davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1879-03-12
MOVEMENT or WHEAT.
The following shows the receipts and ship
monts Of wheat at points named yesterdaY:
Total.......... ..... ..hl4, 172

IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY.
March 11.-Rccc1pts- 20 7.t' brls ;wheat,
1Sis'0 bu; eor, 20, 41B bl: oats, 1880 hui; corn
meal, rs pkes; rye. Is, ,05lbu; barley 5u bu;
malt, ,425 tn; uork, 2,t02 urls; beef, 40at tcs;
cut meats 4,Cso pkgs; lard, 1,4o5 les; whisky,
4H3 hrls;
Eyports-For forty.e!ght hours-Floar, 1900
br1s; wheat, 102, GOO bu; corn, 143,ooo bu; oats,
loo l,u.
, 1879-03-12

TuIRI.... .,..,,..,.., II, NsIS, TSI bH3 .tU
Also, u, Oh bu corn, l74,:S9 bu nata, 4i3, ,U!3
bu barley, alnl l5i,505 bu rye.
vlsiNIK BurrLY.
MF. A. c. Thomas, of this city, gives the fol-
lowing as lhe quansfties of wheat aud corn In
kfnra hntch & al RaYntnl 1nintx.
, 1879-03-12

METALS ANp ;TriNNEiiss'.. ss:rfocK-rns de- de-.
'nand IL Improving daily. and tho outlook for tralo
.eems to bo very bright, Prccs appear 10 hare
atty evince desire to stock mp more libcraIly than
TINY hayc dnne for several scasons past. The dc.
mani for iron u also active, anu the market firm
, 1879-03-12

HeuMCcE. ~ degrees s........,.,.........n0 f62E
POrATOE5-Wcse plenty and slow. Most Of ths
1esnEs i wore anal! md met With aitslc denland
M IeacMh!o"s were QUOTED at :,ao7ic, choice being
10St9ic. fsoae were a!ow at 80 fbt}uc,
POULTRY AND 0AME-WeFe easy, tho weather
being Wart1, and tho ofarings, especially Of ga,ne
street Snh overstockcd With wild, ducks, and Ill
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
The Cabbage.

Just speak to fine young lay about
cabbages and she will think that ou have
mentioned one of the lowest tfngs on
earth. Madam, you are wrong, is one
of the most useful articles OF food. Those
ancient nations did not know foodcience,
but they know the value OF god and
nourishing things, and they gave lem the
place of honor which they deserved.
Cabbages were thought of highly by
ancient nations, and the Egypti.,s gave
the cabbage the honor OF lettinfit pre-
cede all their other dishes; theyealled a
divine dish. The Greeks and Romans
had great affection for cabbxe, and
conceived the idea which l have myself,
that the use of cabbage keeps people from
drunkenness. l am persuaded hat the
constant eating of certain vegetables kills
the desire for alcoholic beverages.
The Greek doctors ascribed al kinds
of virtues to the cabbage. 1t washought
to cure even paralysis. Books we CON-
posed to celebrate the virtues Of ne cab
bage, and ladies partook OF it sool after
childbirth.
The Romans thought even more OF the
cabbage than the Greeks They ascrlbe
to it the fact that they could for GOO years
to do without doctors, and Cato actually
maintained that cabbage cured all dis
eases.
The ancients knew several kinds Of cab
bage-the long-leaved green cabbage, the
hard white, so much used in Germany for
"sauerkrau," or fermented cabbage, the
curly and the red. This last seems TO
have held the place of honor, and was
first introduced by the Romans, into Gaul,
or France, and then brought to Grea.
Britain. Later the green-leaved cabbage
was introduced.
The Greeks were fond of aromatic
seasoninSs-of oil, raisin wine, and
almonds. They boiled or stewed the
cabbage, and seasoned it with cummin,
coriander seeds, with oil, wine and gravy,
making rich dishes Of a vegetable, which
we now boil in water, and reckon among
The plainest food. Something like re-
membrance of cooking cabbage among
the old Greeks has come down TO the
modern Greeks, for they stuff cabbage
leaves with dainty mnce meat, and then
strew them with gravy.-Mrs. Lewis in
Food and Health Leaves.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Carlyle and Burns.

