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For an Important Announcement to appear in tlie next 3 JOB'S ADDITION! SONG OP THE TRAMP. I (tthr hen anil tfcere a pie, And keret and there a biscuit; I Match apron wHn tin nan's by. It always pays to risk it I atoap at 00011 where waters flow T sooth the weary comer. FVir men may crane and men may go, Bat I go on all summer. I ride heaeath the rashing freight Prom Boatoa to Chicago; -I watch each chance to dKsaecrate The box of Wells & Fargo. I sitqr and wh tittle as I go December!! fiuH me lonely, Fnr in DeTember falls the suow I walk in auomer only. Jonah the Second. S. W. Kiesler, late commander's clerk. United States navy, now a resident of Hoiiesdale, Pa., told the following story to a Philadel phia Press reporter of a very re markable experience of an Ameri can sailor with a whale, lis says: Geo. Leonard, an acting master in the United States navy during the civil war, and stationed on board the gun-boat Kathdin, West Gulf blockading squadron, in 1863, told a story of heroism, and exhibited marks on his body that corrobor ated his words. The year 1850 found Leonard as one of the crew on the ship Enterprise, a whaler in the north Pacific. One day he was stationed in the j bow of a whaleboat a long distance 1 from the 6hip, with a brave crew ; who had sighted a whale and made for the monster with all possible j dispatch. When within proper distance Leonard threw his har paon, strikiug the fish hard and deep. ' In some manner- the line as it was runuing out caught the body of one of the men in such a way as to throw him overboard. The man suddenly - sank, where upon Leonard transferred his line to a boatman and sprang into the ocean - in aid of the drowning sailor. The whale, now maddened by hi fast flowing blood, made a rush for the boat. Remarkable and horrible to relate, Leonard's friend had managed to regain the boat, while he himself was caught by the whale between the jaws, his position being inside the monster's issue of this mouth, with nothing piotruding but one of his arms. In this man ner the man was in reality wil hin the jaws of death itself. The whale instantly plunged down into the deep, and, in the words of Leonard himself, '-the fish seemed to ; be going down, down into eternity itself." The imprisoned man, after all this, had not lost his presence of mind. lie mustered his entire bodily strength and he was a powerful man actually bracing himself in such a position as to compel the fish to spread his jaws. At the same time, with his arm that was free, he grabbed the sheath knife out of its socket, cut ting right and left. No sooner was' there a sufficient opening made than Leonard forced his body outside. Up to the surface he swam, when, most strange to say, he found himself within an arm's length of the boat. He was saved. The marks of the whale's violence and the dents of its teeth were very plainly visible on Leonard's arms, and he was always pointed ortt by his bipther naval officers as 'The second Jonah." AN ASSAY. This simple method of ascertain ing the amount of gold contained in quartz is from the San Fran cisco Mining Review: First weigh the quartz dry. Then weigh in water, suspending the quartz by a thread. Next divide the dry weight by the difference between wet and dry (adding .decimals if necessary.) Subtract from this result the weight of quartz (usually 260 or 261 for free gold, but 265 to 270 if filled with sulphurets.) Multiply this result by the weight of gold, viz: 128. Then multiply this amount by result of? subtrac tion of wet from dry. The result will be, after pointing off all deci mals that have been , addel, the exact weight in gold. