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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

Dr. KNoRR, of Germany, has made ST.
100000 out of anti-pyrine.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, Secretary Tracy
and ex-senator Platt were schoofellows.
JOSEPH BIGGAR, the Irish Home Ruler,
left the bulk of his estate to his son Joseph.
CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON, of Kansas says
that Jay Gould is the brightest man in Amer
lea.
WILLIAM D. HowELLs, the novelist is
said to shrink from having his portrait pub
lished.
ANNIE BEsANT, the wel-known English
Socialist will shortly make a visit to this
country.
CHEF JUSTICE Conveys, of Delaware, is
the possessor of feet 3 inches of stature and
arobust intellect.
The Order of Commander of the Legion of
Honor has been conferred by France upon
Perry Belmont, of New YorE.
CHAuNcEY NJ. DEPEw is said to travel 500
miles on an average every week. Besides
this he takes an annual trip to Europe.
REPRESENTATIVE REYBURN, of Phils-
delpha the successor of William D. Kelley
in Congress, is several times millionaire.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER is said to
be able to quote the Bible more freely and
more accurately than any other man i'll pub
lie life.
ANDREW LANG, the English critic, seriously
discusses the probability of coming TO this
country and making his permanent home in
New York.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has conferred upon
LAWYER Charles Gibson, of st. Louis, the
grand cross of the Prussian Order of the
Royal Crown.
EDWARD BURGESS. the yacht designer,
contemplates delivering at the National
Museum at Washington an illustrated lee
ture on yachts and yachting.
CORPORAL TANNER is said to be making an
abundance of money in Washington. He
employs force of twelve clerks and his
practice is worth at least $50, 600 a year.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH is the sixth Penn
sylvanian in late years TO be honored with the
Russian mission. his predecessors having
been Messrs. Boxer, Curtin, Cameron,
Dallas anu Wilkins
DR. PAUL NIEMEYEH, the famous lecturer
and writer on hygiene, mas died in Germany.
He aided Miss Nightingale in the editing of
her Notes on Nursing He was born in
Magdeburg, March g. 1892
DR.. CARL LUMHOLTz, of the University
of Christiana, who spent year in scientific
investigations among the cannlbals OF Aus
traia, is on his way TO New Mexico on an
other scientific expedition
In a New York Court recently son OF the
late Emory A. Storrs, the distinguished
Chicago lawyer and orator, testified under
oath that his father did not leave enough
money to defray the funeral expenses.
In declining an invitation. Professor Hux-
lev, the English scientist, writes that his
deafness is growing on him, and that now
adays he is liable to become very tired and
lose his voice when he attempts to talk.
SIR DINsHAw MANoCKJEE PETIT is
Parsee gentleman VINO has given away
100000 in private charities His latest
benefaction is gift of 100, 900 rupees toward
the founding of a leper hospital at Bombay,
India.
EDWARD BELLAMY is a magnetic-looking,
blac6-moustached and cordia. -mannered ma.
tive of Massachusetts,, and nine and thirty.
He has visited the Sandwich Islands and
written novel called Looking Backward"
which has attained sale of 200 900 COPIES.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
Fortune Played Them a Trick.

Fortune is a slippery jade. A New
York Mil and Express writer heard the
other day OF a shabby trick she played
several gentlemen, among whom were no
less noted personages than two ex-Gov
ernors of Massachusetts, Butler and Rice.
A chemist named Fell, residing in New
York. had made a most remarkable dis.
covery, which was apparently destined to
revolutionize the leather indusW. In
experimenting with tungstate of soda he
had applied it to blotting paper, and the
result was substance like leather pos
sessing the same hard yet elastic consis
tency and practically indestructible.
A company was organized, and for
tunes seemed to be within easy reach OF
all concerned. Presently the experiments
ceased. The chemists supply of tung
state had all run out. A new consign
ment from Mr.. Quettier, the dealer, did
not produce the same effect. Repeated
trials failed to revive the success of the
first. The tungstate was analyzed aud
found to be pure. Then a small portion
of the old supply was scraped from the
box in which it had been kept, aud that
was sent exclusively to Profs. Doremus,
Feuchtwanger and Ennis to be analysed.
They found in it foreign substances and
residunm of alum.
The first specimen had been imported
from Germany; the second was domestic.
Then $40, 900 was offered to the dealer if
he could secure fresh supply of the
same quality as the first. This he under
took to do, but somehow failed. 4 Mr..
Murphy was sent abroad to visit the
German firm of manufacturers from whom
the impure tungstate had been received.
While he was on the Atlantic the fac
tories of the German house were burned
to the ground. They were never rebuilt.
And 50, for the want of accurate
| knowledge of the nature of single
ingredient, and that. too, an impurity,
big discovery and a magnificent for
tune in prospective have sano glimmer-
ing. Europe has been searched in vain
for trace of the chemical mixture, and
all that is left of the golden dream for
the stockholders to gaze upon are few
pieces of paper leather.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
eRUBs IN cATTLE's BACKS