Men who were young generation
ago, and who then read Carlyle. have
the great advantage of having been
familiar in their plastic and susceptible
years with one of the noblest pleas that
one man of genius ever made for an
other, in Carlyle's essay upon Burns.
They were countryman, one born as the
other died. Both had the deep, strong,
melancholy nature which is nurturcd by
the misty coasts and solitary mountains
and moors of Scotland. Both, too, had
the immense vitality, the Berserker
humor, the thorough manliness of the
Northern genius. AS one reads the
works of Carlyle, and marks his impa-
thence of shams, and etfeminacy, and
equivocation, and conventional morali-
ties, and hears his loud satiric laughter
dying into wall of pathos and entreaty,
it is easy to feel that he saw the sound
hearty man he longs and prays for gone
astray in Robert Burns
Such sweetness and grace and strength
and tenderness Such soft, pathetic,
penetrating melody, as if all the sadness
Of shaggy Scotland had found a voice !
Such FOSTERING jovial humor, excessive;
daring, unbridled "a charm so univer-
sal that it drew men from their beds in
taverns at midnight. to listen, delighted,
until dawn. Here was o fullness of
simple, native, massive manhood, not
trained by the schools, not manipulated
BY the dancing master and the professor
of single-stick, overlooking bounds,
shocking the proprieties, defying the
rules, guilty of ofenses that cannot be
excused, and for which he paid the pen
atty. 1t fascinated and captivated the
sad, grim, infinitely tender and manly
and pure genius of Carlyle; and he has
interpreted, as no other man has essayed
to interpret, the wild, wistful, touching
and tragical story Of Robert BurnA-
Harpers Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Suicides in San Frncisco.

The city coroner of San Francisco, DR..
Dorr, recently made his annual report,
showing therein that suicides have de.
creased l6 per cent. from last year, when,
according to a comparison of the tables
fol- two years back there should have
been gain of 60 per cent. The decrease
cannot be explained and Dr. Dorr thinks
his publishing of the record of suicides
for the past fifteen years, has resulted in
rendering self murder more unpopular.
Six persons committed suicide by drown
ing, and the number of those who at
tempted to drown themselves was Ga,
viz, 81 males and l3 female. This num-
Der includes those cases reported, and
does not account for the annual number
In San Francisco there is suicide to
every 3,4sS of the population. This pro-
portion trebles that of New York and
almost rivals Paris.
Deaths by violence have greatly in
creased by hanging, and have decreased
by strychnine and opium. The age of
suicides is given, the youngest being 13,
the oldest rs, with an average at 40
years. The greater number were from
80 to 40 years old, with large increase
of those between the ages of so and CO.
The most of them were from New
York, with Virginia second Those from
Germany greatly exceed the selfdestroy-
ers from other nationalities About one
third left wives in this State, while only
three left children. The Protestants
numbered so; Catholics, Is; Jews, 3 !;
Spiritualists, 2; supposed heather (Chi-
nese), 6; and unknown, 10. Total, sc.
The predisposing and immediate causes
were as follows Pecuniary, business re.
verses, gambling and want of means, 20 !;
love, domestic unhappiness and jealousy,
8; after commission of crime, 5; intern
perance, 20; supposed incurable disease,
IA; unsound mind, etc, 10 not known,
6. Total, sc.
Pecuniary (30)-lncludins business
iisappointments, 5; want of work, , !;
want Of means, %. Love (4)-Includ-
ing jealousy, nostalgia, disappointment
and desertion, each. After Crime (S)
Including murder, 2; attempt at muir
der, 3; ENLIGHTENMENT, | !; desertion from
the U. S. army, l gambling, l. Alco-
holism Q2)-lncludlng intempcrance, 10;
alcoholism, .. Unsound mind, 8; in
sanity, 5; harsh treatment, /; fear of
assassination, ?; laziness, |. Physical
Suffering ()-Including heart disease,
3; paraplegia, l neuralgia, 3; erysip
elias, |. Supposed incurable disease
(phthisis), not known, 6. Total, sc.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Lickshingle's Fish Story.

