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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
ODDS AND ENDS.


The father of Samuel Pepys was a
tailor.
The velocipede was invented by Drais
in 1917.
Tintoretto. the famous painter, was
the SON of dyemaker.
1t is now possibility to insure your
goods against the depredations of bur-
glars.
A maverick" Is head Of cattle over
0 months old that is not branded by its
owner.
The longest verse in the Bible is the
ninth verse of the eighth chapter of
Esther.
Among the Chins the flower of the
Eugenia is supposed to have some Pc
culiar power.
Mr.. James Highland and Miss Anna
Fling were married in Marie county, Mo-,
few days ago.
A Chinese proverb says that bustling
woman and Growing hen are neither fit
for gods nor men.
If sweet oil is applied to the skin i'm
mediately after blow or bruise it will
not turn black and blue.
A couple were married one day re-
Gently at Winston, N. c., after court
ship of twenty-seven years.
We have not time or inclination to in
dulge in fanciful trouble until we have
got rid of our real misfortune.
The number Of buffaloes now in the
Yellowstone National park is nearly 800,
showing a slow rate of increase.
Unless an Austrian gets the consent
of his wife he cannot get a passport to
journey beyond the frontier of his own
country.
Fifty pounds of honey are annually
produced by hive of 5000 bees. In
1--we years the bees will have increased
to $4,000.
Last year the Canadian Pacific earned
$18, 672, TIA, of which 81, 1874, 040 was net
The Grand Trunk earned SIT ,423, 500, Of
which "a, S02 1891 was net.
Turn the points of your collars Gf you
wear that sort as soon as they come
home from the laundry, as it may save
time some morning when you are in 6
hurry.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
A Dukes Obituary,

"One of the fastest men in England"
was what they called the late Duke of
Manchester at home. He has just died
as the result of his fast life. He was a
fellow who wallowed in excuses of all
kinds and gloried in it, yet that did not
prevent pure, high bred American girl
from jumping at the chance to marry
him and perpetuate the noble Manches-
ter blood. He lapsed into his former
vile life after marriage and even got so
low down as to borrow money of a
woman music hall singer, Bessie Bel
wood, it was said.
A nobleman borrowing money of a
woman, and music hall singer, to
squander in extravaganza is fine spec
tacle to contemplate. The grand, blue
blooded nobleman was only viscount
then, and there came an "estrange-
ment" between his American wife and
himself, but this estrangement was
patched up again when he became Duke
of Manchester. That title covered a
great quantity Of things not pleasant to
look into. 1t may also be remarked in
passing that when the late dukes father
t'other duke-died a couple of years ago
he was so afraid his widow would marry
his grace of Devonshire, which she has
just done, that he made his will in such
way as to make her forfeit her income
if she did that. How sorry we ought to
be that we have no titled nobility in the
United States!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

American tests of armor for warships
excel in thoroughness those of any other
nation. In the latter part of July two
additional tests of American made ship
armor were made, one at Indian Head,
Nd, the other at South Bethlehem, Pa,
The armor plate was lo1a inches thick,
and was made of steel alleged with
nickel and hardened by the Harvey car
bombing process. The tests showed that
this kind of armor ON war vessel can
withstand the shock of shell weighing
$50 pounds and travelling l,70O feet a
second. This makes American naval
armor plating beyond doubt the best in
the world.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
Planetary Peonle.

