Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-20
Miscellaneous Items.

Colonels in Colorado.
Oregon is about sending a large
shipment of wool to Boston.
Farmers in Southern Kansas intend
to plant cotton next season.
Mrs. Mark Twain inherits a quar-
ter of a million dollars.
A Boston lady's pins, when she is
fully dressed, number 300.
The population of Milwaukee will
be about seventy thousand.
The average salary of the clergy
men in New Hampshire is $3.50.
Milwaukee is said to be the largest
grain market in the world.
Topeka, Kansas, contains sixty-six
gamblers and four policemen.
Oshkosh, Wis, will produce $4,000
pounds of Swiss cheese this season.
Vanderbilt has fifteen children by
his first wife, eleven of them daugh-
ters.
A Missouri woman recently drown
ed herself for fear lest she might die
with a cancer.
An Ohio youth 10 years old has
been lodged in Jail for whipping his
mother and little brother.
A nephew of Baron Won Moltke is
said to be soldier in the United
States Army, at San Antonio, Texas.
They are buying horses in Califor-
MIA, at $40 head, to transport to the
Atlantic States.
Ex-Rebel Gen. Sterling Price of
Missouri, who recently died, left his
widow and son S1,000,000.
There were GA fires in New York
city in August, one-fourth of which
were caused by kerosene accidents.
Chesapeake College, Virginia, has
been purchased by the government as
a home for disabled soldiers.
There is wealth enough in Boston
to give, on an equal division, every
man, woman, and child $4,000 each.
The door between US and heaven
cannot be opened, if that between US
and our fellow men is shut.
Josephine gave the first Napoleon a
good deal of trouble. 1t is Nancy
that has been troubling Napoleon III.
Two Chinese have been received
into a Congregational church in Oak
land, California.
San Francisco has as many liquor
saloons as Cincinnati, with only half
It's population.
A Missouri census taker found six
ty pairs Of twins in one county, all
less than one year old.
Paris ladies now wear the same
style Of hat that was worn one hun
dred and five years ago.
The greatest length of New Eng,
land is about $50 miles, and its great
est breadth 800 miles.
t Good Health remarks that what
people call "bile" is generally Holsters,
clans, or some indigestible food.
The population of the city of Troy,
as shown by the census just taken, is
47,l30. In 1865 it was 39,293.
A bride ofa week in Ohio became
hopelessly insane last week from some
unknown cause.
The average wages of all the labor.
ers employed in the coal mines Of
Belgium, including women and child.
ren, are fifty cents day.
Friendship closes its eyes, rather
than see the moon eclipsed; while
malice denies that it is ever at the
full.
Texas has a new game-one hold:
revolver, the other holds the cards
Shortly after the game begins a coro
ner holds the inquest.
The daughter of a wealthy citizel
of Gorham, Michigan, died recent,
from the effects of a bite from a pota
: to bug.
A man in Oswego, n. Y, who wa
| saved from drowning the other day
rewarded his preserver with a fv,
cent piece.
Somebody has discovered that il
: forty years a snuff-taker devote
twenty-four months to blowing hi
l nose.
The papers of New Orleans ar
! complaining of the heavy crops o
, grass and weeds growing in some O
the streets.
. The smoke from the burning wood
r in Oregon is so dense as to interfer
with the navigation of the .Columbi
; river.
|. A German clergyman in Cincinnat
e was so excited over the war new
= that he took six morphine pills il
l. stead of one, and died.
l. An Indiana lady of Ia is still az
g tive enough to fulfil all her materna
It duties toward her little girl of sever
h ty-eight.
n There are eight or nine pin factt
e ries in Connecticut. One of thel
y turns out 100000 pins per day, or 2
o $4,000 per year.
J The imports of Brazil to this coul
II try have increased from $9,S00,000 j
& 1865, to nearly S25,000,000 durin
, the last year.
! A Detroit German recently becan
= = crazy over the European war, an
4 armed with scythe, began doing sci
\ tinel duty on the streets.
10 Laconia, N. H., is to have ne
a brick hotel, 135 feet long, three st
II ries in front, with French roof, an
ts four in the rear.
to English journals boast that the
Ill navy is stronger now than it has ev'
Mt been since Great Britain was fir
in called the mistress of the seas.
n Some frenzied Frenchmen in Il
is department of Dordogne burned
ly death an inoffensive young man ST
is pected of being Prussian spy.
'h A cargo of tea is now sent fro
" Shanghai or Foo Chow to New Yor
At via San Francisco, in fifty days, at
y cost of only So. 25 per 100 pound
of