The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
SELECT SETTINGS.

Cincinnati, Ohio, consumes 5000 frogs
daily.
Movable types were made in the tanth
century.
The Prince of Wales often dozes on
horseback.
Block printing was invented by tho
Chinese about 59S.
A New York dentist recently pulled
eight of his own teeth.
The Atlantic cable authorities count
word exceeding ten letters as two words.
Scarlet fever has been spread through
a library book, used by hospital nurse.
A London photographer has paid Ex-
plorer Stanley $4,000 to sit for his photo
graph.
In India, road dust and linseed oil arc
used to paint woodwork exposed to the
weather.
1t has been proved by algebra that two
and two make five, but it is a mathemat
ical fallacy.
An aged lady died suddenly in hotel
in Alabama, and in her hustle 5000 was
found concealed.
Philip Heusen, of Mississippi, is six
feet six inches high, but his beard
reaches to the ground.
A New York hotel clerk AYERS that for
nearly thirty years every third summer
has been intensely hot.
The manufacture of soap is raid to have
begun in London in 1924. 1t was mada
in Bristol before that time.
The Theatre of Bacchus, at Athens,
Greece, built by Philos in APO b. c., is
said to have been the first erected
The Korean alphabet is phonetic, and
so simple that any one can learn to read
in day. Nearly all the women of Korea
can read.
The Khedive of Egypt has but one
wife, while Ismail, his father, has as
many as three hundred at time in his
different palaces.
The petroleum industry of western
Galacia, Austria, is older by ten years
than in Pennsylvania and the ol-produc.
ing region of far greater extent.
The word ''Thane' was Saxon title
OF nobility, which was abolished in Eng
land at the time Of the conquest upon
the introduction of the feuial system.
A bundle of spider webs, not larger
than buckshot, aud weighing less than
dram, would, if Strengthened out and
untangled, reach distance of $50 miles.
A wealthy Scotchman, Alexander Nc
Bean, has purchased a tract of $4,000
acres of land in Wyoming, on which he
proposes to establish city named after
himself.
A monster crab was landed i'll net
at San Diego, CAL, the other day that
measured sixteen inches across the body,
while the spread Of the nippsrs was thir-
ty-six inches.
A Frenchman who received the basti-
nado in Japan and the kout in Russia
says it is about an even thing which
hurts the most, bat in both cases he was
laid up two months.
The historian tablet which the Chinese
Government has taken measures to pre-
serve has been known for more than $50
years, and according to its own inscrip-
ti"n was erected 1000 years ago.
Queen Victora's favorite cook is a
Nussulman rejoicing in the style and
title of Sheik Abdulla Mustapha. He re-
Gently went to India for his health, and
the Queen was delighted at his return.
Chamois in the Swiss Alps need pro-
lection from indiscriminate sportsmen
lest their race should disappear The
Federal Council has been petitioned to
restrict chamos hunting, especially be-
tween the Jungfrau and the Wildhorn.
In Russia, when collins are covered
with cloth, the color of the covering is,
to certain extent, distinctive, pink be-
ing used when the deceased Is child or
a young person, crimson for women, and
brown for widows; but black is in no
case employed.