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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21

The beaus and bellies of New Guinea
are by no means fOrbidding. Imagine
man about five feet nine inches in
height, his body a nice brown color,
covered, if he be a masher, with red
earth and vanished with oil, his face
painted in different colors and piece
OF polished stone through his nose, his
hair long and frizzy, ornamented with
bird of paradise plumes and cockatoo
feathers, his teeth black or red, his ears
weighed down with huge ear orna-
ments, his waist compressed to wasp
lsh proportions with broad belt of
bark, shell armlets on his arms and
dogs teeth necklaces round his neck,
breast ornament Of boars' tusks or
pearl she'll, gayly painted waist rib
bon, with long streamers in front and
behind, anklets and kneelets of colored
lax, and small netted bag over his
Shoulder-imagine all this and YOU
have a typical New Guinean. The
women match the men. The young
girls wear abundance of ornaments.
but after marriage few. They are all
profusely tattooed and wear a colored
petticoat, which reaches to the knee.
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Out of Tune.

When the tones of a musical instrument be.
come harsh and d,scordant, we say it is "out
OF tune The same may be said OF that lal
more wonderful and complicated piece OF me.
chanism, the human structure, when it be-
comes disordered Not only actual disease
but those far more common causes, overwork
menlal anxiety, and fast living, may impair
its vigor and activity. The best remedy for a
partial collapse Of the vital energies, from
these us from other sources, is Hostetter's
Stomach Blttcis, which is at the same time an
agreeable and mind cheering cordial, and the
best possible invigorant in all cases OF de-
bility. 1t is an incompatible stomachic and
nti-bilous medicine, erndicates fever and
ague, and prevents subsequent attacks. 1t
remedies with certainty and thoroughness
bowel and kidney complaints, dyspepsia, ner-
vousness, rheumatic troubles, neuralgia, aud
many other bodily ailments. 1t also counter
acts influences which predisposc to disease
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21
The POlitest of Military Clerks.

"When Grant was in Chicago, three
or four years ago." said an army oflici
al, che lounged about Sheridan's head
quarters good deal. His son Fred
was at that time on Sheridan's staff
but was absent one day, and Grant
took his place at Fred's desk and look
ed after the business. A nervous,
lidgety, irritable old fellow came in to
inquire for some paper that he had
left with Fred. When he stated his
case Grant took up the matter in a
sympathetic way. and proceeded after
the manner of an over-anxious clerk
to look the paper up. The document
could not be found, and Grant, apollo
giving, walked with the old gentleman
to the door. AS walked down the
stairs with the Modified visitor he
turned and asked: who is that old
codger? He is the politest clerk ever
saw at military headquarters. 1 hope
Sheridan will keep him. answered
quietly, That is Gen. Grant The fide-
ETY. old gentleman, after staring at me
for full minute, said, with considera-
BILE fervor, 4 will give you so cents if
you will kick me down stairs" CHI
cn0O Trib,t1e
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21

In applying manure to the land the
quality should be considered as well as
the quantity. A certain number of
loads per acre, without regard to the
real value of the material, will not
give uniform results. The food upon
which the animals have been fed will
largely determine the quantity of
plant food which the manure will
contain. The manure Of stall fed
oxen is worth a great deal more than
an equal quantity of that of cattle
Kept only upon poor hay. And, what.
ever its original value may have been,
Its real worth when it is applied to
the land depends in no small degree
upon the place and condition in which
it has been kept. Twenty loads of
manure that has been kept under cover
VIII be worth more to crop, and will
leave the land in better condition after
the crop is removed, than forty loads
Of equal size and originally of the
same quality, which has been thor
oughly leached by rains falling upon
the yards and water from the roofs of
the barn and sheds. The injury which
the manure has sustained by this
teaching process will go far towards
accounting for the small crops which
are so often grown on apparently fer
tile fields, which, as far as quantity is
concerned, have been well MANFRED.
The trouble was not, to any great ex-
tent. with the land, not with the ouan-
tity of manure applied nor with the
cultivation of the crop, but was main
ly due to the fact that the fertilizinp
elements of the manure had been
largely leached out before it was drawn
to the Decentralization.
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ltecipes.

