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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

Standard Medicine Co.,
Gentlemen: | think no one can be more com
petent than myself 10 speak of the marvellous
virtues of The PERUyIAn NERVE CoMPoUND
Three years ago | was on the point of succumb-
Ing entirely 10 nervous prosiralion, when II was
prescribed for me. The effect was WONDERFUL.
Strength drifted rapidly back TO me, aud be-
came conscious of a buoyant joyous sensation
rarely experienced by any person not In Vigo.
rous health. / think this is specific qualiF or
this Compound, for in recommending anu even
admin steriugi 1t 10 alling aud feeble frierds at
di nereut times, have closely watched Its II suits
aud always found that IL sirenS heneu and }nVlS-
Grated mentally well as physically. We en-.
deavor TO keep 1t cOnsr nifty in The house, for II
any member of the family begin TO lose Vitality
we know that it can he speedily restored.
| never speak of This exquisite Compound OF
choice and rare extracts by its prosac name, put
offer drau.ht of 1t the wine OF life, meaning
The essence of the life force which 1t always
seems to me- it contains within itself.
OF this Compound l can never say enough |
believe YOU must have discovered the boarded
secret of some long forgotten alchemtst, solved
its mystery, and are now benehtlng mankind
with it.
/ wish 1 could feel sure that might have
three easpuonfus day of it as long as l live
] eau say with perfect truth, that never nave
taken or nave Known OF a remedy winch pro.
duced exactly the effect that this Compound
| does and it is not merely upon Que person, but
upon all whom | nave known 10 have used H.
MRS. c. L. RUSS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
Oats as Com pared with Wheat.

The Rothamsted reports make it ap-
pear that, contrary to the popular belief,
an average crop of oats takes more fer
tility from the land than an equivalent
yield of wheat. Farmers. as rule, con-
slider wheat the most exacting Of all the
grains on the soil and believe that oats
may be grown on much less fertile land
than wheat The result, says Henry
Stewart in the New York Times, is that
one very rarely finds really good crop
of oats, and the quantity as well as the
quality of this grain produced per acre is
rarely Of any profit to the grower. And
yet some growers do secure excellent
and most profitable crops of this grain by
the best method of culture, based on the
requirements of the plant. We read Of
or sometimes see yield Of seventy-tive
OF eighty bushels to the acre of grain
weighing nearly twice the average Of the
ordinary crops, and there are good
many cases in which oats are really the
most paying crop grown on the farm.
The reason why this is uncommon is,
first, that its character as an exhaustive
crop is not generally known; second, that
manure is very rarely given to it, and
third, that the procuring of the best
kinds of seed is commonly neglected.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1892.
ODDS AND ENDS,

The moon moves 1888 feet per second.
Mark Twain when a young man was
book agent
Genuine corceit does not make man
Objectionable,
Silence at the proper season is wisdom
and better than any speech.
A broken finger will drive away all
recollections Of I'm empty chair,
The time when woman has no mercy
is when she gets mouse in trap.
Vienna has its Lazy club, no member
of which does anything for living.
Nothing holds more divine inspiration
for an author than generous check.
Naphtha Is good for cleaning kid
gloves, but keep 1t away from the fire.
Compressed air is to 10 used for run
ming tho street ears in Leavenworth,
KAN
Shelley's hrst marriage was unfortu-
nate, but his second was a model Of hap
piness,
An Idaho man has discovered that an
excellent quality OF paper can be made
from sagebrtsh.
Rev. Il. f. Tozer has discovered GER
tain underground rock hewn churches
in southern Italy,
Over $3.50 worth OF gold was collected
in 1885 from the SCOT of the chimney in
tho london mint,
It is estimated that about SO, 900 horses
were busted from street car service last
year by electricity.
Love never picks ont 4 two cent piece
from purse full Of gold coins to put in
the collection basket.
Ordinary sticking plaster makes q
good remedy for corns, as it keeps them
soft and prevents the rubbing,
A Cincinnati court has decided that il
is libelous to call man who neglects tc
pay his tailor's bill "a delinquent"
One of the millionaircs of New Yorh
city, Mr. H. &. Marquand, has bill
lizard table which is stated to have cos
SEQ, 900,
Baron Hirsch is said to be worth 800,
900 600, which he has made chiefly on
of his contracts for building Turkish
railroads.
Firehes, it is said, are employed il
some of the West Indies for lighting
purposes, being confined in glass Ian
terms for that object,
After eating heartily of hailstone
which fell on Saturday, Scottsburl
Qn1.) girl was taken violently sick ant
died soon after. The doctors say sh
was poisoned, and the hailstones prob
ably killed her.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

