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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
The Restless Columbians.

The Columbians of Central America
are naturally restless people. There is
no country on earth where the spirit Of
patriotism is more highly developed, or
where politics is the occupation of so
large portion of the population. They
were the first to rebel against the authority
of Spain, and under the leadership Of
Bolivar the first to establish their in
dependence. Eighty-fve per cent. of the
inhabitants are ignorant, submissive
poems, of the oborlgnal or mixed nativity,
who care very little who govern them, or
in what manner they are governed; but
they make good soldiers, and are willing
to fight under one leader, and for one
principle, as for another. They are
obedient to the commands of their officers,
and being fond of activity and excite
ment, reckless Of their own lives, and re-
gardless of the lives Of others, can always
be relied upon to create as much dis
turbance and cause as much disaster as
possible whenever the orders are given.
The remaining fifteen per cent. of the
population are to large degree highly
educated men, and most of them make
politics more or less Of profession.
With the exception of Peru, which is
populated largely by race of slaves, the
other South American republics seem "a
be doing better. Chill and the Argen.
tine Republic especially are developing
at q wonderful rate and when their re.
representatives. come to the North and
South American Congress this fall they
will be able to make showing that will
open our eyes.-AtIanta Constitution.
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The hereditary prinoirle illustrated.

The principle of hereditary has received
a most striking illustration in the case of
the family and kinsmen OF ex-President
Theodore Dwight Wooisey, of Yale Col
lege. DR.. Woolsey was descendent of
james Pierrepout, the famous native of
Roxbury, WHO having become dissatisfied
with the liberal tendencies of Harvard
College, induced Elihu Yale to found a
more conservative school at New Haven.
The present President Of Yale, Timothy
Dwight, is also descendant of the same
founder, and with the history of the
families of Dwight is interviewer that of
Edwards and Pierrepont, who have given
manv illustrious names to American his
tory or letters. 1t is no more coincidence
that both Wooisey and Dwight, nine
teenth century Presidents of Yale, should
both have been great-great grandsons of
the principal founder of the college; for
the high thinking and plain living of the
carly families who were closely associated
with the institution, developing itself
into hereditary Impetus or ability, was
quite likely 20 supply the qualities needed
in future Presidents. York Star.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

