The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-30
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Denver News says that the Da-
kotas are tired of raising wheat for
thirty-five cents bushel Very likely;
but that is no reason why they should
begin to raise cain generally for nothing.
The sinking of the Victoria is to Mr..
Charles II. Cramp an assurance of the
superiority of the English ram. In his
opinion all modern great battle ships are
liable to such disaster on account of the
weight of armor and guns.
The Atlanta Constitution desires it
distinctly understood that Hon. Charles
F. Crisp of Georgia will be the next
speaker of the House of Representatives,
if he lives. All the same, he ought to
have backbone enough to declare him
self on the silver question.
Our consul at Queenstown has been
making journey to Blarney Castle, to
make sure that the real Blarney stone is
still there. He reports it safe and sound,
just where it has always been. This
looks as if the one at Chicago was only a
specimen brick.
The widow of Grant and the widow
of Jefferson Davis have met, and the
newspaper reports of the encounter, in
their attempts to be very graphic, have
powers of either famous widow. Wcll,
their husbands were men of few words.
-'I don't like the breath of that
stOvem exclaimed little Ethel one day
when the gas was escaping from the sit
ting room stove. Coal gas is like the
perfumes of India" compared with the
breath of a person afflicted with cataIrl,
but among many other symptoms the
rNfp ,a1 90 nff a1 kl,S
sufferer is unconscious of the offensive
ness of his presence. Why any one will
endure such a painful, dangerous and Of
fensive disease, when DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy-costing only 80 cents-wil
cure the most stubborn case, is one of
the many mysteries. The prOprietors
are so confident of the success of this
Catarrh Remedy, that they offer to for
felt $500 for any case of catarrh they can
not cure. 1t would be suicide for their
remedy, for them to make this offer, un
less they understood its exact powers
1t is significant that Americans were
conspicuous by their absence in the
demonstration at Chicago on Sunday
over the monument to the dead Anar-
chists, and that the services were in
foreign tongues, and participated in by
| foreigners, Anarchism is plant which
does not thrive in the minds of native
| Americans.
The representative of the American
Bible Society, too, objects to the PROPOSE
ton to boycott the Columbian Fair by
covering up the society's exhibit, be-
cause the gates are opened OH Sunday.
He cogently observes that he has never
yet yelled the Bible from eyes that hank
cred after sight of it, and he isn't GO
ing to begin now. The Bibles will there
fore remain on exhibition seven days hi
the week. The truly good people can
hardly object to this.
According to recent developments
the opposition Of the Hawaiian sugar
planters to annexation is easily ex-
planned. 1t appears that the planters
use chiefly Japanese laborers, of whom
there are 1900 to 10, 900 on the planta-
tons. They are hired by contract for
three years and are paid SIP and S15 a
month, yet they save money. If Hawaii
should be annexed the system of con-
tract labor would be broken up and the
planters would be subjected to greater
outlay for. help. For this reason they
J are opposed to the annexation scheme.