1t will be glory enough for one reign
if Pope Leo XIII shall succeed in forcing
the French Catholic clergy to recognize
and support the French republic. They
have been hitherto, during the whole
twenty-one years of its existence, Its
worst enemy. The pope ISSUED cir
cular to them in February, commencing
the republic to them as the upholders Of
law and order. Many paid no attention
to the circular. Now, however, in his
new brief, his holiness directs the recall.
citrants in the most unmistakable terms
to uphold the republic of France He
says that public tranquility and the
common welfare" are the supreme cri-
terion of stable government, and that
wherever "a government stands the test
of this criterion it must receive the sup
port of all good Catholics.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20


No Shorev Block, seaItie, Washington.
To the Physician iu CuarSe OF Medical Depart
ment Standard Medicine Co, Boston, Mass.
NV Dear Doctor: For several years nave
been suffering severely from nervous proetra-
lion and a peculiar aud unaccouutable III hcuity
which no phv stefan wnom Consulted seemed 10
understand, out which kept me most of The lime
Ia "A cohdi, lou united FOR business, and tnor-
on. hts wretched in mi I'D and body. The most
TO tun:ue circumstance of my life was meeting
YOU. To my astoni~ bmuut you seemed 10 uuder.
sand my Gaze thOroug My. and Tue renedle, You
gave me, particularly PERUVIAN NERVE COM
FOUND, wrought Inc most marvellous cuanSe IN
NV health. have been takug The Comnound
regularly for some mou,b-, aud IL has mate
new mau OF me. NJ nea lin is better thau y has
beeu : nee Is ., anu am aUle 10 transact busi-
ness CONTINUOUSLY. Though not quite restored,
the rae OF IMPROVEMENT is constantly ac'elera
linz. and nave no doubt that in month or Two
/ sulu be a. we'll as other men, and able 10 do as
much work. Tie Geut OF g,aiitude owe 10 you
Is DeV ond computation.
You are entirely at liberty to refer to me at any
lime win reference to the merits of PERUVIAN
COMPOUND in particular, and your supreme
auiity a. a physician 10 general
Yours very truly,
LEE }. PITNER.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

At this, the time of year for construct
ing roads and paths in grounds about
dwelling houses, and also public high
ways, it is of use to remember that an
excellent way to make such road or path
is to dig down slightly, so as to give a
foundation of one foot in depth. Fill
this foot of space with broken stone and
cover the stone thickly with gravel or
cement. The road should have mod
crate crown in the middle, so that water
may drain off to the Sides Then along
side the road or path set carefully a
thick green sod Water and tend it till
it takes firm root. Then go past there
every day or so and see how handsome
your road is.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
The magnificent Childs- Drexel home

