The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-05
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warts but little hear below"
All the upper.crust people IN Canada
wear snowshoes.--N. Y. News.
Eight rainy Sundays have discouraged
the winter bonnets of the church going
ladies of Louisville.
It is thought that the coming woman
| will not play the piano. The keynote of
social reform has been struck.
"A minister announces that no has
''lost all confidence in hell" He'll
regain it after he's been there awhile
Elk.
Our slangy contributor says that there
is not disease known that will "get
the bulge on a man" quicker than the
mumps.
"Who is the most finished orator."
asks a correspondent. Well, Demos
themes has been finished as long as any
of them.
Two piano factories were burned in
this city recently. The millstones of
the gods took whirl on that day.--N.Y.
Com.
The compositor who set up "gobblin'
turkeys" for "Gobelin tapestries" should
give thanks that he is permitted to live.
N. Y. Com.
A gentleman ordered servant to call
him at six o'clock; but he awoke him at
four, telling him he had two more hours
to sleep.
The thieving Washington detectives
are said to be panic-stricken. This is
meant to imply that there is not q con.
science among them.
A New York court has just given
woman $500 damages for the loss of a
foot-and it wasn't much of foot, either.
She wasn't from Chicago.
A citizen of Macon, Miss, entirely
stopped using tobacco after ~ years
continuous use of it. He found that
opium suited him better.-Som. Jour.
| nal.
The man who will invent seal-skin
sack which can be worn in summer time
will gain the everlasting regard OF sew
eral thousand American women.-The
Drummer.
Governor Butler says he believes that
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution fully covers the right of women
to vote, and Ben may be right. But he
is just as like wrong.
Gath says President Arthur is timid,
moody and oppressed by the successive
shocks of conflict over almost every
office. He dislikes 20 say no, and there
in resembles Garfield.
Here q thought struck her, and, after
pausing moment, she added What
a rumpus there would be in this house,
She then repeated the concluding line OF
the prayer and scrambled into bed.
A prisoner on trial for murder in a
Connecticut court fell asleep while the
evidence against him was being taken.
So you can imagine what bore it must
have been to the jury.-Boston Post
Some men are ever ready to offer
remedy for everything. The other day
we remarked to one Of these animated
apothecary shops: IAN idea struck us
Yesterday" and before we could finish
he advised us: Rub the affected parts
with srnicav-Ex.
Montreal has professor OF crinicul-
tural abscssion and genealogical trip.
sis, - and ne has two shops. Whether
.you can get abscission at one shop. and
have to 20 to the other for tripsis Is not
| stated.
Heard in boudoir: Twill you wear
rose in your hair? mo, indeed; roses
have become too l,sgustingly cheap.
shall wear straw berry set tn cluster
of new Bermuda potatoes! --Philscei'
phis News.
A Boston paper says Mrs. Lang ry lis
handsomer than any woman III Boston
except four" We infer that the four
Norristown young ladies' who went to
Boston few weeks ago have not yet re-
turned. -Norristown Herald.
One hotel in Albany has knotted
Iope at every window for guests to let
themselves down by. And already ,
three mon have scraped the hide all oil
the inside OF their legs while sliding
down during the false alarms OF fire.
Boston Post.
The first Jewish marriage in four hun
bred years has just been performed at
Madrid, Spain. The lady was Miss
Jonas, and was married to cousin OF tho
! same name, the ceremony being by the
Rev. Salzedo, q Chazan OF Archachan In
France, specially summoned.
Under the laws OF Kansas. il married
man dies, leaving no children, his vile
becomes entitled to all his property. de-
spite his will to the contrary; and IT IL
said that there is not . single dark
feature of the onerous and odious com
monlaw inequality Of woman that has
not been removed by statutory provision
| in that State