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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
The Consumption Of Chocolate.

In 1879, $4,000 bags of cocoa beans
were imported into this country. Last
year the number reached $1,000. The
use of chocolate in confectionery is
very extensive, and as beverage it is
gaining on tea and coffee. We made
last year 100000 pounds, and use a
ton of sugar day. The best cocoa
beans me from Venezuela and Mexi-
co, the cheapest from San Domingo.
Only The finest sugars, mostly HaSanas,
can be used, as they must be ground.
Most of the machinery is imported,
though we have in use many improve.
ments on the French models The
present tariff discriminates against
American chocolates by taxing sugar
cents a pound, and while foreign
chocolates are admitted with only
cents pound duty we have to pay Il
cents to enter French markets,-Neli
York Tribune,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
Marriage.

One man can be a painter, another
an author; but only the conceited fool
thinks he can be everything. We are
obliged to unite with others in order to
fully develop our Individuality
Among the many differences in hui
man nature the most obvious is that
of sex. There are certain things in
which man is deficient and women ex-
eel, and vice versa. Man is strong
and woman weak. He is fitted for
muscular effort and continuous activi-
ty, and he should take the lead in
gaining the means of support, while
she supplements his efforts by wisely
administering the household affairs.
Man is brave. that is, he can overcome
obstacles; woman is fair. None but
the brave deserves the fair" and none
but the fair deserve the brave. The
relation is knighthood and lady-hood.
The woman who possesses neither
beauty of form and feature nor beauty
of character, is unsexed. Man is self
affirming, woman is self-1enying. He
must enter into the struggle against
competitors, while she, standing apart
from this can cultivate sympathy and
tenderness. She is made stronger by
contact with him, while he is softened
by her influence. We judge him by
what he does and her by what she is
her smiles, her movements, her
ways. Customs and usuages have
their firmest support in her; she is
the guardian Of religion. The holiest
relation which man has evolved is the
home. The husband and wife should
grow together, sharing prosperity, Joy
and sorrow. They should be intellect
ual companions. ONLY of late has it
been admitted that woman has intellect
and is not merely a creature of senti-
ment. The real fact is that mans inte-
lect is fitted for generalization. woman's
for specialization. Between these two
poles lie all art, science and morality.
Egoism or altruiSm is not the true
basis of life, but to live for the unity
for the highest development of the
other and of self.-Professor Felia
| Adler.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
Why Hoosier Owls have Stumped Toes.

Why Hoosier Owls have Stumped Toes.
Representative Cabbage will be re-
membered in Indiana annals for all
times to come for his Owl bill-a brave,
but Intellectual effort to protect the
barnyard bird from the savage bird of
night. Years ago, Uncle Jimmy
Frazier, of Pike township, this county,
was, like Representative Cabbage, the
unrelenting foe of the owl. He
bothered not with statutory amend
ments. He pondered and as he pom
dered, his chickens diminished and the
owls increased.
One day a happy thought came to
him. He took down his scythe, and all
one long summer afternoon played a
long symphony upon it with an old
fashioned blue milestone. When he
had finished. it was Of razor-edge keen
ness. Placing a ladder against the
chicken-house, he nailed the scythe
high aloft, its keen edge skyward-a
most inviting resting place. The old
gentleman had calculated rightly, and
half hatful of owls toes were found
next morning under the scythe. This
continued for several days, fresh crop
rewarding the early riser each morn
ng. After awhile some owl, wiser
than the rest, must have discovered the
practical joke. At any rate their visits
ceased, though to this day all the
elderly Pike township owls are distin-
guished by their stump toes.-Indian-
! )cpolts Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

