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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
wealthy NewsDoys.

"Tuat big tall newsboy over there at
the Postotllcc is worth $50, geo in his own
right
1t was another newsboy who gave this
rather startling bit OF information to the
writer.
"Yes, sir" continued the talking
newsboy, that Alf-Alf Shattler, and
he does the biggest trade of any boy in
this city. Why, maybe you don't be-
lieye it, but it's true, be makes more
money a day than any of the Fourth
street clerks do. ALI averages IS and 81
a day"
But he has to work for?'
well, should say so. How long do
YOU suppose he has sold papers on that
corner? Nineteen years, sir. ALI began
business about war times, and he has
never given it up. Now he has the boss
business of all the boys"
a regular trade?"
THAT'S it, sir. You'll see gentlemen
come across the street at all hours, get
paper from him without word and walk
away not offering to pay. Those gre his
regular customers and he has hundreds
ot them
Further inquiry developed the fact
that Slattler is nearly thirty years old.
He is married and lives in his own
property on Spring Grove avenue. Out
at Milford he Owns farm for which he
has refused $4,000. Besides this farm
he owns property, real and personal of
equal value.
Down at the corner of Fourth and
Walnut is another newsboy. whose IA
miliar face has been landmark at that
point for ten years past. His name is
John Finn. Fourth and Walnut is his
paaticular field, and no other newsboy
ever attempted to invade it. Though
not as wealthy as Shattler, Johnny can
draw his check for $4,000 and have it
honored.- Cincinnati Commercial Ga
yqttp
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
SnOw.White Boards.

Scrubbing is really bar barous form
of service and ought to be abolished; all
the exigencies of cleanliness are met "
a liberal use of soap and water. Our
immediate ancestors prided themselves
upon the snow-white boards of kitchen
and passage ways, but there seems no
good reason for our continuing the prac
tice upon that account. Moreover, our
boards are never white. Everything that
tends to tighten labor is an advantage in
busy lives, and snow-white boards are
only attainable in cities at the cost of a
most unnecessary wear and tear of flesh
and blood. They ought to be abolished,
and il an enterprlslnS builder would
once set the example of providing a
house from attic to cellar with inlaid
striped or oo,ored flooring, for which car
pets we're not an absolute necessity, the
result would be far better interest
upon his capital than he realizes at pres
ent. SO far, large and handsome houses
have a monopoly of parquet flooring and
in them it is usually only found in GER
tain rooms, halls and passage ways. An
other most satisfactory use of striped
wood is as a substitute for ordinary
wainscoting, for which purpose it is now
used in many flat houses. For dining
rooms and eating halls there is nothing
SO suitable as parquet floor, while in
billiard rooms and public buildings it is
gaining in favor. One advantage may
be noted in regard to this particular
style of flooring, that it can always be
laid down at the option OF the
tenant upon the surface OF the boarded
floor; but then tenants rarely enjoy max
ing improvements at their own expense.
The manufacture of inlaid floor cover
ings has very greatly increased within
the last few years, and it is not necessary
to decide upon the favor with which
they are to be received. If simple de-
signs are selected, the flooring made
for one room can be altered TO tit an
other, which is certainly great point
for the consideration of those who de-
sire TO improve houses that they do not
own. Borderings, of all widths, aad in
every variety of color and design, are
made in such n way that they are hex-
ible enough to he rolled up with the
greatest ease. They are mounted upon
strips OF coarse linen, which gives upon
pressure.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
ALL 50 RTS.

