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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
shc was young woman in Washing

shc was a young woman in Washing
ton for the season, and was very fond OF
narrating her conquests and speaking Of
aer powers over men.
He was bachelor with "a heart Of
Stone and q cheek of cast iron.
They were talking of love and matrl-
mony and cognate subjects.
'Tvc been engaged six weeks, Mr..
X" she said, with refreshing candor, in
view Of the fact that the announcement
Aad appeared in the society news the
acxt day after the proposal.
"Ah2' he said, with rosebud smile
wrcathcd around an interrogation point.
How charming"
Delightful, Mr.. X" she continued
radiantly. ''Ie was an old friend of
our family, and he was so persistent,
How long do you think l kept the poor,
dear fellow waiting for his answera"
and she giggled real swell giggle.
"Um-um-," he cogitated, as if cal
culating an equation of time between a
sun dial and a Waterbury watch. "Um-
well, I should say about q minute
and half, possibly two minutes"
There was an abrupt termination to
the conversation and the brute was left
alone in the alcove where they had been
talking.
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The true value of coal tar on tho farm
has not generally come to be recognized.
AS preserver of wood it is the best and
the cheapest of anything we have. This
product may be obtained from gas works
at very slight cost, and when properly
applied goes great way in its use. Any
wood surface to be exposed a part of the
time to moisture, will be made to last
very perceptibly longer when given a
covering of tar. Those who have tried
dipping soft wood posts, such as willow
aud poplar, certify that the wood is
made to last in the ground equal to the
best seasoned oak. Well curbing, the
lower boards of fences Or buildings, barn
floors, in fact anything exposed to mois-
turc, will be well preserved if given a
covering of hot tar. As disinfectant it
is considered very valuable, and should
be applied to the walls and roosts of
poultry houses, and to the solid portions
of pig pens. The best condition in
which to apply it, as rule, is which
1t is in this way the cheapest and forms
a much better prcservative, yet it can be
applied as paint, by thinning with
turpentine when in melted condition.
This will be found more expensive. as
turpentine costs about sixty cents gal
Ion. The ordinary way OF tarring posts
is to dip them; the process is convenient,
and the result most etrcctual. A long,
trough-like vat, provided with sheet
iron bottom, and the whole set over a
brick fireplace, makes very convenient
arrangement. Two men, each provided
with hook made of heavy wirc stand
at each end of the vat, and are able to
perform the dipping with great deal of
speed. The timber should be well
seasoned so that all the openings, result
ing from cracking, may become filled
with the hot liquid and rendered i'm
pervious to water. If boarded roofs be
covered with tar water will run from
them with greatest freedom. Cast-iron
implements may be rendered rust proof
by dipping in hot tar, and the covering
will be equal to tho best Japan finish
81. Paul Farmer.
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succeed well, or ripen early. Numerous
varieties have been developed in France
and Germany, to satisfy the various re-
quirements Of soil and climate. In those
countries the main object is to obtain
sorts rich in sugar. Generally those va
rieties which give the heaviest yield Of
roots contain the smallest proportion of
sugar, and conversely, the kinds richest
in sugars yield the lightest root crops per
acre. 1t will be seen that one acre Of
the small variety contains as much sugar
as an acre of the largest, while there is
less than two-thirds as much bulk and
weight to handle. The sugar content is
not an exact measure OF the nutritivc
value of the respective varieties, but is
approximately so, as the excess in weight
of the large sorts is composed of water,
Sugar beets are good food for all kinds
of stock, save milch cows; and this ex'
ception holds only during tho first few
weeks after harvesting. Fed with grain
and other rations, they possess nutritive
value greater than is represented by
analysts, as they assist in the assmila-
ton of other food. Ii the universal
corn.ration was varied with more sugar
bcets and other roots, there would doubt
less be less "hog cholera" "dry MUIR
rain," and other diseases Of farm stock
Praririe Famer.
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DOWN THROUGH AN OPEN DRAW.
A Locomotive Takes Plunge in TWEEN.
ty.eight Feet OF Water.

