The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-11-01
GEN ERAL NEWS.

The American maccaroni is said to ex-
Gel the imported article.
New York girls of the period drink
goats milk for the complexion.
It is estimated that about $780, wv
freight cars are in use in this country.
OF the 1900, 900 people in New York
city only 81 ,O52 own real estate.
Ex.Secretary Blaine and Mrs. Blaine
will return to Washington in November.
It has been discovered that Portland
cement, when exposed to the air, VIII
expand.
No other large city in the country has
so small debt and light taxes as
Chicago.
The Yellowstone valley needs irriga-
ton to give it high agricultural devel'
opment.
Since 1861 conscience. stricken persons
have paid $1S6 ,459 Oh into the United
States treasury.
The people of Mobile have found Ala
bama granite to be cheap and excellenG
paving material.
1t costs S272 291 year to maintain
the water works OF the city of Brooklyn.
The water is all pumped.
A Pennsylvania lady, ninety.thre
years of age, milks, washes and bakes for
family of three persons.
Cleveland ranks as having the lowest
death rate, with 1877 per 1OOO, and
Charleston highest, with 1921.
The bankers of New York believe
there will be an influx of $40 ,OOO, 900 to
1916 ,O00, 900 in gold during the fiscal
year.
Of 5000 children who enter the public
schools of Cincinnati annually only
ninety graduate from the high schools.
Mr.. Gresham pronounces the new
postoffice building in Philadelphia the
finest structure of the kind in the United
States.
The women of the United States have,
within the last year, given the sum OF
5000, 900 for the spread OF the Gospel IN
foreign lands.
The public water works of Philadel-
phia earn clear profit of 81 200, 600
year, which goes into the city treasury
for general purposes.
The New York water department is do
ing everything in its power to enforce
economy in the use of water. Over 5000
water meters are now in use.
Here's pretty fix. The government
doesn't know what to do with the
Weather Bureau, and the people don't
know what to do with the weather.
1t is said there are 5000 bookksepers
looking for situations in New York, and
that the average pay of bookkeeper in
that city is from S15 to S1S week.
The city OF Philadelphia has 81, $780,
900 invested in gas works, and some of
the newspapers favor selling the entire
property to private company at cost.
The once famous tribe of Cherokee
Indians is now reduced to about 1000
persons, and they suffer steady decrease
which will extinguish them by the mid.
die OF the next century.
The convicts in the penitentiary in Jo-
liet, ILL.,, receive over 5000 newspapers
and periodicals every month. One earns
so month by overwork, and with it he
buys costly books
In the Old World the number OF pas
seugers which can be carried by horse
car, or rather public conveyance, is lin
tied by law, and the conveyance once
full, no more passengers are admitted.
The New Orleans Christian Advo-
cate believes that il the negroes Of the
South have made progress since
their emancipation cit is no doubt due
almost entirely to the discipline Of
slavery"
The funded debt of the city Of st.
LOUIS is S22 230, 900. Against this the
city owns water works worth 81 900, 900.
public parks worth over IS ZOO, 900, and
public buildings valued at more than
q, 000, 900.
A newspaper correspondent. who has
been sampling the cities Of the far west.
says: Helena, the capital of Montana,
is accented orally and morally on the
first syllable. 1t is probably the rich
es. and wickedest city Of its size in the
country"
The bands of stock that have been
herded up in the Sierras all summer, are
now being driven down into the valleys
ON the California side. A Nevada paper
SAYS they assembled moaning bags of
bones, and they descend groaping balls
OF fat.
AN OLD GouRp.-A gourd which was