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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
Queen ElizabctIl'S Prayer Book.

There is now on view at Mr.. Edward
Joseph's gallery, in Bond street,
very curious and, it would seem, gen
uine relic of Queen Elizabeth. This is
a small prayer book, three inches by
two inches. in which the Queen has
written in very neat hand, on sixty
five leaves of vellnm. prayers in Eug-
lish, Greek, Latin, French, and Italian.
The inside of the shagreen case, which
is adorned with ruby clasps. contains
a pair of miniatures Of the Queen and
the Due d Alencon. painted by Nicho-
las llilliarn; and the book is eviden,ly
IA gage TanloW prepared by the Queen
for her suitor. probably about 1881,
when. as readers of Mr.. Froude will
remember, she announced to her court
that she had accepted him for husband.
The prayers are very autobiographi
cal: the writer speaks Of herself as
"draWlng my blood from HINGES, and
thanks God for 'pasSing me from a
prison to a palace" and placing me a
Sonveraigne Prince over THE people Of
England" The history Of the book
can be traced from James H., who
gave it to the Duke of Berwick,
whence it passed to Horace Walpole,
and atterward to the Duchess of Port
land. At her sale, in l7S6, it was
bought for Queen Charlotte for lOl
guineas. She left it to one of her
ladies in waiting, from whom it was
acquired by the late Duchess of Leeds;
thence it passed into the late owners
hands. 1t is described in Walpole's $
"AnecdOtes of Painting in his ac-
count cf the famous miniaturist Mich
olas IIilliard. st. James gazette.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
Two SingIIlar LMnaticS.

A lunatic at the Morris Plains
Asylum was mute for five years. Even
the physicians thought he had lost the
power Of speech. One day two of his
fingers were mangled in a washing
machine. To the astonishmeut Of
everybody who heard him he exclaim-
ed: "By the great and jumping Moses,
That was three years ago, and he has
not spoken since. Another patient, IA
boy in the same institution, is light.
ming calculator. The most intricate
problems are solved by him in frac-
tionS of minute The boy believes
that his head is filled with little blocks
with figures upon them, and they in.
stantly fall into different positions and
work out the problems. He thinks his
brain, in fact, is IA multiplication table
His insanity seems pardonable, foI
only few sane men can compete Will
him as a mathematician. Every day
he soaks his head in water to prevent
the blocks from rafting, and occasion
ally he begs for oil to put into his ears
50 that the imaginary squares will slip
upon each other more easily Norris
torn ,JerseyInQn.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
A Homo Remedy.

The way to get the better of the
bilious system without blue pills OF
qlinine is to ta:e the juice of one,
two or three lemons, as appetite
Graves, in as much water as makes it
pleasant to drink, without sugar, be-
fore gong to bed. In the morning,
on rising, at least half an hour before
breakfast. take the juice of one lemon
in a goblet of water. This will clear
the system of humor and bile with
efficiency, without any CT the weaken
ing effects of calomel. People should
not irritate the stomach by eating
lemons clear; the powerful acid of the
juice, which is always most corrosive,
invariably produces Inflammation after
while, but properly diluted, so that
it does not burn or draw the throat,
it does its medicinal work without
harm, and, when the stomach is clear
of food, has abundant opportunity to
work over the system throughly,-
Ne1U York - erdN
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
A. Mountain Railroad.

The great tunnel of Galera, by
which the pinnacle of the Andes is
pierced, will be, when completed, $500
feet long, and will he the highest ele-
walton on the eartl's surface where
any such work has been undertaken.
Besides boring the mountains of gran
ite and blasting clefts along their
sides to rest the track upon, steep cut
tings and superb bridges, the system
of reverse tangents had to be adopted
in canons that were too narrow for
curve. So the track zigzags up the
mountain side, ON the switch and
back-up principle, the trains taking
one leap forward, and after being
switched on to another track another
leap backward. until the summit is
won: so that often there are four or
five lines of track parallel TO each other,
one above the other, on the mountain
side.-NelC York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16