The magnificent Childs- Drexel home
for aged and INDECENT printers, at Colo
RADIO Springs. will accommodate several
hundred persons. The greatest day in
the history of the town was that on
which this fine building was dedicated
by Mr.. q. W. Childs himself, who jour
neyed westward for that purpose The
occasion was doubly interesting because
the dedication day marked Mr. Childs
sixty third birthday. He and Mr.. Drexel,
of Philadelphia, gave the first 10000
toward the home. and the printers of the
country did the rest The building cost
us it stands, $3.50, 900, and it is fitted out
with all the luxury of a handsome hotel
bathrooms, steam heat and electricity
1t is intended to enlarge the structure
Each year on Mr.. Childs' birthday, May
~, all the printers east of the Mississippi
give the price of thousand ems to this
home, and on Mr.. Drexel's birthday,
Sept. ID, all the printers west of the
Mississippi give the price of a thousand
ems. If a vote should be taken among
the printers of the country as to who
was the most popular man III the United
States. it would not be hard to guess
that the choice would fall on George w.
Childs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

A French chemist informs California
orange growers that they do not yet
know how to utilize their product.
From the flowers of the bitter or wild
orange is extracted in France neroil, and
neroil is the basis of cologne and some
other perfumes. There is also extracted
from the leaves substance which is
used to adulterate the neroil. Perhaps
the reason that French and German
cologne is superior to that made in
America is that here chemists do not
use the neroil as the foreign cologne
makers do.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

1t would be funny indeed-the Ulster
men in north Ireland setting up a rebel
lion against an Irish parliament and the
management of their own affairs by
themselves, in case that home rule
should be granted to Ireland. The
doughty Ulster men in revolt against all
the rest of Ireland, and insisting on be-
ing bossed by England would be re-
markable. But when Lord Salisbury
counsels them thus to rebel, as he did
in speech, it will probably be case in
which a statesman will finally wish he
had not opened his mouth at the wrong
time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
Women Astronomers at Harvard.

The Harvard astronomical observa-
tory was the first in the world to photo
graph star. which it did in 1850. It is
also the first to give to the world reg
ularly trained corps of women astrono-
mers. The work on which the ladies
are engaged is described in the New
England Magazine by Helen Leah Reed.
1t includes three classes-computing
original investigation and, third, the
Henry Draper memorial work and four
other branches of investigation similar
to the Draper work For twenty years
women have been employed in making
mathematical computations for the OBJ
servatory. 1t is found that they are
quite as skil!ful as the men computers,
and they are paid the same. But there
is another kind of investigation for
which women are peculiarly adapted.
Telescope observations at night are not
so much in their line. but after the stars
are photographed the women, by the aid
of magnifying glasses, examine the plates
and describe them For this task they
seem peculiarly fitted by their quickness
and closeness of perception, An astron-
omer does not have to sit up nights now
and look through telescope. He sim
ply studies the stars in the daytime
from their photographs Photography
has brought the stars into daylight.
Since the application of photography
to astronomy, that science has changed
greatly and a new department has
grown called astro-physics. The won
derful method of spectral analysis is ap-
piled to the light of the star as photo
graphed. By this means it has actually
become possible to determine the phys
ical constitution of a star.
The superintendent of the Draper Me
mortal work is woman, Mrs. Nina
Fleming She has added TO astronomic
knowledge the discovery of a method
whereby variable stars of certain type
| may be proved variable Miss Maury
has discovered that the star known as
| Ben Aurigae is a close binary. Miss
Byrd and Miss Whitney obtained the
exact difference in longitude between
Smith college and Harvard observatory.
Miss Whitney is now Maria Mitchell's
successor at Vassar, and Miss Byrd Is
director of Smith college observatory
Women who are accomplished mathe
maticians are quickly sought for as
teachers.
Finally Miss Anna Winlock has made
standard catalogue of the stars about
the north pole.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
MARKET GARDENING.
American Agricultural Tells How Com
petition Affects IT.

