Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-04-12
Miscellaneous Items.
The Russian Gar has 81 titles.
Nv famine -, r-.1

Wyoming ruralists plough with
tame buffaloes.
Cigars are now made in some pla-
ces by machinery.
California has a new town called
Shirt Tail Canon
One towel to 200 guests is the rule
at New York hotel.
The Ohio House has defeated the
Woman Suffrage bill.
Maine poulterers stuff chickens
crops with musket balls.
There are 100000 of horses
owned in the United States.
A woman in Hudson, n. Y, has
been arrested $50 times.
Nashville, Tenn, claims to be the
dirtiest city in the Union.
Manchester, n. H., prohibits smok-
ing In the streets on Sunday.
The Eagli5h sparrows in New
York now number half a million.
A hearty youth of 80 in Maine
wears mourning for his fifth wife.
The Missouri democrats will not
nominate State Officers this year.
Through tickets are now sold from
Chicago TO China and Japan.
At Yeddo, China, 5000 houses
were destroyed by fire February 9Th.
Sick Cinnamon in Frisco arc bur
led alive by their loving relatives.
San Francisco now gets its cheese
from Buffalo without change Of cars.
Only five persons were killed in
Russia, last ear, by railway accidents
A lady in Elizabeth. n. j., aged SO
years, is cutting her third set of teeth
The April debt statement will show
a reduction of about $5,000,0O0.
There are fl Methodist churches
in Baltimore.
New York dandieS are now accused
Of wearing monogram garters.
Waterloo is survived by only 24C
French soldiers.
The number of Mormons who prac
tice polygamy is said not to exceed
1000.
Porter's Tannery at CRANKY, P. Q
was burned on the oath ult. Tn
property is insured for $1,000.
The growing wheat in Virginia i
said to present a very promising aE
pearance.
A bearded woman died the othe
day at Toulouse aged 1O4 years
She had beard two feet long.
The last reported clerical vote o
Methodist lay delegation stood ,
III in favor and $50 opposed.
A modest Chicago journalist de
MES having offered 100000 70
the New York Herald.
An ancient Indian mound in Ohio
opened recently with great anticip;
tions, was found to contain principa
ly oyster shells.
maple sugar, you know" says tn
Schenectady Star, "is made by grinC
ing up maple trees and squeezing OF
the juice in cheese press
A negro woman has just obtained
divorce from her husband iu Georgi
the first case of the kind eve
brought before the courts of thu
State.
The hair on the scalp of an India
= lately killed in Texas was found I
he plated with what appears to /
, the hair of white woman, probapI
one OF the victims of the savage.
In answer to charge that carpe
baggers fill the Florida Legislator
the Jacksonville Union says that. o.
Of seventy.eight members only tt
are Northern men.
Ole Bull has been presented wi
a $1,000 gold wreath in Californi
composed of thirty-six leaves, with
: pearl at the end of each. 1t is ga
= to be pretty to look at but very u
4 comfortable to wear.
=, The Israelites in Russian Polar
= are compelled by their ahject deS
tuition to emigrate into Prussia.
Mcneil the Jewish community ha
r opened a large asylum and hoSpit
: for their reception.
t A mere lad son of Russell Gray
If Alexandria, n. H., got hung on Il
f 18th by leather strap with which
had been playing horse. He W
" found hung to a nail in the barn, wi
his little sister asleep near by.
In a Connecticut town, the 9th
n day, as the pastor Of a church W
j. walking up the aisle, good broth
r. came out of pew and accosted t
good man, to inquire "if he did
warnt some good yeller butter ?"
- To test the purity of candy not c
ored, dissolve it in water. fthe W
: er remains transparent the candy
III pure; but if milky, or dcpositing'
g sediment, terra alba or some equa
n, harmful adulteration has been us,
a. A Cashmere shawl which incessa
~ ly occupied three hundred weav,
: for three years, has been sent by
4" Maharajah Of Cashmere to Queen '
re toria.
DC London city paupeIism increas
d. The number of paupers in that city
n the second week in March was l.
h. 760, to contrast with l49,175 for
= same week in 1869. The ind
u poor were 1887, against SO, 1888
The Pope says he don't C
whether the French troops le
er Rome or not; that he has lived thror
Ist greater troubles than that.
Of On Thursday of last week, a Ii
tie girl, twelve years of age, while lea
~ ing to weave in the Pocasset Mill,
: Fall River, lost her eye 10y a shu
!" flying from one oil the machines.
AZ Insufficient water is alleged as
III cause of the recent terrible boiler
'th plosion at New Haven, Conn.
third death has occurred, and sew
oL persons are now in critical condit
nj Mrs. Kelly, who, while captive
the hands of the Northern Sioux
dams, in 1864, was the means of