Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-02-02
Miscellaneous Items.
JEFF. Davis is travelling in Germany.

JEFF. Davis is travelling in Germany.
Over $4,000 emigrants arrived in
Chicago last year.
The salary of the governor of Illi-
nois is but 81 500 year. .I
The bible is translated into two
hundred living languages.
Saginaw, Michigan, manufactured
last year 100000 barrels of salt.
Galveston is the only place in Tex
as where greenbacks pass current.
Philadelphia pays from seventy to
ninety cents per pound for butter.
Handsome apples are sometimes
sour.
More are drowned in the bowl than
in the saa s..-ra--. ..-., a=s-
The strangers guide to Pittsburg
the smoke.
Old maids-embers from which the
sparks have fed.
Natural neatness - sweeping the
horizon with a glass.
A New York newspaper has car
rier who is worth 100000, and still
tramps his daily rounds.
"Did you ever draw anything at the
fair ?" dyes" "What ?" "My wallet
about twenty times y
Detroit is to have a " sleeping
MATCH with a prize for the "cham-
pion snorer"
A young mother in Ohio bit off her
child's nose in dream. 1t was real
to the child.
St. Paul, Mimi, has expended a
million of dollars in new buildings
this year.
Seven hundred trains pass each
other daily at Clapham Junction, Lon
don.
One gentleman gave 100000 tow
ard the new presbyterian church, in
Pittsburg.
A ''crow roost," with 100000 pop
ulation, has been discovered in Lam
caster county, KY.
Travelling on the back of night
mare is found to be an uncertain mode
of progression.
A handsome dress-pattern never
arrests a wOman's attention. She
will always go buy it.
Ia Idaho they not only publish all
births in the papers but add state
ment of the weight of the baby.
What watering-places are open
during the winter months ? The
mouth of milk cans.
Providence would not give woman
a beard, because she could not keep
silent while being shaved.
Admonish a friend, it may be he
hath not done it; and if he have done
it, that he do it no more.
Let our repentance be livel ly will,
a firm resolution. Complaints and
mourning over past errors will avail
nothing.
Look out for those who boast of
being discreet. They are the leakiest
persons to whom you can intrust a
secret.
1t is equally necessary to avoid
those who cannot amuse themselves
without being amused and those who
weary themselves without being wea-
ried.
What a world of gossip would be
prevented if it was only remembered
that person who tells you the faults
of others intends to tell others OF
your faults.
There are a thousand pretty, en-
gaging little ways which every person
may put on without being deemed
either affected or foolish.
Unjust riches curse the owner in
getting, in keeping, and in transmit
ting. They curse his children in their
fathers memory.
There is certain softness of man.
ner which, in either man or woman,
adds charm that almost entirely
compensates for lack of beauty.
1t was a Dutchman who said pig
had no ear marks except short tail;
and it was British magistrate, who,
being told by vagabond that he was
not married, responded, That's for
tunate for your wife,
There is a striking difference be-
tween doctors and lawyers. The more,
lawyers we have the more do our
cases drag. The more doctors we
have the shorter is our sickness. Law
yers carry US on from judgment to
| judgment. Doctors lead US at once
to the last judgment.
| DIR. Craft gives many histories of
persons who, being inferred alive,