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RESPECTS TO THE PRESIDENT.
Four Hundred Hand Shakes at Yester.
DAYS HcccntiOn.

Four Hundred Hand Shakes at Yester-
days reception.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct 20, 1856 When
the President entered the east room, shortly
after l. 80 o'clock to-day, he was confronted
by exactly 400 people, who were waiting to
shake hands with him. Tho majority of tho
Wis tors were delegates from the
Rrilroad Conductors Association, which
in Baltimore Many were accompanied
by th ,ir wives and a goodly number
of children, and altogether they were a fin9
assemblage. When the president took his
stan I, ex-President Charnplin shook him by
the hand, and explained they were the dee
gates and members of the Conductors Insur-
ance Association of the United States and
Canada, on a short visit TO Washington. The
pres dent replied: "Wel, ] am glad TO meet
the members of the Gold Reliable" and the
Handwriting operation began and lasted
about twenty minutes The president recog-
nized some old railroad acquaintance,
and numerous hearty greetings fol
lowed. Young miss of about IL years
handed the President n bouquet of fragrant
flowers as she passed, which he held in his
left hand during the remainder of the recep-
ton. At the end of the inc was gentleman
bearing a slight resemblance to ex-Presi-
dent Arthur, who stepped before the Pres;-
don't and exclaimed: ID. ID you ever see me
beforeP' Tho President recognized him at
once, and gave him a hearty handshaking
and detained him for u few minutes chat. A
lady who had passed gained courage from
this, and, returning, endeavored to call the
Presidents attention to some matter, but her
interview was very unsatisfactory, for The
President positively, but courteously, de
clned to listen to her.
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"Carat,N

This term was derived from the name
of the seeds from the Abyssinian cora
flower or coral tree. These, OK" is in
formed, were very small and very equal in
size, and were formerly used in weigh
ing gold and precious stones. Hence,
carat has become the name of the weight
used by jewellers for weighing precious
stones, and the word is also used to in
dictate the proportion of pure gold pre-
sent in any alloy of that metal. As a
weight fordiamonds, the carat represents
3 is Troy grains, and is divided into
fourths (or carat grains), as well as into
eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and
sixty-fourths. In regard to gold, the
word carat represents no absolute weight,
but only ratio or proportion. Gold is
never used for coinage, jewelry, etc., in
pure state; it is alleged with a coarser
metal, sometimes with copper and silver,
and sometimes with copper alone, for
the purpose of working, and to secure
the necessary hardness. To indicate the
proportion of pure gold in any metal
thus alleged, the metal is divided into
twenty-four parts or carats; twenty -four
carats meaning pure gold, and any less
number of carats meaning the fraction
or proportion of gold to be found in the
alloy. Sterling gold 0he gold of British
coinage) contains twenty-five parts of
gold and two parts of alloy; it is there
fore said to be twenty-five carats fine"
or "22- carat gold" The lower stand
ard, used for watch cases, jewelry, etc.,
contains eighteen parts of gold, and
six parts of alloy; it is therefore called
"1S-carat gold" But much larger pro-
portion of alloy is often introduced into
gold represented as STANDARD - thus we
have fifteen, twelve and even 9-carat
gold. Cuhipator.
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Making MOEkcyS Useful,

