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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
METALLIC Salts and Oxides.

Experiments made to ascertain the ac-
ton of metallic salts and oxides, as de-
scribed before the Manchester Philo-
sophical society, exhibit some phenom-
email facts. Saturated solutions were
made in water and painted on small
pieces of the rubber, or, in the case of
insoluble substances, pastes were made
with water and painted on, the whole
being allowed to dry, the heating being
done at temperature of 60 degrees G.
for 10 days. The following compounds
of copper entirely destroyed the rub
Der: Sulphate, chloride, nitrate, fer
rocyanide, oxide, sulphide; also arsenic,
iodide. silver nitrate. strontium chic
ride, vanadium chloride, manganese OK
ide and bismuth chloride.
The following had an injurious effect
viz, ferrous nitrate, sodium nitrate,
uranium nitrate, ammonium vanadate.
Those that had very little action were
lead chromate, ferrous sulphate, zinc
acetate, zinc chloride, tin perchloride,
while the behavior of about GO salts hay
ing no action whatever was also exam
ined. Exceedingly small quantities Of
copper salts are injurious to rubber, and
it was found that wherever the cloth
used in making waterproofed fabric con-
tanned traces of copper the rubber be-
came generally hardened and destroyed.
As to the use of the various blacks, it ap-
pears that manganese oxides should not
be present, but logwood chrome blacks
may be used with impunity. New York
Sun
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Funerals In the Middle Ages.

In the middle ages it was customa J
at the funeral of any great person 10
have his horse led and armor borne be-
fore his corpse, the horse being after
ward claimed as mortuary due TO the
church at which the burial took place.
The armor was either reserved for TIE
next of kin, of the deceased or else was
hung up in the church. No doubt much
of the armor suspended over tombs is
mere "undertakers' trappinga' although
often considered genuine aa of antiq-
uity.
Over the to,nbs of bishops the episco-
pal inter and pastoral staff We're some
times suspended, as in the case of those
in Winchester cathedral hanging over
the tomb of Bishop Morley, who died il
1896, and Of those in Bromsgrove church,
Worcestershire, suspended over the mon
ument OF DR.. Hall, bishop of Bristol, who
died in 1710.-.-W estminster Gazette.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

So far as human judgment can per-
ceive, the great career of John Tyndall,
the physicist, was determined from a
few words said to him by an older man
when Tyndall was about 20 years old.
He had shown at school remarkable
mathematical talent and advanced rap
idly in that study. His attainments in
geometry and trigonometry secured him
employment in the Irish survey depart
ment of the British government. After
he had been at this work some time, one
Of the older employees asked him one
day what he did with his leisure time.
Tyndall had to confess it was mostly
frittered away. Then the other man
said: you have five hours day at your
disposal. You ought to devote this time
to systematic study. If | had had a
friend advise me when | was your age,
as now advise you, instead of being in
subordinate place, might have been
vt the head of the survey" 1t walked
young Tyndall up completely. From
that day on he began to use his five
hours day to such purpose that for
many years before his death he was hon
ored the world over as the greatest phys.
icist of his generation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
The Newspaper nciorma,io,.

