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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Whore Oum roothplsk. Ars Made.


Everybody knows that a bunch OF oujll
picks can be bought at drug store for a
nickel, and there the popular knowledge
ends. A reporter started out to find the
fountain head of quill toothpicks. The re-
tail druggist said that he bought them of
the wholesale dealer In drugs and notions
The reporter made tour of the wholesale
drug houses, and at every one he was in
formed that they purchased them either
IN New York OF imported them from
France and Germany, and that was all
they knew about it. The feather dealers
had little or no light to throw upon the
SUBJECT. The manufacturers of feather
busters Were ignorant regarding the quill
pick industry.
Finally gentleman, who Is the buyer
for n large drug house, was found, who
had seen factory where the quill picks
were made. When asked the question.
he said: ~ do not know of any factory in
this country where Quill toothpicks are
made. We buy ours from broker in
Paris, who obtains them from a large
mandatory near that city. M. Bardin.
at Joinville 10 Pont, near Paris, had the
largest mandatory in the world engaged
IN the quill industry He has 1900, 900
quilts. Formerly this factory made quill
pens, but when these went out of general
use the quilts were used to make brushes
for artists and toothpicks. The picks are
made by machinery, and are put up in
bundles of ten each, and these are in
packages containing 1000. The price is
so low that there is very little margin of
profit in the business.
The wooden toothpick has taken the
place Of the quill. and these latter are
made mostly in the east, but there are
factories in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and
wisconsin, where wooden toothpicks are
made very cheaply. Fond du Lac, Wis,
has a factory that turns out millions Of
wooden picks every week. They come
1000 in box, and cost but five cents per
box to the consumer. The quill pick costs
five cents per bunch Of ten, but they are
far better than the wooden ones. OF
course there are great many feathers
grown in this country, but other uses
have been found for the quilts. A big
factory in Michigan, located at Coldwater
makes featherbone for whips, corsets,
etc. Brush factories use the quilts for
camels' hair pencils, but do not believe
there is factory in America where quill
picks are made.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
We Should Smile.

A correspondent writes us as fol
lows:
''Do you notice little line in the
index of the Revised Laws of YER
mont referring to board of Agricul-
ture, and turning back you will find
four short sections claiming to be
laws in the interest of the farmer and
an appropriation of (not to exceed)
S250O with permission to hire speak
ers, to tell the farmers that a crop
of oats saps the ground, and if farm
ers would manure land higher they
would have better crops, and then
take up collection and pocket ten
or fifteen dollars of the farmers mon
ey; then compare 4 or 5 pages of
index on railroads, and a hundred
and seventy-five sections of railroad
laws. Don't it make you feel very
slack?''
This looking after the farmers in
terests is a big thing. Why, they
have an agricultural experiment
Station" at Burlington presided over
by Professors but of what the
Lord only knows, but their chief oc-
cupation seems to be in nosing around
among the phosphates and ashes and
sending out tables showing the chem
ical properties and aflinites of vari-
GUS brands, the whole unintelligible
to the average farmer and so as use
less to him as third runner would be
to his bob sled. If these smart fell
lows-''professors "-know anything
about the commercial fertilizers, why
in the name of common sence, don't
they tell the farmers which brands to
buy instead of sending out unintelli-
gible chemical analyses. Great is
humbug, and he has more prophets
than any other bug in the land
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

In Havana bay there are certainly | 900
lighters constantly in use, so that 5000
men are thus employed and at least Is, 900
souls thus comfortably sustained Most
of these folk live over at Regla, just back
of the Santa Catalina wharves or the still
quainter Gale Baluarte quarter, and in the
narrow streets and through and about their
queer old abodes some of the stHangest
sights you ever witnessed will be seen
Children of all colors and caste and ages
disport naked among hairless dogs, ag-
gressive goats, demure donkeys and all
manner of fowl, with the utmost inno-
cence, content and good nature. Little is
needed to sustain life, hence happy hearted
ness among them is universal. Night or
day, for nearly all the year, the only real
effort is made to get outside of clothing;
and last Sunday morning, when l was
wandering in the vicinity of the little
old Regla market, l actually stepped over
fourteen naked sleeping women and chill
dren lying in all sorts of postures on land
ings, along galleries and at the doors of
little alcobas. Some of them opened
their handsome eyes bit, but none
moved or seemed In the least disconnected
by the intrusion.-Edgar L. Wakeman's
Letter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Possibilities of saccbarIne.

