The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-09-05

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AN INCIDENT OF BULL RUN.-A we'll
known judge in one of Pennsylvania s
counties was in Washington at the out
break of our civil war At the time
of the first battle of Bull Run, when
Northern politicians generally placed
implicit faith in Stewards sanguine
prophecy concerning the shortness
of the rebellion, it is we'll known
that call Washington" went down
to see the fun of our first and decisive
victory" O. over the Confederacy. The
Pennsylvania judge was among the num-
Der, and rode upon his horse to the scene
of action. Having dismounted to view
the battle he became separated from his
horse. When the panic seized the North
ern army, some more agile and more for
tunate spectator took possession of the
judges animal and hastily sped back to
Washington; and the judge, who was cor
pulent and, as belts a judge, dignifed in
bearing, was compelled to foot it. Puff
fling and blowing, and swinging and
wringing his hands. His Honor was left
far behind by multitudinous light
weights. But all who passed him he
greeted with the same agitated, breath
less inquiries: Cant somebody stop this
fghti Can't this affair be compromised"
The judges neighbors have not yet for
gotten his questions, or the length of time
required to answer them; and they often
to this day have a laugh at his expense.
ROMANCE OF A Pooh You've GIRL.-
Cincinnati has pretty romance of poor
young girl. The heroine was an intclli-
gent but unpretending young girl, who
was forced by circumstances to work for
living. She sewed in store at a sal
AIRY so meagre, and with work so labori-
Gus, that she gladly accepted position
as waiter-girl in a popular boarding
house. She had previously been offered
position as governess, but preferred the
other. The only advantage the boarding
house afforded over the store was that of
family sympathy. Among the boarders
WAS one probably a poor as herself.
He was advertising solicitor for "A
city paper, with very moderate income
Believing themselves poor, but yet able
to keep the wolf from their door, an at
tachment sprang up, which developed
into an engagement The course of love
did not run smoothly. There were
doubts of faithfulness, and consequent
quarrels, until, a few days ago, the young
lady learned that she had fallen heir to
an estate in Germany worth 100000.
Her heart was true to him. They were
married right away.
TIE CARAT.-Possibl many people
have speculated on the precise meaning
of the word carat 1t is an imaginary
weight, thatexpresses the fineness of gold,
or the proportions of pure gold in mass
OF metal. Thus an ounce of gold of
twenty-five carats fine is gold of which
twenty-five parts out of twentyfour are
pure, the other two parts being silver,
copper or other metal. The weight of
four grains, use by jewellers in weighing
precious stones and pearls, is sometimes
called diamond weght-the carat con-
sisting OF four nominal grains, little
lighter than four grains troy, or seventy
four and one sixteenth carat grains being
equal to seventy-two grains troy. The
term of weighing carat derives its name
from a bean, the fruit of an Abyssinian
tree, called kuara, varying little in its
weight, and seems to have been, from a
very remote period, used as weight for
gems and pearls.
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