The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-04-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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art is increasing every year, as ami.
mails become more valuable. One OF
the largest stock raisers in the country
made his son qualify as a veterinary
surgeon, and the latter now is success.
fully engaged in stock raising, and
finds his knowledge of exceeding
value.
The Chicago Journal of Commerc
estimates that we have now in this
country about $4,000 manufacturing
establishments, employing nearly 6,
100000 laborers, with S4,5OO,OOOO0
invested, and our manufactured products
amount to sS.00O,O00,00O year, OF
more than S2,000,O0O,OOO more than
those of Great Britain.
Inventors are not q little interested
in the French prizes of $4,000, inst
tuted by the decree of June II, 1882, in
favor of the discoverer of any process
Which shall enable electricity to be APP
piled economically in one of the fol-
lowing directions, as already published,
viz: as source of heat, of light, of
chemical action. of mechanical power,
as a means of the transmission of in
telligence or of the treatment of dis
ease.
When the "Book Of Mormon" was
published in 1880 there was published
with it a certificate of three men, af.
terward known as "the three witness
es,' who declared that they saw an
angel of God come down with the
golden book which Joseph Smith in
terpreted. Subsequently all three of
these men renowned Mormonism and
declared their testimony false. David
f. Whitmer, one of the three, is now
living, in his S0th year, in Missouri.
He was a brother-in-law of Oliver
Cowdry, who wrote a copy of the
book for Smith.
The cyclone pits which the Western
farmers are building are described as
being in size proportionate to the
number of persons in the family. A
pit ten feet square and sunk to the
depth of twenty feet is the average
size. About four feet below the SUI
face heavy timbers are placed over the
hole, earth is thrown on and made
even with the surface around, and at
the southwest corner an opening three
feet square is left. In these places of
refuge the farmers expect to find safe
ty in any gale that doesn't blow the
wells out of the ground.
The International Forestry exhibit
ton, to be held next year in Edin-
burga, Scotland, will doubtless prove
of great scientific and practical value.
Huts, implements, models of machines
for moving trees by land or water, and
woodworking machinery will be
shown under practical forestry, while
scientific forestry will include the bot
any of the forests, forest entomology,
preventative processes and similar sub
jects. Rare and ornamental plants,
rustic work and dried ornamental
objects of vegetarian origin will be on
view. The entries close October 4,
1884.
A paper recently read before the
French Academy of Medicine express
ed the writer's conviction that one in
svery 5000 persons is buried alive.
This estimate, however exaggerated, is
not calculated to allay an apprehension
which is conspicuous among the
French people, and which was lately
Drought to public attention by the dec
laration of the President of thu Cham
Der OF Notaries that express instruc-
lions are given in one will out of
every ten to have the testator's heart
pierced by qualified surgeon before
The lid Of the coffin is screwed down.
A young man who had yielded to a
strange desire to try hasheesh, drug
that produces curious results, recently
entered the Baltimore hospital and in
formed the doctor that he had some
doubts as to the locality of his face,
which to him seemed situated at least
two feet from where it really was.
Then he was dubious whether he had
any legs. or was simply walking on
his chin. The latter idea seemed to
have firm hold on him, for he stamp
ed his feet on the ground dozen
times. His request to be relieved
was pitiful. He feared that some one
would steal an arm or leg from him.
After medical treatment he felt better.
George w. Cable, the Southern nov.
list, says of the Acadians of Louisiana
hat they are all white, and that there
ire not less than $4,000 of them. They
nave none but peculiar habits. They
ire Anticipated to the last degree. The
French language of two hundred years
,pO is still uSad nv them Tbo,, oro