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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Public Decorations.

Mere display of bunting is not dec
GRAFTON The Columbus celebrations
developed the fact, however, that this is
the American idea of it. A hundred yards
of muslin stamped in red, white and blue
and stretched across the front of build
ing is snowy. 1t is likewise patriotic,
and therefore we respect the motive OF
the one who puts it there, but it is not
decorative.
In the older countries public adorn.
ments on festal occasions are the object
of serious care and attention. The best
artists are secured to plan the window
displays, the triumphal arches and the
marches. The result is an artistic dis
play which fingers in memory like a
dream of beauty. We want some of
these dreams of beauty for America.
Nothing is too good for us.
Enormous size, lavish abundance, is
the American idea of the right thing on
all occasions. Even if we wish to praise
enthusiastically play, a ball, a church
ceremonial, we involuntarily say it was
big thing That is the highest praise
we can bestow, but mere size and album
dance is not artistic of itself American
cities during the Columbus celebrations
looked like kaleidoscope spectacle in
color without the beautiful Kaleidoscope
figures. The most artistically decorated
buildings were perhaps the great dry
goods stores. The artists who arrange
the shop windows had been employed
here with fine effect.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
void GInrY.N

Here is the grand army of the re-
public" was an exclamation that invol-
untary escaped the lips of those who
witnessed in Cincinnati the Columbian
procession Of 10000 schoolboys, each
carrying an American flag 1t stirred
the hearts of old soldiers strangely-that
moving forest of gallant young saplings
with their waving banners of red, white
and blue. 1t made others remember the
brave young Indiana girl teacher who first
set the fashion Of having the country's flag
float over the school house during study
hours, and defended it with loaded
gun when some ruftians sought to tear
the glorious banner down.
Patriotism and every other noble senti-
ment is fostered by appealing to the bet
ter emotions. For a hundred years after
1892 those 10000 boys and their descend
ants will tell with pride the story of the
school procession in the Columbian year,
when 10000 youths carried the Ameri-
can flag through the city streets. And
If war should come we may be sure that
those 10000 youths will be among the
first to go out to battle under that BAN
ner. An old soldier says he thinks there
ought to be stars and stripes celebra-
ton of some kind every year, to keep
alive in all our hearts the love of coun-
try. So there ought, with patriotic music,
flags, historic and heroic tableaux and
all that nobly stirs the soul and kindles
the imagination.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
pireetion. I'm ENGLAND

