The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-24
SELECT sIFTINGS.
an is ninety par cent. water.

Man Is ninety per cent. water.
The waltz has entered upon its l0sd
season.
A spring of natural cologne has
broken forth in Algiers.
A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.
The first settlement of the English in
Bengal and British India was at Calcutta
in 1882,
Mrs, Sarah Barnett, OF Lafayette, Va,
took TO her bed forty years ago and has
not left 1t since.
An artesian we'll at Tripoli, Iowa,
spouts water twelve feet above the sur
face OF the ground.
In the year 1853 persons who feasted
or were idle on Christmas Day In Massa.
chusetts were fined five shillings.
Some of the handsomest shops in Paris
are now devoted to the sale OF japanese
wares, and are wholly conducted by
Japs.
There is not blonde clerk in Jay
Gould's employ, and it is said that he
dislikes to do business with men with
fair hair.
A porker in Otoe County, Neb.,
emerged from an attack of cholera with
its bristles, formerly black, very pro-
nounced gray.
The mummitied remains of Santa
Tonga, or big Heart" one of the old
chiefs OF the Utes, are in cave near old
Fort Casper, in Wyoming.
A Hindoo god, over thousand years
old, largely composed of gold and
precious stones, was sold at auction the
other day in London, for $12, $50.
Steel pens were not so called from tho
material used in manufacture, but from
the name of the first manufacturer, Mr..
Steele, who began business in England
in 1903.
A law in Prussia provides that any per.
son carrying stick or an umbrella in
such a way as to be dangerous to other
travellers may be punished by fine or i'm
prisonment
Word comes from Wheeling, w. Va,
that live bat has been found there i'm
bedded in solid rock in crevice just
big enough to contain it and utterly
shut away from the outside world.
Only four gowns of American silk
have ever been made. Of these Mrs.
Garfield was given one, Mrs. Tom Thumb
bought another, and Mrs. J. T. Higgins,
of Middleboro, Mass, is now having one
made from material furnished by silk
worms of her own raising.
Red pepper is obtained from sort OF
capsicum, and sometimes called chilles,
the seed of which is the most pungent,
and is ground up fine with the skins. 1t
comes from Cayenne, anzibar and other
parts of Afri;a. The plant can be
grown about the same as our peppers,
and lie sometimes grown with them.
/ A new sect has been formed at Monaco,
Sons of God" 1t resembles in some
features the Essences, its members alb
staining from tobacco, flesh, intoxicants,
and favoring an ascetic life. Its SYM
Dol is 1898; its badge god, green and
purple ribbon; its missionary language
| Noiapuk.
"Zep, the hermit fisherman" who
lived lonely life near Stonington,
Conn, has amassed fortune of $50, 600
from an annual income of from $500 to
500, which he has made from his fish
ing boat during the past forty years.
He started with a capital of 500, which
he invested in dory, and his annual
expenses, food and all, have rarely been
more than So.
A black loon was shot in Washoe
Lake, CAL, recently. Such bird had
never been seen there before, and it is
supposed to have been driven out of its
course by storm while migrating south
from the Arctic regions. The bird
measured eight feet six inches from tip
to tip of its expanded wings, and six
feet and three inches from the point of
its bill to the end of its tail. The bill
was nearly foot in length.
The tallest building used tor dwelling
purposes in New York city, is the one
known as the Osborne Flats, at Fifty.
seventh street and Broadway, which is
III feet in height; the Dakota Flats,
Eighth avenue and Seventy second
street, 155 feet; Munro Flats, Fifty
ninth street, 100 feet east of Sixth ave-
nue., 155 feet; Navarro Flats, Seventh
avenue and Fifty-ninth street, 1921
feet. The measurement is from the
| curh level to roof