For burns and scalds nothing is
more soothing than the white of egg,
which may be poured over the wound.
1t is softer us varnish for burn
than collodon, and, being always at
hand, can be applied. 1t is also more
cooling than the sweet oil and cotton
winch was formerly supposed to be
the surest application to allay the
smarting pain. IL is the contact with
the air which gives the extreme dis
comfort experienced from the ordinary
accident of this kind, and anything
that excludes the air and prevents
Inflammation is the thing to be at once
applied.
The egg is considered one Of the
best Of remedies for dysentery. Beat
en- up slightly. with or without sugar,
and swallCwe at a gulp, it tends by
its emollient qualities, to lessen the
inflammation of the stomach and in
testines, and by form ng a transient
coating on these organs. to enable
nature to resume her healthful sway
over diseased body. Two, or at
most three eggs per day would be all
that is required in ordinary cases;
and since egg is not merely medicine.
but food as well, the lighter the diet
otherwise and the quieter the patient
is kept, the more certain and rapid Is
the recovery
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
The Advance OF ArcluruS.

There will be fine chance for pc
terity to dodge if the present doings of
the star Arcturues undergo no change.
The result OF the observations of these
doings made at the Greenwich Observa-
tory in 1888. numbering 200, and ex-
tending over period Of five months,
is the clear establishment of that stars
movement toward the earth dead on at
the rate of something moro than 81
miles second. 5000 miles minute,
100000 miles an hour. 4.320,000 miles
n day. An 50 ton gun drives projec-
tile l,400 feet Il second, maximum ve-
locity. ArcCurus is thus coming at us
at a rate of 200 times greater than this.
Tospeak of it as shot out of gun is to
use faint and inadequate simlle.
This celestial projectile is moving over
distance equal to that between the
earth and the sun every twenty one
days. 1t has, however, l,622,OOO of
these distances to traverse, Therefore it
will not arrive for $4,000 years; but if
present observations are true, it will
there as sure as the DEGREES of God, and
our poor little earth where will it be?
Scorched, snuffed out like vapor like
ly long before the contact, and our
whole solar system gone to slaves like
a bucket with one piece out. If we
haven't any interest in this result we
have in the conformation of things
which foreShadowed it and this will he
the point of future observation. If
the present motion of ArcturuS is orbi-
tai, it will in time appear stationary
and then recede; but nothing 50 far
has been discovered pointing to this.
1t is, apparently, coming right along;
still its orbit may be so mighty that it
may require years before its bend will
be indicated by a retarlation of the
rate of approach, than by no percepti-
bic motion either way, than by a re-
cession equal to its previous approach.
| - IndidUapojis Ne10S.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
Birds Forced TO Take Medicine.

"IIe's got a sore eye was the eX-
PLANTATION Of II clerk in a bird store
who was carrying a little green
squawking parrot. lie cleaned it with
"A stick, and the parrot struggled to get
away, uttering'most doleful cries, but
was firmly held until sufficiently treat
ed, and was then put back in its cage,
where it sat and sobbed and moaned
pitifully. ave don't have many such
things to care for, and it's good
thing, for they are hard to manage.
A sore eye is dangerous always, be-
cause we can't always be sure how it
should be treated. Besides it spOils
the market value of the bird. No
body wants to buy a sore-eyed parrot
and one that has a very bad eye is apt
to forget how to talk. Parrots seem
almost human when they are sick, for
they cry and groan and act dumpish,
ana Will submit TO meQlClne easily,
unless it is very painful, and then they
resist, just like the rest of the animal
creation.
"Other birds act differently. Wild
birds will not take medicine. You
have to force it down, duck them un-
der water when they won't bathe,
stuff the food down their throatS
when they won't eat, and SO on. Ca
naries dislike ioctoring, but are very
intelligent, and take it more easily
than other birds. Bobolinks are like
them, only more obstinate, and mock
ing birds will sometimes die of sullen-
ness rather than take drugs. They are
hardy. stronger, and rarely sick. Red
birds, though, are more delicate, and
so wild they won't take medicine. -
Mem York SIM
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

arms and unsnbdued. BY constant
fighting they have been cleared out Of
space of about twenty square miles
around the Port af Acheen. This the
Dutch will continue to hold by means
of redoubts and large force. The
blockade of the other ports has been
raised; two of them only, Oleleh and
Pedis, are to lie retained by force
said to number $500 men. The rest
of the Dutch forces are to be with.
drawn, and the war is at an end until
the sultan likes to resume his attacks
on the fort"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
Facts About Owls.