German Doughnuts.-One pound
sugar, three eggs, three ounces of but
ter or lard, three-quarters of a cup of
milk, one teaspoon of soda, two tea
soons of cream tartar, three pounds of
flour; roll and cut in rings, fry light
brown in boiling lard.
Beef Soap.-Eight pounds beef
boil five hours, five onions, five carrots,
three potatoes, one quart of tomatoes,
two turnips, one teaspoonful of thyme,
cinnamon and cloves, one teaspoonful
celery seed, salt and pepper. Boil
vegetables one half hour,
Rhubarb Pudding. - Prepare the
stalks as for pies; cover the bottom of
a buttered pudding dish with slices OF
bread and butter, cover with the rhu-
barb cut in short pieces, sprinkle
abundantly with sugar; then put on
another layer of bread and butter and
rhubarb until the dish is full. Have
plenty of sugar on the top. Cover so
as to steam while baking half an hour.
Remove the cover and brown nicely.
Eat with any hot sauce.
Peasants Soup.-Chop up some
cabbage, carrots, onions, and celery:
put them on the fire in saucepan
with some fresh butter and salt. AS
soon as the vegetables are soft, moist
en- them with stock and simmer over a
slow fire for three hours; add sufficient
water for the soup required, and SIM
mer for half an hour. 1t is better if
either lentils or haricot beans have
been boiled in the added water, At
the end of half an hour, put in some
chopped sorrel leaves and lettuce, and
boil. Pour the soup over crusts of
bread in the soup tureen.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21

Well ventilated bedrooms will pre-.
vent morning headaches and lassitude.
Pennyroyal, strewn under carpets
and in the drawers of furniture in
tested with cockroaches and fleas, will!
destroy the vermin.
Blue is rather pretty in bedroom,
and the idea can be nicely carried out
by means Of blue and white china
toilet sets and mantle piece ornaments.
In most cases of stewing vegetables,
the least bit of sugar will be an i'm
provement; but it must be used as
carefully as if it were cayenne pepper,
lest the favor Of the dish be spoiled.
Infected mattresses cannot be thor
oughly disinfected. The ticking NAV
be rendered safe by boiling in solu
ton of zinc, or by fumigation and dry
heat; but the straw, hair, etc., with
which they may be stuffed had better
be burned.
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worldly things. the .rrouJrou of silks

worldly things. the trou.frou of silks
and velvets, the clinking of Jewels,
passing salutations and gracious
EXPLANATIONS in harmoniously mod
ulated voices. Certain women
are like well-caparisoned horses, for
every movement produces that same
silken and refined rattle of their
elegant harnesses. The hostess rises
from an easy-chair that is sheltered by
a Louis XIV screen, where fairy
fingers have embroidered splendid
birds, and conducts her visitors to the
tea-table in an adjoining salon. This
table is covered with Byzantine cloth
embroidered in red silk, and there
shines the antique Flemish silver SER
vice, surrounded by belt of cups and
saucers of the rarest Du Barry Seyres.
According to English fashion, the
cream is served in glass inclosed in a
silver-gilt stand. The cake-dishes
and plates rest on figures of silver
gilt, dressed in the style of Albert
Durer. While everybody is pulling
her sandwich and her acquaintance to
pieces, an obliging young lady plays
the piano in the next room so delight
fully that it ought to make the listen
ers dream. But who can think of
dreaming at 5-o'clock tea?-Paris
Figaro.
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Celery.

Joseph Harris says that celery seet
Is cheap. and that an ounce will pro
duce $500 plants. lie recommends
the following treatment for autumn
use On rich piece of ground, very
early in spring, mark rows eighteen
inches apart, and drill in two rows of
radish. lettuce or anything else which
will be cleared off before midsummer.
Sow the third row celery, and so on,
two OF something else which ends its
career before midsummer, repeating
two and one, two and one. Sow the
celery seed thick, dozen to an inch.
The early spring rain will cover the
seed. In three or four weeks the
plants will come up, Weed and hoe
them thoroughly, right on. When the
plants crowd. hoe them out first three
and then six inches apart. Hoe and
cultivate well, and keep them perfectly
clean, and as soon as the other plants
are removed give them the whole
clean ground and earth them up
gradually. The advantages are-no
transplanting, no hot bed.
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Turkish Proverbs About women.


