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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-08-01
Calm Thought.

There is nothing which makes so great
difference between one man and another,
rs the practice of calm and serious think
ing. To these who have been accustomed
to it, there is required at first an effort !;
but it is entirely III their own power to
repeat this effort if they will, and when
they will. 1t becomes every day easier
by perseverance and habit-and the habit
so acquired exerts a material influence
upon their condition as responsible and
immortal beings. Ia that great process,
therefore, in which consists the healthy
condition of any man as a moral being,
there is most important step, of which
he must be conscious as an exercise of
his own mind. You feel that you have
here a power, however little you may at
tend to the exercise Of it. You Can d.
rect your thoughts to any object you
please; you can confide them to objects
which are before you at the time, or oc-
currences which have PASSED during the
day-or you can send them back to events
which took place many years ago. You
can direct them to persons whom you are
in the habit of meeting from day to day,
or to those who are separated from you
by thousands of miles. You can place
before you persons who lived, and events
which occurred long before you came in-
to existence, and you eau anticipate and
realize events which are not likely to Oc-
cur until you have ceased.to exist. Study
these wondrous processes of your mind !;
observe what power you have over them,
and what consequences of eternal import
ance must arise from exercising them
Alright. II you can thus think of any
subject you please, why cannot you think
of God-of His power, His wisdom, His
holiness, His justice-of His law which
He has written in your heart, and in His
revealed wordl Why cannot you think
of, and realize the period when you shall
lie down in the grave; and that tremen
dous moment when all that are in their
graves shall hear the voice of the Son OF
God, and they that hear shall live, and
shall arise to Judgment Such truths rs
these, duly considered, or thought of,
could not fail, under Divine influence, to
exercise a powerful effect upon all our
habits of thinking and acting in this
life.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
A Guileless Giantess.

The verbal call to the crowd to come
and behold the wonders of the giantess
is issued by large, well developed
young woman, thoroughly encased in
tights and close lifting red jacket.
Her limb development is superb and
bears close inspection. She stands the
sole attraction in the glare before a
gazing crowd, with smile half defiant
on her face. We enter the den of the
giantess. Front seats, D cents; rear, 2.
The giantess is seated in niched raised
platform, She smiles benignly as we
enter. We are the only audience pres.
ent. We sit down. The giantess still
smilingly regards us. We sheepishly
regard the giantess. 1t is rather en-
barrassing thus to be left alone with such
a big woman, who does not speak En-
glish. Soon the giantess commences to
unfold her vast proportions. In other
words, she stands up. She is indeed
lofty. Her dress descends to the plat
form in trailing robe. We regard it
suspiciously. We think of very thick
soled boots for increasing the apparent
stature of many giantesses. Meantime
the giantess is making her set speech.
She tells us where she was born, how
old she is and how far her head has got
away from the earth up TO the present
time. Then she curtsies and sits down.
Still we suspiciously look at that long
robe. Tine giantess divines our thoughts.
She is prepared for it. She ouiiianks
suspicion. She commences, upon my
soul" to pull up her dress. She ex-
poses her feet, her ankles. She pursues
the subject further. She shows foot
after foot Of thick, white cotton stock
ing and proves thai hers are not false
legs. a yard Of giant limb IS disclosed
The seance closes az the knees For =
single performer, she Is not badly sup
ported We leave saiisfed.-PreEttot
Malf0rd's Paris Liter 10 San FraDcisc0
BEllstin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12

None but q few officers knew who he
was, and the secret was so well kept that
it has commonly been supposed to be
past finding out.
The Jewish World, published in
London, announces that an agent has
been sent to Palestine "chsrged with
the duty of purchasing land and other
wise commencing the realization of The
great humanitarian scheme Of the Sir
Moses Montetiore fund.- the object of
which is to better the condition of the
Jews of Palestine by the introduction
among them of agricultural and indus
trial pursuits, under such control as
shall make their Improvement perlna-
nent and lasting"
Five hundred and sixty.three per-
sons, it is stated, have been arrested in
Germany since the I'd of June, the date
of Nobling's crime, for insults on the
Emperor William. Forty-two of these
have been acquitted, and the rest, in
Guiding 81 women, sentenced to terms
of Imprisonment amounting altogether
to Sll years. Berlin, Breslau, Bonn,
Bochum, Hall, Lobsaun, and Mannheim
produced most of the prosecutions, and
five of the accused committed suicide
before trial. .
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
School and Church.

