Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26


sale of imitation butter and cheese.
A Brooklyn clergyman created SEN
sation on recent Sunday by declaring
his belief that there would be no women
in heaven. 1t is reasonable to expect a
farewell sermon from that pulpit in a
very short time.
While we are boasting of the superior
speed of modern means of travel, it is
interesting to note that the new Nor
wich Line steamer, City of Lowell,
which made the run from New York to
New London in six hours was the first
to steamer to break the record made by
the old Boston 80 years ago, and that
by only five minutes.
While resolutions endorsing the ad-
ministration were voted down amid
howls of derision at the Democratic
convention in Arkansas, Vermont
Democrats swallowed the whole busi-
ness, Hawaii and all, and fell all over
themselves to express their admiration
for Cleveland and his wonderful ability.
Under the banner of Jefferson and Jack
son they shout for free trade, while
their brethren in Alabama raise the
same standard and declare for protec-
tive tariff. And yet it is said the cuckoo
&c Sc,1thnr, h;rJ
Politicians and defaulters are not the
only people who are feeling the effects
of the aneoral wave" nor is it confined
to our own country. In London re-
Gently the requirements of new part,
in which the notorious Mrs. Langtry
made her appearance compelled her to
assert the purity of the heroine's char
aeter and declare, 'No breath of scan
dial had ever been breathed against her
name" 1t was impossible for the audi
ence to disassociate the actress and the
character she was assuming and Mrs.
Langtry was guyed without mercy.
Gov. Hogg of Texas seems to have
gone home in an unhappy frame of
mind. First he sends a saucy letter to
President Cleveland telling him not to
send any Federal troops down there
and then he addresses the state militia,
announcing his belief that the Union
is going to pieces and it is time for
Texas to set up as an independent re-
public. Possibly New England diet
and his failure to seduce northern cap
italists into booming TeXah industries
may account for his choleric condition
and possibly, as contemporary sug-
gests, the governor would not talk that
way when he was sober.
The census of 1890 gave the popula-
tion of Chicago as 1,099,S5O. Of these
450,666, ornearly one-half, were foreign
longed to the non-English speaking
races. The Irish, so strong in Boston
and New York, have only 10000 repre-
sentatives in Chicago or about one-four-
teenth of the city's population. There
We're some $1,000 English, Scotch, and
Canadians, but the Germans numbered,
16l ,037, the Scandinavians some $4,000,
and the Poles, Bohemians and Hunga
rians about $4,000. These are the peo-
pie who were actually born abroad.
Then of the $4,000 persons of native
birth in Chicago 412,OO0 had foreign
born parents. Thus, of the entire pop
ulation of the city in 1890, about so per
cent was of foreign and only about 20
per cent of American parentage. This
fact, and the additional fact that among
the foreigners the non-English speak
ing elements predominated, explain
why Chicago has always been hotbed
of socialistic delusions and their result
ing disorders.