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ABOUT NURSERIES.
The census bulletin iu regard to
the nurseries of the United States
gives the total number at 4510,
valued at $41,97S,S35 and occupy
ing 172,806 acres acres of land.
The business engages $52,425,609
of capital, employs 45,657 men and
3279 women, and produces annual
products estimated to be worth in
round numbers 1100,000,000.
There were found growing in the
United States 95,025.42 acres of
trees, plants, shrubs and vines of
all ages, and figures based upon
the best estimates of the nursery
men make the grand total of plants
and trees 3,3S6,S55,778, of which
51S,016,612 are fruit trees, 6S5,
603,396 grape vines and small
fruits, and the balance evergreens
and deciduous trees, hardy shrubs
and roses. California is credited
with 166 nurseries, occupying 11,
.144 acres of land, worth on an av
erage $290.0S an acre and having
a total valuation of $4,158,S61.5S.
In extent of acreage planted in
nurseries we are surpassed by sev
en, states. New York coming first
with 24,840 acres, and in the val
ue of land per acre we are sur
' passed by the District of Colum
bia, where the value is $500, and
by the states of Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Vermont. It
. should be noted, however, that the
price of nursery lands has been
found in many cases to be de
termined more by its proximity to
a city than by the value of their
products, and this is especially the
case in the District of Columbia
and the states where the price is
rated highest. The rates of
wages paid for labor in nurseries
'- in the different states varies consid
erably. They are highest in Ida
no, where the rate is $1.87$ a day
and lowest in South Carolina,
where they are 60 cents a day.
The variation, however, does not
follow sectional lines, as in Flori
da the average wage is $1.10 a
day, while in Delaware it is $1,
and in Massachusetts, where the
rate is $1.63, wages are nearer the
luauu Dwuuiiiu iuau iu vamuruia,
where they are $1.57 a day. Ow
ing to the fact that this is the first
time that . nurseries have been
made the subject of special census
inquiry there is no way of accu
rately 'estimating the recent
growth of the industry. The first
nursery established in America of
which there is any record was that
of a man named Price, which was
ctartcwl at. TTlncriirnr Tjnar Telanrl.
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about themiddle of the last cen
tury and for more than a hundred
years it was continued by his de
scendants. ' '.- ..
Fanaticism is the outgrowth of
. ignorance, manifesting itself where
truth "has but little connection
with thought, . The religious fa
natics of. the day" do not influence
the development of great moral
truths or religious activity. On
the contrary, they generally put a
check to the "force , f moral ; pre
cept and cause ridicule to encroach
upon truth. Ridicule, Landon
lias truly observed, is harmful ? to
vtruth, and these fanatics do more
to provoke ridicule than any other
class of public proclaimers. Thus
they harm truth by raising public
opinion; to a pitch of ridicule, and
. moral precept is left to languish
with danger and doubt. In a re
cent instance, for illustration, one
of these fanatics dared to soil and
minify the moral magnitude ..and
majesty of Scriptural precept, ; by
advocating, through its insirumen
olitw an h a claimed: certain doc-
VJ J WW w . f
" trinal -ideas of his own limited
conception, concerning the com
ing of the last iudjrment. These
ianatics v" excite very little' atten
tion nowadays. ' The "common
heid'-Miave as close proximity . to
knowledge as ; the individoal to
whom they give ear, and their at-
tendance is oceasiooed by curiosi
ty njy. ; It won't do to fanatieize
in these day s of practical wisdom,
in the search, lor lunaamentai
Among alL the tributes to the
memory of James Russell, one of
the most, fervent in feeling .arid
expression is that of W: T,' Stead,'
the editor of that excellent maga
zine, the Review of Reviewers.
He writes from the standpoint of
one who was helped to higher
standards in living by the words
and example of the poet and
scholar, and the words in which
he expresses his gratitude are not
doled out in any meager measure.
He does not " hesitate to say that
"neither on the one side of the At
iantic nor on the other - is there
a poet left us whose verse is in
stinct with so much inspiration, or
one who has in him so, much of
the seer of these latter days. lie
was only a lad of fifteen when he
first felt the inspiration of Lowell's
word, and from that time on until
he reached manhood and thereaf
ter, he found health, strength and
comfort in his utterances. Mr.
