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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
COURTESY.
There is no individual quality
which is as valuable as courtesy.
No one can aflord to be without it
whether rich or poor, private or
official. No quality so smoothes
the rough places in human life
and makes human association
sweet and enjoyable. A kind
word, a pleasant answer, a genuine
compliment may lighten the load
of some f.ad heart and smooth e
the rough path of some struggling
mortal.
Courtesy costs nothing but is
exceedingly valuable even in a
business view. Courtesy has
caused the business success of
many a man where the sour and
morose have failed. Most men
who have risen to greatness have
been exceedingly courteous. Many
a man who looks cold and reserved
when in repose makes himself
doubly appreciated by grace and
courtesv when in association with
others. Lord Beaconsfield, one of
England's greatest Premiers, was
one of this kind. An old lady, a
Mrs. De Burgh, hearing of his
asthma, sent him a pot of btock
holm tar with a note advising him
to expose it in his bedroom at
night. It proved beneficial. Many
men in his position would have
sent a note of thanks, but Lord
. Beaconsfield took the time from
his very burdensome duties and
visited her in person and thanked
her for her kind present. Such
acts are better evidences of true
. greatness than any high position .
Be courteous and polite to every
body, young man; it will prove
better than capital.
FACTS ABOUT RAILROADS .
The interstate commerce com
mission has issued its annual re
port, prepared by Henry C.
Adams. This shows that the to
tal mileage of the railways in the
United States on the 30th of June,
1889, was 149,901.72 miles, or one
mile of road to every 20.14 square
miles of country. The total
amount of stocks, bonds and out
standing debts for 136,883 miles of
railway was $8,129,787,731, or
$59,392 per mile of road. The
total income for the same number
of miles of road was $1,000,214,
691, and the total expenditure,
exclusive of betterments, $880,
487.0S9. The revenue per passen
eer per mile was 2.349 cents,
while the average cost of carrying
one passenger one mile was 2.042
cents; revenue per ton of freight
per mile, 1.001 cents; average cost
of carrying one ton of freight one
mile, .63 cents; revenue per, train
mile, passenger trains, $1,139; aver
age cost of running a passenger
train one mile, 84.691 cents; reve
nue per train-mile, freight trains,
$1,657; average cost of running a
freight train one mile, $1 .038; av
erage cost per train-mile of all
trains earning revenue, 96.05 cents;
percentage of operating expenses
to operating income, 65.34 cents,
of the total stock, 61.44 per cent.,
and of the total bonded debt, 21.69
per cent, paid no dividends or in
terest.
Theodore Urban states that he
has evidence that America was
settled about 650 years after the
deluge, and that the tribes that
sprang up had tools of metal as well
as of stone. .
The population of Norway shows
a higher percentage of light eyes
(97.25) than any other country in
Europe. BJack hair is found in
only 2 per cent, and red hair in
1.5 per cent.
After immersion in water for
thirty-seven days, specimens . of
pine were found by Frof. D. V.
Wood to have been lengthened
0.065 per cent., oak, 0.085 per
cent., and chestnut, 0.165 per cent.,
the lateral swelling being 2.6 per
cent, for pine, 3.5 per cent, for oak
and 3.60 for chestnut.
The loss of light in passing
through glass has been tested by
two physicists of Berlin. A sim
ple translucent but not transparent
glass diminished the light 27 per
cent.: cathedral glass, both white
,.nrl with a eliVlif ormind tint. 12
cuav if .v.. O O 7 I
per cent; plain white Rhenish
"double glass," 10 per cent; and
plain thin mirror glass, 10' per
cent. Ground glass with cut glass
stars and a white glass background,
such as is found in house fanlights,
obstructed 60 per cent of the light,
and plain ground glass with the
background, 40 per cent.
Experience has 6hown that brick
tunnels and drains cannot be made
water-tight .when exposed to con
siderable pressure, as water is
forced through not only the "bricks
but the cements and mortars. In
experiments last year by Mrs. J. B.
Ffancis, about fourteen gallons of
water per square foot of surface
nasKprl through a thickness of
f o
nearly sixteen inches of cement
in twenty-four hours, under a pres
sure of seventy-seven pounds per
ssauare inch. Other engineers have
concluded that it is not practicable
to build a tight bulk-head o
cement-laid bricks when the pres
sure exceeds sixty-four pounds
per square inch.
THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS.
Pennsylvania will elect a state
treasurer.
Ohio vwill elect governor and
state officers.
Mississippi , will elect governor
and state officers.
Virginia, will elect governor and
state officers.
New Jersey will elect governor
and state officors.
Massachusetts will elect govern
or and state officers.
Iowa will elect governor and
lieutenant governor.
Maryland will elect comptroller
and attorney-general.
Elections in ten other states will
take place on November 5.
Nebraska will elect a supreme
court judge and two regents.
