A The First American ^Railroad. In the course of a paper read before the Franklin Institute, bearing the title, “Transportation Facilities of the Past and Present," Mr. Baraett Le Van corrects the commonly received state ment that the Granite Railroad, built at Quincy, Mass., in 1827, by Gridley Bryant, for transporting stone for the Blinker Hill Monument from the grau- ite quarries ot Quincy, was the first railroad built in the United States. On this point he presents interesting testi mony to prove that, far from being the first, the Granite Railroad was really only the fourth in order of pre cedence in the United States We quota from that portion of the papier relating to the subject as follows: “Railroads were first introduced into Pennsylvania. In September, 180V. the first experi mental track in the United Sta es was laid out by John Thomson (the father of John Edgar Thomson, who was afterward the President of the PenusvL vania Kailroad Company), Civil Engi neer of Delaware County, Pennsyl vania, and constructed under his direc tion by Somerville, a Scotch millwright, for Thomas Leiner, of Philadelphia. It was 180 feet in length, aud graded one and one-half inches to the yard. The gauge was four feet, ».nd the sleepers eight feet apart The experiment with a loaded car was so successful that Leiper in the same year caused the first practical railroad in the United States to be constructed for the trans portation of stone from his quarries on Crum Creek to his landing on Ridley Creek, in Delaware County, P»., a dis tance of about one mile. It continued in use for nineteen years. Some of the original foundations, consisting of rock in which holes were drilled and after ward plugged with wood to receive the spikes for holding the sleepers in place, may be seen to this day.— Scientific American. Wealthy Romans. home of the ancient Romans wer« very wealthy, 'rhe philosopher Seneca had a fortune of £3,500,000. Tiber:us, at his death, left £23,624,000. which Caligula spent in less than twelve months. Vespatean, on ascending the throne, estimated all the expenses of the State at £25,000,000. The debts of Milo amounted to £600,000. Casar, be fore he eutered upon any oilice, owed £2,995,00c. He had purchased the friendship of Curio for £500, and that of Lucius Paulus lor £300,000. At the time of the assassination of Julius Csesar An ony wn in deb to I® amount o. £3,000.000; he owed .this sum n th® ide of March, and it w s pai b he kah nds of pri<; he -<ju nden d £147 - 000,000. Appius squa de *d i < d®- baachery £500,000, a d tin ing on examination of the stat of his affairs hat e > 1 had £80,000. poisoned him- • U because be outsider* d that sum in nflic nt f i bis maint nance Julius Cc»«ar gav Sat 11 , the mother of Bru- • i s, a arl of the vaJue o £10,000. One single dish oost Eso us £80 000. Caligula spent for o e upper £80 000, and He.iogobalus £20,000 The usual ooetof » repast to Lucultas was £20,- 000 — Chic-go Herald KOORDISH Swarthy Aaiattee Who Have Not the Loaet CoacepWoa of lllllll I itlll Coiai; h oc So Const; Seat; Couldn't Have Been a Woman. Bofcley~That vm a painful affair in ^mnkford last week. M ik B. -Oh, do tell me! * “A woman was the sole repository •f a dreadful secret On her dpoth bWAg^aUed ^erretotivds arotydd her ♦'’ItAri• *. »*r v«n “And proclaimed * to all!" ••Not a bit. , Ced without reveal- <og.,.. ..*» . ••william, that story Is untrue, or *A*e it, Was not a woman?’— PktiodeJpAia »(If 10 Portland and Willamette Valley Railway -■ i * - Holi est Goods, Honest Weights and Full Measure General P Dealers Complete Stock —A few evenings ago a fine-looking, wcll-drqssed negro, black ae black can be, entered a drug store and inquired ----- 1-------------------------------------------- semi-confidetotally of t S« «jD© WËK& -How much rEi - ------- ----------- like a little, sah, in a pretty , box like these," pointing vaguely „---------- lv at botes containing toilet article.' articles *li !o OM sho# caaes “W®H.” Mid tde MSrt, dubtously,1 “I dunno, what do you want it for?" “F®r de toilet, sahi for my wife—she powdahs, sah!’’