The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-08-23
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for the letter carriers.-Many Faithful
Bulldogs.
While her mother was taking fly out
of the butter, little Daisy asked: lis that
a butter fly, mammal" ~
When o poor fellow begins going to
the dogs,i is only his dog who contin les
to sympathize with him.
The LII. D. crop OF this year is very
large one. but some of it has been gath
cred before it was ripe.-BOston Tray
eler.
If we did but know how little some
enjoy of the things they possess, there
would not be very much envy in the
world.
be poor and humble. His congregation
must keep him poor, the Lord will fhake
him humble.
Money and fame are two things What
men work hardest for; and after deAth
one is worth just about as much to tfNm
as the other.
If you don't want evil things said ON
you, don't do evil things. 1t is poor
policy to grow feathers for your enemy's
arrows.
"What is meant by Sabbath-day's
Journey" John-'The distance between
any place and the nearest good fishing
ground"
The Great Eastern" last year earned
sos, and cost $4,000. Now, if we
didn't know the Great Eastern" was q
steamship, we would think it was q
member of Congress.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and
new fashions, and valning ourselves by
them, is one of the most childish pieces
of folly that can be.
eff ours" exclaims the Chicago Inter-
Ocean, lis not q government of the So
loon keeper by the saloon keeper for tho
saloon keeper, what is it?"
Pennsy lvania man still has in his
possession the first pair of pants he ever
wore. Unlike most fathers, he hasn't
tried to work EN- off on the boys.
The difference between q long and
short yarn is very we'll illustrated by the
difference of ones feelings in holding q
skein for ones grandmother or for ones
sweetheart.
A desire to make everybody happy
and comfortable can be carried to ex-
tremes. An Indiana landlord has been
fined $500 for kissing lady who was .
guest at his hotel.
1t appesrs that alum is sometimes
added to wines to give astringency and
to raise the color. For its detection,
evaporate to dryness, and then set fire to
the organic matter.
Mr.. Sherman loves to sit on the porch
and watch the lawn mower rattle among
the trees. So do we; and 80 long a.
somebody else pushes the machine We
don't care how much it rattles.-Boston
Star.
1t is calculated by scientists that
man can MIKE more of q blamed nui-
sance OF himself in Ave minutes with q
garden hose than he can in AN hour and
a half by any other method.-Lowell
Citizen.
The reason the wives Of Brigham
Young do not go to mis- grave and weep
is good one. No woman wants TO 90
to her husbands grave to shed tears and
find another woman there doing it,
Boston Post.
have often noticed that gallant Young
men walking with their sweethearts offer
their left arm. Why is this? Edith
The left arm is nearest the heart; the
right arm is nearest the pocketbook.-
Philadelphia News.
"Going ont of town this summer"
somebody asked Q drygoods clerk the
other day. Summer nothing" was tho
curt reply. II can get all the mosqui-
toes and stale fish want right where
board in Harlem."-The Judge.
The principal OF n Massachusetts, in
land academy saw fit to expel one of his
boys, who then wrote home to his father
in justification of his course: II got
expelled for riding with the girls, but
took the neatest, cleanest, prettisst girl
there was in town"
At the dinner to the newsboys at the
Sol ,iers' Home one boy had eaten all he
could possibly hold, when he leaned back
and said TO his partner. skinny, my
stomach will think my throat il out"
Volumes could not say more.-Peck's
Sun.
A lady poet asks: "How can I tell
him love him NO more ?" Probably the
best way ID to get HIM into an ice cream
saloon, eat Ave dishes and then break the
news gently. II he doesn't accept the
situation you had better try and love him
again. You can never do better.
A Philadelphia police sergeant says he
has arrested men hopelessly, helplessly,
rolling drunk, with $1,000 in their pock-