The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-05-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


scribed 100000 in aid of the enter
prise, no less than twenty states and
territories having made appropriations
for representations, and Mexico and
many of the South American states
have taken similar action, as well as a
number of the European governments.
How true is this pathetic sentiment,
which finds expression in The Elmira,
N. Y. Gazette: "If grocer presents
a society with ten pounds of sugar, it
Is considered liberal gift; but if n
newspaper can throw in five dollars
worth of advertising it never gets a
word of thanks for it. 1t costs money
to run newspapers, and advertising is
one of the commodities they have to
sell; but somehow different impress
sion obtains in some circles"
The emancipation of the slaves in
Cuba began in 1879, when all above
the age of IS were freed. The eman-
cipation act provided that slaves from
so to IS should be liberated in Septem-
Der, 1881; those between As and SO in
September, 1882; those between 40 and
As in September, 1884; those between
IS and Az in September, 1885; those
between 80 and 35 in September, 1888
and those under 30 years of age in
1890. There remain now less than
100000 slaves on the island.
In Detroit is a paint-shop fitted up
just like the paint-shops in wagon fac
tories, and on long strips of muslin are
painted all kinds of pictures-h heroic,
sensational, pastoral, etc.-which are
cut up into various sizes, and sold for
parlor ornamentation. A reporter who
visited the scene of operation says
"it was like painting the side of a
barn, and as he daubed away the ar
tist explained how most of the work
was done with large brushes, and how
he could knock out from fifteen to
twenty oil paintings day.
An English journal is, authority for
the statement that Europe and British
India consume about 150,006 gallons
Of handkerchief perfumes yearly
This gives an idea of the magnitude o
the industry of raising sweet-scented
flowers to supply the demand for tn
perfume manufacturers. There is one
perfume distillery at Cannes, France
which uses yearly 100000 pounds of
acacia flowers, 100000 pounds of rare
flower leaves, $4,000 pounds of jas
mine blossoms, 10000 pounds of tube
rose blossoms, and an immense quanti-
ty of other material per annum.
Utah has now ten thousand small
farms averaging twenty-five acres, and
The whole must be irrigated. There
is only one large farm in the territory,
and it is owned by company. The
Great Salt Lake, according to Elder
Cannon, contains enough salt to sup
ply America for centuries. All that
is necessary in preparing it for market
is to drive to the edge of the lake with
a wagon, and man with pair of
rubber boots can load it with a
shovel. The salt lies on the bottom of
the lake in small coarse crystals. AZ
ter loading it is taken to a grinding
machine, and, being run through, it is
| 6t for the table.
Statistics Of suicide compiled by the
| Insurance Chronicle show that one
thousand, four hundred and nine self
murders occurred in the United States
during 1888. The compiler carefully
clas5ifes the returns under four heads,
as "Number of Suicides" in the
spring" summer" autumn" and
"winter," and confirms by his figures
the accepted impression that people
are most in danger from themselves in
hot weather. The suicides of the
spring season of 1888 numbered 81,
those of summer AIS, of autumn 347,
and of winter 276. The propensity of
men who suicide is decidedly marked
as compared with women, the former
numbering 1888 of the 1,409.
The owners of cattle ranges in the
West, remarks the New York Suns
agricultural editor, are very reticent
n regard to their losses, but are al
ways ready to tell of profits, although
in majority of instances these are
wholly prospective. A correspondent
of Western contemporary, who ap.
pears to have been about among the
cattle ranges, says that "stockmen will
tell you that the cattle are all right
and that the losses do not exceed five
to ten per cent" but the facts art
that in many instances they are from
twenty-five to fifty per cent. and the
animals that have been saved are little
more than skin and bones. The idea
that cattle and sheep can live ant
thrive anywhere on the Wps."rf
plains, without shelter in winter, ant
no food except what they can pick up
Is delusion, and it is time such idea:
were abandoned and more human,
treatment substituted A countr,
where the temperature drops to ten t,
thirty degrees below zero in winter