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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
Study the Appetites and Habits of
Animals.

1t is profitable and advantageous to
cultivate in domestic animals love Of
home. Much time, labor, and anxiety
are often expended in looking after
wandering stock. A majority of cows
and horses that voluntarily 60 astray, do
so because they find better food, more
attractive associates, Or better treatment
abroad than at home. Every wise own
er or manager of stock may soon learn
by few simple experiments that there
are several articles of food or relish for
which cows and horses have as great q
fondness as children have for cakes, jell-
les and candies. Horses, COWS, and even
sheep enjoy fondling and a soft, loving
voice as much as do children. If to this
treatment be added, occasionally, sugar,
fruit, salt, confections, and the like,
these animals will never forget the hand
that bestowed them, nor the place where
they were received. If, at the time of
the evening milking, the folding of the
sheep, or the stabling Of the horses, some
little delicacy is bestowed, these animals
will soon remember time and place, and
be there with the regularity of hen to
her usual roosting-place Indeed, the
appetite of animals for saline and aka
line relishes seems so natural and strong
as to not only attract them, but to resort
to these places at any risk. Feeders of
stock, of large observation, inform us
that to mix salt and pure hard wood
ashes, in equal proportions Of weight,
combined by barely enough water to
make them a solid mass, becomes a most
attractive relish for all domestic ami
mails.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
Blode UP.

The other day muscular young fel-
low, having the odor of the stables about
him, entered Detroit photographers
establishment and explained that he
would like to have about one photograph
taken, but on learning the price he con-
Guided to invest in tintype. After
taking his seat in the chair, he shut up
one eye, drew his mouth around one
side, stuck up his nose and patiently
waited for the operator, whose astonish-
ment caused him to exclaim:
"Good gracious but you don't want
to look that way to get a picture. No
body will know you from Sitting Bull. :"
"You go ahead" was the reply.
"Do you want me to take such phiz
as that p
81 do"
The artist took it. 1t beat Sol Smith
Russell all to pieces, and was highly sat
isfactory to the sitter, who paid for it
and said:
"You see, had sort Of object in
this. Came here from Allegan county
six months ago-engaged to gal out
there-found gal here I liked better
got to sever old ties-see"
"But what has the picture got to do
with old ties p asked the artist.
"Lots-heap! I've writ to her that
I was blode up here on boat and dis
figured for life. She's awful proud.
When she gifts this and sees how that
explosion wrecked me, She II hunt another
lover quicker'n wink-see9 How do
you like the plot? Just gaze on this
picture once and tell me that Mary Ann
won't send back my love letters by first
train y
He posted the picture. The letter
was brief, but explained all. 1t said :
"My Ever Dear Curl inclose my
picture that you may see how offul bad
l was hurt tho know you will love
me just the same"
"Ever see that game worked aforel'
he asked of the artist as he licked the
stamp on the letter
"No-never did"
"Course you rever did. It's mine.
1t struck me the other day while I was
greasin' a wagon, and think It's boss.
Blode upset Disfggered for life
see9 Picture right here to prove it,
and she'll write back that she has at last
concluded to yield to her parents wishes
and marry young man out there who
owns eleven steers, 100 sheep and an
eighty acre lot.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
Monsters of the Deep.

