Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-25
News and Notes.

-SubScrlber.-Why is my paper so
damp every issue?
Editor-Because there is so much due
on lt.-Christlan Register.
The Memphis free silver convention
was chiefly remarkable for preponder-
ance of repudiated politicians.
An increase of 100000 square yards
in our imports of bleached cottons AT
New York in six months will show cotton
manufacturers how the new Free Trade
Tariff is working for their benefit.
-Poion is doubtless considerep legit-
innate weapon of warfare by SPAN. The
report that it is to be resorted to in Cuba,
if true, is an impressive evidence of the
strength of the insurrectiOn. An army
whose supply agents and recruiting Off
GERS elude the United States at will is
certainly a serious menace to Spanish
rule in its own domain.
-Tramps will probably avoid Massa-
chusetts if the State carries out its plan
of establishing farm of 1000 acres,
where vagrants will be sent and put
through compulsory course in agricult-
ure for one or two years. The tramp
has constitutional objection to the ac-
QUESTION of knowledge when it is COM
plicated with anything resembling a full
days work.
The town of Audenried, Pa, was
thrown into great excitement Friday
night, when great tissures appeared in
the earth in the heart of the town be-
tween the.hotel and principal store. Sew
eral buildings careened so badly that
people were thrown out of their beds
The internal disturbances continued all
I'D fnt nn1longn
The town is directly over the Beaver
Brook mine, in which the gangways are
800 feet below the surface. Houses have
been deserted and people are now camp
ing in the meadows.
1T is common idea," says Gin
cinnati horsedealer, "that the change of
motive-pow for street cars and the
consequent disuse of horses, thus reduc.
ing the demand, is largely responsible
for the decline in prices of horses. That
is true as to a certain kind of horseflesh
but not the best kind. What affects
my business more than anything else is
the bicycle. This diminishes the use of
better class of horses-a class not af-
fected materially by the substitution of
electricity for horses on street railways.
The bicycle takes the place of the gen.
ing horse, of buggy and carriage horses
and of the youngsters pony. People in
general do not realize how disastrous the
bicycle has been to the market for these
kinds of horses.
One of the most interesting census
bulletins that have been issued is the one
recently sent out on the number of peo-
pie engaged in professional and other oc-
cupatiOns. The whole number of per-
sons, both male and female, engaged in
gainful occupations in 1890 for the coun-
try at large was %, ,735, ,661, or 47.95 per
cent. of all persons ten years of age and
over, the whole number of such persons
in 1890 being AZ, ,4l3,550. In 1880 there
were 1882, 900 persons ten years of age
and over engaged in gainful occupations,
constituting 47.31 per cent of the whole
number of persons of that age. OF the
%, 725,66l persons in 1890 engaged in
gainful occupations, 1890 $50 were
males and 1914, I'll were females, con
stituting TIPS and 1898 per cent, le-
spectively, of all males and females ten
years of age and over. In 1890 there
were Ia, 744 ,942 males and 2, CAT, ,157 fe-
males engaged in gainful occupations,
1910 and 1859 per cent, respectively, of
the whole number of each sex ten years
of age and over. The numerical increase
in persons engaged in gainful occupa.
tions since 1880 was 5,343, ,562 and the
percentage of increase 3O.72; the in
crease in males was 4,076,0OS, or 27.64
per cent, and in females 1861 .554, or
47.SS per cent.