The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-16
Intelligence Items.


lation of Kimble county, Texas. in six
months.
Stones to pave the streets of Rome
are brought from the island OF Caprera.
belonging to Garibaldi.
The Cincinnati schools received q
gold and a silver medal from the jury
of the French Exhibition.
The American Bible Society is now
able to print $50 copies of its agate
Bible day, which is about one min
ute.
Tramps in the South are burning cot
ton gins where the proprietors will not
pay them dollar hundred for picking
cotton.
The public libraries OF Paris contain
1883, 900 volumes. The National Lii
brary alone has more than half mil
lion volumes.
A young lady of Bonhcm, Texas,
picks two hundred and fifty pounds of
cotton in day, and says she is indie
pendent of any loafer who can't do as
much.
In 1850, when the Continental money
was in circulation, pastor in the vii
lage of Long Meadow, Mass, had a
salary of $50 800 year. while the man
who rang the bell got " 900.
President Seelye, of Smith College
for Women: reports that in no one de-
partment has there been deficiency.
not even in Mathematics and Greek.
The girls are said to study better than
boys, and to show higher scholarship.
There are in France 25O, 900 men of
all ages required for the regular service
of the Catholic Church who will be
liable, if Gambetta's proposition goes
into effect, to prescription for military
duty.
The Mayor of Cairo passed over
hundred tramps into Kentucky
Wednesday. They informed him that
there were about ten thousand on
their way South. - Columbus SEN
fnel.
The study of "the science and geom-
etry of dress"-otherwise dressmaking
is about to be introduced in the A
and B intermediate grades of the Indian.
apolis schools. While the girls are en-
gagged in this study the boys in the
schools will occupy themselves in draw
ing.
General Tom Thumb and his associ-
ate, Commodore Mutt, have gone to
Europe again to give a few more
grand farewell entertainments" They
are both in excellent health and spirits,
and have new features for their soirees
that they are sure will attain great pop
ularity.
Thirty-six years ago the Island of
Samoa had population of 81 900, all
of whom were barbarians. The popu-
lation now numbers $4,000, the major
ity of whom are Christians. In the
theological seminary are sixty students,
and twenty missionaries are sent out
every year to the neighboring islands.
Sorghum is getting to be big crop
in the South. The Aiken rs. O.
CoarierJourual says: Mr.. A. S. Court
ney, of Aiken county has made so far
this year eight hundred gallons of
syrup, and will make about seven hun
dred gallons more before his supply of
cane is exhausted. He can find ready
sale for it at sixty cents per gallon.
At the recent meeting of the Con-
necticut teachers, Professor Brewer, of
Yale, complained that there is too much
machinery in teaching in our public
schools; that the system cuts off the
heads and feet of teachers to make
them all of one length, and advances
some pupils and retards others to make
them all come out together at the
end.
John B. Coughs success in his pres
ent temperance work in England prom
ises to be as great as was his success
when he last visited that country. He
has secured the cooperation of some
of the higher members Of the commu
nifty who were not formerly active in
organized temperance work. Mr..
Cough has already declared that the
churches have no right to discipline
one member for intoxication if they
fail to discipline another for drink.
ing.
The Afghan race has been commonly
regarded as thoroughly irreverent and
wicked. In volume OF poems recent
ly translated into English are senti-
ments showing that among these people
are found those religious sentiments
which form the basis OF all creeds.
One of the poems contains the follow
ing lines:
shouldst thou bestow but drop Of water on
the thirsty,
II would become An ocean between thee and the
fire Of hell: