WEEKLY CORYALLIS GAZETTE
CORVALLIS,
JANUARY 30, 1880
BOTH SIDES OF IT.
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Two steamers am a riogin' de bell,
Listen to de warnin';
One goes to heb'o and one to hell
Karly in de mornin'.
Ob! dorkies git on bo'd dls craft,
Listen to de warnin';
We's k wine to start de gospel raft
Early in de mornin'.
Dls is de only line to take,
Listen to de warnin';
To get to beb'n widou t mistake,
Early in de mornin'.
De debbel runs de ndder line,
Listen to de warnin';
He's runners ont to bab yon Jine,
Early in de mornin'.
Don't beah a word de debbel say,
Listen to de warnin'; .
Wfe's gwine to start at break ob day,
Early in de mornin'.
To cotcb all sinners, such as you.
Listen tndewar&lo';
D-4 debbel's steamer's painted new,
Early in de mornin'.
But if yon git on bo'd wld him,
Listen to de warnin';
'TIs bell yon will be landed in,
Early in de mornin'.
Doom oF the Czar.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Daily News has received
from St. Petersburg a copy of a proc
lamation issued by the Revolution
Committee on the day that the Czar
returned to &t. Petersburg. Jt reads
as follows:
On the 9th of this month, on the
Moscow and Kursk Eailwa', by or
der of the Executive Committea, an
attempt was made on the life of Al
exander 11. by means of an explosion.
The attempt failed. We do not find
it convenient to publish at the pres
ent time the reason of the failure
We are convinced that our agents
and our party will not be dishearten
ed at the failure of the attempt, but
will gain from it a new experience, a
lesson of precaution, and at the same
time fresh consciousness of their own
power and of the possil ility of a sue
cessful issue. Addressing ourselves
to all honest Russian citizens who
value liberty, to whom the national
will and the national interests are
sacred, we once aain point to Alex
ander II. as the personification of a
despicable despotism of all that is
cowardly and sanguinary. The reign
of Alexander II. from the beginning
to the end is a lie, in which the fam
ous emancipation of the serf ends
with Makolfs circular. From the
commencement to the end it has
been devoted to the consolidation of
the classes hostile to the people, and
the destruction of everything by
which the people lived and wished
to live. The will of the people was
never so contemptuously disregarded
and trampled on. The present reign
has supported by every means all
those who rob and oppress the peo
pie, and at the same time systematic
ally exterminate all who are honest
and devoted to the nation. There is
not one village that has not supplied
martyrs, who have been deported to
Siberia for supporting communal in
terests and for protesting against the
administration. From among the in
telligent classes tens of thousands
drag in an interminable string to Si
beria to the mines, exclusively for
having served the cause of the peo
ple in the cause of liberty and in or
der to attain a higher level of devel
opment. The ruinous procees of ex
termination of every independent
element is at last simplified. Alexan
der II. is the usurper of the nation's
right, and the main pillar of reaction,
the chief author of the judicial assas
sination. Fourteen executions weigh
on his conscience. Hundreds of suffer
ers cry for vengeance. Ho deserves to
die for the blood he has spilled, for all
the suffering he has inflicted. He de
serves to die, but it is not alone with
him that we have to do. Our object
is the national welfare. Our task is
to emancipate the people and make
them masters of their fate. If Alex
ander II. would recognize what a
dreadful calamity he is inflicting on
Russia, how unjust and criminal the
oppression be creates, and renouncing
his authority, would transfer such to
an Assembly freely elected by uni
versal suffrage and provided with in
structions by its electors, then only
would wo leave Alexander II. in
peace,and forgive him all his offenses.
Until then, a struggle, an implacable
struggle, while there remains in us a
drop of blood, until, over the ruins of
despotism, there waves the standard
of national liberty, and the wLU of the
people shall become the law of Rus
sian life. We appeal to all Russian
citizens to support our party in this
struggle. It is no easy task to sup
port the whole pressure of the gov
ernment forces. Tho failure of the at
tempt of the 19th of November is an
instance of the many difficulties with
which even separate and comparative
ly unimportant episodes in the strug
gle are attended. We want general
support in order to break up despot
ism and return to the people its right
and authority. We demand and ex
pect such support from Russia.
St. Petersburg, JNov. 22, 1879.
Nobody expects any Congressman to
distinguish himself for the first two
-weeks. After that it is expected that
they will throw thpir whole souls into a
"here" at roll-call.
