Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-30
Miscellaneous Items.

A wise man stands firm in all extremi- |
ties, and bears the lot of his humanity with
divine temper.
General love is like a mitten, which fits
all hands alike, but none closely; true at
lection is like a glove, which fits one hand
only, but fits closely to that one.
These two things, contradictory as they
may seem, must go together-manly de-
pendence and manly independence, manly
reliance and manly self-reliance.
1t requires a great deal of caution to
make large fortune, and when you have
got it, it requires ten times as much wit to
keep it. ea
To enrich the mind and purify the heart,
to keep the tongue still and the arm active,
to eat slowly and sleep quickly, this is true
philosophy
1t is not until the flower has fallen off
that fruit begins to ripen. So in life, it is
when the romance is past that the prac-
tical usefulness begins
Be slow in choosing friend and slower
to change them; courteous to all intimate
with few; slight no man for his poverty,
nor esteem any one for his wealth.
Benefit your friends that they may love
you still more dearly, benefit your enemies
that they may become your friends, is an
old Arabian maxim worth cultivating.
There is nothing, says Plato, so delight
full as the hearing or speaking of the truth.
For this reason, no conversation is so agree
able as that of man of integrity, who
hears without intention to betray, and
speaks without any intention to deceive.
Thousands, from love of speculation,
and from listening to the advice of the
cunning and the iniudicious, have, for the
sake of a tr1hing additional Interest, re-
duced themselves to perjury, and ended
their days either in Jail or in workhouse
Christian graces are like periumes-the
more they are pressed the sweeter they
smell like stars that shine brightest in the
dark; like trees, the more they are shaken
the deeper root they take, and the more
fruit they bear.
TRUTH.-The consciousness of truth
nerves the timid and imparts dignity and
firmness to their actions. 1t Is an eternal
principal of honor which renders the pos
SCISSOR superior to fear; it is always consist
ent with itself, and needs no ally. Its in
| fuence will remain when the lustre of that
once sparkled and dazzled has passed away.
The loss to the Georges fleet of Glouces-
ter, by the late gale, the Advertiser OF that
town estimates at S38, 435.
The New England colleges now contain
more than 1000 under graduate students,
and if those in the scientific and profess
sional departments are added the number
will rise to 1000. From one-third to one
half of the undergraduates are professors
of religion.
Returns to the Agricultural Bureau Of
the interior Department show a decrease
of seventeen per cent. in the number of
sheep in New Hampshire during the past
year, and slight increase in horses and
neat stock. Other New England States
show similar result.
chapel at Amherst for the colored
people was dedicated last week, and in pay
ing for it the Chestnut" methodwas adop-
ted of raising money. A little colored boy
gave nine eggs, which sold for $40, the
highest price that was paid being $3.50.
Orders have been received from Wash.
ington at the United States ArmOry al
Springfield to begin the manufacture Of
the model breech loader, and to turn ou
500 per day.
The roads round St John, Canada, ar,
in a very bad state, and hardly anything
is being brought into the town. Wood i
getting very scarce, and in some places tn,
ornamental trees are being cut down to
fuel.
Mr. Samuel Miller of Lynchburgh, Va.
! who is now on his deathbed, has given tn,
f sum of 500, 900 to the University of Vir
ginia.
The cutlery works connected with the
armOry company at Windsor, have sus
: pended operations and all the wOrkmel
/ have been discharged.
5 ridiculous present was sent to Gen
, Grant by a crack Drained admirer, OF
Youngstown, Ohio, in the shape of a ciga
8 feet long and weighing IS! pounds.
Nicholas Kinney of Waukeegan, H.
was kicked to death by his horse few day
, ago. He was found under the wagon witt
. his skull fractured, his back lacerated b.
the horses teeth and his clothing torn t
shreds.
The Montana Post saws these are tn
. having driven immense herds of elk, ante
! lope, deer and mountain sheep from tn
ridges down into the valleys.
J A lover is a drunken man. Time sober
: him, and then he wonders at the mistake
i of his Keeling imagination.
The Governor of Vermont has appointe
r Thursday, April as Fast Day
: The area of London. as defined bv til
5 Registrar General, is about $4,000 acres
4 or nearly 122 square miles On this are
. stand 100000 inhabited houses, with a.
average Ofnearly eight persons to a house
d 1t is nearly eight years since a census wa
/ taken, and the population can only be es
timated. The latest estimate is 3,126 635
INFANTICIDE IN FRANCE.-Nine wo
> men were lately tried at Montanban
France, for infanticide. They were al
S sentenced to the galleys, one of them 70
life, another for ten years and the other
for shorter periods.
A COSTLY REsIDENCE.-Mr Cunning
= ham of Irvington, \. Y, is building a
), that place a $3.50, O00 residence for himself
r 1t is fashioned after noted European cas-
tie. The cellar Is hewn out Of a solid rock
and the partitions in the mansion arr al
of stone.
An honest dame in the town Of
= standing beside the corpse of her decease
husband, bewailing in piteous tones, hi
a untimely departure, observed, cts pit
1 he's dead, for his teeth are as good as ever
}, A Dublin letter writer heard newsbo
crying Evening Freeman glorious new
o from Tipperary another landlord shot p
I A clergyman in Hannibal, Mo-, havin
: been interrupted in the performance of di
y vine service by some disorderly boys, VIII
persisted in talking out in meeting" de
| scended fromthe pulpit and gave tn
! youngsters sound cutting over the ears
! after which he was allowed to proceed il
|, peace.
: John Philip Kemble, while performing
r one evening, was interrupted by a bah,
crying, and in nervous excitement cam
: forth to the foot lights, and said, "Ladie
e and gentlemen, if the tragedy does no
/ stop, the baby can't go on"
7 "John, can you tell me the difference be
r tween attraction of gravitation and attrac
, ton of cohesion ?"-"Yes, sir" said John
Attraction of gravitation pulls drunken
j man down, and the attraction of cohesion
t prevents him getting up again"
A TIREpAJ OEEFp DEcr TWIN III