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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Waste Products Made Useful,

Rarely interesting is Lord Lyon Play
fairs paper in The North American Re-
view, showing, as he tells us, that dirt is
only useful matter in the wrong place.
He then demonstrates to us how useful
as well as beautiful refuse matter
IS when it is in the right place. To
begin, there are lucifer matches, The
skeletons of all kinds of animals are
carefully utilized for their phosphorus
in the preparation of matches How the
clever Parisians make good use of not
only skeletons. but rats, we learn from
the paragraph below:
Of all living things rats seem to be among
the most repulsve, and when dead what can
be their use? But even they are the subjects
| Of production in the industrial arts In Paris
| there is a pound surrounded by walls into
| which all dead carcasses are thrown. A large
| colony Of rats has been introduced from the
| catacombs The rats are most useful in clear
| ing the flesh from the bones, leaving clean
polished skeleton fitted for the makers of phos-
! phorus. AT the base Of the wall numerous
| shallow holes are scooped out just sufficient to
contain the body of the rats, but not their tails.
Every three months great battue takes place,
| during which the terrified rats run into their
| holes. Persons go round. and catching the ex-
| tending tails pitch the rats into bags, and
| they killed at leisure. Then begins the
manufacture. The fur is valuable and finds
| ready sale. The skins make a superior glove
| the giant de rat-and are especially used for
the thumbs of kid gloves, because the skin of
the rat is strong and elastic. The thigh bones
were formerly valued as toothpicks for clubs,
but are now out of fashion, while the tendons
and bones are boiled up to make the gelatin
wrappers for bonbons.
Playfair earnestly protests against the
waste of sewage in rivers and the sea-
Victor Hugo said in Lies Miserables,"
If our gold is filth, on the other hand
our filth is gold Every pound of sew
age properly employed in agriculture
would produce pound of wheat. AS
it is, 1900 tons of sewage are daily taken
from the Paris cesspools to be manu-
factured into ammonia and become the
basis for ladies smelling salts. among
other things.
Once a most hurtful nuisance was gas
tar or coal tar. Nowi it produces gorgeous
dyes for the textile industry Sugar
extracted from it can be eaten without
producing gout or dyspepsia. Finally,
and most important of all, the best dis
infectants known are made from coal tar.
From the poisonous fusel oil distilled
from spirits are made delicious fruit es-
sences and exquisite perfumes. The
most reHulsive rags are worked up into
paper on which to express the choicest
sentiments of love and friendship
Old iron, rusty and useless for every
thing else. is utilized in the making of
ink. Horseshoe nails dropped IN the
streets "reappear as swords and guns
From tie dregs of port wine seidlitz
powders are made.
A good STEEL bowed, nickle plated,
cork nose eya class for 90 cents, at
CHAs. a. TRIP & Co, Jewellers,
Bratd a;oyo, vi.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
A great Fire at Milwaukee.

The great Chicago fire was almost
pfralleled last Friday night at Mil
waukee. A press dispatch says:
The flames, which started in the
Onion Oil company's building on
East Water street, near Detroit street.
famed by furious gale, swept east
ward toward the Menominee river,
and nothing could stay their resistless
rush. Mighty flames swept over
blocks of buildings, jumped across
streets and leaped over the river. The
entire fire department was powerless.
More than II blocks of solid terri
tory, including much of the most ex-
tensive wholesale district has been
buried over.
An accurate account shows that
there were 465 buildings burned and
35S families rendered homeless.
Fully 5000 people were made home.
less, the greatest portion of the loss
failing upon people who carried no
insurance. Hundreds of families
have lost their all. The wealthy por-
ton of the community is coming to
the aid of the sufferers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
VERMONT NEWS.
Disastrous Fire.

st, Johnsbury suffered severe con.
Migration last Sunday evening, Some
eight or nine business firms and about
fifteen families were burned out. The
loss is estimated at about S15O,00O.
Two persons, Mrs. Marshall and her
boarder by the name of Mitchell were
sufiocated in the third story of one of
the burned buildings, and their char
red remains were taken out the next
day.
A freight train on the Central
Vermont railroad separated early
Wednesday morning about mile
south of Vergennes, and afterwards
came together. Eleven cars were
thrown from the track and piled on
each other. They were all smashed
into kindling wood.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

An advertisement-and it is not a
Joke-appears in an Australian paper
as follows; "Wanted-l 900 young cats
delivered at Wirrialpa station" These
cats are intended to kill rabbits. Aus
tralian farmers pay sixty cents apiece
for them. The supply is not sufficient;
hence the advertisement. The cats have
proved very useful. But how will they
get rid of the cats after the rabbits are
exterminated3 In the United States the
dead ones might be used as political
campaign documents, but Australia is
not America.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
A New Kind of Dinner Party
Rutland Herald