— Exprtse. I 1-dT f 1.50 in advance! for the Reporter for 1887, means just what it says—nt advarc «. Not a month after the beginning. , .v R Only Route via Yaquina Bay To t ' • 4 San Francisco. I y ’ 4 While we do not propose to Santa M®ria.... Wedeesday Feb 9 - .jMsdsyFeb. 15 City be undersold, yet do not and Yaquina *SjjT 2l | mh > Maria....... .Sunday Feb. 27 City can not put these goods in Yaquina V a . / ’ * * *1 , *4 L <1C AM competition with Auction Daily Passenger Trains or Short .Wrkjhfcrods (Except.Bugays,; sold to the trade by unscru 6:20 a. tn. Levee Yaquina pulous dealers. We fear no Arrive Oomlhs 10:38 a, m. lk30a. m. Arrive Albany . honest competition. Thank Leave 13:40 p. m. Albany 1:22 p. m. ing people for past patron Arrive Corvallis.......... .. -i^Ap. A r»ve Yaquina _ tn. age and favors, will be pleas . The Company reserves the right, to change days. Fares, between Corvallis and ed to have you call and de sailing and Cabin. |14; Bail San Franeisvo, Bail . . - -* - Peerage, 09. iA8. . ». . . termine for yourselves what < and Fea tnfermation Jarmation apply apply to merit is in our modest claim. CHAB. C CHAS. € HOGUE, Acting Geo. F. and P ass . Agent. A. J. APPERSON.1 Corvallis, Oregon a “T Remember that there is a home numery at Lafayette, when you want trees. Address E. R. Poppleton. 1 Oregonian R. R. Co. limitso Line, ri • ' I ÔIU11 74 The shades of «vetting are beginning to settle down over the wild mountain ous country round about. It is grow CHAS. N. SCOTT, Receiver. ing uncomfortably chilly for this earty in the evening, and th® prospect« look favorable for a supperleas and most dis To Portlaat From Portland. agreeable night, when I descry a village iq.Er iCoburg perched in m opening among the < • Cbbnrg and Passen and mountains a mile or thereabouts off to Airlie STATIONS. ger Airlie Mail. the right Repairing thither I find it to Far®. Mail. be a Koordish village, where the hovels bj’JL are more excavations than buildings; OUR MOTTO IS SMALL Prof- AR Ar p.iu Lv a. in LV 4 45 . Portland, PWV» 915 buffaloes, horses, goats, chickens and its and quick returhs. Ft. Jefferson St.. human beings all tind shelter under the 4 15 Elk Rock . 11 00 same low roof; their respective quarters 1 .24 460 1106 Oswego.......... .29 are nothing but a mere railing of rough 3 40 11 46 . .,. Tualitan.. .52 poles, and as the question of ventilation Winters... 3 10 12 10 .75 jb never even thought of the effect upon 2 53 . Summit........ 12 26 .88 one's olfactory nerves upon entering 2 29 12 50 . ..Newberg ... 1.00 215 1 10 pwv Dundee jvn is any .thing but reassuring. The Upon which we hope to win 1.00 tilth and rags of these people is your esteem and patronage. 2 10 .. ORy Dundee 125 1.1*1 something abominable; on account 2 32 West Dayton. . 1 03 1.16 of the chilliness of the evening they Our connections with East 2 44 Lafavette 1253 1.24 have donned their heavy raiment; these 12 35 3 02 .Ilavton Juncton 1.36 ern and Pacific coast dealers have evidently had rags’ patched on top 3 08 McMinnville Cs.. 12 29 1.40 3 19 . . Armstrong 1218 1.48 of other rags for years past until they and manufacturers are such Whites 330 1.56 12 07 have gradually developed into thick Briedwell .. 3 52 1.72 11 4-> quilted garments, in the innumerable that we are enabled to Harrison 1140 3 57 1.75 seams of which the most disgusting Broad meads . 1.84 4 08 11 27 buy these goods as low or entomolpgical specimen?, bred and en 4 10 Sheridan Junc’n 11 25 1.86 gendered by their wretched mode of ex lower than our competitors, 423 Bkllston 1.96 11 08 istence, live and perpetuate their kind. 5 00 ......... Sheridan. . 10 45 However, repulsive as theoutiook most whether general or special assuredly is, I havejio alternative bat 555 Perrydale.. 9 25 1.04 dealers. Buying goods in to cast my lot amdng them till morning Smithfield.... 2.12 6 17 . 900 1 am conducted into the SheiklCs 8 46 2.24 6 31 . Polk . greater quantities than most apartment, a small .room partitioned 6 50 .... Dallas. 