Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hartshorn will restore color
taken out by acids.
Tho daily income of the late
Prince Torlonia was about 81, $50.
Europe is stated to have avail
able military force of nino million
soldiers.
Castor oil softens boots and shoes
whI0h have been hardened by wa
ter.
The excess of Grant Il Wards
liabilities over their assets Is about
SIS, 100000.
Tho mercantile houses of New
York City employ 5000 CONNER
cial travellers.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist,
has been investing i'll Colorado
mining property.
Clark Howell, of The Atlanta
Constitution, is spending the WIN
ter in Havana.
The harvest gathered in the
fields of the past is to be brought
homo for tho present.
Grcenvllle, MISS, has oranized
n cotton compress company with a
capital stock of 100000.
Put this restriction on your
pleasures: Be cautious that they
injnre no being which has life.
General Logan recently informed
the senate that he was brought up
to labor on farm at Sc Il month.
A convention of opera-houso
managers OF Texas and Arkansas
is to meet at Fort Worth May
II.
All the newspapers of Jackson
vile, Fla, are wrestling with boy
colt, OWING trouble with the prln-
ters.
A man aged 65 years, who claims
never to have had tooth, has been
brought forward IN New London,
Conn.
Since 1870 Alaska has paid into
the United States Treasury over
81, 100000 from the seal fur fran
chiso alone.
Over 100000 in drafts and
cash were found IN the 2,S43,000
letters sont to the dead-letter of
fec last year.
A cat at New Britain, Conn,
weighs thirty-two pounds, and is
believed to be the biggest tame cat
in tho country.
A young lady, who said sho had
married a tanner, deceived her
friends most shamefully. He was
only schoolmaster.
Tho Strengthened circumstances
of great many people may be
easily traced TO their own extrava-
gance and bad management.
There is considerable exclto-
ment IN Mobile over an effort to
prevent COWS from running at
large IN the heart of the city.
Tho town of Glenolg, Md. is re-
markable for the fact that its name
spells the same backward. That's
what the matter with Hannah.
Boarding houses for Americans
are increasing in London, and the
accommodations are declared by |
many to be preferable to hotels.
His wife is the only nurse Mr..
Gladstone has when his health is
broken, and he gives himself into
her hands with the docIlIty of an
infant.
The Ironton Southerner tells of
y big find of Mound-Builder peo-
terry near that place, where the
mounds have long yielded curious
treasures.
Ex-senator Bradbury, of Maine,
who served in the United States
Senate with Daniel Webster,
though 50 years old, has Il firm
step and bears few marks OF great
age. He was 4 college mate of
Hawthorne and Longfellow at
Bowdoin.
A very sensational damage suit
for seduction is now on trial at
Victoria, B. c., which creates a
great flutter in the highest circles
of the fashionable society of the
city. Both tho plaintiff and de-
PENDANT belong to two of the oldest
and wealthlcst English families
living in the province. The
damages are laid at $4,000. The
disclosures arc SAID to be of very
racy and sensational character.
According 10 some recently pub
hshed statistics there have been
fought in Franco since 1870 no less
than S47 duels, besides many be-
tween officers and private soldiers,
which are scarcely ever mentioned
IN the papers. Out of these S47
ducls only nine resulted in one of
the parties being disabled. In 9S
per cent of the cases the combat
ants left the field unscratched.
The most valuable porcelain SER
vIce in existence u IN the Grand
QQeai collection at Neutrelitz,
Mecklcnburg. 1t is valued by ex-
ports at from $500 TO S12,250. 1t
is dinner service of the most mag
nifcent blue enamel painted with
birds from old Chelsea porcelain
with gQld-apchor mark Only one
other similar service is cXtant,
which is in the possession OF Queen
Victoria,
Professor Whitney of Yale Col
lego came near loosing his foot by
cfoppinu On n p,nJIn EUon a.