The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-01

One Hundred Years Ago.
One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago farmers did
not cut their legs off with moving ma
chimes.
One hundred years ago our mothers
did not worry over disordered sewing
machines.
One hundred years ago horses which
could trot mile in Ola were somewhat
scarce.
One hundred years ago it took several
days to procure divorce and find c0A-
genial spirit.
One hundred years ago crooked"
whisky was not known. Our forefathers
took theirs straight.
One hundred years ago every young
man was not an applicant for position
as clerk or boOkkeeper.
One hundred years ago kerosene
lamps did not explode, and assist women
to shuttle off their coil.
One hundred years ago men did not
commit suicide by going up in balloons
and coming down without them.
One hundred years ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no
Ann Elias sueing for the nineteenth
part of divorce.
One hundred years ago England was
not very far behind the United States in
all that goes to make q nation powerful
and progressive.
One hundred years ago young
woman did not lose cast by wetting her
hands in dishwater, or rubbing the skin
off her knuckles on wash-board.
One hundred years ago the physician
who could not draw every form of dis
ease from the system by tapping large
vein in the arm, was not much of doc
tor.
One hundred years ago men were not
running about over the country with
millions of fish eggs to be Matched to
order. Fish superintendent their own
Matching in those days.
One hundred years ago the condition.
of the weather on the first of January
was not telegraphed all over the CONT
nent on the evening of December 31st.
Things have changed.
One hundred years ago people did not
worry about rapid transit and cheap
transportation, but threw their grain
across the backs of their horses, and
accomplishing went to mill"
DOES THIS HIT YOU'LL is possible
that some one who reads the title Of this
article, says the New England Journal
Of Education, may find himself guilty Of
failing to pronounce the CT and sh in
shun. find that my lady friend, who
is very precise in her language, will per-
sist in accenting "etiquette" on the first (
instead of the last syllable. My good
minister, who has the greatest aversion
to anything wrong, was greatly sar-
prised when mildly suggested to him
that "aspirant should be accented on
the penult, while my musical niece NOR.
titled me the other day by pronouncing
finale" in two syllables. heard my
geological friend explaining the "subei-
dence of the earth crust, but he should
have accented the second instead Of the
first syllable. The same mistake hap
pened the other day to my friend, the
President of the Reform Society, who
spoke of the "vagaries" Of certain peo[
pie by accenting the first instead Of the
second syllable. He also announced
that would deliver an address " that
evening, but I knew it was not polite to
tell him to accent the last syllable. My
boy says he left school at "recess," ac-
centing the first syllable. and he was
10th to believe that, whatever the mean
ing of the word, it should be accented
on the final syllable. Then my friend,
the President of the debating club, who
is great student of Cushings Manual.
tells us that motion to adjourn takes
the precedence" by accenting the first
instead of the second syllable. My
other lady friend says that she lives in
house having cupelow." She
should consult the dictionary for that
word. But I will close by remarking
that my legal friend, who is very schol-
arly, always accents " coadjutor on the
second instead Of the third, where it.
rightly belongs.
GUrENBERo's Observation-Disclosures
from q mechanical point Of view, the
merit of Gutenberg's invention may be
inferred from its permanency. His
type-mold was not merely the frst-it is
the only practical mechanism for max
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