The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-10

tor; but the patient is expected to do the
dying.
A thirteen-year-old girl in Louisiana
has heavy beard two inches long. This
sounds like the talk of an advance agent
for circus.
A Dutch Judge in Nebraska on convic-
ton of cuiprit for having four wives.
decided: ssHe lash punishment plenty;
Ifs NIT one!'
Give young man good clothes and q
good character and he is fixed. He can
not d. much with either one alone or
both without energy.
A careful perusal of the Philadelphia
Ledger brings to light the startling in
formation that man has recently died
in that city. Maps furnished upon APP
plication, to newspaper men. Outsiders
need not apply.
It took two doctors several hours to
get billiard-cue out of the mouth of an
experimenting young man in New Jer-
sey. Considering how abnormally unim-
proved the average New Jerseyman's
conversation is, it is hard to see why
they wasted so much time.
Ap exchange says that sharks on the
Atlantic coast are unusually stupid this
year, because they grab at an old suit
stuffed with hay when schoolma' am is
kicking the water two rods off. In JUS
tice to the shark let it be remembered
that although he is not strictly gramniv-
orous nor herbbiverous, he prefers hay
to sawdust and cotton batting.
The price Of land in the heart Of the
city of London has recently been estab-
lished by the sale of building site at
the corner of St. Thomas Apostle and
Queen streets, Cheapside, short dis
lance east of St. Paul's. The plat con-
tanned 1000 square feet and was sold in
1873 for s49v0, equal to $23, 755. Lately
it was bought back for E1O 900, equal to
$48, 500.
Alvah Clarke & Sons, of Cambridge,
are constructing the largest telescope in
the world for the Lick Observatory in
California. It will have Q thirty six
inch object glass, and will cost $50, 900
with the mounting. To test this instru-
ment the firm is constructing q tower of
brick supporting an immense iron cylin-
der with the necessary gearing. The in
strnment will be finished within about
two years.
In this country, with population Of
80, 600 900, there are 1904 1852 persons
above the age of 81 years who cannot
write. OF this number 2,O56. 463 are
white, 1,747 900 negroes, about 800, 600
Indians and 100 900 Asiatics. It is esti-
mated that in almost every State in the
union, and in the country as Q whole, the
balance Of political power, so far as
numbers, is or can be in the hands of the
| illiterate voters.
A countryman visiting Cleveland took
q ride in horse car. When he desired
to stop the vehicle he pulled vigorously
the rod above him. Then he sat down.
After repeating this operation three times
he was noticed by the conductor,
who gave the proper signal and stopped
the car. As the countryman dismounted
in confusion he was heard to remark:
$50 many fixins on the goldarned thing
nd mix anybody"
A company has been recently organ
lied in Paris, with capital of 2,OOO, 600
franco, for the purpose of establishing in
New York museum modelled closely on
the Musee Grevin, situated on the boule-
varde Montmatre. The place will be
known as Eden Musee Grevin. of New
York, and will be situated somewhere
between Union and Madison squares, and
not far from, if off Broadway. The mu-
scum, it is thought, will be ready early
In 1888.
| Pennsylvania may fairly claim to have
| the stupidest man in the country. BE is
farm hand near Lebanon and was hired
to plow = ten-,.cre field. His boss, wish
ing him to pillow straight furrow direct
ed his attention to COW grazing in an
adjoining field and told him to drive di-
| rectly toward her. On his return. half
an hour later, he found the COW had left
her place and was walking about, while
the hired man, in pursuit Of her, was
driving . zig-sag furrow ell over the
field.
A San Francisco paper that has 70
| long opposed Chinese immigration that
| it feels nothing but enmity Tor al for
eigners, says savsgely: Twenty-Five
thousand greasy and unkempt immi-
| grants ere tho daily average now land
ing q Castla Garden for distribution
throughout onr country. Tho lad and
governments that can diost the tgnor-
ance, crime, squalor, disease and dirt
| that u ombreced in Al annual million Of
| imni&rants mus have The stomach Of An
Nh. Lnmbart Of Bean Pare, ireland.
ono q Whose dauehisrs II Maid Of Honor
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