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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
A Very Rich Man.

Mr.. William X. Vanderbilt is extreme
ly particular about his wearing apparel.
He has French valet, who looks after
all his belongings and chooses his ties
and shoes. His clothing is all made in
London and sent to New York every
three months by order. He wears cost
" diamond ring on his small finger and
small diamond studs when in full dress.
He invariably wears high silk hat, and,
like most blondes, looks his best when an
full dress suit. He has a pleasant bari
tone voice for si7ging, and is a member
of St. Bartholomew, like his brother,
Cornelius.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

An English agricultural journal serious
ly urges that in time of abundant and
cheap wheat it should be purchased in
large quantities by the Government, and
stored away in public :granaries, in order
to insure the country at least one years
supply in any contingency. "1t argues, !"
says the american Cultiuator, "that
the home food production in Great Brit
ain is now so very deficient that, in case
of war, prices would 60 up at a bound
and cause terrible distress among the
people before source of supply could
be developed. This measure, involving
the purchase of grain for storage, might
relieve the market so much as to change
the present agricultural discomfort in
England, and put an end to the demand
for protection; but it really reminds us
Of the historic time in Egypt when Joseph
laid up grain in the years of plenty to
serve for food in the years of famine"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

Referring to the purpose of the Audu-
bon Society to prevent bird destruction
a correspondent of Forest and Stream
says: Gas the country became cleared
of timber and more thickly inhabited,
the birds have been destroyed in large
numbers and insects have gained the as
ccnGcncy. There are birds worn by our
city bellies that alive would accomplish
mere good work for mankind than the
average fashionable belle, although she
lived for a century. The eyes and beaks
of these dead birds cry out in shame
against the cruel fashion that causes their
slaughter"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

According to statement of the United
States Potters' Association there are
aboot IT'S kilns in operation, not includ
ing those employed in turning out deco
rated pottery, of which there is large
number. The number of employees is
roughly estimated at about Is, 600, and it
may fairly be assumed that not less than
80, 900 derive their means of subsistence
from this source. The total of capital
invested in the business is supposedto be
not less than $4,000, 900, two-thirds of
which is absorbed in plant, the wages
paid amount to $4,OOO,OOO or s., 600, 900
annually, and S., 900, 900 worth of goods
is made. The chief centres of the trade
are Trenton, N. j., and East Liverpool,
Ohio, but establishments more or less .ex-
tensive are to be found in more than a
dozen other places.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
nUMUROUS.
Foot nafls-Corn Masters

Foot pads-Corn plasters
When business house is in "shaky"
condition is it proper to speak of it as
firm9
A petrifcd clock has been found in
Rome. Another indication of hard
times.
Every man has some hobby, and every
girl looks forward to the time when she
will have hubby.
There is any amount of good reading
in the dictionary, but it is distributed in
very tantalizing manner.
The husband may boast of "holding
the rcns," but it's generally the wife
that says where the wagon is going.
Now is the time that the straw hat
smiles because it did not succeed IN its
desire last November to make itself felt.
A carp said to be 26s years old has
been taken out of the river Spree. This
shows that fish can stand sprees better
than men can.
1t is reported that Henry Bergh is car
rying his sympathies for animals so far
that he is cultivating a bald spot on his
head as pasture for flies.
More than four thousand devices for
coupling have been patented, and yet
thousands of bachelors and maidens go
it alone in this country.
Little maiden (who is spending the
afternoon with her aunt-Auntie,
mother said l must not ask you for any
thing to eat, but I'm awful hungry.
Mistress Why, Della, what in the
world have you donel Delia-Shure,
ma'am, the master said the gas was
leaking, and l put up the pail to catch
it.
Joy never xii $. A man has even
been known to survive the shock of find
ing forgotten fve-dollar bill in the
watchpocket Of his last summers panta-
looms
A number of Philadelphia ladies have
formed an association to do,all kinds Of
mending for bachelors. They will find
it difficult matter to mend the bach
elors' habits.
"What mrderous- looking villain th'
prisoner isl" whispered the old lady t'
her husband in the police court room. 'Tt
be afraid to get near him." "Shr
warned her husband, "that isn't the pris
oner, he hasn't been brought in yet. tt
the iudren
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

