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(Ikklfe (incite. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. A commission of the German railway companies estimates the duration of steel rails at 35 years. A recent death from hydropho bia is supposed to have resulted from allowing a dog to lick a razor-cut on the face. The telephone has brought its disease, long-continued use of the instrument being sometimes fol lowed by painful weakness and ringing in the ears and vertigo. Complete rest is the only remedy necessary. Prof. Gunning estimates the average amount of water passing over Niagara Falls as 18,000,000 cubic feet, or 502,000 tons per minute, of which somewhat more than two-thirds flows over Horse shoe Falls. Prof. Elihu Thompson has de vised an electric welding car, which makes continuous rails of the track over which it passes. In thus welding the rails, it is proposed to have a break at every 100 feet, to. allow for expansion. More than 1,000 peaks in the Himalayas have been found by measurement to exceed 20,000 feet in height, and it is estimated that at least 2,000 reach this alti tude. In the Alps there are two peaks more than 15,000 feet high, and six or seven over 14,000 feet. The north star is approaching the pole. Mr. T. H. Safford has found that it will reacq 89 de. about 1944 A. D., and will remain within a degree of the pole 300 years, making its nearest approach about 2102, when the declination will be 89 deg. 32 min. 23 sec onds. Of the 4,200 kinds of flowers growing in Europe, only 420 are odoriferous. Less than one fifth of the white kinds which number 1,191 are fragrant, 77 of the 951 yellow kinds, 85 of the 823 .red kinds, 31 of the 594 blue kinds, 13 of the 308 violet blue kinds, and 28 of the 240 kinds with com bined colors. The word cyclone was first pre posed by Piddington in 1848 to describe the violent hurricanes of the tropics, in which the wind ro tates, in the northern hemisphere, opposite to the hands of a watch. The term anticyclone was first used by Mr. F. Gal ton in 1863 to represent wind motion in the op posite direction. For protecting smoke-pipes lrom rust, the plan has been recom mended of coating with coal-tar, then filling with shavings and ig niting the latter. The tar seems to be literally burned into the iron, effectually closing the pores against oxidation. A chimney i reated in this way . has not been painted since it was raised, more than twenty years ago, and is now as bright as newt Speaking of London, Cardinal Manning says: "There are 4,000, 000 of living and dying and dead souls. And if every church or chapel or place of worship of every sort and kind were filled three times to the fill on every Lord's day they could not contain more than 1,500,000. There must be, therefore, 2,500,000 who can never physically set their feet in any place of divine worship or any place where the name and exist ence of God are recogmz ?d. A very simple apparatus for ob taining an electric spark is made by a German physicist. Round the centre of a common lamp chimney is pasted a strip of tin foil, and another strip is pasted from one end of the chimney to within a quarter of an inch of this ring; Then, 9, piece of silk is wrap ped around a brush and the in terior of the chimney is rubbed briskly. In the dark a bright electric spark may be seen to pass from one piece of tin, foil to. the other each time the brush is with drawn from the chimney. Many other experiments can be tried with this apparatus. The City of Rome's engines have six cylinders, three of more than seven feet in diameter, and they indicate 11,890 horse power. The Etruria and Umbria each have three cylinders two of nine feet and one of six feet and develop 14, 321 horse power. The City of New York and City of Paris each have triple expansion engines of 20,000 horse-power. Two vessels of the Italian navy have engines of 18,000 horse power, and two lave engines of 19,500 horse-power. The most wonderful engines yet designed, however, are those of the Sardegna, with twelve main cylinders, to develop 22,800 horse power. FIGHTING TRUSTS. Children Cry for; A SATISFIED SUCKER. The people of North Carolina have adopted a very sensible way of fighting a trust, and furnish a lesson that should not be wasted on the people of other states. About eighteen months ago all the manufacturers of jute bagging, a product used for cotton wraps in the South, formed a trust and made a large advance in their price to consumers. It is estimated that the cotton planters of North Car olina were by this means robbed needlessly of more than $2,000,000 in 1888. In order to fight this monopoly, there was organized what is known as the Farmers' Alliance, which now numbers 85, 000 members, its main object be ing to prevent the puichase by any cotton gin in the state of any jute bagging, ane it has worked so well that jute bagging is offered for two cents a pound by the trust with no takers. The members in sist that only cotton bagging shall be used, and they have already almost succeeded in destroying the