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VOL. XXVI.NO. 31.
CORVALLIS, BEATON COUNTT, OREGON, tfBIDAY, AUGUST 30 1889
The GAZETTE is ilow the osl All-Home
Print Newspaper in Benton County or Corvallis
RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION.
the
YaquIha Route
Oregon Pacific Kailroad and
Oregon Development Co.'s
STEAMSHIP LINE.
235 Miles Shorter; 20 Hours Leas time
than by any other route. First class
through passenger and freight line from
Portland all points in the Willamette valley
to and from ban h rancisco, CaL
Eemember the 0. P. E. K.
popular summer excursions
to Yaquina Low rate tick
ets are now on sale, good ev'
ery Wednesday and Saturday
from Albany, CoryalJis, and
Philomath.
TIME SCHEDULE (except Sundays.)
Leaves Albany 1:00 p. ni I Leaves YaquIna6:4Sa. m.
Leave Corvallis 1:40 p in. j Leave Cor.ailis 10:38 "
Arrive Yoouiiia 5:30 p. in Arrive Albany 11:10 a. m.
Oregon & California trains connect at Albany and
G.irvalliu. The above train connect at Yiqunia with
the Oregon Development Co. 's line of steamships be
tween Vaquina and San Francisco.
Steamships Sail ;
Willamette valley. From Yaquina:
Saturday, Aug. 3.
Tuesday, "13.
Thursday, " 22.
Saturday, " 31.
From San Francisco:
Tuesday, July 30.
Tlmniljii 8
Sun.lay, " 18.
Tuesday, " 27.
This Company reserves tbe rijfht to chsuig sailing
aatos aituoul uotico.
N. B. Passengers from Portland and all
Willamette valley points can make close
connection wfth the trains ot the x aquina
route at Albany or Uorvallin, ana if destined
to .Sau Francisco should arrange to arrive at
Yanuiun the evening before date of sailing.
Passenger and freight rates always the
lowettt. r or information apply to I). W.
('uiHiiiins, freight and ticket agent, Corval
lis, or to O. C. HOGUE,
Acting Gen. F. nnd P. Agent, Oregon Fa
ci lie Railroad Co., Corvallis, Or.
C. H. HAS WELL, Jr..
Gen. F. and P. Agent, Oregon Develop
ment Co., 304 Montgomery St., S. F.t Cal.
OAKLAND TO CALIFORNIA
VIA
Southern Pacific Company's
LINE.
THE MT. SHASTA ROUTE.
' Time ICetween
ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO
3o Houns.
Clifford. Sxprsu Tralu Sua IiUy
PORTLAND and SAN FKANCISCO.
SOUTU.
Lv Portland ...4:00p.m.
NOKTI1
Lv San Frisco 7:00 pm
Lv Albany 8:13 p. ui.
At Slan Krwco...7:45 p.m. Ar Portland 10:45 a m
Local Passeoger Train, Daily, except Sunday
Lv Portland 8:00 a. in. I Eugene 0:00 a. n.
Lr Albany 12:40 p. m. I Lv Albany 11:35 a. m
Ar Kugeue 2:40 u ni Ar Portlaud ....3:45 pm
bv Aioau3'. :& am
Local Passenger Train. Daily, except Sunday
8:20 p m.. .Lv... Albany Ar...6:3U a m
9:06 p ni.. Ar. .. Lebanon. ..Lv. .11:35 a m
12:50 p m...Lv... Albany Ar...2:45 p m
1:36 p in..Ar... Lebanon.. .Lv...2-0Q p m
Pullman Buffett Sleepers:
TOURIST SLEEPING CARS,
For accommodation of second-class
passengers, attached to Express Trains.
The 8. P. Co.'s Ferry makes connection with all
she regular trains on the East Side Divisien from
Iot of F street.
Wist Silt Division.
BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS.
Kail Tub. Daily Xxeept Sun lay.
ItBAVB.
Portland 7 :S0 a. m.
Corvallis 1:30 p. m.
Corvallis 12:25 p. ai
Portland 6:20 p. m
ARRIVE.
At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the
Oregon Pacific Railroad.
Crprsu Xraia. Sally SxoeptSuday.
LEAVE.
Portland ..4:50 p. m.
McMlanville .... 5:45 a, m.
ARRIVE.
McMinnville... 8:00 p. m
Portland 9:00a.' in
THROUGH TICKETS
to all points
South and East via California.
Eor full information regarding rates, maps
etc., call on company's agent at Corvallis or
Albany.
