Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-11

hoult IOOu, Ill OFcSOl, nave ldICi.
been made. The summit of the noun
tain is a circular ridge three or fou
hundred yards in length, having it
outward curve to the north. Their
are three or four eminences rising ;
few feet above the average of TIL
ridge. At the time one of the par
ties made the ascent the snow upol
the ridge was from six to ten feet il
depth, and only in one place did a rocl
PROJECT through it. Prof. A. Woo
and another party assembled in warn
weather, when the heat had mad'
immense chasms in the snow, whicl
rendered the journey perilous ant
difficult. The grand result was tn,
measurement OF the mountain
Mount Hood stands unrivaled among
the mountains of North America. b.
an improved method, viz: the boiling
water and thermometer. they ascer
tanned its hight to be seventeen thous
and SIX hundred and forty feet above
the level Of the sea. The mass of the
mountain is volcanic lava and ashes
There is "a crater yet open and con
Stantly emitting sulphurous vapor.-
Glaciers are there also, as on Noun
Blanc, composed of clear blue ice
gradually sliding down the awful IA
vines. The flora is exceedingly inter
eStlng, almost purely Alpine. Speci
mems of more than thirty species pecu
liar to the mountain were gathered
many of which are new to science.
The railroad between Rome and
OswegO, n Y. is still blockaded, and
eight or ten engines, with large forces
Of men, are hard at work to get il
open. The snow is piled up twenty
feet In some places.
The number of pupils in the schools
OF Pennsylvania last year was 1875,
5l2: average attendance 47S,066.-
Inc cost OF sustaining the schools was
81, 1925.
An old gentleman and his wife
named Handkerchief, living near Flori-
da Station, on the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad, Mo, where murder
ed in cold blood last Wednesday
night. 1t is supposed the crime was
committed for money.
A California wife writes from San
francisco to her husband in the in
terror: Dear Sir-It NAV be proper,
and perhaps my duty, to inform YOU
that about two months ago | Sue
ceeded in getting my divorce from
you, and also that have since mar
rled again. You may continue YOUR
monthly remittanceS. as | NAV need
them for your children"
1hemlltary organization committee
at Copenhagen, has recommended
that the following should be the war
establishment Of the Danish army ::
32,2O3 infantry, 1919 artillery. 2.291
cavalry, S,256 horses, and reserve
Ot 10000 men.
The Nashville Banner learns ION
good authority, that a gentleman who
was recently identified very promi-
lently with the oil interests Of Ten
lessee. and who had held a high COM
nand In the federal army during the
war, lost over fifty thousand dollars
)y locating wells under The direction
d water OF "oil witches" So i'm.
)llclt was his BELIEF III this rjdicplops
superstition of the nineteenth century
hat he was compelled to return home
IN utter bankrupt.
The consumption of cheese in Eng
ana amounts to the amazing quantity
II 8l2,25O,00O pounds year.
A story is told of a soldier VII,
bout one hundred and fifty wears
Lgo, was frozen in Siberia. The last
IMPRESSION he made was, 1T is ex-"I
lie then troze as stiff as marble. In
he summer of 1860 some French
physicians found him, after bavino
and frozen for one hundred and fifty
ears. They gradually thawcd him. .
nj upon animation being restored he |
oncluded his sentence with .ceedinc. /
: cold"
A Western editor once wrote e.
A correspondent asks whether the
attic of Waterloo occurred before
+ after the Christian Era. We an.
wer it did"
"Fcmale thieves in Belfast, Me.
ave way of concealing goods on h
ooks under their dresses" saws the
oston Post, and an Indignant Maine
iper asks, How do YOU know ~
Mrs. Aaron Ward, Jr., wife of a
'ocer at Newark, n. J., was danger. I
'sly shot on Tuesday morning by q
'rglar disguised as a negro. whom
e detected in her bedroom The 7
oundrel escaped. |
The Caledonian learns that the fer.
Die hog disease which made so mucb T
II IN The West year ago has been q
'coVered in hog slaughtered at c c
tt!eton, n. Ii. The meat was sinh. p
tied to careful examination bv $
'dlcal men, and pronounced by them b.
contain trichine. $
A pious old negro woman was once =,
nght by her master stealing a goose y,
d the next Sunday she partook of 81
Communion, after which her mas.
accosted her as follows: aWbv 90
lnnah, | saw you to-day at the com H
mon table! = yes, tank de Lord 10
ssa, | was lowed to be dere wild
|, L.,