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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
The Car Sends for His Uniform.

When Prince William of Prussia visi-
ted the Russian Emperor on the occasion
of the recent imperial hunt at Brest-
Litovsk, the Gar found himself with
out Prussian uniform, and the conse-
quence was that messenger had to
travel all the way from St. Petersburg
by special train to repair the deficiency.
The Car discovered his loss the after
noon before Prince Williams arrival.
Sending word to his valet to have
Prussian uniform in readiness for the
morrow, the man appeared to say that
by his imperial masters orders all uni
forms had been left at st. Peters,
burg.
An aide-de-camp was sent for. ga
Prussian uniform must be here by 7
o'clock tomorrow morning." 1t was
then o'clock. The aide de camp dcs-
patched two kilograms, one to the mas
ter Of the imperial wardrobe at St.
Petersburg, and the other to the rail-
way authorities, and about 6 o'clock a
locomotive set off from the Russian capi-
tai carrying the messenger entrusted
with the required dress. Fresh locomo-
tives were in readiness at Dunaberg and
wilma, and the distance of $50 kilo-
metres was traversed in thirteen hours, a
rate of 70 kilometres per hour, so that
the uniform was in readiness for the
Gear at the time fixed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Love Me, Love NV Dog,

"Will your dog bite, JohnnieW asked
Johnnie's sisters beau of that youngster,
as he met him with an ugly cur tied to a
string.
"Nary bite" replied Johnnie, conf
IDENTIFY.
The young man put out his hand to
pat the brute, and the result was a
snapped finger. He jerked away his
hand in rage and exclaimed:
"Why, you miserable little rascal, you
said that nasty cur wouldn't bite"
''Oh, no." said Johnnie, coolly.
'Yes, you did; confound YOU"
'No, didn't. You said, "will your
dog bite Johnnie2" and 1 said he
wouldn't, and he won't. He never bit
Johnnie in all his born days and it
wouldn't be good for i'm if he did. Bet
your life that dog knows what to bite"
and Johnnie went of whistlin Z, with the
dog trotting along at his Leeis, looking
back over his stump tail at Johnnie's
sisters beau. = 7id-Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
No Sandpanor.

Detective John Webb was passing the
Bates Street end of the vegetable market
three or four days ago when a stranger
accostcd him with:
''Say, l came in town tho other day to
git my boots fixed, and l was looking
around this place a little and lost
silvc dollar out of hole in my pocket
''But you didn't come back to look
for it, did YOUR
eyes, l did. think I lost it right
over there, where I lodged wagon.
Have you heard Of any one pickining up
a dollari"
''No, SIR"
''seen any advertisement in the
papera
"No. You'd better save your time"
"Why"
'Why, man, you aren't green enough
to expect to get that dollar back, are
you2"
''Of course / am! Wasn't it minea
Didn't lose it2'
'Wclll Welt Some one ought to
sandpaper your head!"
'They had, eh9' qucried the man as
he searched around the street. 81 lost
it just about here, while I was jumping
out Of the way of wagon. If anybody
tries to rub any sandpaper on my head
lll-m
He made a dive into the dirt and
fished up silver dollar, and as he held
it between his thumb and finger and
danced around he cried:
''Here she is-this is the very one! I
know it by the nick cut on the edge!
Ought to have my head sandpapered,
had l! Well, you just bet know my
gait, and Pm dollar ahead! It's lucky
for me, though, that you didn't find il.
You look just like man who'd have
chucked it into his pocket and let me go
to ruin. Sandpaper! How would you
like to bite file!"
And the abashcd detective couldn't
say o word in his own defence. Detroit
Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Where Beer Runs In Rills.

