The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-26
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Philadelphia was built ll5 years ago.
Siberian cats now crowd the Maltese
from tho warm corner oi tho hearth
stone rug,
Lady Burdptt-Coutts owns tho small
ost pony In the world. llois five years
old and thirteen inches high.
A novel Kentucky insurance scheme
is one that guarantees married men in-
demnity in ease their wives olopc.
Tho egg crop Of Maine is said to be
more valuable than her apple crop.
There are 100000 hcns ia the State,
The romans Of Napoleon Ill, aud of
the Prince Imperial are, it is said, to
be removed from Chlselhurst TO Alder
shot.
The now President OF Vassar Col
lege, Samuel w. Duncan, is cookbook
ing, only AZ, and has y large private
fortune.
Lieut.. Schwatka and Engineer Mel
ville are still enthusiastic in their de-
sire to attempt another North Pole ex-
pedition,
".Tho custom OF COMPRISING tho
foreheads of infants is fast dying out. "
writes 4 correspondent among the Flat
heads, grimly
Professor Turner. anatomist, Of
Edinburgh, is said to receive the largest
salary attached to any proscssorship,
100000 per annum.
I and Gam
eral Robert f.. Withers, OF Virginia, is
six feet, and stout and gray, and is an
active lawyer with large practice,
A lady of Boston wishes TO know why
some entcrprising boot6lack docs not
establish Il fitting place where ladies
can have their boots BACKED on rainy
days.
There are no professional Wine
tasters in, America. They are numor-
Gus in France, and their salaries range
from $1,000 TO $4,000, according to
ability.
A lady of Brunswick, GA, has q bed,
the feathers OF which were picked from
flock of geese during the revolution
airy war. The feathers arc just rs soft
and downy rs ever.
A New York politician, mistaking
Secretary Endicott for Mr.. Manning
the other day, referred in the course OF
conversation with him to THAT Bos-
ton ossifcation Endicott.'
A New York firm has split 1900
trade dollars and turned each dollar
into pocket match-boX-a holiday
article TO catch tho eye OF persons in
search of cheap things to give.
The smallest book in the world, "
as the Boston J0urAGI learns, sis hall
the size of Il postage stamp, and is au
edition OF the sacred book OF the Slkhs,
belonging to the Earl of Duffcrn. "
Mr.. Yates says that the American
book most likely to be in request in
London this autumn is the life of Mr..
Lonofcllow, by his brother, the clergy.
man, so well known in Philadelphia.
There are 2,400 stables of cows in
New York, the milk of which is sold
in the city; ard these COWS from the
time they enter the stable, until nc
longer able TO give milk, never SEE
grass.
A Huntingdon Spiritualist states thai
his twelvc-ycar-old daughter, though
ignorant OF the German language, re-
Gently spoke iluently in that tongue
while being possessed with the spiri
Of 4 German.
According 10 decision OF the lows
Supreme Court, hotclkeepcr who re
cciycs guests while knowing that there
is contagious disease in his house il
liable for damages 10 any guest who
may contract the disease.
The Norwich men who arrived il
New York recently from a foreign por
with two thoroughbred dogs were sur.
priScd to find that the duty on thu
animals represented seven times thei
value. They left the dogs on the boat
Melbourne is cited rs proof that thu
star OF empire has taken trip 10 tn,
southwark Tho first house there was
put up in 1885, and now there is
handsome city with fine parks, anc
public institutions. and 100000 in-
habitants.
The coyote has changed his habits ii
not his skin, according to Western
correspondent, one of them having
freed man and hept him there until
rescued by a party of hunters. Hither-
to the coyote has been regarded as per-
fectly harmless,
A pickle famine is threatened this
winter. The present supply at the
East is set down at $4,000, 000-one-
half only of what is needed for the
Eastern trade. The Western crops
have suffered, and heavy advances in
prices are looked for.
The body of the first Napoleon,
buried at the lnvaides in Paris, is in.
closed in five collins-tho first in tin,
and the others in mahogany, lead,
ebony, and oak. All is placed in a
saroophagus OF Finland granite--a pres
ent from Russia, The tomb was COM
plcted in 1861, and cost $500
francs.
+ mathematician citizen Hercules
Wilson, OF Mcintosh, GA, could give
Polhlo " eol'eSo SiduutlcS WIZ WaHt
places in the along-coast CUSTOM
houses. Mr. Wilson is a representa-
tive in the Georgia legislature, but
says he could do better ut home, as he
can make from 50 to IS day by lay
ing brick.
The man who succeeded so well in
wooing the Puritan maiden Priscilla
had vigorous blood. William Dean
Howells says that when lie went to an
old house in Duxbury, Mass, the other
day, he found therein four generations
OF John Aldcns--ranging from the tot
tcring great-grandfathcr to chubby,
rosy little lad of 4.
ARENAS Martin, the newly-ap-
pointed head OF the computing bureau
of the coast survey, has received hon.
orary degrees from several leading ed
ucational institutions in this country
and England in recognition Of his
achievements in Mathematics, and is
well ycrsed in other depart mcnts of
science and general literature. He
also edits and pnblishcs-sctling the
type with his owii hauds-a valuable
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