jute bagging trust, so far at least as North Carolina is concern ed. The success of this alliance shows that no trust or combine of an unlawful nature can succeed in their purpose, which is to rob the people, if they, the people, will only stand together and wage bat tle against the enemy. The peo pie will have right on their side and are bound to come out victor ious. "Why don't you cultivate a little style?" asked a Trout of a Sucker whom he happened to meet. "Why do you insist on living in this mud hole and never visit the clear cold springs? ; Limber up your body and . hire somebody to get a section of a rainbow and sprinkle it over you. I would not live like you for anything, grub bing away all the time for a meal in the mud. Flies form a deli cious diet. Just look at that beauty there which has just drop ped on the water. Just watch me take him and then envy the life of a trout." Saying this the Trout made a dash for the fly and seized it. But the fly had buried in it a steel hook, and on the hook was a line, and on the line a rod, and an angler held the rod. The Trout soon disappeared from the water and the next noise he made was when he was sizzling over a fire. "It may be nice enough to be a Trout." philosophized the Sucker, "but I would rather be a poor, de spised Sucker, with no rainbow attachment?, in a mud hole than a Trout in a frying pan. N. Y. Herald. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA VIA Southern Pacific Company's LINK GET YOUR- THE MT. SHASTA ROUTE. Time Between ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO 35 HOUKS. California Express Trains Bus Villj PORTLAND and SAN FRANCISCO. no am Lv Sau Frisco.... 7:00 pm Lv Albany 6:16 am i80O...7:4o p.m. Ar Portland 10:45 a m SOUTH. Lv Portland ...4:00p.m. Lv Albacy 8:1S p. m. Av Sap SYii IN THE MAJORITY. The married women who com mit suicide are slightly in the ma jority over the unmarried. With men it is the reverse. More single men take their own lives than marriei men. Out of every three married men who commit suicide two are without children, and out of every four married women who commit suicide three are without children, and the same proportions hold good among suiciding widows and widowers. It is believed that the contro versy between Secretary Noble and Corporal Tanner over the lat- ter's management of the pension office is not at an end, and we are to hear considerable more of it. We are sure that we voice the sen timent of a long suffering public when we say that it is to be hoped that the trouble may be allowed to die out, but if the two belligerents persist in airing thoir differences, President Harrison will take a hand in the matter and place Noble where Tanner is on the shelf. TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-class passengers, attached to Express Trains rm o T fin a TT o t-t-v mftlrnB Antinftption with all the re-'ular trains on the East Side DiTUien from foot of F street. A DIG IN THE RIBS, II on the right side and lower part of the diaphragm, though playfully meant and de livered, is calculated to evoke profanity from a chappy whose liver is oat of order. When that region is sore " and congested, pokes seem fiendish. Look at a man's coun tenance ere you prod him under the ribs. If his skin and eyeballs have a sallow tinge, you may infer also that his tongue is furred, his breath apt to be sour, that he has pains not only beneath his ribs, but alao under the right shoulder-blade. Also, that his i i ; i i u:., .1: i.: : Dowets are irregular wiu urn iiibiiuu im paired. Instead of making a jocose demon stration on his ribs, recommend him to take, and steadily persist in tatting, Hostetter s Stomach Bitters, the finest anti-bilious and alterative medicine exta.it. Incom parable is it. also, for dyspepaia, rheuma tism, nervousness, kidney trouble, and fever and ague. There will be introduced into so ciety circles this fall and winter a new ,;fad." A number of Chiuehe lanterns will be distributed around a room in the house, and the young people will select their partners and walk around the room to the tune of a march, which will sud denly stop. They will all then be quickly seated and the young man of the party will arise, and, bowing to the young woman, reach his hand in the lantern just above his head. If it contains a slip of paper on it will be announced the prize she has drawn. If there are thirty-six lanterns there will be nine prizes. Then when the prizes have been secured the young woman who has the cost liest prize will be expected to ac cept the company of the man for future parties who has secured it for her. . Local Passenger Train, Daily.except Sunday W Portland.... 8:00 a. m. I Eugene .00 a. m Lv Albanr 12:40 o. in. I Lv Albany 1135 a. m At Kugene 2:40 p m Ar Portland 3:45 p m Local Passenger Train. Daily.except Sunday SSO p m...Lv... Albany.. 9t06 p in . . Ar . . . Lebanon . . 12:50 pm...Lv... Albany.. 