Popular customs are long-lived.
Usages whose origin is hid in tho
mists of antiquity, and whose primi
tive meaning has long been lost, are
still practised by force of habit among
the populations of Europe and Ameri
ca. Many of these popular customs
have been carried from the far east to
the far west by that irresistible west
ward drift of the peoples which has
now been going on for thousands OF
years. Mr.. G. Lansing, of Alexan-
dria, Egypt, contributes to the last
number of the HebreaO Student an
oriental explanation of the occidental
custom of throwing the slipper after
a newly married couple. Mr.. Lansing
writes that the custom of throwing a
slipper at another, or striking him
with it, is still practised in the east as
sign of remuneration. A father, for
instance, who would renounce his son
after he has been convicted of being
a wicked son, will, before witnesses,
take off his shoe, and, if near enough,
strike him with it, or, if more distant,
throw it at him. Recently we have
had three cases of Moslem converts to
christianity, whose relatives and CO.
religionists have, in thi, manner, sig
nifed their remuneration and cutting
off of all relations with with the per-
verts from their fate. The oriental
shoe being usually soft slipper, is
not thrown as missile, or weapon, for
the purpose of causing bodily pain. ..
This explains the throwing of slip
per after the bride as she leaves her
fathers house. 1t is saying to her in
a playful way: BE off with you. We
renounce you, and will have nothing
more to do with YOU" Mr.. Lansing
explains in the same way the taking
of the shoe from the foot in the case Of
the kinsman who renounced his CLAIM
to the inheritance of Ellmelich ( Ruth
iv., 81, the loosing of the shoe being
merely legal formula of remuneration
which drew its meaning from popular
lore. Tha modern Arabs, instead Of
throwing the shoe, sometimes use thu
expression, "My shoe at you, in toker
contemptuous renunciation.-Sunda
School Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A German medical paper gives an
account of series Of careful expert
ments made in the Prussian army as
to the utility of serving schnapps to
soldiers in active service. After pro-
longed trials, the army surgeons aban-
doned the use of spirit, and give tea or
coffee in place of it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

An expert base ball player tried to
catch ball thrown from the top of the
Washington monument. but was un-
able to hold 1t. So great was its We
locity that it dented the ground like a
cannon ball. A ball thrown from such
height is supposed to exert force of
some forty pounds on striking the
ground.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

The Maria Theresa dollar is the only
coin known in Abyssinia. Cloth and
bars of rock salt. ten inches long by
two inches wide and deep, bound with
reed. serve as their ordinary means
of barter. A recent traveller says he
made everlasting friendship with vii
Iage chief by making him present of
an empty Worcester sauce bottle, the
glass stopper appearing to be source
Of delight and comfort to him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

The Mormons, it appears, are pro-.
selyting with some success in Georgia..
and have instituted a new colony in
the State of Sonora, Old Mexico, as
the result, it is said, "of the severe
treatment of Mormons in Utah by the
United States authorities" This is.
of course, not to be taken as an indi-'
cation of purpose to abandon Utah,
but it may, perhaps, be considered as
evidencing feeling on the part of the
Mormons that they will be be obliged
to obey the law, and the laws may be
made much more effective. 1t does
not, however, imply any relaxation of
purpose in the way of obtaining con-
verts; nor does it, perhaps, any dis
position not to add to the Mormon
population of Utah. All that has
been said and done SC far, has been of
moderate influence upon the Mormons;
what more and nexs is to be done,
Congress has to decide. The failures
thus far show clearly enough how
difficult the task to eradicate by law
the monstrous evil of polygamy. 1t
is special case, and will eventually be
dealt with according to special mea-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

Teaching school for Indian boys
in New Mexico is attended with some
Inconvenience. The other day sew
eral Apache braves visited a school in
Albuquerque where their sons were
pupils, full Of wrath and whisky.
They wanted to clean out the whole
establishment because they had heard
that the Indian lads were occasionally
punished. And the only way to pacify
them was to get them so drunk that
they were helpless.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

A writer in Science, discussing the
subject of rainfall in Kansas, finds that,
while this has increased 20 per cent in
the eastern part of the State since its
occupation by the white settlers, west
ern Kansas has little increase of rainfall
to boast of and little to hope for. He
greatly doubts, indeed, whether half of
the State, lying outside the immediate
track of vapor-laden winds can ever
have rainfall adequate to maintain
successful agriculture.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