Some time since the women OF Cali.
fornia resolved 10 reform sensational
journalism. The San Francisco Exam
liner took kindly to the ladies' scheme
and afforded them a mouthpiece for their
utterances to the public, One OF the
things the women did was to publish an
appeal to newspapers all over the land.
In the interests of morality the petition
asked the papers henceforth to give as
little space as possible to the details of
crime and Of occurrences that would be
apt to fire the imagination and set peo-
pie young and old off their heads. The
petition had 1900 signatures of Cali
fornia women.
Attention has been aroused by the
petition. Several prominent editors have
expressed opinions in regard to the FEAST
bility of suppressing the details of I'M
pleasant facts and legal trials. But
there is one rub. 1t is that editors must
publish what the people want to read.
Mr.. Edward II. Clement, editor of the
Boston Transcript, makes the following
suggestion to women everywhere. 1t
shows them how at ono blow they may
stop Objectionable journalism:
The spreading cut Of Tie details of crime and
vice operates as n direct Indictment to more
crime and vice. | do not expect that the press.
which exists solely for money making pur-
poses. will give over the PR ctoe arraig ned so
long as il is profitable. INT which will stopit
is the boycott. Let the 400 women, MT con-
tent with merely signing these petitions, rstuse
to receive into their homes papers gliity of
filthy reports the thing is done Tie l'eo-
pie have the remedy in their own hands.
Kate Field of Kate Fields Washington
speaks her mind in characteristic, yigor-
Gus English thus:
Proprictors of newspapers 30 into Journalism
to make money, as a rule, just as other men 60
into other business People cannot live on zen
timent alone. They ask what is the largest
audence-the vul ar, the ignorant The half
educated, the undisciplined. What's the use
of giving such people food they will not cat
because they've no tasle for it? 1t is like plac-
ing Chateau LATTE of the finest vintage before
creatures who have wallowed in Chain light
ming whisky They want something that hits
hard.
So the publisher gets his big audience, which
he needs TO pay expenses, by supplying them
with the food thy like best. The marvel TO
me is, considering the low tone of the public
land say this rs one who loves my country l.,
that the standard of the press is as high as is
today.
What have said comes as an editor of a ry-
tional review that has never fallen below nay
own standard Of right and wrong, has ncv, r
pandered TO sensa,ionalism, knowing full we'll,
however, that had | lowered the standard [
should today be rich woman instead Of u
very poor one.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

Another one of the travelling gentle
men of leisure. whom the American peo
pie feed and clothe free of charge, ap-
parently for the pleasure of their com
pany, entered a room in Columbus o.,
where a young lady was alone and as.
Baulted her. Her brother came in in
time to save her. however, which was
fortunate. The brother seized sti-
letto and plunged it into the tramp's
body, killing him and giving an OBJ
ject lesson on the proper way to deal
with tramps who watch their oppor-
tunity when women are alone to at
tack them. Down with the tramp of
every variety, but especially the woman
attacking tramp!
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THU
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
THU
what Rich Men Are Good For,

w nat hiCn wen are Hoou rot'
why do we not make better use Of
our rich mem" asks Mr. Frederic Har-
rison in The Forum, Then he proceeds
to declare theoretically that unless these
gentlemen speedily begin to make bet
ter use of themselves the community
will take in hand the matter of abolish
ing rich men altogether. He says, in
deed, in so many words; 1.-THE great
problem which the next century will
have seriously to take in hand and finally
solve is this: Are rich men likely to
prove of any real social use, or will it be
better for society to abolish the institu-
tion?"
How shall we make the best use of our
rich men? If the Harrison idea is car
ried out, none of our rich men will in
future be permitted to go off on a pleas
ure cruise in luxurious yacht, sailing
around the world and spending $1,000
month on their own physical pleasures
and those of few friends, while their
NUtlO tuSil aISSotoio uNSuihu-
lated such vast wealth, is in the throes
Of commercial panic and thousands
are actually suffering for the necessities
of life. 1t is very nice to get away from
the cry of hard times and the appeals
for charity, but will it be allowed in the
days when we make use of our rich men
on the Harrison plan?
The writer declares that the rich men
owe it to civilization as their bounden
duty to cultivate and improve the popu-
lar taste. Scarcely anything more deli
cate or aesthetic than a red and yellow
circus bill, horrible variety concert
hall ballad or blood and thunder drama
can please the popular taste sufficiently
to gain financial foothold. To appre-
ciate something better the common peo-
pie must be cultivated and refined. They
cannot do this for themselves, for they
know nothing better than what pleases
them at present. 1t should be, it must
be, the task of rich men to build beauti-
full gardens in which the rarest of orchids
and lilies and all the flowers of the earth
are displayed free. The rich must also
build art museums in which the public
may look their fill free of charge on the
most perfect achievements of painting
and sculpture. So likewise should the
highest and best musical and dramatic
representations be provided. A nation
thus blessed with patriotic benefactors
would grow beautiful, wise and fine be-
You'd description. The whole human
race would in time be elevated and de-
velop physically, mentally and morally,
thinks Frederic Harrison.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

