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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17
SOCIAL.

There will be a social gathering at the
rooms of the Ladies' Guild of st. Lulse's Par
ish tomorrow evening. The rooms are in the
basement of the Masonic building, near the
residence of Mrs. Hayden. The public is
cordially invited to attend. a pleasant even
ing may be anticipated.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

JACKS Troupe DSBANpEp.-Owing
to the drunken and general bad con-
duct of two Of the actors, the John
Jack Dramatic Company "burstcd
up" in Victoria a few days ago. The
fellows were low and dissolute, and
gave the manager much trouble.
Last Monday night, he prevailed up
on them to take parts in the colleen
Bawn," and at the last moment, when
the audience was in and seated, the
;nebriates refused to appear and take
the parts assigned them. There was
no remedy, and Mr.. Jack was com
PEELED to explain to the house the
facts of the case, and his willingness
to refund the money or put on another
bill with the force at command. The
audience good naturedly consented,
and helped him out of the prcdica-
mcnt. That was the last performance
Of the troupe in Victoria. They burst
up and separated without filling their
engagements elsewhere. - Portland
N0Hi0lH
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

DEPUTY MARsHAL.-At the Council meet
ing the other day Mr.. Lemuel Robinson was
confirmed as Deputy City Marshal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17
lIUII'ied.

Wednesday, January 10th, 1873, at the
residence OF Hon. b. f. Shaw, near Nancou-
yer, by Rev. A. $ Nicholson, Mr.. Andrew
Prebstel and Miss Minnie Nye; all of this
county
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17
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Charlotte Ann Bate IS. Peter V Bate
Action brought in the District Court If tbe
Second Judicial District of tbo Tertiary ~
Washington, holding terms at Vancouver,
for the counties OF Clarke, Skamania and
klickitat.
COMPLAINT filed i'm the County or Clarke I'm fla.
office of the Clerk Of said District Court, the
eighteenth day of September \. D.. 1871
To Peter V. Battle, Defendant
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

Geo. II. Pendlcton has been chosen
L. :. Senator from Ohio.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

1t is said that the new Italian King,
Ilumbcrt, takes the throne at a most
trying epoch in the history of the
country. \ Rome correspondent
says of him:
lie has outlved the i'll name won by some
folies of his youth. He has been lately
well-bchavcd. mcthodical, of a wisely saving
dispositions; free from debt in spite of inces-
SAINT calls upon his resources. Like his faith
er he has shown himself Il good soldier and
Processes sound liberal principles, besides
which unlike his father, he above all things
abhors subsection to priests.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

Gen. Howard has finished his of
fetal detailed report ON the Nez Per-
ces campaign. 1t is published in
pamphlet form and is interesting
reading.
Turkey is so badly whipped that
even Greece may perhaps pluck up
spirit enough to go in.-Oregoaioa.
"Oily gammon!'
Gen. Raditsky has, after desperate
fighting captured the whole Turkish
army defending Schipka Pass, consist
ing of 4 battalions, 10 batteries and
one regiment of cavalry.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02
SCIENTIFIC.

SEVERAL compound locomotives, distin-
guished by some peculiar features, have
lately been built for French railroad.
There are two exterior cylinders acting re-
latively at right angles; ordinarily, the
smaller cylinder first receives the steam,
and the latter then passes into the larger
cylinder in the usual way--but, when the
engine is started, or when heavy grade is
to be surmounted, special valve arrange.
ment allows of the steam entering both
cylinders directly from the boilers, SO that
the engine works no longer on the compound
principle. These locomotives are from
nineteen to twenty tons weight each; the
two cylinders are respectively 9.3 and 10 G
inches in diameter, with uniform stroke
of 17.5 inches; the four wheels, coupled,
are 1868 inches in diameter; the boiler has
1913 square feet heating surface. The
road in question is 4.8 miles in length, and
has grade over 1.8 miles of Ol5 to l.
The locomotives have travel over "a COO
miles in all, and the results obtained are
pronounced highly successful, there being
no lack of stability even when running at
twenty-four miles an hour-a high speed
for wheels of such small diameter. With
regard to expen lture of fuel the gross
amount was 148 pounds of Cardiff coal
per mile, the weight Of the train being
from forty to seventy i've tens, exclusive
of the locomotive.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