Perhaps the only attempts which have
been made to civilize the monkey have
been in Malabar, India. A fine species,
indigenous in that quarter, is the neil
CHERRY langur. The natives there have
tanning machine, called the punka. In
other days the punka-which consists of
movable frame covered with canvas
and suspended from the ceiling-was
kept in motion Ivy slave pulling a cord.
An English officer conceived the idea of
teaching the langur to do the work. He
took one of the species and tied its
hands to the cord, while, by means of
another cord, the machine was kept in
motion. The movement of the cord is
up and down, and, of course, the mon
keys hands, being tied, went up and
down, and the animal saw the motion of
the machine. It's master patted its head
and fed it with candy, and the langur
soon learned to think it fun to work the
machine. When l was in Malabar
securing specimens of this species, l saw
thousands of them working the punka,
the Indians having immediately put the
animals in captivity when they saw their
utility. --A,gonaut.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Mr.. MYRoN WHITNEY, the favorite singer,
has bought fine home at Watertown, Mass.
Mrs. kendall, the leading actress Of Eng
land, is said to pride herself on her homeli-
ness.
the $4,000 Opera House at San Antonio,
Texas.
HERR WACHTEL the once famous German
tenor, is suffering from enlargement of the
heart and dropsy.
THE Violet Cameron English combination,
including the manager, Lord Lonsdale, has
not been a success in New York
NINE MINNIE HAUK refused to sing at Nc
brassa City recently on account of the dilap-
idatel condition of the opera house.
WI ON BARRETT, the English actor, has
been successful in his presentation of "Claud
ian, at the Star Theatre, New York.
ALFRED j. MUTT, the nurse who attended
John Mccullough, is shortly toplay 'diiche-
lieu' in au amateur entertainment in Phila-
deli ha.
A DISPATCH from London states that
Madame Christine Nilsson is seriously ill
with bronchitis. Her concert tour has been
abandoned.
MILE. RHEA introduces in new play of
ners, called The Widow, a pug dog done up
in mourning to correspond with her own as
sumed weeds.
Miss HELEN DAUvRAY has captured the
theatre-goers of Philadelphia with her i'm
personation of Kate Shipley in Zone of Our
Girls" which she is playing there to crowded
and fashionable houses.
THE annual cost of maintaining the two
royal theatres at Berlin is one million dol
lars. Nearly one-ffth of this sum is annually
contributed by the Emperor. All the mem
bers of the German royal family pay for
their boxes.
HFNRI RocHEFoRr's new drama, GA
Daughter of Ireland" was performed at the
Standard Theatre in New York, the other
night. The general opinion seems to be that
the play is ''unutterably bad and speculative
ly ridiculous"
A New YORK actress, who "stars the prin-
cipal cities of the Union" dazzles her pro-
vincial audiences with an array of Jewels
that includes 465 diamonds, Is emeralds, 10
rubies, II sapphires, four lapis lazulis, two
cats eyes and one large turquoise.
A NEW musical instrument has been in
vented by Mr.. William Marshall, of London.
1t is of the piano class but is distinguished
from that instrument by having ''a chest
something like that of a violin, which it has
instead of a pianos sound-board." The in
ventor claims for his instrument, which he
calls "chordamia," that it is ''super-excelent
for vocal and instrumental accompaniment
in the private family circl, and in the ord;-
nary concert room, and it also serves, though
less well, for solo playing in the private fam
lily circle"
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The nursery tale of Blue Beard is said
to date back over 400 years.
The only Unitarian churches in the
south are in Charleston, New Orleans,
and Atlanta,
The bathroom of Nine. do Lesseps
cost So, 900. The exposed faucets and
pipes are all gold-plated.
Under the extravagant habits of the
Roman empire string of pearls was
sometimes cast among the people for a
scramble in the public games of the cir
Gus.
A California COW swallowed stick
twenty inches long and nearly an inch
thick, and in due course of time it
worked its way out of her side without
doing her much damage.
The combined capital of the Roths
childs is estimated at $1,000, 900, 900.
Half of this has been gained within the
last twenty five years, and the whole of
it in scarcely more than a century.
The crysolito was in old times sup
posed to possess peculiar virtues, and nc
cording to old chroniclcrs there was a
crysolite naturally in the form of a
woman which was potent against fasci-
nations of all kinds.
One of the foremost dangers supposed
to hover around the new born infant was
the propensity of witches and fairies to
steal the most beautiful and well-favored
children and to leave in their places
such as were ugly and stupid. These
were usually called changelings.
The milk product of Paretz, the pri-
vate estate of the German Grown Prince,
near Berlin, has been farmed out. Par
ctz, once the favorite summer sojourn of
Queen Louise, the mother of Emperor
William, has a model farm connected
with it, whose dairy department yields
nearly 1000 quarts of milk per diem.
A black gum tree has been found on
the eastern shore of Maryland which ex-
udes tiny streams of water from its
branches and twigs Standing short
distance from the tree, so as to place it
between the spectator and the sun, the
suns rays reflect beautiful rainbow
through the mist.
Holyrood Day or Holy Cross Day
(Sept. 1G was instituted by the Roman
Catholic Church, on account of the re-
covery of large piece of the cross by
the Emperor Hcraclius, after it had
been taken away on the plundcring of
Jerusalem by Chosroes, King Of Persia
Among the customs associated with this
day was that of going a-nutting
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MORE THREES WANTED.
The Treasury Calls for SIO,OOO,OOO of
the Redcc bic Bonds.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 20. The secre-
tary Of the treasury this afternoon ISIS ued tho
144th call for the redemption of bonds. The
call is for $4,000, 001 of Londs of the 8 per
cent loan of 1882 The principal and accrued
intere 1t will be paid at the United States
treasury in this CT Dec. l. 1856, when the
interest on the following bonds will cease:
1hree per cent. bonds issued I'm er the act of
Congress approved July u, 1882 and num-
bered as follows:
s5l-Orignal number 49,
Sl00-Origina number 610 to original
number G40, both inclusive.
S500-Orginal number 267 to original
number 2S5, both inclusive.
s1000-Original number 2176 to original
number 2434, both inclusive.
$40, 000-Original number 6326 to original
numb + 1908, both inclusive.
Total-Sl0, 000,00J
The bonds described above are either bonds
of the ''originalh issuA, which have but one
serial number at each end, or substitute
bonds,n which may be distinguished by the
double set of numbers, which are marked
plainly Original numbers and substitute
numbers All of the bonds of this loan will
be called by the original numbers only. Par
ties holding bonds called by this circular can
obtain immediate payment, with interest to
in the letter forwarding the bonds for re-
demption. Many of the bonds originally in
cluded in the above number have been trans
ferred or exchanged into other denomina-
tions on waiver the original numbers be-
ing cancelled or have been redeemed under
circular of Sept. Is, 1886, and leaving out
standing the apparent amount above stated
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FALSE CUSTOM ENTRIES.
A Decision that Mil Save Hundreds o.
Thousands OF Dollars.

