Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-05
on the ground that it is extremely dam
gerous to life and property.

on the ground that it is extremely dam
gerous to life and property.
Slim churches we should have if st.
John had his way. He told a New York
audience the other night that if he was
the pastor of a church he would have no
one member of it that was not violent
ly opposed to the liquor traffic.
There will be another bout in the fight
between the governmentand the telephone
folk next Monday in the United States
supreme court, when arguments will be
heard in suit brought to break the
patent on the ground of fraud.
The Rutland Herald learns that Hon.
c. S. Page of Morrisville does not want
reelection as State inspector of finance.
For the office of tax commissioner, made
vacant by the election of the incumbent,
Mr.. Dillingham;, to the governership, the
most prominently mentioned candidate is
Robert Roberts, Esq, of Burlington.
Americans are wasteful of fertilizing
material to an extraordinary degree.
Chicago and Milwaukee burn their gar
bage, while Albany and Philadelphia are
making arrangements to dispose of theirs
in the same way, and yet farmers all ov-
er the country pay out millions of dol
lars every year for commercial fertilizers.
Congressman Tom Reed of Maine
brought down the house at Springfield,
Mass, the other night, when, referring
to President Cleveland's December mes
sage and his letter of acceptance, he
said: "Suppose man paints COW and
hangs the picture on the wall and then
writes under it, This is not a cow
would this, under favorable circumstan-
ces, prevent the original from giving
milk?'
Mulhall, the noted English statistician.
gives some remarkable figures on the
growth of this country during one gene
ration-ls5O to 1888. He finds that pop
ulalion increased in that period 10 per
cent, railways advanced 1880 per cent,
banking systems 9lS per cent, steam
power 6S5, wealth $50, manufactures 40S,
commerce 315, agriculture 252, education
206 and shipping "A. He thinks the next
census will show a population of 6G,O00,-
600 and accumulated wealth to the
amount of seventy billions of dollars.
Though Congress is still nominally in
session, little is accomplished a cor
respondent writes: 1.-The House meets.
attempts to go through the forms of leg
islation, accomplishes rothing except to
create unpleasant feelings toward those
who object to the transaction of business
without quorum, and adjourns; and
that will be the programme to the end.
Meanwhile no objections are made in any
quarter to the granting of daily leaves of
absence for an indefinite period on im-
portant business to all who choose to
ask"
The World seems to be ashamed of the
free-trade proclivities of Chairman Brice,
Judging from the following: "Mr. Brice,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, is charming gentleman, but
he talks entirely too much for political
leader. He does not seem to understand
that he is an object of interest to news
paper reporters and correspondents just
now. He has been confiding in another
Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent, tell
ing him in effect that he is free-trader.' -
1t is rather embarrassing for the party Or
gans-which feel called upon to shout
that the Democracy is not for free-trade
to have the boss of their campaign
give himself away in this fashion. His
actions show that Mr.. Brice is not much
of a politician, though he may be a very
"charming gentleman"