That poetical French astronomer,
Camille Flammarion, is still hammering
away at his pet theory that the planets
other than our earth are as thickly in
habited as this world is. The principal
reason he adduces in favor Of his theory
it must be confessed amounts to about
this, Why shouldn't they be? Well, there
is no particular reason, to be sure, but
that is not proving that they are.
Science finds that it would be impossible
for the other planets to be inhabited by
beings like ourselves, owing to differ
ences of constitution, atmosphere, tenn
perature, etc. But the imaginative
Frenchman finds that no bar at all.
Why should they be like us2 he asks.
1t is not at all necessary. We
cannot conceive Of man as existing
without arms, legs, head and heart, and
eating three meals day of food more
or less solid, but to Camille Flammarion
nothing is easier than to conceive of be-
ings without any of these points of iden-
tity, so to speak. He compares the scien-
tific professors of today who deny that
the other planets can be inhabited to
two fish at the bottom of deep river
debating in their two stupid minds
whether there can be such thing as a
world where the inhabitants live in air
instead of water and are without fins,
gills and tails.
Flammarion reminds US that spectrum
analysis has revealed in Jupiter, Saturn
and Uranus the existence of substance
unlike anything known to exist on earth.
In the spectrum of the sun itself has
been traced a chemical never found on
earth, to which has been given the name
" hellum, not good name under the
circumstances, one would say.
The planets have been found to vary
much in their many properties, and life,
even human life, may exist in just as
many varying forms, and the stars can
well be inhabited by beings entirely diff
ferent from and even superior to us, says
Flammarion. That may be, but how
are you going to prove it?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
There is more catarrh in this section of

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease, and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly falling to cure with To-
cal treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrah to be con
slitutlonal disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. J. Cheney & Co.
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken internal
ly in doses from 10 drops TO teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
timonials. Address,
Cure Send for circulars, free
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
H-Sold by druggists, Toe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

Maud S, of Kentucky, a mile in 2:Os34;
Sunol, of California, a mile in 2:Os14;
Nancy Hanks, of Kentucky, mile in
2:07I in the summer of 1892. So the
worlds trotting record stands up to date.
The eagle of victory flew across the con-
tinent from Kentucky to California,
then he gave a screech, tapped his wings
and shot back to Kentucky, perching
himself on the banner of the mare named
for the stepmother of Abraham Lincoln.
1t was thought that years must elapse
before Sunol could be distanced, but the
thing has been done in one year. Trot-
ting has been brought up to the speed of
the average railway train. What will
the next record be? We need be sur
prised at nothing. SO far as Nancy
Hanks brave victory is concerned, it
was probably helped on by the new fam
gled bicycle sulky, with its ball bear
ings and pneumatic tire. The honor be-
longs to the mare, the driver, Budd
Doble, and the bicycle sulky. Now let
Robert Bonner try Sunol in bicycle
sulky.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
Corn Fodder.

In many localities the ordinary farmer
does not yet patronize the silo, and
consequently corn fodder is an impor-
tant crop. If properly used there is no
better feed for cattle. but on many
farms there is nothing used with as
poor economy as is corn fodder. In a
paper incorporated in the quarterly re-
port of the Kansas state board of agri-
culture this statement is made: IAN
acre of good corn fodder, corn that will
yield fifty or sixty bushels per acre if
secured at the right time. is worth as
much for feed as the hay from an acre
of tame grass" 1t is advised in this
same paper that the handling Of corn
fodder be done in damp weather. 1t is
poor economy to turn stock into field
of cornstalks, to say nothing of the dan
ger of loss from impaction.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
The Ancient jews Were Great Boxers.


A pugilistic ring was favorite game
with the ancient Hebrews. If that ring
was ruled by the rules of our modern
"code of pugilism," l hardly can tell.
The first trace of that game we find in
the narrative of the Scripture is when
Abner, the commander in chief to Saul,
met David's general, Joab, and the for
mer asked the latter, "Let the boys rise
and play before u.s." This amicable
boxing, the Scripture informs us, turned
out regular slaughter, SO that Abner
was obliged to beg Joab in these words
to stop it:
"Shall the sword eat human flesh for
ever?' From this plain narrative we
can see how favorite the boxing game
was among them. We can apply to the
ancient Hebrews the well known prov
erb in modified form, "Wheh Jews
met Jews there was tug of war;" 1t
seems that Jewish greeting was box
on the ear. By the advance of cul-
tured humanity the roughness Of the
''ring" has also been humanized.-Bos-
| ton TRANSCRIPT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
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AlNssssSeg NsGh'!KPEN
A PLEA FOR THE BIRDS.

