Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
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Elliott, the portrait painter, was
born in a saw-mill.
The military asylum at Gardiner,
Me-, has $50 inmates. aaEy-Trz.s
A mountain of magnetic iron has
been found in Lapland. rau
Ozone is now manufactured in
France by the aid of electricity.
The Pope is the only European
sovereign who does not smoke.
e. 1t is said Patti received $4,000
for singing ten nights at Hamburg.
An Englishman proposes to slaugh-
ter cattle by means of electricity.
The British museum contains twen-
ty-fve miles of book shelves.
A French college has given a girl
the degree of Bachelor of Science.
A man made $4,000 gathering
mustard seed in California last year.
Insurance companies lost $595,000
in New York city fires last month.
The cotton crop of North Carolina
will be equal to that of last year.
More than fifty operators in Wall
street made over 81 900, 900 last year.
Eight carmen were fined lately in
New York ser cruelty to their horses.
Bishop Whitehouse of Illinois
claims $4,000 back pay from his d.
ocese.
Wooden railways are commended
for wild hilly regions of thin popula-
ton.
Rev. Charles f. Robertson has &C
cepted the Protestant Episcopate of
Missouri. ......
The cost of a general election in
New York city is eighty-one thou
sand dollars.
A Massachusetts company has
Norway lake, and propose to sell
ice in London
A panther in Madison County, Lou
isiana, made his breakfast from a la
boring man there. .G. ta-
A Mormon elder was recently pre-
sented with niue boys and five girls
the same morning. A numerous pa
rent.
One county in Ohio raised a quar-
ter of a million bushels of peaches
this year.
Queen Victoria is said to be con-
vert to female suffrage.
Horses in Australia are selling at
tenpence apiece, or seven for FIVE shil-
linos. -
The area Of the State of Vermont
Is 9O,564 square miles.
The highest peak of the Green
Mountains. is Mt Mansfield, in Under
bill, tie summit of which is 1889 feet
above the level of the sea.
More maple sugar is made in Yer
mont, than in any State: except New
York.
Rev. G. S. Swift, of Stockbridge,
recently dug 81 1-2 bushels of Early
Goodrich potatoes, the product of
one bushel of seed.
The geographical center of Ver-
mont is in Mortified.
Joseph Bowker of Sunderland was
fatally injured while repairing a barn
not long since. He was So years old.
Mrs. Stowe has raised thirty-fve
pound watermelon. Strange to say
she has neglected to bestow it upon
Governor Seymour. A &
A portrait Of DR.. Guillotin, after
whom the guillotine was named. is an
nounced for sale ia Paris. 1t was
painted by Canot, pupil of David
The Manchester Mirror SAYS that
from 81 to So per barrel is the range
of price for frst-class apples there,
and that there is an abundant crop
harvesting.
The ladies in Poland are not per-
mitted to wear black or gray dresses,
and are fogged for Noncompliance
with the law. adas
A school mann, who has been fined
S22 for whipping scholar, has had
the money made up to her by the citi-
zens of Andover 81
Six important railroads are In proc
ess of construction in Oregon, two of
them connecting with the Pacific Rail.
road.
A man In Brattleboro, who had
not shaved for about seven years, re-
Gently had his beard taken of. 1t
measured three feet and six inches in
length.
The Pittsburg Chronicle says: awe
saw the man last night who don't be-
lieve that lager beer will intoxicate.
He stopped US on Vine street to say,
Mos harm'ss bev'ege in er'old.-
Man can drink fly glasses n never
feel it nore'n (hic) | am this min t.
A man drinks whiskey AN he shows
it. Drinks lage' beer'n don't sh.sh-
show't'an al'ys did | Look at the no.
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