~
Thousands OF Dollars.
WASHINGTON, d. e, Oct. 20. The col
lector of customs at New York has recon-
menled to the treasury department that
rule be established requiring all entries OF
imported merchandise to be sworn TO when
presented and before they are examined by
the entry clerk. He does this, he
saws, for the lie son that under
the present prac ice of allowing entries { o be
sworn TO after examination b. the entry
clerk, the entry papers, with the designation
thereon Of the packages to be sent to the
public stores for examination, are accessible
to tn, public, SO that importers or their
agen are afforded an opportunity of know
ing what packages are to be examined before
the entry is fully completed. Acting c e.
tary Fairchild has informed he collector that
the department concurs in his view that this
latter method affords opportunities for
practices dangerous to the revenue
and has directed that hereafter entries of inn
ported merchandise be verified when pre-
sented and before they are, examined by the
entry clerk, and that such other steps be
taken as may he necessary to prevent i'm
porters from ascertaining at any time before
the entry is fully completed what packages
are to be examined. This is most I'M
portant ruling, and VIII save to the govern
mrnt hundreds of thousands Of dollars it is
now defrauded Of by false entries.
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Ernp I,pciurpS.

Mrs. Awljaw-Mr. Cough must have
been remarkable man. l have read
that he lcctured nine thousand times.
Mr.. Awljaw-Nothing remarkable in
that.
Mrs. A.-No2 Where is there SINH.
lar case?
Mr.. A.-Lct me see. We have been
married thirty years. Now, you have
lectured about every nigh;--!et us say
thirty tines three hundred and fifty
Seanee breaks up in disorder.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04
A Historic Bullet.

The bullet which slew DR.. Joseph
Warren at Bunker Hill fight has been
for seventy-five years in the custody Of
Mr.. W. H. Montague, once eminent
merchant Of this city, who recently died
at the Old Gentlemen's Home. It is
hoped thut the Bostonian Society will
add 1t to their unique and valuable col.
lection Of relics. Boston Budget.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