Engine 344 of the Baltimore and Ohio road
on the 18th took plunge through the open
draw OF the bridge over the Schuylkill, near
Gray's ferry, and now lies in twenty-eight
feet of water. Engineer William Hamsfee,
his fireman and a switchman saved their
lives by jumping from The engine
few seconds before it reached the bridge.
The accident is explained by Engineer
Hamsfee who is one of the most reliable men
on the road, as follows: LAS we were de-
cending the grade at Fifth-eighth street, the
engine blew out cylinder head and became
unmanagealle. | exhausted every possible
effort to control her, tut without success, and
the draw of the bridge being open for a vessel
to pass through and no time to close it Def re
the engine would reach the gap the situation
was serious one for mys If and the two
men in the cab with me. When all hope
of saving the engine was out of the ques-
ton we made jump for our lives and
landed without anything worse than lively
shaking up. The engine dashed on to the
bridge and went ahead as though she was
doing regular duty, until she reached the
open draw, when sho took terrible plunge
into the river, which is twenty-eight feet
deep at this point. Fortunately nobody was
hurt and the damage done to the engine was
slight
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Swee.ened Mortar.

An Englishman writes to the mayor
of Charleston communicating some newly
discovered facts regarding the making o.
mortar for building, which he believes
will be of great Importance in city
subject to earthquakes. He says that
the addition of saccharine matter, such
as molasses, infusion of matt, etc., 10
the mortar, increases its strength to az
extraordinary degree. The hardness O.
the old Roman cement, which is equa
to that of the stone it binds together j.
believed to be due to the addition O.
saccharine matter. Water to which
sugar has been added will dissolve four
teen and half times as much lime a
pure water. Recent experiments viii
sweetened mortar have proved that walls
may be built so strong they cannot bt
torn down with anything but explosives
Boston Transcript.
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new ENGLAND NEWS.

Patrick Hanly was run over by loaded
car at Orono, Me-, aud killed.
Willie Smith, 10 years old was accident
ally shot while playing with a pistol az dar
diner, Me,
The Bellamy upper mill at Dover, N. IL,
has Teen leased as tannery by south Ber-
wick parties, no will start up with thirty
hands next month.
An nhuman son in Lowell, Mass, sells his
mothers stove to buy liquor and leaves har
desti ute.
The steamer Narragansett has been
libelled in the sum of 5000 in Providence, Il.
l., for sinking the bark Manhattan
Lyman o, Hill of East Machias and Chas.
Mice of Wellesley, have been fatally shot by
men supposed TO be poachers in Hemenway
township, Maine.
Three boys were badly injured by an ex-
plosion in mandatory at Dover, N. II,
The PASSPORT Mel authorities are deter
mined to introduce water into the town.
The Portland Stoneware Company's works
We're recently burned. Loss $4,000
Principal Hotchkiss, of the Prospect
School, Waterbury, CT, is on trial on a
charge of brutal Treatment of pupil
Burglars recently entered the East Saugus,
Mass. Boston end Maine railroad depot, blew
open tle are anu stole Va.
Two dangerous counterfeits are said to be
in circuiation-one a Mexican dollar or
1883 and the other United States dollar Of
1888.
Tho hunt for tho poacher murderers in
Maine is stll unsuccessful. Young McRea-
vey is sure he can identify ono of them.
The painters strike at Haverhill is end
ed.
Tho bill granting municipal suffrage to
women has been killed in the Vermont Sem
ate.
Large mackerel are reported plenty Off
Wellheet.
Samuel H. Colby, aged 90 years, died at
Ware, N. H., Thursday.
The New Haven, CT, authorities are shut
ting the gates on Sunday entertainments
under the old "blue laws"
Rev. Gausha Anderson, pastor Of the First
Baptist Church in Salem, has had a call to
benson (O.) University, Baptist college.
He has been unanimously elected president
OF the institution, and will probably &C
cept.
Maurice Finn, Lynn shoe manufacturer,
has been requested to raise the price of sole
| laying in his factory, to compare with those
paid by several other manufacturers 1t is
claimed that Mr.. Finn makes goods for the
New England trade, and that he pays less
than others who make similar line of goods.
Mr.. Finn claims that be sells all his goods
outside of New England, and, therefore, does
not come in competition with the so-called
New England manufacturers.
The journeymen painters of Lynn have
reduced their price per day from 81 80 tc
81 rs for first-cl men and 50 for all Others
until such time as they can see to work ter
hours The master painters have reduced
their price accordingly.
Daniel Crowley was arraigned at Ports
mouth, N. H., this afternoon, charged witt
assault with intent to murder. He PLEADED
not guilty. His wife is still very low. She
says he pushed her on the floor and poured
kerosene oil upon her clothing and applied {
| liphi ed match thereto
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CLIPPINGS FOR TIE CURIOUS.