The salaries of the grammar-school
principals in San Francisco have been
increased from SlS5 month to 5000.
The revised New Testament is near
ly all printed. 1t will be presented to
the Convocation of Canterbury next
year.
The Protestant Episcopal Commit
tee of Foreign Missions wants $4,000
at once to meet pressing liabilities, and
makes an urgent call for it.
Princeton Theological Seminary
owns over 81, 900, 900 worth of property.
About quarter of this is in real estate,
the rest of it in bonds and mortgages.
The new education law of Holland,
adopted by the Chambers and sanctioned
by the King, excludes the Bible ard re.
ligious teaching from the primary
schools.
&c Six days of the week he's invisi-
BILE, and on the seventh he's incompre-
hensible," was the account which a dis
satisfied old lady gave of her pastor and
his illustrations. H
Ida M. Pierce, daughter of Rev. j..
N. Pierce, of the St. Louis Conference,
has been elected to the chair of English
literature in Simpson Centenary Col
lege.
There is now only one Methodist
body in Ireland, the Wesleyans and the
Primitives having united at the meet
ings Of their Conferences recently held
in Dublin. The United Church has
nearly 200 ministers.
Portugal has but one university,
Coimbra, founded in 1890. 1t has 20
instructors and LOO students. There
are 2,450 elementary schools, and pa
rents whose children can not read and
write by Is lose their political rights.
The New Orleans school directors
resolved that all female teachers who
marry during vacation shall lose their
places; their theory is that married
women have a supporter, and should
give way to their sisters who have none.
The Chautauqua Sunday School As
sembly, which has Just closed, was in
every respect the most successful yet
held. As many as 5000 persons were
there at one time on several occasions
during the Assembly, and the throng
was not at any time less than 5000. The
managers devised liberal things, secur-
ing the best and most popular speakers,
and paying them we'll for their services.
The whole expense for teachers, speak
ers, preachers, lecturers, and music was
over $1,000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
Science and Industry.

Petroleum has been discovered on
the Nueces River, on the border of WAL
de County, Texas.
"A silk manufacturing firm in Lyons,
France, presents on its silks variety of
photographed impressions, comprising
pictures by the old masters.
The salmon catch in British Column
bia this season exceeds that of any other.
They are sold along the banks of Fra
ser River at one cent each. Indians
catch them and Cinnamon clean and
can them.
Mr.. John Hunter, the English spir-
itualist, has invented hive in which he
furnishes the bees with cells in which
only working bees can be bred. BY this
means he avoids the production OF a
number of useless drones.
-Dr.J. S. Myer, of Virginia City, New,
has rediscovered a lost Egyptian art.
lie tempers copper tools to a more last
ing cutting edge than steel tools will
hold, similar to that Of the copper i'm
plements with which the stons' by the
Pyramids was cut.
Professor Edison's latest invention
is new ink, which leaves raised work
onpaper, with which the blind can easily
communicate with each other. 1t is in
the form of powder, which becomes
Mt for use on dissolution in water.
"A eleap sort of Illuminated clock
has been adopted in Stutgardt. A magic
lantern is arranged so as to throw the
lace OF watch marking the time on an
elevated white surface. The movements
OF the hands are seen as distinct as on
lhe large clock and the expense is but a
minute fraction of the cost of keeping a
large Illuminated clock tower.
The Buena Vista Vinicultural So
Getty, after losing about 100000 in
me manufacture of California wine, has
gwen up the business. The president
says that Californians have not yet
learned how to make good wine, that
Tue climate and other conditions are not
understood with sufficient eXactness, and
1aat even a fairly good native wine will
Ao' sell as well rs much poorer inn
ported article. Often the society's pro-
auctions could not be sold at any price.
rs champagne venture added $4,000
. II: losses, although the wine had a
considerable sale in New York, under
Ae'itious foreign brands.
-SeribHer for September gives pa
PER on a spool of thread, which contains
s0nae curious statistics. One company
ma l,2O0 different kinds, and it takes
-y,yyJ dozen spOols to hold each day, S
s1Ganct. There are 200 yards to a spool,
20 little calculation will show that
!, a. means that, simply at these mills,
800 miles of thread are made each
", OF about a,l0O.OOO miles 9 year.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
THE DANCER.


