The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-02-05
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gard to the transactions of the world.
He who is without his newspaper is cut
off from his species. In these days Of
telegraph and steam many important
inventions and improvements i'll every
branch of trade are being made, and he
who don't consult the newspapers. will
soon find himself and business left out
in the cold.
We all depend, more or less, upon the
public for our support. We all trade
with the public-lawyers, doctors, ar
lists. shoemakers, blacksmiths, show
men, railroads, opera singers, presidents
and college professors. Those who deal
with the public must be careful that
their goods are valuable; that they are
genuine. and will give satisfaction.
When you get IN article which You
know is going to please your customers,
and that when they have tried it they
have got their moneys worth, then let
the fact be known that you have got it.
Be careful to advertise in some way or
other, because it is evident that if man
has ever so good an article for SALE and
nobody knows it, it will bring no return.
In a country like this, where nearly
everybody reads, and where newspapers
are issued and circulated in editions of
five hundred to two hundred thousand,
it would be very unwise if this channel
was not taken advantage of to reach the
public in advertising. A newspaper
goes into the family and is read by wife
and children, as we'll as by the head of
the house; hence hundreds and thousands
of people may read your advertisement
while YOU are attending to your routine
of business.
FEAR OF DIsEAsE.-It is said that
while the plague was raging i'll Buenos
Ayres the grave-diggers bore charmed
lives. Of the three hundred men so
employed not one died of the disease.
It has often been noticed that, during
the prevalence of presidential diseases,
physicians, undertakers, nurses and
grave-diggers, whose business compelled
constant liability to infection, have usu-
ally escaped in a far greater ratio than
their numbers would warrant. The
"charm' of this immunity from the
prevailing scourge is very simple. They
are not scared They are positire to the
disease, and repel its attacks. Fear is
great ally of death. Whoever is afraid
of the disease is in negatire condition.
and really invites it approach. And
thus it is the world over The brave die
but once. while towards die many times
Much unnecessary alarm exists in every
community in regard to many diseases.
We are, it is true. all liable to sickness
and DEATH But if We are all sober,
clearly, and brave of heart, we need
have no fear of disease of body or mind.
RIVER Observation-Disclosures and
precipitation are now performed on the
grand scale in England for the purpose
of clearing the water of rivers from pol
luting impurities. At Coventry 2,OOO,-
600 gallons of sewage are successfully
treated daily, the water being contami-
mated with liquors from lighthouses, gas
works, etc. The river water is first
strained through large filters of sand,
and collected in tanks, where it is mixed
with aluminic sulphate. In q second
series of tanks it is mixed with milk Of
lime, after which it is strained on a filter
four and half acres in size. From this
filter &C, 600 gallons of water are dis
charged hourly, and it is pure enough
for fish to live in. The cost is only
about twelve cents per year for each of
the 10000 inhabitants of the town, or
about $5, 600 year. The greatest diff
Guilty experienced in the process is in
drying the precipitated impurities, which
contain eighty per cent. of water. Me-
chanical means are first used and then
heat.-Galary.
A SWEET DOMESTIC SCExE.-A cores
pondent of the Providence journal
writes from that city to say: cat noon
time l often take walk on the park
promenade, and about that hour may be
seen women with pals, etc, bringing
dinners to their husbands who labor on
the streets. A woman came, met her
husband, and they seated themselves on
the green sward, and spread on the grass
the dinner, he giving the wife some of
the edibles. After drinking from the
pail he gave it to her, gave her kiss,
and went to his work, while she went to
her happy home. On one of the benches
sat man and wife: she had brought his
dinner. After gobbling it down he took
up the pail, and, after tasting it, dashed
the contents into her face and went to
his work. The poor woman, taking her
shawl, wiped her face, gathered up her
pail, ETC., and started for her miserable
home. wanted to put my cane over
the brute's head, but feared he would
be too much for me, and let him CO.
A STRANGE DIET.-At Bradford juno.
ton, Ohio, there is boy who, being
weaned at the age of two years, then re-
fused such sustenance as boiled milk
and arrowroot, and would not be pacified
except with tobacco. Under the strange
regimen of a cigar day he found his
stomach to thrive, and from weakling
| he became hale and hearty Soon the