The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

n Missouri physician expresses the
opinion that hundreds of people are
buried alive every year, and that an
average of 3 out of every 100 corpses
might be resuscitated.
A hotel is to be built in Pittsburg,
Penn, seven stories high, with the
kitchen on the top floor, and electric
fire escapes in every room. The
escape is to be operated from the
office. BY touching a button there
every guest is simultaneously aroused,
every window thrown open, and tiexi-
ble ladder 1oosened that reaches to the
ground.
The New York Tribune says: "Per-
sons who read the death notices in the
newspapers from day to day must
observe that whenever the weather
grows suddenly cold the mortality
among old people greatly increases.
This occurs so often that it is hardly
a coincidence. Indeed, it seems to
bear out fully the assertion of many
physicians, that the secret of long life
after three-score years and ten is to
keep warm"
Some of the researches lately made
by English explorers in regard to deep
sea beds, have led to the belief that
there are no rough ridges, abrupt
chasms nor bare rocks, and that the sea
bottom at great depths is not affected
by currents or streams-even by those
of the magnitude of the Gulf stream
its general appearance rather resemb-
ling that of the American prairies.aud
it is everywhere covered by kind
of mud.
According to DR.. Dolan's work on
hydrophobia, physicians may convey
to their patients reasonable hope of
almost perfect immunity from the
disease after three months have elapsed
from the time the bite was inflicted.
The danger is thought to be lessened
with every month that passes, $50 that
after year the physician may afford a
scientific certainty of the patients re-
covery." Absolute quietute, or "seda-
tion," and the use of the Turkish bath
are the measures chiefly recommended
as preventative treatment.
The bulk of our borax comes from
San Bernardino county. California,
and the price has heretofore been
governed by San Francisco firm that
several years ago purchased the vast
borax fields in the Death Valley, and
has since expended thousands of dol
lars in the effort to maintain control
of the monopoly. Within few
weeks, however, a vast borax ledge
has been discovered on the Mohave
River, near the line of the Southern
California Railway, which is very
large, and assays fifty-four per cent
of pure borax of lime. The discovery
will break the corner in borax, and, it
is said, Immediately lower the price.
There isn't a leaf of tobacco grown
on the Island of Key West 1t all
comes from Cuba. and is manufactur.
ed into cigars, which ought for all
reasons to be as good as those OF
Havana, but for some mysterious
cause they are not. There is sup
posed to be some fragant potency in
the air of Havana which gives cigars
a flavor they can get in no other
locality, but what it is and why its
charm does not exist elsewh here neither
the tobacconist nor meteorologst can
explain. Tobacco grown from the
same stock, manufactured by the same
men in the same way, has different
flavor, or bouquet, as they call it. if
rolled into cigars in Key West from
that it has if done up in Havana
The Philadelphia Press is authority
for the following: "a fashionable
Chinese lunch consists of little bits Of
cold chicken with sauce, little bits OIL
hot chicken boiled to rags, morsels oil
pork with mushrooms, fragments ol
cold duck with some other sort ol
fungus. watery soup, scraps of pigs
kidneys with boiled chestnuts, very
coarse rice, picked cucumber, garlic
and cabbage, patty of preserved
shrimps, all in infnitesimal portions
so that, but for the plentiful supply
of rice, hungry folk would find it
hard to appease the inner wolf. AL
these are eaten with the deceptiv,
chOpsticks which are as easy to ust
as two Faber lead pencils. Tiny cup;
of rice wine, followed by more tea