Speaking Of up" and down" in
England reminds me of friends ex-
perience. On his arrival in Liverpool
he wished to visit a hat store without
delay. He was conveyed by fellow
passenger to large establishment,
where hats were only one of dozen
things that were sold.
"Where is the hat Department. in
quired the newcomer.
"Clear up to the top, sir, as far as you
can go" was the answer of the clerk ad-
dressed, whose accompanying gesture
showed that he did not mean the highest
story of the building, but the extreme
end of the shop.
The next day my friend was in Ches-
ter cathedral. 1t was Sunday and at
the hour of service, and the place was
pretty full. Looking about for seat,
he was accosted by a verger. who in
formed him that "You can't get any
seat, sir, unless you go clear down to the
bottom" What the man meant by the
"bottom" was the portion of the editice
nearest the altar.
Londoners also speak Of the top" and
"bottom" of a street, where New York
ers say 'head" and "foot."-Cor. New
York Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Professor Samuel Lockwood, Phi. D.,
president of the United States Hay Fever
association, kindly instructs an afflicted
public on the cause of the mysterious
disease which annually sets certain per-
sons to weeping and sneezing. In order
to spread enlightenment as much as pos
sible we shall endeavor to extract the
substance of some of his learned infor-
nation. Hay fever is astivis. In the
first place the hay fever sufferer must
know that before he takes astivis, there
is behind the disease state of neurosis
or hypersensitiveness Of the nerve cen
ters-in other words, hyperasthesia.
Well and good. While you've got this
hyperasthesia, along floats the pollen of
plants, particularly ragweed, which, we
are informed, is Roman wormwood, and
catches onto the inside of your nose. A
speck of pollen is covered with little
sticky spines in order that it may do
this very thing. 1t catches onto the
inside of your hyperasthetic nostrils
and begins to sprout there, for all the
world just as it would if it had caught
on instead to the stigma of the plant
where nature meant it to lodge Noun
tain air is better, because it contains
little pollen or mineral dust or fine lint
from clothing, such as is alwayAfoating
in city air. AT least we take it that this
is what the professor means. Part of
what he actually says is as follows:
There is a protrusion of the membrane at
one or more of the thin places at the surface
whence a tube or rootlike process emerges and
penetrates the stigma. 1t seems to be an ex-
tension in a tubular form of the membrane,
and is filled with the protoplasm of the cell.
Having pierced the outer coat of the stigma,
this tubule by a sort of growth keeps on
lengthening and pushing its way down through
the loose tissue of the style until it has reached
the ovule at the base, when fertilization takes
place.
Just SO. You will find on consulting
dictionary that stigma is that vas
cular part of the pistil which is desti-
tute of an epiderm. How thankful we
of the common herd ought to be to the
kind professors who give us enlighten-
ment. 1t is such satisfaction to feel
that in writing for popular reading they
use just plain words, without thought
of trying to show off their learning.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The Norwegian claim to priority of
discovery in case Of America is undoubt-
eddy true. There is reasonable evidence
that some Norsemen under Left Ericsson
sailed westward from their far northern
shores to Iceland and Greenland, and
that they came as far as Labrador. 1t is
believed, too, that they set foot on the
soil Of Massachusetts. But when? The
nearest historians can come at it is that
Eric visited America some years before
the Norman conquest. William the Con-
queror took possession of the English
crown in 1865. What a rousing celebra-
ton we would give the old heather
Norsemen if we could only find out
when they touched our shores! Nor
wegians claim that it was in 1000. If
SO, then Left Ericson's turn will come in
the year 200O
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Two Presidents Wives

The lamented death of Mrs. Harrison
was caused primarily by an attack of
grip from which she never entirely raj
lied. But in the quiet of her own old
home she would have had a better
chance to fight for her life. She would
perhaps have pulled through as it was,
only for her determination to stand up
under all the exactions made on her as
a presidents wife. A determination
that was heroic kept her at her post till
The season was over and the politico-so-
cial circle at Washington had scattered
for the summer Then even she herself
discovered for the first time how weak
she was. But by that time there was
only left the sad waiting for the end.
With the passing of Caroline Scott Har-
rlson there went out of life one of the
busiest, sweetest and noblest of women.
A typical American woman, she, de-
voted to her family, yet with a broad.
warm interest in all things human.
Somehow the reader of history recalls
ascene OF sixty-four years ago, when the
ldollzed wife Of President Elect Andrew
jackson died. She, too. died because her
husbands presidential honors bore too
hard on her, but her death came about
in cruel and terrible way. Asper-
sions had actually been cast upon her
own pure character by her husbands
political opponents, and it killed her,
Parton says she fell victim to indecent
party contention. One may hope that
our politicians have grown less brutal
and ferocious since then.
Mrs. jackson died from fearful at
tack of heart trouble in December, be-
fore the general was inaugurated in
March jackson would not believe that
life had really departed His wife was
to him all that Mrs. Harrison has been
to the present president of the United
States, and he never recovered from the
blow OF her death. Hours after the
physicians had pronounced Rachel Jack
son dead, after her ifeless body was pre-
pared for burial, the poor old general
hoped she might come back He pointed
to the table wherein her body lay and
said: Spread four blankets upon it. If
she does come to she will lie so hard
upon the table"
But she did not come to-"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
How 1t Was Made Plain to Him.


