The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-26

1t is said that during the last twenty
years there has been taken from the
Sierra fofests on Lake Taboo and the
Truckee basin timber amounting in
value to $SO,000,000, and paid for at
the Virginia, Nevada, mines.
The United States has II 900 dentists,
who use a ton of gold and five tons of
other metals and make 100000 arti-
fetal teeth annually. Only one Amer
ican in eighty is found to have perfect
teeth, and one-third of the population
make more or less use of the artificial
product
A, GLIB at Bolton, England, is known
as the Wife Beaters' Club, and applies
its revenues to paying the costs and
fines Of members tried for thrashing
their wives. In a recent case it fur
nished $40 to defray the expenses of a
gentleman who had been amusing
himself by jumping on his helpmeet.
"A Methodist elder Of Fort Worth,
Tex, recently whipped a bully, and
the Methodist of that town thus ap-
preciatiyely describes the incident:
"The elder took him one square blow
between the lockers without stopping
his pace, and it took twelve rowdies,
three dippers of water and two quarts
of whisky to revive the patient and
get him off the grounds"
Korti, the headquarters of Gen.
Wolseley, is situated on the left bank
of the Nile, 1000 miles south from
Cairo. That point is just south of the
Big Bend in the Nile. which there
runs to the westward, turning soon,
however, to the northward. Ascend
ing the Nile from Korti, the direction
is northeast to Abu Hamed, where the
direction is again southerly.
One English clergyman has just de-
clared that he leaves house as soon
as he sees a novel in it, believing that
no spiritual good can be there effected;
while another has committed himself
to the statement. that the permission
given to the japanese to worship their
idols in the Japanese village now ex-
hibiting in London will bring down
the curses of heaven upon the city.
DR.. j. H. Roberts writes from Libe-
ria,l Africa, to the Boston Medical and
>Suryical Journal that he is convinced
thAt the medicinal herbs grown in GER
ta climates are especially adapted for
thu cure of diseases which prevail in
them, though they may be useless else
where. He finds the plants of Liberia
much more successful in African fever
than the best of drugs prepared ir
more highly civilized countries.
An agriculturist of Oakland, Cal, i:
making a determined effort to intro
duce the cultivation of tea in tha
State. He has over 1000 tea plants il
a very thriving condition. and wher
they arrive at the age of four years hi
will obtain Japanese labor and picl
and cure. He does not entertain ;
doubt of success. He has also a mum
Der of camphor trees that are growing
we'll.
Here is significant historical remi
niscence. Six hundred and ten year
before the Christian era Nechos, a kin,
of Egypt, attempted to make cana
between the Gulf of Arabia and tn
Mediterranean Sea. The essay wa
abandoned in the following year, afte
costing, according to Herodotus. tn
lives of $4,000 men. Another Egyp
tian canal, and the rights appertain
ing to it, seem likely to lead to tn
sacrifice of many more lives after tn
expiration of twenty-five centuries.
The New York Sun says much o
the fine comb honey exhibited in glas
boxes in New York city merely repre-
sents Yankee skill. The comb an,
the honey never saw bees. They wer
manufactured by human hands. tn
comb Of paraffine or beeswax and tn
honey, which is also false, blown in b,
machinery. Another kind of hone
which is put up in glass cups, with
small piece of comb in the centre, i
made from cane sugar. glucose or syr
up. We hope New York city will mo
nopolize all of this class of honey.
The Chinese in Colorado are likel
10 become partly civilized through tn
efforts put forth in their behalf b
philanthropists of Denver. A grea
many of the Chinese in that city al
tend Sunday-school, and night school
have lately been established wher
they are taught to read and write. !
teacher is required for every pupi
and each teacher must possess an in