The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-05-31
CURRENT NOTES.

In families where salads have taken
the place of buckwheat cakes and turn
overs, there is little need of spring med
icine.
In 1875. 1876 Italians emigrated,
while IN 1887 the number reached 1877,
74S. A large number are working in
and around Boston.
At fashionable wedding in Phiadel-
phia the best man and the ushers were
married men.
II you don't want to be robbed of
your good name, don't have it engraved
on your umbrella.
A mammoth strawberry seven inches
in circumference was grown this season
at Pnrterville, Cal.
Mrs. Grundy is not far sstray when
she remarks that women carry pet
dogs around who would scorn to wheel
a baby carriage"
Governor Martin OF Kansas has par
doned a man who killed his wife several
years ago while under the influence of
liquor, on condition that he will forever
abstain from the use of intoxicating
drinks.
The Omaha Bee reports that nearly
$4,000 has been raised for the brave
school teachers and others who risked
their lives in the effort to save those
under their charge during last winters
billiards..
As Chinese immigration is now pro-
hibited, the Chinese laundrymen Of CAL
ifornia have combined to advance the
price of washing, no longer fearing COM
petition from their countrymen.
Fishing in the northern part OF New
England has it's difficulties at present.
Some of the returning fishermen report
that their trout were caught after the
fishers had waded through ice and snow
until they were exhausted. Angling is
sometimes not a gentle pastime.
A plant which gives weather prog
nostications ia said to be on exhibition
In Vienna. 1t foretells not only rain
and wind, storms and far, but earth
uuakes and other subterranean move
mrnts fnrty-eight hours before any
change in weather.
Arthur Whiting, of New York, and
Samuel Dexter, of Chicago, Harvard
students, were fined 800 and costs each
on Saturday for maintaining n liquor
nuisance at the rooms of the "Dickey"
| Club on Brattle street, Boston.
The report just issued by the Secre-
tary of State, giving the number of reg
istered voters in Louisiana at the late
election shows that illiteracy is still in
creasing. There are 1876, 92S illiterate
voters as compared with lO2,932 in
1880.
The handsome Long Branch villa of
the late William X. Garrison, son of
Commodore G.. X. Garrison, with the
furniture, has been purchased by the
Rev. Charles +. Hoffman, rector of All
Angels Episcopal church of New York
city, for $4,000.
Women are competing more and more
with men in the mechanic arts. There
are now probably a thousand women In
Pittsburg who work in iron mills max
ing bolts, nuts, hinges and barbed wire.
Three years ago the men who had been
working in the bolt works gave such
dissatisfaction that the proprietors de-
cided to try girls at the same work. The
venture was such a success that nothing
would induce them to go back to the
boys and men. A similar experiment
In the wire works resulted as fayorably.
Now here ia something novel. Dog
shows, poultry shows, cat shows, ETC.,
have become commonplace. At Turin
this simmer there is to be a parrot
show. Prizes are to be given for the
polly who can use the most phrases, and
for the oldest parrot. 1t is said that
polly who has seen eighty years will be
present 1t is related that Cuvier, the
celebrated naturalist, had parrot in his
vestibule who, upon seeing stranger,
would cry out, "What 90 you want
with my master2" And when a reply
was given he would respond, Don't
talk too much"