Three thousand visitors year 60
through the Mammoth Cave in Ken
tucky, but it is expected the number
will be largely increased this year, ow-
ing to increased travel South to the New
Orleans Exposition. The cave is on
the line of the Louisville and Nash
vile railway, but ten miles from the
nearest station. The cost of stopping
over, including moderately extensive
exploration of the cave, is about $40
each person..
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

A romantic young waiter-girl at a
hotel in Ontario, Canada, came near
losing her life the other day by trying
foolish experiment. She had heard
an old saying that any girl who swal-
lowed raw chickens heart would
have for "a husband the first male per-
son she shook hands with and, believ-
ing the proverb, attempted to swallow
a chickens raw heart, but failed. The
heart stuck in her throat and would
not move either way, down or up. A
doctor was called in and arrived only
in season to save the deluded girl from
an untimely death by choking
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

The manufacture Of silk goods was
originally confined to China. The
Chinese carefully guarded their secret
for long time. Eventually two Per-
sian monks, living in China. discover
ed the method Of rearing silk worms
They carried away some eggs hidden
in hollow cane, and started the silk
industry at Constantinople. From
there it spread to various parts Of
Europe, but the business was chiefly
confined to Italy. A law of that
country decreed death to whoever
should betray the secret of manufac-
ture. John Lombe, an Englishman,
went to Italy and worked in silk
mill until he learned the art. His
motive was finally discovered, and he
fled to his own country, where he In
troduced the silk manufacture. This
was in the beginning Of the eighteenth
century. The industry was brought
to the United States from England,
and now this country stands third in
its production of silk goods, its last
annual production amounting to
thirty-fve millions of dollars.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

The College of the City of New York
has workshop, one of the first of its
kind established in the country, the
results obtained from it justifying the
time and expense given it. Students
are given three lessons week. In the
first year they learn to fashion wood
to any required form or dimensions, to
make joints, veneer. finish and polish.
In the second year metal working
tools are used. forging, chilling, sold
ering and finishing iron and brass, and
turning wood and metals is begun.
The third year the making of more
complicated pieces of machinery is
learned.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
PRICE THREE CENTS.

winter the fires are kept up and few
matches are needed. Now, the non
use of, say ten matches day for four
months in perhaps 100000 houses
wifi alone cause a duh time in the
match business, for it will amount to
5OoOO00OO0, to say nothing about
those not used by the men. But the
country people do not cause the only
losses in the trade; for there are less
used among city people in winter than
summer"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

A Cleveland paper has been inter-
viewing the clergy of that city as to
the propriety of preaching short SER
mons. One of them, the Rev. G. L.
Bowling. thus expresses himself: 81
think sermons and prayers ought to be
the shortest distance between two
points. When / started out to preach
my father said to me: George it is a
great deal better to leave off just when
everybody wants you to 60 on, than it
is to keep on till everybody gets
spiritual dyspepsia As the years
have gone by they have only confirmed
my estimate of his good judgment, so
that am fully PERSUADED that. save in
very exceptional instances, whatever
else sermon is about, it ought to be
about half an hour. l know men
otherwise gifted, who are failures in
the ministry, because they hit the nail
on the head the first time-and then
keep on hammering till they split the
board"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19

A large dealer in lucifer matches
says the dull season in this line of
business is between December l and
March 8. He adds: "The population
of the United States is stated at about
55.000.000 persons. Of these only 20
100000 live in cities, leaving 35,OOO,-
900 in country places. During the
summer time the men work in the
fields. and when they want to light
their pipes they use match, In the
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-19
Che Londonderry Sitter,

AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER,
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
PROM
Sitter of1ce, So Londonderry, Vt.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
Villas Inquiring Into Things.

