The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-11-13
SELECT SETTINGS.

Envelopes were first used in 1929.
Salaries of pastors in Germany are very
low.
The Andes have sunk seventy-six feet
in 1872 years.
The button behind.shirt was a purely
American invention.
The first white child to be born with
in the limits of the Thirteen Colonies was
girl.
Two thousand seven hundred and fifty
languages are spoken by the inhabitants
of the world.
Two eight-year old boys are in custody
ct st. Paul, Mimi, for attempting to
''crack" a safe.
A bill to forbid and punish the making
of caricatures has been introduced into
the Legislature of Vermont.
The Australian tailor who travelled in
trunk from Vienna to Paris has just
made the trip from Paris to London in
the same manner.
Farming in Washington's day knew
nothing of machinery; even the first iron
pillow, patented in 1897, was failure,
for New Jerusalem farmers thought it
poisoned the soil.
A prominent member of the New
York Stock Exchange has been arraigned
before the governing committee on the
charge of indecorous conduct in the board
room. His offense was resting his foot
in a chair.
There is a family in Armstrong County,
Penn.-father, mother and four children
whose combined weight is 1900
pounds, an average of PIG pounds. One
of the girls weighs 305 pounds, and is
only eleven years old.
A tree planting society has been in
formed, through letters received from
societies in the leading cities, of the diff
ficulties of urban tree planting. The
chief enemies to trees in cities are gas,
horses and electric light and telephone
men.
| A silver knee buckle was found re-
Gently in Swift Run Gap, Rockingham
County, Va, which was set with dia-
monds. 1t is supposed that they may
have been lost by Gov. Spottswood in his
famous expedition described in Fon-
taine's history.
Since ladies pockets have become so
effectively concealed within the fold of
their dresses, pickpockets have been
/ pt1suo1 IN, nth I'D &c OF
ing purses. 1t is to artifcially elongate
the first two fingers, so that they may
serve as delicate pincers.
A boys strange mania was brought to
the notice of London magistrate. The
boy was five and a half years old, his
favorite pastime being hailing cabman
of a rank and telling him he was wanted
at some distant street, in orier to get
into the vehicle and have ride.
Three little boxes of CeyloH tea, each
weighing five pounds, were sold by auc-
ton in London lately at the extraordi-
nary price of 81 81 per pound. 1t was
a very rare variety known as ''choicest
COLDER. tipped pekoe." The leaf was
small, but literally blazed with golden
tipping.
Sammy Brazeton was caught in one
of his OWN bear traps at 1rafton, Cal.
and while waiting for assistance nearly
starved to death. Postmaster Ester
brook happened along, however, as
Sammy was about to faint from hunger
and released him from his unfortunate
predicament.
Gin Non, Chinese merchant of Xiv,
erside, CAL, is about to return to China
to secure himself a wife, aud, in order
to be allowed to land upon his return, he
has drawn up certificate setting forth
who he is, aud had his photograph
pasted on the same sheet, and had the
different county officials sign the doc.
ument.
E A three hours drive with a snake wa:
taken recently by lady in Ceylon. o.
, getting out of her carriage she moved
, the cushions to find something which hat
t slipped down, and to her horror discov
; cred huge cobra coiled up underneath
Had not the creature been in semi
| torpid condition she could not have es
E capped alive.