American Agricuiturlst Tells How Com
petition Affects IT.
Since the establishment of extensive
truck farms in the south, and the great
celery fields in Michigan and Ohio, the
market gardens of the north have IN
some respects been inlafiously affected
by the competition. However, the
greater supply of fresh vegetables,
Trough greater period of the year,
has materially increased consumption,
especially in tho smallet towns and
cities, The occasional oversupply and
consequent low price give even the very
poorest people an opportunity to pur-
ch'se vegetables other than potatoes
AMI cabbage, and so in the end the local
mrket gardeners trade is increased,
although he Must accept lower prices
tim he has received in former years,
His profits must come through bet
tr knowledge of his business that will
enable him to produce larger and better
srops ut less cost, yet, as the greatest
Yield can only come from land heavily
enriched and thoroughly prepared, there
must be considerable Investment at
he outset. Gardeners within access of
city water supply avail themselves of
his means for irrigation az occasion
nay require, while Others use windmills
md tanks, but are seldom able to irri-
gate as fully as required in hot, dry
ime when water is most needed. In
ONE of the larger gardens, where ex.
RENE drought for two or three weeks
might mean the loss of thousands of dol.
liars, steam pumps and full irrigation
Eplants have been constructed at great
Isexpense. Thus the most complete crops
are assured and these gardens are turn
ing out products far beyond anything
ever thought of by our gardeners Of
former generations.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
ELIXIR VITA
Peruvian Nerve Compound,

In Offering this Great Nerve Remedy to the
public we want it 10 be distinctly understood
that it is not Quack Medicine in any sense
of the word, but prescription or formula used
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irresponsible parties, but Laboratory pro-
duclon prepared by one OF the largest Man.
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contains the most carefully selected hervines
known to Medical Science at the present day
This Compound acts principally through the
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thereby festoies The weak and debilitated sub
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Brain Exhaustion. Indigestion, Dyspepsia and
Sleeplessness, to a healthy and vigorous con-
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
The TrOtting Bred Stallion
-:Allen Wilkes,:-

Will make the season of 1882 at the sta
BILE of his owner, at
East Dorset, VT.
Sired by Mambrino Wilkes, 22S 3-4,
sire of Arthur Wilkes, 222, Mischief,
224 1-2, R. NJ. Wilkes, 225 l-2, &C., he by
Geo Wilkes, 222; lst dam by Kearsarge,
sire of dam of r. M. Wilkes, 225; I'd
dam by Gen. Lyon, one of below 80.
Allen Wilkes is sire of winners of LIST
and I'd money in 3-year- old race and the
first 3-year-old to get a record better
than minutes in race, bred in the
county, also one of the winners in three
year-old class at Cambridge, N. Y, Ovcl
large field OF good ones. He was The
winner of first prize in the sweepstakes
for stations five years old and over will
their get, in 1891.
Call on or address
6. H. REED,
East Dorset, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20


The editor of The American Bee Jour
nal says: Generally an unfertile queen
will lay eggs if she has not been injured
in any way. All her eggs will produce
drones only. Worker bees are incapa-
BILE of being fortified. Sexually they
are undeveloped. Any eggs they may
lay will produce only drones."
Ventilation in bee cellars was dis
cussed at the Minnesota state conveu-
ton and the conclusion arrived at that
in most cellars ventilation is needed in
some way. Some ventilate through the
doors or windows, and think it Just as
good as regular ventilators made for the
purpose.
At heekeepers convention held at
Ashtabula, o., q talk on hiving swarms
made apparent the fact that some use a
bushel basket. Mr. A Webster uses a
common market basket with cover.
Others use regular hiving box. To all
of these poles are attached, of different
lengths, owing to the height of the
swarm to be taken.
The laying of bees, the German writer
! Gerstung contends, is not continuous,
but periodic, about seven periods of
twenty-five days each in season; six
teen or seventeen days of laying, fol
lowed by FIVE to seven days of rest, makes
the period of twenty-five days. DR.. Mil
Ter says, in Gleanings in Bee Culture
Il should have said eggs can be found
any day in my hives; but if Gerstung is
right, there ought to be day or two
every three weeks when there is not an
egg in the hive. Let's watch this sum-
mer."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

Victoria, British Columbia, is getting
rich off the Chinese that land there, pay
the poll tax of fifty dollars head to the
city government and then off to the
wilderness to be struggled across the
border into the United States. For the
month of April the revenue accruing to
Victoria from this Chinese poll tax
amounted to $4,000. We get the Chi
nese and British Columbia gets their
money
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
Office Of Hollander Bradshaw 4 Folsom,
LII Wa ,hinninn St, Boston, Nav Il. $50.