Consul Tanner says 1,10O, 900, 900 gall
Ions Of beer is drank in Germany every
year.
A genius for statistics has figured out
that /, 900, 900 dollar bills weigh 2,s4l
pounds.
B. II. scoville, Dakota hunter on the
Missouri River killed two deer at one
shot and broke the shoulder of third.
The tomb of Mordecai and Queen
Ester is still visited by Hebrew pilgrims,
and is well preserved in the center OF the
town of Hamadan, in Persia.
The earthquake in Java split noun
tain into seven parts. Where tho lone
mountain stood loom up seven peaks,
each seven thousand feet high.
Two cases OF hydrophobia in camcls
are reported from Algeria. The animals
were not known to have been bitten, but
had grazed in a pasture which had fed
q rabld horse.
A well-known writer tells or seeing
thousands of small fish migrating across
land from one lagoon to another in tropi-
cal America. He says they moved as
deliberately and unconccrnedly as though
they had been accustomed to tho over
land route all their lives.
Montmorte is q hill on the north side
of Paris rising 500 feet above the Seine.
1t is said that st. Denis suffered
martydrom there. A nunnery was formerly
situated on the summit, and here was
the Chapelle Des Martyrs, where in 1884
Ignatius Loyola and his followers took
the oath in which the order of the
Jesuits had its origin.
Some of the bones of mastodon were
dug up near Milan, Mich, short time
ago. A part of tusk, broken, is fifty
two inches long and fourteen inches in
circumference. The femur is forty
inches long. Two bones of the hind
leg are tifty-four inches in length. A
tooth is 10 1-2 inches across the tops 1-2
inches wide and seven inches deep.
Many parts of the skeleton are lacking.
Instances of extreme old age are re-
ported from Russia. A Russian journal,
announces the death, in the almshouse
of St. Petersburg, of man aged 1879
years, who had been an inmate since
! 1918. His mental faculties were pre-
served up to the time of his death, and
his general health was excellent to the
age of 119, when he commenced to fail.
There is in the same institution a SOL
dier's widow, whose age, as shown by
documentary evidence, is at least 110
| wears
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FOR TIE FARM AND HOME.
Value aud Uss OF Mart.

Mari is an impure carbonate Of lime,
except in some cases, when it is made
up of almost wholly shells, when it is
nearly pure carbonate Of lime. 1t is thea
slowly soluble in water which contains
carbolic acid, and as all the water is in
the soil tas some carbonic acid in it the
mari becomes available rs a useful
fertilizer. 1t may be spread on the land
at this season in any quantity up to 200
bushels per acre, and will be very good
substitute for lime. The pure mari may
be made into lime by burning in the
same manner as stone lime is--that is, by
making q bed of wood and hcaping some
mari on it; then making layers of wood
and mari up to s or 10 feet high OF q
somewhat conical shape. The sides are
plastercd with clay to retain the heat,
aud the heap is set on fire and burned
down slowly. The lime thus made is
quite equal for use on the land to stone
lime. - e,o York Times.
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Could Prove an Alibi.

There is deaf-mute in the Treasury
Department who has been there for 4
.ong time and is an excellent clerk. The
other day he had scare. He was bust
y engaged at his desk writing when a
,ellow-cle came up to him and began
% talk to him in the sign language.
The secretary is going to go for you"
aid the clerk, with his fingers. The
mute clerk looked up surf rised. "Why,
what have l donel' he asked with his
fingers. ooh, the secretary has heard
tales about you, and l hear you are about
to be discharged" The deaf mute
,ooked bewildercd. "Why2' his fingers
islsed. "Somc people have told the
.ecrctary that you have been around the
hotel corridors talking in a loud and
boisterous manner against the admins.
tration." An expression of relief came
across the mute clerks face when he
heard the reason, and his fingers re.
Piled: ~ can prove an alibi. "-Bali
more american.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18

CoRNED BEEF STEW Take one can
of corncd beef, add to it three pints OF
milk and one onion sliced. Put into a
stew pan, when it comes to a boil, thick
en- with little flour and water.
OYSTER STEw.-Take one two-pound
can OF oysters and put the liquid on to
boil in stew pan; add one tablespoon
full of butter in which the same amount
of flour has been worked; then add one
quart of milk, some pepper and salt, then
add the oysters.
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING. = Three
heaping tablcspoonfuls of meal and one
of flour stirred together, and wet with &
little cold milk. Pour over this mixture
one pint of boiling milk, and add half q
cupful of molasscs, half a tcaspoonful o.
cloves, and salt. When ready for the
oven add one and half cup.uls of cold
milk. This is very Eicc served with
cream.
CELERY RooT. Celery root or celcriac
is considered remedy for rheumatism.
Prepared in this manner, it will be an
acceptable dish, even should it fail as al
anti-gout specific Wash three roots OF
cecraiac and boil for twenty minutes
when cool, peel aad slice them; boil one
pint of rich milk, and when cool, pour
it over teaspoonful OF melted butter
and beat well; add salt and a soup
con Of cayenne pepper; pour over the
sliced ccleriac and simmec for twenty
minutes. Serve hot.
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FOREIGN.

