The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-02-07
SELECT SIFTINGS.

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Philadelphia in $1,000 coffin.
The lightning.rod was the biggest
humbug of the nineteenth century.
There are several towns in England
where they yet ring the curfew bell.
Alexander the Great died at Babylon,
B. G. 1913, at the age of thirty.three.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded
at Fotheringay Castle, in February 1887.
James Kane, of Connecticut, fred at
cat in the darkness and killed q $50
COW.
No Laplander has ever written song,
and no Finlander has ever written q
book.
A new temple to the Chinese Joss has
been dedicated in Mott street, New
York city.
Titan, considered by many the prince
of colorists, was born at Venice in 1477
and died In 1876.
1t takes $50, 900 a year to dine the Of
ficers of Queen Victoria's guard, on
duty at st. James Palace.
There are in India about two hundred
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thirty-three of these are poisonous.
A prominent citizen of Fresno, CAL,
has started 'possum farm. He has
procured a car load of the animals from
Missouri.
Superstition is made to pay tribute to
a fashionable New York jeweler, who
advertises amber necklaces "to prevent
Group in children"
A sea captain on trial in San Francisco
for cruelty said it was necessary to good
discipline to knock q sailor down with a
Delaying pin now and then.
Among the Chinese heaven is odd,
earth is even, and the numbers one,
three, five, seven, nine belong to heaven,
while the even digits are of the earth
earthly.
A thief at Dubuque, Iowa, stole bar
rel of eggs, but because the warrant did
not specify that they were hens eggs
instead of goose, or bird, or alligator
eggs, he was turned loose.
An Atchison (Kan.) man has attained
considerable local reputation as a NOR
tuary prophet. He has predicted the
demise of a number of people, and in
every case his prophecies were speedily
fulfilled.
A botanical exploring party from Ger
many recently discovered on one of the
Philippine Islands number of plants
whose flowers were almost a yard in
diameter, the petals, five in number,
being oval and of creamy white shade.
Out of fifty people at a Cincinnati
banquet thirteen would not cat venison,
ten would not touch turkey, eighteen
would have nothing to do with salads,
| fifteen refused coffee, twenty eight let
cheese alone and not over twenty would
eat cake.
A peculiar dwelling at somerville,
about three miles from Boston, is APP
propriately called the Ground house, :"
being perfectly circular in plan. 1t was
built about thirty five years ago by an
eccentric hardware dealer, who resolved
that his house should not be a mere
repetition of the work of others.
A Hindoo god is offered for sale in
London. Its throne was at Delhi and to
it female pilgrims ilocked for more than
a thousand years. 1t ceased to be an
object of worship about the year 1893.
The divinity is of gold, incrusted with
precious stones and is set round with
priceless gems called the "senni charm. :"
! A hawk dived into lot of ducks in a
cove on Moosehead Lake. He got his
claws into one, and together they des-
appeared under water. 1t was more
than minute before the hawk rose to
the surface nearly drowned, and with a
labored effort he got away; not, how
ever, until other ducks tried to force
him again under water.