A man was standing on a corner the
other day, gazing around at nothing in
particular, when a friend stepped up and
said: "I see you have a mourning band
on your hat." "Yes, I have; it's for my
mother-in-law," replied the man in
mourning. "Why, I did not know she
was dead." "Well, she isn't, she's re
covered." A "drummer" for a New York house
called on a merchant recently and
handed him a picture of his betrothed
instead of his business card, saying he
represented that establishment. The
merchant examined it carefully, re
marked that it was a fine establishment,
and returned it to the astonished man,
with the hope that he would soon be ad
mitted into partnership . The last sean
of the drummer and merchant they were
talking about the outrages in Maine.
A Literal Application.
Professor H., one of the oldest tu
tors of one of tho oldest colleges in
the country, was as accentric as he
was I earned. His j udgment any w here
in the field of natural science and
philosophy was to bo taken as law.
No one ever thought of questioning
it. The mathematical knot was never
wrought which he could not sever.
On a certain occasion Professor H.
wanted a servant. Several applicants
presented themselves were tried
and discarded. Finally one came
whose looks the pedagogue liked.
"Now, look ye, my man," the sav
ant said, "if you can remember and
carry out one course of procedure, I
think wo may get on. I cannot afford
to waste words, nor can I afford to
find thoughts for a stupid servant.
You must do your own thinking and
understand my wants at a hint. For
instance, when I say 'Bring me a ra
zor, you will comprehend that 1 am
going to shave; so you will under
stand that I want hot water, soap,
towel, comb, brush, and so on. And
so with everything. My initial order
you will take as a cue, and of your
own thought supply all possible ac
cessories and contingents.
Tho new servant proved himself
equal to the occasion, and his master
was more than satisfied.
One day the professor came home
pale and shaky. Said he to his ser
vant:
"John, I am not feeling well. Go
and call the doctor."
The man bowed and departed.
An hour passed two hours and
yet no doctor and no servant, rinal
ly, however, the doctor arrived, and
in a moment more in came the ser
vant.
"How is thin, John," demanded the
professor. " Why bavo you been so
longr
"You told me to call the doctor,
sir."
"Aye, you could have dono it in
ten minutes.
"But, sir, you told me you were
not well. 1 took your simple order as
a cue to all you might need. 1 found
the doctor absent and left word for
him. Then I went to call watchers in
case you should require attendance
through the night. Then I called
upon your lawyer, in case you should
desire to make your will. And then
sir, I had to hunt up the undertaker,
that he might have all in readiness
in case"
"Stop, stop, John! That will do.
Bless me! you can be literal in yoar
application of a hint."
"Yes, sir. Any further orders, sir?"
"Not now, John. You may go."
The professor is still living, and
John still serves him
American Cartridges.
Russia was among the first to make use
of the American metallic cartridges, and
she attempted in vain to imitate them.
After wasting 10,000,000 of cartridges
made of inferior material, she wisely con
cluded to buy here, as other foreign na
tions have since done. Some of the
American cartridge sent to Russia were
subjected to the unparalleled test of a
five weeks soaking in the waters of Mew
York haibor. the vessel carrying them
having sunk off Staten Island on her
way out. They were fished up as good as
new, ana, triumphantly passing the or
deal of a new test of their firing quality,
went on their way again, and have, no
doubt, long since added their quota to
the return of casualties, rorgood cart
ridges American copper is needed, a fact
which the Europeans are beginning to
learn. Even so long ago as the days of
the mound-builders it was discovered
that our Lake Superior region produced
a copper ore of uncommon purity. Ore
of ei al purity is not, it would seem, to
be found elsewhere, and perhaps the pro
cess of annealing is not so well under
stood abroad. At all events, the brass
made of the foreign copper, abounding in
tne suipnurets, lacks tbe necessary
strength and ductility, and for some rea
son the metallic cartridges made abroad
are liable to deteriorate in quality. Dur
ing her war with Turkey, Russia pur
chased large quantities of brass here, one
Connecticut hrm alone supplying $2,000,
000 worth of sheet brass. Other govern
ments have, no doubt, been purchasers.
Ready-made cartridges have also been
sent abroad in such quantities that a mil
lion has become the 'init of calculation.
