The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A Vermont man wants to know who
this Lowell minister is that Blaine tele
graphs to every day.
Fix upon that course Of life which is
the most excellent, and habit will render
it the most delightful.
Sitting Bull has the proud satisfaction
of counting the entire United States
army among his most devoted follow
ers.
When the devil wants to train up a
young man in the way he wants him to
to go, he appoints idleness to boss the
job.
Captain J. A. Sylvester, who when q
private in the United States army cap
tured Gen. Santa Anna, died recently in
New Orleans.
Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter Of
the poet, is handsome young girl with
bright, dark, soft eyes, and q proud and
graceful carriage.
A soldiers life resembles cigar. He
passes through the fire and smoke to find
his hopes in ashes, and what is left of
him is mere stump.
Some men, they say, like to be lied
about. We presume this means Wash
ington editors, of whom no good can
truthfully be said Boston Post.
Deep-voiced guzzler: "Hi, waiter!
bring me three more schooners!" Awe
struck spectator, Whispering: "That
must be the new secretary of the navy"
. 1t looks now as if prominent feature
of every travelling show this season will
be figure of Guiteau dressed in "the
only original" suit of the assassin's old
clothes.
A parrot believed to be seventy-two
years of age recently died at Napier
vile, Illinois, reducing the percentage
of first-class profanity in that town about
30 per cent.
An Iowa. judge says of the prolivity of
the lawyers: "This State pays q quarter
Of a million dollars annually for unne-
cessary gab." That's getting off pretty
cheap, judge.
An esthetic poet wrote: THE muses.
kiss with lips of fame" but when he
found the second word printed mules"
he talked like q bur]y pirate for five
minutes.
Jane johnson. of Leeds, who is re-
ported to have been convicted 200 times
for drunkenness, has now, in her 83d
year, joined the Salvation Army. Some
folks know when they've had enough.
"The Lord sends meat and the devil
sends cooks;' but when o woman's
''help" lights out in the middle of the
season she wishes the old gentleman in
black would send 'em along little
faster.
Hortense Kittrell was appointed a
clerk in the Nevada legislature. Henry
H. WEIGH, the chief clerk, at first OBJ
jected to the presence of women in the
Office. But his prejudice has been over
come during the present session. Miss
Kittrell is now Mrs. WEIGH.
Two young girls ha1 fight in q
street in Reeding, and one of them was
30 badly injured that it is doubtful il
she ever fully RECEIVERS. A disgraceful
part of the affair was that two fellows,
escorts of the combatants, let them
struggle with each other till the weaker
was all but killed. She was kicked about,
jumped upon, and finally left uncon-
scous on porch.
A curious fact connected with the kill
ing of Jesse James, that Ex-Governor
Burbank, of Dakota, now postoffice in
spector of Chicago, received notice Sat-
urday that there were found among the
effects of James 5000 diamond pin and
watch and chain, taken from him in a
stage robbery near Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, eight years ago.
One of the new caprices among i'm
ported dresses is tho use of velvet on
cotton dresses; for instance, the turned
over collar, cuffs, belt and bows on q
dark blue percale dress are of velvet of
the same color. The quaintest little
buttons Of Dresden china are used for
fastening such dresses. The ficelle
or twine lace is used alike on
cotton dresses and ON the richest
costumes of the season.