The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-11-22
Slfterlets-ShOr and Snappy.

SlfterletS-ShOrt ana Snappy.
1t was a wet day in Brattleboro,
Saturday-over 40 kegs Of beer were
spilled into MILESTONE brook. What
waste was there, my country men
Senator German will never doubt
the influence of the "Sun" again.
Politics was never a more uncer.
tain occupation than it is these days.
go, Lord lead us not into politics,
may yet be one of the prayers taught
to American children.
If President Cleveland is wise he
will give Secretary Morton course
of anti talk treatment.
Even political bosses are entitled
% cIedit for one thing they seldom
do any squealing after they get lick
ed.
An English newspaper mantle
first one-has been made peer.
Perhaps Mr.. Astor has 'opes in that
direction.
The country that has a powerful
navy always finds it easy to discover
reasons for making use of it. This
is lesson taught by history since
there were powerful navies.
The oftener men who make love to
other mems wives get used for tar
gets, a la recent Kansas incident,
the better it will be for society at
large.
Chicago newspaper rivalry has
grown so warm that three of the lead
ing dailies have become penny pa
pers.
Mr.. Chauncey Depew must con-
slider himself out of the Presidential
running, or he would not sneer at the
populists and organized labor.
Senators Hill and German might
exchange something like this:
The rose is red,
IT'S true, it's true;
And l am blue,
And so are you.
Mr.. Dana says New York Is large
ly white and buff city. The news
papers of the town had impressed us
with the idea that the election had LETT
it black and blue.
Wonder if that Kansas judge who
committed witness to Jail for re-
fusing to drink beer ever heard the
proverb: "You can drive horse to
water, but you cannot make him
drink"
There must have been let up IN
the enforcement of the excise law in
New York, as citizen of that town
claims to have seen burglar more
than seven feet tall going through his
house last Sunday night
Senator Quay's denial that he help
ed Senators German and Brice was
superhuous. When one goes over
the returns it does't look as though
either had much help from anybody.
Poor "Gene" Field -? How he
would have enjoyed reading the ri
diculous lies that are being printed
about his eccentrcities.
Longfellow's "Fair Arcadia" is
again in dire distress. This time its
inhabitants are not being dispersed
by command of a soldier, but they are
being slam by general starvation.
The adventurous small boy no lon
ger dreams of taking the warpath
against the Indians, but of winning
glory fighting for Cuba.
Nothing could accentuate the care
lessness Of people more then the Of
fetal statement that 6,3l7,S73 pieces
of mail matter found their way to the
Dead Letter Office last year.
If the republicans can afford to
nomina.e Boss Quay the democracts
might even up things by nominating
Boss Croker.
Whether Schlatter be fraud or
the healer he claims to be, it is Ger.
tain that reports of his miraculous
cures are making an American
Lourdes of Denver, where he now is.
There may be a slump in the Con-
gressional Reed column after the
House committee assignments are
made public.
West Virginia has paper that
claims to be "run in the interest OF
everybody" Its editor isn't likely
to become a victim of ennui, if he
tries to live up to that claim.