LOUISIANA has organized state Horn'
cultural Society.
The Columbia River salmon pack will be
80 900 cases short this year.
lr is said that it is American English that
salutes the ear all over Paris.
THERE are IS, 129 known thieves over six
teen years of age in England.
AN Ohio man is in Jail for trying to pull
the nose of a justice of the peace.
THE Iowa corn crop is said to be 25, 0000 900
bushels in excess of any previous year.
ONE in five of the entire population Of
Great Britain is in the Sunday-schools.
BENJAMIN WILSON, a colored man Of
Chambersburg Penn, has been sent to jail
for swearing.
A SIXTEEN pound cannon ball came up in
Walter Dixon's oyster dredge in Newark Bay
the other day.
RAIN in the valleys and snow in the mount
aims have e1tinguished the timber and prai-
RE fires in Montana.
THE applicants for Office i'll the Nashville
Postotfice getting the three highest grades In
the Civil Service examinations were colored
men.
MILITARY men in England think the
,ritisb troops in Egypt are likely to have
very lively time WITH the deryishes before
very long.
CHARLES r. TAFT. of Little Rock, Ark,
has been appointed by Superintendent Porter
to collect statistics of ship-building for the
next census.
Ir is said that ali English syndicate has
obtained control of all the tanneries in New
England aud New York, and will run them
rs one large plant,
MELBOURNE, Australia. is to have pub
lie clock, which will roll off popular air
ever hour, excepting during Sunday, when
only sacred music viii he played
UNUSUAL chespaess of oats this season has
brought out heavy export demand During
one week IS 900 bushels were cleared for Mar
settles. France; Liverpool also has been an
extensive buyer.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Dispose of all surplus cockerels willis
they will pass as spring chickens.
If we take the weight of the eggs in
consideration, the duck lays more than
the hen.
Did you notice that big thistle when
you were out in the garden yesterdays
Go and get it and burn it before the seeds
fly all over the garden.
With fall weather come many duties.
A general overhauliny of all buildings,
nests and roots, and liberal application
OF white wash and carbolic acid.
As safeguard against lice, ali young
turkeys should be well busted, at least
once week, with fresh insect powder,
and especially in the down and under
their wings.
As soon as the sweet corn is gathered,
cut up the stalks and feed to the COW if
you do not save for winter. They will
make more milk if cut now instead OF
standing till all dried up.
All forage and grain crops may be pre-
served in the silo. The silo adds very
materially to the palateableness, digesti-
bility aud rutritiousness of many articles
of food and detracts from none.
Camphorated oil is one of the best
things for roup or swelled head; you can
get it at any druggists and apply it with
the finger to the infamed parts. Vinegar
reduced one-half with warm water is also
good.
1t is not the number OF acres that a
man skins over that makes him either q
large or a successful farmer. It Is what
he makes net, above cost of production,
for his own toll and interest on the CAPT
tai invested.
The labor of the garden should be
managed like the labor of the farm. II
the cornfeld becomes weedy extra help
is hired to clean it out; the boys are moi
expected to do it out of reasonable work
ing hours. It should be the same with
the garden.
Don't throw away the chicken drop
pings. The spring will bring forth {
need for them. Early vegetables and
shrubbery thrive wonderfully when the
roots are sprinkled lightly with it. Som,
reduce to liquid form before applying
to tender plants.
Once in full year should be consid
cred often enough for mixer to bear ,
calf, and for younger cows once in from
fourteen to sixteenth months. Oldel
cows who may be considered fully de
veloped and of established habit, COW.
eight or ten years of age may, if theil
calves are of great value, be put to rapid
breeding.
If the weather is cold and there is ne
rain or sleet, snow or cutting wind, thu
COW will not be likely to shrink any il
| milk production if well fed. II is tn,
cold wind and rains and snow and slee
that do the mischief, and if the COW il
exposed to such weather there will doubt
less be shrinkage of milk and butter, i
matters not how well fed.
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A Predatory Dog Outwitted.

The other day spaniel that had bad
habit Of stealing poultry, was seen ap-
preaching the house at a moderate trot
with large rooster in his mouth. The
fowl seemed to be defunct, and so the
spaniel evidently thought, for being
somewhat wesried by his excursion, and
the weather being warm, he laid down
his prey for moment in order to rest.
But the rooster was alive and ip full
possession of all his faculties, for no
sooner did he feel himself released from
the jaws of the fell beast that had cap
.tured him than he futtcred his wings and
struggled up among the branches of q
convenient tree. The dog was so g.
founded at this miracle, as 1t must have
seemed to him, that he lost his presence
Of mind for n second or two, and il
that interval his booty escaped. Bostos
Pest
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A Valuable Painting Bought for Song.

Some people have luck. A friend OF
mine bought an old painting the other
day that he found hanging in the hall
way of second hand dealers shop. The
dealer had owned it for some time, and
wanted to get rid of it as it was large
and in his way. My friend wet the cor
ner of his handkerchief and rubbed lit
tie bit of the canvas. He saw enough to
want the picture and he got it for song.
After the wonderful Oliver had ''re-
stored it. my friend began dance OF
JOY which is still going on He has not
found out who painted the picture. and
he does not care Its intrinsic merit is
all he is interested in, and he is ''experth
enough TO know that there is plenty of
that in IT, clergyman who saw the
picture at nv friends house recognized
it at once as having been purchased
forty years ago by wealthy manufactur-
er, of New York. who paid $4,000 for it
in Italy. where he gos it from the pal
ace Of noblemau in reduced circum-
stances - PoSt9s TfaAscfigt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
A School for Professional Beggars.