Stead calls Lowell's interpretation
of Christ's teachings "a real gospel
with grip in it, which is far from
cut and dried dogmas."
It will take mints of money just
now to prepare the exposition
grounds for the World's fair to
say nothing of the $7,000,000 to
be spent on the great buildings.
Here are some of the interesting
figures: Grading and filling, $450,
000; landscape gardening, $323,
600; viaducts and bridges, $125,
000; piers, $70,000; waterway
improvements, $225,000 ; railways
$500,000 ; steam plant, $800,000 ;
electric lighting, $1,500,000 ; stat
uary, $100,000; vases, lamps, etc.,
$50,000 ; lake front adornment,
$200,000 ; water supply and sew
erage, $600,000; other expenses,
$2,000,000; total, $5,593,500. Be
sides these total expenses of or
ganization, administration and op
eration of the exposition is esti
mated at nearly $5,000,000. This
takes no account of the sums to be
spent by the government, the
states or foreign nations, without
which we have a grand total of
over $19,000,000. Where will the
money come from?
If it is, as is sometimes claimed,
intuition rather than common
sense that guides woman to her
conclusions, intuition has the call.
Woman has at all events, shown
most conclusively during the past
week her superiority to man in
the matter of holding conventions;
and if her guide was intuition it is
a better guide than logic When
men hold conventions they ap
point them for the hottest months
of the year, when travel is ... most
uncomfortable, and the difficulties
of accommodating one's ..' self to
strange surroundings in tha matter
of bed and board are worse than at
any other season . of the year.
Woman, on the other hand, selects
for her conventions September or
October, when travel is a delight
and when the most critical person
can, without much discomfort, ad
just herself to novel surroundings.
This is why the meeting of the
American Society for the Ad
vancement of Women,' at Grand
Rapids, and of the Young Women's
Christian Association, in Chicago,
have been so successful. '.'
It is interesting to learn from a
press anecdote that an. American
who called upon Tennyson was
corrected by -the poet for his use
of "awfully," declared to' be an
"Americanism" which was as ob
jectionable Co the Laureate as the
slang use of the adjective "bloody."
It happens that the slang use of
both these words is of cockney
derivation says the Pittsburg Dis
patch' .Nevertheless it is satisfac
tory to learn that the American
citizen who had adopted either
specimen of English slovenliness,
was properly crushed by the Lau
reate. We can forgive the latter
his inaccuracy with regard to' the
origin of the terms, in view of the
pertinence of his reproof. ;
There were two Generals Sher
man during the civil war Thom
as W. .Sherman and William . Te
cumseh Sherman. The former
led t an ; expedition against Port
Royal, South Carolina, at the
opening of " the war, and ; proved
himself an able military ? man.
Does anybody kabw , whether he
was a family connection of Gener
al William Tecumseh Sherman?
He died in 1878.
The Louisiana ; lottery is still
alive and ..active and the latest
liews is to the 'effect that the lot-
tery men are somewhat ahead in
that state. They have succeeded
in capturing the Democratic cen
tral committee, which is composed
of ninety members. There is an
unusually bitter fight for the con
trol of the committee, but the. lot
tery men had a small majority on
a test vote, and are greatly re
joiced t hereat. . The governor of
the state is highly indignant over
the conduct of some half a dozen
friends holding office under him,
who deserted the anti-lottery sec
tion at the last minute ' and went
over to the other side. It is al
ways the most effective manner to
educate public sentiment in order
to make successful any public ref
ormation, and the people of the
United States must do this if they
would rid the country of gambling
and gambling games.
Judge White, of the South Da
kota court, must be a survival of
the "wild cat" days when business
men did not dare to go to bed with
a dollar bill in the house because
they" were afraid it would depreci
ate from 10 to 50 per cent, in the
night. He has just decided that it
is unconstitutional for the legisla
ture to undertake to legislate for
the regulation of banking because
it is a private business. Logically
he will be compelled, if the ques
tion as to the constitutionality of
laws against lotteries ever comes
before him, to hold that the legis
lature is powerless in respect to
those institutions also. A lottery
is as much a private business as a
banking office; and in some sec
tions of the country the one is just
about as risky as the other.
