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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11
ONE WOMAN's WAY.

1t was a. m. The people were piling
upon the platform at the Brooklyn en-
trance of the bridge in such numbers
that the cars, running on a minute and a
half Roadway, made scarcely an impress
sion on the mass. A portly woman,
fashionably dressed, showed with the
movement of the crowd, and in her turn
reached the door leading into the car.
She comfortably filed the doorway, so
that when she turned about facing the
brakeman there was complete stoppage
of the movement of several hundred i'm
patient citizens anxious to get to New
York to their business. Everybody
looked sharply at the woman and won
dered how long she was going to stand
in the door and block up the pathway.
'Is the station near Fiftieth street?'
she asked pleasantly of the brakeman.
Dunno" snapped out the blue.coated
employe of the bridge.
SIS the Grand Central below or above
Fiftieth street?"
"'Nno.'"
"Step along there, please!'' cried the
big policeman standing near the gate.
How far above the Grand Cen
trail"
"Step along there, lady, and don't stop
the passageway," commanded the police
man in a voice showing great impotence.
Hundreds of eyes glanced at the woman
from the crowded platform.
'How far above the Grand Central is
Fiftieth street?' she asked, as if she had
all day and the brakeman need not hurry
this reply.
Find out at the other end of the
bridge" yelled the brakeman. Don't
block the door, but give the other
people"
"Oh, dearl 1 thought this was the
Elevated Road. To be sure, it's the
bridge. Oh, dearl how stupid of me-"
And she hurried inside the car Just as
the bell rang. The gate was slammed,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11

1t is not what its proprietOrs say but
the story of its merit. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla CURES.
Mrs. Guild, an American sculptress,
has recently completed bust of Mr..
Gladstone, which is very highly com
mended by the critics as portrait and a
work of art. Mrs. Guild has been OBJ
liged to reproduce the difficult features
of the great statesman from studying
them only in his library while he was at
work.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11

1t will cost YOU nothing and will surely
do you good, if you have cough, cold
or any trouble with throat, chest or lungs
DR.. Kings New Discovery for consump.
ton, coughs and colds is guaranteed to
give relief or money will be paid back.
Sufferers from la Grippe found it just
the thing and under its use had a speedy
and perfect recovery. Try a sample bot
tie at our expense and learn for yourself
just how good til ng it is. Trial bot
es free at c. d. Gibson drug store.
Large size SOC. and 81 90.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11
Is MARRIAGE A FAILUREq

During the past twenty years 32S, 900
divorces have been granted by the courts
of the United States, 90 per cent. of them
TO women. This total dwindles when
brought into comparison with the mum.
Der of marriages during the same period.
One-twentieth of the total is 16, 400, the
number granted each year, only about
per cent. of the number of marriages.
There is nothing in the world that hui
man beings undertake to do that can
show so small percentage of total fail
ure as marriage. There is doubt if di-
vorces much exceed golden weddings in
number. They certainly do not exceed
silver weddings.-PortLdnd Oregonidn.
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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11
The Pivot of Fortune:
a seized moment.

Seiied moment.
To possess that single instant when
it comes, to command it deliberate
ly with sheer purpose, and turn it
to your gain-thati is power: titles
in baving time; carrying it in your
pocket, Keeping an eye upon it. In
short, the pivot of fortune is
watch pivot.
1t turns against a tiny jewell
garnet or sapphire. There are sew
eral of them in every good watch.
All the new, quick-winding Water
buryS have jeweled movement
This, and remarkably close adjust
ment, are what make it an accn-
rate Hme-keeber. 81 to SIS.
All jewelers. sell it in all styles. M
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That true friend to all suffering with
colds and coughs, DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup, will always help and never disap-
point you, as other cough remedies do.
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GRoDER's SYRyP.
Go nbom It map concern :

