The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
CLIPPINGS.


lied spots In Europe,
General sherman Is ON the retired
list, His salary is $4,000.
II is now proposed 10 abolish capital
punishment in New Hampshire.
Harvard is the oldest college in the
United States. 1t was established in
1886,
\ $1,000 ioss-housc was recently
dedicated in San Jose (Csl.) China
town.
The Car has decided up>n Thcodo-
sia as the future commercial port OF
the Crimca,
Miles of electrical subways are TO be
built in New York city within the
next two years.
The annual production OF flour in
the United States is sG,000,0y0 bar
rels, worth 500, 900, 900,
The Standard OH Company has
founded n branch at Bremen, Germany,
with capital of S3,000,000.
The value of mortgages in Wiscon-
sin aggregate 1857 ,000, 900, on which
the annual interest is 1929 ,o0o,0oo
The English flag floats over one
sixth of the population and one-eighth
of the surface OF the habitablc globe.
The Senate galleries in the Caplto'
at Washington will accommodate 1900
spectators; the House galleries 1900.
Northumberland CIesswell,
who was Il member of Grants Cabinet,
is now prominent Washington bank
or.
Josh Billings made about half a mill
ion dollars by his humorous and origi-
nal essays, and by delivering comic
lectures.
In the Niillarbor Plains, Australia,
two enormous caves have been dis
covered large enough 20 hold 200, 900
persons,
England is the only country where the
members of Parliament are not only
unpaid, but have no special rights or
privileges.
People arc said to have incurred
lcad-poisoning from merely biting silk
sewing-thread or passing it through
their mouths.
The United States Government has
paid out in round numbers 81 ,000, 000,-
900 in pensions since the beginning of
the Civil Wa.
Polo has proved SO fatal in India
this season that the Commander
Chief is likely to prohibit polo tourna-
mcnts altogether.
James Payn, the English novelist,
has written about forty novels, and
every word of the manuscript is in his
own handwriting,
Congress approp' iates annually the
sum of $4,000 for White House station
cry, kilograms, books and other such
contingent expenses.
The largest sugar-beet farm in the
world is the Moro Colo Ranch, near
Castrovillc, Cal, where / 800 acres are
devoted to their culture.
Each member of Congress gets about
5000 envelopes full of seeds every year.
and the bill Uncle Sam pays for them
amounts TO about 100000
Tic pay of the Admiral of the
United 5 ates Navy. whether at sea,
on shore duty. or on leave, or waiting
orders, is $4,000 PEI annum.
The greatest depth ofthe Atlantic
Ocean is about A miles, and this
| is only in limited space about
100 miles north of st. Thomas.
The national debt Of Germany,
which is much sna,lcr than that of
any other great country in the world,
is, in round figures, 1872, 100000.
On an average. . 10000 people
pass over the Brooklyn bridge every
day on the cars and 10000 Oh foot !;
I 5000 vehicles pass over every day.
Fogs injured the grain crops this
year in some districts Of Roumania TO
an extent of so per cent. OF difference
in the yield as compared with former
years.
At recent sale of skins in London
one Of the lots was 2jU, 900 Australian
opossum skins. At another sale so,
600 African monncv skins were Of
fered.
Eat more apples as nature made
them, instead of "buried i'll greasy
pies urges the Indiana farmer, apro-
pos of needed increase of health and
happiness.
Ii is estimated that over eight tons
of diamonds have been nneal thed il,
the South African field. during the
last IS year,. This represents tota
value Of 1926, 900, 900.
Henry Warren, who sells newspapers
on the Derby Railroad, between New
Haven and Birmingham, Conn., and
who is now in his cighty-scct nd year
is cutting his third set of teeth,
The Kansas crop report for 1887
shows that the product is worth 800
000. 600; or twice the value of tho
product IN 1879 or 1880, and hall
the total value of the farms by tho
last census.
The statistics of the import of um
brellas into India have suggested thu
question why native artificels do TO
manufacture this article. In 1885,!
there were imported by sea into Cal
cutta considerably more than $500,
900 umbrellas of foreign make.
The Prince of Wales is one of min
men who are compelled on certain DC
casions TO wear the uniform of the ad
miral of the fleet. Five of these ar
over seventy, three over eighty. ant
one is about to enter upon his hun
dredth year, so that they manage t
J escape the duty more than the prince
doe.