D. L. MOODY. the reviyalist, is about to
begin work in the South.
FRED DOUGLASS and wife are attracting
much attention in England.
SIMON CAMERON is the only survivor of
the Senate of Folks Administration.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY has swung around
the circle and is back in Boston again, not as
clergyman, but as reader.
IT is announced that ex-Empress Eugene
will spend the coming winter in Malta. Her
health is said to be declining.
MICHAEL DAvITT, the Home Rule leader,
has started fund to build boats for suffer-
ing ishermen ON the coast of Ireland.
THE weak-minded King Otto of Bavaria is
still kept in confinement. He asks for news
papers occasionally, but throws them away
without reading.
JOHN Tyler COOPER, the anti-Prohibi-
zionist candidate for Mayor of Atlanta, is
grandson of both President Tyler and James
tenimore Cooper.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER OBERLY
always dresses in black, clerical looking
garb, and at home he is known familiarly
among his friends as The Bishop"
KALAKAUA, King of the Sandwich Islands,
celebrates his fifteth birthday on Nov. 10th.
He has offered valuable pris IS to winners of
yacht ia eS frcm San Francisco to Honolulu.
THE White House is enliveued by the pres
ence of little child. May Cadman, a cousin
OF Mrs. Cleveland, is attending one of the
publ.c hools of Washington and living at
the Executive Mansion.
GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT is seventy
four years old, but is said to look young
enough TO pass for man of sixty. He lives
in commodious house near the British
Legation in Washington.
DIR. TAFEL, the lending Swedenborgian
Minister in London, i, about to take out nat
uralization papers in England. He was once
professor OF languages at Harvard, and went
TO England about sixteen years ago.
BARON Won FABER was in clover the other
day. He OWNS the far-iamel Faber pencil
ia tory at Nuremberg, and was celebrating
the l25th anniversary of its founding. Hun
dreds Of congrat1lat ny telegrams, written
with "Faber's, reached him.
PAUL DU CHAILLU, the traveller and au-
thor, who has been living in Copenhagen for
the past few years has Just completed a work
ON the wanderings, religion, culture and con-
quests of the early Scandinavian tribes, which
Is entitled The Viking Age"
Prince KARANoKoKo, of Senegal, Africa,
who is now visiting London, is said to be
taking a most intelligent interest in all he
see, and his observations prove him to be
possessed Of good mental qualities. He keeps
diary IN which he lots down his impressions
of people and customs
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The Mexican Ell Paso.

In one of her letters from Mexico Fan
ME B. Warde says: Beside the steam
car transit, small pile trestle bridge
which is used also as a highway for
wagons and pedestrians, connects the
two Ell Pasos by horse car line. 1t is
difficult to realize that in merely cros-
sing that narrow, yellow and insignif-
can't looking stream we bid "ados" to
the land of the stars and stripes, its laws
and its protection, and plunge into a
country as old as Egypt? That five
minutes ride transports Us into another
world, as it were--into the land of a 70.
mantle race, whose civilization, coeval
with the palmest days of Persia, par
takes strangely of the Orient. The Mex
lean side of the Rio Grapdc shows more
foliage, flowers, orchards, gardens a
striking and pleasant contrast after the
deserts we have passed; and still more
pleasing to eyes that have become weary
of mushroom palaces and freshly painted
smartness are the old gray walls and
softened tints-thc indescribl able air Of
rest and repose that well becomes coun.
try which was hoary with antiquity before
our lusty infant, the United States, was
born.
The Mexican E Paso, though called
the "twin" of the opposite town, is al
least centuery Older but is considered
by the time worn neighboring villages as
precocious young fledging, barely out
of the shell. 1t has a population of about
1000 and is distinguished from its
American sister by the worls del Norte
-s'of the North" Strolling over the
place one sees few signs of the alleged
progress of these latter days.
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EXCURSIONS TO THE STATUE.
Thousands of PeoDIc TO Down to Look
at the Tall rrorI".

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Ten thousand people
from way back and the pumpkin and hayseed
resorts visited the statue Of Lib rty 10 day.
They had come TO New York on innu-
merable rural excursions, but hadn't besn
able to get within gunshot of the statue
on the day it WAS Dedicated. Two
excursion staamboa's, the Florence and
the Field, ran to the island ali dag, and they
were crowded with passengers on every TRIP.
Half a dozen French artisans dongled by
ropes from the torch of the statue, and were
busy driving finishing rivets in the uplifte1
arm. They looked no bigger than flies. None
of them were taller th1u I.iberty's thumb.
Oiher vorkmen were crawling like pigmies
around Literty's neck, I. ave.ling over the
folds of her draper. One man Sc; on her
ear: another was drivinga rivet in the tip Of
hernCsa.
Arrangements for kindling the torch Of Tho
statue have notyet Teen perfected, but lhe
torch win propably send its fame over tue
la 'o-T1orrow night.
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THREE TRAINS WRECKED.
Double Hlundnr and Disaster on the
Central Vermont Railroad.

BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Oct 29,-There was
a serious smashup this morning at Gassetts
station, on the Central Vermont road IL
miles north of here. The officials
ore reticent regarding tie details. No 4,
mixed freight and pass niger train, leaving
here at 430 while Stopping at the station,
was run into in the rear 10y an extra freight
following and lacking the proper tagging.
No. 6, freight leaving here at q o'clock, ran
into the rear of the extra on the bridge,
wrecking all ;hreo trains aud entirely block
aiding TIE track, VII oh will not lie c.ear be-
fore tomorrow. No one is seriously injured,
but the damage to rolling stock is large.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Next to the bowels, or rather in conjunction
with them, the kidneys and bladder are the
most important scayengers OF the system.
preventing rheumatism, dr0psy, Brights dis
ease and diabetes by their active cleansing
work. Hostetter's Stomach Btters, when the
OF their important function, renews it, and
thus averts renal maladies, the most difficult
TO cope with, and which superinduce fright
M loss OF bodily tissue, stamina and flesh.
When tho renal organs exhibit the slightest
symptoms OF inacton, they should at once re-
ceive the ,needful stimulus from this safest,
surest and plcasantest of dlure,ics. Chills and
fever, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint
and debility are also remedicd by Il.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Scovilfs Sarsaparilia, ar Is ool and Liver
Syrup, Tor the cure OF Sorofu Gus Taint Rheu-
matism, White Swelling, Govt, Goitre, Com
Sumption, bronchitis, Nervous ID, lily, Ma
laria, and ali seases arts ng I ON an Impure
condition of the bio ID. &c tificates ca n be
presented from many leading physicians.
ministers and he IDS OF lam Ii 8 t roughout
the land, endorsing Scovill's Blood aud Liver
syrup. We are constantly In receipt of cer-
sources, and we r.commenl it as the best
known remedy for the cure Of the above 0is-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Is not often recorded buI those who write 70
nalett q Co., Portland Maine, will learn OF a
upwards a day. You can do the work and live
at home, wherever yol are located. Full par
tlcuiars VIII be sent you free. Some have
You are started in business free. Both sexes.
All ages. Immense profits sure for those who
start at once, Your first act should be to write
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Architect Edmond Legendre, 40 Suffer-
street, San Francisco. Cal, states that having
suffered for o long time with q severe cough,
and failing to obtain any relief from doctors
and tho numerous preparations he took, ho
became alarmed. Tried Red Star Cough Cure,
and one bottle entirely cured him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Mr.. Ed. p. Wells, Thetis p. o., Stevens CO.,
Wash. Territory, was entirely cured Of rheu-
matism by the use Of St, Jacobs Oil. He says:
VI consider IL wonderful remedy and will
always speak good word for it."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

The San Francisco mint employs at present
900 hands. 1t is the .argest In the word, hay-
Ing a coinage capacity twice that OF Phiia-
deiphia and thrice that OF the English
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Two ladies out walking met gentleman.
He raised his hat TO one and the other said:
DO you know that gentlemanYn "Oh, yes"
the other replied; his mother was my mothers
only child, "What re alton was the gentle-
m an IN tina laly9N nIIer
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

"More than all other Lung Remedies" is
what f. w, Fairman, druggist, Deighton, Ind,
VIZ ties of Aliens Lung Bllsam. He has sold 10
for eight years. and IL gives satisfact on In all
cnsca. PC, &c IL SIlO ner hOIlle, Druggistl.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

There are over 10000 persons in low
who are drawing pensions from the
United States.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

ONE Of every five we meet has some fora OF
Heart Disease and is in constant danger of
sudden death. DIR. Kilmer's DC ean-Weed
Heart Remedy regulates, corrects and cures.
Price Sl.00-6 bottles SIS CO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Get Lyons Patent Heel Stffeners applied to
Il ose new boots and they will never run over
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

II afflicted with sore eyes use D.. Isaac Thomp- |
sons Eye-water. Drugg SITS sell BIC per bottle
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

For RATES for advertising In this paper apply to
tie publisher Ne FOrty-fOur
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04

Bronchitis Is cured by frequent small doses
OF Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION.