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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
Origin and Use Of Neckties.

The very word cravat derived from
the Croats, a regiment of whom, all cra-
vated, arrived in Paris in 1900 has been
nearly lost. We no longer wrap up our
throats in thirty-two ways, which could
be taught in sixteen lessons. Cravats,
even in Paris, disappeared before the
revolution, when citizens named Brutus
or Timoleon wore their free necks bare,
which, also, was convenient when it came
10 being guillotined. But, as the terror
went out, cravats came in, and mounted
as high as the human ears, while they
overlapped the exquisite chin. In this
reaction the fashionable neck could not
be turned round, but Gen. Lassalle's life
|was saved by his cravat, which stopped
fistrI, bullet. In 1915 the English had
''thtr so-called victories printed on
keroiefs, which they wore round their
yaiglorious necks even in Paris. Napo-
leoI changed his luck, and lost Waterloo,
by Wearing white cravat in place of the
blak necktie 0wice round) which
adrned his person at Lodi, Marengo,
ASterlitz, Wagram, and other successful
encounters. The most illustrious way of
tybg the cravat was in ''the Gordian
KNIT" much like that still worn by peo-
pl who wear pins. There were also the
IRISH, the sentimental Gas in modern even
ins dress, the American the Oriental
Qiie turban), and the mathematical
klot which defies description. The
']alr' knot was not knot, but sim
plr arrangement, fixed by pins to the
bnces or fastened to the shirt. No one
uICler 40 wore the ''gastronomic" cravat,
which "unties of itself in case of apo
pexy"-a most valuable arrangement.
The knot Colin is still worn by French
men, the ''hunting knot" is like cork
screw, the Italian is run through a ring.
NJ one who respected himself could trav-
e with less than eighty cravats and an
ion for smoothing them with. Such
was "the number and hardness"-as the
payer-book says-of the laws and regu-
litions of the cravat under the happy
reign of Louis XVIII and in the consul
ship of Brummel - L0ngman's.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
A Brazilian Swell.

Brazilian titles are not hereditary, but
for three generations the descendants of
noblemen are entitled to the appellation
of ''mosa tidalgo," or ''young gentle
man." and enjoy the rights and privi-
legcs of their noble progenitors These
privileges consist mainly of being allowed
by law to ''put on more style" than Or
dinary individuals. If ''mosa tidalgo"
wants to enter the army he can do so as
a cadet, and is entitled to wear star on
his coat sleeve. When he goes to the
palace he can wear his hat until he comes
into the presence of the Emperor, and
while ordinary officers have to hitch up
their swords before entering the Imperial
neutals. s.-he- CAD 90. myth ~his--Weanoa
a hat in the house and
making a racket in the Emperor's
presence is highly priced by the youth of
Brazil. Then, too, a 'mosa tidalgo'
cannot be arrested except by a special
warrant from some high official-I have
forgotten which one-and when he goes
on ''racket" and breaks street lamps
and windows the police cannot arrest him
and the police justice does not give him
lecture with his fine the next morning.
Instead of that he is arrested with solemn
pomp and long warrant, and is confined
in the % Place of Honor in the prison.
When "mosa fidalgo'' leaves the coun-
try he goes to the palace and says ''good
bye" to the Emperor, and that monarch,
awfully bored, graciously permits him tc
purchase ticket by the first steamer
But in order to enjoy all these great priv
iegcs one must not only be ''mosa ii
dalgon but must take out a patent a
such. Then he can have the title printed
on his visiting cards and is IA recognized
"swel. N Y Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

Lieutenant Greedy is perhaps the only
prominent Arctic trasrler who now ad-
vances the theory advocated by Maury,
Kane, and Hays that there is an open
polar sea. His faith in this generally
discarded hypothesis rests upon the fact
that he saw foebergs on which were large
stones, establishing their terrestrial origin.
From their position he argues that they
could not have formed a part of the
glacial ice cap of Greenland, and he be-
lievcs they floatcd southwark from an ice
covered land near the pole. He advanced
his views on tlliS subject at several of the
public meetings he recently addressed in
Great Britain, and strange to say, none of
the great Arctic authorities who were
present. and who have steadily ridiculed
the notion which Lieutenant Maury pro-
pounded, attempted to combat Lieuten-
ant Grcely's theory or explain the phe
nomena he described Dr. John Rae
however, has since suggested that Gree
ly's focbergs may have been dcrivec
from immense masses of snow plllng VI
against some high and precipitous bit 0
coast, which gradually became solid ice
and then becoming detached from tn
land drifted away as fresh water floeberg
"a process which, he says, he has seenn
operation on the nothern coast of thi
! continent
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
A Natural Attraction.