The references to women are as I'M
gallant as they are unjust. She is to
be treated as a child, and as such con-
temptuously pardoned for her short
comings. "You should lecture neither
child or woman it would be waste of
time. Her intelligence, too, is under
rated, "Her hair is long, her wits
short" 1t is she who as a mother,
"makes the house, and mars it" and she
is classed with good wine as a "a sweet
poison" But it must be admitted that
In this want of gallantry the Turk is
far surpassed by the Persian, who says
"The dog is faithful, woman never"
The lover is regarded as a lunatic,
unfit for the society of his fellows.
off you are in love fly to the noun
tains." for ''Lover and king brook no
companion He is "blind," and dis
lance is nothing to him; for him "Bag.
dad is not far" and the only cures for
his malady are "travel and patience"
A word Of advice to those about to
marry. "Marry below you, but do not
marry your daughter above you;" and
"Choose cloth by its edge, and wife
by her mother. "-London Spectator.
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Wet and dry seasons so differently
affect the wings Of butterflies in India
as to cause broods of the same insect
to be taken for distinct species.
DR., Flint is reported as having said
that many lives are lost by starvation
owing to an overestimate of the nu.
tritive value of beef tea and meat
juices. In typhus and typhoid fevers,
he says there is no good substitute fol
milk and eggs.
One of the most remarkable facts
brought out by the oceanic researches
made by the British ship Challenger,
is the probability that all oceanic is
lands are of volcanic origin; in all the
researches made no indications were
found of submerged land over these
areas.
The practice of scalping is not pc
culiar to the American aborigines
Southall in his "Recent Origin of
Man," quotes from Herodotus to show
that the Scythians used to scalp their
fallen enemies. In the present time
the wild tribes of northeastern Bengal
use the scalping knife.
A curious physiological effect pro-
duced by the action of turning eggs
during incubation has been noted by
M. Dareste. From experiments made
with artificial incubators, he has found
that eggs not turned two or three
times day all invariably perish. lie
explains the effect of this act on the
embryo. and accounts for the action of
the sitting bird on purely physiological
grounds.
1t is possible, according to French
authority, to foretell the weather,
sometimes ten or twenty hours in adj
vance, by observing and comparing the
sounds emitted by telephone con-
nected by leads with two iron bars
stuck into the ground a few vars apart.
In case of thunderstorm especially,
noise like that of shriveling leaves
increases until flash of lightning oc-
ours, when the sound resembles that
OF rain or hail falling on grass.
1t has been source of much sur.
prlsed to Prof. Nordenskjold that, dur.
ng his numerous expeditions within
the Arctic circle, in regions where ami
NAL life is abundant, he has found only
very few remains of animals which
died a natural death. No one has any
idea what becomes of the bodies O,
such animals, and it is indeed very
strange, as he remarks, that on Spitz
bergen it is easier to find bones of s
gigantic lizard of remote geological
time than those of self dead" seal
walrus or bird. The same is also trus
of some places not so far north.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21
A Piano made of Pins.

Mr.. Z. M. Taber, the librettist of
"Deslree," was clerk in the Pension
Office, and his desk was Immediately
next to the wainscotting of the hall.
After he left his successor made a die
covery. Ranged along the wooden
wainscotting was row of pins, the
lowest deeply imbedded in the wood.
the highest simply far enough indent-
ed to keep it from falling out. There
was such evident purpose in this row
OF pins that the attention of the chief
of the division was called to it. Run
ming his finger nail along the row. h.
found that each pin represented nat
ural note or a semi-tone. 1t took hut
minute more to play tune upon
this pin piano, and, until the novelty
wore off, Mr.. Taber's ingenious ar
rangement of pins was source of
amusement to his former fellow clerks.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21

