The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-31
Intelligence Items.

Vienna doubt about it.
A Marengo (nl) firm has put up
over ton of currant jelly this season.
Patti is said to refuse 81 900 night
to sing in st. Petersburg during the
coming winter.
A constant watch is kept over Minnie
Warren grave to prevent its desecra-
ton by grave-robbers.
The Prince of Wales receives G40.-
900 from the Treasury and GG0, 900
from the Duchy of Cornwall.
The President of the French Re
public receives IL salary of S2lO 900 IL
year. Sixty thousand of this is for
household expenses.
Harvard College takes its name after
John Harvard, the founder 1t was
established in 1898, and was the first
college in America.
The public debt of France is about
81 800 ,0OO 900. The debt is held at
home mostly, at low rate of interest.
The population Of France is IS, 900, 900.
France was forced to pay Germany
81, 100, 600, 000 in round numbers.
The statistics of industry for 1877
show that LOG, OOO, 600 pairs of shoes
were manufactured in the United States
that year. Counting our population at
40, 600. 600, this would give us two and
one half pairs of shoes each per year.
But eight-tenths of the male popula-
ton above Il years of age wear boots.
At low tide at Monterey, Cal, pant
of the wreck of vessel, formerly the
Ndi0liH, can he seen, though very few
who see it are aware that she is or was
the ship on which Napoleon Bonaparto
escaped from Elba 63 years ago, to re-
vive his broken power by his immense
personal magnetism, and lose it forever
on the memorable field of Waterloo.
The Old vessel, now slowly going TO
pieces in the Pacific, has local his
tory. She brought 70 California, in
1884, from Mexico, the colony of Hijas.
whose members intended to settle III
what was then Sonuma County. Not
liking Sonoma they returned to Mon
terey ANA gradually dwindlcd into dis
tinction, being typited by the ship
that had transported them thither. 1t
is odd that some cuterprisiuG Snowman,
ton or the whole Of the wreck of the
Ndfg}id, and put ii into museum to
aid the common mind in its effort to
understand the character and genius of
the first capt in Of modern, or perhaps
of ancient times. "Emgmcut of the
ship in which the 1rcat Napoleon cs-
capped from Elba' would he to the
many an allurins curiosity and bit OF
material history Withal.
One Of the most singular and terri
BE accidents that ever occurred any
whore happened recently j. Newark,
\. J. Among the girls employed IN
leit2's hat factory, on Ward street, was
Julia Till, ! Years of age, whose bust
ness it was to, sew hats. Suffering
from the heat of the room, She jumped
to one OF the benches to lower the sash,
SO as to permit the entrance of fresh
air. Her long hair, blown by the
breeze, was lifted against the sn2ftiug
in the room. and WAS drawn in. She
was throAn fror! her feet, and fell to
the floor. Then it was discovered that
her scalp had been torn entirely
from her head, ana was being whirlcd
around by the machinery, WEile she
lay on the floor beneath in AN uncon-
scious condition. She was carried to
the house of friend, when 1t was
found that the entire cap OF her skull
had been laid bare by the accident, and
there was not shred of flesh upon II,
from the eyebrows to the back o. the
neck. Her eyes, too, had been turned
in their sockets, and altogether she
prpsputpl 81 siplt no less horriblp than