1:36 p m. . Ar. . ..Lebanon. . ..Ar... 6:30 a in .Lv. .11:33 a m .Ar. ..2:45 p m .Lv.,.2-00 p m -Pullman Buffett Sleepers:- Wost Sido Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. Kail Trail. Bail? Ixeept Sunday. LEA VS. Portland 7:30 a.m. Corvallia 1:30 p. m. ARRIVE. Corvallis 12:25 p. m Portland 6:20 p. m At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Pacific Railroad. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she cave them Castor' a. Queen Victoria's pet dog is Yorkshire terrier, that weighs two and three-fourths pounds and cost $75. Andrew Carnegie, weary of wait ing for Pittsburg counilmen to ac cept for the city his offer of ,$1,000, 000 for a free library, has appoint ed a citizens' committee of his own to select a suitable site, that he may buy it and erect thereon, at a cost of $750,000, not only a free library building, but one with quarters in it . for Pittsburg's newly organized Academy of Science. ' The build ing is to eclipse .anything of the kind in America except the SmitK sonian Institute. Irvine & Helm will sell yon a ladies' grain shoe or$iper pair. Pitcher's Castoria,. 4n J&M V VOICE Exprew Train. Daily Except Sua lay. LBAVg. Portland 4:50 p. m. McMinnville 5:45 a. in. ARRIVE. McMinnville... 8:00 p. m Portland 9:00a. m THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and East via California. Rr full information recrardinff rates. maDS etc., call on company's agent at Corvallis or Albany. B. KOEUER Manager from Ohio. Here fa a portrait of Mr. Garri on. of ttalem. Ohio. Me write,: "Wn at work on a farm for a mouth: 1 now have an aancv lor leL C.Allen A Co'a albumi and nubli. at ion and often make JfiiSfi O a dnjr.' 1 8 1 pied) . W. II. V AKKISOn. William Kline, Harriaburfr, Pa- Wrif : I have never known anything to cell like your album. Yetrdity 1 took order enough to pay me over W. J. fcl- more, Hangor. Ue.. writes: "I take an order for your album at pront u onen mm tnaebas VaCw ifor single day's work Others are doing Quite as wef we have not stMtce to rive ex. tracts from thffr letters, Everv one who takes hold of this grand business piles up grand profits. Shall we start YOU in this business, reader? Write to us and learn all abont It for yourself. Wo are starting many; we will start you If you don't delay until another gets ahtad of you In your art of the country. If you take hold you will be able to pick up gold fast. a"Ren4f On account of a forced manufacturer's sale OOO ten dollar Photograph Album are to be sold to the People for each, bound lu lioyal Crimson Silk, Velvet lush. Charmingly decorated Inaides. Handsomest albums In too world. Largest Size. Greatest bargains ever known. Agents wanted. Liberal terms. Big money for agents. Any one ran become a successful agent. Sells itself on sight little or no talking necessary. Wherever shown, every one wants to pur -ciinM. Agents take thousands of orders with rapidity never before known. Great profits await every worker. Agents ar staking fortunes. Ladiea make as muc-b as men. You, reader, can do as well as any oue. Full information and terms free, to those who write for same, with particulars and terms for oir Family Bibles, Books and Periodicals. After you know all, 4tuuidyou conclude to go no further why no barm ia done. Address K. C. ALLEN A CO., AUttWTA. UmsMM, F. M. JOHNSON, ATT0ENEY AT LAW, CORVALLIS, OR. . STDnes a general f ractiee in all the courts. Abo ayent for ail the first-elasa insurance companies, 24 OREGON RAILWAY&NAViGATIQN CO. "Columbia River Route." . Trains for the East leave Portland at 7:45 a. m. and 9:80 p. m. d:uly. rPmT7'l?TlCI to and from princi I xVlVllil-O pal jsoinU in the United States, Canada, and Europe. ELEGANT. NEW DINING CAES PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPERS. Free family sleeping cars run through on Express trains from Portland to OMAHA, COUNCIL BLUFFS, and KANSAS CITY, Free of Charge and without Change. Close connections at Portland for San Fraucisco and Puget Sonnd points. For further particulars inquire of any Agant of the Company or A. L. MAXWELL. G. P. and T. A C. J. SMITH, Gen'l Manager, Portland, Oregon. i : .-'.i r..t VI-.. r' ar'!.- ? Ill' fh-ITfti: p:;;'pr 't-r.'i.-;l.ir :J y.l :i V; ItM'.f itfii.l::rif-1. ifi-t Lit V .! !!:: int.'. .l t'Ulv. ?".nr1 rw rjT rf. I V;'"" t v.rtr. 'inr "ir.rttir. t finl, Z ML'N.V A CO., i:r:i;.i.:r!-i... a i l:rsaii-ay. A".'.' -;-? rif.- ! i h 5 (i4 a Edition S.ert iic Airinnitn. is;;C ci-n:.-.-: s va "r HT'ft -iT v t-f A fr:-Sit ."re;.-.!. ".t'! llUtfisrm .'::: M.-t '.:. ( -f" ft? afl ftlii t-l;tn :;( m-c:':: Itir iff t- Mttfi, ji c(inteHj:ti:t!- Sti;'ii..-. 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MOORE'S CELEBRATED POISON OAI REMEDY. It kills all inflammation and irritation, and i the only sore deatroyer of Microbe and other Skin ' Parasites. . ... . Vfretty. Price. 25 cents a Box. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEKN. - Notice is hereby given that I will be re sponsible for no debts or book accounts whatever contracted by any body except by myself pr by my . written orders. Mer chants take notice. W. W. DOW. Co8YALLi3t June 22t 188. sl Home! Craiff&uonov Gazette Office, CorvalliSj Oregon. 9