A LEIPsIc Journal speaks of new spec
trum apparatus made by Schroeder, al !
which is pronounced the most complete in
strument of the kind ever made. 1t con-
sists of twenty-one rrisms, single, COM
bined into system according to the
Rutherford's method, they being moved
automatically and in such way that the
motion is accomplished with mathematical
accuracy and with the greatest ease. This
automatic movement allows of exact differ
ential measurements with hitherto unat-
tained precision, and is the first device of
this kind that has been constructed as an
exact instrument for measuring. 1t is
found, in fact, that the measurements by
this means are entirely Trustworthy to the
ue-hundredth part of tho interval between
the double line D. of sodium, the optical
performance of this spectroscope being
such that the sodium line is separated into
nine fine lines; and, as showing its peculiar
power in this respect almost all the prin-
cipal lines of the spectrum are resolved
into groups of lines, while new lines are
seen among those hither known.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

explain. We suspect, however, that 1t
usually arises from a mass Of indistinct,
confused mem cries of scenes and places
the dreamer has once beheld, perhaps in
nom, nts he has entirely forgotten. We
often, too, meet In our dreams people
whom we cannot ever remember to have
seen when awake. We believe that these
mysterious dream aoquaintances are, like
houses and the landscapes, nude up of
dim reme1nbrances of the faces and figures
of persons casually seen somewhere 10y the
dreamer when awake. II our theory about
this phenomenon in dreams is true, sleep
must have the same power of bringing
back lost colors to memory, that certain
chemicals have of bringing back the coors
of the Pompeian frescoes. When the
mind is in q morbid state from disease of
over-work, a dream will sometimes pro-
duce most unpleasant feeling of vague
discomfort, by first startling us from Sleep
making Itself distinctly remember, q; and
then, as soon as slunber falls again upon
the weary senses, fitting away, 30 that in
the morning no trace of it can be recalled.
All day the dream hoverB about tile sickly
fancy, never far off, and never near enough
to take hold of. 1t was surely some such
feeling as this which exaggerated by divine
wrath of old, tormented the Babylonian
king, and doomed to death all the wise
men except the chosen prophet of the
Lord. The dreams we remember are
never dreamt when we are in deepest sleep,
but always few minutes before we awake,
SO that outward things often have con-
siderable influence in producing them.-
Argosy.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

ACCORDING to Berlin journal, the re-
sistance to galvanic current offered by
any metallic conductor is matter that has
as yet been but little understood. The
phenomena themselves, it says, consist
principally in the following: First, the
nearly uniform rate at which the resistance
increases with the temperature; second,
in liquid condition have a greater resist
ance than as solids at the same temperature;
third, for liquid metals, the resistance in
creases with the temperature, but to a
much less degrees than for solids; fourth,
the transition from solid to fluid, as well as
that from a fluid to vaporous condition.
is accompanied with an increase of resist
ance; fifth, in the case of saturated me-
tallic vapors q diminution of the resistance
is produced by an elevation of temperature;
and, sixth, create: resistance is found at
the boundary surface between fluid and
solid portions of the same metal, than
within the vaporous atmosphere itself.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02
A PRUDENT PERSON.

A friend of mine went not long ago to
have tooth stopped. The dentist adj
vised him that lie had better have the
tooth taken out, and assured him that he
would feel no pain if he took laughing
gas.
"But what is the effect of the gas ?"
my friend.
'It simply makes you totally insensible, I"
remarked the dentist; you don't know
anything that takes place"
My friend submitted; but just previous
to the gas being administered he put his
hand in his pocket and pulled out his
money. ooh, don't trouble about that
now," said the dentist, thinking he was
going to pay the fee.
"Not at ALL" remarked the patient
II was simply going to see how mncl
had before the gas took effect. ."-Londor
TRUTH
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

RECENT experiments, it is claimed, have
established the fact that aniline dyes-at
least the reds and blues-are, in their pure
condition, comparatively inert, and that the
i'll effects which have sometimes been at
tributed to the use of these dyes are trace
able, not to the pure coloring matter them
Selves but to the arsenic which they
contained, and which arose from inefficient
publication subsequent to manufacture.
1t appears that, in order to arrive at the
most unquestionable conclusion in regard to
this much disputed matter, Herr Seidler, a
chemist of Riga, administered to himself
three-quarters of a grain of aniline red
every morning, for a period of five weeks,
without experiencing any ill effects whatso-
ever, from the practice. The fact that the
statement has been so explicitly put forth,
and on scientific authority, that single
grain of aniline red is sufficient to impart a
positive pink color to fifteen gallons alco-
hol, is certainly of some interest in view of
the harmless result attending Herr Seidlor's
remarkable performance.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02
THE STORY OF TBgE ENGLISH
BARON.