Saccharine, it seems, need not cause
anxiety to the sugar planters. 1t is true
saccharine is now an article of commerce;
that one grain of it will sweeten cup of
tea or coffee; that it may be safely en-
ployed by diabetes patients, and by per-
sons suffering from govt affections and
liver complaints, that sweetmeats made
with it cause no acidity, and that it has a
wide field Of usefulness in pharmacy. On
the other hand, its manufacture Is too
costly to compete with sugar. Sir Henry
Roscoe, In q communication published in
The Kew Bulletin, says he does not be-
lieve it is ever likely to become an article
of common use. 1t is not food, as sugar
is, and its price puts it out of competition
at seems to me, says Sir Henry, beyond
the bounds of possibility that the price or
production of cane sugar can be materially
affected by the introduction Of sacchar-
inc. Chicago Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Notice..

The nonresident proprietors of the
town of Jamaica, in the county of Wind
ham, are hereby notified that the taxes
assessed by said town and school district
No. IA on their lands and buildings the
years 1885, 1856 and 1887 remain unpaid
on the following described lands and bull
ding in said town: to wit, beginning at the
northeast corner of lot No. II, thence
Southerly on the east line of said lot to
the southeast corner of the same; thence
westerly on the south line of said lot so
far as shall be necessary to contain sew
enty one hundred fourth parts from the
east end of said lot No II; thence north
and parallel with the east line of said lot
to the north liHe thereof thence easterlv
on said north line of said lot to the north
east corner of the same, meaning the same
land set of to Laban S. Bond, and being
the same lands set in the grand list of
1885 and 1856 to NJ. L. Walker and to
Daniel w. Desmond IN the year 1887.
And on the steam saw mill and macbin-
therein recently owned by f. NJ. Wood,
standing on a piece of land near the north
end of the railroad bridge, known as the
Pratt bridge, said buidin. and machinery
therein being set i'll the grand list of the
year 1856 to said Wood. and to Daniel
Desmond in the year 1887; and so much
of said lands huil,jinr and p,,,I,;unr,, :,
foresaid, will be sold at public auction nj
the Inn of d. f. Taylor, in said Jamai-
ca, on the 90, day of March, A. D.. |
1888, at ! o'clock in the afternoon as
shall be requisite to discharge said taxes
with costs, unless previously paid.
J. Q. SUBWAY,
Collector of Town Taxes,
Jamaica, heb. 90 1888.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08


Not all the world knows that there are
such things as milk hospitals in the sub
urbs of this city. The idea is German
one. These hospitals are for the cure of
every physical i'll, on the principal Of MAX
ing the blood entirely over and keeping it
pure by taking milk, milk, nothing but
milk as food for weeks, months, years
lu fact, the doctors of milk hospitals fix
upon three years as the limit of time
necessary to make a patient completely
over. Then, if he wants to stay made
over, he is advised to keep on with the
milk diet and leave solid food alone for the
remainder of his days. When patient
enters the hospital he is at once treated to
six quarts Of milk day, which is in
creased gradually to eleven and twelve.
This seems an incredible amount for any
one, particularly an invalid, to consume,
but the facts are as stated. The milk is
administered in cupfuls every ten or fif-
teen minutes, and must be drank slowly,
slipped as a Partisan takes his absinthe.
Sometimes the patient grows deathly
sick at the very sight Of milk, early in
action. Perseverance is the only medi-
cine he takes to overcome this nausea,
Whether he gets sick or well he is sure to
get fat; and the fatter he gets the more
does his doctor rejoice. He is weighed in
the balance daily and never found want
ing. Should he not climb up into the
hundred weights fast enough, quart or
SO more is added to his daily allowance of
milk. Meantime, while he drinks the
milk, he is expected to lie abed all the
time. his only recreation being a daily
bath in hot water. After he is satisfac-
torily made over and pronounced we'll, he
drops down to gallon Of milk per dag
o-l gt5s 0u .aroUs4v dies take to the
'"H. ;0ra ire ral.ir than men do.
SOM Il .how have znU1d it beneficial for
2ratic1 Of br0Eon down nerves,
~ ga5 avcessive flesh it
alrl-s, vtt- to,-Nsv York Press, every
Day TAI"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

'f..ahN SPf&ss'lI les awe.
Little Gertrude, ~ DO course of her
four years Of existence, had never seen a
colored person. Therefore when Pro-
lessor Cicero Peters-whose specially is
legion, and who whitewashes one day and
puts down carpets the next, thus making
extremes meet-came to her house in
spring cleaning times, her first sensation
was awe, which gave way to curiosity
when she perceived that the dark hued
visitor, so far from being an ogre, was
disposed to be a big playfellow. After
the professor had laughed and joked and
told stories, Gertrude ventured upon q
startling personal inquiry:
"Mr. Peters, have you any little tar
babies at homer
To say that Professor Peters laughed
would but family describe the effect of
the question. Dentists show windows
seemed to leap up in his mouth in rapid
succession, one after another; and for
hours afterward he was heard to calculate
"tah babies" Mt five minute intervals
Boston Transcript.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