He: 4" 1t was natural, you know, that
| should be attracted to you"
She (shyly): Indeed! Why"
He: d" Well, you know your, brother
studied law in the same office with me,
and we were admitted to the bar to-
gether."
She: " But what had that to do with
mc?n
He: " Why, don't you see, looked
upon him as a brother in law!'
She (blushing): "ohl see"
He: q Yes, brother in law de jure,
as it were. Now propose that he shall
be brother-in-law dc taeto as we'll"
Then he slipped the engagement ring
on her finger and their heads came clos
together, and the parian cupid on th'
mantle looked as if he was about to clal
his wings and crow.-Boston Courier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
Still Is 1t Night.

Still is it night
The thought which moved my heart but now
hath gone,
But with the light
1t must return-I will await the dawn.
'Tis winter still;
The world is cold as yet; so late the snow
Lies on the hill,
The footsteps of the waking hours so slow.
Yet one may hear
The soundless music of the frozen stream
By bending near;
Thus joy is mingled in this sorrows dream
Shall repinea
At all times-somewhere on this turning
earth
The sun doth shine;
The death Of hope must be the new hopes
birth
If then the shade
Must ever fall where shall chance to be,
And have made
The shadow mme-still must it comfort me-
Still shall | climb,
Even though the stars shine not on my sharp
way;
Sometime-sometime,
That upland will gain and find the day.
And if Gods grace
Hath closed the path, yet my last step shall be
With my dead face
Turned to that land which have longed to
see.
R. B. Wilson, in the Critic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
PRICE THREE CENTS.
The Eyer-Green Pine.

Oh, a valiant tree is the evergreen pine,
That grows on the bleak mountain side:
Not fear does it feel of the wind or tho
Storm
As it stands like king in its pride,
The lightning may fash round its tall wav-
ing crest
And the wind mid It's branches may rave;
But it stands in its strength like lion at bay,
Ora hero, who'll ne'er be a slave.
Oh, a sorrowful tree is the evergreen pine
That grows in the sweet smiling vale,
1t murmurs forever low, plaintive song
That resembles lorn lovers walk
1t stretches its strong, shady branches abroad
And it sighs to the flowers below,
And it tells of the sorrow corroding its heart
To the breezes that merrily blow.
Oh, bountiful tree is the ever green pine
That grows on the hills shopping side;
1t shelters the woodbild, gives shade to the
deer,
And makes cheerful our house, far and
wide
Then honored and loved be the evergreen
pine
That fears neither lightning nor gale
And cherished still more be the sorrowful
That sighs in the sweet smiling vale
NJ J. Riordan
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A recently published Army return
shows the total effective force of the
British regular army to be 201 900. The
distributions of this force is not without
its bearings on the Irish question. Ire
land is discontented, and, consequently,
there are nearly $4,000 men, with 60
field guns, quartercd there. Canada has
1900 and India SO, 900 troops In Egypt
there are only IA, 600 troops.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
A Washington correspondent remarks

A Washington correspondent remarks
that "personal remarks are usually out OF
order, but glancing from the reporters
gallery of the House over the array OF
members crowded on the floor, one cannot
avoid being surprised by the preponder-
ance of baldheads that not only glisten
in the sunlight, but impress the casual
observer with the fact that baldheaded-
ness must be one of the inexorable pre-
requisites for membership of the popular
branch. This denudement of capillary
ornamentation does not seem to be con-
fined to any one section or degree OF lati-
tudc, but is generally and uniformly scat
tered throughout the representatives from
all parts of the Union, and without re-
spect of age In fact the Oldest members
of the House, such as Judge Kelley, born
in 1914, Ex-Governor Curtin and General
Wolford, born in 1917, possess compare
/ lively full heads of hair, while much
younger members appear to have been sub
iected to the sand-papering process.
The veterans account for this by alleging
that in olden times they did not stand on
their heads so profusely as at present.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

