The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
ALL SORTS.

Inc neaCnen now worship lQOlS maze
in New England.
A business man in Rochester is seven
feet two inches in height.
The Japanese grape vine grows almost
up to the region of snow.
Montana has over 1000, 900 head of
cattle CRYING on its fertile pastures.
fresh portrait of Columbus has
lately been discovered in the Madrid
Museum.
Burlington Hawkeye: The man who
scissors off coupons is the genuine reve-
nue. cutter. ..ss-.,.s
Fulton county, KY, has a potato vine
five feet high, with potatoes on many of
the branches. Looks like potato tree.
A young lady on being asked where
her native place was, replied: 81 have
none; am the daughter of the Metho-
dist minister"
A bar of gold was recently cast in
pounds, ard is said to be the largest ever
cast in this country.
Arnolds Light of Asia" has reached
its tentr edition in London. More than
100000 copies CT the poem are said to
have been disposed of in America.
Nancy Lee is 107 years old and lives in
Lexington, KY. She is not the famous
sailors wife," but negress who lived
on the site of Lexington before the town
was ever thought of.
Twenty seven marriage and endowment
associations were at one time at work in
Little Rock, Ark, but between the news
papers and the sheriff they have all been
driven out or jailed.
The wife of the Chinese minister at
Washington is seventeen years of age.
She does not receive visitors, of course,
but with an attendant She drives out.
She is studying the English language.
The immense cost of living in Egypt
is a very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain there.
The price for everything is enormous,
and the whole days pay of subaltern
hotel.
Musical Herald: Bumbleton had a
severe strain on his conscious the other
day. He aims to be the most honest of
critics, and on being asked by the father
of an animated foghorn how he liked his
daughters voice, he replied:."She sings
like Patti (under his breath) gonian"
Lowell Citizen: "Oh, yes," he said,
81 would lend Fred the money if it
wasn't for one consideration. hate to
put myself under such obligations to
man. If loaned him money I should
have to associate with MIN right along,
SO as to strike the first chance of getting
it back"
A bill is before the Vermont legislature
prohibiting divorced person from mar
rying within q year, and person from
whom a divorce is obtained from marry
rying within five years or over, if the
ground of the complaint is q crime, in
which case criminal prosecution must
follow the divorce proceedings.
Dat clubs are the mania among
Georgia farmers, and as an incentive to
hard work and great care in growing
their crops are a great success. Every
member has to pay two bushels of oats
to the member who makes the most oats
on q given number of acres, and one
bushel to the next highest.
It is just forty-two years since the
privilege of ranking came to an end in
England. The origin of the custom is
thus given in the Parliamentary His
tory. 1t occurred in the debate on the
postoffice bill in 1910; "Col. Titus re.
ported the bill. Sir Walter Erie moved
that members letters 60 free during
the session. Sir h. Finch s.ig-
matized this proposal as ''below the
honor OF the House." Sir Geo. Downing
and Sergeant Charlton were for it. The
latter observed that the Privy Coun-
ellis letters were free. A division being
called for. the speaker said he was
ashamed of it, but Sir Walters clauA
was in the end inserted, but the Lords
threw 1t out. At the subsequent period,
however, both Houses were not above
availing themselves of the privilege, and
many abused it outrageously. DR..
Halloran, for . time chaplain to the
forces was transported for seven years
for forging . frank. Penny postage
killed the system,