At Westminster Police Court, two boys
of thirteen, named Frost and Cakes, liv-
ing with their parents, were charged with
begging The boys alleged that woman
trained them and other lads US beggars,
and that she used to mind their decent
clothes and supply them with rags to go
out in. Her own boy, it was said, was
the head of the gang of Juvenile beggars,
and used to take the money which partly
went to his mother, and part in refresh
ments and visits to transporting music
halls. Mrs. Frost said that she had been
to this woman and warned her that if she
heard that her boys clothes were kept
again she would lock her up for unlawful
possession. This was the advice of the
School Board officer. The defendants
adhered to their statements about being
supplied with rags, ETC., and the magis-
trate said that if it was true the woman
really ought to be prosecuted. A police
constable said he had seen the woman
and she denied taking care of the boys
clothes. Only the evidence of the boys
could be obtained. Pail Nall Gazette.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
when the supply of dust is what II should
be in every case.
ABOUT suoRrNo HORSES.

A correspondent of the journal Of Agri-
culture says l am convinced, both by ex.
perience and observation, that shoeing
horses is not only great Inconvenience
but | also say it is nuisance to the horse
Of course this is intended for farmers, as
city horses that are constantly kept ON
hard, stony pavements need to be shod
But farmers horses, for either farm
work or road, do not need to be shod
constantly. The less the better, and my
belief is, no shoeing still better. The
horse in its natural state has a good hoof
and by little application and patience it
can be made to be as pliable as rubber
and as hard as steel, The horses in Ice.
land are not shod and they travel over
stony roads or ice as easily as our horses
travel on our smooth roads with their
costly new steel shoes for which hundreds
OF dollars are annually spent. In our
Western States we seldom see macadam.
lied road, and even then there are not
many farmers that keep team for spec.
ial road use. Many farmers make the
mistake in lelieving that ii they want to
keep nimble footed horse that they
have to keep him shod, But this is a
grave mistake. To keep horse con.
stantly shod he needs to renew his shoe.
ing at intervals. Such is dangerous
and liable to injure the hoof, and
perhaps MAIN him for life. Many
horses legs are ruined when young
on account of too frequent and care
less shoeing. BY negligence horse
is sometimes allowed to wear the
old shoe for long period without re-
newing. Such negligence is abusing the
horse greatly, and very often is tine cause
of lame feet. And again, how can horse
be worked with the same shoes on, on dry
or muddy roads, or working on soft
plowed ground without being quite ex-
hsusted at times. l have six year old
team that never had shoe under their
feet and never will have as long as they
are in my possession. Still I never hest.
tate to hitch them to the pillow or buggy,
or drive them over soft or hard roads in
their own shoes. My other horses have
w NC SilOu OuCc III Wulit ucC3uee JQey
were used to it when younger, or their
hoofs will crack or become sore But l
make the practice never to shoe young
horses, and l believe that they will do
better than those that are kept constantly
shod. A young horse has always good,
sound hoofs. unless accidents occur, and
by little attention they can be kept
sound as long as the horse lives. The
trouble lies in young horses when they
are shod too young. Young horses as a
general thing are vigorous and we take a
fancy that they can be driven hard be-
cause they are young, and to keep their
hoofs and legs sound they must be kept
shod. My advice is: Do not drive the
young horse too much at first. Take the
older horses for road use and leave the
younger horses for farm use till they have
reached the stage of maturity. This will
be the means of saving many dollars an
uually. When the weather is dry good
thing is to lead the horse in pool Of
water for an hour or so once In while
so as to give the hoof thorough soak.
ing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
RYE FOR PAsTURAGE.

Rye sown in September will make dur.
ing the autumn enough grazing to be
profitable. This grazing has an extra
value because it comes when other green
feed is very scarce. The rye may be
grazed during the winter when not bur-
led by snow, and pasturing on it may be-
gin early in spring and continue until the
last of May, when the ground can be
broken and put in corn. A better crop
of corn will be grown than if the rye had
not been on the ground. Or the rye may
be pastured until June Is, and the ami.
mails taken of, when it will set consider
able grain. The land may then be put
in turnips. Rye used in this way makes
enough feed to pay well for the use of
the land, and also puri6es and recuper-
ates the ground, 1t can be used to es-
pecial advantage in corners cut off by
creeks, or otherwise so formed that cult.
walton is difficult.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
SWEET CORN FODDER.

