The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-12-18
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gallons of rum to I9 a
every year,
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habitants only e mG,,on rajua!" IL
newspapers.
Ii is said that Colmn1'p O,uNtv Vhp
has phosphate rocks s,aia,r to t3oo Of
South Carolina.
Dr. Wood has found tlat via
birds capacity for eating, u NAN could
consume a whole round OF heNi for diu-
ner
Russian engineers claim that Sohas,
topol is stronger than ever owing TO its
monster guns, tcrpedoas, and improved
carthworks.
Ablind street heggarin Troy, N, Y, was
robbed recently, of $3.50 Ivy three street
camms, He had the m may c,ucoaled
inside his vest
The sensation in Wn4j Virginia is the
clopcment of 3i-ycavnll women with
her adopted son, aged %, to whom she
had acted ms mothe" for ton years.
Clvington, KY, has q dog detective,
whose business it is TO hunt ~ missing
pets. lie knows all the dogs in town
ard is on friendly terms witt them all,
Compelling calves and colts to lie in
9Th or on damp floors II bedding is the
poorest kind of economy. 1t not only
prevents the growth Of the animals, but
is sure to result in some form of disease
il persisted in.
The Prince of Naplos, King Hum
hert's heir q lad of Il, is weak in mind
aud body. His parents are first cousins
His greatest accomplishment is talking
English, which he learned from English
nurses and govemesses.
There is said to Re n bell in an edifice
before the great temple of Buddha at
Yeddo that is four times greater than
the great bell of Moscow aud fifty-six
times larger than the great bell of West
minister, England. II weighs 1,700, 900
pounds.
An epidemic of consumption, in a
village near Weimar, Germany, has been
traced to the food supply. A flock of
chickens had access to the matter ex-
perforated by consumptive patient and
became diseased, imparting the affection
to several persons eating their flesh.
Two peasants asleep in the garnet of a
rickety house at Catania, being aroused
by heavy shock of earthquake, jumped
up and slid from the roof by means of
rope into an adjoining backyard, where
they were attacked by n ferocious dog
and so mangled that they died next
morning.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that the act giving married
women the right to make wills does not
have the effect to confirm wills made by
married women Def lie marriage. 1t re-
mains as under the common law that the
marriage of woman revokes a will
made by her when single.
The Chinese never dream of stewing
their tea. They do not drown it with
milk OF cream, or alter its taste with
sugar, but lightly pour boiling water on
q small portion of the leaves. 1t is then
instantly poured off again, by which the
Chinaman obtains only the more volatile
and stimulating portion Of its principle.
Believing that the stories told by
travellers about the wonders performed
by East Indian mqgicians We're true, an
American imported one OF them. The
result was disappointment. The famous
basket feat, so often described, proves to
be so clumsy that the performer, instead
of becoming q valuable celebrity is
barely tolerated in the dime museums.
A book-worm of the paper-eating sort
is creature seldom sen, despite it's ex-
tensive and most destructive bOrings
among book treasures L Is described
as white, wax-lilo gruh, exactly re-
sembling the little white maggots of
cheese. Three specimens were lately
found in the act of tunne1ling through a
bundle of papers in London establish
ment
Big houses and small families seems
to be the rule in Fifty avenue. W II.
Vanderbilt and wife occupy q 50, 090, 600
palace Mrs. r. L. Stuart and Mrs. A. 7.
Stewart, both childless widows, also each
has a palace Harriet Lanox, sister of
James Lenox, never married. hut keeps
house in the spacious dwelling which
James erected forty years ago, and in
which he passed his last days. Mrs. z.
D. Morgan is another instance.
The two-tailed rats which are ex.
hibited at museums are the result of a
neat surgical trick, and not l,tses nature.
The tail of q healthy rat is cut off, and
Immediately inserted i'll V shaped cut
in the nose of second. Dressings are
applied and the animals legs tied down
to small frame to prevent scratching at
the new member. The second tail sets
in twenty-four hours and in four days
nervous connection is established. After
this the rodent guards its front tail as
zealously as the other
When both parents have eyes of the
same color, eighty eight per cent. of the
children follow their parents i'll this
feature, and of the twelve per cent. born
with eyes other than the parental color a
part must be attributed to Intermittent
heredity. More females than males
have black or brown eyes in the pro-
portion of forty-nino TO forty-fve. With
different-colored eyes III the two parents
fiftythree per cent OF the children
follow the fathers i'll being dark eyed,
and sixty per cent. follow their mother
N icing lar!; eyed.
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