have used GrOder's Botanic Dyspepsia
Syrup with good results. Having been
dySHeptic for the past ten years, 1 am able
to appreciate the value of any medicine
for that disease. My trouble was as all
other dyspeptics, such as Headache, Sour
Stomach; my appetite was generally poor;
once In a while ate fair meal, but it would
not set well on my stomach 1T was with
difficulty that it digested. But Groder's
Syrup helped my digestion, and it has
done more for me than any other med
icine that have ever used, and believe
it to be a valuable remedy for that terrible
disease. Yours respectfully,
FRANK j. SAVAGE,
Fairfield, Maine.
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and the train was started for New York,
leaving a hundred growing, swearing
men to wait on the platform for the
next train, and wait of minute and a
half is long time for New York bust
ness many Y. Tribune.
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To PROVE G &RE m nA5Ea E.

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Call for GrOder's Botanic Dyspepsia
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WATERVILLE, MAINE.
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Mount Vernon.

Mount ernon was named after Ed
ward Vernon, a distinguished Admiral
in the English service. In 1879 he was a
member of the House of Commons, and
having ventured the declaration that
Porto Bello, fortified Spanish town on
the Central American coast, could be
easily taken, he was dispatched with a
fleet to make good his boast. He cap
tured the town and achieved immense
reputation and popularity by his success,
but two years after failed in an expedi-
ton against Cartagena. This expedition
was accompanied by two men, both
whose names were afterward famous.
The one was Smollett, at that time a
ships surgeon, who has told the story Of
Cartagena i'll his 'Roderick kandom.D
The other was Lawrence Washington.
the elder brother OF George. 1t was
Lawrence who gave name to the Poto-
mac estate, and from Vernon obtained a
midshipman's appointment for his
younger brother. an appointment which.
had II been accepted, might have changed
the course Of American history. Law
renee Washington and Admiral Vernon
appear to have been very friendly, the
latter seeming to have the faculty Of en-
deaflng himself to his subordinates. In
his snip he was known as Old Grog, from
grogram cloak he wore, and the mix
ture of spirits and water which he was
instrumental in adding to the sailors
daily rations is still called grog in MEM
ory OF his tavorite cloak.
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The English Heine.

Miss Mathilde Blind has been called
the English Heine.' Daughter of Carl
Blind, the well-known socialist and sci
enlist, she was for many years the be-
loved pupil and adopted child Of MAJ
zlnl; he taught her Greek and Latin, and
lnstllled in her strong love Of liberty.
AS young girl she lived in what was
then the most interesting political circle
in Europe. Among those who visited at
her fathers house were Garibaldi, Thomas
Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Professor
Huxley. Mathlde Blind was little more
than a child when she published her first
book of verse; since that time she has
written constantly, but her greatest sue
cess was made last year by her transla-
ton Of the journal of Marie Bashkirt-
SELL" She is an intimate friend of the
mother of the strange Russian artist.
Miss Binds study is lined with por-
traits OF the unhappy Marie, and she pos
sesSeS many letters and other Interesting
relics which at one time or other belonged
to her subject. Speaking French and
Italian as well as German, she spends
much OF the year on the continent and
has lately been to Egypt in search of ma
terial for new book. Her convictions
have not altered; she is still an ardent
Liberal, and is never afraid of stating
openly her convictions. Among her in
innate friends she counts Mrs. Mona
Card and Mrs. w. X. Clifford The few
receptions which she gives during the
London season are crowded with a
strangely heterogeneous crowd of celeb
rites, and her brilliant conversation
makes her much sought after in every
world on which she touches. She has a
keen, sensitive face, and her mass OF
wavy hair is drawn off her forehead and
done up in a single knot on the nape of
he head. She dresses with good taste and
was one of the first to adopt hvgienic
and esthetic form of costume long before
picturesqueness came into fashion.
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An Anarchists Weapon Explodes
in a Paris Police Station.
FOUR MEN LITERALLY BLOWN TO
PIECES
The Queen of England Sends an Agent
to Florence, Italy, to Engage n
Villa, Where She Proposes spend
ing a Month-The Belgian Parlia-
menu Formally Opened by the King.
Special to the RECORD p-UNIox.

