Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-05-17
Miscellaneous Items,
The Pope is 70 years old.

tato bug.
Goose races are a Sacramento Sun
day sport.
Cincinnati is in the height of the su.
icide season.
cousin John" is the name of a
town in Georgia.
A large Irish immigration is expect.
ed this season.
There are fifty chiIdren'8 publica,
tions in this country.
CarlyIo's last word for stupidity is
" .ackasserl.
VIM. B. Astor has 600 houses to let
in New York.
New WOODEN mills arc being put up
in many parts Of California.
Two thirds OF the school teachers
IN the United States are women.
Down east they are shipping car
goes Of ice to India, China and Japan.
Fifty dollar parasoIs, with watches
in the handles, are the latest novelty.
Petitions for woman suffrage are
4 pouring into the British parliament.
Alabama gains one representative
by the new apportionment.
The World says Fred Douglas is at
work for a congressional nomination.
The death of the Roman Catholic
Bishop Cook, of Three Rivers, is an
nounced. The deceased prelate was
Is years Of age.
Miss Lewis, the American sculptress
at Rome, was born in a wigwam, her
mother being an Indian and her father
a negro.
An Irish woman who had married
a Chinaman was before a st. Louis
Court last week for trouncing her
Asiauc spouse.
In some parts Of Minnesota the far
mers declare that they will not SOW
more than one half the usual amount
Of wheat.
There are said to be in Europe
about $500 theatres and more than
$4,000 concert halls. Germany boasts
q greater number of both than any
. other country.
A man died lately in Montgomery,
Penn, of CHAMBERS. During last fall
and winter he took care of horse
that had this disease, and the poison
got into his blood and was the cause
Of his death.
The meanest man has been found
out in Muncie Indiana. He charges
his children for their board when they
come hundreds of miles to visit him
and the old lady He is man of
wealth.
The Scandinavian population of
Minnesota numbers about 10000, or
one eighth Of the entire population of
the state. OF this aggregate Norway
supplies 10000, Sweden $4,000, and
Denmark 5000.
A man stopping at a Providence
hotel blew out the gas, and after
awhile went down 10 the office and
asked the clerk if he hadn't something
to perfume the room with. He said
1t smelied ike a rotten cabbage Gel
lar.
A Hartford ciphcrcr has figured it
up that cent at simple interest for
1870 years would amount to Slip,
and that a cent at compound interest
Tor the same period would amount to
$209S,7S5.46 ,72l,7IO.280,517,336 |
00I36I,5I9,062, 773,44L3S.
4 lady writes to a down south cx-
change that pigs gizzard roasted
dry, and ground to powder, is a SOW
ereign remedy for hiccough This i'm
portant information should make
spirited demand in market for pig 5
gizzards. No family should be with
out one certainly.
Chicago newspapers, it seems, are
excluded from the Ohio penitentiary
The warden Endorsed on one recently
sent there the following: This pa
per ia not admitted into the Ohio pen
itenuary. The man to whom it is ad-
dressed is here for the murder of his
wife, and | do not wish to have him
further corrupted by any such publ
cation as this. Please discontinue
it."
la Baltimore lately a young man
without money and without friends, by
some means got possession Of FIVE dol
lars, which he at once took to the ga
ming table where extraordinary luck
attended him. and he soon became
possessed Of the sum of $26,7
lie then quit, announcing his purpose
to gamble no more and to make good
use Of what he had got.
Wednesday of last week the Gov
ernor Of New Hampshire, with the ad-
vice Of the Council, pardoned Richard
Powell. colored, who was sentenced
to five years in in the State prison for
rape upon an adopted daughter Of
DR.. Robert Hall, of Concord. Pow
ell has served three years Of his SEN
tence. and facts have just come to
light which establishes his innocence.
The Toronto Globe is very severe
upon the alleged intemperance Of Sir
John \. Macdonald, the Canadian
Prime Minister. 1t remarks: " The
spectacle of the Prime Minister stag
gering into the refreshment room of
the House, and being taken out thence
first by one colleague and then by an
other for babbling in maudlin intOxi-
cation in some bar room, is a thing to
which no other country would submit
for an hour