Prince Waldemar of Denmark has been
chosen by the Sobranjo Prince Of Bulgaria.
NJ. Karaveloff has resigned the Bulgarian
regency.
The Russian officer who led the Bourgas
revolt, has been sentenced to death.
The Duke of Connaught has been appointed
commander Of the forces in Bombay.
A settlement has been effected between the
d striking spinners i'll Darwen and their en-
p!oyers.
Prince Bismarck has arrived in Berlin, in
response TO summons from Emperor Will
liam, who wishes 10 consult with him on
Bulgarian affairs.
Mr.. Mackay, secretary Of the Highland
Land League has been arrested on the charge
of OBTAINING sheriff in a letter to MIR. Mat
thews, home secretary, recounting the reso-
luton adopted at public meeting.
The total number of persons condemned to
Imprisonment for life for participation in the
recent revolu ion in Spain is go.
A number of Welsh clergymen, who have
become impoverished through the 1.-THE war,
have appealed to churchnlen in England for
assistance The Duke of Wetminster has sub
scrbed ESQ, and four Welsh bishops 9l0O
each, and other donations are being re-
ceived.
Word has been received that the British
bark Casper, Capt Roberts, from Newcastle,
n. B., for Liverpool, caught fire and was
towed into StPierres, Miquelon, and beached.
The crew were saved.
The Vatican is preparing for publication
an encyclical letter condemning and stigma
tzng the Italian government, whose policy,
the letter will say, places the Pope in the
power of a revolution which menaces his
liberty.
1t is asserted that three Italian ironclads
have been ordered to join the British fleet at
Malta.
Cuba's sugar crop promises to exceed that
of any previous season.
Kispert, the celebrated geographer, sus-
tanned dangerous INJURIES while ascending
the Bozdagh mountains in Asia Minor. A
German doctor has left Smyrna to attend
him.
The Gar declines to accept the election Of
Prince Waldemar, but will not oppose Prince
Nicholas of Mon lenegro.
Railway traffic in the south of France has
been stopped by the floods.
A shock OF earthquake was experienced in
the province of Beira on the 10th. Much
alarm is felt in Lisbon in consequence.
The negotiations between Germany and
Portugal for defining the boundaries between
the German and the Portuguese possessions
in South Africa have been amicably con-
cluded.
The Vatican denies the S,ampas statement
that the Pope has sent note to ENGLAND,
asking the estab ishment OF diplomatic re
lations between that country and the Holy
See
The Socialists announce that monster
demonstration will be held in Trafalgar
square on the 21st inst. They also announce
that Socialist deputation will call upon
Lord Salisbury
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NEWS NOTES.
DOMESTIC.


