from 35c to Si 75. Buck Gloves, SO cents. Silk Handkerchiefs 38e. Grass Cloth ." cents. Kid Gloves, 7T5 cents to St. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Sbeppard, Jayeox & Co. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. 17:19m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ..AND... STABLE, SALE BCialn St., Corvallis, Oregon, SOL,. KING, - Porpr. VWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED " to offer superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, Q-OOI TEAMS At Low Rates. My stables are first-class in every respect, sad competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public REASONABLE CHARGES FOB HIRE. Particular attention Pm t Jfcoardf mg N'SMS ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS "FOR FUNERALS Corvallis .dare Bo 14. F. A. ML Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By order W.M. Baroum Lodge Ho. 7, I. O. O. 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. JOHN 8. BAKER, PRO. COBTUXI8, WAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR ket and fixtures, and permanently located in Corvallis, I will keep constantly on hand the choicest cuts of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL. Especial attention to making extra Bologna oausage. Being a practical butcher, with laree exrjeri- 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, Jan: 3, 1879. l:lyl LANDS ! FARMS! HOMES! m HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim- 1 proved,) STORE8 and MILL PROPERTY, very desirable, arPavalclaaa' ffeer!pU is Car. 16-2U leseMBis OR SALE. These MKU are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, nnder he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of the balance te me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. lfcStf ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, "FORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE has given his patrons perfect satisfaction. has determined to locate in Corvallis, where be hopes to be favored with a share of the public patronage. All work warranted, when made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly aicenaea to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft Grain Storage ! A Word to Farmers. TTAVING PURCHASED THE COMMODI 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 the Highest Market Price. for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a share of public patronage. T. J. BLAIR. Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. . 15:32tf The Electric Light. If high scientific attachments ought to confor a title to respect and attention, the opinion of Sir William Thompson, Pro fessor of Natural Philosophy at the Uni versity of Glasgow on the subject of the electric light is worthy of the fullest con sideration. The science of lightning by electricity has been so developed that the possibility of its general application is no longer a matter of doubt. It is at once the cheapest, safest and most brilliant il luminating agent that has yet been dis covered. Sir William Thompson believes that its general introduction as a means of illumination in every position in which a fixed light is required will certainly take place in the near future. The most improved form of burner that has yet been devised is that constructed by Messrs. Siemens, of Woolwich, and used in their factory. It was this description of lamp that was exhibited by the Pro fessor at Glasgow University and afforded the subject of his lecture. ' Sir William Thompson believes that it will shortly be adopted as the means of lighting streets, public buildings and the interior of all large rooms where much light is required. The Professor's enthusiasm on the sub ject may by some be thought to be tinctured with extravagance when be sug gests the possibility of lighting an Ameri can continent with electricity generated by means of engines worked by the stu pendous water power of Niagara. We clip from the London Times the portion of Sir William Thompson's remarks in which he refers to this subject : He-was also of the opinion that a great deal of natural energy which -was no'w lost might be advantageously applied in the future to lighting and manufactures. There was a deal of energy in waterfalls, in the future no doubt, such water as the Falls of Niagara would be extensively used indeed, he believed the Falls of Niagara would in the future be used for the production of light and mechanical power over a large area of North America. The electricity produced by tbem might be advantageously conducted for . hun dreds of miles, and the manufactories of whole towns might be set in motion by it. Powerful copper conductors would have to be used, conductors of a tubular form, with water flowing through them to keep them cool. There would be no limit to the application of the electricity as a mo tive power. It might do all the work that could be done by steam engines of the most powerful description. As to the use of electricity by means of the Falls of Niagara, his idea was to drive dynamic engines by water power in the neighborhood of the falls, and then to have conductors to transmit the force to the places where illumination or the de velopment of mechanical power was wanted. There would be no danger of terrible effects being brought about acci dentally by the use of such terific power, because the currents employed would be continuous and not alternating. Sib Gabnet WoiiSeley's African Ex pedition. He