K. P ROGERS, Asst. Q. F. &P. Agent.
R. KOEH LER Hanarer.
F. M. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CORVALLIS, OR.
43TPoes a general practice in all the courts. Also
swot for all the ttatt-olasaiiiaiuDc companion 2:24
A LONDON NEWSPAPER.
The newspaper of London is a
great institution. Each daily runs
up its news in a big card placed in
a public position around the city
a new placard for each edition
all posted over the city like circus
bills. The London Times has one
queer custom. It costs six cents
per number, the others but one or
two cents. Large numbers sub
scribe ouly to the sending of the
Times a certain hour daily. A
carrier delivers to his reader at a
certain hour, and then takes it
back and delivers it to another
reader. This costs but two cents,
and begins at six and ends at
twelve, noon. So one paper
serves six persons, and the carrier
gets twelve cents and has the pa
per left. "A carrier with twenty
patrons makes a good living. And
this is one of the many thousands
of ways of making a living in a
great city, and shows that cities
must grow greater so long as a
portion of their people are pros
perous creators of wealth. They
will need the others to serve them
in some way. He saw wonderful
things in the Times office. Among
other things a man sits with a tele
)hone to his ear receiving the de
bates of parliament and setting
them up with a type setter, played
like a type writer; it is justified by
hand, proof read, locked, sent to
the stereotype room for a paper
machine impression and carried to
one of the eight - matter presses
constantly running. - In like man
ner all the news in gathered from
the stieet and telephoned with ed
itorials to the printer.
A BOSTON RAT.
A waiter at the Metropolitan
hotel on Washington street says
there is a rat of unusual intelli-
cui,c wuiii iiauma me n-jiei
... u:l. - li-ai
kitchen, ani when occasion offers
steals- food from the cook. He
says this rat ought to be caught
for Infants and Children.
' "Castor Is so wn adapted to ehfldren that I CastorU eures Colic, Constipation,
(recommend it as superior to anrnrescriptiOB I Hour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation,
known to me." ILA. AacBE, M. D., I KiU' "" promt
111 Bo. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Without InjuriotM roedioattco. :
r Th Cxmtaub Company, 77 Hurray Street, N. Y.
O. I. HENKLE,
HSNKXiE
-Dealers in-
SEWING
Needles
sp$isi
Of all Kinds......
tJgTShotguns, Rifles, Pistols, Pocket Cut.ery, Amunition, Fishing Tackle
etc. All kinds of Powder kept constantly on hand. Violin Bows, Strings, etc.
, .i: -.
4 s ....
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GENERAL RERAIRING a Specialty
Work Warranted ..Opposite Speocer's barber stop, CORVALLIS, OR
and exhibited as a marvel at the
dime museums. Several stories Of
sagacity are told about this rodent,
of which the following is one:
"A few evenings ago," said the
waiter, "I had occasion to go
down into the kitchen. It was
dusky when I arrived and as soon
as my eyes would permit me to
get used to the light I saw a large
rat walk deliberately up to a dish
ef deughnuts and begin to take
them out one by one and string
them on his tail as you would string
beads. When he had put on five
and loaded his tail all up he turned
around, took the end of iiis tail
between his teeth, add walked off
as if he were going to muster."
WHERE COWBELLS ARE MADE.
Collinsville, 111., is a great place
for cattle bells. That cow bells
are made and do not grow on trees
or elsewhere seems to surprise
some people, but there are four es
tablishmeuts in the United States
which are exclusively devoted to
the manufacture of that resonant
article, and two of these ore in
Collinsville. . One hundred and
fifty dozen are turned out daily,
and thousands of them dangle
from the necks of unfortunate
cows all over the drairies of North
and South America. The manu
facture of cow bells is entirely
distinct from that of other bells.
Instead oi being molded the metal
is run into sheets, cut into sym
metrical polygons, which, when
folded, are pressed into their well-
known form. Having been rivet
ed, they are next packed in clay
and bnrght to a white, heat.
When suddenly cooled these steel
bells are found not only to be tem
pered but also beautifully brazed.
Connecticut will be the next
state to vote on prohibition. ; An
amendment to the constitution
will be voted on in October, and
its defeat is regarded as a foregone
conclusion.
E. B. BIER
& BIER,
MACHINES
,nd Oil.
IN THE ORCHARD.
A mass of stones by the roadside
Half covered with fleecy balls,
And delicate sorays of beauty
Where clematis softly falls,
Like drapery tine and sheen;
On tbe stones of the orchard walls.