As l was seated on the piazza of our
hotel last evening, watching the moon
as it came out by the sea, an owl glided
by, and only for moment was seen
as it passed window, through which
the light was streaming, intent, no
doubt. upon it's mission and apparent
ly undisturbed by the music, the hum
of voices, and the red and green lights
that flashed up from the lawns on
Ocean avenue. Owls may often sail
around the pier hotel at night, for
aught l know, but it is not often that
they are seen. Back in the woods
they make their homes, and there their
hooting is as familiar sound as the
croaking of the frogs. The farmer has
no better friend than the owl. AMI he
who kills one does the public and him
self an injury. White, CT Selborne,
after tanning pair of owls, was con-
vinced that they brought a mouse to
the nest on an average of every five
minutes from sunset to daylight
Owls were never an epicurean feast,
but there was formerly an eccentric
genius in Newport, Benjamin Had
win, who ate them, and for that mat
ter anything that once had the breath
of life. Soutney once had an owl
roasted for himself and Mr.. and Mrs.
Worth. l give the sequel in his words !:
ave agreed that there could be no
pretext for making owls game and
killing them as delicacies. but if ever
you eat one, by all means try it boiled
with onion sauce"
An omelette made Of owls eggs is
said to be a cure for drunkenness.
Owls are sometimes stutfed-not for
the table, but to draw crows within
range of the sportsman's gun. No
love is lost between the crow and the
owl, and when the latter is pearched
upon limb the former goes for him
with the celerity and disregard Of ali
those cautionary measures that usu-
ally mark the movements of crow.
SO eager is he to meet the object Of his
aversion that he does not see the gun
ner until it is too late to beat a safe
retreat. The Italians use an owl to
catch small birds, only in their case
the owl is tied to perch in open
ground in broad sunlight, and the
birds that gyrate around him alight
upon twigs smeared with bird lime.
In this way they become an,easy prey.
-PrOUiience Journal
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
The Beauties of Mexican Feather
MOrk,

NVih
While in Mexico | tried hard to find
out how they made the lovely birds on
cards which they offered for sale on
the streets. A friend took me to the
house of one of these artists. 1t was
a little hovel, where he sat on the mud
floor and toiled. But when he heard
US coming he put away all his work
and would not let us see it. He was
an Indian, with brown skin and black,
straight hair. He wore ragged clothes
and had an old blanket to keep him
warm at night. Poor as he was, no
money would tempt him to show us
the secret process he had learned from
his father, which had been kept in the
family for a hundreds of years. Great
skill is required to produce a perfect
picture. First, the Indian traces on
the cord the outlines of the body of
the bird in wax, just enough for the
feathers to stick to. Then he begins
at the lower part and places them on,
one at time, one row .apping over the
other as a slater lays States. He works
very slowly and patiently. Perhaps
this is the secret of mis- perfect work,
and the reason that no other people
have been able to equal him. TIE re-
ult is, bird that looks a, if it might
sing or fly. The eyes are made WITH
small glass beads, and the bill and feet
are painted So nicely that they appear
to be part of the bird. Then he
paints twig or brancn for it to rest
on, or makes one from feather, an6
his work is done-SGn 4Rtonia Light
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Su Uncle Phineas did not keep his
niece Rosamond very long after all.
But the fact that she was alive and
near him was enough to give him
new lease of life. Aud on her we'd
ding day, the old man actually relented
so far as to give her another hundred
dollar bill out of the old green chest
that he kept back of the cherrywood
bedstead.
"George Hand is a smart. forehand-
ed lad" said he. "And Rosamond is a
good girl-a very good girl "-Helsn
Forest GrdreS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Lemons for Malaria.

