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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
Dirty Money.

1t is not the money Hunks received for
voting for t'other candidate at the late
election, but literally soiled, mutilated
paper currency, so offensive that nobody
would willingly touch it with a pair of
tongs. There is far too much of it in
circulation-so much that one frequent
ly runs actual risk of getting cholera or
something worse when he handles it.
For his own comfort one shuns speculat-
ing on the probable history of that grimy,
foul smelling dollar bill he has received
in change from the grocer or meat man.
Congressman Cultivate, from Ohio,
proposes if possible to give the people
clean, crisp bills, by making it less ex-
pensive for banks and business corpora
tions to return dirty money to the treas
ury at Washington and get bright new
bills in exchange for it. At present al
most the only people who give us nice
clean bills in exchange for our tatterel
rags are the great dry goods firms. In
first class dry goods establishment one
never gets filthy bank bills.
AT present anybody can get old money
exchanged for new by simply sending it
to the Treasurer of the United States,
Washington, D. c." But he must pay
the postage or expressage on it himself
and take the risks himself 1t can be
sent by mail, registered without charge.
But the sender must pay the postage.
Congressman Cultivate will propose
that the government pay the expenses of
shipping the money both ways In view
of the paper money annually lost and
destroyed and which is consequently so
much gain to the government, it is
thought the government could well af-
ford this expense.
At present the directions concerning
the shipping of mutilated currency for
exchange are as follows:
United States notes, gold certificates, silver
certificates, treasury notes of 1890 and national
bank notes should be forwarded in separate
remittances. The notes should be assorted by
denominations and inclosed in paper straps,
not more than 100 notes in each strap, and the
straps should be marked with the amount of
their contents. Not more than 5000 notes
should be put in one package.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
Splitting and Setting Posts.

Meehan, in his illustrated Monthly
reminds readers that it is the attempt TO
split thing against the grain which
makes splitting difficult. Those who
make hoops for barrels split the pole in
order to make them, but they do not
commence with the top or slender por-
ton of the pole and split downward
They could not do this: but by taking the
thicker end and working from the thick
to the thin no trouble is found-the pole
splits easily. Also in cutting wood, the
expert AMMAN knows that he gets along
nicely by starting at the thickest end.
Still further, this hint can be usefully
applied in planting fence posts. While
the sap Of tree ascends easily by fol-
lowing the forked upward channels it
cannot so easily descend. By planting
a post. therefore, upside downfall is
to say in a contrary direction to which
the tree grows-moisture will not he
drawn upward nearly as easily as when
the post is planted in the other direction.
An inverted post, therefore, will last
nearly double the time without rotting
that one will do set without regard to
this principle,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Susan Hayes Ward says to young art
lists: "Stop inventing. Give up your
cherubs, your castles, your moated
oranges, for the live babies, the farm.
house and the rail fences that are all
about you. Go to good art school and
test your capacity. There is nothing
better to take the conceit out of one
than to enter large studio. Draw and
continue to draw, but always from a
model and never from imagination
and if circumstances so hem You in that
you cannot leave home for the large city
studio find good teacher connected
with an accredited school of art who
will teach by correspondence, and do
not presume to open studio and invite
visitors to buy Your pictures until you
have had the training Of the schools.
You are making grave mistake. Your
work betrays not only immaturity, but
ignorance. You will be ashamed of it
as soon as your eyes are trained. Close
your studio and go to school.
dence Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
The Good of 1t.

Next summer two more expeditions
will seek the north pole. In Norway
DR.. Nansen is preparing for an expedi-
ton which will require perhaps five
years for completion, certainly two. 1t
has been thought there is current run
ming eastward from Behring straits, pos
sibly around the pole itself DR.. Nansen
will make his voyage by water, striving
first of all to get into this current, which
he believes in. He also believes it will
take him to the north pole, and perhaps
to the jumping off place on the other
side.
In this country Lieutenant Peary will
start out as early as possible in the com
ing season, backed again by the generous
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences prob
ably. By careful planning as to time
and supplies he hopes to be able toreach
the pole itself, camping for winter as
before near Mccormick bay, and leav-
ing it for the pole at the return of day
light in February. He will travel across
the sea after leaving the northernmost
point of land.
He believes he can make the journey
from Mccormick bay to the pole and
back between February and July. There
is land to the north of Greenland.
Whether Peary reaches the pole or not,
he will certainly settle definitely tie
boundaries of this land.
The good of it all? Well, this adven-
turous exploration will continue till
there is not a square mile of the globe
which the white man has not trodden
and measured, not region anywhere
that we do not know about and classify
geographically and economically. The
triumph of achievement and conquest
is the explorers reward, and it is reward
enough.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
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FlELRsNp GRRpEN
PNEUMATIC TIRES.
Opinions as to Their Use ON Buggies and
Other Light Driving Vehicles.