Just now a great relief may be af.
forded cattle by removing from their
backs the grubs of the CAD or bot fly
with which many of them will be found
infested. These large grubs are equiva-
lent, for all evil consequences, to as
many running ulc IS, for a large quanti-
ty of muscular tissue is destroyed and
broken down into the puss, which is
consumed by the parasites. The con-
slant irritation caused by them is a
waste of nervous force which aid in the
injurious results. A COW which has had
forty-seven of these grubs in her back
and down the sides, over the ribs, was
freed from them, the operation taking up
nearly one hour and half. and some of
the holes had to be cut little to extract
the grub by squeezing. In two weeks
the COW gained eight pounds in weight
and increased in milk from eleven to
seventeen quarts daily. The cost of the
grubs was therefore equal to the value of
six quarts of milk per day, in this case
worth thirty cents, equal to ~ in a
month This case is an extreme one, in
the writer's experience certainly, but no
doubt there are many cows in the diss-
greeable predicament of this one.-Net0
York Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
SELECT SlFTINGS.

Milledgeville, Ga, has youthful
citizen WIG not only walks but eats in
his sleep.
A plan for opening hotel at the foot
of the Pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt, is
under consideration.
Honey Lake, Lassen County, Cal, dry
as a lime kiln for two years past, is now
filling up again with water.
Jane Simmons, colored woman, of
Milledgevlle. Ga, has followed the
butchering business for twenty years,
The largest single pension which has
ever been awarded in this country has
Just been drawn in Indiana by CHARLES
Flaherty, an engineer on the Vandalia
road 1t amounts to $1,000.
Forty-one years ago G. Longfellow, a
druggist at Machias, Me-, inserted an
advertisement of his business in the first
issue of the local paper. 1t has appeared
in every issue since, and Longfellow has
been prosperous.
"There is IA lady living on the east
side of the nver," says an Augusta,
Maine paper, ''who is in her seventies
and is cutting new set of teeth, Sew
eral months ago the gums became painful,
and in short time the teeth began to
appear, F"
A grocer at Lynchburg, Va, who had
been in business for thirteen years with
out making cent, couldn't figure out
how it was until his head clerk was taken
sick, thought he was going to die, and
owned up to having embezzled about
$17, 900.
A merchant in Nebraska had only ~
to put into his safe the other night. He
put up placard to that effect, but bur-
glars blew it open, and were so mad at
the smallness of the sum that they went
to the merchants house and hauled him
out of bed and thumped him almost TO
death.
A Maine soldier, who was partici-
pant in one of the battles OF Sherman's
March to the Sea, fight lasting several
hours, AYERS that from the firing of the
first hostile gun until the battles close
his conscious existence was lost, and he
was never able to recall single incident
of the fight.
A messenger, sent to bring doctor to
dress the wounds of laborer injured in
a quarry at Upper Merton, Penn, and
being of the opinion that the man would
die, took it upon himself to notify the
coroner. When the latter visited the
scene he found the injured man on fair
way to recovery.
The japanese never sleep with the
head to the north. This is because the
dead in that country are always buried
with the head toward the north. In
slee,sng rooms of private houses, and of
hotels even, diagram of the points of
the compass is pasted upon the ceiling for
the benefit of guests.
Henry Stratford, OF Kingston, Onta-
| rio, has received letter from England
which went into the sea when the steam
ship Oregon was wrecked and sunk In
1886 The letter in question was found
| buried in the sands of the beach near
Cdpe udtleTas, In. ". he iudii gag WI
| tanning the missiye drifted 400 miles from
the scene of the wreck.
The birth of popular expression is
ascribed to the first John Jacob Aston:
''Being a German by birth, Mr. Aston
supposed that Co. X. was an abbrevia-
ton of 'all correct, which, in his own
mind, he spelled 'oll korrect.' The joke
upon Mr.. Astor found its wayinto print,
and was so much appreciated that his %.
! K, soon passed into common use"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
WHY BUTTER Is BRITTLE.

