Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-17
Miscellaneous Items.
Virtue avoids temptation.

Money develops the fools.
He who wants health wants everything
Napoleon has an income Of IS, 900.
The South, like the West, is laying out
paper cities, which is a hopeful sign.
The late Henry Keep of New York left
ten millions of dollars.
New rice was gathered in South Carolina
on the 22d ult., the first of the season.
The rice crop of Louisiana is expected
to reach $4,000 barrels this year.
Conversation should be enlivened with
wit not composed of it.
The worth of thing is best known by
the want of it.
The more we serve God, the better we
serve ourselves.
A first rate shirt cutter gets a salary of
s., 900 per year in New York
He that knows himself best, esteems
himself least.
Virginia railroads are about to reduce
| liClI IdlCo III Ic%ooCLSCIS'
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure
to duty, approaches sublimity.
If the world despises hypocrite, what
must they think of him in heaven.
1t is much better to endeavOr to forget
ones misfortunes than to speak often of
them.
The last ten days have done wonders for
the corn crop in southern and central Hi
nois
The ladies of Chicago, noble souls, are
providing the prisons of that city with
libraries
A lady is considered vulgar at Saratoga
who does not appear during the day in four
different costumes.
A little girl in Missouri has received a
premium for committing to memory 13, So
verses of the Bible.
\ year ofpleasure passes like floating
breeze; moment Of misfortune seems an
age of pain.
Two women recently had prize fight in
St Louis One of them pounded the 9TH
er insensible
Our souls are rich in germs requiring to
be developed and strengthened by an ex-
ternal influence.
1t is said that Of the many forms of in
temperance existing in our country, the ha-
bitual use of chIoroform is not the least
One grain of wheat planted in the
Boise Valley, Idaho, has produced one
hundred and twenty stalks, with thirty
grains on each.
A French fanatic actually nailed two
feet and one of his hands to a cross which
he had made out of old rafters.
London has a church of st. Judas Is
CARROT" which has neither creed, priest or
title, and obeys only conscience.
Chicago is projecting monster musical
festival for the next year, which IS expect
ed to greatly surpass the late Boston Jubi-
lee.
The capitol of the Russian Empire has
been removed from St. Petersburg to Kieff.
Reason, the climate of the former place is
, unhealthy.
During the period between 1915 and1 1869
fifty four years, six and half million of
: people left Great Britain to seek homes in
) other climes.
Don't imagine trouble; don't borrow it
don't die before your time. When God
wants you to die, he will show you how tC
do it easy.
You cannot tathom your mind. There
is well of thought there which has ne
bottom The more you draw from it, the
more and plentiful it will be.
flour characters are too firm to be shak-
en- by calumny, then envy often extols Il.
beyond reason, blowing US up because il
cannot throw us down.
The greatest wisdom Of speech is to know
when, and what, and where to speak; the
time, matter, manner. The next to it j,
silence.
Patrick Foy, n years of age, fell from {
q staging of building in course of erection
+ in Lowell, short time ago, distance of
twenty seven feet, and soon after expired.
The Lowell Courier says that during the
t eclipse on Saturday, it was noted that tn,
: strongest temperance men i'll the city die
= not refuse to take glass.
: If we are loved by those around Us, W,
d can easily bear the hostility Of all the res
n of the world; just as, if we are before
warm fire, we need not care for all the ic
: in the Polar regions.
/ Among the court files at Taunton is tn
g finding off coroner's jury, which conclude
: that ''the said-came to his death by tn
II visitation of the aforesaid God"
IS Never let your honest convictions b
laughed down. Be ever ready to give re
II spectful attention to argument. Treat rio
il icule and dogmatic assertion with the COZ
g tempt they deserve.
II But four months of the building seaso
~, are given, and yet it is estimated that th
sum now being expended In Chicago fC
: building improvements exceeds $4,000 90,
as There are $500 newspapers published
! this country, of which five sevenths are i
&c sued in the northern states. New YOr
! has the largest, and Florida the smalle
-, number.
en- Just praise is a good thing and well
H. be bestowed. More of it is withheld
envy than by judicious concern for tt
IF welfare of the praisworthy. Itmay, howe
- er, be said that they who deserve it Il
:; most need it the least.
d. Misfortunes are, in morals, what bite
are in medicine; each is at first disagree
H. BILE; but as the bitters act as corroboran
n of the stomach, so adversely chastens al
ameliorates the disposition.
ri ''The blessed man who preached for
ers today" says Mrs. Partington-"s served Il
IN, Lord for thirty years-frst as circus
To- der, then as locust preacher, and then
he exhauster.'
- A son of Hon. Sidney Dean, editor