Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-09
Miscellaneous Items.

California hour Is ~ per Darrel anu
IN great demand at Yokohama, Japan.
Let us all go to Japan.
There are thirty pounds OF blood
in the human frame, and two hundred
and forty eight bones. Women have
the same number, not including whale
bone.
In Sweden and Norway there seems
to be almost q mania on the subject
Of emigration. All who are able start
to America. @
The feelings of a lady of color in
Mobile were so much injured by ex-
pulsion from the street. cars that a jury
gave her $4,000 damages.
A ball of ton weight and another
Of an ounce weight, falling from any
height, will reach the ground at the
same time. So says some one suppos-
ed TO know whereof he speaks.
A Chicago journal makes the frank
and frightful acknowledgment that
"things seem to be rapidly approaching
a condition when no man in Chicago
will know whether he is married
man or not"
The Washington Chronicle thinks the
jury in the Surrat case will not agree.
1t says: "Surratt is more likely to
get clerkship in one of the depart
ments in a few weeks, than he is to be
hanged for his crimes"
The fastest time in American rail-
reading was that of directors train
On the New York Central railroad the
other day, from Hamburg to Buffalo
ten miles in eight minutes, or at the
rate of IS miles an hour.
A Londoner.who knocked his wife
down and was trying to strangle her,
was pounced upon by the family cat
who fastened her claws in his eyes and
her teeth in his face, and the brutal
husband was obliged to appeal to his
outraged wife to remove his feline an.
tagOnlst.
Andrew Johnson in 1865 is effectu
ally quoted against Andrew Johnson
in 1867. One Of that gentleman's
utterances in the former year reads
thus: whenever you hear a mar
prating about the Constitution, spot
him. He is a traitor" Well, Andy
as badly spotted"
Some time since a gentleman
died in the town of X, who during
lite, refused to believe in another
world. Two or three weeks after hi
demise his wife received, through ;
medium, a communication which reaC
as follows Dear wife, | now believe
Please send me my thin clothes"
A man named Paine, in Monro
county, n. Y, a lawyer, drew up vii
for a dying man, and after it wa
signed and read, Paine claimed tina
it was not right, and drew up a new
one, which was signed without read
ing, and it was found that all tn
property was willed to Paine. He j
now in jail awaiting examination.
An Amboy correspondent Of th
Monmouth Inquirer says: Il have
from a good source that one of oldes
Democrats went to Trenton not lon
ago to claim the pensions of two I'll
Giles killed during the revolution. A
ter a long search the names wer
found among the list of killed-but q
the wrong side. They were He
slams =
1t is said of Senator Wilson {
! Massachusetts that "honesty, poyert
and politics have agreed with him.
He ought to be the Snowman of Il
temperance army, to let people 5,
that a Congressman can ignore win
: keep clean palm, hold his Maker
: remembrance, be kindly affectiona
!? toward humanity, and yet wear ros
, unclouded face"
t, The Secretary ofState of Tenness
!. says, that sixty,nine counties repo
= 5,494 registered voters. He adj
that the grand result in the State W
certainly reach $4,000 voters, al
It may amount to 10000, which is
d little more than the State ever vote
4 1t is curious fact that the numb
ofnewly made citizens in the State
about equal to the number disfra
t chised.
- A small party of ladies and gent
men were recently belated on a mot
" tain near Paterson, N. j., lost tn
% way and wandered about for hours
o pitchy darkness. At one time fla
1t of lighting revealed to them their s
% uation about two feet from the ed
OF a stone quarry one hundred i,
io deep, into which, in another secol
r. the whole four would have been D
Ill cipitated.
8 The Laconia Democrat says tn,
n are 267 islands in Lake Winnipes
es kee. One of them contains more tt
es 1000 acres, two more than 500,
,r more than so acres, twenty-three M
- than 10 acres, and two hundred a
- twenty-six less than 10 acres. I
re distance round the Lake is 1872
es miles. Diamond Island is one n
It; from Clifford shore, ten miles from
nd Wiers, six miles from Wolfborou
- and ten miles from Alton.
In An old revolutionist says that
IN all the solemn hours no avar mn +