London 'Arrys are apt to be loud,
cheap and vulgar, but they are uncon-
sciously amusing. Two of them were
seated in pothouse during the election
excitement, when one noticed glaring
poster on the wall representing Mr..
Gladstone shaking hands with Britannia
and John Bull, and the army and navy
in raptures at the spectacle. Beneath
the picture was the legend, "One Man,
One Vote"
81 say, old man." asked AIRY First,
"wotever does this ere mean-this ere
man and vowt thingT
"W'y," said AIRY Second, "cawn't We
see for yerself wot it means? One man,
one vowt. And there you are"
"Well, / down't see it,
Snow look ere. It's heasy enough.
One bloody man, one bloody vowt."
"W'y, yes! Great man, Gladstunw-
New York Sun.
Do not suppose that because it is rec
commended for animals that Arnica & Oil
i.innent is an offensive preparation. 1t
will not stain clothing Or the lairest skin
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
BY THE SEA.

At mora beside the oceans foamy roar
walked soft Swallowed through the luminous
mist,
And saw not clearly sea or land, nor visit
Where the tide staid, nor where began tn,
shore.
Agentle seward wind came down, and bore
The scent of roses and Of bayberry;
And through the great gray veil that hid the
sea
Broke the pale sun-a silvery warmth-noi
more.
So through the fogs that cover all this life
walk as In a dream 'twixt sea and land
The meadows Of wise thought, the sea oil
strife
And sounds and happy scents from either
hand
Come with vast CLEANS that spread and softly
shine
The JOY of life, the energy divine.
Archibald Lampman in Youths Companion
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Many Millions of Pins,

Before the introduction of machinery
pins were made by manual labor in such
a way as to require their passage through
the hands of fourteen different persons
before completion. By machinery in
use at the present time it is estimated
that 100 pins are turned out per minute.
In England 100000 pins are made
daily, of which 100000 are made in
Birmingham alone. Connecticut is the
principal center of the industry in the
United States.
What becomes of the enormous mum.
Der of pins manufactured every year is
an interesting problem which is often
asked, but never satisfactorily answered.
1t is safe to say, however, that there are
more of these little necessities lost in a
year than any other article made. H.
7. Hopkins in Washington Post.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
The number of acres which will be ope,

The number of acres which will be open
to settlement under the recent agree
ment with the Comanche, Kiowa and
Apache Indians is nearly 100000 1t
is situated in the southwestern corner
OF Indian Territory. For this land the
government paid the Indians So, 900, 000
The members of the three tribes named
will take lands in severalty, and the
new tract is what is left after they have
chosen their farms. 1t will soon be
opened to settlement; then there will be
another boomers rush. The Indian Ter
ritory is being gradually carved up and
parceled out.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
An Estimate of Matthew Arnold.

Matthew Arnold, the famous essayist
after his return to London from his first
lecturing tour in the United States Wis.
tied old Mrs. Proctor, widow of the poet
Barry Cornwall" and mother of AIDE.
laide Proctor. Mrs. Proctor, who was
then eighty years old, in giving Mr.. Ar.
mold cup of tea, asked him:
"And what did they say about you in
American
"Well," said the literary autocrat,
"they said l was conceited, and they
said my clothes did not fit me-"
well, now" said the old lady, 81
think they were mistaken as to the
clothes. "-London Tit-Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The time is coming when city houses
will be furnished with refrigerating
machines to cool their temperature
in hot weather. One pound of coal
will make sufficient steam to run re-
frigerating machine that will cool the
atmosphere of a room as much as thirty
pounds of ice would do. Continuing
the calculation, G. W. Baker has found
that air enough for thousand persons
to breathe for ten hours can be cooled
at an expense of fifteen cents an hour
In time doubtless the refrigerating ma
chine will take the place of ice in hot
weather. 1t is effective in hot climates.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
The Boy Was Nor. Than Pleased.