"What sort of risks do you steer clear
Of" was asked of the loss-adjuste in the
farm department of wcllknown insur'
ance company.
"Creamerics, skating -rinks, and, in
great many cases, country school-houses
are declined by our company. Creamer-
les are generally of tender-box construc-
ton. Kinks, while sometimes built Sc
curely against loss by fire accidentally
started arc just now the object of con-
demnation by the public. We in this
case are afraid of the incendiary's torch.
So, too, in the case of country school.
houses. The people in the district get at
loggerheads regarding the location of the
building-some wanting it in one place
and some in another. 1t is finally built :;
and it is very often the case that some
dark night it is reduced to ashes. We
keep special watch on risks of this kind,
and as soon as we find the people fight
ing we cancel the policy at once. Chi
cdQ0 Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22


A Washington correspondent speaking
of the late Mrs. Benjamin F. gae-es.i';;.
explains how she, very attra6tiye wo--
man, happened to marry SO notoriously
plain man: Both had been married be-
FORE she to Frcnchman and he to q
Russian lady. When widowed, the only
thing left her by her husband was three
children, whom Brewster adopted as his
own. She was so entirely without means,
thougi of excellent family, that she OBJ
tanned a position in the treasury for self
support. She was there when the Phila-
delphia lawyer, having occasion to call
at the department, passed her desk and
overheard her remark: "That is the
ugliest man / have ever seen.n Turning
to her, and bowing very politely, he said ::
"Thank you, madam; l always like to
hear lady express herself frankly. This
ackward circumstance was soon followed
by an introduction and his falling in love
with her. In proposing he is reported to
have said: "You are charming and
am hideous; but it will not be the first
instance of the meeting of Beauty and
the Beast You may never love me;
but, if you will accept me, shall always
try to deserve your love-" That is the
way 70 win woman, and he won her.
They are believed to have been entirely
harmonious and devoted to one another.
The ex-attorney general, albeit singular
" fantastic in dress, and often in man.
ners, is extremely polite and kind-heart-
ed, and has host of friends.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
.sto In India.

Caste, liza terrible nightmare, is
firmly fastd upon the social life of
India. 1t take generations OF civil,
izing influe to make these lethargio
people real that the system Is evil. 1t
is not easy' US to understand it. The
following cription, by o gentleman in
India, shs q little Of its pernicious
working.
During severe famine, man, with
his wife child, applied to mission
ary for y. They had come from dis
tance, awere thin and pinchcd with
hunger. Food was at once brought, but,
hungrS they were, they would not
touch The child was on the ground
huntirfor and eating the raw rice that
was stered about the door. Rice be-
ing gin them, they commenced to cook
it, budevourcd it before it was hall
done. rhey would not lose caste by eat,
ing fo prepared by any one not OF thei'
grade.
Theare four principal castles. The
Brahms, or priests, are the highest
They nsider it beneath them to labor
To ter cattle or to milk a cow woulo
be pollion. Formerly, if low-cast'
person Iuched them, even by accident
they cdd kill him on the spot with i'm
punity. The people yield to them a
superio as matter of course.
Whe high-caste man came into
meetin, a whole bench was vacated, tn
occupaIs taking seats on the floor. Th
nativeasually travel third-class on tn
railway These cars are so crowde
there iao room to sit apart. This hs
a tendecy to break down caste.
The lilway companies had difficult
in supplying them water to drink.
high cate man could not drink watt
brough by man of lower caste. Z
employing high-caste man, all can
supplied
In thir villages each caste lives by
self. Ech has its own shops, or bazaar
Below tie regular castles are the outcas
those Who have broken over some
the varisus restrictions. Youths Coz
panion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

NJ. CHARLES Girard, chemist, of Paris,
recently amused himself by investigation
of the ingredients of beautiful red
currant jelly, chamingly put up for ex-
port to the United States. There was
not an atom of fruit in the mass, as was
demonstrated by the adding to it of me-
thylatcd alchohol, which would have
turned it green had it contained any fruit
acid. 1t was found to consist of gelatine,
sweetencd with glycerine residue, col
ored with pichsine ia poisonous mineral
extract and favored with no one knows
what
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
A Hard Question in Arithmetic.