He met her at the picnic,
He melted at her glance,
And he murmured sadly in her ears,
"Dear heart, l can not dance"
Now the green Swallowed woods resound
With airs of sunny France;
In many figures DER the ground
The youths and maidens prance.
But who is he, far down the glen,
Who eyes this scene askance?
Who shuns the eyes of maids and men!
'Tis he who can not dance.
Not dance? Yet see! behold him there,
Observe him leap and prance;
High climbs lie in the empty air,
wild, weird, tiendish dance.
He leaps, he kicks, he slaps his legs;
All, nal His wide, wide pants
Are full of fifteen thousand times
Ten thousand thousand ants.
-Burlington Rdrkeye.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
Haps and Mishaps.

The scratch of a pin, which grew
into an inflamed ulcer and threw her in
to spasms, caused the death of DR.. John
Stones wife at Linton, Ga.
james Rogers, of Ashtabula, O.,
died from the effects of CHAMBERS, COM
municated by a horse. His body was
in an almost putrid condition when
death occurred.
Samuel B. Mix, a farmer living near
Trinity Mills, Dallas County, Texas,
was instantly killed by lightning, plow-
ing. The lightning struck him on the
bead, passed over his body and tearing
his boots OFT.
AT Tiffin, o., 12-year-old daugh-
ter of Andrew Robinson was playfully
tossing her infant brother in and out of
second-story window, when she lost
her grip on the little fellow and he fell
to the ground, a distance of Is feet,
fracturing his skull.
AT Algonza, Mich, Jerome Clark
and his daughter, 16 years of age, were
struck by lightning while sitting in
their house. The young lady was in
SUtUlly hlllCOs dllu WI Sloi n oo oooiAiSS'
by the shock that he will probably not
recover.
WIN. prague, farmer living at
Dandy, Mich, was getting ready to
thresh, the other morning, and going
out after breakfast looked up as he was
passing under an apple tree and re-
marked to his wife that he thought it
would not rain much, when bolt OF
lightning struck him on the forehead,
killing him instantly.
The ice-cream sold by itinerant ven
ders in London streets has been found
in several cases to be poisonous. A
physician of that city has reported two
cases under his observation. Both were
of children seized with alarming symp-
toms of poisoning by some metallic irri-
tant which nearly proved fatal. They
had each shortly before partaken of col
ored ice-cream from a street hand-cart.
The poison was in the coloring matter
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12

We Learn, on the authority OF the
London Medical Examiner, that it is
proposed to form a " School of Beauty :"
in England, in which the members,
male and female, pledge themselves to
do all they can to make themselves
comely by natural means. Prizes will
be given to those ladies who can more
with ease and grace, and 50 afford evil
dence Of the free use Of their limbs,
while II will be a leading rule Of the
school that, though stays may be used
As a means Of support, they shall not
be deemed essential As an accessory TO
beauty. In other words, = natural
wais; azd a xeil-curved back, with a
perfectly posed head, viii be al pre-
MUM
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
THE LAWYER IN THE EDITORS BED.

1 slept in an EDITORS bed last night,
When no other CHANGED to be nigh;
And thought, as tumbled the editors bed,
How easy the editors lie.
-Erchange.
If the lawyer slept in the EDITORS bed
When no other lawyer CHANGED to be nigh,
And thought, as above, he has naively said,
How easily editors lie,
He must then admit. as he lay on that bed
And slept to his hearts desire,
Whateer he may say of the editors bed,
Twas the lawyer himself was the lier
-Ne,C Orleans Bulletin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12

This is more than 1900 miles of thread
an hour, or 20 miles every minute.
And, as the combined work Of 1000
employees makes 600 miles of thread,
even division demonstrates that the work
of each is equivalent to 13i miles of
thread daily.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
Foreign Notes.

Pope Leo Mi. is said 10 be an en-
thusiasiic amateur in music and to be
able to sing mass with fine effect.
The Grand Duke Nicholas. of Rus
sia, is reported to have fallen into dis
grace because of official peculation.
The captive balloon, which is one
Of the attractions of the Paris Exposition,
is said to have cost nearly SljO,OOO, and
the proprietors pay a ground rent OF
5000. The price for ~ minutes as
cension is 81 head. Miss Sarah Bern
hardt, the famous actress, makes three
ascensions daily. It is reported that,
after the close of the Exposition, the
balloon is to be brought to this country
An old fellow named Barney Moran,
who died recently in the Work-house al
Balliea, in Ireland revealed TO the chap
lain before his death that he was the ex-
ecutioner of Robert Emmett. lie was 5
Young soldier at the time, and perform
ed the revolving Office for reward
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
FAST HORSE.

