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Veekiy Corvallis Gazette,
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1885.
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
AGKLCULTURAL COLLEGE FUND
Entered at the Postoftice at
Oregon, as secoud-class matter.
Corvallis
THIS PAPER will be found on file at the following
named places, where adverti-sintr may be contracted
for at our regular rates:
C. W. LOlILERiV Co., Advertising Agents,
Portland, Oregon.
L. P. FISHKB, Advcrtisin;
San
Ag-er t,
'raiicisco, California.
GEO. P. ROW ELL & Co,, Advertising Agents,
Mo 10 Spruce Street. New ork City.
t. H. BATES, Advertising Agent,
41 Park Row, Sew York Citv.
N. W. AYER & SON, Advertising Agents,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The news by telegraph regarding the
prospects of war between Russia and
England is very much at variance at
different times, so much so that it
seems like a large portiun of such news
is put out in the interests of specula
tors. One day we see under prominent
head lines that the "War between Rus
sia and Englaud is to be sottled," next
day that "War between Russia and
England is imminent." And in. this
manner the news comes as much at
variance each succeeding day, and still
the difficulties between the tvo nations
go on without settlement or open war.
From' everything which has occurred
on tha subject it would seem that about
the only way to avoid war is for Eng
land to bAck. down and fereep -ut of
the difficulty as best she . because
Russia seems to be anxious ir the con
flict, and tht condition of her people at
kome seems to demand an outside
struggle with some foreign nation in
ordr to engage in some other way the
nihilistic condition of her people at
home.
Much complaint of late is heard of
the dry weather on the crops, a few go
so far as to assert that if rain should
come immediately that the present
crons would be very much short of
a good yield while most observers ol
present conditions concede that a good
quantity of rain within two or three
weeks will assist in making a fair crop
and the latter opinion is no doubt the
correct one when we consider that this
is only the first part of May and spring
crops many years yield well when not
sowed until the 10th to the 15th of
May. The season however this year
in point of time is a month in advance
of what it usually is. A trip into the
country however affords an opportunity
of observing that the grain is most
generally in good color and in a nice
green growing condition with few ex
ceptions and while it is true that some
of the late sown grain is very short
and some of it very thin because the
seed has not all come up yet, plenty of
good rain in a couple or three weeks,
it is generally conceded will bring this
out in fair shape-
The city election which came off last
Monday in this place was a democrat
ic fight clear through. There were
three tickets in the field and nearly
all the candidates on all of them were
democrats. In the first place the peo
ple who had been holding open tem
perance meetings appointed a commit
tee to call a citizens meeting to nomi
nate a eity ticket, and when the meet
ing came together and hati finished
nominating the ticket it was found
that the industrious democrats had
gathered in upon them and haa capt
nrecl their meeting and the consequence
was that nearly all of tha candidates
nominated were democrats, most ol
whom cared little for temperance and
more for setting down on the original:
oi-s of the meeting. A week later
another citizens meeting was called to
nominate another ticket which meet
Lug also was composed mostly of demo
crats who" nominated a ticket composed
mostly of democrats. This, however,
did not fully satisfy the longings of all
those democrats who so crave- official
position and hence a pure and' ; :. adul
terated; democratic conventio; , was
called to nominate a pure unadulterat
ed democratic ticket, which was done,
making plenty of democratic material
to vote for. The result of the election
was that those elected were all demo
crats except the Marshal who was a
republican. In this contest the repub
licans laid quiet, made no nominations
and henoe had the opportunity, of ob
serving a pure democratic fight all
among themselves arid between some
candidates the fight waxed bitter and
strong. What will be the out-come or
result of the contest can not yet be
said but it is hoped that those elected
will make for us a good city govern
ment economically administered for
toe best interests of all.
