Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-24

Curses, like chickens, always 90
home to rOost.
Good manners are the small coin
Of virtue.
Love all, trust few, do wrong to
none.
Make a slow answer to a .hasty
question.
Smallness with tallness makes the
figure too slender
God cures while physicians take
the pay.
Be what you appear, and appear
what you are.
A wise man changes his mind,
fool never.
No man is free who does not COM
mand himself
In planting trees set them no lower
in the ground than they stood in the
nursery.
In Germany, when a paper says
anything witty, they kill the editor
and not one editor has been killed
there for two hundred years.
Asa Stacy is at work digging for
money near Oakland, Taunton, under
the direction Of the spirit of buccan-
Ger. He has eXcayated large hole,
and as the strata through which he
passes appears to have been undisturb-
ed, there are those skeptical enough
to doubt his success. Stacy, however,
is ,anguine, and digs on.
A farmer named Samuel Robinson.
residing near Melbourne, in Derby.
shire, England, recently took the
prize at Birmingham, and the ROYAL
Horticultural Fairs for six ca0bages.
the aggregate weight Of which was
433 pounds; being an average of
Y II pounds to the cabbage
A bright little Girl, eight or nine
years Old, who had heard much talk
about subject, came home from meet
ing one day and asked, in a somewhat
indignant tone, Mamma What
make the minister always say Ameal
Why don't he ever say Il Womcn ?
A Scotch ho,.bac. who ,ye.- .,--,,-l,
given to dram drinking, was one day
shaving a customer, who, finding the
fumes of the whisky too much for
him, in the middle Of the job lost his
patience, and exclaimed: That hor-
rid drink" The barber replied, en-
phatically: "Ay. ay, sir, it does max
the face awlu tender
An exchange describing the locali-
ties Of three prominent Institutions
Of its city says:
The medical college is on the road
to the cemetery; the divinity college
on the road to the poorhouse; anC
the law school on .hc road to the
Jail"
During the rebellion a regiment
Of Arkansas men was marching one
day knee deep in mud, part Of then
dragging a heavy cannon. An office
riding by was hailed by one Of then
with the remark: "Wa'ai, Colonel
I'll 90 through with you this hitch
but il you ever have any more Union
to break up, you may just bet We
life | amt thar T.
An Irishman, having accidental.
broken a pane of glass in a windoy
was making the best Of his way to ge
out OF sight as well as mind; but tn
proprietor stole a march on him, anC
having seized him by the collar, e1
claimed:
"You broke my window, fellow, di
you not?'
"To be sure did, said Pat; "ant
didn't you see me running home 70
money to pay for p
A heavy fog once visited the Stat
OF Massachusetts, whiC h probabl
somewhat surpassed the fogs of tn
city Of London. A young man wa
sent out to the meadow to nail on
few courses of shingles on a barr
the roof of which was nearly fnisl
ed. AT dinner time continued th
farmer who is responsible for tn
story, "the fellow came up and sc
he, That's an alarming long barn o
you'n.' SEE l, not very long. Wei
SEE he, I've been to work all tn
forenoon, and haven't got one cours
laid yet WELL SEE | , you're
lazy, fellow, that's all I've got to say
So after dinner | went down to 81
what he'd been about. and I'll
Numbered if he hadn't shingled mo
than a hundred feet right onto ii
fog
Massey ON FREE DRINKNG.-Nast
gives the following suggestions
President Johnson, in regard to Il
use Of Bourbon "and sich:"
"Yoo hev instruktid yoor Origins
spred the report that Gen. Ora
wuZ in the constant habit NV bell
intoxicated Miserable error! NJ
taken policy Yoo may possib
make some Ablishnist believe it al
detach EN- from him, but 700 also ;
tach the entire Democracy to h
with hooks Nv steel. Fasten til
charge upon him-make Kentuc
bleeve it, and Kentucky wood to M
ror give him his electoral vote. Do
700 remember that the Democri
took no stock in 700 till after t
22d Of Feboory speech? and did