"That reminds me-" observed Grand
father Lickshingle, when the girl brought
him piece of broiled mackerel az the
breakfast table" that reminds me of a
fish that me and yer grandfather mad.
1t was a goldfish. ] reckon it was the
most remarkable fish that anybody ever
heard tell of. We never noticed any
thing peculiar about it till one bright,
sunshiny day, when it jumped up on the
aige of its globe an begun to sing for
all the world like a nightingale or oriole.
We had canary hangin' close by, an
you never saw such an astonished bird
as it was. When he heard the fish a
singin he wilted right down, an seemed
to say:
swell, I'm blessed if that don't beat
me :"
can it did, too; for the bird was no
singer. After he had finished his tune
the goldfish yanked his head aroun'
under his fin an scratched hisself like
bird would, an then the canary, that
hadn't got over his surprise, seemed 20
say again:
"'Nex' thing You know, old Teller,
you'll be layin' "a pigeon egg.
"Well, that fish used to jump on the
aige of its globe an sing as reg'lar ase
the day 'ud come, sometimes as often as
a dozen times day. When we wanted
it to sing for company, all we had to do
was to set a sheet of music where it
could see it, an out that fish 'ud come
an tackle it, whether it was Yankee
Doodle or an aria from an Italian opera.
Il could got it a situation in the
church choir OF a good salary" continued
grandfather after pause, "only for one
thing. We could never teach the bla med
thing to turn its own music"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Color Blindness.

Color blindness has been much talked
about OF late, and its existence has been
so conclusively proved, that there is no
longer any reason why railroad and
am.boat companies should not be
compelled TO exclude from their service
employees in whom this, or any other,
defect OF vision exists. AS long as colored
lights are used as signals for switches and
steam boats, j. is obviously a criminal
neglect to invite accidents by employing
engineers and pilots who cannot distin-
guish red from green. Out Of large
number of railroad men employed on
the roads conveying at Philadelphia, who
were examined by DR.. Keyser, of the
Pennsylvania Medical Society, 81 per
cent, mistook colors one for the other, and
81 per cent were incapable of distinguish
ing shades OF colors. Prof. Wilson, of
Edinburg, found that one person in 20.
or per cent, OF those examined, was
color-blind. In Switzerland, III rail-
road employees out of 1858 were dis
charged for color blindness, and on the
Paris and Lyons railroad 10 per cent,
were affected in the same way. Yet with
the results Of all these experiments, and
OF many others before them, the manag-
ers Of our railroad and steamboat lines
manifest no disposition to provide against
accident resulting from defective vision.
The Marine Hospital Service has recent
" issued circular, with the approval Of
the Secretary Of The Treasury, Offering
to examine seamen at all ports where
officers Of the service are stationed, with
out expense TO the seamen or the masters
of vessels. the examination covers all
physical defects, including those Of vision,
and certificates Of fitness or rejection will
be given, and record OF all examinations
will be placed on file with the Surgeon.
General Of the Marine Hospital Service
At Washington. 1t now remains to make
this examination compulsory, instead Of
optional and to extend it to railroad en-
ployes. DR.. B. Joy Jefffies. Of Boston,
who appeared before the Railroad Com
mit,ee Of the Massachusetts Legislature
last Winter, and testified as to the preva-
lence and danger Of color blindness, has
made one conveft-she Boston and Hing
ham Steamboat Company, whose en-
ployes he lately examined for color blind
nea. 1t 10 useless TO hope that the COM
mendable exampIe Of this company will
be generally followed. No asgument
shon Of . mandatory salute will convince
rail road nanaesss and ship-ovners in
genaSal that Il y 6Oe 70 ca.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Dickens and Thackeray.

