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

SOFCi utuOIlt OfCI WuCIO.
Miscellaneous Items.
London has Mormon church with
1000 members.
Louisiana sugar this year is of ex-
cellent quality
Cincinnati police have a system of
rocket signals.
A Mexican is the latest inventor of
perpetual motion.
Illinois sports is now in hunting
wolves.
Pennsylvania is expecting a hard
winter.
Pecan nuts are very abundant this
year in Texas.
The last shirt collars out are made
OF wood.
Waxahachie, Texas, is vexed by a
Mexican hon.
Sligo, Ireland, has lately had a po-
tatoe riot.
1t is said that horse fever prevails
in Indianola, Iowa.
Canada wants a new order of
knighthood.
Many salad in Paris is dressed
with horse oil.
Oysters were never before so plen-
ty as now.
Italy has been badly wet down of
late by floods.
Queen Victoria is accused of being
at work on a novel.
Blue is the favorite color in Madrid
since the revolution.
The Central Pacific road snow
sheds are nearly completed.
Alcohol is said to be a certain cure
for mushroom poison.
The Chinese have built an idol tenn
pie at Portland, Oregon.
The Utica Police are spelling the
sport OF Sunday gunners.
The Pacific Railroad is employing
an army Of fence builders.
A Vermonter lately shaved off three
feet six inches of beard
The hair of copper worker in
Buffalo has turned sea green.
Buchanan's farm at Wheatland has
been sold for S133 per acre.
Gold has been discovered in the Vi
cinity of Manchester, Vt.
A volume of the unpublished Jokes
of Artemus Ward is in preparation.
Wisconsin has decided that the tax
on drummers is unconstitutional.
Guizot gets $500 apiece for his ar
ticles in the Reuue des Deur Mondes.
A flock of ants ten miles wide late
ly passed through Shasta, California.
I KangarOoS have become very nu-
merous and injurious in So. Australia.
The largest iron works in the coun-
try are soon to be put up in St. Louis.
An English firm offers Spain loan
OF 5OO,0O0,0O0 francs at five per cent.
Queen Victoria is said to be a con-
vert to female suffrage.
The Pope is the only European
! sovereign who does not smoke.
There are 900 old clothes dealers
in New York city.
Galveston is said to be the health.
est city in the south.
The population of Ohio is calculat-
ed closely at 100000.
A new mineral spring was discov.
cred at Saratoga last week.
Brigham Young won't let profane
young men visit the Misses Young.
Texas offers corn at ten cents a
bushel and there are no buyers at that.
Bufaloes may be killed from the
car windows on the Pacific Railroad
Minnesota wants another 100000
bridge across the Mississippi.
Paris supports 800 female printers
and 80 female proof readers.
The campaign artillery Of b e
French army consists of 1900 cannon.
A snakes skeleton with 9S2 joints
has been dug up in Tennessee.
Motto for a journalist-"Do write
and fear not
The worlds crop of tobacco is es.
timated at 49,, 400 tons.
The Southern crops this year are
placed at $4O0.000,000.
Mush and milk are the toothsome
viands furnished at evening parties.
A man in Scotland who had been
ordered leeches for an injury, took
them boiled in his Cruel.
Nineteen leading ministers of
France have an average annual sala.
ry of $31 500. a