Three forms of cartridges are
given in the illustrations one showing
ihe United States Government cartridge
another the Peabody-Martini cartridge,
and the largest the Sharp or Remington
special long-range cartridge. The Gov
ernment cartridge contains seventy grains
of powder and a hardened bullet, com
posed ot one part ot tin and sixteen parts
lead, weighing 495 grains. The Peabody
Martini has eighty-five grains of powder
and a bullet of the same composition,
weighing 480 grains The long-range
bullet has one part of tin to fourteen
parts lead, and weighs 550 grains, the
charge of powder being 100 grain-. The
advantages of the heavier cartridge are
well known in the experiences of the
Turkish war already referred. Whatever
else they may lack, the Turks have cer
tainly shown superior intelligence in the
armament of their troops. The English,
who use the same gun, had on a smaller
scale an experience similar to that of the
Turks. The rifles used by the rifle bri
gade in the campaign against the Afghans
were sighted for 2,000 yards, and at 2,100
yards were found effective. The rifles
with which our own army is provided are
sighted to 1,200 yards, as will be seen
from the cut on page 450, showing the
military sight. Some of the sights used
by riflemen in long-rango shooting are
also shown, the Vernier sight and a sight
combining a spirit-level and a wind
gauge. The ordinary Vernier will regis
ter to the thousandth of an inch, and
Verniers have been made so as to regis
ter the twenty thousandth of an inch,
these finer sights being used to regit' ate
the ordinary r'ghts. These very fine
sights are not adapted to military ser
vice, in which the rifle is subjected to a
very different usage from that prevailing
at Creedmoor, where the long range rifle
man is able to give his weapon all the
Care that a musician would take of his
precious Stradivari us violin or bis Tourte
bow. Scribner's Monthly.
An English paper advertises a book
entitled "The Amateur Poacher." Some
thing in the way of "Hints to Young
Burglars" and "The Complete Forger"
tioir annn 1 ik nTtOnlol
Austria and Prussia in European History
There is nothing more remarkable in
history than the simultaneous aggran
dizement of the House of Hapsburg,
both eastward and westward, at the close
of the fifteenth and the commencement
of the sixteenth century. Before that
date it had indeed occupied a consider
able position. On the extinction of the
House of iJabenberg it nad wrested Aus
tria, after a sharp struggle, from the Ot
tokar of Bohemia, and had given more
than one Emperor to Germany. But its
position was the reverse of undisputed.
It was in reatity tne iear oi tne mrKs
and of the French, and the consequent
recognition of the necessity of some kind
of union among heterogeneous princi
palities and powers which finally made
the Empire of Germany hereditary in
the House of Hapsburg and united it to
the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary.
The union was not altogether willing;
the decree of fate was long struggled
against. But t'ae fall of Constantinople
in 1453, the warlifce poncy oi tne X rencn
Kings and the all but successful in
trigues of Francis the First to be elected
Roman Emperor settled tbe question.
The history of the House of Austria in
its broader features for the two centu
ries which followed is the history of the
double struggle against her two great
enemies east and west. The final defeat
of the Turks before Vienna, and the vic
tories of Eugene and Louis of Baden on
the Rhine and the Danube at the close
of the seventeenth and the commence
ment of the eighteenth century, altered
the situation forever. The huge ever
grown dominion of the House of Haps
burg was no longer a necessity as a de
fence against the Turks, and tbe world
soon began to find it out. It may sound
paradoxical, but the fact is that the pow
er of the Hapsburgs was destroyed by
its own victories. Meanwhile, in Ger
many anotber power was arising wbicb
had no foreign dominions or alien sub
jects, and therefore considered itself a
better guardian of German interests at
home and equally able to protect tnem to
the West. The statesmen of France made
no short-sighted calculation in allying
themselves with the Hapsburgs against
the Hohenzollerns in the great struggle
of the Seven Years' War. But the stars
in their courses fought against them, and
against the French Empire when it aimed
at accomplishing tne same object. Jttos
bach was in this sense the forerunner of
Gravelotte, and Leuthen of Sadowa. The
peace of Hubertsburg led inevitably to
that of Jfrague, and tne treaty oi jcres-
bure was their connecting una. ine nis
tory of Germany from 1756 to 1866 is the
history of the attempt of France to im
pose the headship of a weakened House
of Hapsburg on a weaker Germany, and
of the determination ot tne Honenzoi
lerns not to allow it. Austria by 1866
had ceased to be a necessity to Germany
and the peace of Prague only sanctioned
the decree which fate had long since
registered. Lady Fitz Maurice in the
Academy.
A Gbeat Gbandmotheb. To the latter
venerable condition our Queen attained
before she had completed her sixtieth
year, a circumstance which we believe
cannot be said of any of her predecessors
on the throne: scarcely any of whom
indeed, lived to see their children of the
third generation. There was a time
" 'tis sixty years since" and more when
tie nation was conndentlv looking lor
ward to the birth of a great-grandchild
of the reigning monarch and Jus Queen
a child who might now have been our
King had he lived. Who shall say that
Providence has not ordered events other
wise for the great good of this nation ?
