The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-14
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.

honest.
Character would lie impossible were
there no temptation.
We must learn to infuse sublimity into
triaes. That is power.
Strength with men is insensibility,
greatness is pride, and calmness indiffer-
ence.
"Talk books to him." says one of Gar
fields friends, "and he will rouse
little"
Alma Tadema's "Sapho" has been
| bought, to come to this country, for
$4,000 sterling.
The belle of Saratoga last season was q
Cincinnati girl. She had % proposals
for marriage.
He couldn't raise the mortgage on his
building lot, and so. poor man, with be-
coming blind he lost his site.
Never address your conversation to a
person engaged in footing up column
of figures. There nothing SO deaf as an
adder.
The Austrian Government is contem-
plating the reconstruction of its railway
system and its transfer to State proprie-
torship.
A Connecticut gentleman has an old
country house painted red, and he has
large yellow flowers blooming all
around it.
Normal school girls will act as wait
resses at Martha's Vineyard hotels.
These boDifaces know how to make
money.
Bad temper is its own scOurge. Few
things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A
mans venom poisons himself more than
his victim.
In New York society the good old
name of Mary Ann has been changed
to Maryantha. and that of Amy to
Amarantha. Sallyantha is also very beau
tiful.
Never build after you are five and
forty; have five years income in hand
before you lay brick; and always cal
culate the expense by doubling the esti-
mate.
John Hays father-in law, Amasa Stone
of Cleveland, is said to be worth Sc .OOO,-
00O He has only two daughters. Chance
for another Tribune man.
A Boston paper says that Boston is
worse than any other city in the Union in
the habit that men have of sitting while
ladies stand in the cars.
Bismarck says he feels no older at So
than he did at 43, but he is reminded of
his feeting years whenever he tries to
climb fence or put up a clothesline.
There are only seven feet of snow in
the woods of northern Wisconsin, and
some people are sanguine enough to hope
that clotheslines will begin to thaw out
by June LIST.
This is very grave questlon-u
Satan should ever be chosen President
of the United States how many of us
would he find entirely worthy of his
confidence?
Take the world Just as it is and we
must needs believe in future retribution.
Allow us to pick the men, and so far as
they are concerned we can believe in
universal salvation.
A great deal of the mean criticism of
the world reminds us of the child who
said: johnny, how greedy you are to
take the largest apple in the pile; l
wanted that for myself"
In the matrimonial market some choose
the man without the riches, and others
the riches without the man. In after
life the former lives in q flower garden
and the latter in a dollhouse.
Some of the plate glass mirrors in the
new Grand Opera House in Paris are 40
by SO feet, equal to 2340 square feet OF
solid glass. Nine such glass plates
would cover half an acre.
Decorative art" opens many new fields
OF enterprise to ladies'. Wood carving is
a new avenue of employment for them,
and peculiarly adapted to the delicacy OF
touch and the artistic taste of woman.
Says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser: "When fashionable cane is man
aged with an easy grace, its. presence al
ways enhances the elegance Of q gentle
mans toilet" All, when, when, when!
A young lady Of New York was married
the other day in the wedding gown of
her grandmother, made seventy years
ago, without alteration, and so similar
were the styles that no one knew but il
was new one made for the occasion"
x-Lieutenant-G Governor Dcrsheimer
and General Kirby Smith gave an elabor.
ate breakfast on the oath OF May, in Lon
don, to Whitelaw Reid and his bride,
John Bright, Minister Lowell and s. s,
Cox were among the guests, aud there
was much political fun and banter ON the
occasion.