Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-07
Miscellaneous Items.

Colorado asks for preachers.
Georgia turns out the tallest Americans.
New York has 5000 licensed liquor shops.
Mrs, Ann $ Stephens has written
comedy.
Virginia has a 100000 negro in its
Horace Greeley will lecture on woman's
rights.
Geo. Peabody never owned a house or
kept carriage.
In the Paris fashion plates, chignons are
larger than ever.
Boucicault has made elO, 900 from For
mosa" in London.
1t costs 100000 a week to bury the
dead in New York.
Congress will begin with nineteen con-
tested election cases.
Anna Dickinson was twenty seven years
old on the 9th.
There is to be fight in congress over
Minister Sickle's case.
Next year will be the centenary of Uni
versalism in America.
Potatoes are so cheap in Iowa that many
acres are left undug.
Brigham Young, jr., is an earnest advo-
cate of woman suffrage.
Wayne county, New York, raised $780,
600 worth peppermint this year.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has nineteen chur-
ches, and Fond du Lac fourteen.
For milliOnaires, Vanderbilt and Drew
are astonishingly ignorant men.
A Chinese carried off the prize for plow-
ing at the Oregon State fair.
Susan B. Anthony claims forty converts
among members of congress.
The Hudson Bay Company report buffa-
10 robes scarce and high this year.
A reckless Canadian has been fined s.
for calling his neighbor an alderman.
Negroes are leaving Richmond for the
Louisiana plantations by the hundreds
New Orleans is experimenting with
street cars propelled by condensed air.
The anti confederates have secured a
majority in the New Foundland election
Burbank's new hotel at Pittsfeld, Mass.
was blown down during the severe gale.
Seward has a cigar case with a knoll
worth one thousand dollars.
Another big lake, larger than Ontario
or Erie, has been found north of Lake Su.
perior.
A driver on New York horse car was
worth, three months ago, $4,000 Now he
is glad to earn g per day.
An idiotic Englishman paid thirty franc,
for the cushions on which Eugene leaned
in her gondola ride in Venice.
Montana has cast brick of gold of {
coin value of $4,000, being the larges
and most valuable ever cast in this. coun
try.
A lad of twelve years was on Tuesday
picked up in the streets of New York, in
sensible from drinking whiskey.
Absinthe contains rs per cent. of the
highest proof alcohol, and that is wha
makes 1t so terrible in its effects.
A youth in Rochester hanged himsel
because his parents compelled him to at
tend church, and when his father came t.
cut him down, he kicked the old gentleman
in the most unfilial manner as he dangleC
by his neck.
Bad enough to look and feel bad your
self; but no excuse for having your horse
look and feel badly, when for small sun
you can buy Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders, which given in grain two or tire,
times week, will make him look and fee
we'll.
If you would be miserable, look within
If you would be distrusted, look around
If you would be happy, look up and use
DeGraff's Crystal Hair Remover" which
restores gray and faded hair to its origina
color and youthful beauty. Pure and harm
less. No lead, sulphur, or silver. For salt
everywhere VIM. Joslyn & Sons, genera
agents. DeGraff & Co., proprietors, Mil
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