Opinions AS to Their Use ON Buggies and
Other Light Driving Vehicles.
The question is asked in The Rural
New Yorker, sis it probable that tho
rubber tires that have proved so success
full on trotting sulkies will come into i'm
mediate use ON buggies or other light
driving vehicless"
OF six carriage and wagon manufac-
turing companies which reply to this
question one only declines to express any
opinion; the remaining five appear to
be substantially of the opinion expressed
by one company that 1.-THE pneumatic
wheels so popular on speeding sulkies
will never become popular on driving
vehicles until they have undergone many
changes" The reasons given in this in
stance are that 1.-The pneumatic rubber
tire at present is very easily punctured
and very difficult to repair. None Of
them will retain uniform high pressure
of air longer than three or four days.
They give the best results on wheels
twenty-eight inches in diameter. On
larger wheels the column of air is length
ened of course, and requires higher
pressure to give the necessary firmness
to the tread. The danger of puncture,
the trouble in keeping them inflated and
the annoyance of repairing punctured
tires must necessarily exclude them
from general use on any vehicle for road
purposes.
One firm writes: I'VE have serious
doubts whether the pneumatic rubber
tires can ever be successfully used on a
buggy intended for general purposes,
for the reason that the tires are too
easily punctured and damaged. Unless
the liability to puncture and some other
features can be successfully overcome
we have serious doubts whether the
pneumatic rubber tires will be the kind
used for the bicycle in the future,
though they may be used by racing men
and others who will take unusual care
of the wheels and guard against pune
ture in the tires. We cannot see, how
ever, why the ball bearing may not be
judiciously applied to light vehicles and
so tighten the draft"
Another, while commencing pneumat-
ic tires for sulkies, thinks something
else must be got up for road business,
and suggests as suitable tire iron out
side with rubber under it; the iron to
stand the wear of rough roads and the
rubber to give elasticity.
Still another company thinks pneu-
matte tires on sulkies are not success
on heavy or muddy track, and that
they cannot take the place of the present
wheels, because, first, their height is
against them for carriages, and were
they made higher their strength would
be very much impaired second, in mud
dy roads they certainly would be use
less. The belief is expressed, however,
that some smart manufacturing COM
pany will produce wood carriage wheel
with rubber tire and ball bearings that
will be the coming wheel for all ve-
hicles.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Queen Victoria sets her face dead
against divorces, and will receive no
woman at court who has been divorced
and remarked. This is probably because
her majesty knows that only for their
royal birth there would have been some
divorce suits among members of her
own family.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

what the homestead strike Cost.
1t lasted five months, and the strikers
had to give in at last The loss in wages
was $2,00O,000 The loss to the state
and to Allegheny county in maintaining
the soldiers and making good the dam
age from the riot will be half million
dollars. 1t was the most disastrous,
most barbarous strike ever known in
this country. Ten thousand men wero
involved at one time. Ruin and bank
ruptcy to many business men at Home
stead was another of the results. ''If
the strike had continued much longer it
would have ruined the town." says one
report. The loss to the firm is not
known.
Thirty-five deaths are directly trace
able to the strike. One of these was
murder, another was suicide. That
the number was not thirty-six, and that
assassination was not added to murder
and suicide was only due to the robust
constitution of Superintendent H. G.
Prick.
The strike came because the Carnegie
company refused to sign what is called
the sliding scale of wages, which con-
cerned certain departments of their
works in which members of the Anal
gamated Iron and Steel association were
employed. 1t is called a ''sliding scale"
because the wages slide up or down
with the price paid in the market for
steel billets.
All the millions of loss, the deaths
and destruction could have been avoided
by the application of one single word
arbitration. Even when your opponent
is dead wrong it is better to meet him in
conciliatory spirit and convince him
that he is wrong.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
children with spoiled Lives.

