The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The god of sleep is Somnus.

Inc goa OF steep Is SomnuS.
Pie parties are fad out West.
Adrian w., Pope in 1854, was an En-.
glishmaf by birth.
Nearly all the Presidents of the United
States were country-bred boys.
A Philadelphia man offers to be killed
by the electrical method for $4,000.
The bite of the Georgia rattlesnake on
hot day kills in twenty to thirty min
utes.
Beers were Hollanders who settled in
South Africa before the conquest by En-
gland.
Under the laws of China the adult who
loses his temper in a discussion is sent to
Jail for five days to cool off.
Camels are to be employed on line OF
coaches in New South Wales, the sultry
climate being very severe on horses.
An Indian in the Everglades, Fla, It
is said, is still holding in slavery colored
men that were his when the war broke
out.
The longest American railroad tunnel
is the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitchburg
Railway. It is four and three-fourths
miles long.
The banana skins thrown away in this
country would be worth SO, 900, 900 a
year If some genius could convert them
into taffy for children.
Sam Stewart, colored, of Crawford
vile, Ga, drives his COW to a wagon
when she goes dry and gives no milk.
She makes better time than an OK.
Turks and Arabs and dancing bears
have becomes SO numerous in the South
that the cities and towns are passing
special ordinances to deal with them.
At floral fete at Covent Garden, Lon.
don, the overpowering perfume exhaled
by the lilies, the mignonette and other
strongly scented flowers seriously marred
the enjoyment of the occasion.
President Harrison received letter q
few days ago in which he was urged to
learn to play lawn tennis. The writer
said that the exercise derived would fully
atone for the dignity sacrificed.
John Mayo, of Georgia, is lame and
cannot walk, but he can sits in his door
with rifle and shoot the heads off flying
crows at such distances as would make
Bogardus and Carver give up in dispair.
A carriagemaker of Armstrong Coun-
ty, Penn, has just shipped to Persia a
carriage packed in boxes, to facilitate
transportation across the desert on cam
els backs. The total freight bill was
about 800.
A whale was driven ashore on the
coast of Labrador recently which had a
dozen wraps of chain around his body
and big anchor to tote around with
him. He had become poor, tired and
discouraged.
A boss carpenter in Boston won't keep
a man in his employ who does not whistle
and he won't keep one who does not
whistle lively airs. He says that men
work according to the measure of what
they whistle, and he is right about it.
The Maharajah of Baroda, India, owns
the most expensive carpet in the world.
1t is made entirely of strings of pure col
ored pearls, with the center and corners
of diamonds. Its cost is 5000, 600, and
three years were consumed in its manu-
facture.
The Adelaide (victoria) Municipal
Council has passed bylaw requiring
cyclists when riding to keep bell con-
tinuously ringing so that it can be heard
at distance of 100 yards, to show red
headlight at night, and prohibiting ma
chimes being left in the streets for more
than half an hour. The cyclists protest
that the law is impracticable.