A farmer asks why his butter is brittle
and crummy and breaks instead of cut
ting smoothly with the knife. This ques-
ton may be answered by simply saying
because it is winter butter, or to 60
further, that winter butter usually con-
tains greater proportion of the hard fat,
margarine and less of the soft fat, oeline,
than summer made butter. But cold
weather alone is not wholly responsible.
Feed has an influence on the character OF
butter. Cows are more likely to get poor
bog hay and dry, weathcr-beaten corn
stalks or straw in winter than in summer
when fresh, sweet grasses are abundant.
If COWS are kept in warm, clean stables
and are fed au abundance of nutritious
hay and grain, such as corn-meal, good
bran and oil-meal and the milk is we'll
handled, there need be no difficulty in
having butter that will cut smoothly
with the knife. Cows recently fresh in
milk will produce a better grade of but
ter than those that have given milk
several months. American Dairynaa,i.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
Musical Jugs.

The silvadors or musical jugs found
among the burial places OF Peru, are most
ingenious specimens of handiwork The
William S. Vaux collection in Philadel-
phia contains a remarkable example OF
this rude and ancient art 1t is com
posed OF two vessels joined together with
clay stem OF pipe, after the fashion of
the Siamese twins. The stem is hollow !;
one jug is entirely closed up, except a
small opening provided with a clay tube,
leading TO the body of the whistle. When
liquid is poured into the open-mouthed
jug, the air is compressed into the other
through the opening in the connecting
stem, from whence it is forced into the
whistle, the vibrations producing the
lovely songs of various forest birds pecu-
liar 10 Peru and South American countries.
The Clay collection, in the same city, also
contains some wonderful examples of an-
cient Peruvian art, among which are the
robin vases and the llama jugs, the for
mer initiating the song of the robin, and
the latter. being fashioned in the form of
the llama, initiates the election of saliva,
well remembered as being one of that
animals disgusting habits. -PieaVaae.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
GOOD POTATO SEED.

Unless the farmer believes that any
seed potatoes are good enough to plant,
he will do well to look carefully to the
source of his supply of potato seed this
spring. Size is not the important matter
so much as maturity and abundance of
starch. We have known small, we'll
ripened tuberS to produce large crops.
Their chief objection is having too many
eyes, producing great number of
sprouts, which crowd each other and de-
crease the yield much as such crowding
would with anything else. If small po-
tatocs are used dig out all the eyes save
two, and let these be well developed.
Where large potatoes are cut to one or
two eyes this often makes very small
pieces at the seed ends. 1t is better in
such cases to dig out some of the eyes
and cut the pieces of larger size. More
than one sprout is often produced from
single eye, especially on rich soil and
when planted deeply. -4naericoa Cultica-
tor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
For THE SICK PIGS.

II your pigs are sick do not at once
dose them with lot OF medicine Keep
their feed away little, and feed lightly
for few days. A change OF feed may
be just the thing needed, especially if you
have been stuffing them with corn or
corn meal. 1t is very easy to clog pigs
on u single diet, They know no better
than TO eat until it makes them sick.
The feeder ought to know better. Young
stock of all kinds should be permitted to
only fairly plump themselves out and not
make themselves pot-bellied. But corn
in any shape will not afford them sufficient
nourishment 1t is deficient in muscle
and bone material. But if plenty of
skinned milk is fed with it, the ration
is very much improved Then if an
equal weight of wheat bran, shorts or
middlings is mixed with the corn meal,
the ration is better yet and more econom-
ical. - Witness.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
NEWSY GLEAEINGS.