Rutland Herald
An exchange says that an interest
ing phase in the progress of socia
work is the institution by a Boston
clergyman of new kind of dinner
party-a feast TO which the guests
are bidden because of their connec.
| lion with the great masses whose con.
dilion helpful men and women are
now trying to do better. This Bos.
ton minister, so it is said, spreads his
table once each week and invites to
ten or dozen men who are leaders
of labor unions, and there he gets
acquainted with them, learns of theil
work and the physical, social and
moral condition of the vast body of
woriingmen whom they represent.
This clergyman does not keep to him.
self the inspiration and the suggest
ions Whlcn come TO MN from this
friendly contact, but invites in some
of bis brother clergymen to share the
meal with him and his work-a day
guests. This movement is signif-
cant, for it shows that those who are
studying the social problem are be-
ginning to work at shorter range than
has been too largely the case hereto
fore, ard is to be commended, as are
any movements that tend to make
labor and capitol, labor and phian-
thropie effort and labor and the stu
dents Of social science more perfectly
understood of each other.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
THE ASSEMBLED WISDOM.

1t is probable that the attempt tc
remove the Windham County seat is
squelched, The Montpelier journal
of Wednesday, says:
The Windham county fight was
brought to an approximate finish this
afternoon, when H. 161, to remove
the county buildings from Newfane
to Brattleboro, came up as SPECIAL
order. Mr.. Read of Rockingham
started the ball by stating that an i'm
partial committee was desired, not a
committee already against the bill
Several members from Windham
county then pleaded for fair play.
Mr.. Martin of Brattleboro made
a fair, strong argument
against referring the mat
tel to the members from the county.
Mr.. Clark of Halifax closed for the
defence and called for the yeas and
nays, The result was yeas 167, nays
~, and the Brattleboro and Rock
ingham cohorts were walloped.
On Wednesday the house passed
the womans suffrage bill by vote
of l49 to S3. This bill give to wom-
ell municipal suffrage. 1t will prob
ably oe'murdered in the Senate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
NEW GOODS!
NEW LINES f!
NEW STYLES !!

We have these in overlooking a
buudance. We have an immense stock
for your approval. Our enterprize is
reflected in the gathering in of new
customers every day. If right goods,
right prices and right ways commend
NAV we not look for share Of your
esteemed commands.
G. j. HUBBARD, Jeweler.
Answer to last weeks puzzle, stone.
If tongs, poker and shovel cost
81 25 what will ton of coal come
to? The first person who sends in
a correct answer will receive a prize
worth 75c. Send in your answers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

"Where are the poets p asks an
exchange, in half column Of loaded
editorial. Great Scott man, why
the woods are full of them, in this
section, and many of them are,
fguratively at least, saving wood,
for living.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
A Mathematical Wonder

Jacques lnaudi is a young Italian
twenty-five years old. He could not
read and write till he was thirteen. Yet
he is the most wonderful arithmetician
living today. When he was six years
old he was seized with fancy for max
ing arithmetical calculations. He could
not read the names of the figures, but
had them repeated to him, and thus
learned them. Then he began making
mental calculations. All the primary
operations in arithmetic were a mere
childs game to him. He can multiply
together numbers consisting of eight to
ten figures each with ightninglike ra-
pidity
In brief, all the processes that take
ordinary boys years to learn maud
wrought out for himself when few
years old without knowing figure
when he saw it. Computations that re-
quire hours for other men to do this
youth does in his mind in few seconds.
The mental operations whereby he ar
rives at correct results are totally differ
ent from the rules of ordinary arithme-
tic, yet they are unerringly correct If
number containing as high as twenty
six figures is read to him slowly and
distinctly he can repeat it exactly. He
says he does not see the figures in his
mind when he makes calculation in
his head, as most people do On the
contrary, he hears them. he declares.
How does he do it?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The matter of the disappearance of
young Humphrey from the Brattle-
boro asylum few years ago, and the
proposition pending before the legisla-
ture for an investigation on behalf of
the State is now attracting considerable
attention. This is intensified by the
apparent Brattleboro opposition, which
cropped out in peppely style in last
weeks Phoenix. This is little bit
surprising. 1t is a matter of fact that
public opinion, in this part of the State,
at least, is strongly inclined 10 the belief
that the disappearance of Arden Hum
phrey can only be accounted for upon
the theory OF foul play, either at the
asylum or elsewhere Under these cir
cumstances it seems strange that the
proposed investigation should be oppos-
ed anywhere, much less in Brattleboro.
IT the asylum management is innocent
of any wrong in the matter, and the
SITTER by no means charges otherwise,
it is entitled to be acquitted of any sus-
picious. On the other hand if there is
guilt anywhere the State owes it to the
people that it be terrified out and the
proper parties punished. We hope
that the investigation will be granted,
and that it will be placed in hands that
will push it to such thoroughness that
its verdict will be satisfying to the
friends Of Humphrey and the general
public.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The republic Of Switzerland, like the
cities OF Maine, has monopoly of the
sale OF alcoholic drinks. For three years
past just about the same amount of
liquor has been allowed to be sold to the
Swiss, so that in this one nation of the
earth the consumption OF alcoholic
drinks has not increased 1t has not be-
cause the government would not let it.
The profits from the liquor business are
divided among the public treasures of
the different cantons
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The Fitchburg railroad has been
consolidated with the Boston, Hosac
Tunnel and Western railway and the
Troy, Saratoga and Northern railway
under the name of the Fitchburg
Railway company.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The Empire of Japan comprises
nearly $4,000 cities. towns and villages
in which 40,OoO,OOO people live.
A magnet at Willets Point Long
Island. is considered the largest and
strongest in the world 1t is made Of
two 15-inch Dahlgren guns, wound
around with eight miles of cable
charged with electricity.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04