practice of physician of high standing.
They are given to the public as an unfail-
ing blood builder and nerve restorer,
curing all forms of weakness arising from
a watery condition of the blood or shat
tered nerves, two fruitful causes of al
most every Ill that flesh is heir to. The
pills are also specific for the troubles
peculiar to females, such as suppressions,
all forms of weakness, chronic constipa-
ton, bearing down pains, ETC., and In
men viii give speedy relief and affect
permanent cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork, or excuses of
whatever nature, The pills are sold by
all dealers, or win be sent postpaid on
receipt of price(50 cents a box or boxes
for S2,50-they are never sold in bulk or
by the 1907, by addressing DIR. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, or
Brockville, Ontario.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

We would DO glad to know II any of
the Bellamy colonies that have been
startea-.a various parts of the country
have survived for five years. The latest
has gone into operation in the Cherokee
strip Its members will live ON the CO.
operative plan, even to the extent of
having cooperative kitchen and dining
room. Its progress toward failure or
success will be watched with interest.
II 1t does succeed, it will be the first Sec
ular cooperative colony that ever did
prosper, That at Topolobampo, Mexico.
yet survives, with chances about equally
mixed as to its continuing on from year
to year. And yet a cooperative colony
may succeed by and by The central
idea is such an unselilsh as well as scien-
tific one that in some shape it seems as
though it ought to be worked out.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

Both Republicans and Democrats will
agree with President CLEVELAND that the
Nicaragua canal should be finished and
operated under American auspices and
American control. If the president had
added that he thought it ought to be
finished at once the people Of the country
would have been with him too. The
United States government ought now to
take the matter in hand actively. What
Gibraltar is to England that Nicaragua
canal will be to the United States.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

Spain has set an example on the proper
way to deal with such anarchists as are
not to be hanged or shot. Off the west
coast of Africa there is an island be-
longing to Spain called Fernando Pc,
used as penal colony. To Fernando
Pc Spain ships her mild cases of anarch-
lists. There is no government there be-
yond that required to keep the convicts in
order, and the rebels against public au-
thority can have all the anarchy they
want-just revel IN it and hurt nobody,
The island is fertile one, with warm
climate. Its inhabitants can live out
doors, and they needto do no work Vans
grow naturally and form an ample and
nourishing food. Fruits grow there,
too, so that the gentleman anarchist
will enjoy his ideal social order-plenty
to eat and no work and no government.
The prospect is enough to tempt respect
able people to go and be anarchists. 1t
would be much easier to get living on
Fernando Pc than it is for the average
man in civilized life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

Orange blossoms sometimes grow on .
widows weeds.
Smiles are smiles only when the heart
pulls the string.
Our shirt, collar and cuff factories or
dinarily pay out "a, 300, 900 in wages an
nually.
China is said TO contain numberless
small societies of unmarried women who
have pledged themselves never to marry.
A portrait Of Charlotte Corday as she
was b,eeg led to trial, sketched by a
young rtist, has recently been discov-
cred.
Asiatic cholera was first supposed to
have originated from the consumption
of unsound rice and was called "the
rice disease"
The worlds oyster fisheries produce
annually 4,439, 900, 900 oysters, one-half
being consumed within three days after
they are taken.
California puts the rest of the country
under obligations by supplying us with
Sc, 900, 900 pounds Of raisins every year,
most of which are eaten in the United
States.
A baker estimates that every American
will consume two pies week, and If
the statement is correct the American
stomach is weekly tortured with $780,
0O0,O 900 pies.
The parasol is very ancient article.
The Assyrians, the Egyptians and the
Persians all carried them as shades
against the sun, for fashionable adorn-
ment and in religious ceremonies.
In 1886 the people of this country pro-
duced II 100000 tons Of grain, 4,750,O00
of meat, 10000 of sugar, $4,000 of rice,
100000 of potatoes 100000 of butter
and 170, 900 of cheese, and consumed the
greater part on their own hearthstones.
The theater goers and train passengers
of this country make nuisance of them
selves with 1900, 900 bushels of peanuts,
which produce 100000 bushels of shells
to be swept out, the operation resulting
in $4,000, COO oaths and curses every year.
In cleaning the Goddess Of Liberty On
the Texas state capitol, a local paper says,
| it was discovered that a swarm of bees
had made their home in the hollow head
of the goddess and had filled it half full
of honey. Here is another proof of the
old adage that liberty is sweet.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