Woman's heart is love and song united.
He that has not charity merits no
mercy.
The failure of one man is the oppor-
tunity of another.
If you feel angry, beware lest you be-
come revengeful.
A man is never so fortunate or unfor-
tunate rs he thinks.
Ostrich farms are to be established in
southwestern Texas.
Good style is good sense, good health,
good energy, ana good will.
Every mans virtue is best seen in ad-
versity and temptation.
Nothing helps the memory so much as
order and classification.
Free labor will give us wealth. Free
thought will give us truth.
Consolation consoles only those who
are willing to be consoled.
Mystery always magnifies danger as
the fog magnities the sun.
Care for nothing, prayerful for every
thing, thankful for anything.
No persons are more empty than those
who are full Of themselves.
Everywhere endeavor to be useful,
and everywhere you will be at home.
We are never ruined by what we want,
but By what we think we want.
Human foresight often leaves its proud
est possessor only a choice of evil.
Absence from those we love is self
from self \ deadly Punishment.
1t would seem that an army assassi
mated Cavendish and Burke.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

Any one DESTROYS of verifying the fol-
lowing story need only to take stand at
the foot of Chardon street, where the re-
lief horses are stationed, and watch Lady
Knights mannuvrings. Lady Knights
is veteran on the relief corps of horses,
having served in that capacity some
eight or ten years, and it is quite evident
that during that time she has learned Il
thing or two by observation, ii in no
other way. Part OF the day two horses
are kept for the purpose OF helping the
cars up the hill, and they alternate, or
are supposed to, in their duties. But
Lady Knights is sly boots, and needs a
vigilant eye to see that she doesn I
cheat. When the relief horse gets to
Bowdoin square it is unhitched and goes
back to the foot of the bill, taking its
place, next to the curbstone, which in
dicates to the next car that the outside
horse is to help pull up the hill. So ac-
customed have the horses become to this
routine that they seem to 80 through 1t
mechanically, and are often left to go
down alone and take their places. Now
this is one Of Lady Knights favorite
tricks. When the other horse comes
down and stations hims in his proper
place, she walks up just ahead OF him
and then backs herself i'll between Old
Stupid and the curbstone the couse-
quence is Old Stupid sometimes pulls
three or four successive cars up the hill,
and would probably keep on pulling for
the rest of the day did not the attendant
came to the rescue. The look of injured
innocence which Lady Knights assumes
when the man snakes her out from next
the curb and puts her in her proper place
is funny Boston Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
W hen 10 Get Married.

Among the perplexing conundrums
which come to the Times is one from a
young man who wants to know when he
had better get married. He says he is
without fortune and has very small in
come. He really doesn't talk As if he
ought to get married at all. He doesn't
seem to have made the first preparation.
He has a little better sense, however,
than the average young man of his class,
because he seeks advice before he rushes
into marriage. The most OF them wait
until it is too late, and then wish they
had done something else.
There used to be an old fashioned no
ton that young man should not think
of marrying until he could provide q
proper home for his wife, and girls rere
hard to find who were willing to marry
without such provision. All that sort Of
bother is nov dispensed with. Girls
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
Arab Pasha's Exile Home.

