The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-12
PRICE THREE CENTS.

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which has factories in Cologne and
other German cities, produces over
$500 tons of dynamite annually. In
Great Britain and Ireland three facto-
ries turn out about 2000 tons Of the
explosive annually. and smaller con-
Germs in England, France, Germany.
Italy and Spain produce nearly 1000
tons more. A ton of dynamite in
Europe is worth about $3.50, although
at one time during the past year the
price reached as low notch as $3.50
The manufacture Of the explosive is
controlled by strong commercial as
sociation whose members regulate the
price to suit themselves. Since the
recent explosions in London the dyna-
mite kings have seen fit to increase the
price of their output from $500 to $3.50
per ton. Most of the dynamite used
in this country is imported from
England and Germany.
The waterways of Holland arc being
utilized for the defence of the country,
after fashion peculiarly characteris-
tic of Dutch ingenuity. In time of
danger, by opening certain dams and
barriers. and flooding various lands.
Holland can surround herself by a
water line of sixty miles in length, and
from five to ten miles wide, effectually
blocking all advance from Germany on
the east. A few narrow roads, guard
ed by Notifications, will intersect the
foundations. which, though kept
shallow to avoid hostile vessels ap-
preaching, will conceal numerous deep
trenches to prevent the enemy from
wading through the stream. In win
tr, when the waters freeze, the depth
of the inundations will be increased,
and, after the surface has frozen, the
waters below will be drained off, leav-
ing a thin ice crust ready to give way
under the weight of troops, and plunge
| them into the trenches below.
Debbeh, or Dabba. the town around
which it is proposed to concentrate
the British forces in the Soudan dur
ing the summer stands upon the left
bank of the Upper Nile, at the soutf
ern extremity of its great bend to Il
westward, 1t lies about Is mil
southeast of old Dongola, and rath'
more than 43 almost due west
Korti, the present British headqua
ters. Seen from the river it present
the slovenly and half ruinous appear
ance characteristic of all Arab town.
slightly relieved, however, by tn
picturesqueness of the graceful date
palms and other tropical trees that
cluster around it. But it's position
at the junction of the great caravan
routes which run northward from
Darfour Ell Obeid. (the capital of
Kordofan,) and Kartoum itself give
it considerable strategic Importance.
1t was formerly selected by the
Egyptian government as the terminus
of its projected railway across the
Bayudah Desert to Metenneh and
Shendy, a scheme approved at the
time by Gen. Gordon, but never carried
, into execution.
A. paper read before the New York
medical society at Albany recently by
DR.. F. n. Hammond of Auburn pre-
sented some very significant and
pointed facts, showing an enormous
growth in the use of opium in this
country. In 1910 about 10000 pounds
-, of opium were consumed in the
; United States; in 1880, 533,450
pounds. In 1868 there were about
10000 habitual opium eaters in the
country; now they number over 5O0,.
900. More women than men are
addicted to the use of the drug. The
vice is one so easily contracted, so
, easily practiced in private and so
+ difficult of detection that it presents
| peculiar temptations and is very
+ insiduous. The relief from pain that
it gives, and the peculiar exaltation
q of spirits easily lead the victim to
, believe that the use of it is beneficial.
Opium and chloral are today the most
. deadly foes of women. DR.. Hammond
2 is the better qualified to speak on this
T subject from having once been a
, consumer of opium himself. To
! break off from the habit, he says, the
, opium eater must reduce the quantity
of his daily dose. using at the same
time other stimulants. and gradually
eliminate opium from his bill of fare.
A Bible Riddle.
A Young Bible student was asked,