The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A honest man is the noblest pursuit of
woman.
cit really SEEMS" says the Phila-
delphia Bulletin, ''as if Jay Gould's
reputation for veracity ought to be put
into the dock for extensive repairs before
any charges made by him shall be per-
mitted to affect public men of good
character"
The spelling reformers are gradually
approaching unity. The partial cor
rections" Of the English Pathological
Society are being adopted In this country,
and the Engii,h Spelling Reform Asso-
citation has adopted the American five
rules" WI ieh are substantially contained
in the partial corrections.
els there anything the matter with
you?" said physician to person who
had sent for him. "Oh, dear, yesl /
am i'll all over, but don't know what it
is, and have no particular pain mo-
where" was the reply. Very, well"
said the doctor; "Ill give you some
thing to take away all that"
Pennsylvania is now the only State
which has persistently refused women
admittance to the bar. A lady in that
State has been trying for seven or eight
years to gain such admittance, but the
court refuses to allow her to enter under
the existing statutes, and the Legisla-
ture refuses to pass new law.
Professor George Ebers complains that
no less than three of his novels have
been dramatized and put upon the stage
in variouStowns OF Germany without his
consent. The German law CT the suN'
ject seems to be similar to that Of Eng
land, but a petition to the Reichstag for
its amendment is now being circulated.
The Athaueum is authority for the
statement that the Maine Historical Soci-
ETY. has decided to publish Q history of
that state. 1t is now fifty years since Will
liamson's history was issued, and much
new material has been discovered in
recent days. One of the problems yet to
be solved 10 whether the Spaniards occu-
pied that region between 1915 and 1888,
and special search has been instituted
in the Spanish archives to clear up the
doubts on this head.
It is customary in some localities to
teach children to think of text rs they
drop their pieces of money into the con-
tribution box. A certain little girl at
Sunday school recently saw the box APP
preaching and began to search in her
memory for q text. She hesitated for q
few moments, dropped the dime into the
box, and exclaimed triumphantly, "A
fool and his money are soon parted"
A band of Arizona Indians recently
captured a wagon-load of patent medi-
cines, taking contents Of the bottles for
new kind of drink. When they got
settled down again SO they could collect
their thoughts and reason, they con-
cluded that they had made no error. It
was q new kind of drink; and If the
white men of that region had got 80 they
could use that kind of beverage and like
it, there was no use for the Indians to
try to exterminate them Boston Post
The Canadian shorthand writers are to
hold a convention in Toronto, August
%. Among the papers to be read is one
by woman, an expert in the occupa-
ton. There will be an exhibition of
stenoeraphic and type-writing appliances
and curiosities. During the last ten or
fifteen years shorthand writing has be.
come popular requirement in Canada.
It is probable that it will be taught in the
public schools before long. The several
conventions which meet in the Dominion
this year are important in their respec-
tive spheres, and this one will not be the
least so.
Whooping Cough. On an extended
trial the author, DIR. Gaspar Griswold. of
this city, finds csrbolic acid in whooping
cough, in doses Of one-fourth minim to u
year, and one minim for one Of two years
and upward, to be the best remedy.
''The whoop goes; the vomiting ceases;
the paroxysms are modified in intensity
and frequency" This result he believes
to ''arise from similar action to that OF
creosote on the motor fibres of the vagu'
to the stomach and from lowering OF
the vitality OF the specific germ OF
whooping cough disease. 81 Scientific
American.