Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-29

w neat NO. commands Sz,lO
bushel at Red Wing.
Evart's speech was longer by one
day than the French revolution of
1880.
Wheat is arriving at Minneapolis
at the rate of three thousand bushels
a day.
Petroleum is good for something after
ALL They are making champagne of
it in London.
The San Francisco servant girls in
vest in real estate, and many of them
own valuable town lots.
Gen Schofeld has appointed G. W.
Gum as Mayor of Winchester, Va.
The national board of trade meets
at Philadelphia, June 3.
Gold shipment from Denver last
week, $4,000. Mining was never bet
ter.
For the West GIG emigrants pass
ed through Columbus, Ohio, last
| week.
Chicago estimates the cost of its
public schools for the next year at
$795 800.
The Alta Vela business makes a
deal of talk among public men.
Elastic sponge is crowding on curl
ed hair for mattresses, pillows and
cushions.
A lady in Illinois is celebrating her
sixth divorce. It's nothing out there.
Springfield and Worcester have
been playing chess by telegraph.
Manchester, \. H., has experienced
the shock of an earthquake.
They make umbrellas now that will
open themselves.
The laborers of New York have
been on strike by the thousands.
Everywhere are to be seen abound
ing evidences of a great fruit season
to come.
| Col. Hazard, the great powder
manufacturer of Enfield, Conn, is
dead.
If A. J. should die to day, WHY
couldn't he collect his life insur-
ance? Because he has lost his policy.
Nearly two thousand persons have
taken out naturalization papers in De-
troit during the past month.
! Looking glasses don't lie, but they
tell some awful plain truths now and
then
kissing factory girl is mill
p privilege" Yes, when she is salts.
factory girl.
II A dog is the only dependent that
g | know of upon whom you can always
< rely as true friend.
o There are forty wooden mills in
% Wisconsin,, capable of manufacturing
If annually 100000 yards of cloth
How many people there are in this
1t world whose characters are anonv-
a. nous.
! Let the world understand that you
7 can be spit upon and you are spit
:, box for life.
$ If fools would be content to act nat
ural, they would not be noticed.
d Friendship is like picked meats;
to keep it sweet, the brine wants to
d be changed once in while.
-e Colorado Adams is stumping for
Is Congress in Arizona. It's a scratch
T. with cactus.
e. The advice never to look back
o dosen't apply when goodlooking wo-
men are to be studied.
II If you are going to help a man be
= = lively about it; promised assistance
y " after a while is considered a bad
'o debt.
1T There is no one so certain of always
y feeling good as he whose vanity sup
plies his hopper with a grist.
N My ideal of delightful woman is
n. one who seems to love everybody,
" but in fact only loves her husband.
is The bloodless duel near Washing
" ton between Lawrence and Kensserow
In grew out of what one woman said
lie about another woman.
Ill
I'd Vesuvins is said to have reformed.
th 1t seems to have abandoned it's violent
lis courses. and has very nearly quit
4 !: smoking.
l @ Adam was probably never more
! tickled than when he discovered Eve,
" which shows how unnatural solitude is.
H. The South Carolina Senate contains
he 20 white members and II colored;
til the House of Representatives A
1g white and so colored.
d,
Id A reader of the New England Far
be mer in North Bernardston trusted in
that journals recommendation of
mixture of whale and kerosene oils
Y. for safety, and tried it in his barn
is lantern. Result, an explosion, shat
IL tered lantern, and ruined faith in the
he farmer.
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he A young darkey in Allentown, Pa,