Noting the arrival of Arab Pasha and
his fellow exiles at Colombo, CeylOn
the New York Herald says: As Arab
Pasha has been credited with an over
powering love of the land wherein he
was born among the fellaheen, it is toll
erably easy to imagine the kind of feel
ings which would surge in his breast
when tue steamer dropped anchor yes
terday in the roadstead at Colombo and
within the gigantic breastwaters which
British enterprise has within the last few
years constructed to keep back the pom
derous surf which beats against the
shores of Ceylon. There dense groves OF
palm trees running down to the water s
edge, partially hiding the raln-battered
old square-roofed Dutch houses that
form the fort and business portion of
Colombo; the crowds of persistent Gin
galese and Moormen hawkers of precious
stones -rubies, sapphires, pearls-some
OF them genuine productions of the is
land, but the majority sklllful Birming
ham limitations; the elephants pulling at
the logs on the wharves and setting them
in order with care and Intelligence al.
most human-all of these strange scenes
and customs would tend to force upon
the mind of tho poor exile from
Egypt the fact that he was indeed the
tool of a whimsical fortune, stranger
in strange land. and no longer the
presumptuous arbiter off the affairs of
the country of the Nile. Outside the
old-fashioned quarter of Ceylon there is
a very charming suburb called the Col
petty, which lies in the vicinity of the
famous cinnamon gardens that at times
send over Colombo the richest spicy
breezes.
In the Colpetty the officials and we'll
to do nerchants of Colombo reside dur
ing the cold season or during the rainy
five months of the southwest monsoon,
where the air is often deliciously fresh
and cool. The bungalows are large,
surrounded by deep verandas, and are
generally shaded from the fierce glare of
the sun by thickly planted cocoanut
trees. The government generally has
several of these bungalows at its dis
posal, and Arab will doubtless be in
stalled temporarily in one of these,
either near tie cinnamon garden, or
within earshot of the surf of the Indian
ocean. A short distance from Columbo
there is promontory jutting into the
there stands handsome building
which was at one time a gubernatorial
residence, but has lately been rented as
a hotel The vast. lofty halls in this
luxurious abode are filed with marble
pillars. the floors are paved with marble,
and altogether it is a palace worthy OF an
oriental prince. In certain seasons OF
the year the government officers proceed
either to Handy or Neuer Elliya plains,
which are 5000 feet above the level, and
Arab will certainly be invited to these
places, along with the 'swells' of the
islam Is. Both Colombo and Gale are
charming spots in their way. Through
out Ceylon there is plenty Of good shoot
ing, and not embarrassing colonial
society. On the whole, therefore, if Arab
and his brethren in exile are as sensible
and philosophical as Mohammedans usu-
ally are, they will find Ceylon not such
very bad place to stay in after all.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
An Anxious Mother.
Tell Beryl to come here. "

Tell Beryl to come here.
The Lady Agatha Frelinghuysen spoke
these words in the commanding, decisive,
I-will-get- there Or break -a.-suspender
tone that was habitual to her, but as
Mud Lake Maude, who had been faith
ful servitor of the Frelinghuysens for
forty years, and seen Beryl grow from a
cooling baby to a splendidly- beautiful
woman, turned away, she fancied that
the lips of her mistress quivered slight
ly, and that her breath came in quick
gasps.
cit may have been carving that
bucket of coal up stairs" said Maude
softly to herself as she hurried away to
obey the mandate given her, "but l fear
that my lady's emotion hath another and
more serious cause, and that Beryl
whom oft have tossed in these withered
arms, will think she has struck biz.
zard belt when the old lady begins to
paw the air.
Just then Maude fell over a coal
scuttle that had been carelessly left in
the corridor, and on rising met Beryl,
who was intently reading q note.
Your mother would speak with you, "
said Maude, and then, to conceal the
sorrow that filled her bosom, she began
eating an apple.
"Do you wish to see me, mammal"
asked Beryl, tripping lightly into the
room where her mother was seated.
eyes, my child" was the reply. 81
fain would speak with you on matter
that doth nearly concern your future
happiness-your marriage"
The girl shrank back instinctively and
the happy look faded from the pretty
blue eyes. Plunging her right hand i'm
pulsively into her pocket she discovered
that the last letter from Vivian Perkins,
the man whom she loved with all the
passionate intensity of a last chance affec-
ton, was still there.
Her secret was safe.
Il am ready she said to her mother
in the respectful tones which ever
characterized her speech, "to hear you
twitter."
81 know" said the mother, speak
ing calmly, "of your love for Vivian
Perkins"
Beryl's corns were throbbing now but
she mastered her emotion bravely and
gave no outward sign of the great battle
that was being waged in her soul.
You wish to marry this man?' said
the Lady Agatha.
II do" replied Beryl, ''and nothing
but his word, his act shall ever keep me
from his side. I love Vivian with Wild,
four track and a-sleeper-on--every--tra train
love that will brook no restraint, and
some day, even though the fiery jaws of
hell Itself were opened to stop me, l
shall be his bride"
II know all this, said the mother; 81
know that You will marry Vivian, and l
have but one request to make.
"What is that" asked the girl.
at is" said the Lady Agatha, THAT
you will arrange to have the nuptisls
occur as soon as possible"
But why?" asked the daughter.
Because" was the reply, II am
thinking of making similar break my
self. "-Chcago Tribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
A Rebel Ram That Never Had a Chance