There seems to be considerable doubt
hanging around what that sea monster
shot by Captain Chadwick, of the tug
Alpha, really is. Some say turtle, some
devilfsh, and the captain himself is OF
the opinion that it was "Old Nick"
himself, and hereafter sinners may have
no fear of punishment in the Internal
regions. In fact, everybody who hears
about it has different theory, and no
two persons can agree on what it is and
where it belongs. The Smithfeld pilots
say that this Satanic Majesty has been
seen off the coast for the last twenty
years, but he has never met anyone who
was bold enough to attack him, until
the gallant tar of the Alpha hove down
on him and ended his career. Captain
Chadwick sighted the "thing" about
eight miles off Western Bar, and imme-
diately steered toward it. When with
in a short distance Of it he fired at it
with rifle, the ball passing through its
neck and killing it. 1t required six
men with their utmost strength, to pull
it over the rail, and it is estimated that
it weighed six or seven hundred pounds.
The animal was seven feet long and
three and a half feet wide. On the
back was hard black shell, like a tur-
ties, with three ridges running length
wise The head was as large as water
bucket, and the mouth, extending down
into the throat, were rows of soft teeth.
The tail was not more than eighteen
inches long, and projected in three
prongs The fins and feet were like a
turtle, with the exception that there
were no claws.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
Wisconsin's Female Lawyer.

Lavina Goodsel. who has attracted
good deal of attention in Wisconsin by
drawing up bill to the State Legislature
providing that no person should be re-
fused admission 10 the bar on account of
sex, and securing its passage, seems TO be
possessed of unusual energy and OF de-
cided talent for law, She owes her sue
cess and reputation entirely to her own
unaided exertion. Some time ago she
vas Employed here on fashion journal,
but conceiving that she could do some
thing better, she resigned her position
and went TO Janesvlle, Wis, where her
aged parents resided and needed her as
sis.ance. Arrived there she determined
that she would no. settle down to washing
dishes and making over gowns, as most
women do. She had long had fancy
for law, and had convinced herself that
she possessed business head. There
fore She began to study law, kept at j! for
three years, applied for admission to the
Circuit Court, passed brilliant exami-
nation and was admitted. She gained
her first cases, and one Of them having
been carried to the Supreme Court, her
rixh. to plead there was denied on &C
coun, of her sex. She reviewed the Su-
pxene lodges decision in a legal journal
snd zz the better Of him in argument,
rad hen went to work upon the Legis-
lsssre. With the result already known.
some al he ablest lawyers in the State
,1krnsr. a<r zrzmeu and learning, and de-
clste ae7 4, be a born barrister.. She Is
ruresemeS ~ entirely feminine. notwith-
ssusSspe aes 1<olessioa, and one Of the
~ ~ 'somen ~ III The dsties Of life.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
How to Anchor Him.

A beautiful young wife on the North
Side has expended much ingenuity in
devising scheme to keep her husband
at home of nights, and it proves very
effectual. She fatters her liege lord
about the exquisitely dainty proportions
of his feet, and induces him to wear
boots about two sizes too small for him.
He is on his feet all day in town, and
when he gets home at night she has a
soft chair and pair of loose, cool slip
pers for him, and by the time 10, with
great drops Of agony pearling from his
brow, has got off his boots, he comes to
the conclusion that there is no place
like home alter al, aud has no desire
to go down town to the lodge, or to sit
up with . sick friend.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
The Best Room.

We once expressed our mind on the
"best room" institution in small houses.
We find that writer in the New York
Atlas also has a word about gloomy ap-
pendage. He says: Do not be afraid Of
doing too much to render home pleasant.
Let beautiful pictures hang upon its
walls J.; let good books, plentifully sup.
piled, invite the attention Of the young ;
and, if possible, let the charm of music
fling its magic spell over all, that the
tempted youth, when the gilded allure
ments of follow would attract its gaze,
may ever turn to home as the brightest
and cheeriest place on earth. Do not,
we beg of you, make the mistake of re-
moving to that best room, opened to call
forth the admiration OF minister to the
enjoyment of the unusual visitor, the
books, the pictures and the music. If
they are not worth enjoying, they are
not worth having. If book is bought
only for its binding and gliding, then
let it ever remain under glass case, safe
from the pollution of smoke, Or dust,
or children's fingers. If pictures are to
be enjoyed only when we wear our Sun
day clothes, then Danish them to the
parlors. If music is cheering and sooth-
ing only when the babbling of strangers
interrupts its strains, let the piano cover
only be raised when visitors are present,
and we and our houses are on exhibition.
But if, on the contrary, these beauties
of sight and sound are able every day to
exert an elevating and enrolling inAu-
ence, then let us have them brought
from the best room to our ordinary
apartment where We can enjoy thom, or
else throw open the long-closed shutters,
remove the canvas covers from the parlor
furniture, and make our children our
most honored guests.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
The Seven Wise Men.

