The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-17
SELECT SETTINGS.
Writing was puzzling to savages.

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Locks were early used by the Egypt
ians.
Morosco, a Cossack Chief, discovered
Kamtschatka in 1890.
Du Gauge mentioned locks and pad
locks as early as 1881.
The people of the United States use
about 100, 000,O 900 lead pencils every
year.
Lock & Key were long familiar names
over the door of hardware store in
Louisville, KY.
Crooked and Straight are the names
of a pair of clergymen in charge of an
English church.
There is a dog at Seymour, Ind, who
will look at clock and then put his
paw on the exact hour as marked on a
card.
The number three was the perfect
number of the Pythagorcans, who said
it represented the beginning, middle
and end.
The number nine, besides being re-
garded as lucky one is possessed of
mysterious properties, intensified from
its being the product OF three times
three.
Insurance companies figure on about
so many grist mills and planning mills
being destroyed by fire each year, and
last year they hit the number just
exactly.
Every French bank has a photograph
of every employe, and in the case of the
more responsible ones they are under the
surveillance of private detectives most of
the time.
From recent arch illogical discoveries,
it appears that the Romans, at the height.
of their civilization and splendor, had
no system of street lighting. No tracel
of anything Of the kind has been dis
covered.
An engrossed copy of the Decaratiea-
of Independence, attested to be correct
on August ?, 1876, by Charles Carroll
of Maryland, one of the siguers, has
been found behind the shelves in thei
New York City Hall Library.
It took James Bailey, an Iowa man.,
over eighty-three days to get the last of
the tar off of him after receiving coat
of tax and feathers 1t was rubbed in
for having married his second wife two
days after the death of the first.
Two reputable doctors of Trenton, N,
| j., have made an examination of Will
lam King, the physical monstrosity con-
fined in the county Jail there, and were
surprised to find that the reports of the
mans condition were about correct
King is said to have two hearts, and ribs
that move up and down.
The largest and most fruitful gourd
vine yet on record is reported as having
been grown by Frank Burton on Sheriff
Ed Maxwel's place, few miles from
Oglethorpe, Ga From it has been
gathered 136 water gourds, with han.
dies averaging eighteen inches, and be-
sides these were fifteen or twenty gourds
broken before they were ripe.
A landslide occurred on Cumberland
Mountain, near Bends Hill, W. Va,
which materially changed the appear
ance of the locality. Between twenty
five and thirty acres of land, heavily
timbered. slid from the side of the
mountain so as to lie across the valley at
the bottom. A dam was formed and a
lake from ten to twenty five deep and
half mile long resulted.
Among the curiosities in the rooms OF
the Delaware Historical Society in Will
mington is piece of the first piece of
calico manufactured in this country.
About one hundred years ago Archibald
Hamilton Rowen, an Irish refugee, set
tied on the banks of the Brandy wine
and started little mill, where he made
calicoes. When tie troubles of Ireland
became quieted he returned to his native
country and lived quietly on his estate,