Where sweet corn is used In the fam,
lily or sold In the market, the stalks ON
which It is grown should be promptly
cut and fed to the cows; they are better
fodder than they viii ever be again, and
all the better il few imperfect nubbins
remain on the stalks. Some farmers
foolishly save these for seed, leaving the
stalks to dry up as they grew, and the
nubbins after all yielding little corn, and
that poor. Only the largest and earliest
ears should be saved for seed il the value
of the variety is to be maintained, -
American CUltipdtor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
REARING CALVES.

E. d. Richards, writing to the An,eri,
can Culticator, says: In the earlier days
it was the general practice among dairy
farmers to allow the calf to run with its
dam during the first season. Such a
method is too expensive for these days.
Again, it works great damage to the COW
if she is to be kept for the dairy. When
the dams bag becomes healthy and in
normal condition, the sooner the calf is
removed from her side the better for the
cow.
In order to give the calf good start,
it is well to let it drink part of the moth
er's milk warm from the COW, but after a
few days give skim milk. 1t is advisable
to scald the milk for few days to pre-
vent sours, which are inclined to trouble
calves raised by hand Some dairymen
feed calves upon whey and turn them out
to grass. Such calves, if they live at all
until time to go to the barn are seldom
worth wintering. Long experience and
observation have confirmed me in the
belief that the best and most successful
way to raise calves by hand is the English
custom of keeping them in the barn the
first season; give them small yard where
they may go to and from their pen at
pleasure and take the fresh air. Keep
their quarters strictly clean, feed them
upon skim milk either sweet or sour, |
prefer it sour, give them all the good hay
that they will eat, and they will soon learn
to eat quite quantity. Milk does not
take the place of water. They should
have fresh water daily A few ground
oats daily will give them fine start the
first season.
The future of any animal depends
greatly upon the start it gets the first
year. Calves need salt The best way
to salt them is to place lump of mineral
talt within their reach then they will lap
It as they need. A box of fresh loan is
also au excellent thing to place within
their reach Calves fed upon milk crave
..omething of this sort. If the floor is
bedded with dry sand, it will guard
against lice, which are deadly foe to
calves or older cattle. The main point
which l wish to call attention to is the
benefit to be derived from keeping calves
In the barnyard the first year in prefer
ence to turning them to grass. | have
never seen calves which are put out to
grass as forward and strong in the fall as
those which are kept in and treated as
hbove indicated.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
CONCERNING WEEDS.

Weeds are usually plants that do not
contain much valuable plant food. For
this reason they are not worth so much
for green manuring as are cultivated
plants, such as the grains and clover,
The damage they do is more in abstract
ing moisture from the soil than plant
food, though what fertility they take is
usually near the surface, and therefore
possesses greater value for crops, The
common rag weed has very little value as
manure, Pig weed grows only in rich
soil, and it contains more valuable plant
food than any other plant; but it takes ii
mainly from near the surface. Glover
has the great advantage as green manure
Of drawing fertility from the subsoil.-
Prairie Farmer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Wood pavement lasts about seven
years in streets where the traffic Is
heavy,
The velocity OF the progression OF the
tornado cloud varies from seven to 100
miles an hour, the average being 44.l1
miles.
A travelling electric light has proved
quite successful in Germany. The whole
outfit complete for service is carried in
one vehicle
A society has been started in London
to promote the development of science Of
mesmerism aud of the application Of
hypnotism to practical medicine.
Three millions of money that belongs
to inventors, having been collected
through the Patent Office in excess of the
expenses Of that bureau, are in the
Treasury.
Observations of the stars were made in
Babylon from remote antiquity and
careful records kept of eclipses. Some
of the Babylonian astronomical state
ments refer to period earlier than 1000
years B. c.
Southwestern soldiers will remember
Lavergne, seventeen miles southwest of
Nashville. A mine of mineral paint has
been found there, and $40, 900 worth of
machinery has been put up to get out
the stuff to ship to New York.
For deafness of old age, Sapolini, of
Milan, Italy, swabs the membrane tym-
PAM with weak oleaginous solution of
phosphorus. He claims to have stimu-
lated the actions of the membrane and
improved the hearing in sixty-two
cases.
A system of building houses entirely Of
sheet iron has been communicated to the
Society of Architecture in Paris. The
walls, partitions, roofs, and wainscot-
ing are composed of double metallic
sheets, separated by an air mattress, which
is surrounded by different non-conduc-
tors of heat
The street cars at Lyons, in France,
are hereafter to be operated by series Of
compressed air, which has been found to
work satisfactorily in Nantes and other
French cities. The cars are said to run
smoothly and with but little noise, while
the machinery is simple and does not re-
quire a skilled mechanic to superintend
it. The cost is less than with horses,
steam or electricity.
1T is not intellectual work that Injuries
the BRAIN" says the London Hospital,
''but emotional excitement. Most men
can stand the severest thought and study
of which their brains are capable, and be
none the worst for it; for neither thought
nor study interferes with the recuperative
influence of sleep. 1t is ambition, anxiety,
and disappointment, the hopes and fears,
the loves and hates, of our lives, that
wear out our nervous system and endanger
the balance of the BRAIN"
Some interesting notes on human
skulls, found in old monastery in the
sKeadron Valley, near Jerusalem, have
been given by DR.. Dwight in a medical
journal. He concludes that the Caucasian
skull has, during the past thirteen centu-
ries, increased two inches in average cir
conference, and gained brain holding
capacity of three and half cubic inches.
The growth has been wholly in the frontal
and upper region, and none at all in the
lower portions associated with purely
animal functions. This is the most i'm
portant discovery in ethnology of recent
date
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26
HARMFUL wHIrEwAsH.