A Washington despatch to the Phila-
delphia Times, dated August %, says
When Postmaster General Villas went
West last week he took occasion to talk
civil service reform to some of his en-
ployes. Soon after leaving the city Oh
the b fillmore and Ohio Road he donned
a long linen buster and took seat in
the mail car, where several men were at
work. He made himself acquainted in
few pleasant words and then proceeded
to ask multitude of questions about the
details of the work. He rode for many
miles in this way and before leaving the
car told the clerks that they might con-
slider their tenure of Office secured 80
long as they did their work and did not
NEEDLE Extensively in politics. This class
of the government service, with four or
five thousand clerks does not come under
the civil service law but has civil ser
vice of its own, founded on a knowledge
of the work and ability to perform its
clerks being appointed for probation
airy term of six months. After his visit
to the postal car Mr.. Villas told gentle
men with him that he considered the
railway mail service to be one of the best
conducted departments under the gov
eminent.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
Mr.. WHITNEY'S EXPERIMENT.
How the Secretary of the Navy SatiSfac-
toriIly Demonstrated Il Fact.
Ecnn, In pltLNLlILru

How the Secretary of the Navy Satisfac-
torIIIy Demonstrated Il Fact.
From The r.!t&bpg Post.
Secretary of the Navy Whitney is an
old New Yorker, and so familiar with
the city.s characteristics. He stood in
the corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
in light conversation with the Secretary
of tho Interior Lamar and the topic of
conversation was confidence robbery
that had been perpretrated upon guest
of the hotel that day. Whitney main
tanned that, while some men were aston
ishlngly gulible, the majority were uE
reasonably cautious.
"ro illustrate my point he said,
"let my young friend Joe Barnard, here,
offer ten-dollar bill for one dollar. and
not man in this corridor will accept
the Offer
The experiment was at once made.
Joe was good looking, well dressed
fellow, with nothing in his aspect to suy-
gest roeuery. Whitney handed crisp,
new ten-doliar note to him and he set on
his round.
Il beg your pardon, sir" he remarked
politely to General Dan Sickles, who
was stumping round on a leg and
crntch, ''hut will you please give me one
dollar for this temp and he held the
note SO close to Sickles' eyes that it's
gcnuineness ought to have been visible.
A half-sarcastic, half-angry grin came
over the Generals face, but he deigned
no reply and contemrtuouslp tnrued
away. The proffer was soberly made to
nino men, none being witnesses of the
others refusal, and eveiy time with the
sams result. Nobody would buy $40
with 81. All decided on the spur of the
moment that they were the objects of a
swidleG's attention. The endangered
note came safely back to Whitney and
the group laughed over its adventure
save Sickles, who was called i'll to be
leased for letting so good bargain slip.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
He Went.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Mr. Mont
gomery, the new Commissioner of Pa
tents while engaged in Cunning the ras-
Gals out, deeaptated messenger in his
bureau who had been i'll office for sever,
al years without doing much of anything
to earn his salary. Upon receiving his
discharge he made great ado over it.,
and insisted that the axe had fallen on
the wrong neck. He was Democrat,
he said, and had always been Demo-
crat ; had voted the ticket straight at
every election, and stood by his party
even in the face of discharged by Re-
publican Administration. Mr.. Mont
romery looked him over and then called
for the letters of recommendation upon
which he was originally appointed.
"You are Democrat, are you p
eyes SIR" replied the man.
"And always have been?'
"Always."
"Then you are discharged for false
hood and for obtaining an office under
false pretcncos. In this application for
appointment filed five years ago you
state that you are Republican, no ono
but Republicans endorsed you, and every
one of them commends you as faithful
and useful member of that party. You
can 60"
There are good many department
clerks turning up who have always been
Democrats, but this example has assisted
to make such pretensions unpopular.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
THE PANIC SPREADING.
Fear Extends to All Glasses i'll Ma, scIlIes-
10000 Deaths III Spain.

