Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-23
Miscellaneous Items.

last month.
Missouri has population of 1885,
SOB.
Florida is to have Bureau of I'm
The Spanish forces in Cuba number
10000.
Paris has an American Benevolent
Association.
Alaska sent 225,OOO seal skins to
market last year.
CALIFORNIA; population is three
fourths males.
New York State has seventy-seVen
daily papers.
Gallatin, Tenn, had a 100000 |
fire on the Oath ult.
Coahoma County, Miss, calls for
thousand laborers.
1t costs seventy-fve cents to get
married in Texas.
There are forty-three Episcopal
Churches in California.
la 1172 birds in France Matched
their young in February.
Vermont has seventy-nine settled
Congregational pastors.
Bolivia has a standing army Of ten
privates and captain.
The Ontario Methodists have rails
ed $4,000 for Victoria College.
Montana Ter. is fatal to cats. They
always die when imported thither.
The Hudson Bay Company is said
to be encroaching on Alaska.
In Colorado, the proportion OF men
to women is twenty to one.
The Scotch Church in Rome is held
in granary over pigsty.
Russia is going to build a railway
between the Caspian and Aral seas.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, was nearly
half destroyed by fire on the oath ult.
The Cairo, III, charter election, on
Feb. %, was carried 10y the Demo
Gratis.
The Methodists dedicated FIVE hun
dred and seventy new churches last
year.
Kansas City has now a population
of 28,000-an increase of $4,000 in
five years.
, Three steamers left Havana for
) New York on the 9th ult., filled with
= refugees.
The average price of productive
land is lowest in Florida and highest
in New Jersey.
A Montgomery ALA beggar was
, recently searched, and over $4,000
found upon him.
E Nearly all the Japan tea exported
comes to this country. The English
refuse to buy it.
The Morayian mission to Green.
, land has been maintained one hundred
and thirty-six years.
: One hundred and 6fty-one commit
| tails were made to the Jersey City
c prison during February.
q A Londoner kept two wives for
twenty-seven years without letting ci
Their know the secret.
Five hundred men began work up
q on the famous Stevens battery, at Ho
!. boken. n. j., on the I'd inst.
l. The London Missionary Associa
n ton has purchased a Buddhist temple
r at Picking for a medical dispensary.
. A story is told Of young man who
was crossed in love, and attempted
suicide, recently. by taking dose of
! yeast powder. He Immediately ros,
!, above his troubles.
: A new sto7c has been invented fOl
r. the comfort of travellers. 1t is to be
r put under the feet, with a mustard
d plaster on the head, which draws thu
e heat through the whole system.
l. A man being awakened by the cap
: tain of passage boat with the all
e aouncement that he must not occup7
= his birth with his boots on, very con
ii siderately replied, oh, it won't hur
s EN-; they're an old pair
- Quin was one day lamentiug tina
= he grew old, when a shallow imperti
r. nent young fellow said to him, d" VIVA
m would you give to be as young as
l. am ?" by the powers" replied Quiu
ir % [ would even submit to be almost a
- foolish"
1t A Texan negro was overheard max
s. ing an honorable apology in this wise
II, 81 JeS SAID, oambo, dat you lied; da
!; is jes said dat you lied. Den jim
a. told me you said you'd kill me, an
s. said if you killed me I'd kill you
Or The explanation was satisfactory.
d Dennis, darlint, och, Dennis, wha
L. is it you're doing?" Whist, Biddy
!" Is trying an experiment. "Mul
Il Their what is it 2" "What is it, d
~ H. you say? Why, it is giving hot wa
a. a. ter to the chickens am, so that they !
' be after laying boiled eggs"
a. CHARLES E. HOPKINS ESTATE.
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