The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-09-06
CURRENT NOTES.

An early fall and severe winter arr
prophesied by the weather prophets.
The California grape crop has beeI
seriously injured by hot weather.
A female fortune teller, who died il
, Paris the other day, made over SlO0,OO'
by her craft.
A mountain in Colorado has beer
named Mt. Sheridan.
Some we'll diggers at Goldsboro', N
c., came upon traces of an extinct vol
cano.
Savannah is now the largest cotton
port in the United States, Norfolk the
second.
Large numbers of fowls were killed
by the intense heat at Gait, Cal last
month.
French ladies are introducing small
dinner tables instead of using one large
one.
All over the world the Jews are cele-
brating the New Year of 5649. 1t is the
sO7 Sabbatical year since the crea-
ton.
Sacramento, Cal, proposes to obtain
5000 wild orange trees from florida,
and plant them in the streets for shade
trees.
tOba continues. A party of $50 Ice
landers have lately arrived in the coun-
try.
A young woman of Minneapolis has
been sued for 10000 damages for breach
of promise by her Tilted lover,
A Modesto, Cal. lady has raised a sun
flower 80 inches in diameter, weighing
eight pounds.
A San Francisco letter says ladies
there wear sealskin garments the year
round, and that heavy fnr wraps and
Overcoats are not uncommon sights in
summer.
A San Diego paper says line of por-
pOises was seen in the ocean from the
Coronado Hotel few days ago, which
was over half a mile in length. They
were estimated to number 10000.
Cattle are so cheap in Nevada that
the present season will prove very I'M
profitable one for stock raisers' Beef is
selling at to So cents a pound with
few buyers,
Paris Industre, without question the
most elegant illustrated newspaper in
the world, is to publish an English edi-
ton, and the International News Com
pany of New York has the exclusive
agency for the United States.
An absent minded Albany clergyman
having forgotten his appointment to
attend funeral, neighboring cooper,
who is gifted with the power of praying
was called in and performed the func-
tions of the minister.
A traveller in Greece says that the
Greek language has never di' d. some
few learned men having always spoken |
the classical idiom. In that country
the newspapers are the chief promoters
OF the literary language.
The County Court House at Pittsburg.
Pa, cost nearly $4,000, 900. The tower
rises to height of 400 feet. 1t has a |
bridge over which the prisoners pass
between the court rooms and the iail, |
which is modelled after the famous
Bridge of Signs" in Venice.
According to their usual mental hab-
it,. the Germans are considering the
ethical tendency of lawn tennis. The
game is recommended as "a most adj
mirable instrument for the cultivation
OF sharp sightedness, swift decision,
great self-mastery, GOODNESS of temper,
patience, energy and endurance.
A German Professor noticed that a
cornfield near Altenburg varied in col
or, and declared that the variation in
color was due to the existence of bur
led amphitheatre, the corn ripening more
slowly over the buried walls. An ex-
cavation, according to German paper,
proved that this audacious theory was
correct, and large theatre was discov-
cred from which a paved road leads to
the camp of Carnuntum, previously dis
covered by the Professor.