The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-05-25
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OlbCIccb WHY'D AoFC oOhiOoAASo HNAsA~S-
eyes nor ears.
To get rid of bad friend ask him for
what you most need.
Let prayer be the key of the morning
and bolt of the evening.
A case of suspended animation
Swinging in hammock.
The idea of nitro-glycerine was taken
from the kick of mule.
Appropriate music for walking
matches-The Walkure.- Musical Her
aid.
Every time you avoid doing wrong
you increase your inclination to do
right.
The person who is good for making
excuses is seldom good for anything
else.
Many often judge the person, but not
the cause, which is not injustice, but
malace.
Man is very much like an egg; keep
him in hot water and he's bound to be-
come hardened.
There is limit.-First young lady:
- could sit here forever" "And till
lunch-time."
No degree of knowledge attainable by
man is able to set him above the want of
hourly assistance.
The mind is like trunk. Well packed
it holds almost everything; if ill packed
next to nothing.
No evil propensity of the human heart
is so powerful that it may not be SUBJ
dued by discipline.
A couple recently divorced in Los An
gelos, CAL, repented, made up, and were
married the next day.
The darkness of death is like the even
ing twilight; it makes all objects appear
more lovely to the dying.
There is nothing in the universe that
fear, except that may not know all my
duty or may fail to do it.
For musical enthusiasts, strictly speak
ing. march is about the only music that
can be called sole-stirring.
$50 to the ant, thou sluggard," is all
very we'll; but if the sluggard will go to
81 picnic, the ant will go come him.
The Capital Pin company, of which
Governor Jewell is president, turns out
million pins daily. What becomes of
them?
Gracie's first experience in eating
peach: 1--we eaten it, cloth and all,
mamma; now what shall I do with the
bone?"
The idea that fruit eaten at night is
deleterious is proved by the bad effect it
had upon Adam from eating an apple
after Eve.
1t may seem best to colonizs the Chi
nese in Salt Lake City where they can
wash out the stains of polygamy.- Plea
yune.
ladies's dresses, but the coat sleeve,
around the waist, remains the favorite.
Howell Citizen.
The Impressionists, of Paris, now call
themselves the Independents. They have
opened their seventh annual exhibition
with 203 pictures.
"Amature gardener" wants to know
the easiest way to make a hot house.
Leave box of parlor matches where the
baby can play with them.
When David slew Goliah with sling,
the giant fell stone-dead, and was aston
ished, too, because such thing never
entered his head before.
1t is bad sign when q preacher tries
to drive home his logic by humping the
desk violently with his clenehed hand.
His arguments are so-fist-ical.
A little fellow being asked by his good
Episcopal mother what pleasure he felt
like giving up during lent, said he
guessed he would stay away from school.
A palace hotel is to be built in Roch-
ester, N. Y. An expedition will soon
start for Africa in search Of suitable
diamond for the clerks breast-pin.
"The unseen hand" is the title of
new book. Probably the other man
didn't have anything better than pair
Of trays and did not dare to call.
coming to the P0lnt.