Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-29
Miscellaneous Items.

Iowa has | $50 miles of railroad.
"Nasby" is a native of Bennington.
The late Gov. Tod left an estate
of over 100000.
Stewards new store employs 1000
girls.
Minnesota is paying $40 for wolf
scalps.
Omaha has put up 1000 buildings
this year.
The late lamented king of Siam
left 1000 widows.
New Jersey is the most Methodist
State in the Union.
Louisville has three thousand unem-
ployed laborers.
New York supports twelve hun
dred Cubans.
Wolf scalps cost Minnesota $4,000
year.
The number of deaths in New York
last week was 324.
Great Britain had a population Of
! 30,369,345 in June last.
We imported 81, 100000 worth of
English books last year.
An American newspaper has been
started in Florence.
Chicago is one of the greatest game
markets in the country.
California fears the introduction of
leprosy by the Chinese.
Brigham Young is becoming Brig
ham old and grows paralytic.
Iowa cast more votes than Wiscon-
sin in the recent election.
The mother of all cats is at Win.
throp, Me-, ffty-two years old.
A portion of Pennsylvania pray~
for a partition Of the State.
Starch heated with sulphuric acid
becomes honey in Germany.
The cattle plague is working great
; havoc in Western Wisconsin.
Bonner has presented Grant with
his celebrated horse Dexter.
Savannah boasts itself the health
lest city in the country.
Infautile ineDriate8 toddIe abour
Montreal streets on Sunday.
= The Emperor of China is fourteen
/ years Old and the Empress eleven.
Lamartine has sunk into utter do
tagc.
There is a mau in Whitby. Ont.
p l20 years of age.
t Davenport, Iowa, claims 25,O0(
t people.
Philadelphia statistics argue a pop
ulation of 100000.
Georgia's cotton crop is valued a
. S30,OO0,000.
e Paris has 7OO.814 cats by exac
t count.
e Brigham Young 5 raising sill
worms.
Kansas city has a population o
25,O0O,
t Out Of 10000 teachers in thi
r country, $500 are females.
The national revenue on Tuesda
0 only reached Sl,000,000.
r An earthquake shock was felt a
a Staten Island az. Sunday last.
Five girls, all fifteen, are under al
It rest in st. Louis Tor burglary.
Maine has been a haying to the ez
= tent of a miiiloD tons this year.
Astronomers assert that there ar
q land and water on the planet Mars.
n New York and Brooklyn supper
f 1878 billiard rooms.
II Chang and Eng sailed for Europ
I Saturday week.
Virginia has ripe strawberrie
grown IN the open air.
The Springfield Republican advt
Gates female suffrage
d The post-office clerks in Clevelan
J. are all females.
:. The Freedman's Bureau will nun
!, ber its days with this year.
o Massachusetts consumes nearl
v twenty eight million dollars worth O
|! liquor a year.
a. 1t finally turns out that the Const
is tutional Convention in Illinois Wa
carried by ITO majority.
There will be a total eclipse of tn
O- sun next year, VlSlOle In many parl
IN of the United States.
The Adjutant- General of the arm
10 reports that there are less than so
Z 900 men in the service.
70 The reaction in Spain from loos
morals of Isabella's reign has produ,
~ ed General Primness.
a. The Goddess Of Liberty for th
t. Gettysburg monument weighs 400
% pounds.
. There is not Jewish beggar
y New York city. The Hebrews su,
l9 '1 port their own poor.
# The French Empress paid the mi
At liner with whom she recently quarre