The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-19
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The Cape cranberry crop is Il big one,
Ulster County, n. Y, boasts of an
enormous grape yield.
Arccent estimate of the Iowa potato
crop places it at $4,000, 900 bushels.
Some starch mills in New lamp
shire pay only 20 cents per bushcl foi
potatoes.
The potato crop of Maine, by re-
cent estimate. is valued this year at IS,
100000.
The United States Commissioner of
the General Land Office has discovered
through his special agents "that five
sixths of the homestead entries in Dako.
ia are fraudulent.
Among the remarkable stories recent
ly told is the one vouching for biscuits
being eaten that were made from tloul
ground from wheat which was stand
ing in the field ninety minutes previous
to the call for supper. All this. it i,
told. occurred at Mcpherson, Kan.
A number of Yankee schoolma' ans,
who some time ago went to the Argon-
tine Republic, South America, TO fol-
low their vocation, have made excel
lent matches with eligible Argentncs,
and the demand is greater than the
supply Blondes are preferred.
New York saw new feature in adj
vertising a few days ago, when 4 nicely
attired, good-looking girl distributed
business cards from 4 light wagon on
Broadway. This is refreshing varia-
ton from the poripatctc advertising
sandwiches of men and bill-boards that
impede travel on crowded thorough
fares.
Massachusetts will be interested to
learn that on an original map of the
world by which Alexander VI. divided
the discoveries between Spain and Por-
tugal, and which is now in the posses
sion of the Vatican. all the present
United States form blank space
marked Terra de Bacalaos,' or, The
Land of Goldfish.
Mr. Parncll's estate in Wicklow, al
ready rich in valuable stone, almost cx-
clusively used now in Dublin building,
has developed q new source of wealth
in mushrooms in great profusion and
of extraordinary size. One specimen
sent to the Dublin market weighed four
pounds and measured more than 4 foot
within the cup.
The United States navy comprises
thirty-nine vessels, and to officer this
feet we have, on the active list, rear
admrals, Is commodorcs, 45 captains,
IS commanders, x lieutenant COM
manders, Psi lcutcnants, 70 junior
leutcnants, 1SS cnsigns, and rs naval
cadets; and in the staff, 100 doctors,
120 paymasters, and 242 engineers.
The Journal Of Chemistry relates
that celebrated Partisan belle who
made profuse use of cosmetics, from
the soles of her feet to the roots of her
hair, one day took medicated bath,
and on emerging from it was Mortified
TO find herself as black as an Ethiopian.
The transformation was completes; not
a vestige of the supreme Caucasian
race" was left. 1t took some time tc
restore her to membership with the
white race.
The greatest gunpowder blast in
connection with railway works was
that by which Sir William Cubtt blew
away with one charge of 10000 pounds
of gunpowder, the entire mass of the
p op,j Do,rp TliH which rocn "a III,
height of $50 feet above the level Of
the sea, within few miles of Dover.
This monster blast, fired by electricity
at several points at once, tore from
the cliffs mass of more than q million
tons of chalk.
The earth has nearly 100000 o.
square miles of land surface, and 16,
900, 600 of these miles arc well adapted
for settled populations. To people
100000 of square miles as densely
as Belgium is peopled would give tho
earth a population of 6,400, 900, 900, Of
over four times its present population
The United States and territories if q:
densely peoplcd as Saxony would have
a population equal to the present popu
lation of the world.
In India the tigers devour an aver
age OF 10000 farm laborers in year
In lower Bengal, according to Capt
Rogers, IL, 400 persons were killed by
tigers in six years. In 1869, tigres
destroyed l27 victims and stopped III,
travel along that route; another tigc1
in three years killed 1GS persons
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