Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-22
Miscellaneous Items.

as a man thinks, so will he act.
Radical papers are starting up all
over Missouri.
The Washington Star thinks Pen
dleton will be the flag bearer for the
| Democrats.
The Central P a C fl railroad of
California has paid out 81 900, 900 for
blasting powder.
Some people seem to have virtue
enough for their whole town except
themselves. -'+ '-t-s-- -- .e-
If you wouldn't have aff1iction make
you a second visit, listen to its teach
ings at the first.
In the race for wealth. we tug and
toll to arrive-nOwhere.
One of the most fatal temptations
to the weak is slight deviation from
the exact truth, for the sake of ap-
parent good. ... .s- ...
| Look upward for the grace needed
now, and forward for the rest that re-
maineth.
The love of God is both the sweet
est and strongest emotion that can
possess the heart.
Happiness is a perfume that one
cannot shed over another without
few drops falling on ones self.
| Cicero gives expression to beauti-
full thought when he says: a am 60
ing from life as from an inn, not as
from home"
The loss of resolute habits is like
the loss of his spectacles to near
sighted man; it implies loss of the
: power to recover them.
We may not like all the company
we meet with, but if we are brought
: in contact with it, we must make the
best of it.
A mean man never knows he is
mean; he only thinks himself cautious
just as a near sighted person seem:
e 10 be looking far away.
The world of the young is the do
meStic circle; all beyond is fabulous
unless brought home to them by com
ment.
To speak the truth is useful to hin
to whom it is spoken, but sadly the
reverse to him who speaks it, for il
makes him hated.
How easy and pleasant it is to assign
motives for the conduct of our neigh
bors when we gather them uncon
sciously from our own hearts.
James learns, % years old, com
mitted suicide in Warren, Ohio, by
hanging himself with a piece of tow
cling thrown over door frame.
Here is an expressive epitaph,
which, alas would fit many grave
Poorly lived,
And poorly died
| Poorly buried,
And no one cried.
Mrs. Langdon, sister of VIM. b.
Astor, it is reported, has commenced
suit against her brother for the re-
: covery Of property valued at several
millions.
a country boy who had heard of
sailors heaving up anchors, wanted to
know if it was Sea-sickness that made
them do it.
This epitaph is said to be taken
from stone in an old Connecticut
graveyard:
"Here we be
He and me
Twenty he
Forty sLe.'
: 1000 barrels of -four and 10000
bushels Of wheat were shipped from
Hastings, Minnesota, last week, and
10000 still remain.
There are 10000 Englishmen in
British India, who rule about two hun.
dred million Hindoos.
, In Philadelphia, during 1867 there
were 1907 births (in these were 1873
cases of twins and four triplets,) g.,
/ O48 marriages, and 1898 deaths.
Four hundred and thirty-two houses
! are in course of construction in Troy
at total cost Of SO, 723 ,03O, or an av
erage cost of s11,336.
GRATING WAx.-A good grating
/ wax is made of l part tallow, 2 parts
] beeswax and 4 parts rosin. Linseed
g oil which is sometimes used instead
a of tallow, is bad, as it penetrates and
destroys the wood.
i A hypocritical scouudrel IL Athens
!, inscribed over his door, "Let nothing
evil enter here" Diogenes wrote un.
der it, !" How does the owner get in. :
Mirabeau, when asked by a friend
: which was the better, the single or the
married state, replied: Whichever
resolution you come to repentance will
follow" --.zr.
g. "a A Good Templar asked drunken
|. man where he expected to go to when
he died. "If | can't get along any
T better (hic) then than now," said he
t "I shan't 60 (hic) nowhere" 3i1 eoi
A Sunday school pupil in the course
q of examination on the Psalms, was
e asked, What is the pestilence that
: walketh in darkness ?" The reply
: was, Please, Sir, bed-bugs.'
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