The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-07
SELECT sIFTINGs.
Living in Japan is very cheap.


Slavery was abolished in Cuba In 1877
One quart of sifted flour weighs ono
pound. t.-.
Jersey is rejoicing over the find of a
two tailed rabbit
The son of Duke has become retail
halter in ! ondon.
A tramp killed by an engine at Venice,
ILL.,, had on twelve shirts,
Miniature painting has seemed in dan.
ger of becominga lost art
There isn't a city, town, or village in
all France named Napoleon.
A young man died in La Grande, Ore
gon, recently of over-eyertion in dane
ing.
The most ancient known coins are of
the fifth century B, c., and are Mace
DOMAIN.
Rev. Phillips Brooks recently de-
livered sermon of 5000 words in
fifteen minutes.
They say that they have discovered an
extinct volcano in the immediate vicinity
of Birmingham, Ala.
Private detectives are now employed
to watch the gifts at fashionable we'd
dings IN Philadelphia,
One of the benevolent society fads is
to give concerts for the benefit of the
starving dogs of London.
A portion of the fourth division of the
Russian cavalry recently rode sixty-hve
miles in six hours and quarter.
The hawk, although regarded by the
Egyptians as sacre is mentioned three
times in the Bible as an unclean bird.
In 1889 the Baron La Hontan made
canoe expedition in Minnesota waters,
from November to March, without de-
tention by ice.
Colonel Stewart, of Nevada City, New,
has provided in his will that his body be
cremated and the ashes dumped into the
river at midnight.
Plutarch tells us that the cranes were
blinded and kept in coops to fatten for
tables of the mobiles of Greece and the
feasts of the rich in Rome.
Snow fell at Pensacola, Fla, a few
weeks ago which is the second fall of
snow that has occurred at that point in
the last quarter of century.
The largest painting in the world is
Tintorretta's Paradise" 1t is eighty
four feet wide and thirty-fve feet high.
1t is now in the Doge's Palace, Venice.
A strange species of insanity, leading
its victims to miscall every visible OBJ
ject has attacked the pupils in the Sol
dier's Orphan School at McAlisterville,
Penn.
About one-half the applicants for
charity who call on George w. Childs,
the Philadelphia philanthropst, threaten
to commit suicide if he refuses to aid
them, and he hobs up and accedes to
the demand.
w. Livingston Hamersley, the Duchess
of Marlborough's favorite cousin, is the
proud possessor of the oldest bottle Of
Jamaica rum in the country. 1t is ex
actly ninety years old, and belonged tt
his grandfather, William Brandegee.
An African trader has so trained 6
young gorilla that it follows him around
like a dog. 1t recently accompanied
him on tramp of twenty miles. The
animal does numerous tricks, and is sc
docile that its master doesn't hesitate Il
allow it to sleep with him.
Among the curious fish displayed or
the stands in Fulton Market, New Yorl
city, is a founder like fish which swims
on edge and is known as trigger fish.
derives his soubriQuet from its dorsal fiji
which is so constructed as to resembl,
the hammer and trigger of gun. TIL,
hammer can be half and whole cooked
and cannot be let down except by press
ing the trigger.