The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-12-02
Items of Interest.

German names Of places means for
est" Illustrations are Hamburg,
Bowdoinham, feiersham,
DR.. Morrow has found that the poison
in ice cream is due to the cashew-nut
OF in the coating Of the beans from
which vanilla extracts is made.
The following is stated to be a copy
of what is written over one of the large
letter boxes of the general Post office
il Srcl,vil,e street, Dublin: "Too Late
I.vX 10Y Letters. Newspapers, SC, Too
Late for the Next Despatch"
The United States Ministers to Ger
many France, England and Russia re-
ceiye Sl7.5o0 each; those to China,
Brazil Mexico, Japan and Spain re-
ceiye Sl2,02o, The general of the army
receives $l3, 500 and the admiral $4,000
1t is said by one who knows that all
the "bad men " and professional killers
of the west are blondes, with light hair
and blue eyes. The traditional des-
pcrado, with raven locks and piercing
black eyes no longer exists.
The latest invention in hat lining is
map # the City of London printed
OH silk, so that any stranger or gay
young fellow may find his way home
or see at a glance if cabby is taking
him the nearest route to his destination.
The highest apple orchard in the
United States is at Hot Springs, Lake
Tahoe, Cal. The trees are loaded with
fruit. This is probably the greatest
altitude at which this fruit is grown.
in this country, being over $500 feet
above the level of the sea.
1t appears that the crocodile, like the
faith which formerly esteemed it
sacred, is practically extinct in Egypt.
The steamers plying the Nile have had
more effect in driving it from that
river than the guns of sportsmen, ac-
cording to Prof A. Saycs.
The japanese have not only nearly
three hundred miles of railroad in
operation, but they make their own cars
at Shinbaski, and the building of the
line from Tsuruga to Ogaki was con-
Quoted by young Japanese engineers,
whose task included two large bridges
and tunnel mile long.
A so-called mad dog in Hebron, KY,
bit COW. The COW in few days
showed signs of rabies, and about the
same time q baby that had been living
on the milk of the COW became SINH
larry affected. 1t is said that the symp-
toms of hydrophobia are pronounced
in the child, whose sufferings are very
| great.
A Canada bee-keeper uses chloroform
| instead of tobacco in managing his
bees. He finds it very valuable aid
in removing old queens or in introduce
ing new ones. These operations are
very perpleXing to a novice, but few
whiffs of chloroform blown into the
hive enables them to DO performed
without difficulty.
Five hundred years ago one of the
great English lords had in his larder
600 bacon (salted pigs, eighty carcasses
of beef and coo sheep, for they sailed
mutton in those days as well as beef
and pork. But this was at the end OF
the winter, so we can imagine what he
had at the beginning. He had be-
sides, alive g 900 sheep, and enormous
numbers of oxen, cows and pigs.
The BARRIERS among the Greeks and
Romans cut and dressed the hair.
shaved the beard, pared the nails and
pulled out the stray hairs with their
tweezers. Wealthy persons kept q
barber in their own houses amongst
their slaves, but the people at large had
| recourse to the BARRIERS shop. The
Roman rarely shaved himself, at least
after the year b. G. 454, when the first
barber was introduced from Sicily.
Previous to that period the hair and
beard were worn long.
Apollinaris water comes from a
spring in the Abr Valley in Rhenish
Prussia. The spring first came into
notice about forty years ago 1t be-
longs to the class Of carbonated aka
line waters which are so beneficial in
correcting any preponderance of acid
in the stomach, and it possesses, more
over, the advantages of an agreeable
favor and unusual degree of efferves-
cence, which is not transient in it's
character.
A citizen of Valrosia, Fla, wants to
send some of the big red ants of that
region: called bulldog" ants, to sur
geons for use in fastening wounds of
the intestines. He says that if the
edges of two pieces of soft paper are
held together and a bulldog ant held so
that he will clutch both sides, and his
head be then quickly twisted off, the
ant becomes a fixture in that position.
He says that Spanish surgeons use the
bulldog ant as sutures in that way.
To make court plaster: Soak bruised
isinslass in a little warm water for
twcnty-four hours, then evaporate
nearly all the water by gentle heat.
Dissolve the residue in little proof
spirits OF wine, and strain the whole
OH piece OF open linen. The strained
mass should be a stiff jelley when cool.
Now extend a piece of silk on wooden
frame, and fix it tight with tacks or
pack-thread. Melt the jelly and apply
| it to the silk thinly and evenly, with a
adger-hair brush. A second coating
must be applied when the first has dried
VI N both are dry cover the whole
surface with coating of balsam Of Peru
applied in the same way.
How Barnum Made Fortune.
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