The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-06-26
sNoTEs AND COMMENTS


A Presbyterian church in Philadel
phia, which has maintained the larges
Sunday School for Chinese in the city
has decided to give up teaching thes'
people because, it is said, stories abou
leprosy in the Chinese quarters hav,
made the young lady teachers shy abou
coming in contact with the Mongolians.
Some of our exchanges consider i
somewhat remarkable that family il
Pennsylvania was recently paralyzed by
the electrical fluid. Jersey lightning
has paralyzed thousands of people anC
occasions no remarks. Why is this
thus?
Il am told that Corporal Tamer',
pension business at Washington will net
him cool hundred thousand dollars fOI
the first year, and that with the prospect
under the new pension laws he can in
crease this amount within two years tC
$500, 900 or even $4,00000 1t is esti
mated that 100000 persons will apply fol
pensions under the proposed new law
each one of whom will pay statutory
fee of $40 to the attorney who presents
his case. This makes S4,00O,000 that
will be paid to attorneys in these cases,
and Corporal Tanner expects to get his
share of it. Up to this time he has re-
ceived over $500 applications in adj
vance, to be filed when the new bill goes
into effect. In four months after he
had opened his office in Washington he
he had filed 1900 applications for pen
sions under the present laws.-CdrSon
Lake.
The associated tailors of New York
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individuals who are accustomed to have
their clothing smuggled in from Eng
land. The very suggestion is enough to
throw New York's free trade press into
a paroXysm of fury.
When Democrats in Congress declare
that an election law cannot be enforced
in the South without the aid of troops,
do they realize that they are making
proclamation of the fact that the South
is so lawless that it is prepared to resist,
to the extent of bloOdshed measure
which proposes only that all votes shall
be fairly cast and honestly counted?
The declaration is not fattering to the
South, whatever may be thought of its
truth.
Decisions rendered within a week in
Iowa and Pennsylvania establish the
fact that high license and prohibition
may both be practically nullified by the
"original package decision of the
Supreme Court. 1t is time that the
House was bestirring itself.
1t is said that no worm or insect is
ever found in the eucalyptus tree or its
roots, and that row of the trees planted
through an orchard or vineyard will
cause insects and worms of all kinds to
vacate the region. House vcrmin may
also be exterminated by use of the
leaves.
The Catholic Champion, an Episco-
pal journal, comments regretfully upon
the fact that the Church Club of laymen
in New York, an organization designed
to further the interests of the church
and the knowledge of her ways, had its
annual dinner, a s. affair on May IS, an
Ember Day ION which the church re-
quires such measure of abstinence as
is more especially suited to extraordinary
acts and exercises of devotion"
The English Congregational Union is,
for some reason which is not stated,
strongly opposed to having religious
census taken next year in connection
with the regular decennial census, and
it has appointed committee to watch
the action of the government in the
House of Commons, and to take such
steps as may be necessary to prevent the
taking of religious census.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase of all the tobacco ware
houses in st. Louis and Cincinnati. 1t is
said that S2, 600, 600 is the price asked for
the good will i'm Louisville without any