Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-24
Miscellaneous Items.

ice.
The Illinois State Penitentiary has
1885 inmates.
New York drinks 228,OOO quarts
of milk each day.
There are 1910 convicts in the Ohio
Penitentiary at this time.
There are $4,000 post Offices in the
United States.
There are 40 farms for sale in the
town of Adams, Mass.
A large number of Minnsotians are
emigrating to Oregon.
Politics and patent medicines are
all that can be found in most of the
Western papers.
Last year Great Britain paid about
$1O,60O,OOO for imported eggs.
Ninty-four million letters were sent
through the Chicago post office last
year.
The Emporia News, Kansas,reports
the spring emigration already rolling
on.
There is a colored woman in Des
Moines aged 10 years.
There is little boy 10 years old
in Nashville who weighs 300 pounds.
The Mercantile Library of Phi aa
sesses 1886 volumes.
The Knoxville Democrat has a pet
rifed locust leaf, taken from the earth
at depth of forty feet.
Trichin@ has broken out in a Lam
sing, Iowa, boarding house. Fourteen
sick and three died.
1t is proposed to add Impeachment
Day to our festivals, to be celebrated
after the manner of the Fourth Of
July.
Canada is still overrun with silver,
and the Great Eastern is to be chart
cred to take it out of the country.
Thenumber of pupils in the color
ed schools of Tennessee has increased
during the past month nearly 1000.
In 90 years the number of foreign
vessels arriving at the port of Boston
has only increased 19-not one {
year.
A grey tame eagle, supposed t.
have escaped from Barnum's Musuem
was captured near Sandwich, Canada
recently.
Sir Morton Peto has become yer,
unpopular in England since his failure
Measures are to be taken to GUST hin
from the House of Commons.
William Holmes raised 5000 wort
of hops on one acre in Iowa.
Canada exported into the UniteC
States s71,576 worth of fax las
year.
The stomach Of the swine resemble
the human; therefore his need 70
warm, cooked food.
The best way to apply the whip t
your team, is to give it in the shap
of oats-in the crib.
The square form in building give
+La sIa~ra- 81 IT, 800,
little structures are great tax o
the owner.
: The property Of the country is Ell
HANGED in value by improved road
From field to market there should b
2 the fewest hills; no loose stones q
useless sand.
At the recent Dairymen's Convel
ton at Belvidere, H., the raising 0
sweet corn as food for COWS wa
strongly recommended by numbe
of dairymen.
:, A correspondent of The Prairi
= Farmer says two poles, Is feet lonj
e with two vines to each pole, al
, enough for any hill of hops, and wi
e produce N ore hops than more pole
/. and vines.
n Joseph Harris says one of tt
s. most effective drains he had is NJ
d more than 20 inches deep at the GU
t let. He thinks it better to have
It shallow drain with a free outlet tina
o a deep one that is liable to be cho
l. ed up.
! The widow of Henry Ernst, the
lustrious violinist and composer of Il
. famous " Carnival Of Venice" lives
y destitute circumstances in Vienna.
A perfect gentleman, named Augu
tus j. Caesar, has just died in Il
d Mornings de Asylum, at Edinburg
is who imagined himself to be 1000
f years old.
N STATE FAIR.-By a vote of ten
= six the Directors decided at St. 4
t, bans on Tuesday night in favor
. Burlington as the place of holding t
% Vermont State Fair for the ne
m three years.
n SAD DEATH OF A LUNATIC-Wt
y cester, April 1S.-William Aiken
: Newton, a patient at the Lunatic AS
q lum in this city, while walking q
~ with his attendant this morning bro
- away from him and threw himself l
n der passing freight train and W
n instantly killed.
ey A movement is on foot among I
tn citizens Of Webster and vicinity
n stock Lake Chauhnnarnnpamau w