Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-16
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
New Orleans is feasting on straw
berries.
Boston has sent its first cargo of
ice to the Japanese.
In England even the Queen has to
pay postage on letters.
The graves of Buchanan and Stey-
ems are in the same yard.
London's population increases at
the rate of 100000 year.
1t cost a man in San Francisco $75
to call his neighbor a id thief.
Fisk is losing $500 a night in run
ming his Opera House in New York.
Mrs. MattoOn advertises herself in
iowa papers as an "attorneyess,at-
law"
Gen. Logan has joined the Metho-
dist Church at Carbonate, H., 10y
letter.
The "woman question" has got the
cold shoulder in the Maine Iegisla,
ture.
Harpers use $4,000 worth Of pa
per i'll their printing establishment
every day.
The total loss by fire in this coun-
try for thirteen years is placed at
89,5G5,O00
President Johnson will 90 to Eu-
rope about April LIST. Look out for
speeches.
The army Of the Potomac will hold
a reunion in New York on the 9Th
Of July.
The Memphis Sun calls a very
black negro the "vivified butt end Of
midnight"
Michigan man has invented a
lathing machine which does the work
of three men.
VeIocipcdes are sold in Cincinnati
at $35 each. The factory turns out
1000 a week.
Alexander H. Stevens has told a
Georgia editor that he approves OF
Grant personally.
The fool holds his heart in his Ian.
guage, the sage holds his language in
his heart.
Three Japanese have arrived at
Amhest, to be educated for the minis.
try.
New maple sugar Is retailing al
Pittstield at forty cents per pound.
There were 4163 births, SIS mar
riages and 1856 deaths in Worcester
last year.
Any person of good moral charac.
ter, being a voter, can practice law il
Indiana.
Within the last three months, over
$4,000 worth of velocipedes have
been manufactured in New Bedford
Cleared-sIoop d" My Policy" An
drew Johnson master, in ballast, fol
Tennessee and a market.
The French mistress Of the SultaI
is said to be the most powerful politi
clan in Turkey.
By chemical process knife han
dies and fine tooth combs are made
from potato pulp.
The copper tariff bill is law. |
has passed over the veto without de
bate in the Senate.
The Maine Senate has passed {
bill allowing physicians to obtain sub
jects for dissection.
So astonishing a comet is announc
ed for August that We shall then hav,
no dark nights.
In Leeds, England, there is a Lin
coin block of buildings, named in hon
or of the great President,
A little boy near Quincy, H., re
Gently hung himself because his moth
er angered him by speaking sharply.
Seventeen hotels have been bnrneC
in ST. Paul, Mimi, since 1S52-twc
of them during the past two months.
"No moving in May" is considered
a necessary addition to advertise
J ments for boarders in New York CITY
E Sparrows are carefully protected
in Mississippi, that they may feed OF
r cotton worms few months hence.
West Virginia has built, during tn
a past year, three thousand school hou
ses, where there were scarcely an,
1 before
A splendid Episcopal church ha
been dedicated in Hartford, costin,
$l5O,OOO, wholly at the expense Of
Mrs. Samuel Colt.
q. 1t is vain to stick your finger in th
: water, and, pulling it out, look for tn
hole; and equally vain to suppose thai
, however large space you occupy
the world will miss you when you die