A teacher in the public schools had
promoted little pupil, and meeting her
a few days later, said:
"wcll, Lizzie, how do you get on in
your new class2"
"Oh, pretty well. l Imissed in arith-
metic to-day, but it was an awful hard
question"
'Let me hear what the question was, "
said the teacher.
'It was: How many chickens had the
boyp" said little Lizzie, and the sympa-
thizing teacher agreed that it was a puz.
zler.-San Franciscan.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
LONDONDERRY, w. THURsAY April. % 1886

A 9,00O-pound mass of tin ore was re-
Gently exhibited at smelling works in
New York. 1t was taken out of go
foot vein in the now well-known Eta
tin mine, in the Black Hills. The speci-
men will be sent to London for the bene-
fit of those British tin-mine owners who
have so complacently watched our here
tofore unsuccessful search for the metal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
ssSl,''

A correspondent of the Pail Nall re-
marks that all words beginning with 81
have in some degree second rate or bad
quality about them. Look through the
dictionary" he says, ''and you will not
find one that is quite first-rate, for sleep
which is about the best of them, is after
all half way to death, and the great ma
jority of these words are more or less dis
gusting as well as degraded"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

A black or blue pencil mark oppo-
site this paragraph indicates that your
subscription has expired, while red
mark shows that your subscription or
renewal has been received.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

A lady who lost pet canary bird by
death was inconsolable until somebody
suggested that she have it stuffed and
put on her bonnet. She is now as happy
q ever.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

&-Entcred ut tae Post Office at South
Londonderry, as second class matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
Leaf Aspects.
VNy annVNn

The maiden leaves through veins Of sylvan
blood
Are thrilled to love and sweet Arcadian
bliss,
When murmuring round 1.-THE bough OF
wakening bud,
They dimple softly to the south winds kiss
IN AUTUMN.
How silently above the dying leaves
The treacherous frost fatal network
weaves;
And slowly robbed Of Autumn's buoyant
breath, &c.,.
Tho weary foliage lapses into DEATH
Wm. H. Hdyae.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER.
Issued Every Thursday Evening from
SITTER once.
So. Londonderry, VT.
TERMS.

To subscribers in Windhnm County and
elsewhere whcro bundles a'e sent, only ONE
DOLLAR n year. Outside Of Windham County,
in single wrappers, ONE DOLLAR AND Ten
CENrs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-22

Advertising Rates
furnished on application. Births, Marriages
and Deaths published free. Obituary notices
cards OF thanks, etc.. 5 cents line.
Address SITTER OFFICE, South London.
derry, VI.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
Crumbly Butter,

An expert butter maker, the gilt-edge
product of whose dairy finds regular
customers in Boston at more than fifty
cents per pound, one week last spring
was notified by his salesman here that
his butter was inferior in quality, falling
far below his usual high standard. An
investigation of the cause proved that,
running short of his regular stock Of
early-cut hay, he had bought several
tons of hay of a neighbor, which hay
proved to be of a crop cut long after il
was ripe, a dry, stalky grass, full OF
woody fibre and lacking in those palat-
able and nutritious qualities pertaining
to sweet, early-cut, well-cured grass.
Again, his cows, usually bedded with
dry sawdust, were bedded with bright,
well-cured straw. The COWS, dissatisfied
with the late-cut hay, had made part Of
their ration of the straw in use for bed
ding.
Note the result. Prime butter should
break or cut like wax. The knife cut
smoothly through the print or lump,
leaving but slight dampness on the
blade. Such is the result of judicicu'
ration of grain and early-cut hay. The
substitution of over-ripe hay and straw
in the ration of the cow at once change
the character of butter to crumblI
mass, lacking the waxy consistency O
choice butter. Such butter when cut BY
the knife rolls down both sides In {
crumbly condition. 1t lacks the favol
and character so essential to the MAKEUP
of gilt-edge butter, and sells at a very
ordinary price. Causes SO APPARENT,
insignificant as the change in feeding
late-cut and over-ripe hay, where pre-
viously the aromatic, succulent, soft
early-cut grass formed the principal par
of the ration, reduce the quality of tn
product from "gilt-edge to ordinary
The successful dairyman watches an(
guards against such changes in the cows
ration. CultirdtOr.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
Long Islands Sand Industry.