Kentucky held a general elec
tion for state treasurer on August
5th.
New York will elect state offi
cers except governor and lieuten
ant governor.
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Washington and Montana will
elect full state governments and
fijrislatures. which will chose
eight new United States senators
Each new state will also elect a
new representative in congress
except South Dakota, which will
elect two.- -
OVERLAID TO CALIFORNIA
Southern Pacific Company's
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TIIE MT. SHASTA ROUTE.
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Time Between
ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO
35HOUKK. ;
0al3snd Express Traini Bus Bally -PORTLAND
and SAN FRANCISCO.
WlRTif
Lv San Frisco 7:00 pm
Lv Albany. :45ara
SOUTH.
Lt Portland ...4:00p.m.
I 1 11 ..I J m
JW AIU.I.T U.1J i 1 - . . . j ------ --
AT Ran Friaco... 7:45 p.m. Ar Y ortiano. .-.m: a ni
Local Passenger Train, Daily.except Sunday
L Portland 8:00 a. m. I Euirene :00 a. n
i.T Albany 12:4 p. m. I Lv Albany 11:85 a. m
Ar KUjfone z:ipm ar runuuu . . . -a. v
Local Passenger Train. Daily.except Sunday
iin r. m l,v. . . Albanv Ar...6:30 a m
q.i n m Ar. . . Lebanon. ..Lv. .11:35 a m
12:60 p m...Lv. .. Albany .. ..Ar. ..2:45 p in
1 :3o p m. . Ar. . .ljenanon. ..uv. . p
-Pullman Buffett Sleepers:
TOURIST SLEEPING CARS,
For accommodation of second-class
passengers, attached to Express I rams.
m. a D ri 'a ffamr mftlr a nnnnftdton With ill
thsrszuiar trains on the East Side Division from
foot ol F street.
Wort Stlo Division.
BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS.
PURCHASING POWER OF GRAIN.
Hail Trail. Daily Except Sunday.
t.KAVie.
Portland 7:30 a.m.
Corrallis 1:30 p. m.
AKRIVK.
Corvallis 12:25 p. m
Portland e:ZU p. m
In forty-seven months, ending
May 1, the eleven cable car lines
of San Francisco killed twenty-one j
people. In Chicago in twelve
months, ending April 1, the three
cable car lines of Chicago killed
six people.
It is proposed to celebrate in the
city of St. Louis, April 30, 1903,
the one hundredth anniversary of
the greatest real estate transaction
in American history, the purchase
of Louisiana.
Halter the colts early, and if
thev must go to town with the
mares teach them to lead alongside
of their mothers, and thereby
save much trouble.
The destruction of fallen apple's
this ses:6on will greatly aid in less
ening the number ot insects next
year.
LB4VB.
Portland 4:50 p. m.
UcMinnville 5:45a.m.
ARRIVE.
MnMinnvllla... 8:0OD. m
Portland.. s00. ml
THROUGH TICKETS
to all points
South and East via California.
Cm. full information retrardincr rates? maps!
etc, call on company's agent at Corvallis or
Albany.
m n sst?d0 . . i 17 JhD A mint.
E. KOEHLEK manager
CO.
"Columbia River Route."
Train for the East leave Portland at I
7:45 a. m. and 9:30 p. m. d;uly.
fTT-Tr TjlfTlCl to and from princi
Vl J. O pal points in the
United States, Uanaua, ana Europe.
ELEGANT NEW DINING CARS
PULLMAN . PALACE SLE EPEKS.
Free family sleeping cars run through on
Express trains irom x oruana to
OMAHA,
In 1816 it took just one bushel
of corn to buy one pound of nails;
now one bushel of corn will buy
ten pounds of nails. Then it re
quired sixty-four bushels of barley
to buy one yard of , broadcloth;
now the same amount of barley
will pay for twenty yards of broad
cloth. It then required the price
of one bushel of wheat to pay for
one yard of calico; now one bushel
of wheat will buy twenty yards ol
calico.
KNEW WHAT HE WANTED.
"Is there anything I can do for
vou?" asked Mrs. Curaso tenderly
when her husband was suffering
from seasickness. "What do you
want?"
"I want the earth!" gasped
Cumso, as he leaned over. the rail.
N. Y. Sun.
AN INDUSTRIOUS IOWA GIRL.
