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THE OCRVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER G, 1891. 'A "Highest of all in Leavening Power. ray Us. ABSOllfTELY PURE j LUCKIEST SHIP AFLOAT. . R Danger Vver Troubles This ITaaUeal Mascot. There Is a vessel now lying at San "V Francisco that attracts a great deal of attention by her queer rig and old fash ioned appearance. She is the British' four masted bark Oiaeo, belonging to Melbourne. The old craft has quite a history and was formerly a Eteamer. She was built in 1858, in England, and It 789 tons. Daring the civil war she was used as a blockade runner and nade a number of trips to Charleston, escaping capture more than once from ihe Federal war vessels. The last trip she made was a re markable one. She passed the gun boats that wereblockading the harbor, and then orders were given, by the flag ship to keep a sharp lookout for her -when she attempted to leave, and to eatcu her at all hazards. The 'days went by until six weeks bad passed. And the officers were beginning to think that the steamer had given them the slip and made away without their knowing it, when one night rockets were seen :roiu the cruisers as if some one was idgnaling on shore. . A bright lookout was kept for the slippery blockade runner, and just be -fore daylight she was-seen well in shore, passing out. She was loaded to the . , guards with cotton, and had several hundred bales piled on deck. Half a dozen steamers started after her at once, and it seemed as if she would be caught at last. But she managed to reach open . water without coming in .range of the guns of the warships, and In a few hoars had distanced all but one of her pursuers. This was one of the new gunboats, a " : screw steamer of great speed ; and as ithe two flew through the water the American captain had the satisfaction ,of noting that slowly but surely be was .overhauling the heavily laden block ader. The captain of the British steamer also perceived that the gun- IwMir no 0 Mnintriflr rr Itfitt on1 lio lr rtatv lLTVCSjSl " U0 BCWUAU Vl U uiivt - w IV that .it was only a question of time, unless something turned up to prevent it. when the American would be on his way to New York with the cotton : steamer in tow. Jle looked at his deckload, which was -ttrnrtfi fhrmnnrM nf rtftllju-9 in f.irAr- ;pool could he land it there, and then ikxiked at the American, which was slowly crawling up on him, until every iuinute he expected to see the puff of eiuoke from her iww gun. He decided that the deckload mimt go. But there . ai great danger of crippling the steamer should he drop the big bales nvnr tliA si1a f i mt nf rtlAtti fllifrlir: Ha caught In tlsa profiler, and then ship and cargo would go to New York with ,out a doubt. In ordet to prevent this, a long stage twaa rigged over the stern and the bales rolled out on It before they were dropped .Into the sea. The plan worked first .class in fact, better than the bold En glishmen had dared to hope. Bale .after bale was dropped overboard, and vsoon a long line of them floated on the -.water right In the road of the Auieri .can steamer, and no attention was paid to them by the officers of the gunboat antO a crexb was heard and in. a few .seconds Iter engines stopped. The cap :tain went down in the engine room to learn what was t he matter, and a short i Investigation showed that the gunboat '.was helplessly crippled. One of the -bales had been caught by .the. propeller and Its contents wound .around the shaft in a second, and to their chagrin the rich prize slipped ithrough their fingers when they were nearly alongside. After the war the Ouieo went to Australia, and for a . .nnmber of years ran from Melbourno to New Zealand, and was then turned - into a sailing vessel, cue is regaraea .as the luckiest ship afloat, as well as .one of the fastest, as. In spite of her .queer rig. very few can outsail her. Detroit Free Press. -Tbe Opportunity Tbat tbe Colleges Lost. In the early decades of the present .century the predominance of classical -studies was not indeed unnatural. But .conditions were changing. James Watt and succeeding inventors had inaugu rated a revolution in industry more .complete, if less dramatic, than that ef fected in politics by their contempo raries. Thousands of men were to be replaced by machinery, new industries were - to be created, nations to be brought closer together, the conditions of existence to be ameliorated all by men consciously or unconsciously study log applying science. Nowhere were these changes to oper ate more powerfully than in the United States. What would be the effect on .our education t Would the colleges realize their opportunity and by co-operating In this great