Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-12
NOTE AND COMMENT,


President Harrison seems to think the
Chilians have sense of humor. He has
made Hon. Roswell G.. Horr of Michigan
consul at Valparaiso.
The editor of the Bennington Banner
may lay himself open to the charge of
plagiarism if he doesn't stop lifting ="
editorials bodily from his contemporaries
columns.
No county fair will be complete next
fall unless it has "pigs in clover" ar
rangement with live pigs and prizes for
the boys who succeed in getting the ami
mails into the inner enclosure.
DR.. Brown-Sequard, the noted French
specialist on nervous diseases, announces
that he has discovered an elixir of life.
He took some of it, and, instanter, felt
ten years younger and could do three
times as much work as before. He should
come to America and seek market for
the stuff among the played-out politicians
who so abound these days.
oOlln Il. sullivan anu Jake Miriam
fought prize fight in Mississippi on
Monday. The former whipped in 10
rounds. 1t was brutal exhibition and
it ought not to be possible for the like to
be seen in America. The Providence
journal of Tuesday well says: "If the
Southern people will use rifles, revolvers
and bowie knives, it is pity that they do
not do so when their exertions would be
for the benefit of the community. There
was great opportunity let slip yester-
day."
A helpless newsboy of Philadelphia
has obtained from the Traction company
of that city damages Of $40, 900, after two
trials and an appeal, for injuries suffered
in being pushed from the car by the con-
ductor. By which it appears that cor
porate monopoly is not omnipotent even
in Pennsylvania.-[S Springfield Republi-
can. The Republican should know that
when 1t comes to cases of this kind the
sympathies of the jury are always with
the plaintiff and against the corporation.
The average juror thinks he has griev-
ance against all railroad and other cor
poratons. and does his best to get even
when he has chance. AT any rate, that
is the way it works in Vermont.
lions Herald is of the opinion that the
failure of constitutional prohibition in
the States where it has lately been voted
upon is due to too great haste in submit
ting 1t to the people, to mismanagement
on the part of friends of the measure and
to the leaning OF many good men toward
the high-license plan. 1t adds: Z" 1t is
certainly pertinent, at this hour, to in
quire whether the cause has been ad-
vanced by the formation of third dis
tinct political party. For some reason
the general public has lost confidence in
the ability of the leaders of the prohibi-
ton cause to manage the restraint of the
liquor traffic in the most wise and sue
cessful manner"
Editor Smith of the Philadelphia Press
is not one of those dyspeptic individuals
who are dead sure the world is growing
worse. In a recent address before the
graduates of Union college he said 'Our
fathers lived in the day of small things,
we live in the day of giant forces. 1t is
true we suffer from evils which they
could not know-eyils which come with
the growth of wealth and population and
power, from speculative greed and cor
porate aggrandizement, and ring rapaci-
ty; from the vices of great cities and the
struggles of great conflicting interests.
But it is equally true that the compen-
sating gains far outweigh these evils.
Never was education so broadly diffused !;
never was the right of Independent iudg-
ment so freely exercised never was the
sceptre of political chief or the creed OF
party convention so toned and swayed
by intelligent public opinion; never were
the alert sentinels of public journalism
so vigilant or impelled by such high
sense of responsibility never did bigotry
and passion, whether in church or State,
exert so little influence; never did phil
anthropy and charity spread so far and
wide the mantle of their sweetness and
light"