Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-06-24
GENERAL NEWS.

In the United States there is not
a sheep apiece for each person.
A Havana, Illinois, woman is
now living with her ninth husband
At Memphis much alarm is felt
at the continued caving IN of the
banks of the Mississippi.
There are two things which 4
man is bound to take on fmth-his
wife's private opinion of him and
what sausagcs are made from.
Hereafter all hotels, restaurants,
or boarding-houscs in Connecticut
that servo oleomargarinc will have
TO display sign TO that effect in
the dining-room.
A sand shark, of the harmless
species, was killed at Santa Cruz,
Cal, one day recently, that meas
ured thirty feet in length and
weighed four thousand pounds.
A SUIT has been begun to compel
North Carolina to paw interest on
bonds granted to unfinished rail
roads. The amount of principal
and interest involved is 23,000,-
900.
1t is said that there are 5000
babies born in the United States
every twenty-four hours, which
makes an increase of one million
one hundred and sixty-olght thous-
and each year. What need we for
more immigration.
The West-Pointer who graduated
first in his class this year was an
Illinois boy; the one who gradual
cd lowest in the class was also an
Illinois boy, so that the state fur
nishes for one year not only the
best scholar, but the probable best
general.-Chicago Tribune.
| DR.. J. Milton Bowers, the San
Francisco physician who was charg-
cd with numbering his wife has
been found guilty and sentenced to
be hanged. His victim was the
third wife who mad mystcriously
died, leaving him considerable pro-
perty. His method was to give the
women PHOSPHORUS in small
doses.
In q case before the Ohio Su-
preme Court, which was heard
Thursday, the leading attorney on
on one side was stone deaf and his
wife sat beside HIM and repeated
every word of the opposing coun-
sci. She did not utter word, but
simply moved her lips. In the
same case was lawyer who is
totally blind.
President Santa Maria, OF Chill,
has issued a pronunclamcnto
; against the condor of the Andes,
which declares that bird TO be ian
enemy of the Republic" A boun-
ty of IS n head is offered for every
condor killed. The gigantic vul-
turc has increased so rapidly in
the past few years along the wes-
tern slope of the Andes that it has
become a national nuisance.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Bee notes
the fact that IN that county licorice
is grown and nowhere else in the
state. 1t thrives there wonderfully
vol, and its cultivation promises
to become an industry. Licor1ce is
used abroad in the manufacture of
porter, and its juice is largely en-
ployed in England in confectien.
! cry. Its main consumption in the
United StatOs is in the preparation
OF chewing tobacco, although a con-
siderable quantity is used by drug
gusts.
! It has been tho custom OF the
New Orleans daily newspaper pub
lisheEs to take back from the re-
tailers the unsold copies of their
papers. This has been stopped
recently because the publishers
found that they were being rob
bed. Several dealers had cstab-
| iished routes on whlsh they rented
the pabers al reduced rates instead
of selling them. They delivered
the papers IN the morning, gather
ed them up in the evening, and re-
turned them as unsold copies.
A writer in the American Bar
says that Twenty-fourth street
horse dealer, who goes every year
to kentucky 10 attend horse sales,
bought last year an old plantation
very cheap. The only buildings
are Q tqmble-down house and barn,
and This spring, while repairing
the house, he found in the cellar a
large case containing [hi-tiv
barrels of wh; :SS<ey, all bearing
dat" OF 1861. The man who had
owned the place was an old haehe=
lor. The frequent raids during
the war led him to turn his ready
money into whiskcy, which he hid.
Soon after he was killed, and no
ono knew of tins liquor. Thirty
one barrels of twenty-fve-year old
Kentucky whiskey is worth pcooo
deal.
! Tbs Justices of the Peace of the
rural districts of Georgia, in the
absence Of regular lawyers, trans
act good deal ofprofessionaI bust.
ness for their ncIGhbors, On one
occasion one of these gentry was
employed 10 draw a deed of
marriage settlement. The estate
was limited TO the use of the
BRIDE during her lie, "and at and
after death, to the child or children
of the said Susan Jones, she may
have by the said Thomas Smith,
his heirs, executors, administra-
tors, or assigns" "What do you
think of it?" asked Smith OF Il law
yer to whom he showed the docu-
ment. 81 THINK" answered the
lawyer, that whoever drew this
deed was determined there should |
be no trouble by reason of failure
of ISSUE"
TOBACCO BLINDNEss.---Tobacco |
blindness is becoming a common
atfiiction. At present there are
several persons under treatment
for it at one London hospital. 1t
first takes the form of color blind
ness, the sufferers who have smok-