The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-04-02
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TOPICS OF THE DAY,

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A Partisan paper has been making
some researches into the number OF
gaming houses and gambling clubs in
the capital of Civilization" and the
amount OF money that changes hands
In them. The results are startling,
There are twenty.four of these places
In Paris, and from $30,00o,OOO to s35.-
ooo,oOO is computed to have been ! s
there in the past five years. The mili
mum profits of the banks in the clubs
are put down at $1,000 a day.
1t is thought in Peru that they will
before long be able to ship to the
United States the far-famed fruit
known as the chirimoya a species of
custard apple, which the Peruvians
declare to be the most delicious pro-
duct OF nature. A theologian in Lima
once expressed the opinion that the
chlrlmoya must have been the forbid
den fruit of the Garden of Eden, and
lie did not wonder, therefore, that
Adam and Eve were tempted to eat it.
experiments recently made with
view to determining the highest tenn
perature at which fishes can exist in
water, showed that no sign of languor
was evident until the water reached
50 degrees. At 80 degrees the perch
gave out, then, successfully, the roach,
salmon, minnow, gudgeon, dace, COM
mon tench, gold tench. and carp, the
latter holding out until 81 degrees. All
were revived with brandy but one dace
which died either under the hot water
or brandy application.
a writer on English gypsies says that
the hedgehog is their favorite animal
food, and it is cooked in peculiar man.
ner. The animal having been stunned
by a heavy blow, slit is cut into the
skin the whole length of the back; it
Is then enveloped in coating of clay,
about half an inch thick, after which
it is placed in hole in the ground and
fire made over it. When the clay is
well baked, it is taken out and broken.
but the heat has caused the spines to
adhere firmly to the case, and so the
body comes out without the skin.
One of the strangest peoples with
whom the missionary has to do are the
Falashas of Ethiopia. They are black
Hebrews. about 100000 in number,
living west of Jordan, who have as
their holy writings the old testament
in an Ethiopic version, and who still
rigldly adhere to the Mosaic ceremonies
and laws. They are the children of
Hebrew immigrants, who, in the time
ofthe great dispersion, settled in Abys-
sinia and married wives of that ma
tlon "a thing not strange, as the Ethi-
opians are Semitic in nationality and
language.
The New York Times declares that
ut is no part of a farmers business to
make cider brandy. or, as it is CON- :
monty called, 'applejack.' The farmers
office properly ends with making the
cider; the making of brandy is the {
business of distiller. But it is well
that farmers who become distillers S
should be warned by case in which &
farmer came to grief through max t
ing cider brandy and neglecting the c
requirements of the United States q
revenue law in regard to keeping strict 9
account of his sales of the fiery stuff c
The law compels farmers who 60 into C
this business to record every sale, how. 4
ever small, or take the risk of fine or v
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Rag disinfection is carried on in an n
box, into which each bale of a.
rags is drawn by means of five screws, +,
which at the same time make five per- h
from end to end Of the bale. ,,
'uperheated steam is injected through h
he screws, which are hollow and per- h
GRATED with holes which permit Jets n
If steam to penetrate through the rags ii
n every direction. An escape in the II
upper part of the box is provided with h,
bath, for the purpose of intercepting a,
he passage of any disease germ into p
he air. Most germs of life are killed Al
It heat of 2l2 or 2l5 degrees, but the y,
team employed in this process is raised
o 1902. An exposure of four or five
minutes here heats the bale so that it
axes two hours for it to fall below the Ill
ermicide point of 2l20. '"
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The minds of mesmerists will be Oil
disquieted by clever in ct
ention lately brought out at Paris by Tn
,r. Ochorowicz. By means of this 81
tile instrument the inventor asserts m
hat it is possible to discover the hyp- nj
otic propensities of any individual. oN
his is done by putting a finger b
trough tubular magnet, the edges III
which have been covered by piece In
f soft iron. After two minutes the pl
niger is withdrawn, and if the patient II
mesmrric subject, symptoms such M
5 involuntary movement, numbness "
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