The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-11-01
Slfterlets- Short and Snappy.

Senator Sherman is, of course, famil
lar with that homely saying about tn
pot calling the kettle black.
If Mr.. Van Allen had been above,
to become u. S. Ambassador TO Ital,
he might have escaped being named co
respondent in Col. Colts suit for di
vorce.
The silver Senators seem disposed t,
have say about that proposed Senat,
reorganization.
Senator Teller says he has no objec
ton to President having three terms
which shows that Mr., Teller is bray.
enough to oppose public opinion.
Like Others who have started out tc
get even Mr.. Sherman may find that
he has overdone the business,
"Wlllie" Breckenridge is opposed to
Blackburn's reelection to the Senate.
That may account for the increased
confidence of Blackburn's friends.
Senator Sherman's Recollection train
had head-yn collision with the Harri-
son veracity express in its first burst of
speed.
Laws are all right in their way, but
common sense is the only protection
against the various something for-noth.
ing schemes now flooding the country
with printed matter.
No publisher has yet announced
where and How | Got 1t. by Hon.
Richard Croker,
Senator Brice may be very careful
to keep politicsout of his Ohio railroads,
but all the same the men who want to
keep their jobs on those roads are
shouting for Campbell.
The Chinese law which gives man
the right to divorce his wife if she talks
too much wouldn't do at all for this
country; its application would make
man a tyrant.
Tammany would probably gladly
add bonus ten times the amount of
his salary if some church on the Pacific
Coast could persuade DR.. Parkhurst to
leave New York.
Senator Sherman's book furnishes
good proof that he has really abandon
ed his long cherished Presidential aspi-
rations.
1t is not surprising, in view of the
dispatches he has sent out, that Campos,
the Spanish general-in-chief, in Cuba,
should have been reported insane.
What pity that Corbett and Fitz-
simmons cannot each be sentenced to
about five years silence.
Wonder how many foreign govern
ments get frightened at the statement
which follows every warship we launch,
that 1t is the best ahoat?
Venezuela has been ordering guns,
BUTT isn't upon he own guns, but up
on those of Uncle Sam that she re-
lies for protection against British
greed.
1t may have been lack OF hotel ac-
commodations which caused the Vice
President to leave Atlanta the dav
before the President got there, and it
may have been for other reasons.
The fight declared off just as the
profitable part Of the dramatic season
was reached.
If we had women on juries there
would be no more dicethrowing or
card playing to determine verdcts :;
talk would settle everything.
Miss Vanderbilt's duke ough, to
get him labelled, back and front, if
he expects recognition of his nobility
from ordinary folk.
Chicago may rival New York in
some things, but its brand of munich
pal politics can hardly be said to be
in the same class.
The country at large doesn't seem to
care a continental whether the SEN
ate reorganizes or not at the coming
session of Congress. In fact, the
countrv's love for the Senate is hard
ly of the sort that would satisfy