The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-06-07
FACTS AND NEWS.

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rope another year.
The other day Florida couple, aged
sixty years each, rode thirty miles in
springless cart to get married.
Murderers in France, if they have
money, are compelled under the new law 1
to pay large sum to the family of their
victims.
An Arkansas editor says that the stin-
giest man in his town talks through his
nose to avoid the wear and tear on his
false teeth.
Two children were poisoned at Shelby
vile, ILL.,, by dose of morphine given
by mistake for quinine by an intoxicated
physician.
M. W. ellis, the proprietor Of a small
bank at Clifton Springs. N. Y, put into
circulation about $25, 900 of forged drafts
and then decamped.
A gentleman of East Midway. Mass,
SO years old, on Monday shota wild goose
lutionary war.
An Illinois man boxed his wife's ears
for investing 50 in lottery ticket. She
went to her fathers home, and her ticket
soon after drew $4,000.
Anovelty in sideboards is of light made
in walnut, and has two small cupboards
beneath and series of small shelves,
terminating in picturesque railing.
Don Carlos, the pretender to the
Spanish crown, lives in Venice, where
he is causing much scandal by misbe.
havior. The aristocracy generally shun
him.
A minstrel travelling through Vermont
sings Home, Sweet Home" so effect
lively that most of the audience get up
and 90 home before he finishes the first
| verse.
Brooklyn dismisses from its police
force an officer who gets drunk and beats
his wife. He can now get DRINK and
beat his wife uninterrupted by official
duties.
Five living arandmothers is the share
of child living in Terrell Co., Ga; two
of them are grandmothers, two great
grandmothers and one great.great- grand
mother.
stery comes from Canton, China, OF
q woman who, to punish female slave
who had stolen some food, cut slice
from the girls thigh and made her cook
and eat It.
| The late suppression of the French
newspaper, the Black Cat, has produced
great public excitement in Paris. In fact
there is still strong feline against the
government.
Ninety-fiv herds of cattle, averaging
$500 each, will be driven out of the state
of Texas this spring. The entire drive
is estimated at 24O, 900 head, against $780,
600 head last year.
| In jewelry is shown a very novel lace
pin in the form of a locust with sapphire
eyes, the body of a light-colorcd lspis
luzuli, the legs Of gold and wings formed
Of tiny 'diamand clippings.
Curious fact in the grammar OF poll
tics: When statesmen get into place they
often become oblivious OF their ante
cedents, though they are seldom forget.
full of their relatives.-The Judge.
The contract for building the York
town monument has been awarded to til
Hallowell granite company. of Maine.
The work is to be completed by October
IS, 1884, the anniversary OF the surren-
der.
No one ever supposed the prairie-dog
towns to be of any value in the west I'M
til Yankee beseiged one and began to
capture the animals for their skins.
which, it is said. can be made into gloves
which rival the finest kid.
General Sherman kisses every girl to
whom he is introduced. Tecumseh
always was a reckless cuss, much given
to cutting away from his base and de-
pending on the country for his supplies
as he went along. -Hawkeye.
The largest piece Of granite claimed to
have been quarried since the time OF
Solomon, WAS lately exhumed at Thorn
aston, Me. 1t measured sixty feet in
length and seven feet square at the base.
Its weight was estimated at $50 tons.
The hammer and anvil OF Powell, the
harmonious blacksmith" OF White
church, England, have been sold at auo-
ton. The anvil, when struck with this
hammer, gives two noteL B and X. Its
sound suggested the melody named after
the blacksmith.
The Boston Herald wishes to revise
its opinion that the President has q tai
ent for recreation. A man, it says, who
can be satisfied with two days splendid
fishing and can't stay contented in ono
spot Tor more than six hours. has no real
genius for repose.
A man living near lake Louise. in
Manitoba, picked up an armful of sticks
one daylastweek, and carrying Thorn homo
thru = under the stove. In few minutes