Who that considers the parentage from
which she sprang can wish that tbe
Princess Charlotte had lived to succeed
her father? Little did those who
mourned in November, 1817, imagine
what compensation was in store for all
who loved their country s best interests
under the rule of another Princess not
born until eighteen months later. That
Queen Victoria should have lived al
ready to see her eldest daughter a grand
mother seems to be in accordance with
those outward signs of prosperity which,
by the rules of poetical justice, such a
life and such a reign as Her Majesty's
deserve. And when we pray vivat
Itegina, we are inclined to add, "And
may she live to be a great-great-grand
mother. In the classes who marry
early, which are the highest and the low
est, it is not such a very uncommon
thing for persons to live to be grtat
grandparents. Probably every country
parish can produce one or two specimens
among the poor. And in the annals of
the great and noble, carefully preserved
by such chronicles as Sir Bernard Bnrke
and Captain Dodd, we sometimes meet
with curious cases of longevity and (to
com a term) great-grandparentage. We
could name, for instance, a noble Duke
and Duchess who are great-grandparents,
though wanting still two or three years
of seventy; a Viscountess, some years
vounger than the present centurv. who
has a great-granddaughter aged twelve;
one Earl whose son is sixty-one, and an
other whose grandson is thirty-seven. It
is less than ten years since the widow of
the twentieth Lord Grey de JButhyn
died, and had she been living now she
would be, though not older than eighty
seven, a great great-grandmoiher, for her
Ladyship was the grandmother of the
late Countess of Loudoun, whose grand
son, the Earl of Arundel and Surry, was
born last September. London Society.
The Wages of Farm Hands. The
Department of Agriculture has been
collecting some figures of wide interest
regarding the rate of wages paid for
farm laborers in different parts of the
country. The statistics show that, with
the exception of Minnesota and some
States and Territories still further West,
the average monthly rate of pay declined
from 3 to 15 per cent, during the year
ending last April. But this decline in
was more than compensated for by an
equal reduction in ths expense of living
so that the relative condition of the
laborer improved during the year. The
pay of farm laborers in New England on
yearly engagements, without board,
averages $20 31 per month, and the
average cost of living 88 02. The
average for the Middle States is 816 60;
the South Atlantic States $11 19; and
Gulf States, 815 80; in the nine inland
States east of the Mississippi, from
849 50; south of the Ohio to 829 90 in
North. West of the Mississippi the
present average is 823 81 per month, a
slight increase over a year ago, while
the price of subsistence has fallen off.
In California and Washington Territorv.
the increase has been still larger, and
now reaches 838 25, but is more than
offset by a much greater increase in the
cost of living. There is almost every
where a good demand for labor, and
there seems no doubt that the condition
of the agricultural class is steadily
improving along with the rest of the
country.
Toe Use of Lager Beer.
The virulent vaporihgs of the Prohi
bition party, reported a few days since
in these columns, and its attack upon
the ex-President of the State Board of
Health ex-President of the American
Medical Association, the most honored
leader of Massachusetts physicians, a
noble gentleman, who has devoted his
life to tho welfare of humanity have
educed already two responses relative,
the one to the moral, the other to the in
tellectual value of such statements.
As a temperance man of nearly forty
years standing, one of the earliest to re
ceive,, the pledge at the hands of Father
Mathew, and one of the founders of a
temperance society when a studennt of
Harvard; as one who has examined the
principal breweries of the United States
from Milwaukee to Machias, and during
five years abroad those from Burton to
Beersheba, and made a careful study of
the statistics of intoxication in the
various beer, wine and spirit drinking
countries, I may be permitted a word as
to the physical consideration involved in
the suicidal policy of prohibiting the use
of lager beer.
1. It is an incontestable fact that every
nation always has used, does and will
use, some sort of external agency
capable of temporarily accelerating or
retarding the action of tfee mental
machinery. The finding of the least
harmful among such agents is the desid
eratum of sensible humanitarians. The
least harmful agent is lager beer, the
proportion of alcohol in this being no
more, may be properly taken as food;
for physiologists have now ascertained
that alcohol, in small amount, is a normal
constituent of the tissues of the human
body. I do dot speak of "ale," which is
not beer.
2. Lager beer is too bulky to produce
intoxication; particularly in the case of
Americans, who drink, as a rule "stand
ing. If those drinking it would only
sit down, as the Germans do, the rest
obtained would be as valuable as the
tonic effects of the beer, and the sitters
would be more likely to substitute beer
for bitters.
3. Beer is not a stimulent, like spirits,
which are like an application of a whip
to an already over-tired horse; it is rath
er like a good meal of oats. It is a tonic
and fattening food (being composed of
malt) and a nervous sedative (from the
hops in combination.)
i. While spirits stimulate to violence
and lust, beer produces merely somno
lence.
5. A taste for beer drives out or de
stroys the liking for spirits, thus proving
its raison d'etre, if only as the lesser of
the two evils, one of which must exist in
answer to the demand (real or fancied)
of humanity.
