The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-15
SIfterlets Short and Snappy.

Now gentlemen, the entries are all
made for the great leap year National
race; make your selection, and remem-
ber that one can only win.
Big political bets are now being
made-in the newspapers; nextfall they
will be paid in the same way.
That silver corpse is again 'doing a
turn" to quick music on the Congress
sional stage.
1t is already settled that clubs are to
be trumps in the Presidential game.
Harrison and Cleveland stand too
close together to give the political flop
per fair chance.
The Standard Oil Company bids
fair to become an issue in the National
campaign. Somebody wants to strike
ile."
England is to be congratulated.
Oscar Wilde threatens to renounce his
allegiance to that country and become
citizen of France. 1t is rather hard
on France though.
That New York man who proposes
exhibiting two thousand different kinds
of snakes at the Worlds Fair should
be looked after by the Chicago saloon
keeper; he will be dangerous rival.
Where is the man who said that sill
yer would cut no figure in the cam
paign?
The members of the United States
Senate do not consider national political
platforms Of much importance, nor do
they consider them binding upon either
party.
This seems to be seizure season in
Behring's Sea, and poaching for seals
is not the snap it has been.
For man who claims to be entire
ly "out of it" Prince Bismarck ap-
pears to be very much Sin it,.
The three-year-old race horse, Tam
many, is away ahead of the political
of the same name, in
win ming qualities.
This is the season when the ten
dollars-a-week clerk takes his two
weeks vacation and poses for mil
lionaire, away from home.
Tor once the city OF Chicago got
left, but it was the Inman steamship
city Of Chicago, which was wrecked
on the rocky coast of Ireland, and
not the hustliug city by the lake.
President Harrison will have to be
careful or those two Fosters in his
cabinet may get mixed and bring
about an international financial crisis.
The professional stump speaker is
to practice his most engag-
ing campaign smile.
Nobody can accuse the government
of China of being precipltate in its
In November, 1891, this
Government addressed certain in
quiries to that of China concerning it's
refusal to receive ex-senator Blair as
minister. A partial answer has just
been received.
Cocksure knowledge of future pol
itical events has never been worth so
little as during the present summer.
1t is not believed that Gen. Bid.
wells name had any special signif-
canoe in getting him the Presidential
nomination of the Prohibitionists, al
though to bid we'll often counts.
The professional notoriety hunter
now gets his free advertising by offer
ing to bet large sums of money on
this or that Presidential candidate,
and accompanying the offer with con-
ditions he knows nobody will agree
to.
The advertising agent of the circus
rather overdid the business when he
started the rumor that the proprietor
was crazy. As free ad. it was
howling success, but all the same the
proprietor objected to it.
About this time economical fathers
are finding out that mistake was
made in selling the unabridged die
tionary and the cyclopedia and de-
pending upon the graduates in the
family for Information.
A boat containing number of the
members of Isenhein Musical Society
who were making an excursion on the
River Rhine, capsized Sunday and
eleven men were drowned.