The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-18
Gleanings.

worn.
Sara Bernhardt weighs ITO pounds.
Maud S. weighs $40.
Ought a woman to kiss tobacco
chewerl Yes, if she chews to.
When the loved one is absent, every
beautiful thing seems her shadow.
Nothing is SO much admired and so
little understood as wit Addison.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Teach them, then, or bear with them.
The essential guilt OF suicide is unbe-
lief-despair of Gods love and goodness.
He that calls man ungratefuI sums
up all the evil that a man can be guilty
A pearl or diamond fastened in the
ear is the most fashionable style of ear
ring.
Auburn hair has completely disap-
peared, leaving many shades Of cold
gold"
Wedding cards are to be smaller than
ever ard made as plain, quiet and gen
ISSt do pOooAOiS.
An old thermometer is never very
popular. Nobody wants to see a Their
mometer over 20.
1t was the dying poker player who
said: 81 hear the angels calling me-"
and then gave up the pot.
However things may seem, no evil
thing succeeds, and no good thing is
failure. -Samuel Longfellow.
Trust man to be good and true, and
even if he is not, your trust will tend to
make him such.-Max Muller.
You may shrink from the far-reach-
ing solitudes of your heart, but no other
foot than yours can tread them.
"What will you give me if / restore
your eye-sight9" asked the quack. 81
will see" replied the blind man.
Poverty often deprives a man Of all
spirit and virtue. 1t is hard for all
empty bag to stand upright. -Franklin
Our noblest ambitions often cost most
su1erii g - Saltwater Zimmerman.
What strange coincidence SO do our
own.
The Paris Museum of Decorative Art
has received from the British govern
ment gift of twenty.one pieces of Gold
mith's work.
"I'm very fond of little boys" she
said. as she tripped on string stretched
across the pavement, 81 feel as if could
cat couple of EN- this minute, raw"
Lord Macaulay used to utter 329
words minute. This will be Garfelds
quota on election night, but we are
afraid they will be more emphatic than
pious.
When letters are received bearing no
direction, the parties for whom they are
intended will please signify the fact to
the postmaster, that ne may at once FOR
ward.
AS you travel around the country you
are more and more impressed with the
conviction that the chief end of man is
10 paint patent medicine signs on the
fences
France, since the re-establishment of
the Republic, has had eight different
ministers to England, while the latter
has had but one representative at Yer
sailles
"lf you will consent to my marriage
with your daughter she will be treated
as if she were an angel" "That is
was the matter of fact reply, sin short !
time she would not have anything to
wear.
The husband of Mrs Scott Siddons is
said to have squandered most of the
money she has earned, and the husband
OF Jenny Lind is reported to have gam
bled away large portion of her proper
ty, once valned at 100000
He was sitting in the parlor with her
when the rooster crowed in the yards and
leaning over he said: "Chanticleer. 81
wish to gracious you would" she said:
I'm as sleepy as can be-" He took
his hat and left, and hasn't been back
since.
Phonetic Maiden aunt to tall young
nephew: GAS / stood beside you in
church, Percy, could not help being
struck by your size" Percy: Every
sorry, aunt, but there was such an aw-
fully pretty girl the other side the aisle,
couldn't help s'ghingi"