The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-05-10
ALL SORTS.

Everybody'S duty IS dun on the ufs'
day of January.
The French end of the channel tunnel
is moving eighteen and the English
twenty yards day.
A West Point cadet begins with the
same pay which a Prussia captain re-
ceives after twenty years service.
The New Orleans Plcayune raises the
question whether or not goat can De
relied upon i'll court as evidence IN re-
buttal.
LET every man add good name to
his other capital" quoted the forger
when he fixed up ten thousand dollar
check.
TIE announcement is made that Frank
Miller. the man who claims to have in
vented shoe. backing. has gone over to
the shining shore.
"a woman husbands her resources
when she rifles the pockets OF her lord
and master after he has gone to bed,
remarks the Boston Courier.
Rev. DR.. Hatcher, at the Lynchburg
" Baptist Congress-" stated that ten
years after emancipation was proclaimed
1890 negroes in Pittsburg, Va, owed
their homes.
The Atlantic Constitution Eliminates
Yankee inconsistency in n few lines, thus:
IF the negroes were citizens of Rhode
Island. not ten in 10 900 would lave the
right to vote"
An aesthetic Boston girl, passing the
winter in Florida, took live lizard to a
Jacksonville jsweller and requested him
| to mount it in gold in scarf pin. I'm
doubtedly she comes of . "philanthropic'
stock.
A news item says the male members OF
Pennsylvania family are "bewitched.'
The next door neighbor evidently has
several pretty daughters. 1t often hap.
pens that way.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
"a tired bee" says Sir John Lubbock,
"hums on E, and therefore vibrates its
wings only $50 times in second" A
brisk little bee, humming on A, will, on
the other hand, increase its vibration to
440 second.
| "Adolphus De,aine came out of col
lege highly educated and made his mark
in the world but what of that?" cried
Mr.. Scruggins; II never had any edu-
cation, and always make my mark. Ed
| ucatlon be blowed.
"Strange," remarked Mrs. Brown;
II have rung at Mrs. Smiths door three
times this week and 1 didn't succeed in
raising any one. I guess the family is
out of town" Possibly replied Mrs.
Jones; "but Mrs. Smith was just now
telling me that she could tell your ring
among thousand"
Tragic: "Was it a small. white, curly
dorg, with blue ribbon round his neck,
YER was lookin' for, Miss ?" Yeas"
gasped the young lady, in anxious sus-
pense. well, Jack Adams Newfound-
land pprp has a-gone and swallered
him." They carried her into the nearest
drug store.
Patrick W. Grove writes to Chicago
paper that he is as gentle as q laWb. He
says:
Il would not number on my list of friends.
| Tho grsced with 20 ished manLer and fine sense
| etlscking sen.ibility, the rau
VINO would needle sly put his foot upon worm
Mr.. Grove then cruelty observes that
lie is in favor OF the torch for English
cities and the knife for English tyrants
It'll they agree to let Ireland severely
| alone"
A bright little twelve year-old girl has
| died in Buffalo from the effects OF Wig.
gins prophecy. She was great reader
and very nervous about storms and be-
came intensely excited as the time for
the great blow drew near. The family
tried to divert her thought, but it was
impossible, and after few days illness
the poor child died of meningitis.
brought on the doctor and her parents
say, by excitement over the idle words
Of the Canadian fraud.
At Stafford. on Avon the town council
have discussed the course taken by the
vicar in imposing q fixed charge of Cd.
each upon persons DESTROYS Of seeing
Shakespeare's grave. Many thousands
OF persons visit the church in the course
OF the year. and the town council have
resolved that If the charge is to be com
pulsory the money shall be spent upon
the fabric of the church, and not devot-
ell towards the payments OF the curates'
stipends, an undertaking to this effect
having been given by the late vicar.