has supreme authority. He has the prestige which comes of uni form success unless his administration of Cyprus must be accounted a failure, where he had innumerable silk purses to make out of proverbially unsuitable material. For the first time, however, he will find himself in command of a considerable force near 30,000 men of all arms and races. It would hardly help you to estimate his chances of win ning glory if dilated on his social quali ties; but I may say that he is personally popular, that he has the difficulty of at taching men to him, that his officers served him zealously and that his only very marked antipathy is to special cor respondents in the field. I met him shortly before he went to Cypims. He is a man of slight frame and middle height, quiet in manner, with something about him that marks in every glance and ges ture his life of arms and adventure. The most striking feature of his spare brown face scantily fringed with whisker, in in the epes, which are rather small, but curiously reckless and keen. He is reckoned the most favored soldier in Her Majesty's service. Perahps no other man, not of royal birth, has had such chances, or risen so rapidly. He is so much in request that I heard an Eng lishman say recently, almost bitterly, that whatever had to be done there was but one man to do it. Another hinted at the same thing when he said that Sir Garnet Wolseley was liked by every body except the officers over whose heads he had been promoted a toler ably numerous compnay. Tom Hood's clever tale of " Miss Kil mansegge and Her Golden Leg," is doubtless pure fiction, but a story, which is almost the exact counterpart of it, comes to us from Brussels by way of Australia and the Melbourne Argus, apropos of a lady with a diamond eye, which, having lost her natural eye, she wn irmtofl.il of a class one. The trxilv brilliant orb sparkled so brightly and was so suggestive of riches that a jrans ian adventurer married the lady on niTlit. took her to the orav citv with him. D- , t-J V ' and there, having squandered all her property, he one mgnt aecampea, carry ing off her diamond eve. which she used to lraan in a o-lnflfl of water bv the bed side. The deserted wife is now suing the pawnbroker who advanced money on it to her husband for the recovery oi we jewel. Baltimore Sun. "Mrs. A. "Somebodv's in the next room. I wonder what they're doing." (Looking wistfully at the keyhole.) "I've a good mind to peek." Mrs. B. "Oh, I wouldn't! 'tisn't rieht." Mrs. A. "I don't care ; I'm just dying to know. (Puts eye to the keyhole, but imme diately takes it away, disconcerted.) ' Him ! the key is in Mrs. B. "Yes ; so I found before you came in." .The reason the boy about a printing office is called the devil is because he is to become an imp-oser. Whitehall limes. and very often he makes one imp-ious. Meriden Recorder. Because he is so imp ervious to all imp-ressions that it is imp ossible to check his imp-ertinence. Cin cinnati Commercial. Mary Anderson was booked lor Utica and Auburn on the same evening last week. Mary and her son should ' be more careful in the future. Oswego Times. Unlucky Marriages. The truth is that these too freauent "un happy marriages" are the offspring of ignorance quite as much as ot actual sin or wrong. Fools, and especially vicious fools, have no right to get possession of a woman's life and soul which they cannot comprehend, and the elevating influence of which they throw away even more by stupidity than by willfulness. A woman, by her sex and.charaeter.has a claim to many things besides shelter, food and clothing. She is not less a woman for being wedded ; and a man who is fit to be trusted with a good wife recollects all which this implies, and shows himself perpetually chivalrous, sweet spoken, considerate and deferential. The fools and brutes who abound among us may think such demands hard ; but they are not as bad as to live the eat-and-dog live, missing the dearest possibilities of human intercourse. What right has a man to expect happi ness in a household who brings no sun shine into it ? What right has he to look for the graces and refinements of early love when he violates them by rough speech, ill manners and the disregards of those little things upon which the self re spect of a wife is built and maintained ? The cynic who rails at marriage is gen erally one and the same with the thoughtless egotist who files into the presence of his wife careless, stubborn and sour tempered, though he never went to his nsistress except on his best be havior. The faith is horrible which a pure and faithful girl may endure by encountering in him whom she weds not mere actual cruelty or injury, but stupid incompetence to understand a woman's needs, dull for getfulness of the daily graces of life and oblivion of the fact that while men have the world women have only their home. Those grossnesses of masculine ingrati tude do not, indeed, otten lean to visible catastophe nor grow into absolute tyranny, but they equally tend that way. They drag down a wife's soul to the point where she must despair : they change the sublime meaning of marriage to vulgarity and weariness ; they spoil the chance of that best and nnest ot all education which each man obtains who wins a reasonably good woman for his companion, and they cost more to a million households than money or repentence can ever pay back. Yonker's Statesman. m auu to the idtthe : illu8- The Fibst Settlers. The picturesqeu