In the orchard old trees are holding
All their crooked limbs wide-spread,
Where globes of fragrance and sweetness
By the air and sunshine fed,
Hang out from the boughs like lanterns,
VV ith a tire of gold and red.
A squirrel from yonder woodland
Flits iu and out 'mong the trees,
And the song of autumn's coming
Is chanted by every breeze.
A pang that summer is dying
Thrills nature in days like these.
And th trees whose dainty blossoms
Grew pink in the early May,
Yield now their treasures of harvest
To the bright September day.
As blossom and fruit must vanish
So their leaves must pass away.
THE THREE GRACES.
FAITH.
With eager appetite 1 fix mine eye
Upon the piece of huckleberry pie.
HOPE.
How similar the berry and the fly!
And yet, mayhap, it is a berry.
CHARITY.
Into its depths I peer, and pass the pie
Unto my hungry neighbor sitting by.
Three Days in a Coffin.
"It was horrible, horrible, sir I
lay in that coffin alive, and just as
conscious of what was going on
around me as 1 am at this moment.
I have always been of a hysterical
temperament, and on one greiv
ous occasion had lain in a catalep
tic state for twenty-four hours.
This last time I lay for three days
perfectly conscious, as I said be
fore, but to all appearances as dead
as Caesar."
The speaker was a well-known
attorney of St. Paul, says the
Globe, who related the story of his
thrilling experience with catalepsy
conditionally that his name be
with-held from publication. ,
"It has been said," continued
the hero of this blood-curdling ad
venture, "that there are infallible
signs which denote death and are
unmistakable to the practiced eye
of the medico. I deny that such
is the case, and no one has had a
better opportunity of judging than
I have. When I died, or rather
when three of the best-knowd
medical men in Boston asserted
that I was dead, I had been for
three days previous to my sup-
posed demise iu a condition of vio
lent hysteria, bordering elmost on
insanity, owing to the death of a
sister whom I loved to distraction.
At the expiration of that time I
subsided into the condition I have
previously described. My death
was attributed by the learned dis
ciples of Esculapius to disease of
the heart. The three old fogies
held a-consultation over me, and I
heard them discuss the advisabili
ty of a post-mortem examination,
there being a slight difference of
opinion among them as to what
was the actual cause. At this
time I was laying on a board, per
fectly rigid, and fully realized the
fact that I should be buried alive
if I couldn't brace up and explain
matters within the next few hours.
I immediately blessed my mother
and brother for their refusal to al
low those old butchers to go for me
with their knives. That's all that
saved me, I tell you. This seems
a wild 6tory, but just the same it 's
a true one. Why, L can even re
member laughing quietly to myself
to think that the windows had been
opened all around the room. It
was devilish cold weather, too, but
I could not feel the cold much. I
knew, however, that those win
dows had been opened to prevent
the decomposition of my, ill-used
frame. How did I get out of the
fix? Well, it was just by the skin
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Cagtcrla.
of my teeth. When the under
taker and his fool assistant brought
the coffin and I was lifted into it I
knew at once that the coffin was
too short and just ached to say so,
but I couldn't speak a word to
save my life. I was tongue-tied;
hadn't control of a . muscle. The
merest accident in the world pre
vented my being buried alive. I
had been lying in this awful condi
tion I have described for over three
days when the beast of an under
taker came around again to screw
up the coffin. A tack had been
left sticking out from the drapery
gracing the interior of the sareoph
agus, and the fellow in the ceffin
bvsiness commenced a series of
vicious jabs at it with a sharp
edged screwdriver. On one of
these the instrument struck a nail
head and, flying off at a tangent,
took me on the jaw with consider
able force. The blood spouted
forth and I instnntly regained the
use of my limbs. I wanted to
knock seven kinds of blue fire out
of the coffin man, and was out of
it in no time. The undertaker
skipped, but I put it all over his
assistant, I am ashamed to say, for
the man was too horified at my
resurrectiou to defend himself in
the least. Now you can just bet
I am as healthy a man as the most
of them nowadays, and I've issued
strict orders that in the event of
my death I . am not to be buried
until an artery has been open
ed and my decease absolutely
proved."
QUEEN BAROMETERS.
"I can always tell when it is go
ing to rain half a "lay ahead of any
change in fair weather," said cham
pion George Slosson, as he was
knocking around billiard balls in
the Columbia rooms just after the
recent deluge.
"How's that?" asked a bystand
er getting interested directly.
"Why, there isn't a better bar
ometer in existence than an ivory
billiard ball or a good billiard
cue," the billiard expert replied;
they are better than a favorite
corn."