It is said that Bellamy has clear
ed $16,000 of the proceeds of his
book, "Looking Backward." A
man can afford to advocate almost
anything now-a-days if there is
money in it, but we are led to
wonder if Bellamy would take to
the woods with his. $16,000 if na
tionalism were really to be precip-.
itated upon us at an early day.
There is nothing like having the
government a subject of tlie peo
ple. Bellamy's scheme would en
slave us, and make the people
subjects of the government, In
dependence is power. '
Dr. Talmage. the great Brook
lyn divine, preached a sermon on
the alarming increase of suicide,
and attributes the cause of it to
either infidelity or insanity. Many
snap the bond of terrestrial life
because they recognize a glorious
someweere or a pleasant nowhere
so far as the future is concerned,
and tired of earthly turmoils they
quit life thus precipitately. The
insane man Dr. Talmage does not
remark responsible forself-immd-lation,
but the - one who, - in the
possession of his" reasoning facul
ties, suicides, had better look out
for the shackles of eternal death.
The bland celestial continues to
filter himself over the Canadian
border without let or hindrance,
exclusion laws to the contrary
notwithstanding. Four hundred,
it is said, have come across at
Kingston within' the' last two
months.. The only way to stop
this thing is to cut off the pigtail
of every mother's Chinaman that
can be laid hold of and then turn
them loose on the Canadian side.
They would be specimens of such
awful retribution that the average
Chinaman would riot stop flight
this side of Hudson Bay.
The successful struggle of' the
great ocean liners with wind and
wave during the past ten days is
calculated to give the public confi-!
dence in their staunchness and
safety under any circumstances.
The gales which they 6afely out
rode were the fiercest of modern
times; and while the passengers
suffered a good deal of discomfort
they do not appear to have been
at any time in serious peril. It is
a pity that some of the great steam
ers did not try the effect of oil on
the waters.. The opportunity,, was
an excellent one. . -. -
- City improvements . make Corf
vallis look better. ; AlL we need
now" are additional cottages" for
rent. The demand for them is in
creasing. ,
- .JA convict m one of the peniten
tiaries in Pennsylvania has - fallen
heir to fl,000,000and it is nbw
announced that he was innocent
of the crime of which he was con
victed, and that a movement has
been started to get him released.
It is very pleasant to know that
the man is innocent, for it would
never do to release him simply be
cause he has become a millionaire.
The only matter of regret is that
somebody did not find out he was
innocent before he inherited the
fortune. rS. Jose Mercury.
The great crowds of men and
women that waited in the ceme
tery all day the body of Parnell
laid to rest on Irish soil, attest the
love and honor which Ireland has
for her lost leader. It would be well
if all factions. of her people, re
membering his loyalty to Ireland,
could forget his faults and their
own quarrels and above his grave
join harmoniously in establishing
a united Ireland as an enduring
monument to his name.
.The World's Columbian Expo
sition promises to be the most stu
pendous affair known to the mem
ory of man. Think of it! Every
conceivable character of interest
will be exhibited, and every sec
tion . of . the' earth will present a
brilliant display of representative
fruits, cereals and vegetables. It
will be a grand school of profitable
education to those who may be so
fortunate, as ' to attend.- The
world will be there, and all the
achievements of civilized iife.
. 'Tis astonishing what things are
found out on a man when he runs
for office. .The mean Republican
papers charge that Flower, the
Democratic candidate for governor
of New York state, sent over to
Lunnon for a coat-of -arms and a
crest for his .carriage and silver,
dontcher know. The worst of it is
they prove it, . and Tammany is
mad, while the mugwumps fold
their hands in silent prayer. As
torian. .
