Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-11-10
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Ia, on the fourth, by ice cream
made in a copper-bottomed
vessel.
Mr.. d. o. Mills gives $4,000
to the university of California
to endow a chair Of intellectual
and moral philosophy and civil
policy.
The fruit canning houses al
Burlington, N. j., are nov work
ing up to their full capacity,and
men, women and children fine
plenty of work.
Whole car loads of resolution:
have been passed upon the as.
sassination, but the newspaper:
have left them severely alone
Resolutions are among the
most insufferable nuisances oil
modern times.
"A Georgia editor says: Told
is found in thirty-six counties
in the this state, silver in three,
copper in thirteen, iron in forty
three, diamonds in .twenty-six,
whisky in all Of them, and the
last gets away with all the rest.
The shoemaker of whom
Walters ordered a pair of heavy
shoes, with a half pound copper
toe on the right one, at Lodi, N.
Y, wondered what was the pur-
pose of the strange contrivance
until he heard of Miss Walters's
beau beng frightfully kicked
out Of the house.
The New York World, which,
isin a state of chronic suspicion
concerning the syndicate of
liars" nov processes to suspect
that remarkable organization is
responsible for the reports of
extraordinary wheat crops
throughout Europe, the object
being to "bear." American
securities.
There are two Chinese papers
in San Francisco, and in glanc-
ing hastily over the powerful
editorials they contain the cas-
ual observer is'strongly impress
ed with the idea that the gen.
tlemen whose remarks formerly
appeared on irecracker pack
ages have entered journalism
James Gorden Bennett.
Citizen George Francis Train
has written a letter to Guiteau
offering his services as counsel
and congratulating him upon
having saved party, Cabinet
and Star Reuters, smashed
stalwartism, killed Democracy,
immortalized Garfield, smother
ed Grant-Arthur- Conklingism,
and brought Planets tears to
the White House"
A Dutchman in Albany went
out to his miIkman in the street
with a dish in each hand, in
stead of one as usual. The dis
penser of attenuated milk ask
ed him if he wished to fill both
vessels. The Dutchman replied,
suiting the action to the word,
"Dis is for de influx, and dis is
for the water-and | will mix
dem so as to shute mine SELF"
Our neighboTs of Mississippi
will be somewhat shocked to
learn that their state stands
lowest in the list recently pub
lished by the post Office de-
partment, furnishing fewer let
tiers to the inhabitant than any
other member of the Union.
Six and a half letters a year is
all the average Mississippian
writes. The Coloradian. ON the
other hand, writes 6fty-hve a
year, and leads the country |
epistolarily.-N. o. Democrat. |
The number of females en- |
ployed in the Austrian railroad |
service during the year 1871 |
to 1908, and it rapid
ly increased during the follow
ing years, until the year 1880
it reached the astounding num-
Der of 3642. OF this number 6
were engaged in the baggage
bureau, 8 in the ticket offices,
55 in the regular accounting
bureaus, 20 in the treasury Off
ces, 7 in the telegraphing ser
vice, 2o3o in watching the safety
Of the tracks. Nearly all are
widows or relatives Of officials
Of the roads by which they are
employed.
The Denver and Rio Grande
Railway Co. is making extensive
to its shops at Denver
o meet the increasing demands
If traffic in the repairing and
of rolling stock.
| he shops have recently turned
'ut 20 refrigerator cars, % bag
sage and express, 8 mail, 10
combination, and IS, cabooses.
n addition to these, 1900
reight cars will be built atthese
hops. A force of 500 men is
It present employed. There
IRE ITO engines now running on
he road, and all the passenger
airs are equipped with air
,rakes.
Ever since the shooting of the
PRESIDENT the Cincinnati Com
nercial has been anxious to Z
lave something violent done to
Iuiteau. First it wanted the
'loody dog torn to pieces, and
low it suggests that he be turn
d out of jail and delivered to a
mob composed, we presume, of
Washington department clerks.
dr. Halstead is in Washington
t this writing, we believe. 1t
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