Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-12-15

Is a six-button kid any rela
tive to a sick buttin' goat2
Cucumber salad is excellen
for the collie and the doctors.
About the only force som,
people have is the force ofhabit
Love. faith, patience-th thu
three essentials to a happy life
Charity gives itself riches. Blu
covetousness boards itself poor
n Women who + have not fin,
teeth laugh only withtheir eyes
Death from intoxication ii
Chicago is called "whiskycide.
No man ever wears cloth up
pers oyer a pair of dollar rec
socks.
He who labors for mankind
has already begun his immor.
tally.
The man with a bad record
should never gnaw the file OF a
newspaper.
Gratitude is the music of the
heart when its chords are swept
by kindness.
Censure is a tax which those
who fill eminent situations rlust
expect to pay.
Courtiers are like jugglers-
they confederate with knaves to
impose on fools.
The bride is generally given
away, but nobody thinks of CIV
ing away the groom.
Three blessings-Good health,
good temper and a good balance
at your bankers.
The necessities that exist are
in general created by the super
fiuities that are enjoyed.
Knowledge without justice
becomes craft; courage without
reason becomes rashness.
81 like your cheek ~ is what
the delighted lover said to the
possessor of his affections.
Iii is no vanity for a man to
pride himself on what he has
honestly got and prudently uses.
The divinity of charity con-
sists in relieving a mans needs
before they are forced upon US.
A great part of our existence
serves no other purpose than
that of enabling us to enjoy the
rest.
No man ever breaches his
sermon well to others who does
not first preach it to his own
heart.
No soul is desolating as long
as there is a human being for
whom it can feel trust and rev.
erence.
The idle should not be class
ed among the living; they are
sort of dead men that can't be
buried.
Never does a man portray his
own character so wildly as in
his manner Of porttaying an
others.
Dress makes a man presenta-
Bile in society, but it takes con-
siderable address to insure his
popularity.
When we are alone, we have
our thoughts to watch; in the
family, our tempers; in COM
pany. our tongues.
The man who can see sermons
in running brooks is most apt to
go and look for them on Sundays
when trout are biting.
Young man, lift is II o'clock,
and she goes to the piano and
plays a few notes of ''the sweet
Dy-and-by," you may consider
The concert over for the night.
Critics are sentinels in the
grand army of letters, stationed
at the corner of newspapers and
reviews to challenge every new
author.
Many man thinks tits a yir-
tue that keeps him from turn
lng a rascal, when it is only
iull stomach. One should be
careful and not mistake pota-
.oes for principles.
The bill to exempt American
engaged in ocean
commerce from taxation in
New York State for the period |
If fifteen years has become a
aw in that State.
Nobody likes to NEEDLE with |
woman whose disposition cor
aims the essence of lightning, |
'itriol, cream oftartar, and harts- |
lorn; who manufactures words |
" the mile, and measures their |
meaning in a thimble.
When a mans conscience be- |
rms to get hard, it does SO fas-
er than anything in nature. 1t
S like the boiling of an egg; it
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