cpeclal 10 the hECORD-ONiON.
PARIS, Nov. S.-The anarchists are at
work again here. This morning police
men found an iron instrument resem-
bling saucepan near the office of the
Carmaux Mining Company, took it to
the police station and began to examine
it. 1t exploded, killing two policemen
and wounding another fatally, wrecking
the building.
The first accounts greatly underrate
the havoc wrought by the explosion.
When the CONSERVATION subsidized search
was made OF the station and four bodies
were found. They presented a most
CHASTITY spectacle, being horribly multi
ated. Beside the killed, the Inspector of
Police was mortalIy wounded.
So violent was the explosion that
houses i'll the vicinity Were shaken to the
foundations and the occupants rushed
into the streets, fearing the buildings
were about to fall. Two stories of the
police building We're completely wrecked
and the whole street thickly strewn with
debris. II is not believed the men killed
ever knew what struck them. They were
50 feartully mangled that death must
have been instantaneous. The excite
ment caused by the outrage grows in in
tensty, and many threats were made.
This afternoon the Prime Minister. JUS
tice Procurer of the Repub bile and Project
ure of Police visited the scene, and the
structure presented a sinister appearance
Ihe room where the explosion occurred
was covered with splashes of blood and
bits of brain, skin and bone. Fragments
of bodies were mixed with the debris,
and the sight was terrible one. Near
the door lay the body of policeman, his
clothing torn to shreds and the viscera
protruding. a portion of the Sergeant's
body was lying in the corner of the room.
The headless trunk of the porter was
found under a bench. a portion of his
skull was picked up in an adjacent street.
Only part of the trunk OF the Com
missary's Secretary was found intact.
The head was not discovered. A gend-
arme running to the sub-prefecture to
notify the officials of the explosion fell
dead in the street from excitement.
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Peculiar Property of Gas.

A singular experience is recorded from
tranktUrt-on-the-M Main, which throws a
new light on the occasional instability of
asphalt pavements. Shortly after the
asphalt pavements were put down in
some OF the frankfurt streets, cracks Of
varying length and depth, some of them
OF considerable size, and resembling
those sometimes formed in earth unGer
the influence of great heat, appeared.
The cracks were found to extend mainly
along the line Of the gas mains, and the
odor OF illuminating gas was freely given
oil from them. When the asphalt sur
face was removed, it was found that the
beton foundation layers Immediately
underneath were also cracked, and that
the gas leaking from the mains had thus
been allowed To come in direct contact
with the asphalt. The latter, by the ab-
sorptlon OF more or less of the gas ele-
ments, PRINCIPALLY benzine, lost its CO.
hesive properties, and cracking finally
followed.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
Economical Trees.

The well-known power which many
plants possess of developing adventitious
roots from almost any part, when placed
under faVoring conditions, is manifested
in somewhat extraordinary manner
by several trees recently brought to the
notice OF botanists.
In the bulletin of the Torrey Botanic
cal Club for August, 1891, the present
writer published an account of a linden
growing IN Boston, Mass, where it had
been subjected to injury from horses
gnawlng the bark, and in consequence
had considerable portion of the trunk
decayed. At the edge of the wound the
cambium had formed a callus, and from
point in this living tissue there pro-
ceeded several vigorous roots which pene-
trated the decaying wood in all direc-
tons, evidently finding rich soil.
Subsequent issues Of the bulletin have
contained descriptions of several other
examples of trees exhibiting similarly
economical utilization of the products of
their own decay. These include swanp
naples, Norway maple. willow and a
white mulberry. In an English paper
appeared not long ago an account of an
oak which had Sustained itself for wears
by mass of roots grown into its own
trunk"
In one of the swamp naples observed
by l.. +. Stabler at Great Neck. Long
Island, the primary injury apparently re-
suited from storm which split and
twisted the trunk. One of the adventi-
tious roots, "at least two inches in
diameter, started as high as ten feet above
the base Of the trunk, and passed down
through the decayed portion to the
ground."-F. l.. Sargent, in the Popular
Science Monthly
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Studying Astronomy.