The latest prominent addition to the
Cleveland ranks is that of ex-Grand
Army Commander, Judge John p.
Rea of Minnesota. Judge Rea was
national commander but few years
ago, Judge Veazey succeeding him,
He has been lifelong Republican,
and, strange as it may appear to some,
he puts the chief grounds ofhis support
of Cleveland upon his pension vetoes.
Evidently Judge Rea doesn't believe
in wholesale looting of the treasury
but is inclined to the belief that the
pension roll should be strictly roll of
honor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

For lame back there is nothing better
than to saturate a flannel cloth with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind it ON
the affected parts. Try it and you will
be surprised at the prompt reliei it affords
The same treatment will cure rheumatism.
For sale by
Goddard 6 Gibson, Londonderry
Richardson & leonard. Londonderry
and Peru.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The man who doubts the natural
adaptabiity of the Irish for politics
has only to cast his eyes towards
New York city, where three Irishmen
are running as candidates for mayor.
One of them IS bound to be elected.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
So. Londonderry, Vt, July y, 1892.

So. Londonderry, Vt, July p, 1892.
GEORGE G. SMITH,
Sir:--I used myself and in
my family last winter three bottles of
your Rheumatic Cure with most excellent
results. | had rheumatism three or four
years previous to that time, but it COM
menccd to relieve me almost at once and
have not been troubled with it since
taking the first bottle. Ny general health
was also very much improved by its use.
| could mention also members of my fam
ily who used the remedy at the same time
and received much benefit thereby. |
consider it a very valuable medicine and
do most heartily recommend 1t.
C. d. FARNUM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Five Presidents of the United
States were elected without the assis
tance Of the State of New York.
These were George Washington first
time)in 1889; James Madison, in
1916; James Buchanan, in 1886 !;
U. S. Grant, in 1869; r. b. HAYES,
in 1876.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Siflerlels-ShOrl and Snappy.

If ''long-distance' piano-playine
matches continue, an epidemic OF
Lynching may confidently be expect
ed.
The statistical fiend is now eating
his white-bread, so to speak. Later
on he may be compelled to put up
with insane asylum fare.
From this distance New York city
politics appear to be made up of
equal parts of addition, division and
silence.
Several members of the diplomatic
corps were robbed while in Chicago
the other day by sneak-thieves.
Other visitors to that town were rob-
bed, too, but not by sneak-thieves.
Funny things in politics. While
ex-Congressman Langston was in
New York assuring the republican
National committee that ex-senator
Malone had been eliminated from
Virginia politics Malone was in
Washington naming new U. S.
Marshal for Virginia.
Should the peoples party secure
the "balance of power" in both Sem
ate and House, as seems altogether
possible, some people will conclude
that it is a corpse of the lively kind.
The democrats may find the denun-
Citations of Powderly and other X. of
l.. leaders very serious things on
election day.
Some newspaper men spread them
selves out too thin, by trying to cover
too much space; Murat Halstead,
for instance.
Senator Quay's ailment is proba-
bly, closely related to the throat
trouble which closed Congressman
Burke Cochran's mouth, until Tam
many got what it demanded.
There is good deal of rot in the
current newspaper talk about a new
and higher sphere for women. No
woman ever did, and no woman ever
will occupy a higher or nobler sphere
than that of mother.
A Congressional nomination pos
sesses in politics a drawing power
which the would-be bolter seldom re-
sists.
1t was New Yorker, of course,
who started the story that Chicago
turned real, live elephant loose on
her streets in order to assure all in
tending visitors that "seeing the ele-
phant" was common in Chicago.
"Its an i'll wind" etc. The illness
of Mrs. Harrison, which has kept the
President at home has given Mr..
Morton an opportunity to show what
sort of show President he would
make.
The man who has not made up his
mind as to how he will vote is not
looking in the newspapers fora Soon
vincer."
The trial of the official Canadian
boodlers, now on, may add to the
population of the United States.
Should an epidemic of designations
break out among the milionaires of |
the u. S. Senate, it would unques-
tlonably have an effect upon the
prices for seats in the legislatures, of |
some states not our own, of course. |
We live in an age of education. |
The newspaper pictures OF the new
Alaskan volcano show the smoke is
sueing from tall smoke stack. How
many people knew that volcanoes
used smoke-stacks
1t is toss up whether the latest
effort of Mr.. Blaine booms
The periodical in which it appeared or
the republican party the most.
Ex-senator Ingalls, article on the
great European Cathedrals is very
bnt there is not single
word of politics in it. What's the
matter with Ingalls, No "smart-
aleck" need answer this BY saying
''He's all write
Five Presidents of +ha U,,;tod |
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
SOUTH LONDONDERRY, VT, FRIDAY MORNING NOV A. 1892

