Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-19
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
A traveller stopped at a public
house in Vermont for the purpose OF
getting dinner, knocked but received
no answer. Going in, he found a lit
tie white headed man in the embrace
of his wife, who had his head under
her arm, while with the other she was
giving her little lord a pounding
Wishing to put an end to the hight,
our traveller knocked on the table,
and cried out in a loud voice:
"Halloo, herel who keeps this
house p
The husband, though much out of
breath, answered:
stranger, that's what we are try
ing to decide"
REMARKABLE OLD LADY.-Mrs. Il.
Davis of Hinesburg, SO years of age,
has during the past year woven 1869
yards of heavy rag carpetlng OF the
best quality, and colored the materi-
ais for 600 yards Of the same, besides
doing the homework for her family
of three, aud making one hundred and
fifty one dollars worth of butter to
sell, and 100 pounds of cheese for
family use.
Mills, the Franconia murderer, has
been convicted at Haverhill and SEN
fenced to be hung in May.
We should not measure men by
Sundays, without looking to what they
do all the week after.
A Carib being asked if he remem
bered a certain benevolent missionary.
calmly replied, He was a good man.
Ne ate part of him.
Religion is the only metaphysic that
the multitude can understand and ad.
opt.
Our lives are spent either in doing
nothing to the purpose, or in doing
nothing that we ought to do. We are
! always complaining our days are few
, and acting as though there would be
! no end of them.
The poor mans purse may be emp
ty, but he has as much gold in the sun
SET and as much in the moon, as tn
millionaire.
: Wisconsin is a reading state. |
d supports one hundred and thirty tire
k newspapers. In politics, eighty fiv
e of these papers are republican, fort
e eight democratic. There is not
r county in the state which has not a
e least one local paper
J. Centuries are required to build u
n an empire an hour is enough to RI
e duce It to dust.
n He is happy man who hath tru
# friend at his need; but he is NOR
. truly happy that hath no need of HI
: friend.
When the yellow fever was ragin
" in New Orleans, col porteur, Will
: travelling along the levee, visited
. darkey's cabin, got a bowl of mill
= opened his stock of Bibles, and aSke
~ Dinah if she had religion:
y Dunno, Massa; I'll call the oil
i, man"
- "The old African came up when tt
= colporteur asked,
" Ny good friend, have you mut
y religion about here?
=" The old cock, who had heard {
Yellow Jack. which scared him so
could think of nothing else, replied
II dunno, Massa, but they has got
T. like hell in New Orleans
IN A contemporary referring to asE
o. rants for political Office being broug
st out before the public by means c
If calls" numerously signed, instead {
s. coming out hat-footed, in the old fas
lie toned way, says it reminds him of tt
IS story OF O'Mulligan to his wife.
lg "Biddy," said O'Mulligan to h
H. wife, its bad cowld We have.
he drap of The craythur nd do no ha
p rum"
ne "Och, homer said Biddy, "Tve t
I'd ken the plidge, but We can mix drin
n Jimmy, and force me to swally it."
ed They have a patriarch in Taunt'
Il who says that he once raised a ho'
&C. of wild ducks from pond, when
ct took aim at them with his gun al
n fired. They flew away with mu'
I'd clamor, and surprised to find til
to none of them dropped, he examine
as the field Of battle. He picked
- four bushels Of legs. There is tou
he of pathos in the old mans voice as
he add: ~ fired too low"