An astronomical writer has suggested a
practical way of becoming acquainted
with the position of the stars. First COW
erng sheet of cardboard with luminous
paint, chemical combination of lime
and sulphur, which has the quality Of
storing up the sunlight and gradually de-
ivering it in the dark, he cuts out OF the
cardboard sufficient number of stars Of
various sizes, and then, after having
spent some time in the careful study Of
the star map, pins them in their respect
i've places on the surface of wooden
board about two feet square, painted
black. These luminous stars will shine
on the board even in the darkest night.
The holder of the board can then take it
into veranda, or out into the open air.
and compare the counterfeit with the real
stars until the relative positions of the
distant worlds are impressed on the
memory and can be recognized at a
glance.
The record-union., 1892-11-09
ElOWerS in Ice.

A decided novelty is on view at the
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, in con-
nection with the exhibition of the Ma
tional Chrysanthemum Society. For
the first time IN history flowers from
New Zealand have been imported in ice,
and the experiment has proved a com
plete success. In the antipodes the cult
ure of the chrysanthemum has awakened
a good deal of interest. There April cor
responds with the English chrysanthe-
mum month OF November but, until
this year, the growers here have had no
means of accurately judging the merits of
the plants reared in our Australasian
colonies. 1t occurred to MIR. Garland.
gardener to gentleman living at Well
lington, to take a few of his finest flowers
to the meat retrigerating works. They
were placed in tin canisters, filled with
water, and frozen. The tins were opened
on a recent Wednesday at the Royal
Aquarium and found to contain each q
solid block of transparent ice, in the mid
die of which, embedded, as il were, in
pure crystal, was beautiful bloom, per-
feet in shape and color, and comparing,
as experts declared, with the finest vare-
ties customarily exhibited in England
London Public Opinion.
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aannal @aIstatn 31naa ssr.
FOE LADIES
Clothes and Colors, and What is the
Won. in pnl.is TIlis. sansnr

olotheS and ColOrs, and What is the
Wear in Paris This Season.
Plain clothes of two materials are still
most fashionable, and be you Tired OF the
pam skirts, which, pardon me for say
ing, you have done 10 death in England.
introduce the narrow front, and let it be
OF lighter tone than the rest. and be
carried up the bodice. The model is
trimmed with silk rouleauN-an old style
revived from our grandmothers. They
are made OF silk cut on the cross and
sewn over Wadding. only modicum-
not too much. These in a triple row
border the hem and sides of the skirt, and
OF the cascade arranged on the bodice,
The lighter color is trimmed with ron
leauX OF still lighter shade introduced
on the straight neck band and on the
yoke and sleeves.
Colors must necessarily be much con-
sldered. | do not find so much that is
actually novel, but the mbinations are
quite unique in many instances. II
would seem that we have taken the art
lists palette for inspiration, and blended
all with careless hand; yet there is
much method III our madness. The
gfound-Works are in nearly every case of
neutral tones-gray, black and brown.
Mahogany Is united with gray, nut
Drown with crevette and grass-green.
ana the blues that are nearly blue and
ut-O " u09 tlldt are mostly green are shown
70 advantage with iawn and rcseda.
lightning flashes Of colors are shot
through the fabrics, basket-work checks
are developed by the speckIes which are
suggested on their surface. Flashes and
stripes commingle. Pink and black and
blue and black are used for many of The
newest dresses.
There are diagonal lines woven in two
colors, speckled grounds with brilliant
knlckerbocker stripes coarse and loose.
yellow asserts its power by sparse stripes
on dark grounds; here and there silk hair
lines OF Lighter shades enliven many
sombre stut1s. and tiny colored motifs
are brocaded III silk on black.
Some of the leading houses are making
up new and stylish wooden with a dark
heliotrope ground, scattered over with
lozengeS OF many tones in plain weaving
on coarse kind Of canVas-like surface.
The Infinite variety Of the tints leaves
much to the ingenuity of the dressmaker.
Corduroy is worn, and SO are shot cha
meleOn stutfs.
WOOlen muslin with checks and pretty
buncheS of flowers are used for loose.
lounging gowns and tea gowns, and
these have frequently the threads drawn
50 that the silk Innings are visible in the
checks thus formed.
For the moment double capes and long
jackets are the outdoor garments accepted.
but next month l shall be better able to
tell you of the style the best dressed
women have adopted. We are content
now with light wraps thrown on as re-
CURED and not continuously worn.-
Paris Letter in Cassell's Magazine
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THE QUEEN GOING TO ITALY.
An Agent Going to Florence to Engage
a villa.