THE premium on gold in Buenos Ayres has
risen to 164 per cent.
THEY are about to build new Masonic
temple in Chicago. at cost of S3,O00,0O0.
TURKEY has declined to accept the Belgian
scheme for the suppression of the slave
trade
THE large smelling organizations of the
United States have formed Trust with q
capital OF S25, 900, 600.
IT is now proposed to dig tunnel under
the Detroit River in the interest OF the Ca
madam Pacific railroad.
LHPRosY is spreading so rapidly in New
Caledonia that 5000 of the natives and many
of the convicts have been attacked.
STATE TREASURER holland, of Missouri,
mas been suspended owing to the discovery OF
. shortage OF 3d. 900 in his accounts
VIRGINIA has oegun to take steps TO ascer-
tain how large proportion OF It's taxable
property IS owned by colored people
THE epidemic of influenza is slowly max
ing its way down through Mexico and Yu-.
catan to the Central American States.
LEAGUES have been formed in Rio JAN
eric. Bahia, Para. Santos and Pernambuco,
Brazil, 80 boycott British in favor OF Ameri-
can goods.
OHIO is to have new oil company conf
posed OF wealthy capitalists from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Pittsourg, with an estimated
capital of s5o,0o000o.
ALABAMA papers are calling attention to
the wanton destruction OF knocking birds In
that State Large numbers of them are shot
every spring and summer.
ACCORDING to statement Just issued by
the Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts there
are forty-one State banks in the State, hav-
ing an aggregate capital OF 81, 3l6,501.
REPORTS concerning the prospective wheat
crop in the Western States are encouraging.
Only Michigan and Wisconsin complain Of
damage by recent freezing and thawing.
The Chinese Government has ordered one
powerful armorclad. two swift cruisers and
two torpedo gunboats from English builders,
and the two latter have already been
launched.
AT the National Convention Ds Hungarians,
held in Pittsburg. Penn, it was determined
to form an organization to look after The in
teresus of Hungariaus in all paris Of tas
country.
TROUBLE has broken out in Oklahoma
owing TO alleged efforts TO colonized the new
territory with sufficient colored people to ens-
bic them to run the Territorial Government.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
rHE LITTLE MAIDS AMEN.


A rustic of robes as the anthem
SCARED gently away on the air
The sabbath morns service was over
And briskly stepped down the stai
When close in ahalf lighted corner
Where the tall pulpit stairway came down,
Asleep crouched tender, wee maiden,
With hair like shadowy crown.
Quite puzzled was | by the vision,
But gently to wake her / spoke,
When, at the first word, the young damsel
With one little gasp straight awoke.
what brought you here, fair little angelg'
She answered, with voice like a hell;
~ tum, tos I've dot a sick mamma,
And want 90 to please pray her well,
"who told yous" began l-she stopped me;
Don't nobody told me ALL
And papa can't see tos he's cryin,
And sides sir isn't so small;
Use been here before with my mamma,
We tummed when you ringed the big bell;
And ev'ry time Use heard You prayin
For lots o sick folks to dit well,'
Together we knelt on the stairway,
As humbly ! asked the Great Power
To give back her health to the mother
Aud Danish bereavement's dark hour;
finished the humble petition,
And paused for moment-and then
A sweet little voice at my elbow
Lisped softly gently "Amenw
Hand in hand we turned our steps home
ward
The little maids tongue knew no rest;
She prattled, and mimcked, and caroled-
The shadow was gone from her breast
And lol--when we reached the fair dwelling
The nest of my golden-haired waif--
We found that the dearly loved mother
Was past the dread crisis, and safe.
They listened amazed at my story,
And wept Ger their dsrlng's strange quest,
While the arms of tine pale, loving mother
Drew the brave little head to her breast;
With eyes that were trimming and grateful
They thanked ME again and again
Yet know in my heart that the blessing
Was won by that gentle Amen"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
RACKS For FEEDING snEEr.

