Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Democratic.
The Democrats elect everything
in Delaware.
The violinlst is always up TO his
chin in business.
California has earthquake in
surance companies.
Lady ChurchilI's father gives
her $4,000 q year.
Every county IN New Mexico
has gone democratic.
The Crown Prince of Germany
is fifty-fve years old.
The deepest mines go but about
1000 feet INTO She earth.
The school population of the
United States is $4,000, 900.
Liberty is now enlightening the
world III Now York harbor.
Bazalne and Count de Lesseps
were both born at Versailles.
Plttsburg papers deny that the
supply OF natural gas is failing.
The French Senate has authoriz-
cd the selling of the crown jewels.
The New York hop crop prom.
Uses to be the greatest on record.
A Democratic delegation is elect,
ed from Washington Territory.
Tho democrats electh both
houses of the Arizona Legislature
Agricultural clubs are being
formed in all parts of South Caro-
lima.
The U. S. Government will ex'
pend s2O,OOO,OOO IN creating q
navy.
A negro colony of 100 recently
left Charlotte, N. g., for Liberia
Africa.
Divorce cases will hereafter be
heard in open court in Rhode Is
land.
Gold and silver mines have been
discovered near North Adams,
Mass.
Mr.. Manning has resumed his
full duty as secretary OF the treas
ury.
The schools of Reading, Pa, have
adopted shorthand as an optional
study.
Sioux Falls, D. T., intends hav-
ing an ice palace and carnival next
winter.
In Missouri the State is Demo
cratic and the Legislature is I'M
changed.
John Russell Young netted s10,-
900 on his book, "a Tour Around
the World"
Five cents a pound for old ma
gaines is offered by New York
news dealer,
Tho general agent of the Pea
body fund has apportioned $500
to LOUISIANA.
The Grand Master Workman Of
the Knights af Labor gets a salary
of $4,000 year.
Nearly 1000 Iowa women own
and direct farms. Five are law
yers and ten ministers.
One of the things the cyclone did
in eastern Virginia was to shuck
the corn IN one of the fields.
Out of eighty girls who landed
at Castle Garden the other day
were red-headed.
Commissioner Colman thinks the
new diffusion process for making
sugar from sorghum success.
Germany is preparing 1000 rail
way carriages for the transporta-
ton of troops and war material.
When a couple arc about to
elope the young man asks; "Does
your mother know your route"
Uncle Sans printing Office in
Washington is big concern. The
expense for labor is 1851, 900 per
A big syndicate has been formed
to open and cultivate 100000 acres
of land IN the Yazoo delta, Mlssls-
siPPi.
Atlanta, Ga, prison authorities
are thinking of using the whip on
Jail birds who steadily refuse to
work,
Discoveries of large deposits of
plumbago, or black lead, are re-
ported in the Verdugo hills, Ne
vada.
1t IS estimated that the prune
crop in Santa Clara county, Cali
tornia, this season is worth 1,200,-
a0a,
The late William L. Hooper,
manufacturer, of Baltimore, left an
estate that proves to be worth ST.
100000.
Rev. Dir: Talmage Is represented
as having predicted tho coming OF
the millennium within the next six
~ years.
The letter sheet is seen but lit
tie in ordinary correspondence.
About 10000 are sold every day in
New York.
A farmer near Greenville, S. c.,
has ten thousand pecan trees, from
which be this year secured large
crop OF nuts
1t requires one hundred and
policemen to keep or
der in the English Parllment when
it is in sessiSF.
A frst-class salt should be pure
white in color, clean, comparative
ly dry, uniform in grain and quite
soluble in water.
Christine Nilsson is an excep-
ton to the rule of singers and &C.
tresses in that she makes to attempt
to conceal her real age.
A California farmer who owns a
water right recently re-
fused $500 per inch for all he
will sell from his canyon.
Official figures, that cannot lie,
,Lo- 4bat tho anro,u loid locf war