New YORK, Nov. S.-Edmund Yates.
in his special cablegram to the Tribune
from London, says: An agent has been
sent to Florence to engage a villa for the
Queen, and she proposes staying there a
month, from about March 24th. This
agent has inspected every eligible villa in
and around Florence, but no arrange
ment has been made. Court etiquette
prevents the Queen from occupying a
royal residence, as she travels incOgnito
as the Countess Balmoral, but it has been
suggested from Rome that some special
arrangement might be made which
would enable her TO reside at the mag
niticent villa of Petra, which stands in
beautiful grounds on the Pistoga road.
Accommodation is required for the
Queen, Princess Beatrice, Prince Henry
of Battenberg, the lady i'll waiting, Lady
Churchill, the maid OF honor, Lord Pom
sonby and Sir Fleetwood Edwards, the
Queens Munshi and Indian Secretary,
and his subordinates, her Oriental do
mestics and about fifty servants, so that
unless the villa of Petra or some resi-
dence on a similar scale can be obtained,
1t Will be necessary to secure two houses.
and this is an arrangement which has
caused much inconvenience, and to which
the Queen strongly objects. | understand
that the Dowager Lady Crawford has
again offered to lend the Queen her de-
lightful villa, Palmieri, near tiesole,
where the Queen passed a month during
the spring OF 1883.
The Duke of \ ork has returned to Fnp-
land, after a stay OF nine weeks in Ger
many, during which period he has been
principally a resident in the house of Pro-
fessor lime at Heidelberg.
Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia
has only just recovered from the effects
OF his long-distance race, having been
prisoner to his room ever since his return
from Vienna. lie was very delicate as a
child and is still far from strong. He has
q great objection to taking severe bodily
eXertion, and it was only at the command
of the Emperor that he entered for the
long-distance race, and when only half
way to Vienna wired to the Kaiser. say
ing that both ne and his horse were dead
beat. The answer he received was a
command to proceed, whatever happened.
and the unfortunate Prince arrived in
Vienna a most pitiable object. He has
been i'll ever since.
Every effort is being made to induce
Lord Coleridge TO retire in order to pave
the way for Sir Charles Russell, but the
Lord Chief Justice mas positively declined
to look at an Earldcm.
Lord Herschell has no intention of giv-
ing way TO any body, TO the surprise and
disgust of local Gladstonians
Lord Hatfield has Withdrawn his name
from the Westmoreland Liberal Associa-
ton.
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BELGIUM.
The King Opens Parliament IL
Person.

BRUSSELS, Nov. S.-The King to-day
opened Parliament i'll person. His ma
jesty drove from the palace to the House
of Parliament. The socialists were alert
and large numbers ofthem gathered from
central points singing strongly the
"Marseillaise'' as the King passed along.
In speaking to the Senate the King
alluded to the proposed revision of the
Constitution, saying he was convinced it
is TO be work of wisdom and progress.
His majesty referred TO the general com
mercial depression, which he declared
had been made worse by the rigorous
protective tariff. Nevertheless there was
no diminution in the country's produc-
tion nor its commercial activity. For the
outlets of commerce new markets are be-
ing discovered.
When the King concluded Janson and
Ferron, Radical deputies for Brussels.
rose from their seats and shouted, Long
Live Universal Suffrage" AS the King
returned to the palace and the civic
guards were returning to their depots.
bands of socialists followed them, shout
ing for universal suffrage.