Smart colt? You may bet yer pile, young
man,
That beast'n travel her mile, young man,
At quicker speed
Than you ever seed,
AS If her i'ints was all lie, young man.
Why, t'other day, I'll be shot, young man,
But she stood on that 'ere spot, young man,
When lightnin bolt
Ran arter the colt,
And she led it all round the lot, young man.
boston Post.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Nobling, who shot the German
rmperor, was a regular contributor to
several agricultural journals.
-Twenty-one American publishers
.ro represented at the Paris Exhibition
by their printed books.
Thomas Hardy, the novelist, is 3S.
pe was educated as an architect, but
concluded to become an architect of
fiction.
Rosa Bonheur begins to show signs
n aoeing. Her hair is becoming quite
Cray, though still plentiful; but her
frank and charming manner remains.
"A bust of the late Michael Reese,
Tho California millionaire, is to be made
and presented to the State University,
which he remembered so literally in his
will.
Lieut. Gov. Underwood, of Ken
tucky, places high estimate upon the
mower of the press, being the patron of
no less than 80 different papers.
The Marquis of Lorne, Canada's
rew Governor. General, is a writer I'M
der the nom de plane of Ross Neil, :"
and is reported author of the fairy play
"El Finnella," now on the Edinburg
stage at the Princess Theater. ~
The centenary of the death of the
Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady, the
author Of the Crock of Ages" and
other we'll known hymns, occurred re-
Gently. Commemorative services were
held in number of the English
churches. ..,t..
AT least one graduate is getting in
his work. An editorial in the Boston
Post contains 25 French names and ex-
pressions, to say nothing OF references
to Dumas, Chesterfield, Lucullus, Talley-
rand, Cambacers, Polyphemus, Aris-
totle, Xenophon and James T. Field.
Christina Rossetti, the poet, a wom-
an now in middle age, is an invalid and
recluse. Her sweet nature has not,
however, been soured by illness; she is
one of the most amiable and charming
of women. She has a pleasant face,
with prominent eyes and fine head {;
and she is extremely industrious, writ
ing constantly.
A series of woman's rights meet
ines in Paris terminated on the 18th ult.
with banquet, at which 200 persons
ate. Nine. Ventura presided and was
lanked by Messrs. Antide, Martin, City
Counselor, and Laisant, member of the
Chamber of Deputies. The main point
of the ten brief speeches was that the
admittance of woman to suffrage was
the grand panacea for all the evils of
society. Nine. Ventura, a delegate from
England, was the most successful speak
er, and Mile. Mozzoni, whose expenses
to the Congress were paid by the Italian
Government, also distinguished herself.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12

Born on Monday,
Wart on the nose;
Born on Tuesday, .
COrns on the toes;
Born on Wednesday,
Hair will be red:
Born on Thursday,
Weak in the head;
Born on Friday, $50 VI.
FreclSly skim;
Born on Saturday,
Mole on the chin;
Born on Sunday,
Born to sin.
st. Louis Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12
Odds and Ends in Rhyme.

There was young man of OQuawka,
Got married, and went to Chicago
With his darling bride to spend the honey.
moon;
And this was their true loves course:
In the morning she got Il divorce,
And married another man in the afternoon
Huntington Ha'rkeye.
"That man." said Kate, to love for me
Is sure a very slave,
Fen tho it's full year since !
To him the mitten gave"
ooh! then he's not a slave" said Prue,
AS Ger her face there fitted
A roguish smile, "yOu just confessed
That he was manumitted."
-Yonkers GG.ette.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-12

The American Baptists have the.
illogical seminary in India. 1t is located
at Ramapatam, and is called the Brown
son Theological Seminary. The native
assistants OF the Teloogoo Mission re-
ceive their training in il. The first
class, consisting Of seventeen men and
four women, was graduated this year.
The women are wives Of some of the
graduates, aad have made as good q
record in their studies As any of the men.
All the graduates are said to have pass
ed good examinations.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-21
Ar annnM Man.

