The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-12-15
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

One of q party of girls who ran five
mile race at Rio, Texas, died from over
exertion.
Newfoundland dogs have been kept by
the city of Paris, to save human life in
the Seine.
Transfusing blood from living animal
to an unhealthy one has been practiced
for 300 years.
The food of IA Greenland whale is small
crustaceous animals not so large as COM
mon shrimp.
Mutilations, especially of the first pha-
langes Of the left hand are practiced by
the Austrians.
Nearly as many reams of paper in the
United States, are made into collars as
used to write upon.
The bridge of boats on which Xerxes
crossed the Hellespont was fastened by
cables made of papyrus.
Savages not only express satisfaction
by smiling, but by gestures derived from
the pleasure of eating.
Life is a short day; but it is a working
day. Activity may lead to evil, but in
activity cannot lead to good.
Montague: We must not always speak
all that we know; that were folly; but
what he thinks, otherwise it is knavery.
Norway has discovered that telegraph
lines scare the wolves away. They
probably are afraid of the extortionate
rates.
The number of great thinkers in the
world is very small, but the number Of
men who think they are great thinkers
is very large.
Some people cant come to an under
standing with themselves because-well,
if the truth must be told--because they
haven't any.
mated to be worth 800, 900 900; sum
States combined.
Cicero: Whether the soul be air or fire
know not, nor am l ashamed, as some
men are, in cases where l am ignorant,t to
own that l am so.
Muller: Before all things we must not
allow ourselves to be persuaded that, for
the discovery of truth, binders are more
useful than spectacles.
Coronet wreaths of pure white or gay
colored flowers will be very fashionably
worn with full evening toilets, with the
hair arranged Ia Josephine.
In several years the sickness of pneu
monia has increased slightly in Septem-
Der decreased in October and then in
creased again with the Indian summer.
Although early in the season, we an
nounce, at the request of Mr.. Vennor,
that during the coming winter water will
as usual freeze with its slippery side up.
GIVE been to see Mrs. Tittletattle,"
SAID Mrs. Telltale, "and the way she ran
on about you was perfectly scandalous.'
so she's been talking about me, has
she?" asked Mrs. Brown, quietly.
eyes, indeed she has" replied Mrs. Tell
tale with emphasis. ''What a nice time
you must have had" said Mrs. Brown,
with sweet smile.
A man was drifting aimlessly about
Cambridge. When they found that he was
seeking for a young man studying at Har-
ward College they looked at him in blank
amazement. At last a man spoke: If
you re looking for one of the students,
what the blazes are you doing at Cam
bridge? Why amt you looking around
the Parker House billiard room?"
By securing variety in temperature,
through planting oysters in different
depths of water, as practiced in Connect
lieut., the Scientific American says oys-
tiers can be obtained in fit condition for
the table every week in the year. The
greater the heat the earlier the oysters
will spawn. Those in the deeper and
colder water feel the heat later and
spawn later. Some portion of the oys-
ter field, so to speak, will therefore be
ready for harvesting at all times.