Their Usefulness In Destroying InJuri-
Gus Insects.
In an essay read before the Massa-
chusetts Horticultural society by Mr.
Thomas @. Thurlow, it was stated that
the usefulness of birds in destroying in
sects is established beyond doubt.
Many of our birds during the spring
months live entirely on insects. Moths
and millers are captured on the wing,
others in the larva or chrysalid state,
and still others as they appear in early
morning as worms, grubs, borers, etc.
Those birds classed as perchers or climb
crs are all insect eating birds, but may
later in the season take little fruit or
grain as a dessert. Those classed as
robbers, including owls and hawks, sub
sist partly on insects and reptiles, but
the damage done in killing other useful
birds is probably greater than all the
good they do.
Other native birds are commonly
classed as game birds, and although it is
positively stated by ornithologists that
many of these birds subsist largely on
insects, still the laws are against them,
and they are protected for certain months
in order that sportsmen may have the
pleasure of killing them during the re-
mainder of the year.
With the disappearance of the marsh
birds, once plenty on our coasts, the
grasshoppers have increased as the birds
have decreased. The essayist would not
say that If the birds had all been per-
mitted to live there would have been no
damage done by insects, but it must be
admitted that when the primeval forests
protected thousands of birds which now
have no such protection, nature pre-
served the balance of power, and birds
and insects must have lived together for
generations without either gaining ma
terially on the other. Since that time
no new species of insects have been
created, though some have been import
ed, but through various causes the bal
ance of power has been turned in favor
of the insects, till today they are the
terror of all agriculturists.
Of the English sparrows Mr. Thurlow
could say nothing from experience, as
they did not visit his place, but, with
his present convictions, he did not re-
greet their absence. Some evidence was
read from others, showing that the
robin is almost insectivorous and that
the prejudice against this bird is unjust
and unfounded. The common crow, in
his opinion, does more damage by de.
stroying the eggs and young of other
birds than he does good in devouring q
few insects. Owls and hawks will kill
small birds; therefore keep them at 9
distance.
The slaughter of birds to ornament
ladies' hats and dresses was severely
deprecated. The noble example of the
Princess Of Wales in refusing to inspect
anything in which birds are used as
trimming was highly praised.
In a discussion of the essay varying
| opinions were expressed by members as
to crows, hawks and owls, but no one
spoke favorably of the English sparrow
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. 90, 1892.
Freaks of walking sticks.

Walking sticks have their eccentrici-
ties, as they have their human oompan-
ions. Sometimes, when the summer Is
but newly ended and the garrison in
vase and hatrack has been heavily re-
enforced, the entire colony will come
crashing and rafting down in the night
and there follows general eviction the
next day. Weeks afterward spend my
days as tale that is told great many
times, seeking to discover and collect
the scattered remnant that is left. !
once had an alder stick 80 crooked that
every time one walked across the floor,
even in a distant room, this stick would
rock and tremble and hdget uneasily In
its place, This, happening at all hours
of the night and day, drove the whole
family into nervous fever, until at
length | labeled the stick and presented
it to a college museum. Some Of the
sticks come home all right, but in the
process of domestication slowly shed
their bark, so that the hall carpet is re-
duced to state of chronic woodward
chippiness.
Others, as they dry out, develop a
malodorous odor that leads to the unani-
nous diagnostication that they were
picked before they were ripe, and are
straightway ordered forth to crema-
ton. Some wait until they have been
carefully scraped, painted with three or
four coats and vanished with infinite
painstaking, and then calmly split from
end to end, curling up at the edges Of
the split. Others take kindly to steam
ing and straighten out until straight
edge cannot find fault in them, and as
soon as staining and polishing is COM
plete, and an expensive head fitted on,
suddenly develop infammatory rheuma-
tism and curvature of the spine, legacies
of the marsh whence they were taken,
doubtless, and hump themselves into
more misshapen shapes than a wet
clothesline, hastily coiled in the dark by
an inexperienced man, can initiate
Robert ]. Burdette in Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
Cruelty to Infants.

