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

Senator Warner Miller says the
fact that Collector Hedden Is Il
merchant, and not a politician, has
inclined tho Republican senators
TO look upon HIM with favor.
Experiments are now being
made with Ramie grass which may
yet give US cloth almost as cheap
as cotton, while as durable and
beautiful as damask or fine velvet.
The pretty Turkish women in
Constantinople are becoming
"ChriStIanized" to the extent OF
adopting thinner and more trans
parent "yash-masks," or face COW
erings than their religion requires.
Managers OF leading Chicago
theaters have declared against
photographic cards for windows
and other like means of advertis-
ing attractions, and it is thought
their action will become general
throughout the country.
A western editor having recelv-
cd a note from an irate subscriber
saying: "Stop your paper and
and send reasonable bill, and l will
pay it." sent bill for $4,000, say
ing that he could not afford to sus-
pend publication for less.
The Mormons are thinking about
cmigrating to the Sandwich Is
lands. This is good news for every
body but the Sandwich Islanders,
who have had nothing worse than
the leprosy and the Coolie system
10 contend with heretofore.
Kerrville Eye: What with rail
road building, deep water agita-
ton, campaign excitement, focks
of omigrants, and such bright,
prospects of future magnificence,
the State of Texas To- day is at
tanning celebrity that is attract
ing the attention of the whole civ
ilized world.
1t is very funny. All the Dom
ocratic organs say that Miss Glove
land is making hosts of friends
for herself and the president by
entertaining all the congressmen's
wives, aud the Republican organs
insist that she is making enemies
right and lett by tho same policy.
Tho Supreme Court of Missis-
sippi has decided that no contract
can be enforced by a business
house which undertakes its stock
in giving it in for assessment. The
result is that business men through
out the state are besieging the as
SCISSORS Offices increasing their
taxation.
The farmer who raises hogs, cat
tie, sheep, horses, and general
variety of grain best adapted to
soil and climate, upon his farm
in other words, follows what is
called mixed farmIng--will enjoy
the greatest success in his business,
and that locality where farmers Of
this kind are general will always
be one of prosperity.
A novel case of boycotting is re.
ported from Greensborough, Ga.
A young man had won the affec
lions of a cigar dealers daughter
but the father forbade him the
house. The young man organized
a club OF sympathizers, who refus
ed to buy cigars Of him unless the
father raised the barrlcado. --latest
accounts say he is weakening.
A colored man named Jones i,
astonishing the Philadelphia doc
tors by eating lamp chimneys ant
champagne glasses. "a spcciaI
weakness of mino," said Mr.. Jones
''is a sandwich of bit of window
glass between slices OF bread, anc
1 am also very fond of crushed
glass IN ice-cream or cake" The
doctors assert that he must have 6
pane IN his stomach.
John Carroll, the porter at thC
Colonnade Hotel IN Philadelphia
who died recently, left forum,
of 100000, including thirty OF
forty houses. About four year,
ago he inherited 100000 from at
uncle, who made his money IN Oh
City. This wlndiall made no diff
ference in his lite, but he contin
ued to set as porter, and made
prudent investments of his saw
ings.
An inventory OF the estate o
Joshua B. Lippincott, the Phila
delphia publisher, places the value
Of the decedent's personal property
at s5,599,113 As. The interest o
the deceased in the J. b. Llppincot
Company is appraised at S64l, 600
The remainder OF the personal es
tate Is invested IN railroad anC
other securities. Mr.. Lippincotr
Is also said to have left upward o
| 50, 100000 to real estate.
! The tact is now seen, and tOlera
bly, well understood, that if sufi
Gent fertility be supplied and tht
soil be kept clean, it is simply i'm
possible to make 100 great de
mands OH production. AS the mark
ct gardener, as soon as he ha.
marketed one kind of produce sows
for another, so the farmer who EN-
banks in Legitimate high cultivation
aims to keen every acre of his farm
actively producing. Science, a:
well as common sense, proves that
he is perfectly in the right,
A writer in the Popular Science
News gives the following as meth,
cd for the cure of stammering
$50 INTO a room where you will be
quiet and alone, get some book
that will interest but not excite
you, sit down and read two hours
aloud to yourself, keeping the teeth
closed. Do the same thing every
two or three days or once a weeb
if very tiresome, always taking
care to read slowly and distinctly
moving the lips bat not the teeth
The immense quantity OF peanut:
grown IN Africa, South America
and our own Southern States af
fords not only IN article of food
but very large source of oil pro
duction. The seed contains from
IS to 80 per cent. of a nearly color
less. bland, fixed oil, and used fol
similar purposes. 1t rs u rare dry
ing oil, which changes but little by
exposure to the air, and remain.
| fluid even several degrees colder
than 80 , Fahrenclt. A great auan