There is IN active, healthy small boy
in West End avenue who cannot COM
prehend what nervousness reallyis is. He
knows that it is something extremely
disagreeable, for his mother has been
nervous as long as he can remember.
His private opinion, expressed to his
father one night, is that nerves are
things brought on earth by evil spirits
for the purpose Of making little boys
miserable. One day he overheard his
mother telling neighbor that her nerves
were completely destroyed. The lad was
overjoyed, and to celebrate what he con-
sidered to be an emancipation he went
out in the back yard and romped with
his big dog, with damaging results to his
clothing as well as to his mothers gera-
MUM beds.
After the neighbor had gone away he
burst into his mothers presence with a
velocity that almost threw her into a
spasm, and before she could utter the
usual Don't be SO noisy, Harry" he had
his arms around her neck and was e1-
claiming: "Oh, mamma, now we won't
have any more trouble with nerves,
shall we? heard you tell Mr.. B. that
yours were completely destroyed. Isn't
that nice"-New York Times.
Downs Elixir will cure any cough or
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Since the war there has not been SO
much of confusion and changing of votes
in the political parties as there is in this
campaign. Republicans are coming out
for Democratic candidates; Democrats
announce that they viii vote the Repub-
lican ticket Many lifelong members of
the two leading parties are bordering
and asking themselves that historic ques-
ton. Where am | atg'
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Uncle Sans Treasure House.

The great United States treasury vaults
at Washington cover more than quar-
ter of an acre of ground, and are twelve
feet deep. On a recent date there was
enough of silver and gold coin stored
therein to load IFS or 200 freight cars to
their utmost capacity.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Renan was an agnostic, but even re.
Iigious women will forgive him after
reading this remark of his, ~ often
fancy that the judgments which will be
passed upon us in the valley of Jehosha-
phat win be neither more nor less than
those of women, countersigned by the
Almighty"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Tho smoke from tn. sun.., GUN.

Next to the sunsets and the daily dc
parture of the white feet Of sound
steamers, nothing that is seen from thu
span of the Brooklyn bridge is better
worth seeing than the firing of the
evening gun at Castle William on Gov.
ernor's island. The flash is of startling
brilliancy, and in calm weather it leaps
nearly 500 feet from the mouth of the
cannon. Even at that distance, how.
ever, it can be seen that it is not a sheet
OF flame, but rocketlike shower of FIRE
fakes-slow burning powder and wad.
ding.-Exchange.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

The Columbus family still lives and
has name and place in Italy. The Ital,
ian minister of finance, who resigned
from the cabinet because he disapproved
Of taxing the country still heavier for
military purposes, was named Colombo.
He showed his good sense and patriotism
by his course. 1t is better for Italian
soldiers to patch and darn their uni
forms still more than they do now rather
than Italy shall be further taxed for war.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
Indian Students on Parade.

1t was curious commentary on civil
lization that in the school childrens
Columbian parade in New York the In
dian pupils from Carlisle carried off the
honors. There were 10000 school chill
dren in line. They were drawn not only
from the New York and Brooklyn pub
lie schools, but from the crack acade-
mics and private schools attended by
rich mems sons. The white school girls
were too delicate to march in the pro-
cession, so seats were provided whence
they might look at the boys as they
passed and wave their little banker
chiefs.
Not so the strong Indian girls They
went on foot in the procession, and not a
young brave of their school marched
better than they. They wore dark blue
gowns and sailor hats, and their 1.-THE,
corsetless figures made a remarkable
impression. All these Indians, boys and
girls alike, were stronger, more erect
and dignified in their carriage than the
white children were, and their marching
was done with more military precision.
They walked like boys and girls that
have been accustomed to outdoor life
and plenty of room, advancing with a
free, swinging, rhythmic step that
caused the onlookers to burst into loud
huzzas of admiration.
On the whole, it was not strange that
one of these splendid, vigorous young
Indians expressed doubt whether the
herds of immigrants now crowding into
America were so very much superior to
the red men we drove out, or indeed, if
these are the specimens we made room
for, whether it was worth while to drive
the red men out at all.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