Most people have heard OF the Seven
Wise Men Of Greece" but very few know
who they we're or how they came 10 be
called so. Here is the story, and the
moral OF it is worth rememt ering, if their
names are not: The Seven Wise Men
Of Greece are supposed to have lived in
the fifth centuary before Christ. Their
names are Pattacus, Bias. Scion, Thales,
Chilon, Cleobulus, and Fernandez. The
reason Of their being called wise is given
differently by various authors; but the
most approved accounts state that. as
some Coans wera fishing. certain strangers
from Melitus bought whatever should be
in the nets without seeing it. When the
nets were brought in, they were found to
contain golden tripod which Helen, as
she sailed from Troy, is supposed 10 have
thrown there. A dispute arose between
the fishermen and the strangers as to
whom it belonged, and, as they could not
agree, they took it TO the Temple or Apollo
and consulted the priestess as to what
should be done with it. She said it must
be given to the wisest man in Greece, and
and it was accordingly sent to Bias, who
declared Thales, who sent it to another
one, and SO on, until it had passed through
the hands Of all the men, distinguished
afterwsrd as the that the other was wiser
than he, it was finally sent to the Temple
of Apollo, where it long remained to teach
the lesson that the wisest are the most
dstrustful of their wisdom.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03
Curious Dance of Alaska Indians

A private letter from Alaska contains
the following: "The natives near us are
friendly, but the tribes eighty miles north
are inclined to be troublesome. All are
fond Of dancing, and l have attended
several Of their performances, one of
which was very interesting, and brief
account may interest you: Hanging in
testoons across the room were the blad-
ders Of all the seal killed the past season
by the residents of the village; these blad.
ders were painted with bands Of black,
and the supefstitieus dance was given in
their honor, as is the custom here. Soon
the best seal-hunter leaped from his con.
oealment under the floor, shouting and
bearing large number Of resined sticks
burning, which burst into bright flame
as he rushed about the room waving his
torch across the head and body of each Of
the hunters, who sal in breathless silence
during the operation. He then ran shout
ing hoarsely along the line of bladders,
sweeping his torch many times before the
various iestoons. The intensity and wild
earnestness of all his movements excited
his companions, one of whom, with the
assistance of several others, he suddenly
seized by arms and legs, and thrust back
ward through the hole in the floor, where
the debris of the torches was emitting a
dense smoke. When nearly strangled
he was drawn out, and one after another
the entire lot of hunters was served the
same way, and the spectacle was over.
After several other dances had been held
at the same place these bladders were
taken down. and mid winter carried out
on sea about two miles, and put through
hole in the ice at sunrise. the natives
walking to and from the wa.ery sepulchre
in solemn procession, and the ceremony
was ended.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03

Mr.. Talmage hopes to meet the Brook
lyn preachers who tried him, in Heaven
Heaven isn't the place it i said to
be If any Of them get there.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03

The man beneath whose weight the
kerosene barrel gave way said he struck
oil.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-03