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, N INVEST WHY THE LEAVES TURN. "Probably not one person in a thousand knows why leaves change their color in the fall," remarked an eminent botanist the other day. The common and old-fashioned idea is that all this red and golden glory we see now is caused by frosts. A true and scientific ex. planation of the causes of the color ing of leaves would necessitate a long V and intricate discussion. Stated briefly, and in proper language, those causes are these: The green matter in the tissue of the leaf is composed of two colors, red and blue. When the sap ceases to flow in the fall and the natural growth of the tree ceases oxidation of the tissue takes place. Under certain conditions the green of the leaf changes to red, under different conditions it taKes on a yollow or brown tint. The differ ence in color is due to the differ ence in combination of the original constituents of the green tissues and the varying conditions of cli mate, exposure and soil. A dry, cold climate produces more bril liant foliage than one that is damp and warm. This is the reason that our American autumns are so much more gorgeous than those of England. There are several things about leaves that even science can not explain. For instance, why one of two trees growing side by side, ot the same age and having the same exposure, should take on a brilliant red in the fall and the other should turn yellow; or why one branch of a free should be highly colored and the rest of the tree have only a yellow tint.' are questions that are as impossible to answer as why one member of a family should be perfectly healthy and another sickly. Maples and oaks have the brightest colors. Field and Forest. Moore & Stewart, the boss barbers, op posite the brick livery stable; shaving 15 cents; haircntting 25 cents. Children Cry for; Pitcher's Castcria. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1889,- PUT:-: wspa P JOB'S ADDITION. -Dealer in- -Stoves and AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, IRON, . Nails, Steel, Iron and Lead Pipe and Fittings, igiTGranite Ware and House Furnishing Goods. Manufacturer of Tin ware, Roofing, Gutter, and Galvanized lion Cornice. Plumbing and All Kinds of Job Work done to Order, COEVALLIS, .... OREGON. Of Household- la3 - Novelties in Every Line. iECr All goods new and of the latest designs from Eastern and Local factorys. , A large line of Carpets and Smyrna Hags. We defy any competi tor lor cheapness in price. PHILIP WEBER: Fisher's Brick, - ana Tinware. Store wm mt 1 M Corvallis, Oresron. 3 -OYKitLAND TO CALIFORNIA VIA Southern Pacific Company's LINE. THE MT. SHASTA ROUTE. Time Between ALBANY and SAN FRANCISCO 33 nouns. CaUbnia Express Train Sua BaOy POKTLAND and SAN FKANCISCO. SOUTH. Lv Portland ... 4:00 p. m. Lr SanFrUiB0....7W pm Lr Albany....... .0:46 am MOV TIC m Ainacy una p. m Av Kan FViBc-o.., ,J :jy g.ro. At Portland 10:j6 n Local Passenger Train, Dail y .except Sunday I Portland 8:00 a. in. I Eugene 9:00 a. m hv Albany.... 11:40 p. m. I Lv Albany 1126 a. m At Kugeite 2:40pm Ar Portland ....3:46pm Lebanon Branch. S:20 p m...Lv.. .Albany.. ..Ar... 6:30 a m 9:06 p m. .Ar... .Lebanon. ..Lv. . 5:45 a m 1:50 pra...Lv... Albany Ar...9:25p m 2:36 p m.. Ar. .. Lebanon.. .Lv... 8:40 p m 7 :30 a in . . Lv . . . Albany .... Ar ... 4:26 pn 8:22 a m. . Ar. . .Lebanon. ..Lv ...3:40 p m Pullman Buffett Sleepers: ' TOURIST SLEEPING CARS, For accommodation of second-class passengers, attached to Express Trains. The S. P. Co.'s Ferry makes connection witb all the regular trains on the East Hide Uiriaian from loot of F street. Wait Siia CMiim. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND COBVALLIS. Kill Trail. Sail; Except Sradsy. LCAVB. Portland 7:30 a. m. Camilla. .....1:30 p. m. ARS1VB. Corvallis 12:25 p. ai Portland 6:20 p. n At Albany and Corvallis connect with trmJ M of the Oregon Pacific Railroad. Eiprm Train. Daily Ixeept Sunday. UtAVR. Portland 4:60 p. nv. McMnnvilto. . ..6:46 a. id. a sans.. McMlnnrille... 8:00 p. m Portland 9:00 a. m THROUGH TICKETS to all poirfts South and East yia California. Eor full information regarding rates, maps etc., call on company's agent at Corvallis or Albany. E. P ROGERS. Ana. O. F. P. Agent. R. KOF.HLER Marau'tr OCCIDENTAL HOTEL Corvallis Oregon. M-A.OANAN Proorietor . THE OCCIDENTAL is a new bnilding, newly furnished, and is first class in all its appointments. RATES LIBERAL. Large Sample Room on First floor for , Commercial Bea. 19-35 ly "CD T7 T? 19 SILK AND SATIN KECKT1ES. P JX H Jli Agents' Snap box and OntBt, 12 vts. THE NECKTIE CO.. Augusta, Ma. Please stats what periodical you w our ail ertiM moot in.
