The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-12-25

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-"What's the matter with your clerk
this morning9 He seems very much put
out" $50 he is. I've just discharged
him."
! Miss Kate Field has lovely voice and
musical knowledge, her intimates say,
that would have won her no an repu-
tation and fortune had she adopted the
art as a profession. Her journalistic
music is probably of greater public ser
vice, however.
THE American Express Company has
sold to the Dominion Express Company,
the route over the Canadian Pacific rail-
road between Newport and Montreal
AID the pony express" which, because
Of a disagreement between the people of
North Troy and the former company,
has been run to Newport for two or three
Years, has been discontinued and all ex-
press matter now goes east by the trains.
Mime. the Princess de Sagan, leader of
fashions and frivolities, who has con-
tnbuted more than any other woman to
tie fortune of Worth, the man milliner,
has villa at Trouville that repToduces
eyeu to details the residence of Per-
sian millionaire. Everything within the
house suggests tie land of the Shah,
even to the picture of Nasr-ed-Din that
hangs over the fireplace.
AT the Cincinnati Technical School
girls are permitted to take all the classes
in manual training if they desire. Two
of its graduates-Julia Bedinger and
Lucy Mary Riggs of Kentucky-are not
only learned in architectural and me-
chanical drawing, but are also experts in
the use of carpenters tools, and are
practically familiar with the intricacies
ofsteam machinery.
Prince Bismarck recently expressed
his feelings in the following way to a
deputation from Low German club: II
am old and dried up, as the foresters
say, and 1 feel that l have far less
strength to devote to public affairs. |
have become the slave to my domestic
habits-a single night in the train is a
feat for me, whereas used to be able to
stand two or three of them-and sleep
badly in other peoples houses. In short,
my bodily vigor is on the wane."
The Voice of Experiences: 'Peopls
shouldn't, marry" said the bachelor,
until they know each other" ''It they
didn't" said the married man, "they
wouldn't marry at al"
Lady: "Lizzette, you are not going
out like that, are you? You smell 50
horribly of turpentine." Cook: "You
see, mum, 1 couldn't find any other
perfume in the house."
Robert Bonner's plans for Sunol are
these; 81 will use Sunol to drive on the
roads this winter" said Mr. Bonner,
land when the frost gets out of the
ground in the spring / will turn her over
to Mr. Marvin, who has left Mr.. STAN
ford and Palo Alto after II or IA years SER
vice and has engaged with Miller & Slbley
of Franklin, Pa, who are very extensive
breeders of horses and cattle. Mr.. Mar
win will then send the mare over a kite
shaped track to lower her own record,
and over a regulation track to lower the
record held by Mand S. There is kite
shaped track at Meadville, Pa, which
has been leased by Miller & Sibley, and
this is the track where Marvin will train
Sunol." i"Do you think she can lower
the record held by Maud So" "Well, if
did not think so certainly would not
have paid S41, 900 for the animal when l
got Maud S. for less. think she has a
better chance to lower the record than
any other horse in the world She is
only five years old, and in her last race,
when she made the record of 2:0S4, she
was eased up in the third quarter, and
the last quarter she covered in 31t sec
onds! which is a2:05 gait. ~, -