Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-24

dents.
One green tarleton dress pattern
contains arsenic enough to kill three
men.
Weston proposes to walk from Me.
to st. Paul, 5000 miles, in 100 con-
secutive days.
A Berlin Engineer has invented
military land torpedo which he says
will blow up whole battalion.
1t is estimated that 100000 ci-
gars are consumed in New York city
yearly.
Herds of Buffalo dispute the pas
sage of trains on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad.
Mexico in three centuries has pro-
duced S3,5OO,000,000 in silver bull
lion.
The Comstock Lode at Virginia
city has produced $100,O00,000 in
bullion.
"Time works wonders" as the lady
said when she married after a thir-
teen years courtship.
Love can excuse anything but mean
ness. Meanness kills love and Grip
plies even natural affections.
The best CONSIDERS of human hearts
may bear broken hearts in their own
bosoms.
There is a preacher in New York
who claims to have delivered 800 SER
mons.
The wines and liquors of the late
Mr.. Buchanan sold for 81 200 at auc-
ton.
Flowers are the alphabet of angels,
scattering over hill and dale, and
speaking what tongue cannot express.
Never insult the modest by ribald-
ry, the grave by levity, nor the pious
by contempt of sacred things.
A writer on adulteration in food
says there are so substitutes for cof-
fee, and 129 for tea.
The cost of general election in
New York city is eighty-one thousand
dollars.
Harper & Brothers use $4,000
worth of paper day in their immense
publishing establishment.
Edward Everett's son William, the
young author, is a carrot-headed,
freckled, harsh-voiced, ungraceful boy.
Brigham Young is said to be the
third largest depositor in the bank of
England.
One of the most sensible acts of the
new government of Spain is its CON-
plete suppression of the order of Jes-
uits.
An Illinois shopkeeper has ingeni-
ously fixed a pistol in his money
drawer to guard against thieves, and
the first man he shot was himself.
There is a lady in Boston who
hasn't washed her face for fifteen Years.
She thinks water Injuries the skin, and
uses fine Indian meal in its place.
A lady of fortune near Paris has
committed suicide. She had a boil
on her nose, and was afraid of being
disfgured.
The London streets, placed in a
single line, would reach from Liver
pool to New York. 1t takes 36O,60O
street lamps to illuminate London.
Indiana has eight thousand square
miles of coal, averaging ten feet in
thickness. Enough to supply one
million tons year for seven thousand
years.
Not long ago piece of iron ore
was dug out of mine in Devon. Eng
land, seventy-four feet below the sur
face of the earth. and on breaking it
lizard six inches long crept out.
Somebody has ascertained that the
national debt, if piled in dollars, one
row up, would be three hundred and
ninety-eight miles high.
Dispatches from Italy report that
the papal ranks continue to be deple-
ted by desertions, which are on the
increase.
The average depth of the ocean is
only about three miles. The deepest
place in the Atlantic is between the
Grand Banks and the Bermudas,
where bottom has not been found.
Last week a toundling was left on
doorstep in Westville, Conn, and
now, the parents having been married
they want back the baby. The kind
ly gentleman who took it in says they
may have it for $50.
The State Temperance Alliance
claims thirty out of the forty Sena-
tors elected in Massachusetts, as pro-
hibitionists, and thinks the House has
two-thirds of its members inclined the
same way.
A Philadelphia reporter recently
saw the moon shining so brightly that
he could trace the movements of a
base ball club playing a match on the
surface of that lovely satellite.
Smith lives in Cincinnati. There
are six hundred and twenty-tbree of
him doing business in that city, and
those of him who are named John
haun duindlod damn to turo hnndrad