both men guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree. After the verdict Stain
braced himself brayely, making an
exhibition of great nerve, and did
not break down. Cromwell wept as
he was taken from the court room.
Thus it has been legally decided after
10 years that Cashier Barron of the
Dexter bank did not commit suicide,
but was murdered.
Wrecked by a Tornado.
st. Louis, No., March A tor
nado struck the town of Newton,
KAN, on Thursday night, from the
southwest. The north wing of the
carriage works was unroofed, and
William j. Lacy, in attempting to
run from the building, was caught by
the falling roof and instantly killed.
Nine dwellings in the southeast part
of the city were struck, and seven
were totally destroyed. In the wreck
of one of these one woman had her
shoulder broken, and another was
struck on the head and probably fla
tally injured. Several houses in the
adjacent county were destroyed.
The tower of the High school build
ing was wrecked, many chimneys
were blown down, trees and shrubbery
destroyed, stables demolished and
several head of horses killed. The
damageis estimated at $50, 700.
Indianapolis, Ind, March Am
importantant new line of action re-
specting prohibition has been practi-
cally inaugurated with the active sup
port of the leaders of the movement
in all parts of the country. The first
step to be taken in this city grows
out of the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the
Kansas case, wherein it is asserted
that the people cannot barter away
the morals and health of the public,
and the decision plainly says that
traffic in intoxicants is against the
public health and life. Correspond
ence has been had with all the promi-
nent workers and it has been agreed
to try and attack the constitutionality
of all license laws. Preparations are
completed in New York, New Jer-
sey and other states to bring the mat
ter to a test. In this county the Pro-
expect at an early day to
file with the county commissioners
protest against the granting of licen-
ses to applicants for saloon powers.
In case the commissioners decline to
grant the petition, the result expect
ed, they will appeal and carry the
matter to the Supreme Court of the
state.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
General News-Sifted.

A. Bronson Alcott, the author,
died at Boston, Sunday, aged S8.
Murder in the Second Degree.
Bangor, Me-, March AT IL :
10 O'Clock last night, the jury in the
tain-Cromwell case, having been out
exactly II hours and so minutes, an
nounced that they were ready to re-
port. The court house bell was rung
and in moment the court was await
ing the entrance of the jury. The
prisoners were brought in, and for
the first time Stain showed traces of
agitation, and Cromwell could not
keep back the tears. The jury found
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
MARY'S LAMB AND FREE WOOL.

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From the Springfield Union.l
Mary had little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow,
And built little tariff pen
To keep it safe, you know.
But Roger Mills, he came along,
An ugly boy was he,
And smashed the little tariff pen
To let the lamb go free.
And in the night an English wolf,
As silent as clam,
Came prowling round the broken pen
And killed the little lamb.
Then Mary wept, but hopeful said,
"Ill have free wool at least!'
"And soyou shall, said Roger Mills;
So said the ugly beast.
But when she went to get the fleece,
The wolf was sitting on it,
"Come on, said he, land get your wool
I've fixed my price upon it,
So Mary traded with the wolf,
And roundly did she pay;
For that dear fleece she fed the beast
A twelvemonth and day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
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Or the SITTER and any two of these
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Remember this means strictly in adj
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
AGENTS WANTED.
NEW YORK LIFE.

NEW YORK LIFE.
ASSETS EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS, CASH.
THE NEW YORK LIFE issues a larger n
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any oiher company in the world Eudowmeuts
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uqlty Co, Springfield, Mass.
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Irrigation in California.

The irrigation of land in California not
only benefits the area to which the water
is directly applied, but tracts fifteen or
twenty miles away. The water thus con-
Quoted through the plains can go no
lower than the hardpan, which is always
near the surface-from three to twenty
feet-and thus the whole country is de
irving benefit by its spreading. Chicago
Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

We publish, elsewhere paraphrase
on "Mary's Little Lamb" that takes
in the tariff situation. Give us free
wool, and after our sheep industry is
killed the foreign wolf will set his
own price on wool and we will be
obliged to pay it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
For Sale.

The Subscriber wishes to sell his prem
Uses at So. Londonderry. Containing a
good house and barn with running water
and II acres of good land. For further
information call on or address.
RODNEY CLOUGH,
SO. Londonderry. Dec. y, 81.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Glass EYea.

Persons who wear glass eyes and can
afford it have one for the day and another
for the night, because the pupil of the
natural eye is smaller by day than by
night, and the glass eye that will match
during business hours does not look natu-
raj by gas light.-Jewelers' Weekly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
An Extraordinary Offer!