In Union Jacks" notes on the Con-
federate navy / notice that he fails to
mention the Rebel ram Missouri, built
by my father, Captain William Doughty,
ut Shreveport, La. This craft would
have been holy terror to the Yankee
monitors, etc. but unfortunately she was
never in active service, more than TO
watch the harbor, assisted by the Webb,
an ocean cutter, also fitted up by my
father. | do not remember the Missouri 5
dimensions, but she was built with
frames of yellow pine eighteen inches
square, raised in place separately and
bolted together, sloping above and below
water line. After the wood work was
com lcted, she was ironed with Il. Il. I
iron rails, laid bottom and top sides up
alternately, making her utterly bali
proof on account of her sloping sides.
Her armory consisted OF eight guns-six
eighty.pounders and two one hundred
Founders; three port holes on . side and
two fore and aft, with carriage tracks ar
ranged so as to use any gun at any port
hole. She carried prov three
and half feet under water line. pro-
jecting five and half feet, and twenty
| three inches in diameter. She worked
two center wheel engines Of high pres
SIRE pattern. On her trial trip, before
receiving her outfit OF armory and maya
zine, she was piloted by Captain James
Crooks, now running line of boats on
Old and Red rivers. Had she ever got
out on the Mississippi there would have
been nothing to cope with her hut
sunken torpedoes. She was one of the
best rams ever put afoat. My father
was ship carpenter by trade. and be-
fore the war was in the yards of James
Howard & Co., Jacksonville, but who
died in Texas, May 8, 1877. He never
had the pleasure Of seeing his work take
revenge on them who made him poor
man.-[H. G. Doughty in Louisville
Courier-J ournal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

A PHILADELPHIA DRUNKABD. -tIeorge
II. Butler writes thus learnedly Of drink
ing men: "As drinking man myself,
Unfortunately better known for that one
failing than for my many virtues, let me
say word about drinking men, their
modes of thought, their habits, the cause
of the disease, habit pr vice. as the reader
chooses to call it. | am not a believer
in the theory of dipsomania. | know
that it has many eminen. advocates among
medical men. | have sought informa-
ton from the doctors of several inebriate
asylums and hospitals, and have had the
privilege of consulting the distinguished
superintendent OF one insane asylum
upon whom inebriates are forced by the
certificates of convenient physicians,
Signed, patient unseen as carelessly as
a recommendation for Office and | have
read great deal on the, to me, interest
ing subject. II was the victim of an
uncomfortable appetite, l wanted TO
know it. Ii was curious mental prob
lem to me. Perhaps, thought, if | and
a lot of other apparently good fellows
have been clustered with are dipsomani-
acs, some of us may yet develop n homi-
cidal tendency, or desire to burn barns.
Well, the result of my observation and
reading is that there is no such thing as
dipsomania. 1t is nothing but plain,
old-fashioned drunk"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

well" said the reporter, edo yon
really love Mrs. L angtry?"
But this was more than Freddie could
stand. He said he didn't come to St.
Louis to be insulted. The Lily said,
mo, she didn't ether" ana then they
all got up, and the servants got up and
began to move about in suspicious, not
to say hostile, way, and the reporter
concluded that it was safer in the
rotunda than IN the Lily's room.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

As to the rays of the solar spectrum
Prof. q. Forbes still maintains that the
blue rays travel faster than the red, the
assertions OF NJ. Cornu to the contrary
notwithstanding. II may be remembered
that NJ. Cornu thought that Prof. Forbes
was misled by the nature of his APP
paratus.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08
Value OF Swine.

