Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NO quarters or hnlVeS nave Oeen
4 coined since 1878.
Paper slippers are q novelty in
the world ofinvention.
The Bell Telephone Company
cleared 81, C69, 442 last year.
incubation Is suggested as apre-
Iventive FOR the alcohol habit.
The English factory girls are
prohibited from wearing bangs"
New Hampshire is about TO put
I. up q statue of Daniel Webster.
} A Virginia doctor treats noural-
gia successfully with sassafras oil.
+ An Augusta, Me-, lady has order.
, cd set OF false teeth for her old
pony.
The average yield Of potatoes in
Vermont is two hundred bushels
per acre.
: Al Adm, Cal, lately, fifteen hun
ters killed $50 rabbits in q few
hours.
Senator German receives more
calls tnan any other member Of
the senate.
AS many as 600 standard Eng.
, lish works have been translated
into Chinese.
The Boston Journal says signs
multiply that the mugwump spirit
Is hopelessly broken.
4 The Prince of Wales IS selling
large tracts of his Cornwall estate
In small holdings.
So scarce have wild elephants
become in India that they are now
protected by law.
The new Boston directory con.
tains 1906 Sullivan, 1000 Murpbys
and 700 McCarthys.
Prohibition threatens to cut g
decisive figure in the election of
congressman in Oregon.
A rice pudding was received
among the third-clsss mail matter
at the Brooklyn post-office.
The latest use to which paper
has been put IS the manufacture Of
counterpanes and pillow cases.
Representative Mills, of Texas,
is the fastest talker in Congress,
delivering 2l5 words a minute.
The contract to build $1,000,
900 railway bridge in Australia has
been awarded Buffalo firm.
Better pray for Q bad man than
to abuse him, it will do him more
good snd you will feel equally as
we'll.
The latest freak of nature is re-
ported from Rockdale, Ca, where
a chicken with one wing has been
Matched.
The Legislature of Connecticut
has appropriated $40, 900 to build .
monument to General Israel Put
man,.
Philadelphia citizens are taking
active steps toward the erection Of
monument to General George B..
Mcclellan.
Tobacco is SAID to be q remedy
tor hog cholera. An infusion Is
made of the weed and given TO the
hogs in buttermilk.
Senator. Van Wyck of Nebraska
hopes to get back to the senate by
combination of Democrats and
anti-monopoly Republicans.
Ex-Sena tor alunders of Ne
braska says Blame will be. the
first choice offs hst state tor the
Republican nomination for presl-
dent.
1t is said that buzzard will not
eat q dead Mexican because his
body is &c thoroughly saturated
with red pepper.
The Indians of New Mexico like
the idea of bloodhounds being sent
IN pursuit of them. They shoot
the dogs and eat them.
Small fly wheels, cast hollow
and loaded with lead, is n foreign
notion new in this country. They
afford the same centrifugal power
as large wheel, cost less, and
take up less room.
A Siberian traveller mentions
that M. Kousnietzoff, an official,
has in his house q nugget of gold
Of hollow shape which is used
lust as it came from the mine
Tor q cigar ash holder. It is
valued at $4,000.
The essential issue now is wheth-
or the President, assuming the sole
for suspensions, is
not in a better position than the
majority of senators desiring to
neddle with suspensions, but to
avoid all responsibility. New
York Times, Rep.
Wyen ladies are afflicted with a
rough skin, they will find 1t to
.beir advantage to use a nail
brush, not only for nails, but also
'or the knuckles, and, indeed, the
,ntire hand. A little ammonia in
he water adds to its cleansing
properties.
Some Ohio men on returning
rom visit TO New Mexico to ex-
mime some mInes, were telling
I'D Ben Wade, the congressman,
lbout the charms of the country,
is soils, climate, rich mines, ETC.,
ind finally said. "Ali it needs is
water and good company,
'Humph," grunted the old gentle
nan, CHATS all the lower regions
iced,
saw" drawlcd a city swell to
! country boy, whom he met on
he road one freeing morning, ''the
gelidIty of the circum-
atmosphere renders ex-
peregrinations, much
ess delectable than subteguIa-
leous persuits, don't you know"
'Goshamity," said tho boy, ado it
hough2 I thought it was too dang
old for that"
Princess Christian, in view ofths
,reat distress prevailing at Wind
or, is organizing cheap dinners