The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-07

/ ry is always well Suppned with 1unuS 1OI
municipal improvements. But with all
its advantages for beauty and cleanliness,
and with that wonderful system of sew
ers so graphically described in ''Les
Miserables," by Victor Hugo, the death
rate in Paris is higher than that of any
city in the United States.
The Triumphal Arch promises to be
graceful and imposing. 1t is being Gov
cred with cloth. Those having the mat
ter in charge should see to it that the
cloth is dipped in strong alum water, or
some other solution efficient to render
the cloth fire-proof. Otherwise fire,
which might be communicated to it in
many ways, could wrap the whole struc-
ture in flames in moment. Such a
chance should not be taken if the arch is
to be occupied by so many people.
The BANNERS article upon the subject
of SANDER last week was timely and wise.
The sin of bearing false witness against
our neighbors is fearfrlly prevalent in
this age and time. No words can be too
severe, no warning too pointed, no pun
ishment too great for those who poison
the social atmosphere with the breath of
SANDER. But the individual who
maligns another in conversation bears no
comparison in moral depravity to crea-
ture who will prostitute newspaper to
the nefariOus business of despoiling
character? To the career and example
set by mr.. j. h. livingston in his manage
ment of the RefOrmer more than to any
other cause is due the tendency on the
part of some people in this community
to untruthful comment and unwhole-
some gossip. But its reward is sure. The
evident downward tendency of the Re-
former, admitted by its friends, is the
hand writing upon the wall. Its days
are numbered and our word for it, in one
year after its management has passed in
to clean and honorable hands, this COM
munity will wonder how and why it en-
dured the incubus so long. The Demo-
cratic citizens of this community are en-
titled to good, clean, honest paper to
represent them politically and otherwise,
and if any one thinks they are content
with the present journalistic abortion
that claims to stand for their interests,
he is not informed.
The oil brick school house at Benning-
ton Centre may not be an important his
torical structure. 1t has, however, been
deemed of sufficient interest to give it's
picture place in various publications.
1t was erected seventy years ago, and is
therefore old enough to be venerable and
to speak elOquently of Bennington's in
terest in education and schools even at
that remote day and time. The build
ing has recently been painted, thing in
itself cOmmendable, but it was down
right vandalism to paint out the date of
erection on the tablet in its front. Some
one should see to it that the date is re-
stored before the celebration, otherwise
the buildings honorable age may be un-
noticed and unknown.
An important decision has just been
handed down by Judge Alfred G. Coke
of the United States Circuit Court for
the Southern district of New York, in
the matter of the Brush Electric Com
pany against the Electric Accumulation
Company and others. The decision sms-
tains the storage battery patents of Chas.
F. Brush against every other type of
modern storage battery. 1t ends course
of litigation that has been the life of the
trolley and cable systems of electric rail
ways, and we may now look to see those
systems of street motive power disap-
pear in favor of the more efficient stor-
age system. The decision of this suit
involved countless millions of dollars.
QUEIN SABEP