Perhaps the most extraordinary evidence
ever rendered in support of an alibi was
advanced in behalf of a man tried at Sgd
ney, when two witnesses swOre that, at the
time the robbery with which lie was
charged was committed, the prisoner was
in his hut with them, listening to the
recital of the Old English Baron, which
occupied two hours and half. Lane, the
novel reciter, corroborated their statements,
averring he could repeat several other
stories of equal length, word for word.
"Now, SIR" said the attorney general ''do
you wish to persuade US that, without a
book, you could occupy two hours and a
half in reciting the Old English Baron?"
II could, and will, if you please" replied
Lane. "Well, we will Lave a page or two,
then" said the attorney general. The wit
ness at once began: 'In the time of King
Henry, when the good Duke Humphrey
returned from the Holy Land" and so went
on until the attorney general cried enough.
The prisoners counsel, however, insisted
upon Lanes going on to the end, to prove
the tale would occupy the time his wit
nesses had sworn it did, unless the other
side conceded that important point. This,
after some demur, the attorney general
agreed to do, providing the witness repeated
the last page of the book as he had repeat
ed the first. Lane did as he was bidden,
and the prisoner was acquitted.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

i've legislation, or corrupt legislation,
that has enabled a few men to
monopolize and control the foremost in
terest of modern times. Almost if not
quite every investment that has been
made within the past twenty years for
local improvement by railway construc-
ton has been deliberately bankrupted
either by official mismanagement or by
collusiOn with the managers of trunk
lines"-and then, leaving stockholders
and creditors out in the cold, the
trunk lines" have absorbed, or,
to tone the transaction down to a bust
ness basis, have leased the work for long
term, guaranteeing interest perhaps to
the first mortgages,
Thus it is that in Republican America
we have three OF four Railway Kings
despots, who under existing laws control
the destinies Of millions Of people with
power that is as irresponsible to the peo-
pie as that exercised by the King Of Da-
honey or the Shah Of Persia; and thus
it is that we see at short intervals some
one of the few royal railway nabobs sail
ing through the country on q thousand
mile trip i'll extra trains made up of pal
ace cars and gorgeous trappings that far
outshine the oli-fashioned pomp of Euro
pean monarchs when taking grand
progress" among their oppressed people.
There is great deal Of "bosh" in our
pretensions to self-government, and the
sooner the eyes of the people are opened
to the fact the sooner will they assert
their rights.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

A MECHANICAL curiosity in the shape of
self-movng terrestrial globe, IA metres in
diameter, is described in foreign journal.
A combination of wheels gives it a motion
similar to that of the earth, and when once
set going it will revolve for three weeks.
At the north pole of the axis are dial
plates, on viii CHI the days months, &C., are
indicated, and over these is smaller globe,
by means of which the motion of the earth
around the sun is exhibited, the larger
globe setting this smaller one in motion by
the agency of twelve wheels. As regards
geographical details, the map on this globe
is said to be most carefully drawn, showing
all the latest discoveries of value; and not
only this, but the various steamer routes,
railway and telegraph lines, heights of
mountains, and the depth of the ocean, are
also distinctly shown.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02
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RALLW KINGS.

For some years after the construction
of railroads had reached quite magni-
tude in this country, there was popular
belief that they were built for the benefit
of the stockholders and the public at
large. This delusion was fostered at an
early stage of railroading, so far as the
stockholders were concerned, by the occa-
sional payment of small dividend on the
capital stock. The public also felt as
sured that legislation had 50 protected
the interests of all parties that these
great enterprises would, to certain ex-
tent, remain forever under popular con-
troll, and could not be gobbled up by any
one man or a small clique Of men.
At the present moment the whole rail,
way system of the United States, involv-
ing some seventy-eight thousand miles Of
track and 50 many hundred millions Of
dollars cost as to make mans head
swim to even attempt to comprehend
is in the hands, virtually, of three or fom
men, and under their entire control. II
is the old story over again of the big fish
swallowing the little ones. 1t is not SC
much the tyranny of capital over labor
and poverty as it is the result of defect
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