Hartman says in hisn book: "What
would Munich be without beer2" As a
ship stranded. The capital of Bavaria
floats on an ocean of foaming beer. Pco-
pie do not in common conversation spec
ulatc over the weather, but ask at once:
''How is the beer to-day?" The Bava-
rian does not drink beer because he is
thirsty, "but because he enjoys it, and
because he enjoys it he drinks much.'
j., Every man in Munich guzzles his four
quarts per diem. There are thousands
who swallow their eight quarts and
many who will swill their ten and
twelve quarts. l knsw one man who
told me he had been drinking sixteen
quarts daily for years. A student will
manage at one sitting from ten to six
teen quarts, which would fill about six
ty of our gases. A congress CT staid
scientific fellows met at Munich festi-
val and each one drank Clio quarts
during short sitting.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mrs. NELLIE GRANT-SARToRIs will soop
come to this country to visit her mother.
OSCAR WILDE is now so fat that estaeti
cism and he may be regarded as strangers
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE is great walker,
and he sneers at the Washington street
cars.
COLONEL JOHN s. MosBY is to lecture on
fifty nights the coming winter, and is to be
paid $500 night.
THE three wives of John W. Young, the
son of the late Mormon leader. accompany
him in his travels about the country
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND did not 60 to
Buffalo to vote. Indications point to his hav-
ing given up his residence in that city.
Miss CLEVELAND has severed her connec-
ton with the Chicago Literary Life, after
three months thorny editorial experience.
JAY GOULD is said to have a superstition
in regard to elevators. He will never ride
in one if he can help it, preferring to tramp
up the stairs
ANDREW CARNEGIE's new castle in the
Alleghenies, which is TO cost 81 ,000, 600 will
be built entirely OF undressed surface stone
found on the place
THE Gar has large "play roomn at his
Winter Palace where lie swings. climbs
poles, pays ball and slides down hill, with
no jealous NihiiSts around to interfere With
his sport.
BARTHoLDI's CUP of greatness needed lust
one more drop to be full. - has come at last
A post-o!fice in Dakota has been named in
honor of the great French sculptor of
Liberty statue
JEFFERSON DAVIS is said to be in better
health this fall than for number of years.
His mind is clear, and he is becoming very
animated talker, and is beginning to interest
himself more in public affairs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
A Nan l Like.

! like man who all mean things dsspises,
A man who has a purpose irm and true;
Who faces every doubt as 1t rise,
And murmurs not at what he finds to do.
like man who shows the noble spirit
Displayed by knights Of Arthur's table
round;
Who, face to face with life, proves his real
merit,
Who has soul that dwells above the
ground.
And yet, one who can understand tho worry
or some chance brother fallen in the road,
And speak to hm kind word mid tho
hurry,
Or lay an easing hand upon his load.
Large hearted, brave-souled men to-day are
needed
Men ready when OCCASIONS doors swing
wide;
Grand. men to speak tho counsel that Is
needed,
And men in whom nation may conflde.
The world is wide, and broad its starry
arches,
But tagging malcontents it can not hold;
The way Of life to him who upright marches
Has ending in far-off street Of gold.
Meredith Nicholson
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

EDWIN BOOTH is being made great social
iion in the West
JULES LEVY, the cornetist, is to make a
tour of the world
IT costs Sl,0)0000 a year to keep up the two
royal theatres Of Berlin.
BoUCICAULT will not appear in the new
American play that he has written.
AMBROSE THOMAS has resigned his posi-
tion as director Of the Paris Conservatory Of
Music.
CAMPANINI, the tenor, is to have an opera
tion performed on his throat in order to give
greater purity to his voice.
DUPREz, the onee-famous tenor, has
hobby for cats in his old age He is said to
feed hundreds of them every day.
MARIE RozE, the singer, recently won
great succ ass in England in the role of Elsa
in 'Lohengrin," which she attempted for the
first time.
Mr.. ABBEY has offered Barry Sullivan,
the English actor, an engagement OF thirty
weeks in the United States, and Barry thinks
of accepting.
A NEW None d Figaro three-act
operetta by Antonio Martini, q composer Of
Leghorn has been produced with great sue
cess at Florence.
NINE GE9sTER GARDINI, the great Ger
man singer, has become insane in conse-
quence, it is reported, of loss Of yoica after
her recent confinement.
IT is said that Anton Sheletzky, the pianist
now living in Detroit, is finishing a grand
opera, the libretto Of which is based upon
Bulwers story of "Zanoni."
"CALAYLAs," the new play that Lawrence
Barrett is now getting ready, will be first
produced in Washington. Tne scene OF the
play is laid in Spain and treat of the expul-
sion of the Moors from Granada,
Miss CLARA MORRIS played Camille" at
the Union Square Theatre, New York at
recent 2 P. NJ. matinee, and owing TO the IA
tiguing waits between the acts, the audi
ence did not leave until 6:l5 T. NJ. twas
severe test Of an actre eis'S popularity, but she
bore it without finehing and without loss.
IT is stated that the Violet Cameron Opera
Company, as financial venture, is proving
q sad failure The salary list Is enormous,
and, with the exception of TIE first two
nights, there hasn't been paying house in
New York. Lord Lonslaie is likely to share
the same fate as another prominent English
Peer, who sank e43 90 in trying his hand at
managing Lioncl = 'urh
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Philoso ply OF tho Falling Leaf.