l have long distrusted the broad
claims made for the much recommended
whitewashing poultry-houses for pre-
vention or determination of the vermin
which it is claimed, says o. S. Bliss in
the New York Tribune, habitually infest
them and their occupants. l have had
no personal experience with it, because |
never fail to accomplish the purpose by
easier, cheaper and more permanently eff
fective means than the advocates OF
withdrawing have ever ventured to
claim for it. l have, however, taken
pains to look the matter up, without
prejudice, and am now persuaded that so
far from accomplishing any real good of
itself, the whitewash is actually harmful.
1t may be admitted that some immediate
benefit appears to be gained, as would be
the case with any other substance so
thoroughly applied to every crack and
crevice, but it remains true, nevertheless,
that the whitewash is a protector rather
than an exterminator of the vermin.
This very day 1 examined whitewashed
louse and found confirmation of this
view. Carbolic acid, kerosene and var
Gus other things which of themselves
destructive of insect life are put into
le whitewash, but their destructive
qualities are all more or less neutralized
and rendered ineffective by dilution.
In few hours the wash becomes dried
and as harmless as sand, every destruc-
tive agent in it being effectually locked
up. But the habitable retreat of the in
sects have been increased in number a
hundred or thousand fold. Cracks and
other places without number which be-
fore were uninhabitable by them have
had the dust wiped out, or wet down,
and protecting scale of whitewash hung
up before them, thus creating many
new indus where none existed before.
If house is really infested and it be-
comes desirable to clean it out to get rid
of the vermin, it is easier, cheaper and
far more effective to apply strong soap
| soaps with or without the addition of
kerosene, spirits of turpentine, or any
other of the agents employed to render it
more effective Such wash not only
| kills the vermin, but dctaches the accre-
tons which protect them and leaves a
free open space, which is greatly prefera-
BILE to one partly filed with anything,
except it be fine, dsy dust in which in
sects cannot live. If the cracks and
other open spaces in q poultry house are
I to be filed at all it should he with NOR
tar containing sufficient amount of plaster
of paris, raw or calcined, or other similar
substance, to make the filling solid. But
1 l repeat what l have often said, that there
is no occasion for any CT these things
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-26

my breath and my wits crept into a
thicket and remained there until daylight,
Two hours later I had the good fortune
to come out of the woods in sight of the
ranch where Roberts had been killed,
and before noon was at Shaw's, Three
days later after new party was orga-
nized and descended to the bushrangers'
hiding place, The fellows had departed
bag and baggage, and none of their kid
ney were seen in that section again for a
couple of years.--Neo York Sun.