Several highly gifted men and women
have had certain faith in dreams. In one
of his published letters, Charles Dickens
relates dream he had had, with a serious
ness and circumstantiality which reveal
plainly enough that, to him, it was no
shadow of empty air. We read in Fredrika
Bremer's life that she fully believed she
should die alta certain age, because she had
once dreamt that q departed friend
had come to her and told her that in such
year she would be with him. She, how
ever, outlived the appointed date, and
thereby perhaps was cured of her belief
in dreams. One of the strangest effects of
dreams is, when, as we say or do some
thing, we suddenly have feeling that we
have said or done it before. If we follow
back carefully the train of ideas thus
called up, we shall find that it originated
in some dream we had forgotten, till our
present action or thought all at once called
it up; but in our first bewilderment the
sensation is, for the moment, singular and
uncanny enough. We think that from
this sort of feeling might first have arisen
the creed of the transmigration of souls.
Healthy dreams are usually to be explained
by looking back to the past. Dreams are
very often an odd jumble of things we
said, Or did, or thought yesterday, and
things we said, or did, or thought long
ago. In this confusion which makes them
sometimes, at first, seem so inconlprehen-
sible; but if we patiently trace out every
feature in one vivid dream, we find almost
to certainty that it arises from events
which have happened in our lives perhaps
at different periods. The mind, in sleep,
loses all sense of time, and embraces a
whole existence at q glance. In their
dreams the most commonplace men and
women are poets. The cook dreams that
she is lovely flower garden; the city
clerk that he is a knight at tournament,
the village schoolmaster that he is William
the Conqueror. This power of dreams is
sweet and blessed one, for often it is the
only ideal gleam which falls upon some
hard, gray path of life. Old people often
tell us that their dreams generally carry
them back to the days of their youth. The
old man sees again in his dreams the smile
of his mother in her early womanhood,
and hears again the brother, from whom
he has been long estranged, prattling as a
baby at his side, and gallops his pony
across country in all the wild joy of first
fox. hunt, and steals shy kiss from his
first love. Thus do dreams come as kind
ly sprites to the grandfather doing in his
armchair by the fire, when the young ones
waltz and flirt and make sweet hay while
the sun shines. Some people are always
seeing over and over again in their dreams
q certain house, or a certain estate, or q
certain landscape. They know every
room in the house, even to the pictures on
the wall; they could almost draw map of
the estate; the tress in the landscape are
as familiar to them as the bushes in their
garden, and yet they declare that they
never beheld either house, or estate, or
landscape, with their waking eyes. This
phenomenon seems certainly difficult to
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

THE Royal Scientific Commission for
Medical Matters at Berlin have issued an
elaborate report on pork. They have in
vestigated the subject thoroughly, sub
jecting fat pork and lean pork, picked
pork and smoked pork, to the seyerest
microscopic examination, and have estab-
lished the fact that trichin@ never exists
in the purely fat portions of pork. When
discovered it was always in the lean meat
or muscles attached to the pork. In
consequence of this conclusion ministe-
rial decree has been issued at Berlin,
which discontinues the examination Of
fat pork under the microscope as hereto
fore required. Such examinations will,
however, be enforced on all imported
pork which is not purely fat
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

The gallant Sir Walter Raleigh, in daily
expectation of his being executed, earnestly
endeavored to preserve his estate of Sher-
burne to his wife and child. To Carl, Earl
of Somerset, who had begged it for him.
self, and who was the rising favorite and
minion of King James l., Sir Walter ad-
dressed a letter, "beseeching him not to
begin his first building upon the ruins of
the innocent-not to cut down the tree
with the fruit, and undergo the curse of
them that enter the field of the fatherless. "
The letter produced no effect upon the
parasite, and, to the solicitations of the
Lady Raleigh to the king, upon her knees,
with her children, the vile sovereign, the
first of the Stuarts, only answered: II nun
have the land-I nun have it for Car. -
This excellent lady obtained permission to
reside with her husband in the Tower,
where, in the first year of his imprison-
ment, she bore him her second son, Carew,
after lapse of ten years, and shared his
adversely and sorrows during period OF
twelve years between his trial and his be-
ing put to death. She was very beautiful
faithfully attached to her ill-fated partner,
who was eighteen years older than herself
and testified her affection for his memory
by remaining unmarried until her death,
which happened twenty-ni years after
his execution.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

THE correspondent of the Charleston
News and Courier frankly confesses that
he found one man in Liberia who left
Lynchburg, Va, just after the civil war
poor man, but he has saved from 81 800
to $4,000 a year in his adopted country.
He is an undertaken.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

OF the O., ,4s4 officers serving in the active
army in Prussia, it has been ascertained
that s,594 belong to the State Church, 800
are Roman Catholics, 10 Protestant Dissen-
ters, and 8 Jews. Among the men arc
75, 26S Roman Catholics.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

MILTON SAYLER's old friend, George
Fl. Butler, was released from Jail yester-
day by habeas corpus. A crooked
transaction in securing a suit of clothes
is what got him into trouble
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

FARM lands in the neighborhood of
Cork, Ireland, are getting 48 cents day.
other laborers and mechanics are paid
from 81 90 to 81 q day, and employees
on public works receive from 48 to GO
cents per day. The average cost of living
for a laborer or mechanic is about $50
per annum.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-02

A MAN at Sherman, Texas, was sem
fenced to the Penitentiary for ninety
nine years. If it were not for the name
of the thing, he said, he would prefer to
70 for life.