Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-01
Miscellaneous Items.

Glover four feet high is common
near Rome, Ga.
The Pope has a navy of thirteen.
vessels. ---------
st. Paul enjoys flour at five dollars
per barrel.
The Queen of Portugal is another
royal lunatic.
Europe has 102,061 miles of COM
pleted railway. eaatG t-4 !
A homeopathic horse doctor has
arisen in Baltimore.
England was supporting 913,084
paupers last July.
England has 100 cooperative So.
cieties, and Prussia l, 500. t4aa-.. e
Gold brown is the momentarily ia
vorite color in Paris.
There are 200 varieties of post
age stamps in the world.
Civil marriages are now of frequent
occurrence in Spain. .a
Maine exemptS new manufacturing
enterprises from taxation.
Spain, in the flush of reform, talks
Of suppressing bull fights.
The vote of Illinois has increased
100000 in the last two years.
A Staten Island factory turns out a
ton of chewing gum daily.
Two large velocipede factories are
now running in New York.
Chicago laid twenty miles of side
walk in the last two months.
! Oxen are scarce in Oregon, and the
average price is 81 900 yoke.
The Pope loses 100000 francs
a year by the Spanish revolution.
DR.. Hayes wants to make another
attempt to reach the Polar Sea.
The small farm system is making
good Roadway in South Carolina.
Auburn capitalists are going to col
onize an $4,000 acre tract in Florida.
A big church in Chicago has lately
been carted three miles and half.
A Frenchman recently drank eigh-
ty-fOur cups of coffee on wager.
The corn crop of Ohio this year is
estimated at al 100000 bushels
| The Mormons have invented new
alphabet for their school books.
Two hundred French factory girls
are about migrating to New Orleans
The death of Mrs. Linen Sheets, a
widow. is announced in Philadel phia
There are 5000 less pupils in the
schools of Maine than there were ter
years ago.
Massilon, Ohio, has two large grind
stone factories, but cannot supply the
. demand.
The great cupola over the dome of
the holy tomb at Jerusalem is com
plete.
Without counting Alaska the Uni
Jeu states has sun 100000, 900
acres of public lands.
} Twenty-three thousand dollars anC
Canadian Grand Trunk contracto
< are both missing.
Princess Koziosky, whose fathe
lost her fortune, has opened a ciga
store in Moscow.
Some one, it is said, has invented
cigar-making machine that turns gu
: 100000 d day. ... ...
= Conyicts in the Richmond, Virgins
Penitentiary drink each 1892 WORT
j of milk year. a-t-'
e The N, Y. Young Mems Christia
Association are to erect a buiIdin!
costing 100000.
: The Auburn News has a red pei
@ per seven inches in length and ten i
i circumference. ... ... ....-...
d In Wisconsin peat is being use
a for fuel with considerable success an
l. great economy.
London University will be open t
,, women in May, 1869. They must b
II years old.
e The Indians are now gatherin
|. thousands of bushels of wild rice i
rs upper Minnesota. q.
e A western farmer has imported an
y set out thirty-six hundred apple tree
a from Russia. -saas w. saa. .-e
A Protestant church is to be bui
in Madrid under the sanction of tn
h government.
- The President elect has $4,000 0
. fees, with $30,000,00O in patronag,
at his disposal. 3-- .a1a-es~.e
OF $4,000 negroes entitled to vot
+. in New Orleans, and with their name
t. registered, only 100 dared to do SC
x The Charleston Mercury has SUI
E. pended publication-one Of the goo
= effects of Grants election. --,q
~ The Kansas legislature talk of in
~ n4achinr Ross because Ross didn't In