The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-06
SELECT SIFTINGs.

Hainestswn, Dakota, reports shower
OF frogs.
Ohio has lately been treated to a
shower of crawtish.
It took ten men to put the hind shoes
on Pennsylvania mule.
A japanese has discovered method of
applying nickel plating to wood.
L. B. Brown, of Albany, Ga, has a
"a shinplaster bearing date of, 1777.
: A journey to Venus would take fifty
years, travelling at sixty miles an hour.
Jose Riva Galban, Spaniard, has just
died at Bordeaux, France, aged 11S
years.
A new industry in Philadelphia is that
of leasing paintings and other works art
Tor private receptions.
T. Burwell Green, of Washington,
Ga, has biscuit that was baked at Man
uassas Junction in 1861.
J. B. Richardson, of Lumpkin, Ga,
has distinguished himself by raising a
rose five inches in diameter.
Oxmoor, Ala, has curiosity in the
shape of a petrifed pine stump, weighing
about three hundred pounds.
An Oglethorpe (Ga.) boy has cat
which is performing maternal functions
for three young foxes and two kittens.
A Redding Gal man has made lot
of sugar from the native maple, and con-
noisseurs pronounce it equal to the east
ern product.
About the only rail fence in Cleveland,
Ohio, curious to say, is in the most aristo-
cratic portion of the city, on Euclid ave-
nue., near Case.
Mrs. E. B. McNulty, of Dawson, Ga,
has the diploma given to her great grand
father at Princeton College and signed by
one of the signers of the Declaration Of
Independence.
An Atlanta (Ga.) burglar has q pistol
on whose handle are twelve notches,
every one of which he says represents the
killing of man. Pity the burglar
couldn't be hanged twelve times.
A party from Naples, Fla, few days
ago had with them the jaws of a leopard
shark measuring eighteen inches in width
and two feet in the spread. The mouth
was large enough to take in barrel at
one gnlp.
In the Church of St. Andrew Under
shaft, London, the church of the Bishop
of Bedford, is to be seen an old Bible
that still has attached to it the chain by
means of which in former days it was
fastened to the pulpit.
The study of Gustave Eiffel, engineer
and architect of the big tower at Paris, is
regular curiosity shop. In it are to be
seen any number of queer inventions and
outlandish relics. He has buddhist
shrine that is over 500 years old and a
sixteenth century figure of st. John.
To make boughs grow wherever they
would add to the symmetry OF the bush
our modern fiowergrowers force nature to
do the work by tying tiny tiower-pots
full of rich soil just on the very spot
where they desire to have the Dough.
Very odd is the sight of bush apparent
ly bearing thumb fiower-pots as fruit.
Garden and Forest quotes this simple
method of testing the quality of pear
Write name with pen and ink upon the
dry skin of the fruit. If the ink il
quickly absorbed, leaving clear, SHARP
lines, the quality of the fruit is good; il
the skin does not absorb the ink quickly
and the lines are blotted, the quality Is
inferior.
The ways of auctioneers in different
parts of the world vary greatly. In thi:
country and England the seller bears thu
expenses of the sale, but in France thu
purchaser bears the cost, five per cent. be
Ing added to his purchase. In HOLLAND
it is still worse, the buyer being required
to pay ten per cent. additional To- the ex
penses of the sale.