r,r.s nowder houses in Morristown, N, j.,
were recently hlew up One man was killed
md others We're injured.
Edwin Booth is Frustrated by neglected
cold,
Over 90 600, 900 young shad have been dis
tributed in the rivers Of The country during
the past season,
Albany butchers refuse to kill cattle at that
point in support Of tho Chicago strikers,
Fortheriugham, the agent in charge OF tho
Adams express car that was robb. d recently
in Missouri has been indicted for grand
larceny,
The Lorillards' estate in New York has
been sold by auction. The amount realized
was S64S, 700
The Standard sewer pipe works in Roches-
tor, N, Y, were recently burned. Loss,
$4,000.
There are indications OF earthquakes in the
Yelow,toae Park,
Stoclsmen on the Upper Teton, Montana,
have driven 10 900 cattle on the Piegan reser-
vat on to range tho coming winter. They
claim they had to DO this a Cd is scarce,
The authority of the Indian agent and bureau
was obtained.
Judge j. A, l. Lee, president Of the Roam
olle Zinc and Silver Mining Company, has
SJiN VIC iillIVN hSti tNoAiiN'hus 49, w v
Bartlett Of London, England, for 5000, 600
cash.
The bucket shop proprietors OF Chicago are
to be checkmated by the abolition OF the
marketreporting department of the board Of
trade.
jesse H. Lord, the journalist, who shot
himself upon his wife's grave in the Old
North cemetery, Hartford, Conn, on the
10Th, is dead. He did not recover con-
seriousness after tho shooting.
The first snow of the season commenced
falling at Kansas City, No, on the 18th.
Samuel Adams, Jr. keeper of the life
saving station at Block Island, has been
asked to resign on the ground of interference
with politics. 1t is also charged that he &C
copied money from applicants for positions
as members of the crew.
A loss of SIS 900 by fire to the stock Of Nc
Laughlin & Co, coffees, teas and spices at
Chicago.
The Knights of Labor declare boycott on
Armour's meat at Chic go.
Mr. Howells' play, "A Foregone Conclu-
sion,n is to be produced by Mr.. Palmer at the
Madison Square Theatre.
The frankfort pa labor troubles are
liable to again break out, as the weavers are
dissatisfied with the conditions under which
they were ordered back to work by the K. Of
L. officers.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL,

Superintendent of Indian Schools Riley
believes in the practical education of the
Indian.
A special table from Washington gives the
Democrats majority of fourteen in the 5Oth
Congress.
Prof. Spencer F. Baird asks Congress to
appropriate S25, 900 to begin new luilding
to flank the Smithsonian building on the
west. Another similar sum will probably be
needed to finish the structure. Prof Baird
says such a building is much needed a the
present museum is greatly crowded and its
operations impeded.
The comptroller of the currency has author
lied the Alabama National Bank Of Biz
mingham, Ala, to begin business with a
capital of 100000.
The President has expressed himself de-
lighted with every part of his experience in
Boston, and especially leased with the
hearty enthusiasm of the popular greeting.
NJ Bartholdi arrived in Washington. Dur
ing his short stay here some definite action
will be taken with regard to the proposed
Lafayette statue.
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PRINCETON PROFESSOR DEAD.
Rev. A. A. Hodge, ID, d., IL. d., Ceases
the LabOrs OF a Kusy Life.

Rev. Archibald Alexander Hodg,, D. D.,
LII. d., professor of didactics and polemic
theology at Princeton College since 1878, when
he succded his father died on the 10th, after
a short illness, aged c. He was graduated
from the college in 1S41, with Rev. ! heo-
dore L, Cuyler, Gen. Frank P. Blair,
Judge John p. Nixon and others, who have
since distinguished themselves. He spent
three years as a missionary in India; was
successfully pastor Of Presbyterian churches
In Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania,
and in 1861 became professor of theology in
the Presbyterian seminary at Allegheny,
Pa. In 1877 he was made he associate Of his
father, DR.. Charles Hedge, at Princeton
College. He was college trustee, and for
time an editor of the Presbyterian Reuie1c.
He was an eloquent preacher, u profound
theologian, and the arthor of number of
works, the ablest being Outlines OF Theo-
lopyn
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HOusehOltl Hints.

Powdered camphor added to oil or
turpentinc varnlsh will allow it to
spread more easily.
Plaster busts and statuettes may be
cleaned by dipping them into thick.
liquid cold starch, that is, clear starch
mixed with cold water, then drying
them, and when the starch is brushed
off, the dirt comes with it.
Clean irons arc one of the signs of a
good housckcepcr. If your irons trou-
bic you by dropping black spccks from
the top or sides when ironing, put them
into a pan of warm soapsuds and give
shcm q thorough scrubbing. Dry thenl
quickly or they will rust.
To destroy wasps take some common
wide-mouthcd pickle bottles and half fill
them with common trcacle, mixed with
a little water, smearing the mouth Of
the bottles with the mixture, and hang
them up among the fruit on the wall.
The effect is wonderful; better
"Catch 'cm alive O" could not be de-
sired. Renew the mixture as re-
qdired.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Willing to Accommodate.

1t was very ragged but au exceed
ingly polite beggar, who took off his
greasy cap to a gentleman on Broadway
and said:
Pardon me, sir, will you please gran
me the favor of a gratuitv of five cents; !
have not vet dined."
''Neithcr have ], /" said the gentleman,
more to himself than to the beggar, be-
cause he was hurrying homo for that pur-
pose.
"Then make it ten cents" said the
beggar, 'and we'll dine together
SUlia0s.