Fear Extends to All Glasses i'll Ma, srIiIes-
10000 Deaths III Spain.
MADRID. August 25.-The total number
of deal lis from cholera III Spain since the
outbreak of the disease has been -, :'47,
out of total of 1S7,565 cases. There
were 4. 101 new cases of cholera and 433
deaths from the disease reported through
ont Spain ycstesday. King Alfonso has
arranged to visit the cholera hospitals in
this city to morrow.
ToULoN, August 25.-Thirty four per-
sous died from cholera in this city yes
terday.
WASHINGTON. August 25-United
States Consul Mason, to day c..hled Srcre-
tary Of State Blyard, that in MarseiileS
there had been Il daily average of fifty
three cholera deaths during Tie past five
days.
MARsErLLEs. August 25.-S;xty-scven
deaths from cholera occurred here yes
tcrday. The cholera panic has now ex-
tended to all classes in the city and all
who can get away are rrsurting to flight
Deaths from cholera have occurred in
many Of the towns and villages in the
Department of the Rhone In Lancon
eight fatal cases of cholera have been re-
ported; in Grams. three, and in Saint
ChamaS. two. Besides these, several
cases of cholera exist in Istres, Marignane,
AK and Aries. 1t is also reported that
fonr persons have died from cholera in
Sisteron, Bosses Alps.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
CHOLERA's DEsOLATING PROGRESS.
The Daath-roII in Spain-Alarming In
crease in Marseiiles.

hS SPhih-<h
crease in MarseiiIes.
Anti German demonstrations, similar
to tho one in Madrid, were made in
every one Of the Spanish provinces on
Monday last. A Cabinet council was
held to-day to consider the relations of
Spain and Germany, growing out Of the
Carolines troubles. King Alfonzo who
has returned to Madrid from La Granja,
presided. 1t was officially announced
that the reply from Germany to the first
Spanish note of protest proposed an ami
cable discussion of the questions at issue.
Spain then sent fresh tel esrams to Ger
many, energetica!ly. protesting against
the action Of Germany, in rcspons to
which that government to day telegraph
ed 4 reply, explaining that its action had
been animated altogether by friendly
motives and that Germany regarded the
affair as unworthy of interrupting the
ancient amity between the two nations.
The reply further explains that Germany
seeing no evidences of Spanish domina-
ton in the Carolnes. thought the islands
had been virtually abandoned. The Ger
many government, however, does not
mention whether any of the islands have
been actually occupied.
The total number of deaths from
cholera in Spain since the outbreaks of
the disease has been Y, BAT out of a total
of Isl, 500 cases.
The cholera is perceptiably increasing
here every hour, and the situation is al
ready alarming. Within the past forty
eight hours two hundred new cases have
been admitted to the Pharo Hospital,
and during the same period two hundred
deaths from the disease have been re-
ported within the city limits, besides
fifty in the southern subul BIS. Forty
four deaths from cholera were reported
in this city to-day. At the Pharo Hospi-
tai eight patients died, four were dis
charged and ten were admitted. The
municipal authorities have voted the
provisional sum of $4,000 francs to re-
lieve pressing needs.
There is one case of cholera ashore
here, and two cases on q coal hulk lying
in the harbor.
Fifty persons have died here during
the past forty-eight hours from cholera.
There have been twenty six deaths from
cholera here in the past twenty four
hours. AT Hycres there have been four
deaths from cholera on board the French
squadron.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-08-29
THE CECIL WING, ELzTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 1885

the intention of the administration to
show by the experiedce of the next three
months that the Bland dollar is one of
most expensive experiments civilized
nation has ever made. 1t is its intention
to prove t" the people, to Congress and
to the silver men themselves that the
execution of the law and the issue of the
dollars in quantities contemplated by the
coinage act wolves the people and the
government in expense so heavy and in
convenience so great that it cannot and
will not be tolerated. According to this
Official this question has never been
fairly presented. The Treasery Depart
ment has always conspred and cnnnived
to project the pesple from the effects of
the coinage law. The new administra-
ton can ony hope to contest the ques
ton more successfully than its pretlcces-
sors by letting the people fully realize
the enormity of an unjust and burden
some system.