Lady Macdonald, wife of the premier
of Canada, has private car when she
travels about the dominion or through
the United States She was returning
from Winnipeg recently, her car being
attached to Canadian Pacific train
which was showed in. She learned that
the regular passengers were suffering
from hunger, the regular dining car be-
ING side tracked at some station. She
accordingly ordered her servants to dis
tribute the provisions in her private car
among the hungry passengers, and re-
licvcd their suffcrings until the next
station was reached, when they provided
themselves with everything that the
town afforded
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

France has a genuine phenomenon in
the person of Professor Chevreul, the
scientist, who has passed his one hun
dredth birthday, He does not smoke and
never tasted spirits in his life. He works
in his chemical laboratory every day and
reads without glasses. He Is the oldest
working scholar and scientist in the
world
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
Bananas.

A pound of bananas, it is said, con-
tains more nutriment than three pounds
of meat or as many pounds of potatoes,
while as food it is, in every sense, su-
perior to the best wheaton bread. Al
though it grows spontaneously through
out the tropics, when cultivated its yield
is prodigious, for an acre OF ground
planted with bananas will return as much
food material as thirty three acres of
wheat, or over one hundred acres of po-
tatoes. 1t is not generally understood
that bananas fried, baked or roasted are
very appetizing, and that sliced and
placed in dish, with alternate slices Of
orange, they make a most delicious
dessert.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A musical sewing machine is "a new de-
vice for making life pleasant. A Berlin
inventor has produced machine which
turns out the ordinary amount of work,
and at the same time plays lively melo-
dies in great variety. One machine
might be charming in house, but
numberin shopmight produce anything
but harmony of sweet sounds, unless
they were all set to the same tune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

Mexico is said to possess only about 100
factories of all kinds, owing to the pau
city of water and the high cost of fuel
These factories employ about $4,000
hands, and those devoted to weaving
contain $500 looms and $50, 900 spindles.
The largest cotton mill is at Queretaro,
employs 400 hands, and manufactures
the unbleachad cloth worn by all In,
dions
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

In the chemical death chamber of un-
claimed ours at Battersea, London, the
dogs trot into the tempting room, '1ie
down, curl themselves round and round,
fall asleep" and so go to that bourne
whence no four-footed traveller returns.
This lnthal ahan,hns 10 flloI ...4n
vapor, produced by passing carbonc
oxide over surface of anasthetic mix
ture-composed of chloroform and bisul-
phidc of carbon
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A japanese gentleman, it is said, never
intrusts the making of tea to his servants
when company is present, but performs
this operation himself. He uses teapot
and cups of diminutive size, and makes
the beverage by pouring hot water upon
the tea leaves The water hardly touches
the leaves before he begins pouring off a
stream of pale straw-color tea as delicate
and fragrant as .ose leaves.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

In the old days it was the duty of
English eoroners to hold inquests not
only on deaths, but on fires, burglaries
and robberies. Inquests on fires are still
held in Northumberland, and it is now
proposed to rc-introduce into London the
ancient "crowner's quest law" in the
matter of fires
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
SO. LONDONDERRY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1885,

To some men the matter of an inland
Sea of Sahara is still live issue. An
estimate Just made by French engineer
puts the probable cost of making such
sea at $50, 900, 900, the bulk of the cost
being in canal cutting.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
HUMOROUS.

