The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-08
Items Of interest

New York has 500 photograph galleries
within three miles of Union sQrlasa
Forty years ago there was only one
daguerrotype saloon in the city.
Tom Thumb took to drinking and also
to stock gambling, and when he died his
fortune of 100000 male in the show
business, had dwmdlei down to sbou.
$4,000.
The greatest tea drinker in England
is Mr.. Gladstone, the creates; in France
M. Clemenceau, and in America Mr..
Bouoicault The latter carries while
travelling flask of tea rs others do OF
cognao
A deep cave has been foUrd to exist
under the town Of Blankston, Iowa, by
q farmer who was sinking IN artesian
well. Three unsuccessful attempts were
made to sink the veil but zach time
the drill sunk into the cave
The United States army that conquered
i'll Mexico consisted in round nuabors
of 100, 600 men, and the cntirs loss did
not exceed 20 per cent, leaving go 900
men OF the average age of twenty eight
years to be discharged in 1917.
Tho late Duke OF Duc.iench speut
money on his estates wi,ha LIBERAL hand,
and also gave freely to general charities.
During long life hr hui m annual in.
come of about 81, ESQ 900. and yet the
left less than s., 5Co, COO III personality.
There have been five presidential
widowers in the White iiun g, Jefferson,
Jackson, Van Buren,, T.rl1r aid Arthur.
One was bachelor, AMI Harrison ncver
had the-wife there vt vi. Andrew Jobn.
sons wife wass MI invalid and his
daughters did the hoaors.
Oliver Cromwell was 10 less than
fortv-thrce wears G; ..,e wl,cu he first
embraced the military nr,f,ss',n; and
by force of genius win ut any master,
lie soon became IN pzce lent officer
though perhaps he E'v"r reached the
fame Of coEsum nate commander.
After much experimenting. DR..
Richardson has fouai Il Satisfactory
means OF causing pajoiess death. and
!aa introduced it mo tie Home for
Lost Dogs in LonGo,'. The animals to
be killed are placai i acJan',ar charged
with mixture Of carb8n;c oxiia and
chloroform vapor, when they TRANQUILITY
fall asleep and wake no more.
In the year 1902 tho canal connecting
the Cooper River with tia Sa1te, River,
South Carolina twenty-five Hiiet in
length, was completed, and boats passed
through it. It cost $500, 900. a sum, it
was Eaid, seven times greater than the
amount the province had sold for
saventy-two years before
Pavements made OF brick imnregnnted
at high temperature with asphalt are
found more durable for wear than
granite or compressed asphalt. By
driving out the air md water the bricks
take up fifteen or twenty per cent. of
bitumen they are then put endvays on
concrete bed with hot tar.
Charles Dunser, blacksmith Of
Leesville, Ohio, has male clock, most
ly with blaoksmith's tools, which has
excited considerable comment in his
neighborhood. 1t is principally OF steel,
and in glass case so the movement can
be seen, and give the time in eleven
cities, striking the hours and quarters,
and is seven feet high.
The Mississippi Valley produces about
one-half the cotton crop of the United
States, two-thirds the grain, nearly all
the sugar, and q considerable portion of
the hay, potatoes, tobacco, rice, fax,
hemp, beans, peas, millet. ETC., of the
dairy, orchard, forest and market. garden
products, besides most Of the petroleum
and great deal of the iron, steel and
other minerals.
Native cooks in the East Indies claim
value in the following method Of dis
tinguishing the edible fungus mushroom
from the poisonous varieties that re-
semble it. A silver coin is thrown into
water which boils the mushrooms. II
the metal retains its color the mush-
rooms are pronounced safe, but if it
turns black with coating Of rust the
plants are condemned.
Two gentlemen hired a large store in
Kansas City and succeeded in getting
about $4,000 worth OF dry goods con.
signed to them. Then the doors were
closed and peoples curiosity was satis.
fed by seeing bit of Grape on the out
side, supposed to be on account of the
death of daughter of one OF the pro.
prietors. Finally, however creditor
became impatient, and the stora was
broken into End found empty. All the
goods had gone and so had tho two
partners
In 1893 an act was passed by The vir-
ginia Assembly, setting forth q royal
patent granted to Thomas Neale, to es-
tablish a pest in the Americ u colonies
for the transportation .,f .ett,,rs ara
packets at sucli rates as the plal.,is
should agree to give. The act author
lied rates Of postage, and The est, ;isii-
ment of postofice III every town i. tie
colony. Other colonies passed sin'jl:s,
acts, and colonial ra: fiji ~yetan..
very limited aid irisr:' Is '--'4,'
lished under the pai.'r'. i,.e ~ ~.
beginning of the l.,'s-a' q. ".. n
comfy