Cor. Chicago Times.l
To steal and not to be found out
is counted a virtue by the Sioux
warrior, but to be caught in the act
or to be found in possession of the
stolen property is a disgrace, and it
is the privilege of the squaws to
taunt and tease HIM, who exercise
this privilege to the fullest extent,
and to be ridiculed by a squaw is
the worst degradation that can be
inflicted; consequently he very sell
dom steals. Should he be caught
in the act three or four times, he
would be Stunned by all the war
riors and made a squaW man. He
is then disgraced forever, being de.
barred from all warrior proceedings
whatsoever, which disgrace to an
Indian is worse than death, and
many prefer death to the punish
ment and kill themselves When 9
warrior or young man is made a
squaw man, the head men Of the
tribe take his gun, bow and arrows.
ponies, all his war apparel in fact,
eyerything-and in turn they are
given to the parties whom he had
stolen from and to destitute widows
and orphans of fallen braves, and
the thief is turned over to the
mercy of the band. But should he
be a successful thief outside Of his
own band, then he is praised for his
Sagacity, and the more he steals the
higher he gets.
Should he luckily happen to be
a brave Indian and a lucky thief.
combined, then he is away up on
the brave list, and no expedition i
fitted up but he is invited to be ont
Of the party, very often as its lead
er. This kind of individual is /
terror to the squaw man, as he in
yariably taunts him when anC
wherever he meets him. There il
but one sqaw man in the whole 0
Red Clouds band. l have person
ally seen him, and his life is a hel
on earth. He has to do everything
that no other Indian would do, anC
never receives a kind word unless i
be from some kind hearted mission
ary. l tried to find out what h
had done, but could not, as there
are several ways to reduce an In.
dian to that poSltion and ne
amount Of inquiry will make then
disclose the facts 10 outside parties
and, as the last Indian ! asked
said, "Heap talk too much" ]
gently took the hint. TO act th,
coward in battle, to disobey an or,
der from the chief whore there il
any danger, TO try to skulk or ge.
out Of any dangerous undertaking
when detailed for it, go to make thu
! Indian q squaw man,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-21
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

LRRIVALR
Steamer Grand Tower, YicksburE.
Golden Crown, Cincinnati.
Coahoma. Frisr's Point.
City Of Helena, St. Louis.
Katie Hooper, Arkansas river.
Cherokee, P%ittsburg.
DEPARTURES
Steamer Golden Crown, New Orleans.
City Of Helena, Vicksburg.
BOATS IN PORT.
C%oahoma, Grand Tower, Cons Millar,
Katie Hooper, Cherokee.
Condition Or the Rivers.
The river here rose 4 inches
in the "a hours ending at noon,
and now stands ~ feet Z inches
above low water mark. At Cairo
it declined 2 inches, with % feet 6
inches on the gauge; at st. Louis
s inches, with 20 feet 8 inches on
the gauge; at Pittsburg the decline
was 50inches, with 6 feet 6inches on
the gauge at Cincinnati it rose C
inches, with 16 feet Z inches on the
gauge; at Louisville it is stationary,
with 9 feet 6 inches in the canal;
at Evansville it is rising, with
IA feet 6 inches on the gauge.
Cumberland river declined 9 inches
at Nashville, with 3 feet 2 inches
on the gauge. Arkansas river ia
stationary at Little Rock, with 19
feet on the gauge. White river is
swelling at Jacksonport, with a
good stage Of water from there out
Miscellaneous.
NO improvement in freights.
Little animation on the wharf.
Missouri river still on a bender.
The staye market at New Orleans
is glutted.
The Port Eads and bargcs are
due up tomorrow night.
The Robert Mitchell leaves Gin
clnnatl tomorrow for New Orleans
!, The new steamer Paris @. Brown
lett Cincinnati last evening for New
The Mcdonald and barges fol
the Ohio river passed Vieksbure
yesterday at s am.
Barmore will launch Captain II.
Il. Harper's new steamer tomorrow
afternoon.
The price Of coal furnished t
steamboats, at New Orleans is fift,
cents per box for Pittsburg.
The New Mary Houston lef
New Orleans last evening for Gin
cinnati.
Business in river circles is YER,
dull at Shreveport, and the steam
ers Joe Bryarly and Frank Willard
have laid up there.