6. The physical and psychical abnor
malties of the JNew Engtander are gaun-
tiness of the body and nervous excita
bility. The characteristics of the beer-
drinker are adipose tissue and a mental
placidity bordering upon stolidity. The
philosopher, the philanthropist, the
patriot and the physician may well pon
der upon the relations ot cause and
effect, and be grateful for a fluid so
anmirably caculated to obviate the
effects of our every-day atmosphere. Acs
a step in the right direction may be
noted in a little announcement in the
Advertiser on the 11th inst., viz. : "The
grog to be served on the Jeanette is to be,
not spirits and hard fiquors, but beer
coffee and tea.
7. In Maine, where beer is prohibited
bad whisky, being of lesser bulk, is tak
ing its place with bad effects. Boston
Advertiser.
SHORT ITEMS.
Paris High Life.
A' Splendid Gem.
I have recently been favored with a
sight of one of the most famous jewels of
the world a stone that has its mstory
and its pedigree, and is celebrated in the
annals of the noted gems oi Europe. i
have held it in my hand and admired
beneath the rays of the sunlight the
finest sapphire that is known to exist
This beautiful and well-nigh priceless
stone combines in a singularly perfect
degree the leading qualifacations of size,
shape, color and water. In form it is a
flat oval, being about two inches long by
an inch and a half wide. It is cut
slightly en cabochon on top, and into a
multitude of small facets beneath. Its
hue is perfect, being a warm, lustrous
Marie Louise blue, not so dark as to
show black beneath the gaslight, but
having all the velvety softness and purity
of tint that is required in a really fine
gem of this description. Its weight is
300 carats, and it belongs to a noble and
wealthy Russian family, in whose
possession it has been for the past two
centuries, and it has been placed by its
owner in the hands of one of the great
diamond merchants of Paris for safe
keeping. One of the Rothschild family
has offered for it no less a sum than
$300,000 but the offer has been refused.
Ij asked the courteous gentlemam in
whose care it has been left as to the
actual value of the stone. He told me
that, as it was perfectly unique, no pre
cise valuation could be set upon it, but
that he was inclined to estimate it at
some $400,000.
He also showed me a string of enormous-
graduated pearls of extreme
purity and fineness (the center one was
as large as a small cherry) and he told
me that the necklace belonging to the
noble Russian was composed f six
similar strings of equal beauty and ex
ceptional size. The great sapphire was
mounted to be worn as a brooch, being
surmounted with large diamonds of
some twenty carats each. Its guardian
informed me that the pendant belonging
to this brooch was composed of a large
pear-shaped sapphire, weighing sixty
carats, and set in diamonds. The whole
collection of jewels belonging to this one
family is worth over $2,000,000. "There
is no such sapphire as the largest one,"
continued my informant, "even among
the crown jewels of Russia. I furnished
myself two very fine ones to the Em
press, each weighing six carats, but they
do not compare with this magnificent
gem." The gentleman who spoke was
well qualified to give an opinion, as he
is one of the few diamond merchants of
the world, and is, moreover, a noted
expert. He it was who was recently
sent for by the Russian Government to
go to St. Petersburg to make a full esti
mate of the value of the crown lewels.
and he furnishes whatever ornaments in
precious stones are purchased by the
members of the Imperial family.
"No man on earth can move me from
my position, says' Lucy Stone. Let
her sot. Who cares whether she moves
or not? '
The man who marries under the im
pression that his wife gives up every
thing for him father, mother, brothers,
sisters and home finds out sometimes
that, however much the wife may have
given up, the father, mother, brothers,
sisters, etc., have not given her up.
J. C. Flood is about to retire from
stock operations.
M. Leon Chotteau is again en route for
America.
No lady can wipe her nose too often on
a $10 lace handkerchief.
A French cook can take a rib of
mutton and turn out a spring pullet.
There are 5000 trees in Joe Jefferson's
orange orchard in Louisiana.
The Empress of Austria visits Ireland
again in February for the hunting
season.
Rochester men prefer death to being
quoted "N. G." in the Mercantile
Agency.
Ohio's first colored jury found a
verdict of: "Not guilty, 'cause he didn't
done it."
This is good weather to "freeze out"
college professors and freeze in boxing
teachers.
Frank Leslie has many different publi
cations and he steals the matter for all
of them.
Mr. Moody isn't a man of the world, or
he'd a' known better than to have tackled
St. Louis.
Mr. Holyoake, the English apostle of
co-operation, is praising America since
returning home.
Ex-Governor Seymour has a complete
collection of biographies of American
statesmen in his library.
A Mexican Governor at a dinner had
seventeen courses of hash served before
the main part of the meal.
A cur that no one will own will get a
tin kettle over a given distance as
quickly as a $100 imported dog will.