"How d'ye tell?"
"A ball always rolls slow and
with difficulty when it is going to
rain. Ivory is so sensitive to
changes of temperature, particu
larly from dry to moist, that the
effect is felt olmost instantaneous
ly. The cue will get cranky, too,
when there is going to be a
change, long before the dampness
is perceptible in any other way.
Another , peculiarity of the ivory
globes is their tendency to become
egg shaped. Thev contract at
what are called the top and bot
tom poles and swell out at the
sides, so that you might as well
play with potatoes . If you don't
watch their idiosyncras'es. They
are worse than old men in their
sasceptibility to draught. A
draught will crack the ivory and
make it chip off . quick as a wink
and, like old folks, you can never
get the spheres acclimated to these
draughts. Just take a billiard
ball and study its behavior, and
you can beat the clerk of, the
weather prophesying. You can
bet on' your own prophecy every
time. N. Y. Sun.
A man in Whitneyville, Maine,
bought a lot of rockets which
wouldn't go off, and his Fourth of
July was a failure, Bot a few
days later he put ,tber worthless
s-hells in the cook store with some
kindling wood, and lie had a
Fourth of July and a circtfs all iti
one. : . A patient waiter is no loser
in some cases but in this aeffair
the man lost a $19 eookstove and
a teakettle.
A MUCH NEEDED INTENTION.
One of the most needed corr
trivances is a perfectly effectivef
smoke consuming furnace' for
house, factory and engine use; Be
sides the dirt and inconvenience?
there is a tremendous waste of
fuel caused by the escape Of smoke
into the air. Professor Chandler
Roberts has made some very ex
tensive figures in reference to' this1
waste. He calculates thai! the
weight ot the cloud of smoker
pouring daily into the atmosphere
of London amounts to fifty tons- of
solid carbon and 250 tons fff fhe
shape of hydro carbon and carbonic-oxide
gases. From the re
suits of tests made by the Smoke
Abatement Committee the value
of coal wasted in smoke from do-'
mestic grates in a population' of"
5,000,000 amounts to $11,282,000
per year. The aggregate waste ot
unconsumed carbon in the city of
London is estimated at $13,000,000'
per annum and . the -r damage to
property caused by the smoky at
mosphere is put down at $10,000,
000. This is purely the economic"
estimates as to the loss of mere
property. What an enormous;
waste is found when we begin to
calculate the waste of human life
and human health.
The transformation of the city
of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania ffom
a black, dingy city to a bright and?
beautiful place when it changed!
from a coal consuming to gas burn--ing
city was a fine objeefe lesson on
this subject.
There are many inventors work'
ing on the problem of a smoke
consuming engine and when an
engine of that kind is perfected
the principle can easily be extend--ed
to ordinary furnaces. We need?
such engines for railroad motors'
and road motors particularly.- It?
does not seem possible that the
necessary discovery will be long
postponed. COST OF AMATEUP. FARMfNG,
This is the season when the
amateur farmer is fn his glory,
He invites his friends-down to the
farm and they inspect his fields,
tilled ny improved methods, aml
admire his blooded stock- and Jer
sey cattle to his heart's- eontent
I have fiad several mvitationc of?'
this kind lately, ami hope'to' avail
myself thereof. But I al way's think;'
of a remark made by by a worthy
New York business man of bucolic
tastes some year ago. I was one
of a party who visited rrjis- "farm""
down on Long Island. It -was a1
warm day, and when, after adusly'
drive, we were ushered into a' cool
dining-room, two- large , napkin
coverod protuberances at either"
end of the table attracted our at'
tention. Removing the' sWowy
coverings the host revealed- at orie;
end a immense cooler; in which"
several "magnums" of champagne
reposed. At the other enxl was a
vessel full of rich cream- packed ire
ice, "-Nowr boys,'y said he, cheer
fullyy "here's- ehampfer and
there's cream. Drink whichever"
yotf please- tliey both eost me the"
same."- New York Star;
The belief that a hog wfll; thrive
on any kind of feed', if he has an
abundance of it, and tlW shiftless,,
reekless way" of feeding practiced
by eo many, is- the immediate' andl
sole cause- of mnh of the" disease
that prevails among the" swine;
The- smoke cloud that ovei'hangs4
London is sakl to- eon-tain 300 tons5
of carbon. The-waste involved ii
this- is estimated at $13i000-,000'
year and the damage to buildings
as $10.000',000,a- year;
Children Ciy for
Pitcher's CastorM
"i.