Leaves are the most important part of
the plant. A portion Of the food which
plants require is conveyed through the
roots, but by far the larger portion is
absorbed through the leaves. Leaves
perform for plants like function, to
some extent, to that which the stomach
does for man and the other orders Of the
animal kingdom which possess that
organ. They assimilatc the plants food,
converting inorganic matter into organic.
Leaves are green because it is only in
green matter that assimilation occurs.
The food is gathered by the leaves from
the sunlight, air and moisture, or rain.
The larger the leaves the more food they
absorb if exposed TO sunlight and air,
and, in some cases, the more rapidly the
plant grows. At the end of the summer
the leaf becomes loaded with solid inor-
ganic matter and its functions are i'm
paired. Its color then becomes modified.
The green hue changes in the case of
leaves of trees into yellow, brown, scar
let or other color, depending on the
variety of tree, the condition of the at
mosphere as respects the moisture and
the presence or absence of frost. Where
the air is dryest and frosts come
earliest after the leaf begins to
change its color, the hues are the bright
est and most varied. When the green
color has vanished the leaf, being then
incapable of receiving food from the
clements, dries up and dies. But not
one leaf falls unless wrenched off by
external forces without leaving behind
it in embryo the bud which is to unfold
into leaf and perform like service for
the plant in the succeeding year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
Bi m,rck an the Burgom ,st r.

Prince Bismarck, delayed at a railroad
station between Frazenbad and Berlin,
at Reichenbach, inquired of the burgo-
master of the place if the sausagcs and
the beer were good. Having been
answered in the affirmative, the burgo-
master said: ''There has been fear of
war, but it is not yet so near, is it your
Excellencyf' "God preserve us far
from it." said the chancellor; "you
have time enough yet to read Goethe's
Faust"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18

not know that instrumental music, bag.

not know that instrumental music, bag
pipes excluded, is the horror of these
northerners, that "human hymns" as the
ordinary poetic compositions are called,
are eschewed in the churches of the
highlands, and that the very mention
Of games for the BARNS will be regarded
with grave suspicion. ''At present."
adds the doctor, "whistling is strictly
forbidden" on st. Kilda.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18
" lIII UCSU NIoIICSy
"Your obedicnt servant,
GEORGE ALEXANDER Won L.

My story is finished. Inecd only add
that the ball extracted from the body Of
the Franctireur corresponded in weight
with those in the revolver Of my deceased
friend, and this discovery made the mys-
terry still darker.
Up to this day cannot explain the
strange transpirings of that night before
Paris. Can youG--Detriot Free Press.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12
THE SOUTH AND THE YANKEES"
Southern journal Signs for a Time When
Northern Ideas Will Prevail.

Greenville Is. Co. News.
The two sections began life together and
formed government The South had the ad
vantage of SOIL climate and wealth. At the end
of eightyfour years the TWO grappled and
fought The Yankee section came to the fight
richer and stronger than our Southern section
and beat into the earth while we did our
best To-day these Yankees are rich in every
thing and we are poor in everything but man
hood and womanEood, and have less than we
begun with one hundred years back. These
same Yankees furnish the bulk of the capital
we use the food we eat, the clothes we wear,
the books we read and study, the hight grade
teaching in the normal schools of the Southern
States
Almost every convenience of life and inven-
ton of art or science we know comes from these
same people, who have in ten years done more
with Florida than the Florida natives have done
in fifty. Almost any one of their large commu-
mites could buy the whole South for park if
they liked it for that purpose In fight they
could crush US like egg shells In politics they
are our masters, and we have to hold our breath
in every big campaign to avoid offending them.
Their percentage of ignorance is one-tenth of
ours When trouble comes on us we depend on
them for most of the help, and get it.
The world knows them as America and Us as
outlying and unconsidered provinces. They
are producing the represen tative poets, painters
and authors of the country, while we trail along
behind with our eyes fixed on them, hardly dar
ing to hope that We may become as strong, and
rich, and enlightened as they are by years of
hard work.
The majority understand that while we were
making statesmen, and warriors and ruling
politicians, the Yankees were making territory,
building manufactures and developing count
less army of trained minds and hands, strength
enlng and enlightening their masses, and max
ing them an exhausrless reservoir of intellect
and physical power; and that. if we are to share
the Yankee wealth, strength and place in the
world we must use some mot ALI Yankee ideas
and abandon some mot alb of our own.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12
LOOKING FOR A LOST HEIR.
\ Supposed Factory Hand Wanted for Whom
Vast Estates Are Waiting.
Boston Special.