improvement em phasize and strengthen their right to the intellectual leadership of the nation t Had they previously occupied them selves more with things and less with forms ' they might conceivably have taken the tide at the flood. Being what they were," they could not. Professor JL W. Tyler in Forum. ' l . '-, ."Dolus" Palestine. . - '. A ' woman who has been to Europe .ays van opportunity Is never lost to ,glbe that meteoric flight of the "tour ist. She heard a story of two young men -doing Palestine. They drove to the pool of Betbesda. Tbey descended irom the carriage. . "This,' said the guide, "la the pool of Bethesda. -.Ah," commented one of them, "pool .f Betbesda. Chalk it down.. Gus, vwe've seen the pool of . Betbesda. By itha way, guide," as he turned and .dived Into the carriage, "who was Bo ihesdarVKe w York Times, .... ; TJ. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 18S9. TO. ELEVATE THE MONKEYS. A Schema for Producing- an Aristocracy or Intellect Among; Simians. A man of large means, who resides In Washington, has declared his Intention, privately, to devote $100,000 to a very original purpose. The idea Is tbat no satisfactory opportunity has ever been afforded for the development of the in tellect of the brute. Intelligence, like bodily qualities, is susceptible of im provement through breeding, as every one knows who has thought about the evolution of the dog from the wolf by artificial selection. This rich man pro poses that monkeys or apes shall be taken as subjects for experiment, simply because man understands those animals better than he does others. Let fifty of them, half males and half females, be placed in a paddock suitably provided with separate quar ters for the sexes. Then have them breed pair by pair, as shall be directed by those who superintend. Some of them will develop certain abilities more conspicuously than others. For exam ple, certain individuals will exhibit a superior understanding of the com mands addressed to them or will show a greater dexterity in the handling of objects. Those which appear stupid are to be expelled from the colony, their places being filled by fresh re cruits. When a male and a female are found who exhibit the same sort of aptitude in any direction they are to be mated. This process, carried on for .generations would necessarily result In the development of superior characters until finally, after the lapse of twenty five years perhaps, there would almost certainly be apes or monkeys far higher In the scale. of reason-than any known up to the present time. These putative cousins of the human race have already exhibited a mental and even mechanical capacity sufficient to give ground for -great hopes of pos-. sible development in point of intellect. Chimpanzees have been taught to bring things to the table, and the big Langur baboon of India is commonly used in that country tod.iy as a servant for working the punkah fans, with which flies are kept away from dinner tables. Explorer' Stanley 'ha given an account of apes which carry torches at night. This is believed by scientists to bo an absurdity, because all the anthropoid and simian tribes are too afraid of fire to render such a thing possible. It is a fact well known that gorillas, while they will gather about a deserted camp fire for the sake of .warmth, will never think of keeping the embers alight by adding fueL Nevertheless, every book on natural history relates many an In stance -illustrative of these creatures' flunking powers, and there is no ques tion that It could be greatly improved by the process of judicious breeding. Even a pig can be taught to count, up to ten. Washington Evening Star. Dow the Treasury Is Guarded. . The treasury watch Is composed of seventy veteran soldiers, who are cut Into three squads, dividing every twenty-four hours into three equal watches of eight hours each. The men wear no uniforms, and would - not Impress the casual visitor to the treasury during the hours when the public is admitted. The guards go unarmed during the day, but at night carry a large 42-caIiber six chambered revolver, which is too large to be concealed in a pocket and must be carried in the hands all the time. Every one who passes the treasury at night may see pacing to and fro in the lofty area between the granite pillars and the wall of the building solitary figures. A person cannot approach within a hundred feet of the building without seeing a guard. Such a watchman, silent and martial In bearing, guards each of the four entrances to the treas ury. The guards who traverse the cor ridors at stated intervals touch electric buttons to announce .their presence in certain parts of the building. All this system of interior watchfulness was the work of .Secretary Folger, who during his term in office lived in constant dread of an attack on the treasury. Indian apolis Journal, What a Pallium Is. The pallium is a white woolen band about two inches wide and long enough to be worn around the shoulders and be crossed In front. It is made at Rome from the wool of two Iambs which the sisterhood of Santa Agnese offer every year on the occasion of -the feast of their patron saint, while the Agnus Dei is sung at mass. The pal lium has crosses worked upon the white wool in black, and ornaments are at tached to the ends. .'