We do not know what day will
bring forth, much less century, but
when the Booth anniversary of the dis
covery of America rolls around in 1899
it is safe to predict it will find New
York still saying spiteful things about
Chicago for getting the Worlds fair
away from her in 1899.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

There is the same old trouble this year
about government clerks going home
from Washington to vote. In some of
the states special laws have been made
permitting them to retain their citizen
ship in those states. In other states there
is no law, and their vote is always chal-
lenged by the party that happens to be
in the opposition. The states really
ought to have some uniform practice in
this matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

One of the most appropriate Columbus
celebrations in all the country was that
at Pittsburg, where beautiful grove of
trees was planted and na2ed IColum-
bus grove, School children ought to
plant such parks in every neighborhood
before the autumn is over They will
stand in honor of the great iiscoverer
when perhaps even this mighty republic
shall have gone down.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
WATCHES,
WATCHES !

GENTS GOLD WATCHES Filled cases. warranted Is
years. dust proof back and beze stem wnder and
SETTER patent cap pull out bow sunk seconds engraved
or pIain jeweed Waltham or Elgn movement war
raned with good to keep time. Regular re-
tail price everywhere from S5 $1S. Our special offer
Only S12.
HOther styles of gents gold watches furnished at
conespondngly low prices=Al
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Census figuring shows that the whole
textile industry of the United States in
creased 1881 per cent. from 1880 to $780,
while the population of the country has
increased little more than l6 per cent.
Does this mean that people wear out
more clothes than they did previous to
1880 or that the clothes do not wear so
well? Or if neither of these, then, do
we make more cloth at home and import
less than we did ten years ago?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

He (tenderly)-And what do you think
of the engagement ring sent you. Ger
tie?
She (delightedlySOh, it is beautiful
In fact the handsomest one ever had
given me.-Exchange.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
eadfuli


politics in the schools The board there
consists of seven members of the COM
mon council, The annual reports of
public instruction in both cities con-
tain high flown CALCULATIONS ON the ex-
cellence of the teaching, Buffalo has of
course school superintendent rather
more metaphysical in his mind than he
of the Pork City is, and therefore we are
not surprised to find the Buffalo man
talking Of the universally accepted psy-
Geological law that the concrete should
precede the abstract" How the psyche
logical law Of the concrete works in Buff
falo we learn from a spelling lesson Dr.
Rice heard there, After spelling con-
cert the teacher said:
I'VE will now write the words"
This announcement was followed by q con-
siderable amount of hustle and confusion on
the part of the children, and order was not re-
stored until states, pencils and rulers had
been placed in position. When all was quiet,
one of the pupils called out
II aint got no ruler"
Al ahSNSi " tiiiS teacnef, WITHOUT cor
recting the child's language, said
You don't need "a ruler. Do it the way you
done it yesterday
This must be an awful libel on Buff
falo. In Cincinnati it was even worse.
DR.. Rice says the great evil there is
concert recitation He reports from a
reading lesson:
What is merchant" the teacher inquired
sitter one of the children had read the word.
"A merchant is a tailor" answered one.
"A merchant is man what keeps dry goods
stores" said another
IA merchant is man who buys cheap and
kin sell dear" remarked a third.
AT last a little boy, with triumphant air,
cried out, "A merchant is a man what sells
goods"
The teacher corrected none of these mistakes
in language, but when one of the children had
read the sentence, Il broke the glass and will
pay for it," the teacher said, What mistake
did he maker
Teacher" said one, "he said glass; and he
ought to "a said glars"
Right" said the teacher.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

On the whole, 1892 will take its place
in history as the rotten egg presidential
campaign year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So, Londonderry, Vermont.
THE

In New York there were uot enough
beds to accommodate the Columbian Wis
itors Chicago ran short ON pie,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-04

Downs Elixir will cure any cough or
cold, no matter of how long standing.