Betting is now in full blast in near
ly all the business centers, and large
amounts are being wagered on the
result Of next Tuesdays balloting.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
PRICE THREE CENTS.


The Autumn and Winter exhibit
of dress fabrics is novel, elegant,
most bewildering in variety and suit
ed to all purses and tastes. Plain
and fancy camel's-hair serges, a gor-
geous array of changeable yelyets,
velours ecosssais, veloutine ombree,
Scotch plaids, new stuhs in gay Per-
sian, Turkish and Russian colors,
silk and wool jacquads, fancy satines
and bengaliues that are short, striped,
plaided, basket-woven and irridescent
are some of the novelties from over
the sea. These fabrics come in such
an artistic diversity that they require
an abundance Of appropriate models.
To this end new designs, from the
picturesque, historic and classic
modes, To the plain and practical tai
lor gowns, IRE constantly created
The Mcdowell Fashion Journals,
published at A West l4th ST., New
York, are the first to publish these
models. "Paris Album of Fashion" "
and fla Mode de Paris are used
by the most stylish dressmakers.
The price Of each is only $3.50 a
year. ola Ccuturiere" is great
favorite aud has attained an immense
success, being s3 90 year. LA
Mode" is the best Fashion journal
ever offered for tie yearly suhscrip-
ton price Of 81 80. If you cannot
get these journals from your news
dealers send to the publishers direct.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

-TH E.
I.|LON NDONDERRYsIsSIFTER. 4
HENRY M. SHANKs, PUBLISHER.

Terms, 500 Year, strictly in
advance. Persons outside of Wmdham
County who receive the paper in single
wrappers must send 10 cents in addition
to pay for wrappers and postage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Geo. G. SMITH, Druggist.
South Londonderry, Vt.

G. G. SMITH,
: Dear Sir: | would like to speak
good word for your Rheumatic Cure.
After suffering five years with muscular
rheumatism | took one bottle of your
medicine and have not had rheumatism
since. That was last October.
Yours Respectfully,
Mrs ID. F. DAVIS.
Londonderry, May 26, 1892.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
New York, Sept. 2nd, 1892.

New York, Sept. 2nd, 1892.
Mr.. Gro SMITH,
Sir ir:-Enclosed please find money
order for bill sent for your cure, and can
say that it is the only thing of the kind
that has proved to do what is claimed,
and have ordered these six bottles to
give to my friends claiming that it will do
the same for them, not only for the time
being but permanent cure, and will say
that two bottles will do the work as it did
for me and l was so bad that l could not
walk without falling fat and have not had
any trouble for three months aud feel as
well as ever.
Very Respect,
II. r. PATTERSON,
420 Broadway,
New York.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

as-Entered at the Post.oilce at So. London,
as second class matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
The Harvard faculty has announced

The Harvard faculty has announced
that during the fall and winter practi-
cal courses will be given to medical
practitioners in meteorological diagno-
sis of Asiatic cholera. Imported germs
will be used
Only one $4,000 bill and only
three 5000 bills are now outstanding.
Originally there were 100000
worth of $4,000 notes and S20,000,-
900 worth of s., 600 notes. The others
have been redeemed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
BIRTHS.

In PERT, Oct. 27, daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Roby.
In Peru, Oct %, a daughter,
Freda May. 10 Nh and Mrs. Alvin
Jones. Weight 10 lbs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

CoUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION
Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Sitter John, Editor.

Copies of THIS paper can be oJioiaea
ot Carpenters Ne,os Rooms in B.ui-
Ueboro.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1892
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

A good steel bowed, nickle plated,
cork nose eys class for 90 cents, at
CHAs. A. TRIP & CO., Jewellers,
Brattl :oyo, vi.
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