The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

80 dark and yet so light, as the man
said when he looked at his short ton OF
coal.
The right thing to do now and always
is to keep out of debt. And don't you
forget it.
Some writer's never succeed in making
point excepting when they sharpen a
lead pencil.
Matrimony is great blessing. because
even blind man has his eyes opened
after little while.
1t is better to be thought fool than
knave, says the saw; but it is better still
to be known TO be neither.
Some men are like oil poured on the
troubled waters of life, and other men
are like oif-the oil of vitriol.
A telegram tells us of General How
ards dancing with the squaws out on the
plains. Just think of it! Oh! oh! How
ard
There shouldn't be much danger to q
foreigner in the streets of Alexander.
A man ought to be able to keep dark in
Egypt.
What is the difference between Robert
Bonner and a bookkeper? The latter
keeps ledger and the Ledger keeps the
former.
"a singular marriage" is the heading
to a paragraph in one of the dailies.
Thought that was game that two had
to play at.
If the government could only tax every
body who has cheated it our national
debt would disappear like dew on an
August morning.
Here is good old proverb, older than
Wall street, and yet it is not without its
application. "Sell not bears skin be-
fore you have caught the bear"
Owing to the high price of beef in
Florida, the people of Tavans, in that
State, have taken to eating alligator
steaks, and pronounce them delicious.
A company of settlers in naming their
new town called it Dictionary, because.
as they said, 'that's the only place where
peace, prosperity and happiness are al
ways found"
It is said that paper can be compressed
into q substance SO hard that only dia-
monds can scratch it. That will be the
boss paper on which to PRINT election
tickets.
When you are tempted by the pleas
ures and excitements of life if you will
Just say, "Dear mother Eve, 1 never did
like apples" you will be rare man and
respected citizen.
The poor mans dog who has only
bone and the rich mans dog who feeds
on tenderloin are both alike when they
are asleep, and for that matter so are
their masters.
Thirty gilded chariots will be o. feature
of the Cars coronation, which is now
announced to take place in September.
The Car is evidently trying to lay over
an American curious.
There are two things which ought
equally to excite our gratitude. The
thing that happens to us and from which
we have lucky escape, ard the thing
from which we luckily escape because it
don't happen to us.
Picking up: "I guess you must be
better to-day" said Farmer Hodges to q
sickly neighbor whom he found rusticat-
ing. "Oh, I'm picking up little," was
the reply. as the. invalid bent over to
pick up red nugget or SOL Yonkers
Among those present at Rossini's
funeral was Auber. On returning after
the ceremony, the witty composer, who
was 81, observed to his friend Gounod,
IT fancy this is the last time shall ever
attend funeral en- amateur"
1t is said that Jesse James once
thought seriously of going through
college The outlaw "went through"
nearly everything else, and the reason he
didn't Ego through" q college must
have been because he couldn't see any
money in it.
When a man marries . good woman
the devil turns his back on him, because
he has easier work elsewhere, and when
q man marriesa scolding woman the devil
turns his back on him also, because he
knows that there is only one road for
him to travel.
Booth is resting in Philadelphia,
which is sarcastic way New Yorkers
have of going into the country. You
see they can't smell Hunters Point from
Philadelphia, and whenever . New
Yorker cant smell Hunters Point he
thinks he is in the Adirondacks.
Senator Slater Of Oregon says he does
not think the recent Republican victory
there was brought about by Republican
votes. Oh, NO, certainly not. A Repub-
ican victory, you know, never 10 brought
about by Republican votes. It is always
caused by Democratic votes. By there
not being enough Of them.-l Burlington