Trollope's view of Thackeray is that
while incontestibly brilliant and COM
handing high place among creators of
fiction, he was not great He sees hin,
forever in the shadow of Dickens, and
uses the strong and steady light of
others genius to show where Thackeray' 5
less glowing fame wavered and flick
cred. Why" he asks, twas Dickens
already great man when Thackeray
was still a literary Bohemiam?" and then
replies to himself:
The answer is to be found not in the
extent or in the nature of the genius or
either man, but in the condition of mind
which indeed may be read plainly in
their works by those who have eyes to
see The one was steadfast, industrious,
full Of purpose, never doubling of him
self, always putting his best foot fore
most and standing firmly ON it when he
got it there; with no inward trepidation,
with no moment in which he was half
inclined to think that this race was not
for his winning, this goal not to be
reached by his struggles. The sympathy
of friends was good to him, but he could
have done without it, The good opinion
which he had of himself was never
shaken by adverse criticism; and the
criticism on the other side, by which it
was exalted, came from the enumeration
of the number of copies sold. He was a
firm, reliant man, very little prone to
change, who, when he had discovered
the nature of his own talent, knew how
to do the very best with it.
1t may almost be said that Thackeray
was the very opposite of this. INSTEAD
fast, idle, changeable Of purpose, aware
of his own intellect, but not trusting it,
no man ever failed more generally than
he to put his best foot forward. Full as
his works are of pathos, full of humor,
full OF love and charity, tending as they
always do to truth and honor, and manly
worth and womanly modesty, excelling,
is they seem to me to do, most other
written percepts that | know, they al.
ways seem to lack something that might
have been there. There is touch of
vagueness which indicates that his pen
was not firm when he was using it. He
seems to me to have been dreaming ever
of some high flight, and then to have
told himself with a half-broken heart
that it was beyond his power to soar up
into those bright regions. 1 can fancy,
as the sheets went from him every day,
ne told himself in regard to every sheet
that it was failure. Dickens was
quite sure of his sheets.-N. Y. Times
Review Of Anthony Trollope's New
Work on Thackerav.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
The Good Reporter.

A gooi reporter is always first cousin
TO a necromancer, and can introduce him.
self to you in such genial way that for
the time being he seems like our long
lost brother, who is anxious to show you
the straw berry mark on his left arm in
proof of his identity. You talk with him
about the inner secrets of your lite in a
profuse sort Of way, give him your opin-
ions about the resumption OF specie pay
ment, and, as the conversation flows,
freely unfold yourself on various other
matters. He sits silent and admiring
listener, encouraging you by nod when
you are hunting for the right word,
or possibly supplying it himself, and gives
you the impression that he wouldn't dis
close what you have told him-no, not
for worlds on worlds. The next day you
take up the paper and while carelessly
looking over its columns see your name
in capitals which seems to your astonished
gaze as long as Bunker Hill monument.
Every word you have said is there. That
man with the strawberry mark on his left
arm was the small end of a speaking
trumpet through which you unconsciously
told the whole world all about yourself.
He had no pencil nor paper and didn't
cvince any desire &c write in short hand.
Oh, no; that is the clumsy way in which
beginners work. His skill is not in his
finger-tips, but in his memory. He
memorized every word you said and re-
produced it with perfect accuracy. The
accomplished reporter is as nearly ubiqui.
tous as a merely human being ever be.
comes, and is beginning TO be regarded
as moral restraint, in many respects
superior to the Decalogue. A man in
the olden time might possibly break the
Decalogue and hide the pieces, but nova
days the moment law is broken The
quick ears of the reporte- catch the sound
and his persuasive lips compel , GU to tell
him all about IT, He IS an animated
interrogation point; human corkscrew,
who gets deeper hold on your secret
every time he turns around. His mission
is summed up in the short but terrible
sentence, "lf you do it, I'll tell" What
religion can't do the fear oil the reporter
will accomplish.-New York Herald.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
A Hen Story.

