The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-26
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

That kind of religion is likely to be
the most popular which does not seri-
ously interfere with what you intend
to do.
A Canadian widow recently achieved
local notoriety by marrying her daugh
ter's widower eleven weeks after the
death of her husband.
It is estimated on fairly good author
ity that there are seven millions of boys
and girls in the Sunday-schools of the
United States. These are taught by about
one million of teachers.
In accordance with the request of the
Dry Goods Clerks Union, New York, all
of the leading stores close up at noon on
Saturday. The clerk is becoming power
in the land.
A score of men will rush to raise car
| window for lady, but when it comes to
| holding her baby, ''just for a minute,
you know" the rush dwindles down to a
very faint rustic.
A colored man. while plowing near
Opelousas, La, a few days since, struck
ten-gallon jar filed with Spanish silver
coins of date of 1779. The amount is es-
timated at $8. 900 to $40, 900.
st. Louis has two pretty female home
opathic physicians. The first patient
was man who said he had the neuralgia
from too much kissing, and wanted to be
treated on homeopathic principles.
A marked difference between the Egypt
of Joseph's day and the Egypt of Arab
Bey is that, whereas in the old time there
was no corn in the land it is now abso-
lutely full of kernels.-N. Y. Graphic.
A patent medicine advertisement be-
gins by asking: ''How do you account
for your having an extremely tired feel
ing?" Well, sir. we've laid it largely to
reading joke in st. Louis paper
Boston Post.
A Kansas man ate q boiled eggs in
seven minutes, and thereby won bet of
50, which subtracted from $25, the doe
tors bill, left him only $23 out on the
transaction, counting the loss of weeks
time as nothing.
There is nothing that soothes bee
sting on young girl so much as the re-
mark coming from a nice young man to
the effect that the bee was a discrlminat-
ing insect, and knew sweet thing when
it saw it.
1uG STduu T0SLuSuCo VI bLt ldtc OUf-
nelius j. Vanderbilt, on Vanderbilt
Hill, Hartford, was never occupied by
its owner. It looks deserted, and the
entrances of the two roadways are pla-
carded ''No admittance."
A man living near Dalton, Ga, is said
to have the loudest voice of any person
in the State. When he calls his. chill
dren he can be heard q mile away, and
when he tackles hymn, he shakes down
young peaches from the trees two miles
away.
Thirteen gold watches of French make
were dug up on Scituate Mass beach
the other day, and as Boston jeweler
says, they were all made prior to 1920,
| it is believed by many Bostonians that
they were buried by pirates, several of
whom were hanged on Boston Neck in
1920.
It is pleasing to learn, by upward of
| 5000 miles of reliable cable, that it was
not Clanricarde who was murdered in
Ireland, but his agent. That kind of an
agent must be great convenience, par
ticularly in Ireland. He might be called
in one sense of the word life insurance
agent.
/ Ex-Governor Hubbard, who weighs
300 pounds, and who Is combating Gen.
Weaver's greenback arguments on the
Texas stump, began speech at Mine.
ola the other day: eff I sit down on
Weaver I'll crush him." The audience
ell got SO uproarious that it was neces-
sary to adjourn for drinks.
Cincinnati has steadily outdone Chi
cage in musical achievements, largely
/ k1A A
Springer, who built and endowed her
jects hall Of music and art. The build
ing alone will cost a million dollars, and
| will be finished in two years.
DIR. Clayton, says the Philadelphia
Record, has found that rabbits soon die
from an injection of human saliva, and
that the saliva of some races, notably OF
negroes and residents of the tropics, ex-
hibits a remarkable degree of viru.
lence-a virulence that bears relation to
the amount of tobacco used by the per.
son.
The census gives the population of
Japan as &c, ,359, ,994, which is an increase
of 1900, 900 since 1873. This apparent
increase is in part attributed to growing
accuracy in collecting returns. The
population of the three principal cities
is: Toxic, 979, ,084; Kioto, 830, ,829; Os.
aka, 587 $3.50.
A new invention promises to preserve
beef or mutton while the animals are
still alive. Boric acid is injected into
the animals veins, the natural circula.
tion of the blood carries the anticeptic
through every part of the body, and
when the unfortunate animal that thus
innocently preserves its own flesh fol
future consumption comes under the care
of the butcher, it will be found that the
mutton will keep perfectly wholesome
for considerable period.