There appears an article in the Ore
gonian of May 4th which still pursues
the idea that because a bill was passed
at the last legislature providing for the
building of a State Agricultural Col
lege building and for the government
of the college to pass under state con
erol and government, when such new
college building is completed and ac
cepted by the state, that therefore such
bill completely annuls all laws which
heretofore existed for the support and
maintenance of the .Agricultural Col
lege under the old and present govern
ment. The idea is certainly a mistak
en one about which there does not
seem to be any doubt when the new
bill is construed with the laws which
existed before its passage. If the Sec
retary of the State, as the Oregonivn
says, has concluded that he has no au
thority to draw warrants for the sup
port of the College during the next
two years, his mind certainly can be
disabused of that conclusion after a
complete and thorough,examinat.ion of
the different acts provided for the sup
port and government of the State Ag
ricultural College. The new bill does
not repeal or in any way iterfere with
the laws existing previous to the pass
age of said bill, which provides for the
drawing of warrants for the support of
and government of said College, while
it is true that the new bill provided
for the appointment of a new board of
Regents consisting of the State Board
of Education and the remainder of said
Board to the number of thirteen to le
appointed by the Governor. Yet it
still further provides that such new
"Board of Regents shall not assume
the government of said College until
the building mentioned in this act
shall have been completed as aforesaid,
and accepted by the Governor on be
half of the State." Thus it will be
seen that the new board Jof Regents if
they had already been appointed could
only act as figure heads with no duties
to perform until the College building
is completed and accepted by the Gov
ernor on behalf of the State. The
Oregonian uses the following words,
"The bill provides for the College to
be opened some time during the next
two years, but not for the present
school, who:e board resigned the ad
vantages of state aid before the meet
ing of the legislature." "The privil
eges once resigned were not renewed."
The fact of tha matter is that the
old board of regents tendered to the
State at that last session of legislature
their resignation which could have no
effect until it was accepted by the leg
islature on the part of the State, be
cause the arrangement with the old
Board by which they assumed control
and management of the school was a
mutual arrangement by two partiesthe
Board on one side and the state upon
the ether and the duties thus assumed
could not be thrown off and aban
doned without the consent of the
other, hence the new bill passed by
the legislature in Sec. 1 3 thereof pro
vides for the matter now being consid
ered in the following words, "Sec. 13,
That Corvallis College in Benton coun
ty, having signified its intention and
desire to relinquish to the State the
control and management of the State
Agricultural College, the same is here
by accepted to take effect at the time,
and in the manner provided in this
Act." The time refered to in the sect
ion just . quoted as provided in
the bill is to bo when the build
ing is completed and accepted
by the Governor at which time the
new Board shall assume control and
management of the College in the man
ner provided under the b'H. Any
other construction of the bill would
certainly be a strained construction
which no court would sustain.
flabby, his joints weak, his spirits
droop and his sleep is imperfect and
uni efreshing. After suffering under
these complaints a year or perhaps two
he starts afresh and with renewed
vigor, and goes to 61 or 62 when a
similar change takes place, but with
aggravated symptoms. When these
grand periods have been successfully
passed, the gravity of incumbent years
is more strongly marked, and he be
gins to boast of his age.
Of 100,000 male and female children
on a mean of many tables, it appears
in the first month they are reduced to
90,396 or nearly one-tenth. In the
second month, to 87,936. In the
third month, to 86,175. In the fourth
to 84,720. In the fifth, to 83,571.
In the sixth, to 82,626, and by the
end of the first year to 77,528, and
deaths being 2 in 9. The next 4 years
will reduce the number to 62,448, in
dicating 37,552 deaths before the com
pletion of the fifth year. At 25 years
the 100,000 are reduced to one-half,
or 49,995 only remains; at 52, a third.
At 58i, a fourth, or 25,000; at 67, a
fifth; at 76, a tenth; at 81 a twentieth,
or 5000; and ten only attain the age
100. Children die in lapge proportions
because their diseases can not be ex
plained; and because the organs are
not habituated to the functions of life.