The Paris Academy of Medicine seri-
ously took up the question of the cure
of consumption by the inhalation Of
ozone. Two eminent physicians, Drs.
Liable and Oudin, have devised appa-
ratus for scientifically administering it.
Their success has been so marked that
an extended report has been made to the
academy recommending the treatment.
Perhaps ozone will in time be sure cure
for consumption.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

The sum required to run this govern
ment is always estimated by the secre-
tary of the treasury and appropriated
year ahead by congress. The amount
needed for the year 1895 the secretary
says is $4l1 ,S70,041. That is SEQ, 0o0, 900
less than has been appropriated fer 1894.
The falling off in the estimate is due in
considerable part to the reduction in pen
sions, which from this time on will
gradually fall off by natural causes.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

The Republicans, in deciding in their
congressional caucus that they will not
oppose any dilatory tactics to measures
brought forward by the majority party,
evidently believe they are adopting the
principle of giving the Democrats rope
enough and letting them hang them
ca1uac
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
Populist Money,

In The North American Review, Sena-
tor w. A. PETER of Kansas unfurls the
Populist flag to the breeze and defines
exactly the principles advocated by that
party. Here is the Populist idea OF money
and what it should be made of:
Let a given number and quantity of surplus
products of a community be collected and COM
pared with respect to the amount OF human
labor expended in their production and find
some one article whose value alone, divided or
multiplied, is a common divisor of the values
of the rest, and you have aunitof value To IL
lustrate: Take, say, n bushel of wheat; divided
into tenths, one-tenth will measure the value
of one pound of cotton; divided into hun
dredths, one-hundredth will measure The value
of one pound of salt; entire it will measure the
value of a pig; multiplied by 25, it will measure
.he value of a COW; multiplied by Is it will
measure the value of a horse; and so on as to
the value of all other articles. Here we have
u common measure of value-a bushel of wheat.
What, then, let us inquire, is the value of a
bushel of wheat? Why, what it will purchase
Of other articles in the open market. OF course
there will be fluctuations in quantity produced
from year to year, the demand will not always
be the same, many circumstances will operate
to vary prices: still, for common convenience,
we use bushel of wheat for the common
measure. But wheat, and especially q bushel
of 1t, is an unwieldy thing to use in making ex-
changes, in paying debts and the like.
Let us give name TO the value of a bushel
of wheat-what we all understand the value
to be, though we cannot define it--and then
agree on some small, light, convenient article
of manufacture to represent that value Say
we use the word dollar as name or title TO
represent the value of the wheat measure and
let us make the representative out of silver or
aluminium or paper, and use that for money in
place of wheat. We use silver dollars now
and paper dollars, and the foregoing ilustra-
ton explains their relation to other things.
The intrinsic value OF the two dollar pieces is
not the same-that is to say, the commercial
value of the materials of which they are made
is greater in one than in the other but the
money value of each is exactly the same Value
resides in the property dealt in, and not neces-
sarily in the money pieces which pay for it. a
paper dollar is quite as good to buy sugar with
as a dollar made of gold OF silver Intrinsic
value in money coins is delusion. The doc
trine Of equivalents is impossible of application
now,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

Hon. w. l. Buchanan of Iowa, late
ly chief Of the live stock department
Of the Worlds fair, is getting good
sized boom as candidate for minister to
one of the South American republics in
the Plata river region.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
SAVE | DOLLAR (!

