The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-07
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 t.ught 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 minute,
you know" the rush dwindles down to
very faint rustic.
A colored man. while blowing near
Opelousas, La, few days since, struck
ten-gallon jar filed with Spanish silver
coins of date of 1779. The amount is es-
timated at Sc. 900 to SIC, 900.
st. Louis has two pretty female home
opathic physicians. The first patient
was a man who said lie 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 abs0-
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 81 boiled eggs in
seven minutes, and thereby won bet Of
50, which subtracted from $25, the doc
tors bill, left him only 1913 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-
the effect that the bee WAS q discrlminAt-
ing insect, and knew q sweet thing when
it saw il.
The grand residence of the late Cor
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 mo 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 q hymn, he shakes down
young peaches from the trees two miles
away.
Thirteen gold watches of French make
were dug mp 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
1870.
It is pleasing to learn, by upward of
5000 miles of reliable cable, that it was
not Clauricarde 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.
Viewers gresnback arguments on the
Texas stump, began . speech at Nine
ola the other day: IF / sit down on
Weaver I'll crush him." The audience
all got so uproarious that it was neces-
sary to adjourn for drinks.
Cincinnati has steadily outdone Chi
cago in musical achievements, largely
through the magniAcence Of Mr..
Springer, who built and endowed her
Conservatory. But Chicago now pro-
jects hall Of music and art. The build
ing alone will cost 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-
hi6its . remarkable degree Of viru-
lencs-a virulencs that bears relation 70
the amount Of tobacco used BY the per-
son.
The census gives the population Of
Japan = 81, 868 ,08l, which il IN increase
Of 2,0oO 900 sincs 1871. This apparent
increase u In part attributed TO growing
accuracy il collecting returns. The
populat3cu Of the three principal cities
4: Toxic, 90. O0l; Kioto, $50. SD; o.