The mean of life varies in different
countries from 40 to 45. A geneia
tion from father to son, is about 30
years; of men in general, five-sxths die
befoi-e 70, and fifteen-sixteenths before
80. After 80 it is rather endurance
than enjoyment. The nerves are
blunted, the senses fail, the muscles
are rigid, the softer tubes become hard
the memory fails, the brain ossifies, the
affections are buried, and -hope ceases,
the sixteenth die at 80; except a one-thirty-third,
at 90, and the remainder
die from inability to live, at or before
100.
Shaving Saloon.
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Milliard parloR.)
S. L. HENDERSON, Prop.
(First door south of Fisher's block. )
Corvallis. . -
Oregon.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
THE
CONDITION OF HUMAN LIFE FECK
A SCIENTIFIC STANDPOINT.
It has been computed that nearly
two years sickness is experienced by
eyery person before he is seventy years
old and therefore that ten days per
annum is the aveiage sickness of hu
man life. Till forty it is but half and
after fifty it rapidly increases. The
mixed and fanciful diet of man is con-
sideredthe cause of numerous diseases
from which animals are exempt.
Many diseases have abated with
changes of diet, and ethers are viru
lent in particular countries, arising
from peculiarities. About the age of
36 years the lean man usually becomes
fatter, and the fat man leaner. Again
between the years 43 and 50 his ap
petite fails, his complexion fades; and
his tongue is apt to be furred upon the
least txertion of body or mind. At
I this period of life his muscles become
So great has been the demand for
Ihe services of the specialist experi
mentally employed by the Swedish
Government during the last few years
to aid farmers in the destruction of in
sects, etc., injurious to crops, that the
office of entomologist is to be contin
ued permantly.
It has been found by R. Koch and
P. Miguel that the superficial layers of
the soil are exceedingly rich in micro
scopic organisms, or bacilli. Miquel
considers that these bicilli pi a v an im
portant part in the decomposition of
organic matter and in the formation of
assimilable plant food.
Different woods hold different quan
t'ties of water. According to Scheub
ler and Hartig, freshly-cut hornbeam
contains 18.6 per cent, of water; willow
26 per cent; ash, 2K.7 per cent; birch,
30.8 per cent; oak, 34.7 pr cent; pine,
39.7 per cent; red beach, 39.7 percent;
elm, 44.5 per cent; larch, 48.6 per
cent; and white poplar, 50.6 per cent.
Being called upon to analyze some
specimens of wine from a vineyard
near Nimes, France, Mons. Barthefemy,
Proffessor of the faculty of Sciences at
Toulouse, found them to contain
rather a large proportion of arsenic,
which proved to have been derived
from the impure sulphuric acid with
which the wine- casks have been
cleansed.
In a discussion before the London
Pathological Society, Dr. Wilks stated
that in some cases f rupture of the
heart by wounds life has continued for
twenty-four hours.
Two German investigators find that
th e use of sunflower seed cake as food
for cows reduces the total production
of milk.
The ruins of an ancient Roman city
have been discovered near the Gulf of
Gables, in Tunis, by Lieut. Massenat.
A remarkable phenomenon was late
ly observed at Karingon, Sweden.
Daring a perfectly calm eveaing a vio
l.mt whirl-wind asose from the south-
i akt, when a brilliant meteor suddenly
appeared in the zenith, traveled to the
northwest and burst near the horizon.
As the meteor disappeared the wind
quickly censed, the whole phenomenen
lasting only about sixty seconds.
While on the ice of Greenland last
summer, Baron Nordenskj old's party
experienced not only snow-blindness,
with which Arctic travellers are so fa-
milliar, but also a painful blistering ef
the skin of the face, produced by the
sunshine in the dry, transparent and
thin air. The bjisters caused the skin
of the nose, ears and cheeks to peel off
in large patches. This was repeated
several times during the journey of the
party, and the pain was increased by
the effect of the cold morning air on
the newly-formed skin. The sun has
no similar effect in the tropics.
The Billiard Parlor, fitted up in
first class style, and supplied with a No. 1
Table always iu good order. Lovers of the
game will ever find a quiet and orderly
place to spend an hmr in these parlors with
the assurance of being uninterupted by
rowdyism.
