Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-29
Miscellaneous Items.

Agreeable mishaps-popular strains
Meating justice-dining the bench.
| Out door conversation-passing re-
marks. ....-.
Put up jobs-auctioneer's labors.
A terrible bore-the inside of q
15-inch gun.
The lawyer who made decided
case was assisted By carpenter.
| The portion of journal which
ought to be devoted to perfumery-
foreign extracts.
Another new reading-man propo.
ses but woman accepts.
Good news for rag pickers-a Rus
sian has invented paper coffin.
The singer who lost his voice found
it where he left tin his chest.
! A sweet sight-a pair of lovers
chewing taffy in theatre.
Why are good husbands like dough
Because women need them.
When is woman past recovery?
When she is speechless.
Currency is flowing freely into the
treasury.
Another bequest amounting to fifty
thousand dollars has gone to Yale
College.
A soldier in Montana has sent SEN
ator Wilson heavy and handsome
cane.
| Senator Sprague has got back from
his Southern tour.
A country paper wants to know if
a man with wooden legs can be con-
sidered foot passenger.
This much of good at least may be
learned of a mirror-its reflections
are always truthful.
If a man should be murdered by
his own workmen, ought the coroner
to render verdict of "killed by his
own hands ?"
A tombstone in Maine, erected to
the memory of wife, bears the in
scription: Tears cannot restore her,
therefore | weep"
He who does his best, however lit
tie, is always to be distinguished from
him who does nothing.
A lady Of Chicago keeps a list Of
her male acquaintance in a pocket
diary, and calls it her him book.
Prince Alfred, known as the Sailor
Prince is going to set sail for Yoka-
hama, Japan.
| SAKE is to lecture in San Francisco
next summer, his theme being "French
Folks at Home"
The college in Topeka, Kansas, has
erected a bust of Israel Washburn of
Chicago, who endowed it with twenty
five thousand dollars.
If you are lover don't love two
girls at once. Love is a good thing,
but it is like butter, it won't do to
have too much on hand at one time
If it wasn't for the hope the heart
would break, as the woman said when
she buried her seventh husband and
looked anxiously among the funeral
crowd for another.
Misfortunes are moral bitters, which
frequently restore the healthy tone
OF the mind after it has cloyed and
sickened by the sweets of prosperity.
A western farmer stepped into q
newspaper Office, and seeing an i'm
mense pile of books and newspapers
around the editor, said: 'I am glad
don't have all these to read | would
rather work"
MY son" said man of doubtful
morals, putting his hand on the head
of a young urchin. II believe Satan
has got hold of you" 81 believe so,
too replied the urchin.
| Who would believe that six million
barrels of beer, of all kinds, were
brewed and drunk in this country
last year.
The Hon. j. S. Black, who recent
ly met with severe railway accident,
from which be is gradually recover.
ing, is said TO have made within the
last year 100000 by his profession.
al labors. e....-. ....- e. -
DR.. Casweh of Brown university,
having done the undenominational
thing of saying a kind word for free
communion, was denominationally
punished by being voted out of his
presidency of the Baptist missionary
union at its late anniversary. aa
| There are seventy-fve last manu-.
factories in the United States, turn.
ling out annually from 100000 to
100000 lasts. One pair of lasts
will, on an average, make sixty pairs
of boots or shoes. The best wood for
making them is persimmon. '3'' 20
The First Babtist Church Quincy,
ILL.,, recently dedicated new house
of worship costing $4,000, and rails
ing $4,000 of the amount at the close
of the services. At Lion, near Utica,
N. Y, the small Babtist church have
remodelled a building at an expense
of $1,000, and nearly paid for it.
The American Baptist Yearbook
is lust issued. There are reported
l651 associations, 1901 churches, g..
t695 ordained ministers, 60,78T bap-
tisms. and l,122,O8s present mem.
bers; making the denomination Sec
ond only to the Methodist Episcopal
In numerical force.
The total vote in Chicago, 80 far as
| it has been taken, on the lay delega-
ton question in the NJ. E. church, foots
up 592 for and Sc against the propo-
sition. The vote in the Centenary
church, which has TOO members, was
very small-161 for and 19 against.
Christ Methodist church at Pittsburgh
has voted in favor of lay delegation,