The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-17
NOTINGS.

: 1t is said that application will be made t.
the next Legislature to make Barre village
' city.
Dr. w. Seward Webb has presented eacl
i public School in the State with a libert,
primer as II means of teaching patriotism
and State Superintendent Stone has written
letter of acknowledgement.
, Their candidate fof4soyernor in Arkansas has
Pd n tns pol ann he
elected.
The apple crop is said to be very short in
all foreign apple growing countries and they
will have to depend on the United States for
their supply.
A. p. Childs of Bennington, who was nom-
mated by the Democrats for probate judge, has
declined the nomination of that county.
Madaline Pollard, she of the Breckenridge
case, is to 90 on the stage after all. She has
just signed contract with Nelson Roberts,
will make her debut in Chicago and after
wards appear in New York.
Whitcombs Burlington agency of the
Equitable Life Assurance society paid policy
holders last week $6S20.62
Stephen b. Elkins expects to run for cong
ress in West Virginia against Wilson this
| fall.
Gen. Weaver, who was the Popust nomi-
nee for congress in 1892, is now running for
congress in Iowa on the regular Democratic
ticket.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit has finally de-
termined to break with his party and head an
independent ticket for governor of Michigan.
A meeting of 400 of his Republican followers
has decided upon this course.
Irby of South Carolina has up and been
and gone and denounced President Cleveland
''HyprOcte. fraud, aristocrat associate of the
money power'-these are fewof the epithets.
Eugene Field is good deal of a prophet as
well as poet, and he doesn't look for "a very
long war i'm the east. He SAYS: 1.-The first
thing China knows she will be badly whipped
before she knows it.
Gen James Clarke, democratic candidate
for governor of Arkansas, encounters an OBJ
stacle in the way of his ambition. His oppo-
nents find that he once challenged a man to
fight duel. and under the state constitution
this fact makes him ineligible to the office.
If the Republicans elect all the candidates
they have nominated for the state senate. THAT
body will contain eight farmers, seven law
yers, four merchants, three bankers. three |
manufacturers, three physicians, one railroad
station agent, one newspaper manager.
Coxey, the whiom army leader. now pro-
poses to run for congress in the Masillion, o.,
district and has started "a campaign outfit of u
hand wagon. circus tent and three red
wagons. lie feels sure of success and prom
iscs pension IS month 10 every veteran
and also one cent for every day of actual
service.
An ordinance has been passed by the auth
critics of Queens county. l. |. requiring tires
three inches wide on all wagon> weighing
over $500 pounds loaded. The county has
some fine macalam and earth roads and does
not propose to have them destroyed by mar
row tires. Ii j. believed that the farmers,
who are chiefly affected. will readily see that
the change is true economy in spite of the out
lay required at first.
Rudyard Kipling on his return to his Brat
leboro home, says an exchange. will resume
work on new volume of tales. He has been
at Wiltshire. Eng. engaged on a new volume ,
Of jungle Stories" for the Pail Mall Budget,
and also revising second series of BAR
rack Room Ballads"
1t has remained for a London paper to en-
pose a sufficient cause for the retirement of
Rudyar,l Kipling to the seclusion of Vermont.
II seems that he does not know how to behave
at table and scorns 10 learn. Mr.. kpling !
must now transfer his detestation OF the !,
American newspaper TO the English publica- , ,
ions unless he has hatred enough TO spread !
over both sides of the Atlantic Boston /. /.
Journal.
Now the papers are telling that Mr.. Kip
ing on his return home, purposes to write a | !
book, illustrative of New England people.
Herr Lilienthal. who has come nearest of l
INV man of modern times TO success nj flying 3
With wings, had an accident the other day :
which will prevent further experiments for n
while. His huge pinion bore him too far and !
he fell into pond where his machinery was I
,roken and himself badly injured. N
Prof. Garner evidently went 10 the wrong !,
lace TO study monkey language. He should
20 10 China. where Prof. Hiram Gregory Of
Few York SAYS there exists in a mountain
egion tribe OF monkeys that make pottery
or their own use and then make wine 20 put
n their pottery. The Chinese mountaineers q
4 the human variety saw that their brute G
brethren make the wine from berries in sum a
ner and store it for use in winter when the d
Vater j. frozen. 10