The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-11
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
SCOTLAND has . gold fever


JAPAN wants more doctors and dentists
THEY have brick trust in England.
THERE are several goat ranches in Texas.
THE University of Berlin has 500 students
WILD geese are numerous in South Dakota.
THERE are 5000 Chinese in New York
city.
IEgMAyY has 224 inhabitants to the square
mile.
Iowa has fifty-ivo jails without an in
mate.
STRIKES are spreading throughout Ger
many.
THERE are 1886 Browning clubs in this
country.
A COAL mine trust of the United Kingdom
is proposed,
THE Straits of Mackinaw are already open
for navigation.
THE Popes fainting fits have become more
frequent OF late
WILD ducks are swarming on the Kanka
kee IN marshes.
THE taxable property OF Missouri aggre-
gates $50, i3l, 49,.
ABOUT 100000 acres will soon be added to
the public domain.
CHINA and Corea have arrived at an ami
cable understanding.
CANADA proposes to have another trans
continental railroad.
The estimate OF the total ice harvest of
Maine is !, l71,000 tons.
THE British Government will lay cable
isroyl Bermuda to Halifax.
Tie Australian wheat crop has fallen
SHORT of the estimated product.
HYDE COUNTY, Dakota farmers have or
ganzed hail insurance company.
eE the 100000 barrels annual product of
cotton seed oil, 100000 go into lard.
PEOPLE in China, oppressed by famine,
are selling their children to buy food.
The famous Verrugas Railroad bridge in
Peru has been swept away by great flood
THE business of the London Stock Ex-
change amounts annually to s22, 5oo,o o0o 900.
VANILLA plants are selling in Papantla,
| Vera Cruz, Mexico, at from $50 to $50 per
| l000
NEARLY 10000 people went up the Wash
ington Monument elevator at inauguration
| time.
THE population OF the Province of Quebec,
Canada, has fallen off 239, $40 in the past five
| years.
THE British gunboat Spider, which was to
| have proved such a marine terror, is a
failure.
COLUMBUS, Ga, leves tax of ten cents
on each dressed carcass sold within the city
limits.
| The great stallion Prince Wilkes has been
sold to gentleman of Buenos Ayres for
$4,000.
THERE have been six defacations in the
government of Hoboken, n. D., within as
many years.
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN prisoners escaped
recently from the Zacatlan Jail, State OF
Puebla, Mexico.
DURING the past two years s., ,099 of
the national debt of Honduras has been paid,
and only s172, $50 remains.
FARMERS in the Northwest are sowing
with frosted wheat, as experiments have
lately dem onstrated its value.
THE losses of the exploded Partisan copper
syndicate are stated at $50 100000. All the
authors of the syndicate are ruined.
GERMANY has acceded to the request of
France for the transfer OF the remains OF
Generals Carnot and Marceau to France.
A PERMANENT association is to be formed
in New York to widen the field of trade with
Spanish American States and compete with
Europe.
THE State of Massachusetts, has granted
charter to the Meigs Elevated Railroad
Company, which will build an elevated road
in Boston.
BARNUM's HOTEL, Baltimore, opened il
1926, and which Charles Dickens said wa.
the best hostslry in America, is to be sold
and closed
GOLD in large quantities is said to hav
been discovered on the Sweet Grass Hills
Montana, and adventures are focking Their
in great numbers.
An examination of the books of the bank
rupt Reading PENN iron works shows tina
the company instead of having made profit
of 5000, 900 in the last four years had sustained
4 IN annual loss OF 1868, 900.
THE poor of the District of Columbii
profted S26, 900 by the Inauguration of Gen
eral Harrison, as check for that sum (th
excess of receipts over expenses has beef
| turned over for their benefit.