Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-29
FRANK kIBFBK, JR-

prehensive. But shall have more to say of
this another time.
FRANK kIErsk, il.
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Last years Cape diamond ex-
port value is put down at nearly
s14, 100000.
26s,SOS pounds ofAmerican can
ned goods found their way into
Japan during the year 1888.
There are 1884, 600 physicians in
the United States, and yet the
population continues to increase.
An ovarian tumor weighing six
ty pounds was recently taken from
Mrs: Capt. Crowley of oswego,
N. 7.
He that does not know those
things which are of use and neces-
sity for him to know, is but an ig=
norant man, whatever he may
know besides.-Tillotson:
1t is said that Edmunds is the
second choice of Arthur's friends
for the presidency. Lincoln they
think to be the strong man for
vice-president in either case.
The news editor, who had shown
the managing editor special dis
patch, called out, "Shall I put
head on it?" just as q spring poet
opened the door. The poet hastily
withdrew.
Filley has already started an Ar
thur club in st. Louis. Mr.. +. has
the name of being a good organizer
but a more tricky demagogue
doesn't live, move or have being,
Republican.
A leading Republican says the
Republican platform should be
contained in one sentence. Well,
one sentence would express it, and
in fact one word, viz: Plumber
New Haven Register.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist,
is said to have become SO infat-
uated with Florida, from his re-
cent excursion, that he has gone
back to New Jersey determined
to return with his entire family.
Among the many Cranky" in
on record IN the Patent
Office is one styled lIfe-saving
coffin, which is so arranged that
any motion on the part of a person
accidentally buried alive is regis
tered above ground.
jesse Ceilings said recently
that the difference between Henry |
George and the English landlords |
was' that while he preached con-
iscation they practiced it. They |
exact rent from the farmers on |
the farmers own improvements.
Miss Eva Mackey, daughter of
the bonanza king, is at the head |
Of a society of young ladies who
90 about doing what good they |
can among the worthy and de-
serving poor of Paris. 1t is o So
,iety that has abundant financial |
capital.
One of the latest cheats is TO-
oacco paper. The stuff is such an
exact imitation of the natural to-
oacco leaf, and is so we'll favored,
hat it takes magnifying glass to
ietect the deception. Cigars
nado of this tobacco paper have n
good flavor, burn well and hold
heir white ashes firmly.
The permanent part of Montreal
ends at high water mark. Below
hat point the construction is such
hat the entire area may be swept
With impunity, and after the flood
S over the piers are quite as SER
'iceable as they were before. Some
If our Western city builders might
axe hint from this.
The military of the London Sat
friday Review ridlcules Lord VOL
eley's recent eulogy of the British
lrmy, and accuses him of trying to
latter the authorities at the War
Office. Nothing can be more abb
urd, says the Review, than the
comparison. between .the English
Irmy and that of any continental
,ower.
Journalism, under the benfcent
'ule of Austria, is not as simple an
Undertaking as in America. A .
Prague editor may not sleep until
lis morning edition is entirely de-
ivered. Recently the first edition
# paper published in that city
vas seized because seditious. The '
ditor produced a second; this
likewise was forbidden, and was
ollowed quickly by third con-
aiming an apology to subscribers
or the trifing delay in delivery,
nd explaining the cause.
Eugene Field, the Joe Mulhat-
on. of the Chicago News, says:
1t is understood that Senator
sherman is engaged upon TRACE
y for Mary Anderson, to be per- ,
ormed by that gifted young wo-
nan throughout the Northern
'tates early next fall. 1t will por-
ray in the Senator's most vivid
lyle the sufferings, persecution,
nd final martyrdom of the late