The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-10-09
Items of Interest,


" mollusk, which has II 600 eyes.
The Uuited States government has 400
John Smiths in its employ, and 800 each
of Joneses and Johnsons.
Bombay husbands cut off their wives
noses for punishment, In q single week
five such cases were lately reported.
There is enough water power in
Georgia tosupply 10000 times as many
mills and factories as are now operated
in that State.
American beef in the English markets
is now sold as Scotch, and as such brings
four cents more per pound than under
its true name.
The Salvation Army claims that its
colors are flying in puoteen countries,
and that it prints eighteen journals in
six different languages,
A single flower was the cause of war
between Montezuma and Malinally, lord
of the Miztecs, in 1907, if we may be-
llove tho Aztec traditions.
The conceit of Kansas man is to re.
move the tombstoues from his family
burial plot to tho roof of his house
whore they stand in row of seven
along the ridgepole.
A Chicago negro stabbed wooden to.
oacco sign, believing it to be alive, and
on being arraiSncd in court next morn.
ing, swore that the figure had called him
insulting names
a Paris novelty is magnifying fan.
Two sticks are bored and the holes filed
with small lenses of the finest crystal.
The wearer covers her eyes with the fan
anu uses the sticks as an opera glass.
a new device for evading the Maine
hquor law is to open the eyeholes oil
young cocoanuts, scald out the interior,
and refill with whisky The meat of the
nut is said to pleasantly flavor and i'm.
prove the now contents.
In Calabria it i, the invariable custom
that only one son in q wealthy family
shall marry, and this is usually the
youngest but in the other provinces all
tie children marry and set up separate
household at an early age.
In Australia the use of opium is
spreading from the Chinese to the white
to such III extent as to make
legislation on the subject necessary. 1t
is proposed to prohibit the sale of the
drug in the colony except for medicinal
purposes.
The frenzied prediction by a woman
on Missouri railroad train that all awful
accident was impending might not have
scared anybody had she not Immediately
nfterward fallen from her seat dead.
Most of the passengers quit the cars at
the next station, but nothing happened
to those who continued their journey.
Tie trick of backing a thin diamond
with polished gla*: IS said by the Art
Amater to be con III Il in American
ewelry. When these underlaid gems
Ire skilfully set it is difficult to detect
hem, but it may be done by holding
hem in a'strong light, when the surface
where the stone and glass meet becomes
visible.
There is q stagnant pool in Florida
crest particularly lonesome and secluded.
Thirty. years ago q lover was shot and
brown into it by the father of his sweet
leart, who at once drowned herself in
he same water and the belief is held
mong the people of that region that no
'isitor to the spot can avoid an intense
depression of spirits, occasioned by the
ghosts of the pair.
The Chinese troops are uniformed in
he hues of the rainbow, beside black
nd white. Imagine one hundred laun-
rymen in scarlet blouses and royal
'urple trousers drawn up in line, adj
dining them company in pure white,
hen a company in bright greer, then
ne in light blue, and you have a Chinese
egiment. When they march they lift
p their feet like cats in the snow.
A mammoth beehive has been dis
overed i'll the bosom of the noted peak
called "Old Badly" situated
! San Bernardino county, California.
he bees at work in this wild mountain
i've are almost innulnerable and they
ave in store gigantic mountain of pure
oney, which is estimated to be 100 feet
eep and 200 feet wide, and contains
lore than five hundred barrels of the
enuine article.
An Arab widow who has chance to
larry again visits her first husbands
rave the night before the second mar
age takes place, where she kneels and
rays him not to be offended at her for
king another husband But, as a
against any failure of her
rayers to appease the deceased, she 4
kes along with her a donkey laden
it'll water and saturates the grave, \
roceeding which is calculated to keep
le dead husband cool under the most
,gravating circumstances.
Tobacco and its effects have been the
Inject of investigation among the
'ofessors Of tine University of Jena.
oderate quantities of the weed, ac-
riding to them, may be used without
furious effects. They say that in the
erman army soldiers in active service
e very properly furnished with smok- !,
6 tobacco, because smoking enables
EN- to endure severer fatigue upon
,an nutrition and with greater alacrity D
d confidence than would otherwise be
e case.
BIRTHS.
n Peru, Oct. 6, a son to Mr. & Mrs. I.