The Shaving Saloon. Old and
new Customers will find good accomoda
tions, sharp razors, clean towels and an
obliging proprietor ever ready to attend to
your wants. 22-11-tf
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J. W. HANSON'S.
Clothing: and. Tailoring
Emporium,.
Yon can find the latest styles of ready made
clothing, also tbe finest
Pants Patterns ard Suitings
Ever brought to Corvallis.
READY MADE CLOTHING
PRESSED TO ORDER.
Constantly on hand a fall line of
Furnishing Goods, Underwear,
Shirts, Neckties, &c, &c
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Two doors South of Will Bro.'s.
COKVALLIS, - - - - OREGON
C Ornamental, Tsefnl n
HR1STMAS PRESENT O
Something that will last and
Be a Joy Forever,
At Philip Weber's
FURNITURE STORE. .
Patent Rockers, Folding
Chairs, Picture Frames,
brackets, Work Bas
kets, And in Fact
In the Furnitare Line for the
Holiday Trade.
GREAT NORTHWESTERN REMEDY.
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Those w:o - rk e-irly and late nel a wholesome
roliavle Medicine like Pf under' s Oregon ifloocl
Purifier. As a remedy anl pr-jventa'ive of disease
jt can not he beat. It checks Rheumatism and Mala
ria, relieves C nstipatiou. Dyspepsia and Billiousnesa
and puts fresh energy into the systjm by nmking
SEW, RICH BLOOD. All Druggist, and dealers
keep it. 1.00 bottles, 6 for 45. 00. 22143m
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The time for big profits and long credits is of the past, and if mpsreenad by small
profits and a cash system offer an excellent chance for retrenchment Considering tha
present condition of affairs it behooves every yerson to practice economy and to obtain for
every dollar expended the best and most satisfactory result. This can be only accom
plished by a strictly CASH SYSTEM. The expense of keeping accounts and the cost of
collection must of necessity be added to the price of goods sold. There is also a more ira
portant contingency to be provided tor, namely: the number and amount of bad acconnts
that are unavoidable in giving credit, no matter how careful the seller may be
These losses must be made flood by charging cash customers a higher price ' to make
up for losses sustained on worthless accounts. Being fully alive to these facta and in
sympathy with the present condition of the farming community, we have placed ourselves
in a position to offer every advantage to cash purchasers.
While our prices appear low, we would state that all goods sold by us are first-class
and guaranteed in every respect as represented. Long experience -in the mercantile busi
ness, together with a competent knowledge of the various markets, enables ns to purchase
ur supplies as low as any house in this section. Our new Spring and Summer stock is
now complete in all departments, and we respectfully solicit an inspection of the same
Thanking our numerous patrons for the liberal patronage extended to ns for the put
twelve months, w kindly ask a continuance of the same.
Years anxious to please,
Corvallis
Oregon.
Best Machinery)
IN THE WOELD.
!f Mccormick twine binders,
1
CHAMPION TWINE BINDERS,
jjCHAMPION MOWERS and REAPERS
BUFFALO PITT'S.THRESHERS,
TRACTION STEAM ENGINES,
HAINES' HEADERS,
HAY RAKES and FORKS,
bain wagons.
5 -
A Nice Line of
Spring Wagons
AND
Hacks.
Buggies mid Qmumgjs.
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Prompt Attention given to business intrusted to on.
care in all the Courts of the State. Demands collected
with or without action anywhere in the L 8 WII
collect claiini against tbe Governmental Washington.
E. Holgate, a notary public, will rire strict attentim
to conveyancing-, negotiating- loans, baying, selling
and leaning real estate, and a general agency business.
Local agent for the Oregon Fire and flarine Insu
ranee Coirpnnv of Oregon, a reliable home company
backed by the heaviest capitalists of the State.
Office in Burnett's new brick, first door at head of
stairs.
19 17tf KELSAY k HOLGATE.
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we can obtain Patents in less tiro, than tboM remote
from Washington.
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actual clients in your own State or county, writ.
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