There is one barbarous practice still
occasionally INDUCED in at Old Orchard
as at other places where surf bathing is
pastime. 1t is quite as cruel as bull
fights, and as the cruelty is perpetrated
in Christian land and ofttimes by moth
ers it is all the more glazing. We refer
to the custom of taking SO many terri
fed infants out into the waves and hold
ing them down in the water. Such a
spectacle witnessed in a mornings walk
will spoil days enjoyment. The suf-
ferings of the little one are as real as
painful emotions can be to an adult
Bangor Commercial.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

1t is said that members Of national
guard regiment in Illinois burned in ef-
fgy General Snowden and Colonel
Streator on account of their action in
the Homestead riots, Now, private cit
liens might burn in effigy any one they
liked in their own private capacity. But
the members of the national guard are
United States soldiers. May United
States soldiers burn officers of the United
States army in effigy? w
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

"Give it to 'em, William shouted the
Independent British crowd to Gladstone
as hepassed from London to Portsmouth
to enter the royal yacht, which conveyed
him to the presence of Queen Victoria
on the Isle of Wight, for the fourth time
in his life to receive her command to
form cabinet. 1t must have been the
proudest day of Williams life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

The National Republican league has
taken hint from the British in the
matter of election campaigning and in
vited the Woman's Republican associa-
ton to hold meetings in connection with
the league convention beginning at
Buffalo Sept. Is. The invitation has
been accepted. We may therefore see
something new in political campaigning
this fall.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

There has hot been such enthusiasm
manifested Ia this country since Mira.
Carson Lake hoorayed for Blaine at the
Minneapolis convention as was displayed
when Nancy Hanks came in on 2071 at
Chicago.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

The greatest material blessing that
could descend on our country just now
would probably be the discovery of
some fabulously rich gold mines. We
have no national war to work off sur
plus restlessness. Gold mines would
a.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
Poultry POinta.

Give your young broods clean water,
plenty of grit, variety of cracked and
whole grain mostly in a dry state, keep
them out of the grass when wet with
dew and rain, and they will thrive.
Hens like new onions. lettuce and
other vegetables.
The black Minorca is good layer Of
large eggs.
Ground bone, fine gravel, ground
shells and dust bath must be provided
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
MANAGEMENT OF MANURE.
Utilizing n Larger Proportion Of Its Use
full Constituents.


full Constituents.
Experience shows that manure as COM
monty kept in heaps or scattered around
in barnyards loses largely in volume
and value. As soon as it begins to fer
ment it loses some of its substance in the
form of gas, and too often there is an
additional loss from drainage, which
proper care might have prevented. For
this reason the belief has been con-
stantly growing that larger proportion
of the useful constituents of animal ma
nure can be utilized by incorporating it
in the soil as thoroughly as possible
while it is fresh than by leaving it to
undergo decomposition through fcrmen-
tation and exposure to atmospheric in
huences. AS some one has expressed it,
manure never contains more fertilizing
elements than when it is newly made,
and to this it might be added that no.
where can these elements be better pre-
served than when mixed with the soil
they are to fertilize.
or all the manures that from the
horse stable is unquestionably subject
to the greatest loss from fermentation
in uncared for heaps, whether in the
barnyard or fields. Especially must this
be true of manure hauled out in sum-
mer from town stables unless its ferti-
LIKING properties are soon locked up in
the soil. This is so well understood by
most farmers that heap of fire fanged
horse manure is considered by them to
have lost a large proportion of its value.
From fertility absorbed by the soil vegs-
tation may be expected to receive some
benefit, while whatever is dissolved in
the air will be lost.
AS against summer made stable ma
nure, it may be said that owing to the
fields being at that time generally under
cultivation,it is often more difficult to
place it where it is most wanted or to
preserve it from loss than is the case in
winter and spring.
Manure that has been rotted until it
has become black mass can be more
evenly distributed and more easily
worked into the soil and is worth more,
weight for weight, than when fresh. II
is, however, to be considered that it is
| then the residuum of what was orig
inally much larger quantity of newly
made manure.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