lines of Mrs. Hemans about the dashing waves breaking high on a rock-bound and sterile coast were not applicable to placid waters of the classic Jeems an sunny shores ol the (Jarolinas. Uur tnous ancestors, in crossing the Atlantic, were, no doubt, animated by the noble purpose of having a good time. Their medical adyisers told them they wanted a change of air, and that they musn't work too much with their brains. Life was heavy in Europe. There wasn't such a Paris then as there is now. The conti nent contained the fatness of the ages in its soil. Virginia was a vast park filled with red deer. The rivers were flush with fish, the air was full of canvass-backed ducks and honey-bees, the bays were paved with oysters, the soft-shelled crabs tickled the seaweed, and the point clams bored the sands, while the diamond backed terrapin ambled away ever the salt meadows. The fragrant sassafras tree gave its buds and roots to make tea de licious as the beverage of the Celestials and in the deep woods were autumnal rains of nuts on the tinted leaves wal nuts, hickory nuts, beech nuts and butter nuts and the papaws and persimmons, richer than Spanish figs.grew mellow and yellow in the white frosts, and fattened the succulent opossum a providential preparation to spften the aspersities of life for the approaching African. Half of the hardships of the pioneers ! They had a variety of sea food and forrest game that would have confounded the old Ro mans. They lived on the cream of the universe, and licked it up to the utmost of their highly-cultivated capacity. Ruined bv Gum. The State of Maine is also in a state of violent Mtna at present. It is really feared that it is on the verge of revolution, anarchy, despotism, com muisnm, and ever so many horrible things. Indeed, if President Hayes doesn't want the State of Maine to be hereafter represented in this glorious country by a hole in the ground where it is now, he had better hurry and send the army up there in double quick time. Gov. tiarce lon is manfully trying to keep things from going to wreck. Like the scantily clad chromo maiden on the rock in the raging sea, or like the boy who stood on the deck which was consumed by the "fire fiend," he is standing at his post of duty, and has sounded the note of danger by issuing a "message, manifesto, ukase, hatti, or some other decree on the sub ipt. in which he declares that the people largely indulge in 'the disgusting habit of Chewing gum: " xes, tue army ujuesi. uc sent. Meanwhile the State of Maine plants herself on the rock of her rights, flings off her bonnet, lays her chewing gum on the table, seizes the rolling-pin and defies them : Gum one, gu m all ; this rock shall fly From its Arm base as soon as L "She's Out." "Didn't you know you were lying when you said your mis tress was out?" asked the judge of a ser vant girl in a New York court. "Yes, I did," was the reply, "but it is the custom with all ladies; they are always out to some people." It would have been most unfair had the servant been held in any way responsible. It was not her He at all, and it is doubtful if the lie was any body's. Lie is not the word for it. Be ing "out," means often simply engaged. It is a necessary equivocation. Without it we would be at "sixes and sevens" all the while. Refuse to see a visitor and you make her jour enemy. Say you are out and she is not offended. She may sus pect the ruse, for she practices it herself, but she cannot know it. The uncertainty saves her feelings and keeps your friend. A new paragrapbist after wrestling three hours to build a conundrum to the answer, "One is a date seed and the other is sedate," gave up the task in des pair. Cooper & Bailey's great show travels by rail. Its ten elephants are allowed to narrv onlv one trunk each way. New Or- learn Picayune. Birds of Paradise. The birds of New Guinea present a larger proportion of brilliantly plumaged species than those of any other part of the world. To this result the birds of Paradise greatly contribute. Of this fam ily twenty-four species are known, all con fined to the Papuan Islands with a single exception, a Manucodia, which has ex tended its range to North Australia, and which is without the characteristic plumes of the true Paradise birds. Whether for singularity or beauty of plumage, the birds of Paradise are without rivals in the bird world. Most of them have superb tutts of feathers issuing, not from the wings, but from each side of the body, forming sometimes wavy, silky plumes of considerable thickness, sometimes fans which spread on each side of the breast, sometimes shields or long trains behind the wings, while the central tail-feathers are often produced to a great length, elon gated by lustrous spatules, and all adorned with the most brilliant metallic tints. In the sub-family Epimachinse, instead of tufts from the sides of the body, the ac cessory plumes spring from the head, the back, or the shoulders, while in the spe cies which strays into North Australia these peculiarities are absent. There is scarcely a hue among the colors of nature which is not found in the endless variety of the painting of the Paradise birds ; not only the lustrous metallic tints of the humming bird, but yellows, reds, blues and greens, of every degree of intensity. Yet these fantastic freaks of coloration and feathering are confined to the males ; the females are all clad in the most sober browns, and are the most unattractive of