The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-04-11
NEWS AND NOTES.


vessels In the surveyors office, Bost n
Custom House, has made the following
calculation as to the dimensions OF
heaven: And he measured tina city
with the reed, l2.OOO furlongs. The
length and the breadth and the height
are equal. KEY. XXI, 9. Twelve
thousand turlongs-7 wv, 900 feet GUIDED
Az, 793, OsS, OOO. OOO, 100000 feet. Re
serving one half of :hIs space for the
throne and court OF heaven and one half
OF the balance for streets we have 124 >
1893 sI9, 600 900, DOC, 900 feet cubic Divide
this by 1895 cubic feet in room 10 feet
sqnare and there will he 3O,32l ,S43, 75O,.
OOO,OOO rooms. We will now suppose
the world always did and always will
contain DOC, OOO, 900 inhabitants, and that
a generation lasts 49, years, making in
all 2,97O 900 900 every century, and that
the world will stand 900 900 years. or
10000 centuries-59. zoe, 600, 0O0, 900 In
habitants. Now suppose there were L.
600 worlds like this, equal in number of
lnhaoitan nSS ana od duration OF years. total
OF E,oiV'OoV'VVO OoO,oOO persons, there
woulu ne one hundreu rooms sixteen
rect square TOT each ana every person.
A State exchange has something that
farmers who are in debt, and struggling
to make both ends meet" will find is
worthy of their careful thought. 1t is
from the pen of farmer, and lie as fol-
lows: Again, one cause of our decline.
and that fruitful one, especially with
farmers In debt, and just beginning, and
| say this at the risk Of being called Pur-
ltanlcal. Is sunday visiting: Let any
one win thin wallet pay Tor horse keep
ing anu supper AZ lhe hotel, Hnd he VIII
resliZe tnat u cost something. How liz
IL when all thro the year sever i horses
ana persons are sumptuously entertain
ed al MS nome on sunday In almost
every schooi dlstrlct there are cases
where thls IS done AT an expense equal
TO the pronl OF quite farm. This is
one OF the expenses our New England
ancestors lnoulRed not min the days
when farming paid. In this way non
churcn goe's pay many times over the
Voe', pau Wy oInerS LOT Ine support OF
Tue uoNpel' argus ana i'dtriOt.
Philip Clark, who disappeared from
worcester IL years ago, aud was long
since supposed to he dead, returned to
worcester Saturday. he was warmly
W no WIZ ouu WV oOL ~
Clark has spent the years of his absence
on the Pacific Ocean, and has accumu-
lated some $50 600. He brought $1,000
with him and gave 800 to his younger
son, VINO, oy curious coincidence, was
10 start Tor california Monday to seek
DIS fortune fatner ana son VIII PROB
aoly return west together'
An organization of the principal rail.
roads of New England has been made
to cooperate with trunk lines in hand
ling through traffic. AT present it in
cludes the Central Vermont, Boston and
Maine. FitchburR, Boston and Albany,
New YORK ana New England and New
YORK aud New haven: Two commit
tees nave been formed, one TO regulate
passenger rates ara the other the freight
traIhG 1,, II IS stated that PRESIDENT WI
nam biIsS OF tne Boston ana Albany VIII
oe -, 'eS,uen, VI '"o i'oa'u'
Ioe southern newspapers mat irel
ABOUT negro supremacy ana DISPLAY
tneLr nostnl.y W .ne olACksV very cIeVtry
seer " T ulTSIs aIten''on lIom tue LeaI Is
nn onoat;on wha,hor The naa,o LII ha
aivsn anv new r;oh,s Tho ;ssns Is s;r,-
6iv ,h;s. shall he negroes he noro;,,ad
H. eIercise a rIebt siresJv oparan,eoJ
Inv law To nut Il in another and MEGA.