Until further notice we will supply,
to NEW subscribers to the SITTER
The Boston Weekly Journal,
The New York Weekly Tribune,
The N. Y. Mail and Express or
The Troy Weekly Times
and the SITTER for 81 .25, or any two
of them for $l.65. Unjust be under
stood that the Boston journal also
requires the subscriber to be new
one, or otherwise pay 20 cents.
Understand, we mean what we say,
you can have the SITTER and either one
of the above city papers, both one
full year, by sending us
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

Municipal elections held in Maine
Monday resulted in large republican
gains. Neal Dow, the famous pro-
hlbitionist, who was the third party
and democratic candidate for Mayor
of Portland, was buried under a L.
500 majority.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

Gen. W. W. Henry was elected
Mayor of Burlington, along with the
entire Republican ticket, by a larger
majority than the party has had for
several years.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

Rutland, that last year elected what
was called a workingman's ticket,
choose a citizens ticket, burying the
party of last year under heavy major
tiles.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

Louisa M. Alcott, daughter of A.
Bronson Alcott, author of "Our Lit
tie Men and Women" and other pop
ular publications, died Tuesday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
FOR SALE.

A large two story dwelling house
situated on main street in the
village of SO. Londonderry.
This house is adapted for two tene-
ments or for a boarding house, and is in
excellent condition.
For further particulars inquire of
F +. CHURCHILL, So Londonderry
or Mrs. VI. j. LAWRY.
Fairfield, Me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

Senator Breckenridge of Kentucky
would make all "trusts" unlawful.
Good for Breckenridge.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
PROTECTION.

"The protectionlst is one who be-
lieves that duties so adjusted as to
defend and thus develop home indus
try are just, because they benefit all
the people rather than any branch of
industry, and are wise, because they
surely secure ultimate and permanent
cheapness of production though diver
sification of industry and competition
of home producers. IN. Y. Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

A correspondent in Paris writes that
the average American housewife finds
little pleasure in housekeeping in that
city, and backs up the statement with the
fact that the paint on the woodwork
would all disappear with two or three
washings. New York Sun,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Echoes from the Press
FREE TRADE.


The Free Trader is one who be-
lieves that it is both unwise and I'M
just to fix duties with intent to defend
home industry from foreign COMPETE
ton. When he finds such duties ex-
isting, his ruling purpose is to get rid
of the protective element in them as
far as circumstances permit, because
he believes that protective duties en-
nance the cost of home products, and
so impose upon the people burden
largely exceeding the revenue which
they put into the Treasury.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08

A big fire is reported at Springfield,
Mass, yesterday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-03-08
Sitter John, Editor.

Eternally opposed to all rings, cliques,
clans and factions-The Peoples Organ.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-08-03
lUCKEY ITEMS.

We are having pleasant wether and
everything is booming in and about
Luckey. The factories are running full
blast and the lime-kilns have all that
they can do to fill orders, and are not
able to keep up with the demand. Genoa
lime hns been very good in the past un
till better article was found, which
has been done at Luckey, Wood
County, Ohio. And this now stands at
the head of the market. 1t discounts
Genoa lime in every way. For finishing
work no lime in the market can compare
with it. Mr.. Newman is pushing the
work along on his new kilns, the rail-
road company has put in a new side
track on his new purchase, so that he
can load the cars right from the kllns
1t is expected that two more kilns viii
be built in the west part of the town.
Misses Iona and Della Sandars, oil
Woodville, Sandusky County, Ohio, and
Miss Elsie Krotzer, of Pembervile, were
here visiting at Mr.. Isaac w. Krotzer'
over Sunday.
The Dunbridge base ball club were
over on Thursday last and played tn
Luckey boys. The game stood 20 to 81
in the forenoon and in the afternoon j
stood to 10 in favor of the Lucky team
The Perrysburg boys were here OF
last Saturday and played the Lucke.
boys a game. The game at the clos
stood 81 to 20 in favor OF the Perrysbur
team.
Miss Jessie Hopper, who is teachin
the Luckey school, is getting along ret
nicely,
Luckey, July 81. 'e8.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-08-03
PATENTS GRANTED

To citizens of Ohio during the past
week, and reported expressly for the
JOURNAL by c. A. Snow & Co. ", Patent
Lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent Office
Washington, d. c.:
]. Alexander, Cherry Fork, Fruit geaih
erer.
W, c. Armstrong, Springfield, Feed
water heater.
S. L. Bander, Cleveland, IIitching strap
fastener.
&. G. Cdsler, Cleveland Cisket stool.
W. ii. CLARK, Salem, Oil can.
2 Davis, Cleveland, Vnpor slove.
Il. Fuust, Columbus, Lifting jack.
Il. Grab, Toledo, Valve controller.
A. Harvey, slenbenville, Shoe sole.
W. Macy, Tippecanoe City, Animal
poke.
L. Miller, Akron, Endless apron carrier
L. b. Myers, Fremont, Pencil holder
NJ. A. Yeakley, Litchfield, Hay stacker