The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-20
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.

cheerful people are unODCruSlVe Dene-
factors to allabout them.
Always leAve home with loving words,
for they may be the last.
The road to home and happiness lies
over small stepping stones.
The half sister of suspicion is jealousy,
and envy it's mother-in-law.
The touchstone by which men try us is
most often their own vanity.
A weak mind is like microscope
which magnifes trifing things, but can
not receive great ones.
The habit of being always employed is
great safeguard through life AS well as
essential to virtue.
Nature has written q letter of credit on
some mems faces which is honored
wherever it is presented.
Improve the wit you have bought at
dear rate and the wisdom you have
gained by sad experience.
Less time spont in idle dreaming and
devoted to the duties of life, would give
us wealth and contentment.
Missouri has no lobby fooling around
her state capital, and it amt worth
very much to belong to the legislature OF
that State.
Who says "tears are not manly?" The
highest type of manhood that ever
blessed the earth with His presence wept
on more than one occasion.
In the last twenty years, twenty-nine
murderers sent to the Connecticut State
Prison for life have been pardoned out
after an average confinement of eight and
onehalf years.
General Sherman says that the army
now numbers 23.7S5 enlisted men and
1000 officers, 1889 of whom are west of
the Mississippi, leaving $3.50 to guard
the eastern country.
The Affections of this life are neither
too numerous nor too sharp. Much rust
requireth a rough file.
There is a report that Mr.. Vanderbilt is
so dissatisfied with his 81 900, 900 house
that he is seriously considering plan to
build again, in Fifth avenue, about
Eighty-fifth street.
Over 100 passenger trains arrive at
and leave the Broad street station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad every twenty
four hours, some of them at intervals of
two minutes.
New Workers can slake their thirst at
572 drinking fountains and lineup
hydrants. When it comes to washing
themselves, eight free floating baths are
open to them.
A COW at Vicksburg ran her tongue
through lattice-work and had four
inches of it bitten off by mule. There
is always something romantic happening
down Vicksburg way.
About one year ago a speculator
bought the famous natural bridge in
Virginia for 5000. He sold it to an
other party for $40, 900, and it has just
been sold again for $55, 900.
This is the season when the Florida
man desiring to make O trip north, puts
two strawberries in his trunk, and on ar
irving here sells them for enough to pay
all expenses.-P Philadelphia News.
Extract from a young lady's letter:
"And, do you know Maud and are
quite sure Captain Popple had taken too
much champagne at the ball, for he took
out his watch and looked hard at the
back of it, and then muttered: 'Blesh
my shoul ! hadn't any idea it was this
time O. night"
A boys composition on girls:
Girls are the only folks that have their
own way every time. Girls is of sew
eral thousand kinds, and sometimes O
girl can be like several thousands girls
if she wants anything. This is all /
know about girls. Father says the less
know about them the better off am"
The changes that made or unmake a
man are not the changes of stature, or
position, or circumstance, or any thing
else that can be seen outwardly, but the
subtle changes that begin, silent and I'M
noticed, in the hidden chambers of the
mans consciousness, where formless and
vague lies the material out Of which mo-
tives are shaped.
At an Alabama picnic, given by .
Sunday school the other day, the COM
mittee on refreshments piled their cake,
meat and sandwiches into coffin, and
one man shouldered it and carried it to
the grove. Some folks wouldn't have
cared for such an expensive box. but
would have been Just as we'll satisfied to
have their food toted in cheap basket.
An Arkansas paper remarks Of the
legion of visitors to the Hot Springs in
the pest: Jay Gould is said to have been
the richest; Sunset Cox, the wittiest;
Bob Toombs, the profanest; Senator
Vest, the most eloquent; e. B. Wash
burne, the most dignifed; DIR. Tanner,
the leanest; w. B. Aston, the most lib
eral; General Hancock, the stateliest,
and Senator Window, the most ponder