" The Democrats in Ohio are mak-!
ing rash predictions on the elec
tion of Campbell, but of course,
this is where it always ends. No
reasonable man'' has ventured to
question the 'certainty of Mc
Kinley's success' by an increased
majority. If the Democrats cap
ture the legislature, they will
Michiganize . the state, and thus
secure a majority of its vote in the
electoral college. Ohio is Repub
lican. ; .
The poor of Europe are suffer
ing the pangs of hunger, while the
American farmer is selling his
wheat at an advanced price. "It
is an ill wind that blows no one
any good," is an old saying, and a
truthful one in many instances. If
the crops in Europe were not
short this season, the wheat of the
United States would not be pur
chased at the present high figures.
A newspaper writer rises to re
mark that spanking is a lost art.
Well, mebbe; but it is safe to wa
ger that this newspaper man is an
only and spoiled - child. Had he
been laid across the maternal knee
in youth and felt the stinging ap
plication of the maternal hand - or
carpet slipper (as the case '., might
be) he would depose and say oth
erwise.
'.. . S
. In a few years the population of
Cor vallis will be doubled. We
can easily discern metropolitan
manifestations throughout the city
and the outside world will make a
note of this. The plow factory is
now a reality,'.and there will cer
tainly generate a healthy boom,
just such as Corvallis needs. The
next thing is a cannery. .
, Geu. Miles's statement of the
reasons tor the Sioux outbreak of
a year ago is an arraignment of
the United States government and
of its traditional policy of dealing
with tlie red men. There needs to
be an; absolute change in this re
gard. - The Indian should be civil
ized instead of being supported in
idle savagery." . .
; It has been resolved by the Chi
nese government to make no more
concessions ' to " foreigners - outside
of the treaty ports; and hereafter
any native selling land, to a for
eigne'r .-for settlement' or ; residence
will be severely punished.
,.:Po6b. Richard says.i "time is
money ' 'Poor Richard," it will
be remembered: was1 at one time a
country editor, and like common
class of today, he probably was
compelled to take most of it out
in "time." He thus knew, the
value of it, being that "time" was
all he cOuld get.
Unlike Henry Clay, Governor
Hill would rather be president
than be. right. If he continues his
present course , in political life,
there is not much likelihood of his
ever being either. .Hill is a dirty
politician, and a shyster of the
first magnitude.
; It is said that the war, secreta
ryship stands between Elkins, of
West Virginia, and Estee, of Cali
fornia, to succeed Redfield Proc
tor, who is going to the senate
from Vermont. The Gazette
would like to see a Pacific coast
man in the cabinet.
Tuesday will be a great day for
the people of the East. The ques
tion of paramount importance to
both Democrats and Republicans
is, How will the Farmers' Alli
ance stand when the polls close?
The Alliance is certainly much
weaker than it was one year ago,
and this will go a long way toward
Republican success next Tuesday.
The year of '91 will go down or
up in history as the year in which
all the racing records were broken.
Sail, steam, trotting, pacing, run
ning, jumping, etc.; in all the de
partments of speed the partici
pants have displayed speed hither
to unheard of. '
John P. Irish gets the benefit
of some scathing Examiner write-
ups recently on his proposition re
garding the postoffice site at San
Francisco. The Examiner and
Irish are decidedly at outs, and
have been for some time.
. The question of Irish leadership
agitates the land of Erin. John
Dillon may prove a forcible polit
ical figure to succeed Charles Stew
art Parnell: but there are many
aspirants for distinction just now,
and the successful one is the ques
lion. ...
We are informed that the em
press of Japan is quite musical,
and plays the koto. How delight
full If the koto is anything like
the kazoo, what a charmed life the
emperor must lead.
A New York physician has kill
ed himself by drinking too strong
coffee. Caffeine, tannin and nico
tine are as deadlv as alcohol if
taken in corresponding doses.
Blaine has got back to Wash
ington. He is confident of Re
publican success next Tuesday,
and says he is in good health gen
erally.
Queen Victoria is not dead, as
reported, but she has been some
what indisposed. She is now said
to be in perfect health.
. Despite the anti-agitation regu
larly inaugurated by various dress
reform movements, the corset con
tinues to stay. .
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