Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-02
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900 in silver pieces of Spanish coin
age. Among the number were five
hundred Spanish dollars done up in
bag, on which was some writing, but
so destroyed that it was illegible.-I
None of the pieces bore a date later
than 1908. The finder has been liv-
ing for several years past from hand
to mouth, working at odd jobs in the
summer, and in leisure time picking
berries.
A gentleman in Maine has offered
$4,000 for building a Freewill
Baptist educational institution at the
South. The condition is, that as much
more shall be added by the first OF
January next, and such additions shall
afterwards be made as shall increase
the whole sum, principal and interest,
to $4,000 by January l, 1873.
A rascally old bachelor says the
most difficult surgical operation in the
world is to take the jaw out Of a
woman.
Thackery speaks of a place in Ire
land where the sense Of elegance was
so keen that the servants brought up
the Goals for the parlor CRATE on
clean plate.
The Journal of Chemistry says
Massachusetts wastes more than $780,
600 yearly by destroying confscated
liquors instead of distilling them and
saving the alcohol.
1t has been estimated that the num-
Der of Catholics in the United States
in 1880 was $4,000; in 1910 it was
100000, and 4, 100000 in 1860. Ac-
cording to these estimates the Cath0-
lies double in number every ten years,
and in 1860 we shall have eight or
nine millions, or nearly One-hfth Of the
entire population. Seyenty-hve years
ago the United States did not have a
single Catholic Bishop. The first
Bishopric was established at Bait
more il 1899 and now they have !
Archbiahops, 80 Bishops, 81 Arch
priests, 1898 Priests, Y Semiuarie-,
40 Schools, 1000 Churches. besides
other Institutions, and property est
mated at So 7.OOO.000.-BJst0u Tan
script.
The order Of Good T1mpIars mum
bered, il 1854. 66.4l0; in 1865, 49,
932: il 1866, l68,5+8. Ii is thought
that on The first Of May the member
ship could not have been less than
100000. It is the most powerful
temperance organiza ion in the United
States.
HONEY FROM BUCKWHEAT. A Ger
man writer estimates that an acre of
buckwheat yielded fourteen pounds Of
! honey daily. Single hives gathered
three pounds on favorable days
TINE TO CUT GRAIN..-Harvest
} wheat and rye as the grain is passing
from the miIk-when the grain mashed
between the thumb nails yields no
milk. Cut in this stage the grain is
heavier and yields the most flour to
the bushel, or by weight. For seed it
should be allowed to get fully ripe
saved and threshed - itself.
! A writer il the Wolfboro' N. IT.
News says that in that town are 240O
inhabitants, and 7 churches, contain.
ING 400 pews; each pew will seat fvf
! persons. The average attendance al
church each Sunday will not exceed
J, 400 persons-one to each pew.
The Troy Times says that Con
gresham Morrissey made upward OF
c 100000 in stock operations in Wal
: street last week.
According to a recently published
] estimate of the different religions i,
Europe, there 138,300,00O Roman
> Catholics, 65.40O.O00 Protestants
74,00 900 Greek Catholics, 5000
600 Jews and 4,69I,0O0 Mohamme
! dams on that continent.
: II sheep are kept in the same 10
with COWS or fat cattle, no dog vii
e disturb them. As soon as the dog
\; approach the sheep, they run to tn
a. cattle, who drive off the dogs. 4 faI
o mcr for thirty years, by adopting thi
Is plan, never lost sheep by dogs, a
&c though in the same night the Sam
u, dogs killed sheep in the farms mort
Is and south OF him.
60 PLATTE RIVER SCENERY.-A corr
81 epondent OF the Cincinnati Comme
y oiaI has recently made a trip over Il
- Union Pacific aiiway, and thus d
SctlpeS the ScehtfE along the flaJ
river:
~ There is no other railroad in Il
:, world where the scenery is SO mono
- onous. A neeIeas valley is the Platt
- shut in few miles on either side
:, naked slopes aud mounds. A broa
-, thin river skins the southern part
u the valley; river of swift currel
, > but so flimsy in depth that its pr
- gress is tormented with ten thousal
r., ~ islands, whose natural meats ha
.tb protected them from the prairie fir
and so permitted stunted growth
cottonwood trees, the only forest plu
as age in sight. For 800 miles t
IN railroad skirts the northern rim
bo r1 In ho -.