The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-28
SELECT SETTINGS.
There about 5000 species OF grass.

There about 600 species OF grass.
Peachstones are used for fuel in Val
leio, Cal.
Kansas City has a dancing master
named Legg.
New York boasts of cradle that has
rocked 10000 babies.
Dancing is said to be declining in
popularity in England.
Young men with gray hair are very
numerous in st. Louis.
German must hereafter be studied by
officers of the Hungarian Army.
A new rival to coffee is "Mussaenda,S
or wild orange, a plant producing a
purple fruit.
Plgott, the forger of the Parnell let
tiers, committed suicide on Il Friday in a
hotel Dedchamber numbered IL.
Under the new constitution in Japan
no man can vote unless he is twenty
years old and pays at least $50 taxes.
In some provinces in Persia it is
against the law to court a girl over'four
months before popping the question.
The Empress of China has just emo.
bled three generations of Sir Robert
Harris ancestors, although they are all
dead.
Observation-Disclosures the
classical name of locomotive owned
by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Com
pany at Scranton.
A Lewiston (Mc.) man has Il device,
operated from the drivers seat, for stop
ping runaway horse by clapping a
blindfold over his eyes.
w. J. Doris, of New Haven, Conn,
has an African bon constructor twenty
two years old. 1t is thirty feet long
and weighs 27Spounds.
Bowie.khives are being manufactured
as plentifully as ever, but they are alto
gether for show There is no record of
one being used for years.
A Dubuque 1owa) man has Just
shipped 100 cats and 200 dogs to
Dakota, where the animals are wanted to
exterminate ground mice.
A clam was walled up in a building
at Syracuse, n Y, ten years ago as an
experiment. When taken out the other
day it was found alive and reasonably
well.
An empty freight car which was car
ried off in the Mississippi cyclone of
three years ago, has just been found in a
swamp ten miles from the spot where it
was picked up.
At the opening of the trial Of the
Bishop of Lincoln, the English Primate
sat in chair which belonged to the
Abbot of Reculver, who was consecrated
Archbishop of Canterbury in $50.
At the top of the inside board of an
old ledger belonging to merchantof the
sixteenth century, which has been
brought to light in Edinburgh, was
found these words, inscribed by the
bookkeeper "God bliss this bulk, and
keip me and it honest"
There is living near Sycamore, Mass.
family that occupies farm that is said
to have been handed down from father
to son for six generations. When the
father of this line, Thomas Upper,
settled on the land IN 1921, the place
was an Indian village known as Shaun.
Anthony Bilkovsky, of Detroit, who
is preparing himself for the Universal
istic ministry at TUFTS College, Boston,
writes to friend that a lineal descend
ant of Thomas Paine, the famous atheist
and author OF 1.-THE Age OF Reason" is q
divinity student in the same institution.
Catherine l.. of Russia, had musics
watch. In the interior was the holy
sepulcher and the Roman guard. b.
touching spring the stones moved away
from the sepulcher, the guards kneelei
down, angels appeared, and the holy
woman stepped into the tomb and sans
the Easter song of the Russian churches