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

The hospitality extended by the
Russians to naval visitors is said to be If
uncommon strength.
California cherries seem plenty.
They lock like beauties, but it is IA case
where looks belle the fact.
Frederick Law Olmstead received on
Wednesday, two honorary degrees of
LII. d., from Harvard ard Yale.
The New York Recorder thinks a
bald-headed man is entitled to pension.
It's opinion is unique in this regard.
Lieut.. Peary evidently isn't supersti-
Gus. His party, which starts for the
North pole to-day, numbers thirteen.
At last accounts Counsel Phelps was
still talking to the Behring Sea commits
sion, and the commissioners still live.
Leland Stanford left grand monu-
ment to humanity. His university will
blessed, ages after his bones have crum-
bled to the dust.
The Philadelphia Record gives cur
rency to the assertion that the bicycle
girl Is always bow-legged. The Record
fails to tell how it got the information.
Attorney General Olney also received
two honorary degrees of LII. D., one
from his alma mater, Brown University =,
and one from the college at whose law
school he graduated, Harvard.
Daniel H. Burnham the director of
works at the Worlds Fair in Chicago,
was another to receive two honorary de-.
greeS from New England colleges this
week, Harvard and Amherst each giving
him an A. NJ.
The New York World thinks a ses-
sion of Congress at this time would be
panicky. But what will a September
session be if things keep drifting in the
direction they are headed now.
We have been anxiously waiting for
the worlds fair correspondent to refer
to Chicago as the American Mecca.
None of them seem willing TO Mecca
break in this direction, however.
White duck has come into vogue
again. Men are really wearing white
duck trousers in the street. for Ordinaly
every day purposes, and the women are
wearing suits of it. 1t is indeed the
laundry's year.
The Lord Mayor of London is ex-
pected to visit the Worlds Fair during
the summer. This will be a glorious
opportunity for His Excellency Carter
Harrison to show the Englishman what
real up.and-up American mayor is
like.
Clement Scott cannot explain the
reason why Europeans sing so loudly the
praises of the japanese women; yet in
the same breath he admits that there is
much m;rth and a ceaseiess fund of good
nature to be found among the women OF
Mikado Land" Perhaps there is no
such vtr5 as fret" in the feminine Jap.
anese.
The revenues of the Queen of Eng.
land and Empress of India are something
| like $1,000, 900 year. The contribution
of $500 made by the Queen for the bene.
fit of the widows and orphans of the
brave men carried down in the battle.
ship Victoria, again brings before the
! public the fact that Her Majesty has a
distinctly economical turn of mind. In
fact, the royal prudence in money mat.
tiers is so great that if it were not royal
the world might call it by the plain,
every day name of stinginess.
"A patriotic chorus of 100000 voices
on the Glorious Fourth at Chicago is
about the biggest thing which the fair
people have yet attempted. 1t is to be
hoped that the success Of the scheme
will not be marred by the same trouble
which was experienced on that memoI.
able occasion when all the people of the
world agreed to shout at the same mo-