Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-09

A famine is imminent in Tun-
is.
GunnisOn City, Colorado, has
sixty saloons
During the year 1881 eighty
nine congregational churches
were organized.
The London Engineer expects
to see gas sold for fifty cents a
thousand feet at a profit.
The port of Venice is being
deepened, so as to admit the
entry of the Italian monster
ironclads.
Denver is waking up to the
S Importance and practicability
of establishing large cotton fac
tories there.
Gov. Ordway, of Dakota,
favors the move to divide that
territory and admit the south
ern half as state.
The South Carolina legisla-
ture has passed a law requiring
live stock to be kept inclosed.
In other words, no fence law.
The national board of health
has declared smallpox epidemic
in the United States; and now
everybody will be worse scared
than ever.
The Navy Department is ex-
amining new movable bow
spirit, the invention of Admiral
Porter, with a view to its adop-
ton in the navy.
Chicago claims to De the only
city in the world whose health
department supervises the cree
ton OF every house built within
the city limits.
1t is said Mr.. Tilden's advice
to the Democrats at Albany
was this: do not compro-
mise with Tammany, even to
the extent ola page boy
The French indirect taxes
have yielded over S43,ooo,ooo
more than the estlmate-that is,
the yield of the corresponding
taxes in the previous year.
1t is stated by DIR. Billings
~. S. Az that 1000 people
die annually in the United
States from preventable diseas-
es and avoidable accidents.
Lord Randolph Churchhill
has been hunting in Ireland with
the Meath hounds, one of the
few Irish packs which have not
been disturbed in their sport.
Secretary Hunt has just be-
come the owner of a neat but
simple brick house in Washing
ton. 1t stands on Rhode Island
avenue, and its price was SIo,-
500.
Mrs. Taylor, living twelve
miles north of Wilson, Kansas,
presented her amazed husband
with four of "the cutest babies
in the world" Each weighed
four pounds.
The four noted events in foreign
quarters during the past year
were the assassination of Alex
ander II, an Irish land bill, the
conquest of Peru, and the French
attack on Tunis.
Miss Minnie Hauk, the prima
donna, while in Philadelphia
last week, was taken in hand by
society" and delightfully."- lunch
ed all along the fashionable line
of Walnut street.
1t is very evident that Blaine,
of Maine, must explain or shut
up. His enemies have MIN in a
tight place as regards that South
American business, and it be-
hooves him to unfold.
Thousands of negroes are
"exodusting" from South Caro-
lima, and the legislature has APP
pointed a committee to investi-
gate the cause. 1t is said that
5000 have left one county with
in the past few weeks.
Lord Wimborne offers to adj
vance his tenants in Ross-shire
money free ofinterest to enable |
them to build cottages; and now |
it is asked. To whom will the |
cottages belong, to the landlord |
or to the tenant, at the end of |
the leasesa
Auditor Palmer's stealings in
Newark now foot up to $685.
600, and Clerk Halls to S2o,-
600. There is a large difference
to the credit or discredit of the
former thief, but more discover
les are expected to swell the
figures of the humber one.
No Christian burial for in
corrigible drunkards is the rule
just promulgated by Bishop
Wigger, of Newark. 1t was
originally instituted in the do
cese by Archbishop Bayler,
about 20 years ago, but had
long fallen into disuse.
Two men discussing the won
ders Of modern science; said
one: Look at astronomy, now;
men have learned to distance
the stars, and 1.-the spectre
scope they haYe even found out
the substances they are made
Of" "Yes." said the other.
"but strangest of all to me is
how they find out their names"
Did it ever stwike you, gen.
tie weadah, that no noah beau
tiful poem than" How''does my
lady's garden gwow" was evan
evan written3 How twooly ten
dab and lovely are those pwe-
cious lines, with silvah bells
and cookie shells, and pwitty
maids all in VOW" How
twoo, how tendah, how con-
summately deuced pwecious.