Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-03
Miscellaneous Items.

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Hopelessness is free hope slave.
Twere better to die than live a
slave.
Obedience is the Mother of Pros
fperity.
On hope alone poor banished do
live.
10000 workingmen and women
are out of employment in New York.
The shoe market is more active.
Awl right, at last.
China has evidently revolutionized
her ideas, and intends to bear an ac-
tive part in the worlds affairs.
An elegant lady of Paris eats a
pound of horse steak every morning
for breakfast.
Every mother who has daughters
should instruct them in the art of
good housekeeping.
Give freely to him that deserveth
well and asketh nothing; and that is a
way Of giving to thyself.-Fmtler.
How few read for instruction as
compared with the multitude that
read for mere entertainment.
Silence is the safest response for
all the contradictions that arise from
impertinence, vulgarity or envy.
If you wish for care, perplexity
and misery, be selfish in all things
this is the short road to trouble.
A good thought is a great boon
for which God is first to be thanked
next he who is first to utter it.
In social life we involuntarily be
!. lieve that the person who holds oul
own opinions is very sensible fellow
When you are panied by an unkin6
word or deed, ask yourself if yol
have not done the same many times.
Presents which our love for tht
, donor has rendered precious, are ev
, er the most acceptable.-OUid.
There are very scrupulous mem
bers of ChriSt's Church who do no
: even aim to learn of Christ to b
5 meek and lowly in heart.-Kirk.
Be charry in giving advice. IF
= shall prove good, it will be forgotten
: if it shall prove bad, it will never b
: forgotten.
e "They that marry ancient peopl
merely in the expectation to bur
e them, hang themselves, in hope ths
e one may come and cut the halter
J. Thomas Fuller.
One charge in a lawyers bi
II against a client was: For wakin
l. up in the night and thinking OF you
/ businesses.
= Thomas has been a familiar nam
" in mems mouths for some time past
Senator Thomas, General George {
" Thomas, Gen. Lorenzo Tomas, an
: Saint Thomas.
o A Cincinnati housekeeper advel
d tised last week "a girl wanted" H
/ found the article on his doorstep
d night or two afterward, wrapped j
p a blanket, and adopted it.
\ Death may remove from US th
- great and good, but the force of the
y actions still remains. The bow
= broken, but the arrow is sped, an
= will do its office.
e Those who bear msfortunes over meekly
- Do not persuade mankind that they and Want
. Are all too fifty match'd to be disjoin'd,
d And so to it they leave them.
Joanna BailIe
b. Il don't know what | may seem t
d the world, but as to myself, | seem
0, have been only like boy playing 0
T. the seashore, and diverting myself
d now and then finding a smoother pei
t. bic, or prettier shell than ordinar,
# whilst the great ocean of truth lay a
E. undiscovered before me- Sir Eat
d. Newt0n.
o. With equal fear good citizens should dread
,r To own lord, or be without head
If Law and Fear be banished in disgrace.
Is Chaos and outrage will usurp their place.
N E. J. LGndon.
o. Let your thoughts be fit and suit
ble for the subject. Every day ha,
6 higher thoughts ofGod, lower though
n. of self, kinder thoughts of your bret
u ren, and more hopeful thoughts of 9
9 around you.
ne Inever cast flower away.
r The gift Ofone who cared for me;
IL little hower-a faded flower,
Y BUTT was done reluctantly.
In order to keep up with the pro
ress of the age, Time has abandont
g tho ooytho and hour glass, and pu
= chaSad O ,,,n---;>4- ---L: - i -
re And, with them, words of sweet breath COZ
posed,
le As made the things more rich: their perfuI
n lost
Take these again: for to the noble mind
n Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkin
m Shakespea
Who can paint
Like nature? Can Imagination boast,
.d Amid its gay creation, hues like her'ss
Or can it mix them with that matchless skill
And lose them in each other, as appears
lg In every bud that blows.
NJ Thompst
"a Nature! Great Parent whose unceasing hanC
IL Rolls round the seasons of the changeful ye
o. How mighty, how majestic are thy works
, = With what pleasing dread they swell the sou
a1 That sees astonlsh'd. and astonish'd sings!
Good breeding is guard upon Il
. tongue, the misfortune being that it
y put on and off with our fine cloth