birds. Doubtless this provision of nature is intended as a protection from observa tion during the incessant labors of the nestling season. Strange notions former ly prevailed among the vulgar as to the birds of Paradise. As until recently no European has been able to observe them in life, all our specimens were supplied by the natives, who always cut off the legs from the skins, on which account they were reputed to be without feet, whence the name of the best-known species, Apoda.. Peculiar and strange as are these creatures, yet there can be no doubt that their nearest allies in nature are a family marked by an extreme uni formity and soinbreness of plumage, and by the absence of any difference of color ation in the sexes the crow tribe, between which and the starlings the Paradise birds are naturally placed. How Cheap Literature Pays. It is said that the late G. W. M. Reynolds bad made more money by bis sixty or seventy cheaply sensational novels than many of the most distinguished authors in Great Britain. His earnings from his stories have been estimated as high as 60,000, which mav he an exaggeration, although that would not be much more than 4000 a novel, and some of his novels are re ported to have brought him in $8000, $9000, iLO.OOO, and even $12,000 apiece. Tyndall, Darwin, Huxley or Carpenter has, we venture to assert, never made one third as much by his life-long devotion to science. Matthew Arnold, considered one of the most cultured and intellectual authors in Great Britain, could not count, it is said 10,000 as the direct product of his pen. Carlyle, ranked by many as the first thinker of his time, and by all as the master mind, has, after a career of continual activity, and the publication of 40 or 50 volumes, acquired in his eighty fourth year, an income of a little more than 1000. Robert Browning, held by a number of critics to be the first of living poets, would not have been able to support himself had he not had a pri vate fortune. It is questioned if even George Eliot has, notwithstanding her much-talked-of literary rewards, gained as much by her famous novels as Rey nolds is credited ith. One cause of the extraordinary popularity of his stories among half-educated people is, that he almost invariably represents the nobility and the upper classes as supremely sen sual, shamefully depraved, brutally self ish, and panders in every way to the pas sionate prejudices of the poor and hum ble against the rich and titled. He worked this vein most energetically, and, whether honest or not, found it very profitable. Hardly any of his literary contemporaries except Tennyson and Dickens can be mentioned, who have dabbled in ink to so much pecuniary pur pose as he. The most liberable compensa tions for literature are often given to those whose productions scarcely deserve the name of literature at all. New York Times. A Pedestrian Brick. "Look here," said one Gannon, a real estate agent of San Francisco, to one Hussey, who was complaining of hard times," "if the New Constitution is adopted, and you don't get a job, I'll hire you at $2 50 a day." "What to do?" "Light work." "Well, what is it?" "You know what a brick is, don't you?" "Yes." "Well, I'll give you $2 50 a day to pack one brick from one side of Clay street to the other nine hours a day, with one hour for lunch, or you can still on the corner and hold it during that time." "How long will you pay the wages?" "As long as you can hold out." "Done." The New Constitution was adopted, and Hussey has held Gannon to his bargain. Day after day crowds of people gather on Clay street to gaze upon a man trudging from one side of the street to the other with a brick in his hand. He says it is monotonous work, but "there is nothing disgraceful about it." He walks in this manner about twenty live miles a day. Men know how thunder and lightning come from the clouds in summer, and they went to thunder and lighten some times themselves; but it is better that the contents of the clouds should drop down in gentle rain, and make some thing grow, than that there should be flashing and resounding in the heaven, and that the oak should be crushed to pieces which has been growing for a hundred years; and it is better, not that men should produce a great racket in the world, and work destruction around them, but that they should create happi ness among their fellow-men. Observe any number of trees growing in the woods or orchards, and notice how few are exactly perpendicular. There is only one tree which always grows exactly plum. Corvallis Gazette. BATESOg ADVERTISING. I 1 W. 1 1 M. 8M. 6M. lYB. 1 Inch 100 3 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 2" 20060070012 00llg00 8 " I 8 00 8 00 I 10 00 16 00 2200 " I 400 70018 0018002000 jj Col. I 6001 0015 00 2o00l 85 00 j " I 7 fp 12 00 i 18 CO 85 00 48 00 I 10 0015 0i)250040006000 1 " I 15 00 I 20 00 48 00 1 60 00 1100 00 Notices 111 LOCH! Cnllimn M Mtill nr Una each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 13 lines, Nonpareil measure, $2 50 for first, and f 1 for each subsequent insertion in ADVANCE LKd 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 advertisement Intended for publication should be handed In by noon on Wednesday. Dramatic Dots. Rose Eytinge is 43 years old. The music executed by a creaky boot may be said to be a sol-o. Minnie Hauk is the only singer who can stand the London climate. The flower of the Pinafore troupe Lit tle Buttercup. But in name only. The daughter of Fechter, the actor, is a pretty brunette with a dramatic educa tion. The recognized "leading" juvenile of Ameiica, Mr. Lester Wallack, is three times a grandfather. The "Banker's Daughter" is drawing crowded houses at Mr. Abbey's Boston Park Theater. A near relative of Jean Paul Richter will probably be heard on the New York stage next season. Correspondents ot the Dramatic News have been instructed to refrain here after from reference to Mrs. James A. Oates. A Paris paper, speaking of Miss Thurs by says: "She is not a mere singing machine she is the incarnation of song Bob Miles, having refused to travel with Mrs. Alice Oates next season, it is said has signed a contract with Miss Emily Melville. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is announced to make her first appearance in London this season at her Majesty's as Aida in Verdi's opera. Campanini will sing Radames. Edwin Booth and family went to the pier to see the banker-poet, E. C. Sted man, off for Europe, the famous actor presenting his friend with a meerchaum pipe for use on the voyage. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been giving a reading with Ristori in Rome, for the benefit of the Gould Home. The reading was from "Marie Stuart," Ristori taking the chief part in English. George Fawcett Rowe has offered the principal female part in the play of " Wol fert's Roost, or Sleepy Hollow," to be pro duced at Wallack's in August, to Alfa Merrill, a New York lady of some talent and great beauty. Two well-know variety star performers are now serving a term in the Missouri Penitentiary. Item. When one looks at their stripid suits he thinks what an in glorious combination of Stars and Stripes. Cincinnati Commercial. It is stated that when Sir Thomas Law rence painted his full-length figure of John Kemble, in the character of Rolla, the head was that of Kemble but the body that of Gentleman John Jackson, an English pugilist, and one of the finest formed men of his day. Mrs. Judah, an aged California actress, was to have a benefit performance on her retirement from the stage. Shrewdly calculating on the inspiring effect of music, she combined a free concert with the auction sale of seats, and the result was a financial success. N. Y. Sun. James Ryan's adaptation of George Eliot's novel, "Daniel Deronda," was pro duced for the first time at the Baldwin Theater, San Francisco, on May 25, James O'Neill appearing in the title role. It was not a success, lacking compactness and continuity, while the characters were sketchy and imperfectly drawn. Once, when Beethovan was hard up, he wrote a letter to a friend, asking a loan of $5. He didn't get the money, but per haps it would cheer him up to know that that letter sold for $22 50 last week. Free Press. Things have changed. Nowa days if a musician should succeed in bor rowing $5, and give his obligation there for, it probably wouldn't be worth a cent. Richmond Baton. The Dramatic News says : "In her two seasons here, Mme. Modjeska at the time she was taken up really a penniless ad venturess made $65,000, after all ex penses paid . Not a penny &f this would now be hers had she not been placed in the hands of a man, who, knowing the de sire of the American public for sensation, placed his star on a purely sensational basis, and humbugged the people to the top of their bent." A London correspondent does not agree with a well known actress that Henry Irving is the ugliest man on the stage. "There isn't a man in London who walks down the Strand- with a carriage more dignified and erect, or with a surer or princeljer step than Henry Irving. And then, as to his face well, of course, the face is long and thin ; so is the nose, and possibly the mouth is somewhat wide, and the lips thin ; but plain never. Henry Irving's is the most strikingly and con spiciously intellectual face in London ; his eves are wondrously expressive and beau tiful, his smile is marvelously winning and sweet. London Mayfair is responsible for the following : "Miss Neilson, who has hith erto received in England only the ordi nary attention which is due to a good actress, is rapidly becoming the lioness of of the season, vice Mrs. Langtry, snuffed out. People will go to the Adelphi to see 15,000 worth of diamonds who would not go there to see Julia. I don't know how Miss Neilson managed to bestow those diamonds about her dress, but Mme. White, the coutouriere, flatly de clined to trust her young ladies with stones of such value, fearing probably that even the ease and opulence of a milliner apprentice Would not place them quite beyond the bounds of temptation." Again : "The black horse, black habit and raven tresses of Miss Neilson, which now appear so attractive to the jeunesse doree of the Row, will perhaps succeed in altering the hours for riding. Miss Neilson's professional engagements force her to leave the park about 5 o'clock, and when the light goes out it can hardly be expected that many will remain to grope in darkness. A Buffalo church bell went through three floors without injuring its ring any. Ring in a pun on that if you can. Detroit Free Press. All right ; just say where we shall clapper in. Richmond Baton. Clap per on the lips of the belle. Alpena Frolic. We read that a Berlin professor fre quently drinks two quarts of beer at a sit ting, and it occurs to us that a faculty of more than ordinary capacity could be formed for some kind of institution right here in Stillwater.