DR.. Crudelli. of Rome, gives the
following directions for preparing q
remedy for malaria which may be
worth trying, as it is said TO have
proved eflicacious when quinine has
given no relief. Cut up a lemon, peel
and pulp, in thin slices, and boil it in
a pint and half Of water until it is
reduced to half a pint. Strain through
a linen cloth, squeezing the remains Of
the boiled lemon and set it aside until
cold. The entire liquid is taken fast
inc.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
The Ten Finest Buildings.

"The ten finest buildings in this
country, according TO the majority
vote given in the Boston american
Architect, are Trinity church, Boston
the capitol at Washington: w. X
Vanderbllt's house, Trinity church
and the Jefferson market court house,
New York; the city hall. Hartford
city hall and state capitol. Albany;
Sever hail. Cambridge. Mass, and
town hall, North Easton, Mass"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
A sign Suggestion.

Smith Keeps Il savage dog on his
premises, and near its kennel board
is displayed, with the warning in large
letteIs, "Beware of the dog"
Il suppose" said Jones. pointing te
the warning, "you have painted that
sign IN large letters SO that he who
runs may read
NO" said Smith, "but that he whe
reads may rum
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

the tarnal varmlnt that brought about
the happy change in Sary Jane, an
thar pointing toa white-haired I'd
lady who sat rocking and smiling in u
corner of the room, "am the old gal
herself" "-Philadelphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

In the German Agricultural Insti
tute at Halle much attention is paid
to improving breeds of domestic ami
mails. Crossing of the domestic sheep
with the "mouf1lon" or wild sheep of
Corsica, has been so successful to the
fourth generation that it is now sup
posed that the "moufflon is the ances-
tor of the domesticated focks. Ad-
ditional light is expected to be thrown
upon the subject by the recent acces-
sion in the gardens of two new pairs
of wild sheep, the American "bighorn,'
and a Persian species, neither of which
have ever before been seen in Europe
alive. Experiments as to crossing
these with domestic breeds will be
begun at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

1t is popularly supposed that rice is
the staple crop and universal food
throughout India. This. however, is
very far from being the case, for north
of Behar wheat and other grains form
the chief articles of food, and in these
districts rice is no part of the diet of
the people Rice is only grown in the
deltas of the great rivers and along the
western coast, and besides this it is
raised in patches in all hill valleys. In
those regions where rice is grown
largely, however, it is the only crop.
The quality varies much according to
the place where it grows; even in a
single district in Bengal it is said there
are as many as three hundred different
kinds.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

A Russian traveller predicts that
Thibet will prove to be second Cali
fornia, as during recent visit there,
he found the natives gold washing in
the crudest way, but with the richest
results. If the same class of men
should be attracted to the gold bearing
districts of that barbaric country as
went to California in 40, remarks the
Current, it is very probable that the
civilization of the region would be
accomplished with degree of rapidity
which would prove most salutary in
its lessons to the .czars, emperors,
queens and ameers who are struggling
Tor empire in that part of the world,
after the manner of the middle
ages.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

A German, who has studiously
watched every movement of the honey
bee, asserts that they are excellent
storm-warners. He says that on the
approach of thunder-s storms, bees,
otherwise gentle and harmless, become
very irritable, and will at once attack
anyone, even their usual attendant
approaching their hives. A succession
Of in tances are given in which the
barometer and hygrometer foretcld a
storm, the bees remaining quiet, and
no storm occurred; or the instruments
gave no intimation of storm, but the
bees for hours before were irritable,
and it came.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

There are mosquitoes in Alaska. A
recent traveller in that part says: Il
camped for some days on the Kenia
River, near Lake Skeloka, of which it
is the outlet, and of all the poisonous.
persistent, Unsuitable pests that ever
lived, l found them there in the form
of mosquitoes and black flies. The
mosquitoes resemble those We have in
the East, but, to correspond with
everything else in that land of won
ders, they are built on much grander
scale. They have a proboscis that l
will wager could drill, saw and chop a
hole through the hide of Jumbo in less
time than the most expert and able
bodied Jersey mosquito could tap tine
cutlcle of three months old baby"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

