Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-02-14
Miscellaneous Items.


of the first Napoleon at St. Helena.
The milk trade of Boston amounts
to 81, 100000 year. l
People iii Ohio are appealing to
the Legislature protection against
incompetent dentists.
There are said to be fifty thousand
spiritualists in New York, and five
millions in the United States.
An exchange says; that advertising
for a wife is about as stupid as get
ting measured for an umbrella.
A young woman in Bangor took
arsenic. for her complexion and sue
ceeded in making herself beautiful
corpse. a
Over seven thousand poor persons,
are being daily fed from the soup
houses at Washington city.
The, total value of the marine
losses of the United States property
for the month Of January just past
was $2,4S9,7O
A woman 10 Clermont,, France,
wishing to kill herself, saturated her
clothes with kerosene, and then set
ncrself On fire. aa-a
O. B. Streotor, of Brattlehorn, has
a Bible which has been in the posses
sion of his family since 1884. Its
age is unknown.
The population OF London, is 3,
235, 935. Three hundred and eight
children are born in the city every
day, and 1913 persons die there.
BIG CoLT--Lcvi Wilder, of this
town, has two years old cot-com-
ing three-which weighs 1880 lbs
ueis splendid style, and according
10 Witder's opinion, can't be beat
Lyndon Union. 's'
| 1t is upon a climate, not upon a
variety that good white wheat de
pendS. A white, thin-skinned wheat
is produced by hot dry climate. A
lark, thick-Skinned wheat, by wet,
cold climate.
The chemists having analyzed
straw, prove that it contains great
lattening qualities, and farmers and
everybody, except the cattle, believe
! it. ..--.. ...
A Vermont farmer has in use a
machine constructed from the design
Of an invalid neigh5or. which is man
aged by a boy and worked by one
. horse, as a land roller and cloo
crusher, corn planter, broadcast grass
seed sower and grain drill. -
Burke, the would be wife-murderel
of Bennington, has been bound over
to appear at the next term Of The
county court. His bail was fixed a
100000, in default of which he wa.
renanded to Jail. Mrs. Burke con
4 times slowly to rally from the effect
of the terrible tragedy, and her re
: covery is now considered sure.
Whitlaw Reid, in his interesting
volumes, "OLio in the War" settle
/ the disputed question as to the brit
d place of Gen. Phil Sheridan. Mas
sachusetts, which has claimed hin
I must yield to Ohio. lie was born i
the village OF Somerset, Perry cour
ty, Ohio, March 6, 1881
4 The ruling price for fall butter, o
Tuesday, was 40 cents. Severe
choice lots, however, sold for ~ cent:
l Winter butter sold for from % to 3
> cents, according to qaaIity. Th
= amount brought to town was small.
Early one morning last week,
Hayward, Of Rutland, was arouse
II by the sharp ringing of his front doc
d bell, and on opening the door foun
"a basket on the steps, and in the has
& ct stout male child, only a few houl
old. A bottle of milk and one {
soothing syrup completed the outfit.
'R There were ten failures reportt
l., in New York, last week, two oil viii,
ut were in large wholesale houses III
20 liabilities averaged $4,000 per fir
-. Among country merchants there We
! lO7 failures, the aggregate habiliti
,r of which were $535,000. .
Some eight months ago, Mr.. Chr
- TOPPER Pierce, of Huntington Cent?
~ trieu the experiment of raising a sue
~ ing pig with canine wet nurse. v
~ now learn that Mr.. p. has recent
~ killed the pig, at eight months o.
~ ~ and its weight was 300 pounds. o
" informant adds: "The pig was new
% % known to bark, although it suck
0o the slut over two months"
90 POLITICAL.-The Baltimore Anne
90 can learns that orders have been
80 ceivcd at t he Baltimore CustC
- House, direct from Washington,
81 curing all the employees to subscri
M money to be used to promote Den
40 cratic success in the elections short
-, to take place in New Hampshire.
'u' The amount to be levied upon ca
officer is specified, AID failure
Sc. pay VIII 10 doubt entail dismissal.
10 A letter written by the late G
% Andrew three days before his de;
40 closes as follows: 1885 .-
81 ""The tendency of the hour is
ol ward Grant. And that is best.
e sa' is not the ideal good 1t is bad
~ the country that he must leave
present POSTPAID for him. the