"Ahom :" exclaimed the needle.
Justitiable Notwithstanding girls.
1t is said the axe trade might be
sharper
A roadbed is for the convenience of
wheels when they are tired
''No," said the hack-driver, II can't
stop; my business is driving"
The home rule question--Who is to
get up and light the fire
"All flesh is grass" but some people
display more grecnness than Others.
In this progressive age it is pleasing to
know that every milk train has its cow
catcher.
A little girl, on seeing a peacock for
the first time remarked what beautiful
hustle it had,
'Hello. old man, How did yon come
to fall down :" 'Huh. Couldn't fall in
any other direction, could l 2"
Human efforts to achieve certain aims,
are very much like cat trying to catch
its tail Just as we think we are about
to succeed, away goes the tail
A taste for painting don't know;
He may, perhaps, be full Of it;
He did his best to paint COW,
And-we' He made bull of it.
what is most wanted IS not new wrinkles.
but some method of getting rid of the
old ones.
''This is a most trying situation,'
spoutcd the little whale, when he was
cut up and put in the boiling vats I'm
afraid it's ell over with me-" and he be-
gan to blubber.
why do all the cold waves come
from the northwest. nv dear?" asked
fond husband 'Oh, because there is
! so much GOODNESS between St. Paul and
Minneapolis, was the reply.
'It may be-" soliloquised an afflicted
old lady, "that my troubles are blessings
in disguise, as my friends are all the time
telling me, but | do wish they'd throw
off the disguise once in a while"
Thoughtful Young Lady Ito college
graduate) Who, in your opinion, Mr.
Muscle. was the noblest Roman of them
all College Graduate-I used to think
Hanlan was but wouldn't bet a cent on
any of EN- now.
SETTLER.
tMy wild oats now I've fully sowH,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A black or blue pencil mark opro-
site this paragraph indicates that your
subscription has expired, while re
mark shows that your subscription or
renewal has been received.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
A SETTLER

'tMy wild oats now I've fully sown,
I'm going to settle down;
Tomorrow month, Id have it known,
I marry sweet Miss Brown"
"That's good, accept my best regards,
May JOY oerfow your cup.
But ere your wife sends out more cards,
Suppose you settle up!n
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,
Issued Every Thursday Evening from
SITTER once.
So. Londonderry, VT.
TERMS.

To subscribers in Windham County and
elsewhere where bundles are sent, only ONE
DOLLAR II year. Outside Of Wndham County.
in single wrappers, ONE DOLLAR AND Ten
CENTS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
Advertising Rates

Advertising Rates
furnished on application, Births, Marriages
and Deaths published free. Obituary notices.
cards of thanks, ETC., cents q line.
Address SITTER OFFICE, South London.
derry, VI.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A friend to Hercules OF the Southern
provinces:
''What is that Ihear OF you? You have
been knocked down by carriage and
broken limbo"
"Just the contrary, my good friend. 1t
was | who overturned the carriage and
broke a wheel"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
Madame has just engaged a new cook.

Madame has just engaged new cook.
"You have excellent references" said
she to her new servant, ''and | hope l
shall be satisfied with YOU"
"Madamc can rely on me. l ask only
a leave of one hour twice week
Wednesday and Saturday"
''What to do?"
"Those are the days when I take my
piano lessons. ~ Translated for Graphic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18

A prisoner condemned to death is being
led to the scaffold
When he beholds the dreaded guillo-
tine he begins to utter horrible cries and
clutches the arms of the cXccutioner in
his fright An officer of the police, with
a frown, steps up to the prisoner, and
says in severe tone:
"Look here, my good fellow, if you
don't make less noise | shall have to ar
rest you for disorderly conduct"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-02-18
French Fun.

Mr. Goodman goes out for walk with
his son and they visit the Geological
Gardens. Arriving in front of a cage
containing some magnificent Cochin
China fowls, he remarks to his son:
"Admirc those superb animals - And
turning to the keeper he says, with the
tone of connoisscur:
s,sr.s.AsrTS~) 10y
"No, monsieur" replied the keeper,
'they belong to the Gardens"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
Active, Pushing and Reliable.

j. y. Rupert can always be relied upon
to carry in stock the purest and best
goods, and sustain the reputation of being
active, pushing and reliable, by recon-
mending articles with well established
merit and such rs are popular. Having
the agency for the celebrated DIR. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, colds
and coughs, viii sell II on positive guar
sntee. twill surely cure any and every
affection Of throat, lungs, or chest, and in
order to prove our claim, we ask you TO
call and get Trial Bottle Free.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
LETTER LIST.

LAST Of Letters remaining in the HALEY (Idahoj
Postofiee for the week ending September Is, 1896
Persons calling for any of these Letters will please
say advertised"
Anderson &c Heinecke
Anderson Jeffers VIM, 8
Cole Chas Long Henry, 2
Glenn james d Lawrence Mrs NJ
Harris George Lewis James
Hutchinson Mrs Means r .se
H. BEWS. Postmaster.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
THE BENEFITS OF CIRCUSES.