Next to the oyster industry, and one
that is rapidly growing on the north side
of Long Island, is that of cutting sand
from the beaches. The industry com
mences at Carries Point and takes in
most of the beaches to Stony Brook. The
business is an immense one. There are
several varieties of the gravel and sand
There are the big stones about half the
SIZE OF hens eggs, used for furnace bot.
toms at steel works, also for oyster beds
and roadways. The grit gravel is used
Tor asphalt works, roofing and payino
gravel, and canary bird gravel. The
highest price is six dollars Der ton. Tho
largest gravel pits are at Northport Cold
Spring and Stony Brook. They are
owned by Mrs. Francis b. Spiuols DR.
Jones aud N. w. Godfrey Il Co. A.
Northport fifteen schooners are constantly
In use carrying the sand to various do
nestle ports. The industry gives em.
ployment TO over 500 men.-Ne,s Yorl
Nail and Erpns&. '"
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
Personal.

Misses Lydia Robinson, Laura Lomax
and Josie Eady are spending two weeks
very pleasantly in Chester, b. c.
Miss Gertrude Holmes stopped over a
few days in Chester last week, after
which she went on to Yorkville.
Miss Ella Jones has gone to Columbia
to visit friends and remain two or three
weeks. We expect all the young ladies
back in time for our fair on the 26th and
9th.
Rev. ]. P. Crawford, of Cheraw, was
in our city on Thursday.
Mr.. M. D. Mcfarland, young lawyer
of Cheraw, came in with the excursion
Thursday, and seemed well pleased with
our city.
We were pleased to meet in our city
last Thursday Mr.. Jasper Smith. of OAR
lington, who took advantage of the ex-
cursion to visit friends here.
Prof. Atkins, of Zion Wesley College,
was in our city last Sabbath and spoke
to Clinton Chapel Sabbath School.
Mrs. Jennie Lineberger, the mother of
Mr.. A. ]. Lineberger and Mrs. W. II.
Houser is spending some time in our city
with her children.
Mr.. Geo. G. Scurlock, of Fayetteville,
was in the city this week in the interest
of Good Templars. A meeting was held
at Clinton Chapel on Wednesday night.
Mr.. Scurlock is also travelling III the
interest of the "Star of Zion"-an organ
that should be taken by the members of
Zion church. He organized lodge of
God Templars on Wednesday night.
Prof. J. C. Price, of Zion Wesley Col
lege was in our city this week. Mr..
Price is travelling in the interest of the
college. Having secured the necessary
building fund he now wants an endow-
ment fund and hopes to raise it within a
few years. He is full of grand ideas and
plans and, if encouraged by lions mem
bers doing even half their duty, he will
place the college ON firm financial basis
within few years.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
Pork Productions,

During the past few years, SAYS the
Chicago Tribune, there has been very
little profit in raising hogs in most parts
of the country. The exclusion of our
hog products from several European
countries has had the effect of bringing
down prices at home. The periodic
scares about trichine have caused many
cautious persons to abandon the use Of
pork. No pork products except ham,
lard and fancy sausage are any longer
favorite articles of food among the more
wealthy classes in large towns. They
demand fine beef, spring lamb, game
and poultry.
The greatest encouragement, however,
has been the prevalence of the swine
plague, ordinarily known as hog cholera.
This disease has produced larger losses
in a much shorter time than any malady
that has appeared among any kind Of
domesticated animals in this country.
Thus far but little light has been thrown
on the origin of the disease and the man
ner in which it is spread. Many theories
have been propounded, but in the opin.
ion of most persons none of them have
accounted for the phenomena that have
been presented. 1t is certain that very
few are competent to treat the disease OF
to prevent its spreading through herd
from one farm to another.
Still, with all the discouragements that
attend it, pork production will PROBABLY
always continue to be one of the leading
farm industries in this country. This i
the greatest pork-producing country in
the world, and most likely it will ALWAYS
remain so. The climate and the products
of the soil are admirably suited to the
production of pork. Corn can be pro.
duced cheaper here than in any foreign
country, and corn is the best food to use
in fattening hogs. Glover, rye, apples
and potatoes are also produced in great
abundance, and these are all very valu.
able for feeding to hogs in any stage Of
their growth. This is a great mill, pro
ducing country, and whey, skinned
and sour milk can be fed to hogs to bet.
advantage than to other animals. The
climate is very favorable to hogs. The
heat in any part of the country is rarel,
SO great as to injure them. With chean
protection they can be kept with profit
even in the most northern tier of State,
and Territories. In most parts of the
country they require no shelter from tn,
time they are dropped till they are ready
for the market. Buildings for the pro.
lection of hogs are unknown on many
farms that are chiefly devoted to thu
production of pork.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
Imnortance of Cleanliness.