Notices have been posted in Lowell, Law
renee, Fall River and other large manufacturing
towns of Massachusetts, as well as in Lewiston
and Augusta Me-, offering 20. 000f reward for
the discovery of Edward Marie Recamier, man
about sixty years of age, who is supposed to be
a work n some of the cotton factories in New
England. Two agents came over from France
last summer in search of him, and, failing to
find their man by inquiry, have resorted to ad-
vertising. He is wanted France to take posses
sen of an estate valued at over 1000, 000f.
The story is that cousin of the celebrated
Nine. Recamier, and the heir to o vast property,
ran away from home and enlisted In the French
navy during the reign of the First Napoleon
When his ship, the Pomme dor, arrived in New
Orleans he deserted, and coming to New Eng
land went to work in the factories Here he
married French Canadian girl, by whom he
had one child, the person who ls now wanted
When the boy was about two years old the father
deserted his wife and went back to France,
where he paid court to a lady of rank, a relative
of Nine. Roland, concealing his marriage in
America The ladys name was Ariet. After a
brief courtship she married Recamier. From
this marriage seven children were born Dur
ing all this time Recamier lived in neglect and
apparent forgetfulnesS of the factory girl he had
married wears ago in Massachusetts and who
was then toiing in the mill to support herself
and child.
Fifty years ago Recamier and his wife-that
is. the wife of his second marriage-both died.
Ten years later their children, who had come
into the possession Of the property discovered
among the effects papers disclosing the fact Of
the first marriage, which made the second mar
riage illegal The heirs of the second marriage
agreed to destroy the papers and divide the prop
erty between themselves. This was done, and
for forty years the estates have been in their
hands. About year ago quarrel took place.
and one of the heirs, now rioh from other sources
disclosed the scandal for revenge. He offers to
give up his portion of the inheritance, knowing
that the others will be ruined when they are
obliged to follow his example.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12
BILL NYE's FAILING HEALTH.
The Physical Health of the Great Humorist
Ebbing Away.
Chicago News.


With sincere regret we hear of the failing
health Of Mr.. Bill Nye, the popular humorlst.
Mr.. Nye had a serious illness three years ago
while he was still a-resident of Wyoming; it was
in the hope that change of climate would re-
store him to his oldtime vigor that he removed
to Wisconsin. The change did seem to benefit
him for while; perhaps if he had remained in
the quiet of his pretty Hudson home our bright
and lovable friend might now be as robust
and hearty ever he was. But Bill Nye
is busy man and conscientious man;
he has deemed it to be his duty to i'm
prove every opportunity to provide for his
family and for himself against the rainy DAYS
and there have been many rainy days in Bill
Nyes life-who among the rest of Us poor devils
does not understand it all? So Bill Nye has
worked hard and patiently-many times when
he has been IL of body and sick of heart; yet
out of this pain there has come much good as
will testify all of US who have been so thor
oughly warmed by his delicious humor. Within
the last year Mr.. Nye has been almost con-
stantly engaged in lecturing, and this employ
ment has taken him into all parts Of the country
IN every kind of weather, necessitating exposure
and all those Irregularities which surely impair
the health. The result seems to be that the
genial huInorsts physical condition is quite as
alarming as it was three years ago when he
came from the far West with the poisons of
malaria In his veins. MIR. Nye tells US that
less some change for the better sets in very
soon he will be compelled to abanon all work for
an indefinite period.
We repeat that it is with deep regret that we
receive this intelligence Of the excellence of
Mr.. Nye's work we have frequently spoken; the
high estimate we place upon it is Endorsed by the
public generally. But to the writer of these
lines comes feeling of ineXpresslbie sadness as
he looks back over the years that he has known
Bill Nye-as he remembers the old time out
West-as Bill Nyes heartiness. and candor. and
nobility beautify each memory-as he contem-
plates the tragedy of toll of poverty, and of
main ont of which blossomed a kindly mirth
that bred smiles and laughter everywhere-and
as now he finds that CHEEKY. valorous old friend
weakened and disheartened by ill-health, the
only obstacle in his way to permanent prosperity.
him is to love him, and that is why we wish we
could say now some words OF tenderness ex-
pressive of the admiration and of the affection
we have for this exceptional man.