The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-10-27
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

rGAEO ED mA9VEA1AN
The Detroit Free Press says: SIT is
very hard to be poor" That is our recol-
lection Of t.-fMilwaukee Sun.
A New York policemen has succeeded
iu deciphering one of the inscriptions on
the obelisk. 1t is, "Move on or I'll club
Ye."
The best way to apologize is to do
such kindness to the injured one that
he will forget that you ever attempted to
injure him.
DIR. johnson once, speaking of quar-.
relsome fellow, said: IF he had two
ideas in his head they would fall out
with each other"
Mary Walker asserts that the Venus de
Medlci never wore corsets. OF course
not. She didn't wear anything, her
wardrobe was tore so.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neighbor-
ing plants, forgetting that it, too, like
them, has les root in the dirt.
There is no better test of purity and
true goodness than reluctance to think
evil OF ones neighbor, and absolute inca
pacity to believe an evil report about
good men.
The art of iron smelling was known
in England during the time of the Ro-
man occupation, and working in steel
was practiced there before the Norman
conquest.
There is no truth that our young men
have to learn more important than this
that to admire that which is right is one
thing, but to do what's right is another.
The best people need Affections for
trial Of their virtue. How can we exer-
else the grace of contentment, if all
things succeed we'll? Or that of forgive
ness, if we have no enemies?
Learning, like money, may be of so
base coin as to be utterly void OF use;
agement to make it serve the purpose
of sense or happiness.
1t is sustained by abundant facts that
the greatest events of history, the vital
incidents of the worlds progress, have
often after turmoil, resulted in the word,
the deed, the determination of a mo-
ment.
The hills OF lofty endeavor and high
achievements lie all around US, and if
we never catch glimpse of the views
they afford, we need not complain that it
is because of the insuperable limitation
of our surroundings.
"Do you allow feathers, ma'am?" in
Quired young woman, with an eye to
perQuisites, applying for kitchen maids
place in the country. Feathers, in
deed," cried the Mortified housekeeper;
II don't even allow flowers"
Give us man, young or old, high or
low, on whom we know we can thor
oughly depend--who will stand firm
whom others fail-the friend faithful and
true. the adviser honest and fearless, the
adversary lust and chivalrous; in such
AN one there is q fragment of the Rock of
Ages.
A good many theologians of the lib
eral school have beeh battering away for
. long time against John Calvin's theory
Of the total depravity of human nature.
if Calvin were alive he might present,
for the consideration of his opponents,
ike life. character and public acts of one
Charles Guiteau. That would seem to
be an argument in favor of the inherent
''cussedness" of human nature that no
rhetoric could weaken and no logic over
turn Chicago Journal.
"You know" said Rice, chow the
negro likes 'possum." Two darkeys were
riding from tie field after a hard days
plowirg. They began to talk about the
good things to eat. "T AXE q good
faint 'possum--pah bile him-put him
in ole-fashion Dutch oving-roas him
brown" The other darkey's eyes roll
ing and mouth watering as the descrip-
ton went on-'sarve him up wild coon
graby"-"Shut yo' mouf, yo' niggah!
I'll fall right offn dis boss. - The
Baton.