The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

Senators Hawley of Connecticut and
Gibson of Louisiana very much resem-
BILE each other.
Bismarck and Won Moltke once
fought duel over girl when they we're
fellow students.
Mr.. Gladstone will soon be the only
Engishman who has held the Office of
Premier four times
Prince Bismarck is partly of Slav
origin. His ancestor emigrated to Rus
STA in the eighteenth century.
j. NJ. Barrie, the novelist, is small,
slender and stoop shouldered. Never
theless he is devoted adherent of out
door games.
Francis j. Kelly of Pittsburg. has
the reputation of being the tallest news
paper man in America, being nearly
seven feet high.
The Hon. Anthony Kennedy, the
only man ever elected to the United
States Senate as a Know Nothing, died
Sunday in Baltimore.
Henry B. Fuller, whose recent
work in the Century has attracted atten-
ton, is a Chicago man by birth. He has
travelled extensively,
w. H. Grenfel, the newly elected
Liberal NJ. p. for Hereford, is a famous
old Oxford "Blue," and pulled bow oar
in the Varsity team many years ago
Colonel Streator, the Pennsylvania
martinez, has no army record outside of
his connection with the National Guard.
This organization he joined on January
25th, 1881.
Senator Perkins of Kansas wears a
rather conspicuous light blue suit. Vest
of Missouri a cream colored costume and
Blackburn of Kentucky and Quay of
Pennsylvania pure white.
Henry G.. Bowen has bought an
other tract of land in Woodstock, max
ing his estate, Roseland Park, famous
for its Fourth of July exercises, asquare,
three-quarters of mile on each side.
ALI Taylor is one of the two Republi-
can members of Congress from, Tennes-
see. He is serving his second term, and
has been renominated for the third.
His district is strongly Republican, and
there is no question of his reelection.
Samples of tea CLOWN and cured at
Summerville, S. c., have been received
in Baltimore which expert tea dealers
have pronounced superior to East India
tea.
An original method of inducing the
residents of Alsace-Lorraine to become
Germans has been discovered by the
VOlk, the organ of Herr Stoecker This
journal proposes that the State shall give
a dowry to every native of Alsace-
Lorraine who marries German.
i have been sufferer from catarrh
for years. Having tried number OF
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without obtaining any relief, l had re-
solved never to take any other patent
medicines, when friend advised me to
try Ely's Cream Balm. 1 did so with
| great reluctance, but can now testify
that after using it for six weeks l be-
lieve myself cured. 1t is most agreea.
BILE remedy-an invaluable Balm
Joseph Stewart, 624 Grand Avenue,
Brooklyn.
One of our Democratic neighbors,
which week or two ago was talking
about the ''wretched" and poverty
stricken" condition of the Homestead
strikers, now prints statement from an
informant in the iron trade to the effect
that in one of the small iron mills of the
country the pay roll for the month of
June was as follows: Head roller, S475:
night roller, 1925; heaters, each, $152;
roughers, each, $125; shearsmen, each,
SIP. These are some of the men over
whose "wretched' and poverty-stricken'
lot this advocate of tariff REFORM lately
waxed so eloquent These wages are in
no way exceptional. They are what the
skilled workmen of the Amalgamated
Association receive everywhere in the
United States. They are pretty poor
basis upon which to rest an argument
for the destruction of the American
system of protection.
Uncle Sam under our new and liberal
policy is getting not only the fastest and
strongest war vessels and most powerful
artillery afloat but the best plate armor.
A severe test has just been made of the
nickle plate armor produced at the
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