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

as he is faithful to you.
We have but few faults which are not
more excusable than the means we en-
ploy to hide them.
Great men should think of opportu-
nifty. and not of time. Time is the ex-
cuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
Miss Fannie May Witt, who writes for
tho Detroit Free Press, also con-
tributes to the Sunny South.
Cooking schools are becoming the rage
in fashionable society. They are attended
by ladies who never expect to have to do
any cooking.
Men are guided less by conscience than
by glory; and yet the shortest way to
glory is to be guided by conscience
Henry Home.
The happiest lot for man, as far as
birth is concerned, is that it should give
him but little occasion to think much
about it Whately.
In boiling eggs hard, put them in
boiling water ten minutes, and then put
them in cold water. 1t will prevent the
yolks from coloring black.
A man has no right to occupy such
high moral grounds that he is constantly
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no earthly assistance to them.
1t is remarkable how little is needed
in order to act The power comes of
itself; will and memory are all that is
necessary; but just for this reason so few
know how to act.
The New York Sun has discovered that
snakes have to be fed but four times q
year to keep them in good condition.
How much more economical to keep
snakes than hens!
In 1880 all gentlemen in Washington
smoked corncob pipes and plantation to-
bacco. while only the diplomatic corps
smoked cigars, according to writer in
the Atlantic Monthly.
If you have made q mistake don't
think it condescension to apologize.
The true gentleman is always ready to
rectify blunder. Only the mule bites
For music by the glass or keg,
Well matted, not too vatty,
Or bottled for the export trade,
Apply to Cincinnati.
i Murat Halstead.
The hills of lofty endeavor and high
achievement lie around us, and if We
never catch glimpse Of the views they
afford, we need not complain that it is
because of the insuperable limitations Of
our surroundings.
Princess Louise is travelling through
Italy under the name of Lady de Sand
ridge She had better return to Canada
and travel under her husbands name.
We understood her nom de plume to be
Louise Campbell. - New York Adver-
tiser.
/ am waiting in the wildwood with club,
I'll meet you 'twixt the cleaning and the
dark
III hit you with my weapons biggest nub,
And knock You pretty much across the park.
4 thousand shining stars you'll soon discover,
And pyrotechnics till you cannot rest,
Oh. come and let me hit you for your mother,
My tangled headed poet of the West.
An elderly gentleman says to little
miss of Z: Say, sissy, will you marry
me?" The child taking the proposition
gravely. curls up her mouth as if con-
sidering the subject. sCome, sissy
says the mother, Will you marry the
gentleman" ''Yes'm, but aside)-
ma, I'd like newer husband. y Paris
paper
Extract from a book of South Ameri-
can travels: Never had those lonely
wilds been traversed by human beings,
nor did the animals betray the slightest
fear at our approach; indeed, on one oc-
casion when one of our negroes was
padding with his arm in the water an
alligator swan fearlessly up and bit it of
without displaying the least apprehen-
sion"
A French barber, referring to bald
ness and credulity of people respecting
the efficacy of hair tonic, says: Dur
ing the past % years that l have prac-
tised the profession of hair-dresser, l
have made the trial upon different bald
heads of more than 500 different hair
tonics, and am bound to admit that l
never saw single head the hair Of
which was restored after badness"
An indignant citizen: A promine Mt
citizen of Austin was being propelled
homeward by faithful colored servant
late one night last week, when they sud-
denly came to a halt. "Whassher mat
ter now ?" asked the prominent citizen.
Oars man dead drunk on de side
walk" Gimme lamp post to hold up,
and you dragsh off miserable drunken
beasht by hish legsh. - Texan Siftings.
One of the most interesting and prom
Using recent inventions is q machine for
purifying the middlings of wheat -four
| by electricity. The work is done bv