From this date we shall keep
no Books and give no Credit,
but sell our goods for CASH.
We make the following ex-
tremely low prices while pres
ent stock lasts:
A nice Roller process Flour every barrel
fully warranted 1926
lbs Soda %
6 lbs Avena 25
6 lbs Rice %
Cakes Lenox Soap %
Abs Tapioca %
lbs. Nice Ralsins 25
Home Packed Pork II
3 Lantern Globes %
6 Lamp Chimneys %
Tubular Lanterns 81
Solid Steel Shovcls so
Humphrey Hoes 45
Best Meadow Hoes 1-2 in blade %
Eureka Clothes Wringers / Is
Universal Clothes Wringers 1 95
Gem Irons IL
) pr. Ladies' Hose rs
pr. Ladies Jersey Vests Is
Mems and Boys Tennis Shoes so
Ladies Dongola Kid Shoes 9S
Ladies Serge Congress Shoes SO
Mems Outing Shirts 25
Extension Wire Screen Windows %
. doz Shelf Papers 05
3 Paper Pins 05
Solid Steel Scythes GO
Clipper Scythes 80
Family meat Saws 25
IA at. Dish Pans %
Rogers No. II Silver Plated Knives and
Forks per doz. 279
These are less than whole
sale prices. II you want a
good Breastplate Harness, a
one or two Horse Lumber
Wagon, Carriage, Road Cart
or Wagon ola y kin1, Now
ing Machine or Horse Rake
can save you cash.
Wall Papers from 5 to 10
cents per roll.
Coi,,e and see for your
selves.
Yours for Cash.
RICHARDSON 81 LEONARD.
Peru and Londonderry.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

The fashions of this winter appear to
be fur ever and fur ever.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

At the beginning of 1898, ,796national
banks were in operation. During The
year 1853 of them suspended, but of these
SO resumed.
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be Plata river region.

One of the most Groveresque sentences
President Cleveland has evolved in a
good while is this from his message:
my intense feeling of responsibility i'm
pels me to invoke for the manifold inter-
ests of generous and confding people
the most scrupulous care, and to pledge
my willing support to every legislative
effort for the advancement of the great
ness and prosperity of our beloved
country"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
YOUR FUTURE

The race is to the man who can
praase the wheels
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

Bank Safes, Bank Vaults. Fnuk Vault
Doors, Deposit Work of all kinds.
The Best SAFE IN the Furl9. 1900 in use.
Atscays preserre their contents,
Champion Record in ali the Great Fires.
One of the largest and test equipped factories
in the country has just been erected near Boston.
fitted with the latest and most Improved tools,
which render facilities for aaufseturiay the
best work at the lowest piees, unequalod b, any
other concern in the country.
Our aim is to give the best construction and
most improvements for he least amount of mon
ey.
Estimates and Specifications furnished upon
srynostion. AGENTS WANTED
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15
The FLESH.
How Do You Care For
Yours !?
DO You Allow It To Waste
Away, or Are You
Seeking
To Build Up a Good Sound Body
For Long Life9
TAKE ALIENS SARSAPARILLA
AND Be WELL.
Read the Following Testimonials, and see
II They do not Contain Lesson for
You.

I have had Eczema or Salt Rheum for the
past two years, and it has been more than /
would wish to endure for any small sum.
Some four weeks ago was taken with rheu-
matism in my legs and hips, and for three
weeks could hardly get around the house.
Two bottles of Aliens Sarsaparilla have
cured my Eczema and nearly cured my rheu.
matism. l shall use one or two bottles more,
and I think it will cure me entirely. have
taken many other kinds of medicine for my
troubles, all to no good effect. think yours
is the stuff. JAMES RUSSELL,
Justice of the Peace.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-15

CAMDEN, ME.
For FIVE years have suffered great deal
from Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Just as
soon as l would eat anything my stomach
would distress me terribly. 1t seemed as
though my digestive organs had lost all their
power, and my food would lie on my stomach
like so much lead. My bowels were also
continually constipated. have doctored
great deal, trying great many remedies that
were recommended for my troubles, but could
get but very little benefit from any of them.
At last was persuaded to try Aliens Sarsa-
parilla, and had taken it but few days
when began to see great improvement.
I had not taken one bottle before the distress
was all gone. My bowels were regular, and
I could eat hearty meal without feeling any
bad effects. Now have taken but little
over one bottle, but it has helped me so much
that would not be without it for any price.
1t is decidedly the best medicine ever used,
and I can heartily recommend it to all.
MRS. H. J. BARNES.