Keeping tie pores of farm animal
optn is as essential to their thrift
bathing is to our health. The skin pei.
forms an office more essential to life ane
health than even digestion; and it u
even more important that the horse o.
thoroughly groomed than that he be fed
Thorough grooming does not mean only
the removal of mud and manure from th'
hair with the comb; it means that thor,
ough brushing and rubbing which Will
clean the hide, removing all obstruction
from the pores. 1t is more necessary ia
groom the horse than any other farm ami
NAL, because he is the last to groom him
self. Cattle will groom themselves to a
certain extent; yet there can be no more
profitable work than brushing and rub
bing them, though it is rarely done. The
hog, reputed to be the dirtiest OF all
farm animals, is really the most cleanly,
and if allowed to do so will keep his hide
clean. This he does by putting on 2
coat of mud. This he scratches of and
with it remains the impurities which
have adhered to his hide and which the
wet earth has loosened. Wallowing not
only contributes to the comfort of swine,
but is of the utmost Importance to Their
health.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14

The only means of which we can con-
ceive with human power for the preven-
tion, or at best the rendering less fire.
quent, of cyclones, is in the covering of
the face of the country as much as pos
sible with trees and verdurc. Let there
be ascending moisture instead of ascend
ing currents of heated air. In the great
timbered valleys of the Amazon cyclones
are unknown; yet when we look at
the formation of the land, it is probably
one of the most monotonously level
regions on the face of the earth. In the
vast area drained by the Amazon and its
tributaries might be packed the whole
United States and not one of its boun-
diaries would anywhere be touched.
Seen from any of the eastern spires of
the Andes, this whole region is sea of
verdure. The boundless and unbroken
forests give it the appearance of an il
limitable meadow. From the grassy
steppes of Venezuela to the treeless pampas
Of Buenos Ayres expands this sea of
vendure. In it we might at almost any
point draw a circle of eleven hundred
miles in diameter, within which all
would be an unbroken evergreen forest.
And so matted, corded, and festooned
with vines are all the trees of this forest,
and such il the exuberance of the under
growth, that ''macheta" must be used
with which to hew a way into the wall
of vegetation the moment the voyager on
one of the rivers puts foot ashore from
his canoe. Such is the steaming moisture
within these great forests that salt soon
becomes brine, the best refined sugar
becomes syrup, epson salts and many
other kinds of medicine deliquesce, and
the best gunpowder becomes liquid in
few days, even when inclosed in
canister. Take away the forests and
verdure, and leave this Regional vast
desert plain, and it would no doubt at
once become a very playground of
cyclones.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-08-14
The Hair and Mental Diseases.

A housing German--one Dr.. J. Pohl-
Pincus, of Berlin-after twenty. five years
OF laborious research has establ shed that
by an examination of the roots of the
hair incipient stages of bodily and men.
tai disease may be detected before other
symptoms are discernibe. II the hairs
that are combed or brushed out daily are
examined microscopically, by polarized
light, the enlarged dubious end of the
root will show awhile contour and vel.
iowlsh or brownish-red center. If the in.
dividual be in healthy condition of
body and mind. Various departures
from these characters indicate approach.
ing or existing diseases without any ap-
parent bodily or mental symptom. Thus
violet, blue, or bluish.green colors of the
center points TO emotional dishrbarce Of
moderate grade; while green. yellow. or
orange warns Of the onset Of serious
trouble Chicago Ne,rs.