Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-22
Miscellaneous Items.

Prentice says it isn't often we find
man big enough to contain himself.
In diving to the bottom of pleas
ure we bring up more gravel than
pearls.
The lumber exported from the Do
minion into the United States during
1868, amounted to 587,351,971 feet.
The two hundredth anniversary of
the Old South Church in Boston was
observed May 22d.
Canadians are emigrating in crowds
20 Kansas, and settling along the line
of the Pacific Road.
The Cars health continues to fail,
and he is going to the Crimea. He
has been i'll ever since the attempt of
Berez owski to assassinate him.
1t is stated that the destruction of
property by fire in the United States
thus far in toe present year has reach
ed over s17,O00,O0O.
A French m0ther-in-law says she
has some pleasure in the death of her
grandson, in thinking of the grief it
will give her son-in-law.
Mrs. Lucinda Sharp died recently
at New Bedford, Mass, aged 80. She
was 6 feet l inch high, and in weight
about 450 pounds. Her coffin was 6
feet 7 inches long inside, 2 feet 5 in
ches wide, and l foot I inches deep.
The California papers state that
there is dangerous secret organiza-
ton of white men in California and
Nevada against the employment of
Cinnamon as laborers.
The store of Webster q Wiley,
Magog, was burned at about half past
II o'clock A. NJ, yesterday morning.
Only a small part of the goods saved.
Insured.
The New York Custom House off,
GERS made seizure, Wednesday, of
$4,000 worth of .jewelry found on the
persons of two passengers on the
steamer Java.
An Alabama ruralist complains
that he sent four dollars to jewelry
firm in New York for a music-box,
playing twenty-four tunes, and receiv-
ed in return jewsharp.
The number of patients admitted
to the New Hampshire Insane Asy-
lum last year was 95; whole number
cared for during the year, $50; dis
charged, II; died, %; remaining
May l, 237.
Lewis Jugmon, road hand on the
Vermont and Massachusetts railroad,
was struck in the face few days
since, near Athol, by the crank handle
OF hand car on which he was riding,
and fatally injured thereby.
During last year the divorces in
Connecticut numbered 478, or more
than one tenth of the number of mar
riages. The Norwich Bulletin regards
this as dlSgraceful admission ofrot-
tenness aud corruption.
A revivalist, encountering an Afri-
can, asked him, "My good man, have
, you found the Lord 2" To which
Sambo replied, in surprised manner,
, "Golly, massa, am the Lord lost 2"
MAIL RoBBER REARREsTED. Jared
NJ. Davis, the mail robber who forfeit
ed his bail at the last Circuit Court
of the United States at Portsmouth,
, has been rearrested at Claremont and
placed in Jail in Concord.
The people in Illinois who impris.
oned Madison Y. Johnson, during the
war, under the charge that he belong
: ed to the Golden Circle" have had
to pay a thousand dollars, and costs
of court.
Two prominent citizens Of India
napolis quarrelled twenty years ago
and had not exchanged word since.
The great revival in that city has
brought about a reconciliation, and
they are once again fast friends.
Some idea may be formed of the
state of education in village in Hamp-
shire, England, when it is stated that
: out of thirteen jurymen summoned at
an inquest only four could write their
names.
A disease supposed to be leprosy
has appeared among the swine, in the
vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. 1t is the
real article of Hebrew antiquity, and
this is said to be its first manifesto
) ton in this country.
The Owingsville (Ky.l Inquirer
says that in Rowan county crows are
exterminated after this fashion: Sew.
eral grains of corn are strung upon a
horse hair, which, when swallowed,
causes a tickling sensation in the
crows throat In his efforts to get
it up, the crow invariably scratches
) his head off.
One day Piron went to see Voltaire,
but did not find him at home. In or
der to excite his ire, he wrote on the
door, "Old villain" Two days after
ward he met the author of"Henliade'
in the street. 81 was at your house"
said he to Voltaire, with sneer, "Sut
did not find you at home" al know"
replied Voltaire, "you left your name
on the door"
A WONDERFUL CLocK.-A clock
;, which has just been completed for the
: Cathedral of Beauvais contains co.
: 900 wheels, and indicates among
E many other things, the days of the
: week, the month, the year, the signs
:, of the zodiac, the equation of time the
J, course of the planets, the phases Of
the moon, the time at every capital in
= the world, the movable feasts for one
= hundred years. the saints days, &c.
Perhaps the most curious part of the
9 mechanism is that which gives the ad-
ditional day in leap year, and which
consequently is called into action on
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