MT. b, a large planter in Ala
bama, was so successful in his cult.
walton of cotton as to excite universal
attention throughout the South. Ger.
tain wealthy gentlemen in Mexico
wrote to him several years ago, asking
permission to send their sons to his
plantations, Ito be placed under his
tuition and to study his methods" A
few days later, seven or eight young
hidalgos arrived, delicate, refined
youths, carefully dressed, gloved and
ringed.
Gentlemen" said the planter, after
welcoming them, "you have come to
learn how to raise cotton, so that you
will never have failure in your
crops?"
Eyes"
ut is my theory that no man can
intelligently direct his servants to do
work which he has never done himself.
You can never learn to raise cotton
on horseback. l will teach you my
methods. But the first step must be
flannel shirts, and your own hands on
the plough. If you are not willing
to do this, you had better return TO
Mexico"
The young men looked at each 9TH
er in dismay. But the next morning
they presented themselves cheerfully
in the field ready for work, and set to
ploughing with will. They followed
rs actual laborers every step in the
cultivation of the cotton from its
planting until it was ready for the
market. They remained with Mr.. B.
Two years, at the end of which
time they returned to Mexico, and are
now the most successful growers of
cotton in that country. They are all
firm friends of Mr.. B.
"He has the secret of success" one
of them said lately. mo matter what
a mans business may be, he must
learn it in detail before he can control
It, and the first step is to put his own
hand to the plough. > Youths Com
Ddnion
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Making Beds.

Let every bed maker, as soon as all
the covers are spread, turn down the
upper sheet and all above it, leaving a
generous margin below the bolster.
Some people, you know, pull all the
covers straight up to the top and lay
The bolster upon them, so that when
bedtime comes they must be arran ged
at the head. Boys don't like this way
and perhaps some other folks don't
either. 1t is the custom to pile two
Dig, square pillows on the top of the
bolster, and then put on two pillow
'hams, and then, sometimes, or per-
aaps before the pillow shams, sheet
sham. This is setting the trap for the
lnwary. Only remarkably careful
woman is equal to the task of getting
off all the "fnery" properly. Why
DOT almost, if not altogether, abolish
'hams of all kinds? Why not honestly
AXE off the big, square pillows and
supply every bed with comfortable
bolster to take the place of pillows? If
you like adornment, embroider or dec
,rate the slips and sheets themselves
without any make believe. Silk, lace
and the like seem out of place on a
bed, which should suggest repose.
Imagine boy with big boots on fling
ng himself into the midst of fairy
,reation of pink satin and torchon!
Let beds be what they look like, and
ct them look like what they are-real
:esting places. A great deal of atten :
ion should be given to the proper air
ng of the mattress every morning.
md at least once week a stiff brush
should remove the dust which will
accumulate, even in the best ordered
house, around and under the tufts of
cotton, or the bits of leather, or what
ever is used to tack the mattress with.
Attention should also be directed to
'he edge of the mattress, where the
braid is sewed on, for dust sits under
hat. Where the bedroom is also the
iressing room, dust cannot be avoided |
out it may at least be changed, and it |
heed not be allowed to accumulate.
Health and Home.
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Fashion Notes.

Corduroy jackets are stylish and
serviceable.
| Embroidered surahs are in demand ;
SO are embroidered grenadines.
Oxidized silver jewelry, also belt
buckles and clasps, are popular.
For evening wear are pale shades of
tan, beige and ecru suede gloves.
Red and yellow, golden brown and
tan are immensely popular colors.
Elton, Spanish, and zouave jackets
are worn by young girls in their teens.
Golden oats and wheat are sold by
the head for bonnet and hat trim
mings.
White poplins, also white alpacas,
will be much worn for evening
dresses.
The newest brocades and stripes
have the silk instead of the satin
ground.
Surplice waists are to be seen on
cashmere and silk dresses for after
noon wear.
The fashionable jacket for misses
is made with loose front and tight
fitting back.
The general design for suits is that
of short basques with long drapery
and plain lower skirts.
Alpaca in gray, brown and other
mode colors is being employed for
making travelling dresses.
Jet is as popular as ever; it comes
in panels in jetted lace and tulle and
IN passementeries and pongees.
Bison cloth is so much like serge
that one writes of them all under the
same head, coarse, shaggy and light of
weight, which is their chief recon-
mendation.
A pretty novelty in jackets, likely
to prove favorite with young ladies,
is made of stockinette, which is en-
bioidered by new patent process
after the jacket is made up.
Popularity is promised for a new
woollen grenadine, which will make
up extremely pretty in combination
with the soft and effective surah silks
that come in black, white, and all
colors
Silk mitts are very much in demand.
The finer grades of black and colored
mitts are almost perfect works of art,
and with the improved shape they fit
the wrist as closely as they could do
if they were buttoned.
French faille in black and every
color, which is now made with strong
and rather rough surface, will play
great part in the costumes for sum.
mer, as it Grapes well and makes
charming Communications.
Lapis lazuli ball handles, with gilt
claws, are much used just now on
oarasols, and antique and highly
;arved ones. Also white muslin para
'ols, matching the muslin bonnets,
IRE to be the newest thing this year.
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IL is5 o'clock. The lighted lamps
throw a golden reflection over the lux
arious confusion of the elegant apart
ment. The light glides in fair rivers
over the antique tapestries; it shines
On costly bric-a-brac, and battles the
white marbles in gold. There is a
perpetual rustic of skirts on the stair
case, protected like a dollhouse, where
dainty feet tread thick velvet carpets.
and the women's heads, arranged in
The most fashionable style, meet and
;hen separate like so many brilliantly
,olored statues. This gay procession
of Partisan society comes and goes,
with the continual accompaniment of
what may be termed the music of
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Feeding Corn and nIenI.