A ships wake, like the Irishman's,
comes only after the ship Tor the Irish
MANI has passed away.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07

r,,s nsu volume at Ihe LtVinE Age
The nun Ter Of LitteWs Lieing Age
f,r the week annIug January 41h be-
gins ia one hundred Aud tOftieth VOL
ume.
In Ibis volume q Jorge NacDonatd's
new and Increasingly interesting
serial story, "Sr Gibbie," will be con-
tinued from week to week until COM
pleted; ii new serial. THE Brides
Pass" by Sarah Tyler, whose stories
" What She Came Through" and
Grey. Adam CamerOn's Visit to Lon
| dom attracted so much attention IN
| the LiUino Aqe, will be begun III Jam
nary a serial story. The Romance OF
! CaIcJt House, by Katharine >. Mac
| 0uoid. author of Patty" etc, is All
| I,Ounced to appear early In The new
wear: choice short stories, for which
| The Tirino AQe has become noted, In
| GLIDING TRANSACTIONS from the French,
| etc, will cOntinne feature OF the
| magazine; and, through the year, the
| leading foreign authuIs Will be repre-
sented in this department OF the perl
odical.
In science, politics, theology ana
| general lIL6TAiuIe, dAtiCACS 0hS ~ N"''
ed az forthcoming from the loren
thinkers, Investigators and writers, IN
| Guiding w. II. MallOck, author OF
"Positivism on an Island" Dean STAN
lev, Rt. Hon. w. +. Gladstone, J. An
thony Froude, Prof. Goodwin Smith,
| Richard A. Proctor. Prof. Huxley, DR.
w. B. Carpenter, Prof. Max Muller,
| Matthew Arnold, and Othe :, with
sketches by r. d. Blackmore, author
ofnLorna Doone," VIM. Black, Mrs
Oliphant, Anthony TrOllOpe, etc. In
short, with the recent great impetus
given to foreign periodical literature
The Living Age promises to be richer
than ever in the work OF the ables'
minds of the time, and will give thell
productions with a completeness no
elsewhere attempted.
The beginning of new year Is IA
vorable time for the beginning of
subscription, and the publishers vii
present to new subscribers for 1879 tn
, six mum ers of 1873 containing thu
first parts OF MacDonald's "Sir Glib
bic" LTrTELL & GAY, Boston, Pub
, lisheTR
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07

4 New York business man who has
made large fortune mainly through
the iudicious use Of printers ink,
has recently given the public the ben
eft of his experience. He holds that
advertising should be included in the
general estimate Of expense, as regu-
iarly as store rent. clerk hire and In
surSnce. 1t is often said that good
stand at a high rent is better than
poor one rent free. Advertising brings
s man before the public in way that
makes any stand good. The best
stand you can have is to be in the
newspa pers. These are facts brought
out in the experience OF the fall trade.
Most of the large concerns are 80 ex-
tensiyeJy engaged in advertising that
it is made a special department. with a
s;head1 and his assistants. The lead
;ng houses have a man skilled In the
art of writing and displaying their
notices. They study the various as
methods of reaching the public eye OF
every important journal as an sd'er-
tisiDg medium.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
ONE PIECE OF LAND
Sherif's Sale.
M. 1SN.C6.

DY VIRTUE OF AN ALIAS ORDER OF
ID sale issued by he Clerk of the Circuit Court
at Knoxville, Tennessee, in the case of J. K.
Horne vs.. W. Fisher, and to me directed, will,
on Monday, the Sd day Of February, 1879, in
Teanessee, within legal hours, offer for sale to
the highest bidder, Tor cash., the following de-
land lying in the I'd civil district of KEox
county, be unded as follows On the north by
&. J. White, on the east by Lloyd Roberts, on
the south By Walker Hufer and on the west by
r. Stuffsl; al o levied upon twelve acre tract
Of land in the Sd civil district of Knox county
bounded as follows: In the south by L. 3
by John NJ. Craw ford and on the west by VI. B
TIllman This, Decent Der I7tb, 1878.
deo25w4e ALEX. REEDER, Sheriff.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
SCIENTIFIC RECTIFICATION.'

