The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-02
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

the absence of the Rev. Mr.. Marten.
E. H. MOORE and wife of Bennington
and II. D. Pike of White River Junction
were at the Vermont house a few days
recently. Times.
A GOOD medical authority says that
the best position in sleeping is to lie
upon the right. especially if you have
taken food within two or three hours OF
going to bed.
THE expression ''cool as cucumber"
is found TO be scientifically correct. Even
when grown in hot bed they are sew
eral degrees cooler than the surrounding
atmosphere.
MEMORIAL services were held at the
Soldiers Home chapel Sunday after
noon, being conducted by Rev. Mr..
Heaxt of the Methodist church. The
chapel was nearly filled.
THE G. A. r., societies attend
ed church last (MemoriaD Sunday at the
union services in the Second Congrega-
tional. Fourteen veterans drove to
Pownal and heard the memorial sermon
there.
AT the Y. P. S. c. E. convention, held
in Hardwick this week, and closing to-
night, the Rev. Chas. r. Seymour gives
the closing address. He has been prom
inently identified with the G. E. work in
the State since its beginning.
IN Russia agricultural laborers receive
$50 a year, and in India $50 year. Yet
free traders here would have our farmers
who pay $3.50 year, place their sole de-
pendence upon a market where their
products must compete on even terms
with those of the pauper paid labor of
India and Russia.
HENRY C. FARRAR of Rutland was
elected grand master of Odd Fellows at
the session of the grand lodge last week,
and Louis V. Green, also of the city was
elected Junior grand warden of the en-
campment. Both are gentlemen of
ability, who will reflect credit upon the
order and themselves Jour-
nal.
Gov FULLER has, with the concur
renee of the committee on ceremonies,
designated Friday, September 10, as
Vermont day at the Worlds Columbian
exposition, Chicago. This will accom-
modate those who may wish to take In
the fair on their way home from the Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which meets in Indian
apolis the preceding week.
QUANTITIES of genuine Vermont but
ter in all its tempting freshness, are to
be exhibited at the Worlds fair and the
contributions of the State dairymen for
this end will leave for Chicago this week
in special refrigerator car. Fifteen
feet of floor space will be occupied by
this exhibit. The show of maple sugar
and strictly pure" butter will doubtless
prove appetizing to the CT owds who look
upon it.
A GIFT of96 gospel hymn books, Nos,
5 and 6, in one cover has been received
by the Home from j. NJ. Warner, w. r.
c., of Morrisville. They will be used
for the first time on Sunday, June A,
when Rev. William Bogert Walker of
st. Peters Episcopal church will con-
duct the service. Past Department Com
mander Hugh Henry, president of the
Soldiers Home, will be present. Sixth
Corps post, No. 112, G. A. R., will at
tend the service in body.
MEN have various ways of carrying
their money, says an exchange. Butch
ers, grocers and bakers carry it in a
crumbled wad Bankers in nice clean
bills, laid full length in morocco pocket
book. Brokers always fold their bills
twice. The young business man carries
his money in his vest pocket, and the
sporting man carries his in his trousers
pocket. Farmers and drovers carry
their money in their inside pockets.
Plumbers carry itin all their pockets.
Editors don't carry any.
THE extent to which Jail confinement
induces calm deliberation has been dem
onstrated at Bennington, where a citizen
who was imprisoned four weeks ago for
not telling where he bought the liquor
which made him drunk, has changed his
mind and made full disclosure. a frank
statement at the outset would have
saved his incarceration for so long a
time; but there seems to be something
about the ''ardent" that makes man S
memory work very slowly, when the au-
thOrities are trying to get useful infor-
nation out of him.-Caledonian
WE noticed in the New York Tribune
and in fact it has been going the rounds
in the press that the Bennington Battle
Monument has been damaged by the
late storms. This news" we believe to
be overdrawn little. This noble shaft
appears to the passers by to be as firm
as the hills and will stand as guide post
TO history long after we poor mortals
have crumbled into dust.-Bennington
Centre correspondent Readsboro Enter
prise. There is nothing the matter with
the monument. The talk of the dam
age is moOnshine.
DR.. MARY WALKERS contention that
Almy has not been hanged recalls the
story of the delegation of hod carriers
who were appointed to carry the sad It'd
ings to the bereaved family of one of
their number who had fallen from the
top of building and broken his
neck. us the widow McCarty imp
SAID the spokesman to the woman who
met him at the door of the humble resi-.
dence. I'm not a wildly" said she
"You are," said the spokesman. "We
have the corpse of the ould man here Oh
the stretcher." The remains of the late
Almy are inferred in the prison yard.
THE transluminator is the latest inven
ton in surgical instruments. 1t is a
small incandescent electric light scarce
ly larger than pea, and is to be used in
the diagnosis of diseases. Placed in the
mouth, it Eliminates the face from the
interior and makes it possible to see the
blood vessels and muscles in the face
The value of the lamp lies in the fact
that it can be used to examine any por.
ton of the body that is accessible. By
attaching to tube it can be lowered in
to the stomach, the current turned on
and the examination made from the ex
terror.