The New York Sun has the follow
ing: "ExactIy ten years ago the
Dutch government began war at Ac-
heen, in the north of Sumatra, which
has continued with interruption down
to last month. The forces of Holland
have been perpetua!ly engaged, most
ly around the town of Acheen, but
occasionally elsewhere in northern
Sdmatra The war has weighed down
the Dutch East Indies, the national
budget of which has shown an annual
deficit of from 100000 to 100000
of forins. caused mainly by it. An
army of about 10000 men has had to
be maintained. fighting almost under
the equator, by constant drafts from
Java and ultimately from home. The
result of efforts of such magnitude
continued over ten years has been
nothing. The Acheenese are still in
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

There are three political parties in
Japan-the juitos, who are in favor
of republic; the kohentos, who are
lmparialists, and the kaishintos, whose
general principles are "to be agin the
government AT present the kohen-
tos appear to have the upper hand.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
Che lunSonorrrp Sitter.

AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER,
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
--FROM--
SIftcr CT1co. So Londonderry, Vt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

1t is said that the permanence of
the California mountain forests is
seriously threatened by the herds of
sheep and cattle which are driven into
the mountains every year to grass.
From the foothills to the highest
meadows every blade Of heritage and
every seeding shrub and tree is de-
voured. Young trees are barked and
ruined, and the roots of grasses are
trodden out by the hoofs of animals.
The life of any forest in which all
young trees are destroyed is limited to
the life of the full-grown trees which
compose it
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

TERMS.-lHE LONDONDERRY, VI, SITTER
will be fu,nishol to all subscribers, everywhere,
nt the extremely low price Of One Dollar per
nnnum, invariably in advance. Outside OF
Windham Co., in single wrappers, $l.l6 year,
! ADVERTISING RATES. Fifty cents per
inch, first insertion, % Gems ;or each Nddi-
tioual insertion, Nothing ins ertcd for less than
so cents.
Additional information furnished upon appli.
cation. Births, Marriages. and Deaths, pub
lshcd free. Obituary n tices, Cards Df Thanks
ETC., so cents to Sl,00
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16
SITTER OFFICE, LONDONDERRY, VT,
BUSINESS CARDS.

SST Entered at the Pnst-oflico at South
MS ocond-c ;ss matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-07-16

Horses an. Carriages at all hours. Persons
carmel 10 all surrounding points upon arrival
cf trims. Special accommodations TO exour-
zion parties. Good teams and attentive dIi-
yen. "
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-03
CORPORATION NOTICES.
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that on the 7th day of May
1888, application was made to the Board of Public
Works by Henry Herman and others for the con-
struction of 24-inch oval brick sewer In Griffith
street, from 1l5 feet east of Summit avenue to and
connecting with the sewer in Central avenue, of
suitable dimensions and in accordance with the
established plan Of sewerage together with all the
necessary manholes, receiving basins and appurte-
nances.
Notices also given that on the 18th day of April
1885, the Commissioners of Assessment filed with
the Board of Public Works their preliminary notice
showing what property will probably be assessed
and the probable amount of benefit to each lot or
parcel of land; also the probable amount Of assess
ment per foot Of frontage of the said improvement
and the same is now open to public inspection in
the Office of the Clerk of the Board Of Public Works.
And notice is also given that the following streets
avenues or particular sections thereof, are in
cluded in said assessment, viz:
Griffith street. from point about 115 feet east Of
Summit avenue to point about 100 feet west Of
Central avenue.
And that the 25th day Of Nav. 1885, at 10 o'clock
q. m. and the meeting room of the Board of Public
Works are hereby fixed as the time and place when
and where the Board of Public Works will meet to
hear parties interested in said application and all
remonstrances against said improvement that may
be presented in writing.
By order Of the Board Of Public Works.
GEORGE T. BOUTON, Acting Clerk.
Jersey City, April %. 1885. 12S-2t