An institutional child, bred in the
tenement house region of New York,
was taken into rural household, where
her ignorance of all sorts of common
things excited the surprise of those with
whom she came in contact. She knew
little more of the city than she knew of
ordinary domestic affairs, and she said
that she had gone out but once week.
Another child, brought up in a New
York apartment house, upon looking
down a well in the country at once
asked whether the janitor lived down
there,-New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
WATCHES,
WATCHES j!

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Only S12.
HyOther styles of gents gold watches furnished at
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
Books, Books, Books!
Books for the Patrons of the Sitter.

All i'm Library 10th in Black and Gold.
a The senany ymarf,
SHORT STORIES Full of interest and bum By
Mary
GRIMMS FAIRY TNESSngulary Of the
colec publish
Miss POEMS
WAKEFIELD. By OhverG oldsmiI. IS
THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA- By Tues Verne
By Jules Verne
OF + Scott
MANNING. BY George Manning
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

There will certainly be no complain
ing of the too great size of the cotton
crop this year. 1t is now expected to be
not much more than half of that of last
year-may not exceed 100000 bales, 1t
will probably bring high price. Always
a product brings high price when peo-
pie have none of it to sell.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Hear, heart can environment must
exist which is produced from specific
change in the composition of part, rem
dering it susceptible to the support and
growth of heterogeneous" What
would we do if we did not have wise
men TO make things plain to us?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Prof, Barrett of St. Lawrence county,
N, Y, speaking of pulmonary diseases,
says: not one death occurs now where
twenty did before Downs Elixir was
known. Over fifty years of constant
success places Downs elixir at the head
of the long list of cough remedies.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Queen Victoria, so it is said, will raise
the first widow of the Duke of Marlbor-
ough to the rank of duchess, thus prac-
tically depriving the American duchess
of her rank and precedence, Then Queen
Victoria will do very mean thing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

William J. Thompson, of Gloucester
City, has had streak of good luck re-
Gently. Last week the supreme court
decided that the board of freeholders, of
which he is a member, was the legal
board of the county. He was elected a
member of assembly, and from the re-
suit of the election he won $4,000 in
bets. -Philadelphia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

The reason why Aru'ca aud OIL Lin
iment /, so popu ar with the ladie- is he
cause it not only is vely healing AMI
soothing but that its odor is not at all of
fensive.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.

The new battleship Massachusetts, will
be plated with nickel steel armor seven
teen inches thick, Massachusetts is a
good name for fighting ship. She will
certainly always have a fighting chance,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
A Theory Concerning wheat Growth.

A Theory Concerning Wheat Growth.
An interesting theory has been pub
lished by Professor Bidard, secretary of
the Central Agricultural society of
Seine, France. He divides the stages of
wheat growth into the following Pc
RODS: termination, which will take
place at temperature of 40 to as dogs.
The rudimentary spike formed at gernl-
nation is protected by sheath of five
leaves, and the development of these
leaves and the stalk will take a temper
allure of up to 90 dogs. to carry it
through. The really critical period of
wheat growth is the stage of fecunda-
ton. NJ Bidard maintains that tenn
perature of at least 70 dogs. is necessary
for the lateral opening Of the anthers
sufficiently wide to allow the absorb
ton of the pollen, or fine dust that con-
summaries the act of formulation.
If the temperature falls below 10 dogs.
and especially if it comes on to rain. the
anthers will not open, and should the
unfavorable conditions be maintained
for little time a large number of the
spikes will abort and there will be no
fertilization. If the temperature is ia
vorable the fertilization is completed in
few minutes at most. and that process
once accomplished, the harvest is pretty
certain, as the next stage of maturing
may be reckoned upon even though the
weather may be far from propitious. By
watching at the critical period careful
observer may form a very shrewd guess
from the amount of bloom that has been
properly formed on the heads what sort
of harvest is likely to follow.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Politics is game in which the play
ers are seeking only to win, regardless
of the means they employ.-Matthew
Marshall in New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

1t is no flattery to say pleasant things
when they are true. Always make it n
point to say them,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
Gents
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usually sold for $500.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09
in THE POULTRY YARD.
Plan for Catching Hawks, Owls and
Other Depredators.