Venus was the first person who had
her boat sawed in half, when she came
ashore on the half -shell.
'Can a man marry his widow's sister?"
He can provided he is a "California
widower," and his wife is willing.
London police stations have hot and
cold water. The hot water is to throw
over prisoners who kick the bars.
The Kev. Morgan, of iioston, can see
no difference between church fairs
and lotteries, and is aiding to suppress
both.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, from his
profession and lectures, earns from
$40,000 to $70,000 a year, and spends
most .oi it.
Owls talk with each other by each one
holdmg the end of a straw m his mouth
That's what gave birth to the audi
phone.
A minister in one of the small Illinois
towns was the unfortunate loser of sev
eral dollars the other night. He had i
donation party.
Ohio school girls drink red ink become
very ill, send for their lovers, make up
get well, and are heroines for the next
four weeks.
Lovers in New Jersey now get married
at midnight, so as to be joined between
two days and be a little more spooney
than other folks.
Susan B. Anthony has just celebrated
her twenty-second birthday. Jf ree Jfress
Does this mean that she was born on the
29th of February.
It was a happy thought that suggested
during the war, the using of cotton for
breastworks, and the practice has been
kept up ever since.
Don Carlos, of Spain, swears that he
will have his rights or perish; but we all
feel tbe same way, and are as much of
hero as he is.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran of Washington, is
the owner of the beautiful Sevres dessert
service which was once owned and used
by George Washington.
Nevada has a town named Zero, and
neither the weather nor the thermometer
man can get the start of the place
Strangers may expect a cool reception
New Jersey wants to make a legal
holiday of the birthday of Christopher
Columbus. She believes he discovered
New Jersey when he did the rest of
America.
Just as soon as a man imagines that
the world owes him a living he will seek
to collect the debt from which some one
has gained his own living and laid
up something besides.
"How far is it to Butler if I keep
straight on?" "Wall, if you're a goin' to
keep straight on, it's about twenty -five
thousand miles, but if you turn round
t other way it s about half a mile!
Observing little brother's remark be
fore a room full of company: "I know
what made that red mark on Mary'
nose; it was the rim of John Parker's
hat." And there are girls who believe
that little brothers never go to heaven.
We feel obliged to remind the Presi
dent again that the country is getting on
swimmingly without any minister at
either the .English or Kussian Court
But we admit that Ohio is being neglect
ed. Boston Globe.
A contemporary says Eve is as de
serving of a monument as Adam, and he
surgests "Give them a monument apiece.
But why not treat them as this country
has George Washington give them a
piece of a monument.
It will soon be time for the members
of the New. York Legislature to have
their button-holes lined with sheet-iron
to save them from breaking out when the
Senatorial candidates hook their fingers
in them.
Commodore Vanderbilt once visited a
spiritual medium, who commenced busi
ness bv saving. "Your first wife wishes
to communicate with you." "Perhaps
so." said the Commodore abruptly, "but
that is not what I came here for.'
"Why, Dick," said a lady teacher the
other day, "you are ge ruing w ue an
awfully good boy, lately; ever so much
better than you were lastyear. How is
it?" "Oh. pshaw! Miss Hetty," said the
youngster. "I don t have so much tum-
mick-ache now."
A school teacher, who has just been
telling the story of David, winds up
with: "And all this Happened over duuu
years ago." A little cherub, its blue
eyes dilated with wonder, after a mo
ment s thought: "UU, aear, marm.wnat
a memory you must have.
A little girl passing the Washington
statue.lately asked a lady who was with
her if Washington was buried there.
"No," said the iady. "Where is he
buried?' said the little girl. "I don't
know," said the lady. "Then I guess
you don't read the Bible much," said
little innocence.
Remarks a writer: "A gentle hand can
lead an elegpant by a hair." Now, what
foolishness that is to put into the minds
of children? Why, bless you, elephants
don't have hair; they have just maes,
that's all. Perhaps a gentle hand might
lead him by tho tail, but, mind you, we
have our doubts even of that.
The curtain rises on "Cendrillon" at
7:30. It is true that the adorers of the
diva are always certain of seeing a good
deal of her from their avant scene toward
the middle of the piece. But this was
not sufficient for Theo. She desires
that they should also see her in the first
act, in which lies the principal feature of
attraction. It is an appearance so mar
velously lovely that it suffices to explain
the popularity of the new "Cendrillon."
The pretty head of Theo rises suddenly
in the center of a corbeille of flowers
illuminated by electric light. Tho coup
d'oeil is indescribably beautiful; no
effect like it has ever been seen at the
theater. When any one goes to her box
to congratulate her upon her perform
ance she always eagerly inquires: "Did
you come to see mo in my corbeille?"
