The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-09-04
DEFERRED NEWS AND NOTES.

Dl tllC llbtlC SCllOOl
is the Republican campaign cry in Wis
consin, and it may not be considered a
sumptuary sentiment to say that it is a
better and safer one than "Stand by the
little saloon, Washington Star.
Long after the invention of pins in
the fourteenth century, the maker was
allowed to sell them in open shop only
on the first and second of January. 1t
was then that the court ladies and city
danes ilocked to the depots to buy them,
having beon first provided with pin
money by their husbands. When the
pins became cheap and common, the la
dies spent their allowances on other
fancies, but the term pin money re-
mained in vogue,-Dry Goods Chronicle.
-"The art of eating apeach' seems to
be confined this season to canned fruit,
but it is interesting to hear of contro-
versy upon the etiquette of the subject.
One authority says that peach should
be pricked with fork, quartered, peeled
and eaten piecemeal,
The total pig iron production of the
| United States In 1880 was 0,579,7 tons,
or nearly five times what it was twenty
years ago, 1t is hard to tell what class
of people will be the more dismaycd by
this announcement-the English iron
masters or the Democratic politicians,
"A gentleman who wrote concerning
the price Of board in country town is
said to have received this telegram in re-
ply: Board $40 week, including wash
ing up the carriage and piano agent.
RObinsOn,n He wrote in answer that,
though both piano agent and carriage
needed cleaning, he was not accustomed
to such charges in board bill, and soon
afterward learned that the original run
thus: Board $50 a week, including
washing, use of carriage and piano.
Agnes Robinson"
What, then, is the contention of the
Knights? Is it not the right to dictate
to an employer what reason he shall
give for discharging men, rather than
that he shall give some reasons? Your
reasons for discharging Lee and others
do not suit us, says Mr.. Powderly, in eff
feet to the railroad: we demand that you
shall say they were discharged for being
Knights: and If you refuse we shall tie
up your road. Is not that a singular
issue, indeed, on which to precipitate so
grave result as is threatened? Among
all of the many hasty, foolish and capri
cious acts of this labor organization, was
there ever one based on quite so absurd
a demand as this?-Sprinafeld RepubH-
can.
The English complain that our
cheese, like our butter, is not made to
keep, but for immediate consumption or
decomposition.
"A physician claims that brain work
is twice as exhausting as that of the
muscles, II the eight-hour rule of manual
labor is enforced, brain work will be en-
titled to claim reduction to four hours.
-"The traditions of Senate" The
phrase is 50 constantly in use that it is
to be wondered at that the people
are heartily sick of hearing 1t adj
vanced as weak excuse for dilatory ac-
ton. The Senate Is most respectable
body, and the best men of both parties
find their way there, but why should ii
seek to retard business and prolong ses.
sions from regard for an intangible and
mythical tradition which appears to rise
up to check progress and suppress the
will of the partyP Majorities must rule
in this country, and there is no tradition
SO sacred that 1t should be evoked to
prevent results which the ballots of the
majority have demanded,
The ''plate matter" editor of the
morning daily evidently got ratified Sun
day and when that sheet appeared Mon
day morning "scaren baseball heading
appeared at the top Of DIR. Talmage's Is
sermon, while the last special base ball
talk, which comes by freight from New
York, bore the heading of DR.. Talmage's s
sermon. Imagine the regular reader of
the sermon when he discovered that he
/ was in the midst Of a base ball article
and likewise the base ball crank when he
read a lot of new terms for his fayorite
sport as he glanced over the sensational
subheadings in the eloquent divine's dis
cOurse.-Ciipper.
That tired feeling now so often heard
; of is entirely overcome by Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, which gives menta! and bodily
strength,