Young America" contribu ties the fol-
lowing essay on the hen " Hens is of
two kinds-guinea hens and other hens.
Guinea hens can sing further an make
you madden than any beest but ham
organ, but the other hens gives pits
that's yaller in the middle. Mi big
brither is hen, but he amt setter,
'cep' his dog Hens pits is coed fride
with ham an Easter is sure to bring em
out, only if you keep 'em too long they
smell, but / wood rather have a other
noSega When hens is offul young they
stays in the pits till it's time to be-
horned, an then they craks the enwellop
an Gums out Boy hens las spikes on
thare ankils when tina grow up, but tia
don't ware pantaloons, only If was
that kline of Teller Ide ruthsr have .
thum that didn' stick out behind Wen
hens don't turn out to be henA tina call
en- ROSTERS, which il tho father, IN ide
like 70 80 you ean my father rooster K
you couldn't cline good-Yonksr's g.
se<te.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
Handsome Congressman.

Mary Clemmer writes from Washing
ton to the Independent: There are fine
aces among the Democrats-;oo fine to
be Democrats. Among these, scanning
them closely, counted Blackburn's Of
Kentucky, fire-kindler and quickener that
he is. A tall. slim nimrod of warrior,
he served through the entire war in the
Confederate army, as did also Randall
Lee Gibson of New Orleans, who was
born in the same town with Blackburn
Versailles, Kentucky. Blackburn is but
Al years Of age, looking much younger.
Gibson is but little past 40 tall, blonde,
refined looking gentleman. Another
notable looking Southern warrior, now
famous as an orator in the House Of
Representatives, is General Hooker OF
Mississippi. He is pacing up and down
the floor in meditative mood, man of
more than six feet in height, with mar
tial bearing, though attired in regulation
black. His black hair is brushed back
straight from bis forhead, showing with
out relief bold. but not bad face. He
was graduated from the Cambridge Law
School; was a Confederate colonel of
cavalry; carries with him but one arm, a
trophy OF rebellion he bore from the siege
II Vioksburg; after the war was Attorney
General CT the State of Mississippi He
with Randall Gibson, Blackburn and Ste
phens are the most marked men Of note
from the South in the House, though
there is many another Confederate here
minus leg or arm lost in the days of
fierce battle. Spiritually, it is strange
sight to see these men walk to and fro
often meeting with kindly personal greet.
ing-each bearing many scars received in
deadly flight for that which TO both was
most dear.
There stands splendid soldier, who
as legislator has !e. II &c heard from,
Robert M. A. Hawk of Illinois, elected
for the first time 10 the Fofty-sixth Con-
gress. A man Of magnificent height and
proportions. he stands, with crutch, on
one leg. AT twenty-five years of age he
lost the ether on the day that Richmond
fell. He looks as if he were man of
strong personality and mental force, OF
fine temperament, OF the fair type,-a man
whose impulses are generous. his con-
viciions positive, his judgment clear.
Near him sits good man f.om Michigan
Edwin Willits-a man in the prime Of
life, marked by head covered with black
hair and white beard. He is an editor,
having long published journal Qhe
Monroe Commercially in his own State.
Walking up and down the aisle beside
him is another Republican, who, as a
leader, fairly divides the honors with
General Gar6eld-Omar D. Conger of
Michigan. He is the son Of clergyman,
and, like other men in Congress who are
clergymen's; for he is one OF the most
trusted as we'll as one of the most face
tious of legislators. Born in 1913, he
looks little past forty-a well built man,
with black hair, deep-set, keen blue eyes,
a grizzled beard; an aspect that marks the
man full of activity and great powers of
endurance.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21

A young lady graduate in neighbor-
ing county read an essay entitled EN-
ployment of Time" Her composition
was based on the text, "Hme wasted is
existence; used, is life" The next day
she purchased eight ounces Of zephyr Of
different shades and commenced work
ing sky blue dog with ssargreen ears
and pink tail on piece of yellow oan-
va She expects 70 have it done BY
naxt Chsistma1 -Noesis1own Herald
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21

Mexico u u it again. and President
Dias 10 greatly encousaged in the hope
that his coantly will yet be able TO make
1000 revolstioas . minute without slip
piae Der eccenlsie
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21

Talosge fofeverl He Is proving him.
SELF friend OF the poor down-trodden
psoducer! Lissea-'Evesy time yoa
throw . brictbat st me l vill pour oil on
your head till II runs down o. your coat
coll.r. Our prayer noe y hat he sock
e brichs nay aee sSo oss.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1879-04-30
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