Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-17

and Edinburgh from London,
and London from Paris, and Paris from the
Devil"
Recently rector of parish in Toledo,
Ohio, in catechising his Sunday school,
asked: "Where did the wise men come
from?" Without moments hesitation the
answer came from little five year old: =
''From Boston! p The father and mother of
the little catechumen are natives of the
Bay State.
A story is told of two Yorkshire men who
travelled together three days in stage
coach without word everpassing between
them. On the fourth day, one Of them at
length ventured to remark that it was a fine
morning. "1nd qcho said it carn'tg" was
the reply.
A constable pursued thief, who took
refuge on a stump in swamp, and pulled
up after him the rail on which he went out.
The constable made the following return:
Sightable-cOnversa -non-est-cOme-at
able-in swampum-up stumpum-railo."
One of our Methodist exchanges says:
Take your religion with you to the sea-
shore, the springs, and the mountains; re-
tain its spirit, and in order to do this, jeal
ously maintain its form. Too many Of US
are like the little girl who, at the close of
her evening prayer one day said, "Now
.g9es,A 0y, titod good by Christ, Pm going
to Boston tomorrow"
shown by his mistress how to make pud
ding containing three eggs, but having seen
her throw one bad egg away, continued for
months after, whenever he made the pud-
ding, to use four eggs, regularly breaking,
examining and throwing one away, as he
had seen her do.
An Old Baptist minister, says the Relig-
ious Herald, enforced the necessity of differ
ence of opinion by argument:
Now. if everybody had been of my opin-
ion, they would all have wanted my old
woman"
One ofthe deacons who sat just behind
him responded:
Eyes, and if everybody was ofmy opin-
ion, nobody would have her"
The sleeping girl of Kentucky is dead.
For fourteen years, Miss Susan Caroline
Godsey, residing near Hickman, slept
never waking for more than fifteen minutes
at time On the 18th inst, she prophe-
sled that there would be an eclipse on the
9TH Of August, that the sun would never
shine 50 brightly as before, and that the
world soon come to an end, and then she
died
What are commonly termed "slow peo-
pie" are sometimes, on the whole, the most
progressive. \ man who sticks to Il thing
with pluck and pertinacity IS apt to run
ahead Of a mere taker of chances. The
turtle beat the hare, not because ofhis swift
movements, but from never stopping.
If you see half a dozen faults in woman
you may rest assured that she has hun
bred virtues to counterbalance them. Hove
your faulty, and fear your faultless women.
When you see what is termed faultless
woman, dread her as you would beautiful
snake. The power of completely conceal
ing the defects that she must have, is of IL
self serious vice.
The light of religion is not that of the
moonlight without heat; but neither is
its warmth that cf the stong-warmth with
out light. Religion is the sun, the warmth
of which indeed swells, and stirs, and actu-
ates the life Of nature, but who at the same
time bcholds all the growth of life with q
master eye, makes all objects on which he
looks and by that glory visible to all 9th
ers.- Coleridge
Mr. Brown, in a railway carriage the 9th
er day, going for Colenzo, hit upon the
case of Nebuchadnezzar, urged that it was
utterly absurd and impossible for a man to
so forget his human instincts as to eat grass
/ like beast, and asked the opinion of his
fellow travellers. "Verily, friend" quoth
a Quaker, Il see no great improbability in
the story, if he was as great an ass as thou p
There are said to bein the United States
total of six million two hundred thousand
members ofevangelicai churches, including
one hundred thousand Quakers. If we
reckon three persons to each church mem
Der, which is a low estimate. there will be
about nineteen millions of our population
directly and indirectly connected with the
evangelical churches. The Roman Catho-
lie population is reckoned at five million.
TERRIBLE DEATH-NEw YORK, Aug
9.-On Friday night two boys nance
Michael Mahoney and John Godfrey, botl
aged y years, were roasted to death Will,
sleeping in an ash pit on the Central road
near ElizabethpOrt, n. J. They belonged
to Elizabeth, and being away from hom
went int the pit to sleep, and during tn
night lay fires of a locomotive were haule
into the pit, literally roasting them t
death.
l 'Well, went to Albany; took dinner at
? tavern. Right beside me sat member o
r the legislature from one of the back town,
Before his plate was dish of peppers, an
he kept looking at them. Finally, as tn
waiter was very slow bringingo on the thing
he up with his fork, and in less than n
: time soused one into his mouth. As h
brought his grinders down the teal
came into his eyes. At last, removing tn
: pepper into his hand, he laid it down b.
side his plate, and in voice that set tn
whole table in roar, exclaimed, Just Il
there and cool y"
Daniel O'Connell was addressing an al
dience at an anti-corn-law meeting in c.
$ vent Garden Theatre, when an interruptio
: occurred. An Individual would persist
s standingu up in the pit. 'Sit down +" "Tur
q him out, ETC., resounded from all parts
the house; but the fellow was obstinate al
IS would stand. The police interposed, but
q was labor in vain. Atlast O'Connell wave
i his hand for silence, and then, speaking
: the police, said: "Pray, let the worthy gel
tleman have his way; he's tailor, a,
9 WantS to rest himself" The obstinate ma
: immediately cot down amid thunders c