8 30 2.37 2.53 7 10 ... Cochrane s 06 off with a pole from a stable of horses competitors, and when hand 2.65 7 28 .... Monmouth, 7 50 and buffaloes, and wliere darkness is Luckiamute . 2.80 7 47 7.‘J0 made visible by the sickly glimmer of a ling business of any kind the . Simpson. 2.91 8 00 7 14 grease lamp. The Sheikh, a thin, 8 15 . A irlie . 3.02 7 00 volume of business enters sallow-faced man of about AR LV forty years, is reclining on largely into the account in C has . N. S cott , a mattrass in one corner ___ ________ smoking Receiver ORC( Ld) Line. cigarettes; a dozen ill-conditioned rag’- determining the profit or W illiam R eid , muftins are squatting about in various President P&WVRCo. margin to be realized out of attitudes, while the ragtag and bobtail of the population crow'd into the buffalo acific ailroad, it. Therefore all stable and survey me and the bicycle opular oute. icturesque anges. from outside the partition pole, A cir do have an ad cular wooden-tray, containing an vantage over speeial dealers, abundance of bread, a bowl of yaort, Fast Time, Sure Connection, New Equipment and a small quantity of stringy cheese and the greater quantity of tliat resembles chuneks of dried codfish, warped and twisted in the drying, is goods sold or the volume of 225 Miles Shortest brought in and placed in the middle of 20 Hours Less Time. the floor. Everybody in the room at business done, the greater Accommocations unsurpassed for comfort once gathers around it and begins eat that advantage and the less and safety. Fares and Freights MUCH ing with as little formality as so many LESS than by any other route between all wild animals, the Sheikh silently mo the price ought to be. Hav- in Willamette valley and San Francisco. tions for me to do G same.' The yaort bowl contains one solitary wood ing a full and en spoon, wi* which they take turns at of the following eating moutbtuls. One is compelled to draw the line somewhere, lines of goods from the lead- even under the most uncom DIAirV PAMEXGEB TRAINS. promising circumstances, ai.,1 I ing dealers and best manu- (Except Sundays.) naturally drew it against eating yoart facurers, which we replenish Leave Corvallis at 2 p. ni. Leave Ya with this same wooden spoon;,making with new fresh goods month small scoops with pieces of bread, I dip quina at 7:10 a. m. von part and eai scoop and all together. ly or oftener as the trade re Oregon and California, West side, trains ’rhe.se particular Koo rds seem absolutely connect at Corvallis. quires, to wit: LADIES ignorant ot anything in th® shape of The steamship Yaquina city, which has tnsnnerlipesB, or of consideration of undergoing repairs, and the Santa Ma each other at the table. When the yoart l>re«« mid Fancy Gotxh, Getit« been ria will each Mil on the dates ' below named: has linen dipped into twice Or thrice all and Boy « Clothing and Furnish around the sheikh coolly confiscates the ing Good*. Kat« and Cap«, Boot* vii) -I <»> I FXOM XAQVIMA, bow), eato part of what is left. portTS Yaquina City.............. Thursday, Jan. 27 water ip|o the remainder and delib and Shoe«, Crp<;kery, Queen« Santa Maria........ ’... Wednesday, Feb. 2 ^Tuesday Feb.tS Yaquinn City.................. erately drinks it all up; one or two oth ware and Gia«« ware. .... ■ Monday Teb. 14 ers seize all the cheese, utterly regard and a full line of fresh grocer Santa Maria tOMday iFeb, 20 Yaquina City.............. less of th® fact that nothing remains for . Saturday, Feb. 26 Santa Maria ies, so our customers do not Yaqama City rnyseff and th®if companions, who. by Fxidfljr March 4 the wav. w>em to regard it as a perfectly have to. deal at hjilf dozen E1OM SAM VRAMCIWO. —• < ’ - a natural prooey^ihg. — Ttomas Stevcm-, places to supply their wants. .Friday Jan. 28 Santa Maria .. ... •« ouunff., , ; . , Thursday, Feb. 3 Yaquina Cify'................ . ' —Sponges are very offensive in smell when taken from the water, and soon Sow worse. This is cured by burying em in dry sand. and. when deeompo- •Uon has ceased, exposing them in wnr® cares to th® action of th® tides — 'A a - POPULAR. ROUTES. MISCELLANEOUS. VILLAGE. 1 1 \ I