The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Siflerlets-ShOrt and Snappy.

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triplets Grover, Frances and Ruth is
evidently desirous of finding out
whats in name?"
If Hawaii is bound to belong to
some nation its owner had better be the
! United States than Great Britain.
If the name of the Hawaiian Queen
had been shorter her reign might have
been longer
The New York Suns old time .He
is a good man, and weighs 800 pounds"
is applicable to the new Senator from
Kentucky.
Chicago is going to have her police
men vaccinated. We trust that anti
clubbing vaccine will be used.
If all matter relating to prize-fghters
were paid for even at a rate of one cent
line some newspapers would soon be
rich.
The Senatorial mills are grinding
slowly and surely, but the output va
ries from that predicted
Brother Carnegie evidently believes
in discretion. He remained away from
Homestead until it was no longer dan
gerous to 60 there.
If it be true that, Mr. Cleveland
drinks glass of beer every morning
before breakfast, it indicates the pos
session of an unusually strong stomach.
"The world do move" The Phila-
delphia school of design for women has
two foot ball teams. One kicking
woman is quite enough for the average
man.
Had Mr.. Blaine's friends shown the
unity during his life that they have dis
played since his death he would have
been President years ago.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie used a column
in the newspapers of the country to ad-
minister copious doses of "taffy" to him
self and Frick, but he never said IL
word about the blood spilled at Home
stead, or of the more recent antics of
the hunger demon at the same place.
Recent occurrences indicate that
sBuck" Kilgore, the heavy-footed mem
Der from Texas, is bigger man than
the Bankruptcy bill.
There may be silver lining to that
Congressional cloud, but it is very slow
in making itself visible to the naked
eye.
''Notice! Having devoted several
months to listening, | am now desirious
of devoting a little time to digesting
what has been said to me. Those who
do not take this hint may regret it, as
my retreat is guarded by savage dogs
and spring-guns. G. c."
Congressman Harter, of Ohio, has
evolved a scheme to save himself from
being worried to death by the would-be
postmasters in his district He will
only recommend those who have re-
ceived majority of the votes Of their
townsmen, at public meeting held for
the purpose. The idea is good enough
to be passed around.
In the same newspaper you may read
of freezing and starving human beings,
and of expensive parties being given to
pet dogs by other human beings-fash-
ionable women.
There is something wrong about the
makeup of the American who is not
proud to have been fellow citizen with
James G. Blaine, whose fame as a
statesman will out-live the political
opinions of his time.
There seems to be disposition to
'call out the troops on very small
provocation these days. Some people
are playing with fire, and seem to for.
get that soldiers have always been the
main dependence of the great tyrants
of the world. Everytime the militia is
called out in this country the European
monarchists shout with ghoulish glee.
Remember the ides of March. Not
only does the country get new admin
istration but it gets rid of grasping
monopoly. The principal patents on
the Bell telephone will expire in March
throwing the telephone business open tc
all.
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