The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-29
Items of Interest.

from his pocket small guide book and
offers to sell it for % cents,
The name of Arizona, the Sentinel OF
that Territory says, was not bestowed
through any poetic arrangements Of
Indian or Spanish name ; but is derived
from arid,s, dry, and Eouo, girdle or
belt.
Only four outlof the forty-six States
and Territories are now trying to pro-
hibit the sale of strong drink. Five
others have made the effort and aban-
doncd it. Eleven have stringent license
laws, and fourteen have never legisloted
on the subject.
Ship fires, 50 common an occurrence
al the port Of New Orems in the past,
rarely happen there now, The prohibi-
son Of smoking near cotton on the
wharveg and On shipboMi aud strict
Ia,oh kept over it have almost entirely
eliminated this evil.
At an egg-eating match at Peter
Borough, Canada, a short time since,
he man ate forty-one eggs and the
0th,r forty. The eggs We're raw and
'..'.-''. '-.~,'-' - haalsaE i" GROCERY store.
The basket was emptied, and the Win
ncr said he could east dozen more,
The floating gardens at Kashmire, in
Ea stern Asia, seem to be one of the
wonders OF the world. They cover an
g. &I&H Of water about nine miles in
ciYcuNl renee, and on = sub-soil of
gras ias and aquatic plants they brow
moons aad cucumbarS, and a crop is
rai'od of great Va ne
There is but one place in the United
States where gun Gotten is made. I'm
I'll six months ago the navy was obliged
to depend upon Eng and for al the gun
cotton used, but mandatory has been
erected at the torped station, Ne port,
ana now produces al that he required
for Sc going man-of-war and torpodoes.
Joaquin Miller writes that he has
found in New Orleans the noblest
yoman lie ever 81 g, and he processes to
have ''geon the world well" She was
I.orn to Noaltb, received careful cdu-
ton, travelled extensively in Europe.
and at length became poor. She now
keeps little shoe stole and orks with
her father and sister at making the
sock
Althon h iute has now assumed I'M
pcranca as an article Of commerce, Tie
first attempts to utilize its fibre were
no, made in Europe init 1SSE5, and il
vas only when the CGimear ar de-
pr:vcd England Of !{,ia2ion flax and
hemp that iute fibre became highly
vlu2d. The centre IT the trade in
l;rant Britain is Dund@,. OF late years
Germ ny has gone ,;Tse'y into it.
Forty years ago = pal i'll Emanuel
county, Go, sold his VIE for a jug Of
wh.skoy. Several days 'ater he was pre-
,natol with the lie Of ! man who hal
grown tired OF her the woman first
mentioned vas aft@Tw&ld traded + a
bu3lle' of corn Al! hands then settled
down in the same neig'ihor1ood, and
have lived there eyai 9;nce Their
de eenGant5 are among tie most re.
ypectol people of the county.
Some of the resea 'chc3 'ntely made by
Eng ISL explorers il re arl to deep-sea
beds have led to III" belief hat there IRE
no rough ridge, r}'tant chasms, hor
bare rock, and ih,,. s.io seA bottom at
great do;ths is no, elected by currents
CT strcams-evel b. ii So Of the mag
ntude of the Gulf Stream ia general
appearance rather resembling that Of
the American prairi@2, ana it il every
where covered by Q lijrJ Of mud,
"San Francisco s&jl3 Gn inhahjtlt
"has not been = clean city from the day
of its foundation. There is Oriental
dirt and Occidental iirt. It has come
to be foreign city. Nercha disc fills
the sidewalks, and in many = aces
crowds the pedestrian into the street.
Offal is thrown there. The six months
tradewinds of summer and the six
months rain are the two sanitary a,e Is
which keep watch and ward over The
city
Key West which has q popu alto of
IS, 900, is one Of the most peculiar cities
in the world. 1t has 10 chimneys, nc
show windows, no brick blocks no fine
buildings, no planning mills, no steam
mills, no machine shops no farmers
driving in with loaded teams, no coun.
try roads, no railroads, no raft e Of
machinery, no noise Of any kind, except
the beating of the waves against the
coral bound shore, and yet, for its SIZE,
does very large manufacturing and
shipping business,
The Japanese dentist does not trigiltel
his patient with an array OF a."a. i'll
struments. All of his operations i
sooth drawing are performed h. IL
thumb and forefnger of one hand III,
skill necessary to do this is on y Il ac
CURED after long practice, but once it il
obtained the operator is abe to extrac5
half dozen teeth in about thirty secnd
without once removing his fingers from
the patients mouth. The dentists eda
cation commences with the pu' ing out o
pegs which have been pressed into sol
wood it ends with the dra ing II har,
pegs which have been driven into al
oak plank with mallet. A ritter i
the Union Medical says that no huna'
jaw can resist the delicate but ro:.,ti!l
manipulations of the Japaneie dentist