The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS NOffS.

no particular love 1Or one announcer, yeb
are silently in league together, espe-
cially against young girls.
H. Waterman is the proprietor of q
dairy in Baltimore. He should take Mr..
Chalk into partnership to make the firm
complete. Wit ana Wisdom.
Charles Lamb: The good things of life
are not to be had singly, but come to us
with mixture, like school-boy's holt
day, with task affixed to the tail Of it.
Karr: Love is the most terrible and
also the most dangerous of the passions.
It is the only one that includes in its
dreams the happiness of some one else.
Emerson: To discover truth and to
separate it from falsehood is surely an
occupation worthy of the best intellect,
and not ut all unworthy of the best heart.
Parker: The tree of religion drops its
leaves continually after they have done
their work; and the tree itself grows big
ger and stronger by the help Of one of
them.
The first American newspaper pub
lished in Boston was called "Publick o.
curences, Foreign and Domestick, came
out on September Is, 1890, was soon sup
pressed.
Ingersoll: Study the religion of the
body in preference to the religion of the
soul. A healthy body will give healthy
mind, and q health mind will destroy
superstition.
Anon: Love is the best investment of
all, save conscience and the sentiment OF
duty. These are the treasure-houses OF
life, the great market wherein the shares
are always rising.
Anon: Merit has rarely risen of itself.
but o pebble or twig is often quite suffi-
cient for it to spring from to the highest
ascent. There is usually some base be-
fore there is any elevation.
"Twenty years ago." says a colored
philosopher, ''niggers wuz wuf thous-
and dollars apiece. Now dey would be
deah at two dollars a dozen. It's 'ston.
ishin' how de race am depreciatin'."
When widow marries she calls her.
self by her whole name; that is to say,
LILLIAN Marcy Brown" her maiden and
her married name, never Mrs. Lille
Brown, "That would be in very bad
taste.
The hills of lofty endeavor and high
achievement lie all around us, and if We
never catch glimpse of the views they
afford, we need not complain that it is
because of the insuperable limitation Of
our surroundings.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has left Lon
don for the Sartoris country seat. General
Grant is anxious to gather his children
about him this summer at Long Branch,
and Mrs. Sartoris contemplates making
the visit very soon.
A practical farmer suggests that per-
haps corn-stalks, cut into three-eight or
five-eight inch pieces, might be dried in
the sun and prove as n0urishing as II
stored in q silo. Certainly it would not
cost much to find out by actual expert
ment.
On the extensive seed farm of Messrs.
Landreth & Sons not chicken is to be
found, but q large number of guinea
fowls are allowed the freedom OF the
grounds, which destroy insects Of every
kind, and are considered invaluable in
this respect.
With regard to breeding for sex, the
New Orleans Democrat says 1t has been
assured by old dairymen that they never
failed to secure heifer calves if they in
troduced the COW to the bull when her
udder was fully distended with milk.
Among the gowns which Boston girl
is to wear at Newport this summer is
one which has rows of shaded ostrich
tips set down the two sides Of the apron.
These are not mere bands Of ostrich
plumage, be il understood, butt verisble
tips, each one sewed separately.
There is an old gentleman in the
railway station in Media, Pa, who, in
stead Of the usual "Show yer tickets!'
accosts the traveller with, "Whar to,
stranger?" Persons going to Boston
used to be startled at Springfield by q
brakeman's cry: "Springfeld! swap
cars for the Connections Rileroadw
After four marriages of conventional
sort, and after arriving at the age OF
eighty, Kentuckian eloped at night on
horseback with the youthful belle of
Buckner, fastened Economically to .
clergyman twenty miles away, was
chased by an angry father, and is now
enjoying honeymoon tour.
He was dressed in blue uniform, and
had one sleeve empty, while, with his
remaining arm he turned the crank Of
wheezy organ where did you lose
it," asked . bystander, "buzz saw or
threshing machinep" Railroad acct
dent" said the organ grinder. "Hon-
esty il the best policy" remarked the
man, and tossed him . dime.-lWit and