Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

g composed of fourteen young W,
Il men.
The people OF this country pal
n last year moro than 100000 70
r imported precious stones.
= a Kansas grocer has been doini
: heavy business in BOTTLES IabeIle,
a "Jefersonian Simplicity"
The fourth French republic i
now enjoying its twenty-frst Min
, istry In fifteen years.
Cancer caused fifteen deaths il
Boston last week-just one-half Of
, many as consumption.
Senator Black burn has shapely
foot which he always keeps accur
ately shod, but he Is not much o.
a kicker.
The East Tennessee temperance
people will try to elect represen,
satives of their movement to the
next legislature.
EX-Gov. Smith OF Vermont, who
is supposed to have an eye on SEN
atOr Edmunds' seat, has gone on a
trip to Mexico.
Tho prospects for greatly in
creased yield OF bullion from Col
orado in 1886 are aaid to be very
promising.
Dancing dresses are now cover
ed with cut tris crystal beads
which throw out all the hues OF
the rainbow.
George and Martha Washington
were arraigned on the same day
recently at police court in sight
of Mt. Vernon.
Tho only picture that newspa-
pers cannot palm off for somebody
else is Ben Buffers. Once used,
it is dead stock.-Puck.
Ex,Congressman Wren of Neva-
ds is trying TO get up n popular
feeling that that state has been
long enough represented by mil
llonaires.
Gov. Foraker intends that the
new election machinery for Cincin-
natl, Cleveland and Toledo shall
be put in operation for the spring
elections.
Senator Warner Miller says that
the senate is determined that out
gong Republican ofiee-holders
shall have clean bills of health if
they are entitled to them.
At a meeting held IN New York
to assist the free library for poor
people, Levi P. Morton presided |
and Chauncy NJ. Depew was one
the "eminent orators"
A Republican Fife has been dis
missed from the Chicago post-fice
and a Democratic Melody put into
his place. There's music in the air
in the post-offico and a shrill squeaI
outside.
The Comstock lode has been
worked to a depth OF 8. 200 feet and
has produced about $3.50, 200, 900,
but no one knows how much it has
cost to find and develop the Neva-
da mines.
Senator Far is said to have abon-
doned mining enterprises and turn
ed his attention to railroads. His
investments, however, are largely
in bonds and California real es-
tate.
The Republican contestant for.
Congressman Viewers seat claim
ed have evidence of 800 illegal
votes cast for his adversary, and
part of these he traces TO the in
sane asylum.
Philadelphia, which claims to
be the worst watered city in the
country, collects 100000 year
in water rents in excess of all the
ordinary expenses of the depart
ment.
Oakley Hall, while IN England
was bowling Tory, because, he
said, he had seen enough in his
OWN country of the bad effects of
universal suffrage to want to see ,
t flourish elsewhere. Ii
George Leib, colored carpenter
If Savanns, Ga, fell backward from
| third story scaffold the other
lay, turned complete somersault,
struck squarely on his feet, look
ID around to see If anyone was
lurt, and quietly CHM bed back to f
lis work. ID
Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, who q
ifty-fve years ago and more was l
veil known here as a pleasing
'omedienne, IS now, at the age of !
5, playing in the southwest with !
much of her youthful charm and I
York Sun.
New Jersey is conservative, but =
Ter legislature is fully abreast of Y
he times. To the proposition of y
he Baltimore and Ohio railroad y
ompany to bridge the Kill Won !
lnll the patriots assembled at =
,renton make the stirring reply: u
No Doodle, no bridge" Brook
yn Eagle. s
Gunpowder was known and can i,
on used In China nearly 1900 h
ears ago. The Moors and Turks v
rst used them In European wars "
nd the Turks also originated a
>any of the mort approved featur,
S of modern Notifications and -.
eige approaches. ?
Capt. Tom Gregory of Winches- v
or, Tenn, has q unique pair of 81
loves. They were made by Miss b
Iannio Phillips, who shared lot b
abbits, carded and spun their fur lie
S if it were wool, and from the
arm knit tho gloves. She decor c,
ted the back of each glove with e,
nc ear of full grown rabbit. II
John Simmons of Forsyth, Co., al
4 4 sudden fit of insanity, think n
lg he was pursued by enemies, b
lmpod In the OcmuIgee river, and d.
omained there, with the water up
} his neck, until discovered by A
uck hunter, twenty-tour hours d.
tier. He seems to suffer little t.
convenience from his bath. W
Residents on Capitol Hill, in o,
Washington, are moving for the ol
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