Yesterday a group Of gentlemen
who live off from Wood River, were
discussing the money effect upon a
neighborhood where circus makes a
visit. The general opinion of these
persons was that the circus carries off
so much money that it is curse TO
the place visited.
Let US look at this matter, taking
Coles visit to HALEY last Saturday,
for example. In round numbers Cole
took in $4,000. The consideration he
gave for that sum was a combination
of exhibitions which appeared to his
visitors ample for their money. They
therefore received value for their cash
outlay.
Few business places in Haley re-
ceived no benefit by the coming of
the circus. In fact nearly every place
was in some way benefited. There
are possibly no hotels, restaurants,
grain and grocery stores, livery sta
bles, blacksmith shops or saloons that
did not take in more or less unusually
large sums of cash.
Coles Company, as company and
as individuals, spent, of their receipts,
perhaps two thousand or twenty FIVE
hundred dollars that would not have
been put in circulation in HALEY had
the circus not come here. That sum
OF money came from the towns and
country surrounding Haley. The
sum in actual cash spent by Haley
business men was, relatively speaking,
apaltry one.
The bulk of the circus receipts
came from abroad, speaking from a
HALEY standpoint, and would not
have been brought to Haley and ex-
pended here if there had been no cir
Gus to draw people here.
There is not an eating house in
HALEY of any pretensions that did
not take in from two to three hundred
dollars more than usual. That wa.
foreign money. There is hardly a sa-
loon that did not take in from one tc
two hundred dollars-more or less
money that would not have been ex.
pended il no circus had been here.
The two thousand dollars expenses
paid by the circus company to Hail, V
business men, was not HALEY money,
but money brought to HALEY because
the circus was here. The idea that
such exhibitions are hurtful to a town
and carry off so much of its money, is
nonsense. There is probably not a
business place in Haley that did not
have, on Saturday night, more in its
cash drawer than it had SATURDAY
morning-certainly it had no loss by
the circus.
1t would be good thing for HALEY
If more circuses and entertainments
that draw crowds from a distance
would visit it. Our friends mistake
when they think such things ipjure a
town where they show.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
Old, Reliable Insurance Companies,

We are slso agents for the White and Howe Sew
ing Machines. the best. in use.
Conyeyancing done and Acknowledgements taken
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
A CANDID CONFESSION.

There are no d,,tt-Nornon
Democrats IN tie Territory.
True Democrats are not anti
Mornons. THE only
anti-Mormon newspapers and anti
Mormon politicians are Repstbi-
cans, and Democrats Should gire
them a ,ctae berth. FIR IN the South
en Idaho Independent IA Mormon
Church organ).
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
Sheriff S Sale.

By virtue of an execution issued out of the
Probate Court Of the Territory of IDAHO, in and
for the County of Altaras. and to diEeted and
delivered, for Judgment render d and entered
in said Court, on the 18th day of September 1886,
in favor of NJ. II. aud f. C. Coffin as Coffin Bros
and against y, 3. Rief snd George Montgomery
have levied ON the following property, 10 wit:
Ap undivided one-hslf interest in and to that
certain lead, lode, min ng clsim loca ted known
andreeoried as the Queen of the Mountains situate
in Warm springs Mining Di strict. county Of Altu.
rasr and Territory of Idsho. being on the west
side of Thompson Greek, ABOUT N miles from
Warm Springs Cresk, IN northerly direction
and about the same distance from the Elephant
mine on Warm Springs Greek.
Notice is hereby given that on the 9TH day Of
October, 1876. at 10 O'Clock a. NJ. of that day in
front of the Courthouse in HALEY, County of Al
turas, will sell the right. title and interest of
said j. b Ref and George Montgomery in and to
the above described property, st public auction.
for cash, lawful money, in hsnd. to the highest
and best bidder, 10 satisfy said execution and all
costs
Dated the 18th day OF September 1856
c, H. FUREY, Sheriff
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21

"HACKMETACK," a lasting and
fragrant perfume. Price % and SO
cents. For sale at Tracy's
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-21
Speaking at BrOadford.

]. FL. Cater, the blacksmith orator,
and Captain Gum, candidate for Re-
corder, and other local speakers, will
address the citizens Of Broadford,
September 23rd, 1886.