. It is sent by the pope to every .newly appointed archbishop, and the origin of its use for this purpose dates back to a very early time in the history .of the church. It is mentioned in an ec clesiastical document of the' time of Pope St. Mark, who died in the year 336, and an Eighth century mosaic rep resents Pope St. Leo in the act of re ceiving a pallium. Milwaukee Wiscon sin. When the Drum Failed to Scare. - The cicada, by using a drum at the base of the abdomen, produces a re markable sound, sufficient to even frighten off an enemy, yet I once saw a big wasp bearing off a big cicada larger than itself, despite the "zeeing" and drumming of the victim. St Paul Dis patch. -- John London Macadam, the inven tor of the road that bears his name, labored for. years to perfect his ideas, and although the English parliament voted him $30,000 it hardly .covered his outlay. His .monument is the roads of n&lansL , The Scales of Fishes. - The scales of fishes are very beautiful things to examine microscopically. Take those of a goldfish for example. - The brilliant golden or silvery hues of these fishes are produced by a soft layer of pigment spread over their inner surface and seen through the translucent sub stance of the scales. On carefully de taching a scale one sees on the under side a layer of gleaming substance easily removed, silvery or golden, ac cording to the hue of the fish. If a small portion of this substance is taken up on the end of a fine needle and spread on a glass slide under the micro scope it is seen to consist of two dis tinct materials, one giving the color and the other the metallic luster. When thus greatly magnified the former of these two substances Is seen to be a layer of. loose cells, of an orange color in the gold and whitish in the sil ver fishes. If a drop of water be then added and the solution gently agitated with the needle point the mass is seen to be full of an infinite number of flat crystals, oblong prisms, with angular ends. By reflected light they flash like plates of polished steel. But what appears most singular Is that each crystal Is perpetually vibrate ing and quivering as if alive, although it is really due to a slight motion of the water in which they float. Owing to this irregular movement each crystal is momentarily brightening or waning, flashing out or retiring into darkness, thus producing a positively magical effect. To this property, presumably, is to be attributed the pearly play of light which marks 'the living fishes. Interview in Washington Star. Detecting Chances on Paper. Some Interesting researches on a method of detecting changes on written documents have been communicated to the Paris Academy of Medicine by M. G. Bruylants. It is shown that when ' paper sized and calendered is partially moistened, then, after drying, subjected to the action of iodine vapor, the parts which have been wet assume a violet tint, while those which have escaped water grow yellow or brown. The intensity of the coloration varies with the time of exposure to the iodine. Places -where water " has previously fallen and dried may still be detected after the paper is completely saturated with water, the parts which were first wet being turned an intense violet blue by the iodine,' while the other parts be come blue. Even rubbings, such as those which are made by bread crumbs and elude discovery by other methods, are clearly brought out by iodine vaper, and erased tracings of a soft pencil are made legible. The certainty of the results depends much upon the quality of the paper and the ela'pse of .time, irregular wet ting or rubbing giving fainter differ ence after three months or more than when the manipulations are recent, and the indications being less clear on thinly sized paper. Boston Transcript. It All Depended. "Now, I want to know how long it will bo before I get an answer to this letter I" demanded a young lady, with a telltale blush, at .the postoffice as she handed one of Colonel Sexton's young men a communication addressed to her lover. "That depends." said the official re Hectively. "If he's in jail they only let 'em write once a week, and in some places only once a month. If he's dead broke he'll have to wait until he earns tbe price of a stamp, and I have" no data on which to base an opinion of his earning capacities. If he's ill in bed he may feel delicate. about dictating his real sentiments to a, cold, disinterested third person, and if it's smallpox they won't let him write at all. Then, again,- if he's got a new girl" i - She didn't wait for the clerk to com plete His catalogue of contingencies. Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Modem Lotus Tree. People do not really know the Colo rado desert. It has a flora and a num ber of trees that horticulturists do not suspect to be in existence. There is a tree in the desert which people tell me emits a most fascinating and peculiar smell in fact tbe regular upas tree story. They say that when a man comes under the Influence of this at tractive odor he is bound to be drawn to it, and there he will stay until he dies. The singular part of the story is that women are not affected by the smell; only men, and I am told by my friends who have prospected in the desert that even males of animals are drawn to the tree and there live to die under its baneful influence. San Pranciseo Let ter. Storks In Palestine. The regularity of the migrations oi storks furnished Jeremiah with a re buke against tbe Jews: "The stork In the heaven knoweth her appointed time." . Canon Tristram, when in Pal estine, saw thousands moving slowly northward. "They were . scattered, he says, "over hill and valley, moving a lew miles a day not in flocks, but singly or. in small groups. Few stay there for the breeding season, and these aremever molested. - Its Hebrew name. Chased ah, aignifies pity or mercy, and is probably derived from the affec tion which the stork has for its young. Chambers Journal. Sympathy. Miss Prim (to Mr. Eichfellow) Dh, it's nothing, nothing. , My teeth ache a little; that's all : : Small . Brother, (sympathetically) Why don't you take 'em out? Good News. - . The Origin of Ylslttne Cards. It is said that we owe the - invention of visiting cards to the Chinese, and that even so-long ago as the Tone dynasty (618-907) visiting cards were used in China. , No nation , observes so strietly the ceremonies in regard to the paying of visits as the Chinese do, but the cards they use for this purpose are very different from our dainty bits of white paper, being large enough to fold 'twice, and of a bright red color. Har per's Young People. It Gave JHim Courage. A commercial traveler tells tbe story of himself. . It was in his early travel ing days; in fact, ho had been taken out of the office to make his first trip on the'route of the regular traveler, who was sick. He visited two or three cities on his route, not meeting with much success, which ' he attributed to the fact that two or three other sales men carrying the same line of goods were just ahead of him. Being afraid the houso would be dis satisfied, and a little doubtful of his own abilities, he telegraphed his em- Dlover: "Better call me In. I here are three rival salesmen ahead of me." . Instead of calling him in the head of the house telegraphed: "Push ahead. There are a hundred other fellows be hind you." So he went ahead, satisfied that he could at least hold his own with- the fellows that were behind, with the re sult that he made such a good trip that he was kept ou the road and his salary increased. . He said that the idea that there was a lot of fellows following . served to stimulate him, and . he determined to aro ahead and push tiling's to the best of his ability, and he succeeded. Jew elers' ICevtew. 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Leaves Albany 1:00 p. to I Leaves Yaqain&e.-tf a. m Leave CorvaHial:40 . 1 Leave Cnrtallis 10:36 " Arrire Yaauina 6:30 p. m Arrive Albany 11:10 a. m. Oresron Si California trains connect at ALh&uvaud Carvalli8. The above trains connect at Yzquin wrth tbe Oregon Development Co. '8 line of steamships ke tween Yaquiua and San Francisco. Frin Yaqnlna. Steamship "Willamette Valley," Aug. 4th, 13tb, 22nd, 31st . i'nn San Franejao. Steamship "Willamette Valley," July 31st, Aug. 9th, 18th, 26th. ' This Company "egerves tbe right to thug sailing dates without notico. N. B. Passengers from Portland and all Willamette ' valley points can make clos connection wfth the trains of tbe Yaqnina route at Albany or Corvallis, and if destined to San Francisco should arrange to arrive at Yaquina the evening before date of sailing. Passenger and freight rates always tli lowest. For information apply to t. W. Cummins, freight and tieket agent, CorvaL Jus, or to - C. C. HOGUE, .. Gen. F. and P. 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