Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-09-02

Edwin ArnoId's Light OF Asia. /"
Evening high schools arc now
provided for cities of $4,000 or
moro inhabitants in Massachusetts.
A town in Oregon which has
been run by n gang OF rutiians re-
quires two marshaIs TO keep peace.
The Massachusetts legislature
passed law forbidding the sale OF
tobacco to persons under Is years
OF age.
Nearly 100000 ducks are an
nualIy killed in Southern Louis.
lana and sent TO the New Orleans
market.
Over 800 carloads of Minnesota
-four in sacks, were on the Baltl-
more docks one day recently await-
ing shipment TO Europe.
Smith College has honored Miss
Amelia B. Edwards, the noted Eng.
ligh Psychologist and novelist,
with the degree of LII. d.
1t is now proposed to fund all
the obligations of Louisiana and
make the debt of the common
wealth about S5l, 100000.
Miss Gertrude Griswold, q neice
of Bret Hartc, has made hit in
London as a vocalist, where she
made her appearance in CONCERT.
Miss Minnie Hauk has rented her
Swiss castle on condition that the
Stars and stripes are kept flying.
Minnie is flyer herself and always
on tho wave.
English railway companies have
cooperative savings banks of their
own. The employees of one line
have on deposit in one OF these
banks 81, $4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Drew has Just died
at the age of 101 years, 4 months
and Is days. She was Halifax
woman and couldn't have been per,
sonaliy acquainted with George
Washington,
According to the views of seEeral
of the prominent Now York pub
fishing houses, the prospects of u
brisk fall trade are universally
bright; in fact, more hopeful than
they had been for some seasons
past.
The cost in a eat-killing case just
tried before the Chester oounty,
Pennsylvania, courts amounted to
$50, not including tho lawyers
fees, and everyone who has ever
had to pay one of them knows
about what they are.
The new Judiciary Jaw, which
will go into effect in Iowa after
Jan. l, provides that in counties
having a population of 10000 OF
less, the grand jury shall be com
posed of five members, and IN coun'
ties having more than $1,000 the
grand jEry shall be composed Of
seven members.
Mrs. Sunderland, of Washington,
IS famous for her diamonds and
She wears earrings with
pendants, which weigh thiFty-two
carats and an emerald ring set
with diamonds, the central stone
being fully an inch long and OF
proportionate width. She is known
as the diamond Queen"
Prof. TreadwiIl, of Massachusetts,
has proved that a half-grown robin
will daily devoqr more than once
and q half times IFS own weight in
catcrpillars and beetles. A young
brood can not live on less than 70
or 50 worms a day. A single pair
of sparroWs will carry every week
to the nest 1900 -caterplIlars OF
beetles.
On the first Sunday in August
one of the employees in tannery
at Dexter, Nc, sharpened his
razor on a strap on WHICH the cur,
riers sharpened their knives and
proceeded to shave. He cut his
chm slightly, and a few days after
his face began to swell, and on the
following Saturday he died OF
blood poisoning.
A Baptist minister IN Massachq,
sets married an EpiscopaIran who
would dance. This scandalized the
parish, neccssltating the minister's
saying on Sunday, in his pulpit
"ThIs church is not my wIfe's keep
err. She shall do rs she plcases,
and shall not be accountable to you
in any sense. You had better let
her alone"
A committee of the North Caro-,
lima Industrial Association (color,
edl has issued an address TO the
people of the state asking aid in
the work of the association, which
looks to "bettering the condition
of the colored people be stimulat-
ing them to higher endeavors and
grandcr accomplishments in the
various avenues of human activity.
Nearly three-fourths OF all the
imitation butter made in this coun-
try comes from Chicago, where last
year about $4,000, 900 pounds were
made. The butteTine men of that
city say that the only effect OF tho
olcomargarinc tax bill will be TO
close the smaller houses and leave
the business in tho hands of the
largo manufacturers.
4 Lincoln county, Nevada, far
MGR has q COW which recently
gave birth TO Il hairless calf. The
COW refuses to own or sucklc it,
and il is being raised by hand,
The farmer is also the owner of =
turkcy-gobbler that has u topknOt
Of feathers which arc over three
inches in length; has a eve that
has four teats like COW he is tho
father or fourteen children, eight
girls and six boys, and is ono Of
the best citizens of Lincoln cOun
ty.