Lord Beaconsfeld has added a
new and happily chosen phrase to
the language, one that will doubt
less come into general use. The
process Of taking away large
quantity Of the territory of the
Ameer Of Afghanistan, which the
English are now performing, he de-
licately terms "a scientific recti-
fication of the Indian frontier. "
Capital conception 4 new and
beautiful designation for an old and
very common practice. In a late
number Of Punch a few apt illustra-
lions are given from across the wa
tiers. MARY Smith, lady's maid,
was charged, before the Justices OF
Blankshire, with the theft of seal
skin jacket, the property of her
mistress. The accused Indignantly
repudiated the charge of theft. She
had long felt the inconvenience OF
winter WOODEN wraps, at once sc
heavy and so common, and had
merely availed herself of the first
opportunity of scientifically rectify.
ing her wardrobe
And here in America how hap
ply the term will apply. When
number of impecunious Congress
men were seduced by Cakes Anne
a few years ago to embark in tn
credit mobelier swindle, they wer
merely engaged in $ ''sci
entifc rectifcation' of thei
finances. Boss Tweed was
common mechanic, a cooper b.
trade. Under the peeuliarities o
our institutions he rose to the dig
nifty of a municipal officer in tn
Metropolis. He thought it a goo'
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
Remember This.

Not an ounce of the ingredients
comprising DR.. G. McLane's Cele-
brated Liver Pills is ever permitted
to enter the laboratory for manufac-
ture, until thoroughly analysed by
q professional analytic chemist.
Hence, their purity and never-fail
ing excellence. None genuine with
out the signature of Fleming Bros,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
SHERlFF,S SALT.


DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SAL 2
ID issued by the Clerk of the Circuit Court at
Knoxville, Tennessee, in the case OF Horatio
Terrill va w. 8. Smith. a to me directed.
win, on Monday, the Sd day of Febiuary, 1879, in
front of the court house in the eitv Knoxville,
Tennessee, within legal hourf, offer fer sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, the following tract
of land Three hundred and ninety and one
fourth acres of land belonging to said Smith.
ard SHOWN as his river bottom farm. the Same
living in the 10th civil district of Knox county,
Tennessee, stu ated upon the river. From the
enove ninety acres on the west were sold to
Mrs Jones and twenty t four acres on the east
i Sns, conTeved in trusr, to n. K. Maroney, as
snce due to Andrew Russell BY note OF ha AL D.
tSs Rssisssrs ONCE May 18th, 1875 in book
vol ist, pages 452 and 453. more fully deserlbins
the lands with the beginning, buts and pounds,
ali giving. now in lew Of the above this levy
Is made upon the same identic trast Of nsae'
and no other. This, December 18th, 1915; 90
dee26w4t ALEA. hEEOhn' cnefiA'
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
A cool ASSUMPTION.

The assumption of the Knoxville
Tribune in its issue of Sunday
morning, is about the coolest thing
we have seen. 1t assumes that the
Democratic party is entitled to the
credit of specie resumption. as
Don Piatt would say, it beats Z" the
old scratch" Here is a newspaper
that has fought ever since its exist
ence, against the resumption OF
specie payments, claiming that the
party, of which it is an accredited
organ, is entitled to the credit Tor
something which it and its party
has always opposed. But we are
not surprised. We predicted a few
DAYS after the November elections,
when initiation, fiat money, Com
munism and kindred heresles
had sustained such an igno-
minious defeat, that the Democratic
newspapers wouldcome out for specie
resumption and by another campaign
would swear they had always been
for it. It's true, We had not sup
posed shat they would claim credit
for an achievement they had sought
10 prevent; but there is no accounting
Tor their cheek. They have adopted
pretty much everything that they
have opposed, and we are at a los
TO know what issues they will raise
in the next campaign.
There is one issue they made
few years ago in this and Othe
Congressional Districts, from which
they have not rcceded, and W
presume they may probably sticl
to it. and that is Stree whisky an
still house in every holler.
When all else fails them this wi
be their rallying cry. This IN
wolves a principle for which the,
are willing to make a fight. In tn
matter of the currency and othe
financial questions, they are gov
erned by expedience, but for ''fre
whisky and still house in ever
boiler" they can stand firm.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07
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