6lj Washington St. Boston, May IA, 1880.
Standard Medicine Co.
Gentlemen: In answer to your inquiry of my
experience with the PERUVIAN NERVE COM
rot n d, it affords me pleasure TO say that am
surprised and pleased viii what IL bas done Tor
me | was Que of the many uuiortuui'es VINO
suffered from La Grippe. l WIS conhued 10
the house for some time, add upon Sci'InS out
did rot get back the vita.ty posseSsed before.
tiei various specifics given for such coudi ions
but without much reliei. snort tlme since
mcuced TO use your PEHuVIaN NERVE COM
POUND, more Ia The way of an e\pe lmeni, Tor
was without the least fadh mat | Should mud 1t
of bepe6t, but before / had used up The first
not, lie mad received marked beneficial results.
| am now on my third bouie, aud feel as well as
ever. uDdef,taud tDai phvslcians are present.
| in. it. and from my tNpelleure WIN me Conl-
r0uud. am not Surprised mat tney snoutu. 1
| know IL 10 be a wonderful tonic, and great
blessing 10 me. Yours ttuly,
}. ). FOLSOM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
A Curious Collection of Buttons.

A somewhat curious and noteworthy
collection has come into the market,
and has been offered for sale to, among
others, the authorities of our Natisnal
museum. A Canadian gentleman has
expended vast amount of patience and
shown considerable perseverance in gath
ering collection of buttons of officers
of every regiment and department of the
British army. The collections, which
comprises l4S buttons, has taken nine
years for its formation and the owner
wrote 5S4 letters to all parts of the globe
in pursuit of his hobby. London Tit
Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20
Science and the Cbjnch Bug


AS long ago as 1865 it was observed
that in certain sections of Kansas that
worst enemy of the farmers growing
crops the chinch bug, suddenly sicken-
ed and died by the million, leaving the
wheat and corn thereafter to grow in
peace. Microscopic examinations of the
dead insects proved that they had been
killed by "a parasitic vegetable growth,
which attacked them both inside and
out. Then Professor F. H. Snow, of
the Kansas Agricultural society, got
into his head the bright idea of inocu-
Iating healthy chinch bugs with the
fungus from the diseased ones, by mix
ing up together the dead bugs and the
live ones. He experimental in his
laboratory with such success as led him
to believe that here was method for
the determination of this scourge
He announced his conclusion. Some
laughed at it. others, and among them
some live farmers, believed it might be
feasible. In the spring OF 1891, last
year, in April, just as the chinch beast
began its ravages, nearly 1000 farm
ers. chiefly in Kansas, distributed in
their wheat fields diseased chinch bugs.
The report is that in Is per cent. of
these cases the result was triumphantly
successful. Professor Snow now feels
sure that he has found how to destroy
the pest of the farmers. He considers
that already, by last years operations,
nearly 5000, 900 has been saved to the
farmers who applied the remedy.
Now will somebody apply this method
to the mosquito and render some millions
Of acres of the pleasantest regions of
America habitable?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

The proposition to change the consti'
tuition so that United States senators
may be elected by popular vote of the
people, as the representatives now are,
seems to be gaining friends. If this
were done the popular vote could at
once make clean sweep of political
party that had lost the peoples conf
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

The following, from The RAMS Horn,
is commended to certain rivalists: 1T
never helps The Lord any for a man to
go Dragging about what a big sinner he
used to be-"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-20

The Philadelphia Telegraph pro-
nounces the professional juryman, who
Is found hanging around every court
room, lone of the sore affections of the
times