As much as possible the feeding of
sheep in winter should be done under
shelter, and the coarse iced especially
ought to be kept where it can be reached
during the night, A rack is made by
using narrow boards, with wide, open
places between each, and the boards
firmly nailed both at top and bottom TO
the crosspieces, A long box made thus
will accommodate one sheep to each
opening, Ifthe flock is reasonably even
in strength, there will be no injurious
crowding at the feeding ricks. They are
usually made about four feet high, thus
allowing the coarse manure to pile about
them to the depth of foot without dan
ger of the sheep breaking over.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
GRASS For AN ORCHARD,

Grass is not a good crop for an
orchard. 1t tends to form a mat on the
surface, which is injurious to the trees.
Glover alone is better than any grass
Orchard grass is badly named, except for
the reason that it grows well under the
trees, and for its own sake does well in
orchards, but it Is quite the reverse for
the trees. The matted roots are apt to
gather about the stems of the trees and
injure them. Timothy is equally bad for
the trees, as it forms a denser sod, while
clover is loose and open, forms protect
ing mulch over the roots of the trees,
and leaves a large quantity of decaying
matter in and on the soil. Six pounds Of
clover seed per acre is enough for seed
ing an orchard. As soon as the young
trees make an excessive growth of wood,
it is time to SOW the orchard with clover.
The clover may remain three for four
years and by that time it will probably
be well to pillow the ground and leave it
fallow for one season, or manure it and
take crop OF potatoes or peas and then
SOW clover again. The clover may be
mown for hay and the second growth
pastured by pigs which will eatsthe fallen
fruit.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
THE DUST IN HAY.

There is, as all farmers know, more or
less dustin all hay, and this, il taken into
the lungs, is very injurious to horses fed
on it, Glover hay and that of timothy
cut in the bloom are especially liable to
be dusty, aud often gives horses the heave'
when fed ON either Of these. Slightly
wetting the hay will prevent this injury.
The better way is to cut the hay, slightly
moisten it aud throw on it little corn
and oats ground together, taking care not
to give more than will be eaten clean at
each feed, Between meals the rack may
be filled with fresh straw, which the
horse will pick over, and which may then
be used as bedding, York World.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20

Swallowed Arkand school, The gho' IS
lay still in their graves, aud people whis'
pered darkly that the Indian family at
the Cross Roads had not been ungratelul
to their young champion.
And the next year, when the woman
was dead and buried, and still newer
school-teacher held the bouquet for Edna
Evals when she married the freight SUI
pcrintendent, there We're enough To re-
member those words,
"And | can see weddin', too, and it
amt fur oir.-Saturlay Night.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
rERrILIzrSe WITH CLOVER.

A system of rotation and blowing like
the following will, in few years, work
wonders on any soil. When a crop of
small grain is sown in the spring, SOW
liberal amount of medium clover and the
next year after cutting the hay early, let
the second crop go to seed and pillow un-
der when well matured. The next year
plant crop, and when harvested plow
fully as deep as before which brings the
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20

"Not that know of, said she. stoop.
ing to pick up fallen rose.
"My old man says so, protested the
woman. "And my old man he's awful
sharp to notice things other folks don't
notice. | kind o hope it's so. I'd like
We to stay in Arkand, Miss Edna.
''But | mean to stay in Arkand and
teach"
The woman put out her skeleton fin
gers and softly stroked Edna's velvet
soft hand
you've done so much for we said
she. "And us--us couldn't do much
for YOU But we've done somethin
You amt never seen the graveyard
ghost'
mo, u with surprised eyes.
"No; and We never will. There ain
nothin' gone wrong with ye?"
mo.
''And there wcn'tw confidently ut
tered the woman.
''Mother, hush" spoke up Buttonball
Ann, quickly.
''Do you mean began Edna.
''Mother don't mean nothin, inter-
posed Ann. Mother talks wild some
times
mo, don't, said the woman. ''But
when ! lay here with my eyes shut sees
things. | sees the school-teacher walk
in past all the danger spots-where the
ghost hides, and where the railroad track
crosses the road, and where the tax col
lector was murdered last year-and
there's a white angel walks at her side,
a-holdin' up a sword of shinin' pearl.
And l can see weddin', toe, and it aim
fur of. !"
She closed her restless syes. and lay
quite quiet after that.
The spell was broken that had over.