The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-28
CURRENT NOTES

CUhhENT NOTES.
While a wildcat was attacking doc
tor near Hamburg, Conn.,, a few days
ago, it tore open medicine chest and
broke bottle of chloroform. The fumes
stupefied the brute so that it was easily
killed.
An army of locusts that took five
days in passing and was 10 miles wide
recently swept over the Punjab in India.
The crops were ready to harvest, how
ever, and were saved before the locusts
reached them.
The Grand Prix de Paris will in
future be worth over 10000, as the
French Jockey club has added sum of
1901 francs to it, while $4,000 francs
more are contributed by the principal
railway companies, so that there will in
future be $4,000 pounds of genuine
added money. This is four times more
than is added to any race in England,
and the increase is to take effect next
year, though the entries for that race had
long since closed.
-"Peter Piper Picked Peck of Pick
led Peppers" was line of alliterate
nonsense, that the children used to say.
Nowadays they can practice on the Per-
feet, Painless, Powerful Properties of
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. 1t
will impress fact which will be useful
to know. These Pellets cure sick head
ache, bilious attacks, indigestion, con-
stipation and all stomach, liver and
bowel troubles. They are tiny, sugar
coated pills, easy to take, and, as a lax
alive, one is sufficient for a dose. No
more groans and gripes from the old
drastic remedies! Pierce's Purgative
Pellets are as painless as they are per-
feet in their effects.
While workmen were engaged at
Pembroke, Me-, the other day in break
ing up rock for building purposes they
came upon what seemed to be the re-
mairs of petrified mastadon imbedded
in the rock. The lower part of the leg
and foot were taken out without break
ing, revealing the perfect outline of the
limb, which was about four feet from the
knee to the foot; other parts were
gotten out, but they were more or less
broken.
1t is said that the experiment of the
telephone church service has proved so
successful in Birmingham, Eng, that it
is now proposed to develop the idea by
connecting the hospitals of the locality
to Christ church, the centre of the ex-
pertinent. Already the wire has been
switched on to the bedrooms of sick
folks, and with marked success, a flexi-
BILE cord being attached to the ordinary
receiver, with specially adapted instru-
ment for fixing on the head of the in
valid
AT place called Shelford, near Not
tingham, England, there was at one time
an extraordinary number of red velvet
collars worn, so much so that people
outside began to wonder at the cause,
which was finally discovered in the per-
son of an impecunious tailor, who was
likewise sexton of the local church. At
Shelford the burial vaults of the noble
Chesterfield family are located, and from
the collins of the sleepers, most of whom,
it seemed, were provided with red vel
vet collars, this SENATORIAL mis-
creant had stolen enough to start a
style.
Valuable Experience-"Have you an
opening on your staff. sir?" asked man
as he entered an EDITORS Office. 'What
department would you like to work IMP"
81 think could make great success of
the Answers to Correspondence
"Have you ever conducted such a de-
partment?'' mo, sir' Then on
what do you base your belief that you
could do that sort of work?" II have
spent several months in answering the
questions of a4-year-old boy" 81 think
you'll do"
"A curious and interesting calcutta
ton has been made by Prof. Rogers of
Washington, D. c., on the dynamic
power equivalent to the work of one
man for one day. Three tons of the
same coal represent mans labor for a
period of 20 years, and one square mile
of seam of coal, having a depth of four
feet only, represents as much work
as 100000 men can perform in twenty
years.
"A Pennsylvania lawyer of the last
century, who was as fertile in resource
as he was strong in personality, was re-
taianed for the defendant in a Islander
case. The plaintiffs case was so clear
that it was no use attempting to dispute
the facts; so the defendants counsel
called witnesses to prove that his client
was such notorious liar that no one in
his neighborhood would believe a word
he said, and he put it to the jury that
nothing such man could say would in
jure any one. The verdict was for the
defendant.