Swine, perhaps, come more nearly TO
being the everyday, always available
stock of the farm than any other species
Of domestic animal intended for the
shambles. With cattle or sheep he may
have to wait two or three years for full
return of his investment, but from his
hogs he can gather crop every season,
and handle the nImble penny over and
over again, with frequency unknown
in other lines of livestock transactions.
The hog is on hand to eat almost any
respectable refuse which may be placed
before him, and is ready to thus convert
a great deal of otherwise worthless prov
ender into solid cash. He is the scsv-
enger of the farm, and at the same time
is the ready and reliable repienisher of
the farmers purse. Though an inveter-
ate grunter, he is no GROWER, and, as an
exchange puts it, comes down with the
cash yearly, and pays, when properly
bred and cared for, better dividends than
bank stock, government bonds, or any
other Investment In proportion to the
capital invested or labor expended.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

Recently Profs. Ayrton and Perry
read paper on the resistance of the Vol
taic arc. They found the electro motive
force TO diminish as the current in
creased when the width of the arc was
kept constant. On tho other hand, the
electro-motive force increased rapidly
with keeping the current constant.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08

Mile. Berthe has two suitors-Andre.
who is neither handsome nor young, but
who is rich, and Paul, who is charming
but has not a cent. (which of the two
do you like the best?" asked one OF her
friends. "Oh," replied Berthe, II like
Paul the best, "but prefer n. Andre. y
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-03-08


The house which Joseph X. Emmett,
the comedian, is building near Albany,
may repay him for the outlay as an ad-
vertisement, for 1t is so peculiar, and
has been so long in process of construc-
ton, hat it is bound to get space in the
newspapers. The walls are brick,
strangely intermlngled with woodwork.
There are balconies and piazzas in pro
fusion, but it is the interior that is lost
whimsical. In the middle OF the house
on the gr, und floor is an octagonal
room with open doors so that view can
be obtained from its center OF four other
apartments. An organ is built in Mt one
side, an upright piano at another, and
there are inches for various musical in
struments. wealth of ornamentation
aud rare antiques is worked into the
building in many odd ways. Emmett
goes there whenever his theatrical en-
gagements will permit, sometimes max
ing Journeys of hundreds of miles for
the sake Of several hours inspection.
On these occasions he is sure to order
alterations A corner of the house is
now being torn down to make room for .
new architectural conceit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02

Mr.. Vanderbilt bids fair to be great
man in theatrical way next year. He
and his sons and his sons-in-law have
no less than six boxes in the new Met
ropolitan Opera House. The boxes
are at equal distances around . circle.
and anybody by paying admission to
the parquet floor on opera nights can
see grand horseshoe curve of ali the
members of the Vanderbilt family ar
rayed in full evening dress. Beside
this, Mr.. Vanderbilt will be the host
of MIR. Henry Irving, the great English
tragedian, and will therefore constant
ly figure in the theatrical reports.
This sudden splurge of the great mill
ionaire in theatrical way will bo
amusing and entirely safe so long rs he
keeps aloof from the feminine elements
of theatrical life.-Er.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02
Our Mosquito Abroad.

The city Of London appears to have
got rid of the dynamiters, but q far
more troublesome set of public enemies
is raiding the town and defying the
populace. The Inhabitants of the Mis-
sissippi bottoms and the Jersey fats
will take in the situation at once when
they are told that the great American
mosquito has invaded the capital of the
British Empire. Of course he is letting
the people know that he is around,
The London papers talk as If the town
was overrun by an army of biting dogs.
A number of persons have been Bit
ten. In some cases women and chill
dren have been almost blinded through
the swelling caused by the bites of
these energetic American insects. The
mosquitoes went over as s'assistedn
in cargoes of American
wheat. The Fen;ans are perhaps graf
flied to know that the pests are pros
pering in their new home.-.S. Louis
EUenang Chronicle.