Other Depredators.
But for hawks, owls and other enc
mics comparative peace would reign IN
the poultry yard, A North Carolina
correspondent of the New York World
has devised plan for protecting his
poultry and useful birds as we'll which
he describes as folloYs;
Take an ordinary bird cage and place
therein chicken, preferably white
one, about half grown. Then place the
cage ON top Of stake about three feet
high near the outskirts OF the poultry
yard, or near some dead tree on which
hawks usually perch, Next drive three
or four stakes near the cage, the tops OF
a portion thereof being a little above
the top of the cage and the residue
about level with the bottom. Now
place a steel trap that is sufficiently
large to catch high on the foot Of the
hawk ian ordinary rat trap is too small
on top of each stake and you are ready
for business When a hawk or owl be
comes trapped others will be attracted
and thus two or ore can frequently be
taken. Hence the necessity for employ
ing several traps, preferably about four
In lieu of the bird cage cage con
structed of Irvine, knit like seine and
properly supported by frame and bot
tom board, may be employed, used
one of this kind and found it very etfec-
tive, taking in short time quiteA mum,
Der of hawks, lost large hawk by
reason of the trap Ia rat trap being too
small, capturing as a trophy single toe
only that was wrung off and left in the
trap.
employed as bait two or three
cartridges at a time. but when shut up
in cage they soon get to be very quiet
seeming to have dread of the hawks
A chicken would doubtless be more
restless, and as result would attract
the attention of hawks sooner and con
sequently answer better purpose. Two
or more chickens may be used. All
the material employed in constructing
the cage stakes, ETC., should, as far as
practicable, be of natural color, say a
lead color. Whether cartridges or chick
ems be employed as bait they must I've
properly provided with food and water
For foxes, minks, weasels ETC., the
cage and traps should be placed on the
ground. have never experimental to
see how placing on the ground would
answer for hawks, owls, etc.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-09

Ladies' SViler Watch-Chatelain
Solid silver cases, open face, stem wind and
set good Swiss NOV ement With good usage
will last for years. Regular price $500.
Price to patrons of the SITTER So 90.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-13
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COMMONWEALTH oF VIRGINIA,
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q EALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
- CEIVED al this Office until II NJ. OF
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER u, 1894 for
furnishing for the use or the Commonwealth
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ENVELOPES.
Bidders must file samples with their bids.
The right Is reserved OF ordering greater
or less quantity OF any Of the articles named
above, and the papers are TO be furnished
In such lots aud 10 be delivered at such
place or places In the city OF Richmond as
the Superintendent may direct.
Contractors will be required 10 enter into
bond, with security. 10 be approved by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth. In pen
atty OF double the amount Of the contracts:
The S right Is reserved q r sy)saiSfL6S OF
Superintendent Of Public Printing.
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-13
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF MONEY.
oaerines and Sales at the Richmond To-
bAoco Exchange-Interna Revenue
Coliections-Forsign Advices.

New York. Sept. 12-Monoy on call loaned
closer to-day at 4N3 per cent The closing
rsfe was an per cent Exchange closed
oniet and steady; posted rates, 4S71a04S0;
ertnal rates. 4S6A04S6Ss Tor sixty days and
49,. for demand. Governments closed
oaiet: currency 6's. 1O7 bid extended rs.
p. ..stcred, 100 bid As coupons, ll5 hid.
There was little more trading on the
St.-k Exchange this morning, 124,333 shares
Hanging hands To noon. Prices were weak
fsrng the greater part and at noon the low
,.t figures generally current The cnN
stocks that showed any strength were New
England, Reading and Sugar Trust Ih'se
ucre slightly higher ia the fret hour' put
thec gave WAY with the others toward noon
lnc others that showed any activity were
western Union, ST. Paul, Burlington ana
r-Ie. The weakness of the morning con
t.1cd throughout The last half OF the Gay
r-ires going lower IN most cases. LONDON
..-a some 1000 shares. Reading was sold
IN rsports that the employees contemplated
strike. Six hundred thousand do lars IN
.'.1d were engaged for shipment b. the
.nree tomorrow. Closing prices were the
,',yost ~ the day. The decline ranged from
to 2tl per cent. Tennessee Coal ara IRON
rrefcrrod recorded an exceptional lecline
-, Nor cent. The sales for the day Mount
"A "a OCT Ol3 shares.