The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-05
CURRENT NOTES.


Chicago is fifth Scandinavian city in
the world, and Minneapolis, with pop
ulation Of $1,000, the sixth.
He-'But amt you afraid your parents
will be angry If we get married? She
No, they won't care. Why, they are
married, too
The Prussian Minister Of the Interior
has prohibited the use of tobacco in any
shape by the inmates Of the Prussian
prisons.
Some one has asked where do flies go
in winter? We don't know, but we wish
they would go there in SUMNER Bal
timore American.
A farmer at Petaluma, CAL, recently
had nest of four hens eggs Matched by
quail. The bird lowered and cared for
the little-chcks the same as the hens in
the barnyard,
Scientists say there is no plant that
does not serve as food for some animal,
but the only article used as food from
the mineral kingdom is common salt.
A new double-pointed nail is the in
vention of an ingenious woman. The
points turn in opposite directions, and
the nails are especially useful for invls-
ible mailing in woodwork.
BY mistake 100 bottles of beer were
sent to the house of temperance wo-
man in Detroit. She smashed the bot
ties in the gutter, and is now enjoying
law suit.
At one of the most exciting local OPP
ton fights ever known in Missouri, at
every voting place were women and girls
and the banners waved with the words
Temperance beans or no beans at all. "
Three thousand little sand crabs from
the New Jersey coast have been sent TO
Europe. They will be placed in muse
ums of natural history connected with
schools, where they will be studied as
specimens of diminutive crustacea,
Chicago estimates that the gain to the
city from the political convention was
between $1,000, 900 and $4,000, 900, left
by the 200 visitors. No complaint is
made of the noise and confusion attend
ant upon the occasion.
An Iowa genius serves his fellow men
in the numerous capacities of . s. Claim
Agent, Township Treasurer and Adju-
tant of G. A. r. post.
A Mississippi woman fell into mill
dam, and when she was rescued a ten
pound catfish was entangled in her wire
hustle. Her husband wanted to set her
again, but she would not CONSENT Nor
ristown Herald.
I've bawled my throat sore yellin' fer
those OYSTERS said an angry customer
in a restaurant.
WHAT'S the matter /?
Orders ahead, sah,' explained the
waiter. 'Yo'll flu dem raw oysters very
soothin', sab, TO- sore throat. : Life,
Tommy said the school teacher,
spell measles
Tommy made the attempt with the
confidence born of youth, but floundered
hopelessly.
4 am surprised, Tommy she said.
| Did you study your lessonp
'Yes'm, but you can't expect boy to
spell measles when he's never had EN-
Those who are making American flags
at home will remember that the rule Of
navy in regard to the flags proportions
is this The flag is thirteen stripes
wide and twenty one stripes long. The
union (bluc) is seven stripes square.
There is one star for each State in the
Union.
Among the toasts given at Com
mencement banquet of Georgia school
were Mercer University of Ante bellum
Days and Mercer University of Post
bellum Days. the toast to which was
given the place of honor was the slgni.
ticant and patriotic one, Our Country /;
America is another Name for Opportu
nifty
Mr.. Galway (who has been admitted
und, false pretenses)- Madam, repre-.
sent the Oriental Soap Company of Chi
cago, and knowing you to be an &C
knowledged leader of St. Louis society,
| am prepared to offer you $1,000 for
testimonial to the merits of our goods.
Mrs. Veneer (haughtily)-You should
see my laundress. sir; l never use the
article. Thomas, show the gentleman
out 1.-THE Idea.
1t is rather cool weather for out OF
door celebrations. At a rose fete there
was pretty ceremony Of GROWING a
queen. 1t was her duty to remain kneul
| ing on cushion while song was sung,
but as she and her maids wore no-sleey-
ed, low-necked Normandy costumes of
white MULE and were purple with cold,
they all fled from the glade in a SILVER
and omitted part of the ceremony.
An English religious paper lately con.
tanned the following advertisement !:
'Wanted-Before Advent, unmarried
priest Earnest evangelical High Church
MANI for small country church, the con-
gregation of which is largely composed
of mer. The six points. Choral ser
vices. Open air preaching. Cricket,
football and workingmens clubs. No
mOustached or lawn tennis-playing
priest need apply
A small, sandy bearded man of mark
ed Hebraic characteristics came into one
Of the railroad ticket offices on Union
avenue. Half you a ticket to Spring
fieldr' he asked.
Il think So responded the ticket brok.
er. DO you want one to Springfield,
Mo or Springfield IlI.T
1T makes no difference was the
reply. 'Gif me the one vich is the
sheapest'
The astonished ticket vender sold him
passage to the Missouri town. Kansas
WY llhcos
The editor Of the Covington (Ga. )Star
doesn't find his pathway strewn with
roses. He pathethicalIy remarks: "Our
editor will take in the press convention
at Canton this week, and probably run
down TO Brunswick before his return.
He left in fine trim, having an extra
handkerchief and little over SLIPS in
hard cash. P. S.-Since the above was
put in type Rev. Jacob Carr (colored)h as
managed to collect 10 cent blowing
bill from the editor, and he will hardly
have as big time as he expected"
A bright ten year old boy near Mont
pelier, lnd., caught a four pound black
bass in novel manner. He saw the
fish in pool in the rapids of the Sala-
monte, and conceived the idea that il he
went into the water and knelt down the
bass would come up to him to get into
the shade thus made in the water. He
went IN, kept quiet, and the big fish, af-
ter darling in and out few times, came
up close to the boy and nestled there.
Quietly the boys hand slipped to the
gills OF the fish, one quick grab and boy
and bass were in big tussle, but the
boy held on and carried his fish in tri-
umph to his mother. So relates the In
dianapolis Journal.
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