The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-15
Items OF Interest.

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Der plates was disc cred by n Talahas
zee Fla, man while digging a WELL
The total production Of cigars in thil
country, as estimated by one of thu
largest manufactures, is about 3, 900, 900,
600 year.
The scent OF sassuias is sail to be de
9tructive TO grain weevils, A few leaves
VI 1t scattered through the grain bius
will, it is claimed, destroy the weevils,
A curiosity for the museums is said &c
have been produced in Nebraska by
cutting oil the ears of calf AMI quickly
adjusting q pair which had been re.
moved from mule.
1t does not seem to follow that in or.
der to be long lived we must have long
lived ancestors Sir Moses Mon;efiore,
aged one hundred, states that his father
died at forty-four years.
Recent decisions i'll Illinois are to the
effect that liquor seller cannot shield
himself behind the plea that he did not
know his customer was drunk or n
minor but he must know that Ire is
sober, OF OF age, as the case may be-
Vermont which had almost 100000
children IN her common schools in 1910,
has now less than 70, 600 children in
item, though the number of those of
the population under 20 years of age is
only five per cent. less now than in 1910.
CNmpanini, i'll his rich retirement in
Italy, is a cattle-raiser, wine.maker,
miller, silk-grower, tenor singer, Sum
day-school teacher and farmer-exhibi.
ting vast versatility not particularly
characteristic Of Cumpanini in his opera
days.
Paper from the Yucca, hairy plant
found III Arizona, New Mexico, and
Lower California, is becoming popular
III Great Britain. 1t is readily bleached
and has q fibre almost as strong as hemp.
1t can be manufactured at about the
same cost as paper made from mixed
cotton and linen rags.
In recent sermon at st. Paups Ion.
don, Canon Liddon told story of the
late Sir Robert Peel with quiet dignity
ordering his carriage when at dinner
parry Christianity was denied, saying
TINT 9 W&2S sorry to retire. but that he
W. s. Il Christian.
According to n Vulgar error. current
II gone times, the elephant was sup.
? i to have no joints, notion which
Is said to have been first recorded from
addition by Ctesias, the Cnidian. Sir
Thomas Browne has entered largely into
his superstition, arguing from reason,
anatomy and general analogy with other
anir'als the absurdity of the error.
About 400 streets and $4,000 houses
were reduced to ashes by the great Lon
lon fire of 1856. The city was rebuilt
Il very little time, and care was taken
% make the streets wider and more reg.
liar than before. London became much
moro healthy after the fire. The plague
which used to break out twice or thrice
very century almost entirely disap.
oeared.
Canadian merchants and manufacture
rs who have large mails save q third in
heir postage expenses, it is said, by
sending their mail matter IL bundles by
EXPRESS to the nearest Post Office on the
United States side of the boundary line,
vhero they mail it at the two-cent rate.
whereas they would have to pay three
'ents if the matter were mailed on tho
,ther side.
Lace is lavishly worn again, but in
bis century the demand for it is con.
ined to women, whereas i'll the sever
zenith and eighteenth centuries men,
90, expended huge sums on ruf1es and
In 1890 the expenditure of
VILLAIN III. for lace was $S,O15; in
G94, nearly $4,000, in 1895, nearly
$4,000. Queen Anne also lavished
aoney on Mechlin and Brussels.
The place where William Tell shot the
pple from his sons head-proviied the
Incident ever really took place-is now
allied Altorf, and is one mile from the -
cad Of Lake Luzerne The site of the
rec under which, Schiller says the boy
TODD is marked by huge square monu-
lent six feet high, the sides of which
re dorned with paintings that are more
1ggestive than artistic. On the spot
here Tell stood is large white statute
f the Swiss patriot in the act of draw.
lg his bow
There are in the United States 5O,O17
ost-ofices. Of these ., 1928 are known
9 first, second and third class respec- i
vely, and are filled by Presidential ap. |
ointment, confirmed by the Senate. y
Tie remaining 1904 are, as fourth +
lass offices, filled by the Postmaster $
ieneral, without consulting either the s
resident or the Senate. They include q
Il offices where the postmasters receive g
Il annual compensation, exclusive of /
leir commission on the money order 9
usiness of their Offices, of less than G
/ 600 per annum. :
Several boxes of lozenges, intended '
or firm of wholesale druggist at Ches. =
er, England, were recently stolen by j,
ONE lads who could not read the direc- :
ons as to how the sweet meats were to
9 taken. After sucking diligently at =.
,eir prize for half an hour each boy :.
egan to feel deadly sick, and soon !
very one of them became insensible.