Corn is very readily digested and is
rich in oil, which in cold weather ia a
most valuable factor, as it serves to
keep up the heat of the body more
directly than starch and similar sub
stances. With oats and barley it may
form one-third of the grain ration of
hard-worked draft horses, and will
keep their coats glossy and be in every
way benefit, certainly worth more
than its weight in oats. Fed alone or
in larger proportion it has tendency
to make horses sweat easily, and it is
said to become quickly exhausted. 1t
is not safe to feed it as freely as oats
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To Protect Gold Coin from Wear

The Financial Reformer says that
Mr.. Childers is seriously considering
the adoption of patent, intending to
protect gold coin from wear. 1t con-
sists of ring of steel or hard metal.
which is put on the coin hot, and then
contracts round it while cooling. If
the calculation be correct, that the cur
rent life of coin would be doubled by
the adoption of this device, it is evil
dent that it ought to be treated, for, at
present, the annual loss on our gold
coinage by detrition is about $4,000
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The Care of Children.

BOSTON, MAss.-A leading medical
journal thinks it is about time mothers
should know how seriously the health
Of children is imperilled by the use OF
preparations containing morphia and
opium, and given for the cure of colds
and coughs. The chemist of the Brook
lyn Board of Health, Otto Grothe,
Ph,D., graduate of the University of
kiel, Germany, certifes officially that
recently harmless and yet effective
article for such complaints has come
70 his notice. He refers to the newly
discovered Red Star Cough Cure, which
he found purely vegetable.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-05-21
or barley, as there is danger of i'm,

or barley, as there is danger of i'm,
FACTION, just as there would DO II
wheat were so fed. No doubt it Is
best fed ground with oats, and the
proportions already indicated are pro-
baby the most satisfactory, the meal
being fed upon cut hay.
For cows in milk, corn meal
may form, with bran, the exclusive
grain ration, and may be fed at the
rate OF one pint of corn meal to each
100 pounds of the cows live weight.
No doubt it will be found just as good
in Great Britain as here. 1t gives
quality and richness to the milk, color
to the butter and abundance to the
flow If the cow is good one; but if
she is inclined to lay on fat such feed
ing will cause her to fatten, even
though in full milk, and if she gets
too fat she will go dry.
For sheep, corn is excellent, but
should be fed whole and little at a
time For swine, the universal ex-
perience from Maine to Oregon, and
from Canada to Mexico, is that it will
make more and better pork than any
other food. For poultry it is in this
country the universal grain, but it is
not always the best. 1t is admirable
for its fattening properties, but for
laying hens and growing fowls it is
not we'll to use too much. "Corn-fed"
fowls, ducks and geese are firm heshed
and yet tender. They bear transpor-
tation alive with little shrinkage.
True yellow corn makes yellow butter
and yellow fat in fowls. English and
French tastes demand white ileshed
poultry with pale, lardy fat, and so
they fatten poultry on rice and their
fancy market fowls have about as
much flavor as boiled rice. The
American market demands yellow
fleshed fowls, with fat as yellow as
June butter, and corn is the food to
produce this in all poultry.