A flourishing Egyptian industry is the
manufacture of paint from mummies.
The mummies are ground to powder,
which Is mixed with oil. So we may
paint our fences with all that is mortal
of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

A philosopher remarks that If the
man who committed suicide ON account
of the heat had only waited until next
December he would have had no need to
kill himself.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
COusiderate,

Biggs-There goes man that I never
feel like judging from the company he
keeps.
Beggs-Wby SO? He doesn't look any
better than the rest of mankind.
Biggs-No; but you see he's the war
den of our prison Kate Fields WASH
mgton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

The smallest known permanent planet
airy bodies are the moons of Mars. The
smaller Of these two baby moons meas
ures only eight miles across, and is only
1000 miles away from Mars, which it
xevolves completely around three times
in twenty-fn,r hours
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

There is no longer any denial of the
fact that cholera is in st. Petersburg.
Perhaps the kindest turn fate could do
the white car would be to have him die
of cholera, thus escaping being blown to
pieces with dynamite.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

New York Store.
Is Selling
Workmen's Dinner Pals
large size, l5c
10 at. faring pals, l2c
10 ct. dish pans, l2c
Tin Cups, &c each,
Sheet Iron dripping pans
large size, 1Oc
Fancy covered dust pans,
nicely decorated. 1Oc
Tin Chamber pail, fine quail
ty, only 25c.
Fancy engraved Tumblers, DC
Good Tumblers, &c
Decorated 10 pieces Toilet
sets, only $500.
Jelly tumblers, with tin caps,
Sc, glass sauce or berry sets,
6 small and l large, only 2Cc
Veneer Chair seats, Be each,
AT SC. Ladies' Jersey
Vests worth Zoe, at $50 La
dies calico wrappers, At 30c
Ladies' shirt waists. at 4Sc
Ladies muslin night gowns,
at 25c Ladies muslin drawers
at 25c boys knee pants, at DC
Indigo.blue prints, white stri-
ped lawn and chi!dren's gauze
vests.
In our grocery department
we have these brands of -four
White Lion, PillsbrTy's Best,
King of the West and White
Foom. We sell only the best
quality of flour and at lower
prices than any other house.
We have the greatest bar
gain in Tea that was ever of
fered, here it is:
10 Chests Fine Japan Tea
: in one pound packages, quail
) ty guaranteed, only Zoe a H.
Canned peaches, 13c. Sal
mon Zoe, tomatoes or corn SC
! Terms Cash, Only.
: BLACKMER'S
New York Store,
Manchester Depot, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

1t is to be noted that in the Michigan
legislature both parties Republican and
Democratic) have agreed to IAN equita-
BILE apportionment" Of the state for po-
litical districts, regardless of party lines
or gerrymaudeying.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
A Rad. Wicked Man.

Visitor-What became of that dog you
used to have?
Little Girl-A bad, wicked man shot
him.
"Dear me! What for?"
"For bitin tn bad, wicked mans
laby."-Good News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

People so seldom have their way in
life that 1t seems pity they cannot
have it when they want to be cremated
after they are dead,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26

Slipping half a wineglass of water is
declared TO have raised mans pulse
from rs to over 100 beats.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
Every Testimonial,

In behalf of Hoods Sarsaparilla is strict
ly true and will bear the closest investiga-
ton, No matter where it may be from,
it is asreliable and worthy your confidence
as if it came from your most respected
neighbor. Have you ever tried this ex-
cellent medicine?
For general family cathartic we con-
fldently recomend Hoods Pills. They
should be in every home medicine chest.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-26
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,

The summer of 1899 is season Of hot
weather and violent deeds in the United
States.