The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-19
Things in General.

The great religions of the world are
bu. larger sects. Test each sect by it's
worst, as you wildly its high-water
mark OF virtue or it's low-water mark of
vice.
Andreas Eichenberg went into the
Capital City Bank, at Columbus, Ohio,
and asked President Richly for a loan
of sos. Richly declined, and Elchen,
berg instantly shot him, after which he
SHIT himself. There seems to have been
no other incentive to the crime than a
sudden and furious rage of d%isappoint-
ment.
"A schooner was recently tow ed into
Old York harbor, in Maine, by o large
black fish, which had been harpooned bv
n OF the party on board, thinking it
was u whale. The fish thus drew the
vessel along for three quarters of an
hour, at the end of which the line was
passed from the craft to some dory men,
and the fish was hauled up on the beach.
A Greek named John George was
held by a United States Commissioner
in New York in $3.50 bail for trial,
charged with selling unstamped cigars.
He brought a sailors boarding house
keeper to go his bail, and the latter,
when asked what property he had that
gave him the right to 90 bail, said: give
got a wife and five children" 1t was
just possible that he was not allowed to
furnish the bail.
At a recent English dinner the heath
of Cardinal Newman having been drank
with great enthusiasm, the Cardinal re-
marked, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, that it was a matter of surprise
to him, after having in a certain sense
lived separate from the world, to find
that there was su,h a feeling of kind
ness abroad towards him, and that peo-
pie had for him what he might call ro-
mantle feelings.
An emigrant WON lost her baby out
of a Kansas railroad car window the
other day. 1t was in her arms and she
went to sleep, and when she awoke 1t
was gone, and could not be found in the
car. Several stations after this, the con
ductor received a telegram saying that
a baby had been picked up about twenty
miles back by the construction train.
The child was perfectly unhurt, and lay
crying by one side of the track. 1t was
the emigrant's child, and came along to
her on the next train.
When the Italian peasant is told that
the tax on grist has been RENTED he
will be apt to think that the news is too
good to be true. For years this tax on
grist has ground him to the earth, and
has compelled him to live on that vii
famous composition known as "podesta,"
which is about the poorest stuff on
which a human being can subsist. Every
year an attempt has been made to effect
its remission, but until now the effort
has constantly failed. The present gov
eminent could in no other way have
done so much to win the adhesion of the
masses.
Long visits, long stories, long exhorra-
tons, long prayers, and long editorials
seldom profit those who have to do with
them. Life is short time is short mo-
ments are precious. Learn to condense,
to abridge, and intensity. We can en-
dure many an ache and i'll if it is soon
over, while even pleasures grow insipid
and pain intolerable, II protracted be-
You'd the limit of reason and convent
ence. Learn to be short. Lop off the
branches stick to the main fact in your
case. II you pray, ask for what you
desire and stop. If you speak, tell
your message, and hold your peace.
Condense two words into one, and three
into two. Learn to be short.
Almost everybody has heard of Blad-
e%nsburg, Maryland, where Congressman
used to fight their duels. Some painters
found a big mass OF honey in the Meth
odist Church there the other day.
While painting the outside they found
SO many holes in the Notwithstanding,
and SO many bees passing in and out,
that they stopped work to investigate.
So the bearings were taken, and a part
of the ~planking sawed off, revealing an
almost compact mass Of honey between
the joists, over twelve feet in length,
sixteen inches wide and four inches
thick. The pastor and many members
of the congregation had a good time
eating it.
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