The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-03
SELECT SETTINGS.

At three vegetarian restaurants In Lon
don the dinners daily served up average
1850.
A canary at Birmingham, England,
through its eompanionship with parrot,
is said to have learned to speak several
words distinctly.
A woman at Danville, Ind, the mother
of two children, sold bed which had
been given her by an aid society for
money with which to pay for a license to
marry another man.
A gentleman OF Fredericksburg, Va,
on buying, recently, an old Confederate
note as souvenir, discovered that it was
indorsed with his own signature as hav.
ing been paid in 1862,
An inmate of lunatic asylum in Bres-
cha, Italy, was released on February l,
after seclusion of forty years. During
this period his cost to the institution
footed up more than $4,000.
1t is singular fact that glassblowers
live as long as the average of mankind
and develop larger lungs than anybody
else, Most any glassblower can expand
his chest five or six inches, and there is
one man who can expand twelve.
An electric vegetable is said to have
been discovered in India which has the
power of affecting the magnetic needle
at distance of twenty feet when the
weather is favorable. In rainy weather
it has no electric influence whatever.
A little girl five years old arrived in
Paterson, N. j., having travelled by rail
alone from Saginaw, Mich. The child,
at the request of her father, was shipped
as express matter, with tag about her
neck giving her name and destination and
also the key of her trunk.
The latest attraction of the London
Zoo is collection of monster lizards, the
| largest animals of their class. They are
so large and strong that it is said in India
burglars sometimes make use of them,
seizing hold of the lizards tail and being
drawn by it to the upper windows of a
house.
At Small Point, Me-, the prospectors
for coal are contemplating exploring the
bottom of the sea. A large scow has been
engaged, and on it will be placed the en-
CINE which will drive an electric dynamo
to furnish light for diver, who is to
explore the submarine depths at Small
Point.
An advertisement was printed in a New
York paper calling for ''bank burglar,
first-class, must have done time, and be
well up in nitro-glycerine and other
modern explosives, to call at Ills Broad
way at 3 p. NJ" One was found who
filled the bill. He was wanted by a
theatrical troupe.
Last year there were 1881 calls to fires
in London. OF these 594 were false
alarms, 1919 were chimney fires and 1888
for other fires, 153 of which resulted in
serious damage. Forty-four persons were
burned to death. To extinguish the fires
20, 200, 900 gallons, or $4,000 tons of
water were used.
George S. Mcintyre, of Biddeford,
Me-, aged 60 years, is described as a
natural mathematical prodigy and the
possessor of prodigious memory for
poetry. "Yet at present." we are told,
she lives in Biddeford garrett, subsist
ing on the scraps which charitable &C.
quaintances give him. !"
Miss Ella Ewing, living near Rainbow,
Mo-, eighteen years old, is now seven feet
eight inches high, weighs 225 pounds
wears number fifteen shoe, which, of
course, she has to have made to order,
and her shoemaker had to order special
last. The girls parents are about the
usual size, the father being possibly a
little taller than the average man.