The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-09-12
GENERAL NOTES.

Paris with the balance Of his 5000 an
nuai salary for this year in his pocket,
and a pang in his heart because "Ame--
Icans make the table a secondary
thought" He says there was no diff
Guilty with the family, but he desired to
lie replaced, and would not enter private
service again under any consideration.
Americans, he says, throw away more
food Than they eat because it is not
properly prepared. Their poultry is poor
and muscular, thelr veal inferior, end
their vegetables are tame. Their apples,
peaches and pears are not so good as
those Of France. They have no sole, no
iurbot and no mussels. But the canvas
back duck Is good, and Spanish mack
erel, bluefish and bass are delicious. So
also Is wild turkey. Before be leaves,
the Partisan cook Joseph by name, poses
as q teacher and DenefactoT. Il have
made study Of dyspepsia, and have
tried 10 prepare all dishes with view
preventing that nasty malady." How
cleyerly this son Of Gaul shoots the Par
THAN arrow
No particular regret need beexpressed
because Mr.. Hamilton, Of New York,
has gotten into a ridiculous scrape
through his relations to an unscrupu-
lous woman. II men of his social class
will habitually share the sin Of such
women, there is no reason why they
should not sometimes sharge the dis
grace. And siuce public sentiment is
not just enough to punish their sins,
even when notorious, with q Q same dis.
grace with which it visits the sins Of
women, who are often less to blame than
they; and since stupidity Is the only
crime society will punish in such men,
1t Is as we'll that the essential stupidity Of
any man who puts himself in the power
of q bad woman should be occasionally
displayed. And as Mr.. Hamilton's pun
ishment grew out OF the fact that he had
q little larger remnant Of honor than
most men Of his class, SO the lesson isen
forced that he whu thinks 10 safely sac
rifice part of his honor and keep the
rest, will make an egregious blunder.
Honor can be preserved only by keeping
it Intact,-North Adams Valley NtsU1.
Talking Of typographical errors we do
not remember seeing more horrible
specimen of this class OF blunders than
one which appeared in Massachusetts,
paper-no long ago. At the close Of an
extended and highly eulogistic obituary
notice Of deceased lawyer, the reporter
desired to say that the body was taken
to Hull for interment, where repose the
remains Of other members Of the fami-
ly." BY mistake letter sc" was sub
stituted for the "u" In Hull, changing
the sense of the sentence to such q de-
gree that no extra copies Of that issue OF
the paper were ordered by the family OF
the dead lawyer. - Burlington Free
Press. Perhaps The intelligent compost
tor bad the soul instead of the body Of
the victim In bis mind at the time. In
deed, there is nothing more inscrutable
than what is in the mind Tor the vacuum
created by it's absence) of the proverbi-
ally sagacious typo at certain critical
times when the manifestation Of CLEAN
of sense is peculiarly desirable.-Groy
Press. ...
Col, Albert Clark, IN published letter
calls attention to distinction which is
often overlooked The mistake of Mr..
Jones and his inquisitor was in treating
this railroad question as one between
Canada and the United States, whereas
it is chiefly one between lines, partly and
wholly American, connecting different
parts Of our own country. A customs
tariff, on the contrary,is wholly between
one country and others. 1t restricts i'm
portation because there is more prosper
iIy in producing than in purchasing.
Experience under the old reciprocity
treaty shows that we bought much more
from Canada than we sold to her. The
balance of trade was constantly against
us. Perhaps few merchants and rail
roads which enjoyed the traffic made
money, but it was at the coet of oJr pro
ducing classes, who, if their purchasing
power is not impaired, are far better Gus
TONERS than the Canadians"
This is given as the reason why the
four is marked on clock and watch
faces by "IIII" instead of the usual Ro
man mineral "lV:' The first clock re-
sembling those now In use was made in
1870 by Henry Wick for Charles V. Of
France, who was called 1.-The WISE" II
ran well, as the king had to acknow-
ledge, but being anxious to fad fault |
with something he did not understand, |
he complained that the figures were |
wrong on the dial. The maker protested |
that Nv was the correct mark for 4, but |
the king insisted that four ones should |
be substituted, and the workman had to |
obey the command, The custom has
sustained from that day to this.
A Dakota mine in which many Keene,
N. H., people invested turns out to be
failure, whereat the Boston Record re-
marks with truth that these sharp New |
Hampshire and Vermont men who |
want big profits on their investments |
lose more money that way than the resi-
dents OF any other States" AprOpOS to |
this remark comes the statement regard
ing Western farm mortgages that many
Kansas farms have been abandoned to
the mortgages. New companies have
been formed to carry these defaulted
mortgages and to enable the farmers to
work out Of their difficultiee, and still
the cry goes up for big interest without
regard to security.-Erchdnge.
"We are uncompromisingly in favor of
the American system Of protection. -
North Dakota Republican State plat
form.J 1--WE heartily favor the Ameri-
can system of protection. "-TSouth Da-
kota Republican State PLATFORM, THE
chief purpose OF the Republican party,
second only to the preservation OF the
Union and the intrenchment Of our lib
critics, is the protection OF our indus
tries."-I Montana State Republican plat
FORM. II the free traders can find any
indication here Of that tariff reform"
wave which was going TO sweep over
the Northwest, they are certainly good
deal sharper-sighted than the average
citizen.
A number of iron mills, employing
several thousand men. are just starting
up for the season in the Schuylkill Val
ley, paying increased wages. The fact
needs no extended comment, but it is
well to bear some such things in mind
with reference TO certain sort Of argu-
ment to the effect that the triumph Of
protection is running the country. Some
day a crossroads sawmill will suspend
operations because the owner toyed with
a bucket-shop or something OF the sort,
and then will be beard howl from one
end Of the free.trade line to the other.
Where do all the new Cinnamon, with
every appearance Of having recently
quilted the Celestial Empire, come from?
Evidently from some point either on the
Canadian Pacific or on the Lower Cali
fornian and Mexican frontier, at which
the law Is evaded. Those interested In
the promotion of Chinese immigration |
have, It Is said, spread through those re-
Rions OF China which furnish the lar.
gest number Of emigrantJ the story that
anti Chinese legislation in the United
States has been repealed.
A United States Senstorship Is the
chief prize In the campaign which 70
going to be wagered IN Maryland this
autumn. There Is a large and infuen-
tial Independent element In the State
which is thoroughly disguised with the
methods Of the Mary land Democracy.
This element is ready to strike hands
with the Republican marty. hut ita ann.