The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-31
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Ten chewing girls have been on
exhibition in New York.
Iii the Legislature of Pennsylvania
there are six Browns, one White and q
Green.
s. d. Thompson, of Vienna, Ca, has
a curiosity in the shape of a puppy with
five feet.
DR.. Carver, the great shot, has Just
broken with rifle 80. 900 glass balls in
six days at Minneapolis.
Kansas boasts of having the largest
two military reservations in the United
States-Forts Leavenworth and Riley.
The cultivation of the pomegranate is
increasing in California. The Mexicans
consider it valuable medicinal plant.
A Washington paper says that not a
dollar of conscience money has been re,
ceived at the United States Treasury for
two years.
The birch rod used by the first teacher
in Vermont school.house over 100
years ago is said to be nailed over the
present teachers desk.
One of the greatest innovations in the
English House of Parliament is the intro.
duction of bootblack in the Commons
cloak-room. He is the first of his kind.
There is big floating hotel at Jupiter,
Fla, and its accommodations are to be
considerably enlarged in expectation Of
an increase of Northern guests this
winter.
A dog is employed to guard the mail
bags at the postoffice in Allentown,
Penn. He lies on the bags until they are
taken care of, and allows no one to
NEEDLE with them.
Malcolm, Mcmillan, of Catalone, Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia. native of Lock-
maddy North-Ulst Scotland, is now 101
years of age, and all his senses are as
good as when he was in his teens.
A new dye tried in Maine dyehouse
so softened the skin of the workmenis
hands that the blood burst through
Every employe was affected and the
establishment in consequence, had to
close down.
A farmer near Athens, Ca, began
farming, having one horse, and that a
mare. When she was twenty eight
years old she still worked, but was then
assisted by her five colts that had grown
to horsehood.
Valentine A. Alternately, ninety-two
years old, walked fifteen miles to the
polls to vote in the county election at
Alpharetta, Ca, and returned on foot.
He has twenty eight children and 4OO
grandchildren.
A second specimen of the bald headed
chimpanzee has just been added to the
collection in the London Geological
Gardens. A fine adult female of the
same species, known as sally" has
long been one of the great attractions oil
the place.
The comet of 1858 was larger than any
comet that has appeared since, though
the comet of 1861 spread from the north
ern to the southern horizon. The come,
of '5S was AZ, 600, 900 miles in length
that of 1860, %, 100000 The comet Of
1861 was "a, 900, 900 miles in length.
Nancy Edgerly, of Marlborough, N.
H., claims to be one hundred and five
years old, and says she should never
have attained that age if, on the onl y
occasion when she ever called physi
clan, she had not thrown all his med.
icines out of the window instead of tax.
ing them.
A Russian Princess, one Of the greatest
gamblers at Monte Carlo, appeared al
the tables recently with large rope,
with which murder had been commit
ted, around her neck and bulls horn
under each arm. Notwithstanding these
elaborate fetiches, her luck was ex'
ceedingly bad.