The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-11-27
OEFERRED NEWS AND NOTES.

We fail to see in any Of the election
expense accounts of the most serious
item of all-wear and tear Of mind.
-New York World. Wear and tear of
purse is the most notable phase OF
noliticians. The limitations Of the can
didate's mind often prevents it from
serious menace.-TrOy Press. Especially
if the candidate happens to be ward pol
ician of either New York City or Troy.
As the days go by the Democratic
conviction increases that that big Dem
ocratic majority in the House of
Representative is a good deal Of white
elephant.
The New York board of trustees OF
the hall and asylum fund +. and A. M.
has accepted the bid of Dickson d Allen.
of Syracuse. n. Y, at $l34, 800 for the
construction of the Masonic home and
school in Utica npon the beautiful park IN
that city, the property of the fraternity
of the State of New York. The building
will be shaped like the letter f. The
East West and connecting wings will be
three stories high and the center wing
four stories. The style Of the building
will be Renaissance. 1t will accOmmo-
date about $50 persons. Ground will be
broken at once for the erection OF
the building.
"A Bridgeport special Of the 10th
says; p. T. Barnum is believed to be on
his deathbed. Inquirers at Marina are
told that hisl condition is not such as to
create apprehensian, but DR.. Hubbard,
his physician, told the press correspon-
dent tonight that it would not be at
all surprising il the great Snowman
present attack terminated fatally within
a few days. "Mr. Barnum's attack
of Influenza" said the doctor, would
he severe for one of the most robust con-
stitutions and for one of his advanced
wears IL will seem marvellous If he re-
covers. He has not the strength neces-
sary so recuperate and his illness has
exhausted nearly all his remarkable
yitality." He has not been left alone a
moment since the beginning Of his i'll,
ness, either Mrs. Barnum or trained
nurse or Private Secretary Bowser has
been at his bedside constantly.
A large hotel has just been built in
Hamburg "entirely Of blocks Of com
pressed wood as hard as iron, and, by
/ subiection to certain chemical processes,
} rendered proof against both fire and the
attacks Of insects"
One of the men who made fortune
out of the Cardiff giant humbug nearly
twenty years ago died in New York re
I Gently His name was George Hull
He was formerly tobacconist in Bing
1 hamton, and was the author OF thu
. fraud, which he engaged an italian ston.
Q cutter of Chicago to carry out. A large slal
of gypsum was obtained in Iowa and Gu
:, into the form of gigantic man. The ston
n was artificially colored, to give the appear
ance of great age, and was then burie'
d in the vicinity of Cardiff, where It wa
e accidentally (of course), discovered AM
1t exhumed, and exhibited about tn
country as a prehistoric figure. Tn
d imposition was so clever that many scier
d tific men were deceived by it.
e We believ in legislative economy bu
a inst the same we believe that someipropt
" and necessary work should be done fC
he the people in the Legislature. 1t is AZ
he mitted that the crowd is SO green tbs
s. they sizZle when a match is struc
ie against them, but they should stay the
at until they do some things that the peop
ne want done. There is no constitution
Up Thanksgiving day limit to sensib
r. Legislature. Hdrd,oick Gazette.
Is Is "A Western gentleman tells me Of
II, incident which illustrates how salesm
ne and shopkeepers take advantage OF {
IN Mckinley bill to get higher prices fro
ne their customers. He went into silv'
nc ware store on Broadway, accompani
ltp by his wife, TO look at knives, forks a
!'n spoons. When they were last in N
York, about three months agoi'they h
III priced such articles as they desired, a
'eu had stopped this time intending to p'
!, chase. They found prices marked
ny about fifteen 10 twenty per cent, q
@SCs @ on expressing surprise were told by
lke intelligent salesman that the Nc Kin
lel bill had sent up the price Of silver, 2
ss s,ss they could no longer sell their goods
.ne .te the old prices. 81 guess you mean
NO NO Silver bill, don't youP" asked
IteI Westerner, sarcastically, whereupon
esn 'Ja salesman reglied: "well, it's all
Ius y, same thing, you know.-N Y. Press.
ore If Prof. Koch, the renowned bacl
cry iologist, il successful in his invention
tus inocculation, IL may well be belle
al that we are on the verge of revC
der tion in therapeutics He insists that
far ethereal oil he uses checks the gro'
lses Of the bacillus of tuberculosis, ever
see dilutions of one or two millionths.
and critics say, however, that although
nee. NAV be effected in tube culture,
ally absolutely without effect on tubercul
ever In animals. The entire world will '
dra. with unfeigned interest for the result
nds, the Professors experiment.