When she receives a reply in the nega
tive she usually dismisses her visitor
without further remark.
This peculiarity has naturally caused
a great deal of disturbance in the gastro
nomic habits of the jennes elegants, who
would do anything rather than displease
the star of their dreams. Some break
fast later, some dine earlier, and all
arrange in one way or other to go to the
Porte St. Martin before 8 o'clock so as
not to miss the corbeille. It is a settled
habit. When the Russian Grand Dukes
passed through Paris they twice advanced
the hours of their dinner to go and see
Theo in her corbeille a couple of even
ings in succession. .Prince Vladimar
even made Theo promise that she would
introduce this luminous corbeille- in all
all her operettas when she goes to sing
in St. Petersburg. Hut this is not all
Theo is daily invited to go and give
seances de corbeilfe at parties or at large
clubs of the capital. The newspapers
have given the name of corbeillomanie
From afl this Theo derives a fresh
celebrity. It had enabled her again to
rally round her that court of platonic
adorers which for some time past had
been on the point of deserting her
Among them are rich, intelligent and
well educated young men, the bearers of
great names, and who for the last six
years have had but one idea, one object
in life that oi devoting themselves to
Theo. It is a devotion more inexoli
ble from the fact that they derive but
little satisfaction from it. The diva of
their affections is faithful to her husband
a working tailor, and she will not permit
any one to make love to her. .Notwith
standing that the fact is indisputable, her
sighing swains persist in ther attentions
Do they each entertain the secret hope
that some day or other Theo will be less
cruel to them? It is probable. Thev
continue, despite all discouragement, to
send her flowers and presents. She
deigns to accept them, and they com
mence over again the same game without
ever tiring or uttering the least complaint.
She has organized and regulated the
whole of her little court, establishing and
defining clearly the duties and rights of
each of its members. The visits which
she receives at the theater are divided
into series. Certain admirers can come
to her dressing-room on the Mondays
others on the Tuesdays, and so on during
the week. These visits are more or less
long, according to the degree of con
siderations in which the visitors are held
And she presides over their receptions
with the most perfect tact, taking care
always to mark the rights of ancients and
to avoid bringing together people who
detest each other or adorers who belong
to the same clique. All these couriers
obey Theo as conscripts obey their in
structing captain. The diva moves
about, and powders and dresses herself
in the midst of the dazzled faithful. She
places them all under contribution, and
is careful not to be ceremonious with any
of them, knowing that this off-hand mode
of proceeding renders her Btill more
seductive and charming in their eyes
One holds a looking-glass before her. an
other searches for something she has
lost on the carpet. She asks for infer
mation of this gentleman and for her
her powder box of that, and orders them
all to close their eyes while she changes
her costume. There is no court, even a
court d'amour, without a certain degree
of discipline. Theo frequently exhibits
great severity for the slightest infraction
of her rules. The delinquents those
who in despite of their pledges try to
make love to her or to kiss the tips of
her fingers are immediately punished
with a suspension of their privilege of
visiting her, more or less prolonged in
proportion to the gravity of the offense
Those who repeat it are liable to be sen
fenced to perpetual exclusion. Corr
J. x. neraia.
When to Marry.
HALL'S
SAFE & LOCK COMPANY,
CAPITAL - . 81,000,000.
General Offices and Manufactory
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Pacific Branch,
No. 210 Sansoxne St., S. F
Agency for Oregon and Washington Territory,
with ll aw 1j xajuu a, uu., roruana.
HALL'S PATENT CONCRETE
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Have been tested by tho most disastrous confla
grations in the country.
They are tnorougniy nre-prooi.
They are free from dampness.
Their snperiority is beyond question.
Although about 150,000 of these safes are now
in use. and hundreds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous conflagrations in the
country, there is not a single instance ou record
wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its
contents perfectly.
HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED
TENON AKB GROOVE
BURGLAR-PROOF
llavo never been broken open and robbed by
DUXgiara or nrawm
u..iHn 1... wnrlr in rvffftfi(l hv letter
Alalia uigioi " " J li
patent, and his work cannot be equaled lawfully.
ir: t la annar!nt in nnv in USA.
Tr;. mimit 1,K-ks ttiunnt be nicked bv the most
skillful experts or burglars.
iiy one oi me greawssb nuyiwcmciiw mw"i
t.. V'n A nfitniai.in Mfivcmpnt. our locks are
operated withont any arbor or spindle passing
r inua nanrtf hf oivinprl fir ninked bv bur-
VUI lUtM i "J - i J -
glare or exiierts, (as in case of other locks), and wo
Will put I rum .;i,i.iw v j
time against an equal amount.
Th. most gltillvl workmen onlv are employed.
Their work cannot be excelled.
