The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-28
Tho W cked Mariner.

A Buffalo captain, when interviewed re-
garding his experience Of great gale,
answered that he spent an hour in pray
er. A Chicago captain said he was made
to feel what an awful sinner he was, A
Clevelander replied that he made a sol
emn VOW to quit swearing in case he
was saved. An interview was held with
Detroit captain to see how he felt. It
started off as follows:
"You were in the great gale we're you
not?"
II was"
Gas the gale increased, the seas grew
higher and your foretopmast was broken
off, did you realize what miserable old
sinner you WASP"
"No, sir. My time was occupied in
clearing away the wreck and thinking
how the owners would blast my eyes"
by and by, when the seas swept your
decks and carried of yolr yawl at the
davits, did you make any vows?"
81 did not. I told the mate we'd got
to square off and run before it or we'd all
be in - in less than twenty minutes"
"You meant Texas, did you not?"
81 did. 1 knew we were headed di-
rectly for Texas, with the seas piling
right over US"
Ibid your mate suggest holding
prayer meeting or singing any Gospel
hymns?"
mot by gone sight! He suggested
that we'd better be mighty lively about
paying off, or the internal old tub would
be at the bottom of Lake Michigan"
when the awful voice of the gale
roared in your ears, and the mountain
Gus combers rushed down, as if to bury
you from sight, did you have the least
thought of making vow to quit swear
ing, if you we're spared?"
mo, sir; on the contrary, believe l
swore faster than usual. l was in hurry
to get her around"
"As the wheel was put over and she
fell into the trough of the sea for mo.
ment, what were your solemn redec-
tions?'
"Well, sir, solemnly reflected that if
the blasted old sticks ever wanted to
play dirt on me then was the time to do
"When You got squared away before
the wind did you tell your crew that
they ought to return thanks to Provi-
dence for having escaped certain destruc-
tion?"
mo. sir. l told them to ask the
steward for about three fingers of good
whisky, apiece, and then turn in all
standing"
"Do you feel that you have any par
ticular cause to be thankful"
II do. The elevator man in Buffalo
didn't steal but forty bushels out OF my
last trip, while on the other they took
ninety-one. I am very thankful for
that fifty-one bushels, and shall strive to
be better man hereafter. Take suthin' +,
sir?"-[ Detroit Free Press.
L1FE's DIFFUSION. Kuhn,
aged "a, of Paterson, N. j., died sud-
denly without medical attendance. Her
husband who survives her, is so. Thirty
years ago, with fortune Of $50, 900 he
started ont to find perpetual motion, and
he has been working at it ever since.
His room is filed with wheels, pulleys.
and levers, and in his search he has
manifested no little ingenuity. His
fsvorite plan was one based on an old
idea of wheel surrounded with weights
on loose levers, 70 arranged that the
veiahts would be further from the cen-
| ter on the down side than on the mp aide,
| the diIorsnce in weight keeping the
wheel In motion. But every time there
was somsthing lacking, and he spent his
fortune n trying 10 cvereoms the
oh0lno1e. He 4 now poog. end ependr
his tno lansoting ~ want of Means %
naho fusthse enYoeineal1.