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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.