Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-26
Miscellaneous Items.

QutHbll COuutS llOulc TdIutI tuO WV S
for liquor. Wishing for a sewing
machine, and being quite certain that
he would not buy one for her, she re.
sorted to strategy. When he came
home intoxicated she distracted mon.
ey from his pockets after he had gone
to bed, and finally got enough togeth.
er to purchase the coveted machine
The husband was somewhat curious
to learn where she obtained it, and
greatly surprised when she produced
memorandum book showing the dates
when the money was distracted and
the amounts taken. Perhaps other
wives who read this may profit by the
example.
A New CURE FOR WHooPNG COUGH.
A discovery made by French ply.
stefan has been put into practice in
the orphan asylums. The invention
is liquid called gazeol, which is said
to produce remarkable results in
whooping cough. A teaspoonful of it
is placed in an open vial, which is put
into water bath always kept at the
same temperature. Children suffer-
ing from the whooping cough are ia
ken into the room, and are cured by
inhaling the carnations from the ga
zeot as it mixes with the air of the
room. 1t evaporates very rapidly.
CANADA THIsTLEs.-"M MANY farm.
ers," says an exchange, care at con
siderable expense each year to pre-.
vent the increase or to destroy this.
ties which not unfrequently locate
upon valuable portions of their farms.
Geese eat thistles, and if allowed to
feed two years successfully where the
thistles grow, they will entirely dis.
appear from those localities"
INFLUENCE OF FOoD ON Milk
The influence Of food on the quality
of milk is very striking. A half star.
we'd COW not only yields but little
milk, but what it yields is miserably
poor. On the other hand, the liberal
supply of food rich in heterogeneous and
phosphate elements of nutrition tells
directly on the milk. Nothing, there
fore, can be more injudicious than to
stint dairy cows in food.
Most people, says the English Gar
deners' Chronicle, will be astonished
at the effects upon plants, of liquid
manure, made by adding to one gal
lon of stale. human urine, at least a
week old, two ounces of sulphuric
acid. aud soon afterwards two ounces
OF pulverlzed chalk. When wanted
for use stir the mixture, and to each
pint add at least two gallons of wa
ter, and apply it to grass or plants.
Ii a woman were to change her SEX
what sort of being would she be.
come? A heather.
In England the mines yield annual
ly l66,OOO,OO0 tons of coal, and her
coal product does the work ins loco
motives, furnaces, &C., of 100000 men
in the same period.
An old eX-rebel in New Orleans was
greatly astonished a few days since
by being told that his Confederate
bonds,l in which he had invested $4,000.
were worthless. He had come in
from the country to get the interest
on them.
The Home Journal says: "People
generally do not know that some la
dies wear false lips, made of pink
India rubber, which are attached to
q thin lips In manner which defes de-
lection, and which give a pretty pout-
ing appearance to the mouth. There
Is way to test lips which may ap-
pear doubtful, but many ladies might
object to the operation, unless it were
performed by very near relatives"
alt is WELL" In the world We
shall have tribulation, but be of good
cheer: l have overcome the world
(John 16: 49,
A lady who had losta much loved
husband and infant son, during the
siege OF Lucknow, had the following
inscription engraved above their rest
ing place: Is it we'll with thy hus-
band? Is it well with thy child p
And she answered, 1t is WELL"
One hundred and forty new lodges
OF Good Templars have been institu-.
ted in the State of Massachusetts, and
I6,465 members added to the order.
The whole number of lodges there is
now 24l, with a membership of %.
598.
Mrs. Sloan of Topsham has a goose
which has laid this spring two enor-
nous eggs, the combined weight of
which is l IL lbs. One measures 9
by | | inches. and the other s IL bv
II inches.
All hopes for the safety of Dr.
Livingstone have been Abandoned
Later advices from the Cape of Good
Hope confirm beyond doubt the re-
port Of his death.
An attempt has been made in Bel
gum to cure trichinae by the use of
petroleum.
Ten bushels of snake bones were
found in ledge of rock, few DAYS
since, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. AL
correspondent of the Chicago Journal
says, "That is where the Copperheads
went in last fall"
A Connecticut minister has sent
dovernor-elect English, a Quill from