Hall's Sates and JjOCHs can do renea ou uv an
times. . . . ,
They are carefully and thorughly consiruoieu.
THEY ABE THE BEhT SAFE
Mode in America, or any other country.
One Thousand Dollars Jm
To any person who cm prove that one of Hall
patent Durgiar-prvui ummw
broken open and robbed by
burglars up to the
t resent time.
In Hungary, males marry at fourteen
and females at twelve, whereas in
Austria, persons are minors until they
attain the age of twenty-four, and they
must not marry before that time without
the formal consent of their parents
There is no restriction on the ground of
religion, however, although children of
both sexes under fourteen are forbidden
to marriage. In Denmark a man may
not marry under twenty, nor a girl un
der sixteen, but in other parts of
Scandinavia a man must be twenty -one.
In Belgium and France, eighteen and
fifteen are the respective limits, and in
Bavaria there are no less than four laws
in operation, each having a reference to
a particular district. The ages fixed by
these range from twelve to fourteen for
girls, and fourteen to eighteen for bovi
for so in truth we must call them.
About two or three and twenty years atro,
a law was passed in Hesse-Darmstadt
prohibiting males from marrying before
they had attained the age of twenty-five,
but since this law has been amended, and
twenty-one is now the limit. In (Switzer
land there is no uniformity at all, each
canton apparently having gone its own
way in the business. The ages appointed
there range from twelve to seventeen
years for girls, and fourteen to twenty
for the other sex the lower ages being
always found to obtain in those districts
where the old cannoa faws are still re
spected. In two cantons people may
marry at any age after their first com
munion. In Greece the ages are
eighteen and fifteen; so they are in
Boumania, but in Russia they are
eighteen and sixteen. In Turkey there
are no laws on the subject at all, but it
is worthy of note, remembering the
social affinities of the -Laps, that in Lap
land boys marry at seventeen, and girls
at fourteen, provided they haye attained
the requisite knowledge of the Christian
language.
Senator Plumb's new article of war
provides that no senior officer at
gambling shall win the money of a
junior, under penalty of dismissal from
the service. The article is a good one.
The junior officers of the army reeeive
the least pay, and they should rake in
the pile when they sit down to a little
game of draw.
B. M. WILLIAMS,
Agent for Oregon and W. T.
office wiib Hawley, ltodd
28:'ebl6:'Jtf. Portland.
Bees Hamlin.
Emmett F. Wbenn.
DRAY ACE !
DRAY AGE!
Hamlin & Wrenn, Propr's.
HAV1M5 JUST RETURNED FROM
8alem with a new truek, and having
leased the barn formerly occupied by James Eg
lin, we are now prepa:ed to do all kinds of
D HAYING AD HAULINC.
either in the city or country, at the loweat living
rates. Can be found at the old truck stand. A.
share of the public patronage resiectfully solic
ited. ...
Corvallis. Dec. 27. 1878. 15:52tf
JOB PRINTING.
THE
Gazette Job Printing House
IS NOW PREPARED TO DO
Plain and Ornamental Printing,
A neat and Cheap as it can be done by any
Office on the Coast,-
Mil BleaUn,
Uiier Heads
Mote henrix,
mh emrntn,
ft oKmmniH,
Ball TlrbeiB.
Invitation
Ctrrulnra,
HuHlne.a nrriH,
Vialt iuir Tarda,
Labr'S
Iiodifera. K
km.ll fikNlnr..
I.CKIII mUl4
Bwh Ho tea.
atilvpioa Kecelpta,
Order Hooka,
linui,
Taea.
.., Elo,
Sr-Orders by
mates furnished.
mail promptly filled. Esti
AUGUST KNIGHT,
CABINET MAKKU,
UNDERTAKER.
Cor. Second and Monroe Sts.,
CORWAliUB.
ORMOH.
Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of
TURNITURE
COFFINS AND CASKETS.
Work done to order on short notice, and
at reasonable rates.
Corvallis. Jan. 1. 1877. I4:ltf
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,
"FORMERLY OP ALBANY, WHERE HE
bas given Tiis patrons perfect satisfaction,
has determined to locate iu Corvallis, where he
hopes to be favored with a share of the public
paironage. All work warranted, when made
under his supervision. Retiring and cleaning
promptly attended to. m
Uorvanis, Jan. J.iJSBo. ia:oit.
tttlatfl IH PAIITUnOM !
rnnFna'n wmw nvnnt m vf
PHYSICIAN ANL SURGEON,
Corvallis, On'gon.
Snecial attention given to surgery and diseases
of the Eve. Can be found at his onice, in rear of
Graham, Hamilton A Co.'s Drug Store, up stairs,
day or night.
June 3, 1879. lfl-23tf