The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-01-30
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that metal in order to protect them
against the low paid labor in Cornwall
The miners in Dakota are paid 50 80 and
above day, whereas the Cornishmen
get but seventy-five cents per day. Tin
this country, but promises to become
one of the leading products of the West.
It can ask for protection on both
grounds,
ARMED TO THE TEETH
Is a very common expression, but we think that
armed to embellish and preserve them to ripe
old age is decidedly more appropriate. This can
be done by keeping yourself supplied with bot
tie of that splendid dentifrlce, Fragrant SOZO-
DON'T, which will beautify the teeth and preserve
them from the ravages of decay, SOZ0DONT
contains no acids or gritty substances which in
tiseptic herbs, which have beneficial effect on
the whole economy OF the mouth. Sold by drug
gists. 18Y1
Do not imagine that the farmers call
ing is the lowest and poorest of al, but
educate yourself to fill your position as
it should be, or maybe you will become
The servant of some man with better
developed brain.
Mangold wurtzel beets contain the
elements of very nearly balanced ra-
ton and they are not expensive to raise.
Years ago Hon, Harris Lewis of Frank
fort, N. Y, said that he could grow them
for five or six cents a bushel.
John II. Macy, according to the New
York Sun. last fall husked 10 the field
of John Duryea. Hampstead, L. l., 100
bushels of ears of corn in hours, 30
minutes and "a seconds. He did it on a
bet of 800 that he could do it in seven
hours.
A writer in the New York Tribune
says: 81 was shown lands in California,
Oregon and Montana, that has been ad-
vertised and sold as the best fruit land
in the world, that were not worth one
cent per township, on account OF loca.
tim and barrenness."
In twenty samples of ground coffee
examined under the microscope, says
the Pittsburgh Dispatch the following
authorizations were found: Chiccory in
seven samples, turnips in two, rye in
four, acorns in one. beans or peas in
four. sawdust in three, pebbles in one,
caremel in four.
The German government prohibits the
importation of American dried fruits
unless accompanied by the certificate of
q chemist that they are free from poison
absorbed by the process of bleaching
through the action of the fumes of sui
phur on the galvanized iron trays on
which the fruit is dried.
There are deserted manufactures az
well as farms, but who ever croaks
over the deserted factories? The croak.
ing oyer the deserted farms is because
they are such a novelty; the silence
over deserted factories is because they
are so common that they attract no at.
tention.
The HuSbandmdn says: Just think oil
the tremendous force, if it might be ag-
gregated, employed in chewing tobacco
labor that runs on increasingly, mas
culine jaws wrought to the highest &C
tivity and incessant effort-and Their
think of the dear creatures whose jaws
move rhymically to the changing forms
Of gum-by gum!
1t takes Nebraska farmer a whole
day and in some cases far into the NIGH
to husk twenty five bushels of corn and
take it to market, When he gets there
he receives fourteen cents bushel fol
his corn, or So so for a days work. Ht
gets nothing for raising the corn. d.
you want to go West, young MANI
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the late can
didate for the presidency on the Prohi
bition ticket, and Rev. Howard Crosby
are to review Henry Georges paper
.JhIch appeared in the January arena
on the 'Ru n Question" Gen. Fisk vii
answer it from Prohibition point Of
view, while DR.. Crosby will reply foi
the advocates of high license. A discus
sion of this character canr OF fail to b,
interesting. A photogravure of Genera
Fisk will appear as frontispiece in the
February number.
Gslen Wilson speaks in the New Yorl
Tribune Of family that is never with
out a sick member. The well is within
two feet Of the kitchen door, and much
Of the slops are emptle1 on the ground
within five feet, and the water closet /,
thirty feet distant on higher ground
This well was cleaned nut few year,
ago, after the water had become &C
filthy that IL emitted fearful stencil
These were found in 1t pieces of decay
ing wood, a dead rat, two toads and the
vertehrae Of a snake,
It is said that for every trunk carried
500 miles in, the United States one il
smashed TO the extent of SO damage
There has been no lessening of damag,
by trunk smashers since the railroad
began operation.