Miss Jennie Slack, aged 16 years
residing in the blue grass region
of Iowa, has this season planted
and cultivated thirty -five acres of
corn, besides milking six cows
night and morning and helping in
other work about the farm and
household. The corn-is in splendid
condition for a big crop, and the
vounjr. lady who raised it is said to
be fine-looking, intelligent and
none the worse for. the hard work
she has done her invalid father,
who was unable to pay a hired
hand ox do it himself. Such girls
make good helpmeets for worthy
and industrious young men.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The S. B. remedies have been tested and
will not deceive yon. g-J-nv
"There is not," said Gov. Biggs,
of Delaware, the other day, "in the
state of Delaware to-day a single
penitentiary, If a man beats his
wife, or sets fire to a neighbor's
barn, or breaks into a house, he is
not shut up with a lot of other
criminals, with full time and op
portunity to learn all their tricks
of deviltry that he did not know be
fore. As a preventive of crime
the whipping post has a much
oreater terror than a term in the
penitentiary, and I have never
known of a man that came back
for a second dose. He simply
leaves the state. Maybe he goes
to New York; I don't know. At
any rate he seeks another home,
and you may rest assured that if he
stays in Delaware he lives a very
auiet life. To be sure it is a relic
of barbarism, but it is our way."
The color in a horse is of not so
much importance as the size, gait
action and form. These are prin
cipally what tell when placed upon
the market.
SWEPT BY THE TIDE OF POPULARITY.
To the 'topmost pinnacle of success, Hoe
teter's Stomach Bitters stands a shining
proof of what genuine merit, backed by the
living farce of proven facts, can attain.
The North and South American continents,
Europe, Australia, the West Indies, Guate
mala and Mexico have all contributed wide
patronage and testimony of the most favora
ble kind but unsolicited to swell the
reputation of this sterling remedy. Among
the maladies for which the most convincing
public and professional testimony - proves
fever, billious remittent, dumb ague and
annA oaIta. dvunmiftift.. livir complaint.
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nervoueneas, debility, kidney and bladder
complaints. i mitigates trie mummies 01
age, hastens convalescence, has a tendency
to prevent ill cousequences from exposure
and exhaustion. Persons of sedentary
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.labits ana iaoonousoc:upations win uuu u,
an ever useful tonic.
Turkeys should be given lull
range as they ' destroy thousands
of insects at - this season when
foraging. .
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Among the ' 15-cent, 25 cent," or
even $1 barbers none rank any better
than John S. Moore and P. Lewis.
They are new well prepared to shave you
in the neatest style and fix you up as
trim as a fighting cock or a Chinese
pheasant. This shop is on Mam
street, nearly opposite the brick livery
stable.' If the Oregon papers see fit
they can copy this with due credit
P itcher's Castorla.
Every man really believes in his
bravery until he is tried. .
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla,
When she was a Child, she cried (or Castorla,
When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorla,
When she had Children, she gave them Castorfa.
The S. B. remedies, manufactured at
Dufur, Wasco county, Ur., are last beuom
ing standard remedies. g23-m
All who are troubled with colds or chronic
coughs should try a. U. Co e. cougn cure
It speaks for itseJf. ag23-nv
VaQderpool's S. B." remedies ought to be
good. - - aKnt
F. M. JOHNSON, -
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CORVALLIS, OR.
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At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the!
Oregon Pacific It ailruad.
Expnai Train. EiilyEiceptSmliy.
miTKniT. BLUFFS.
and KANSAS CITY.
Free of Charge and without Change.
Close connections at Portland for San
Francisco and Fnget Sound points.
For further Darticulars inquire of any
Agant oi tne vompuny or
a. i .. iUAAnrjijij.
G. P. and T. A.
n .T SMTTW.
Gen l Manager, Jfortiand, uregoa.
MAX. CAPLAN,
ME MA NT
TA1LUK,
frSlinn in flia rnmn fnrmerlv OCCUDied bv
g v Williina & naint ahnn. First-class
fits and first-clam work guaranteed. A tine I
line of importea cloths irom wnicn to aeiech
tiive me a trial. a-io-ov-ynt.
The BXnmSS' GUIDE is
issued Marcn ana sept
l each year. It is an eney
lelonadia. of useful infor-
iffi.tinn fnr ftll who Dili.
cnoae the luxuries or ins
niMiio wnn uid furnish von with
11 the necessary and unnecessary
- appliances to ride.wauc, aance, siesp,
m.r oK Vnnt wnrlc. tea to ohttTOh.
or stay at home, and in various aises,
wl ttnA nnAnlitina. JllHt flcure OUt
what is required to do all these things
COMFORTABLY, and you can mtkei fog
estimate of the value of the BOTjEBB
T.TTTTi W TO-Vtih will VlO . sent UT20H
receipt of 10 cents to pay postage,
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.i
. Ul-114 Miohigai Avenue, Chicago. 111.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
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Mnnoiriltt fs ftrfs Wakfs AM ttWiTfwlfs
vjriiuoiuiv u svaMW vi aw sa. avwwaH
whatever contracted by any body except
l if I 3 if ....
uy uiywii w vy uijr wribicu vruvn. iuw
chants take notice. W. W. DOW.
UO&vaixis, June za, 18S5S.
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Gazette Officer, Corvallis, Oregon
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