Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Homo is the rainbox of life.

Homo is the rainbow of life.
Make fodder corn leading crop.
Speak no evil of your neigbbor.
Let us make no vows, but let us
act as if we had.
! A door belle-a pretty and at
tractive maid-servant.
Love lifts fifteen ounces off from
every pound of sorrow.
Never judge a woman by her
complexion. 1t may be all put on
1t is easier to believe an i'll re-
port than to inquire into the truth
thereof.
Never borrow trouble. Tho in
tercst you have to pay for the &C
commodation is excessive.
Lilac is popular this spring.
CHATS so" says a punster; seven
some aldermen lilac satIn."
A correspondent wants some one
TO tell him who Richard Ill was be-
tore he was "himself again"
No evil propensity of the human
heart is so powerful that it may
not be subdued by discipline.
A billy goat should be the best
material for oleomargarinc. He
is the best butter among quadrup-
eds.
Tho man who carries a pack of
cards about his clothes is pretty
sure to have his "hands" in his
pockets.
A baby is link which binds its
mother to heaven, and causes its
father to chase all over creation
for the paregOric bottle.
When he married he promised
to cleave to her 10 the end. And
the first time they attended the
theatre he Glove at the end of each
act.
The wife of Senator Leland STAN
ford, of California, distributed S5,-
900 among tho kindergartens of
San Francisco on her recent birth
day.
The cleverness of drug clerks
Young woman of color-"Pll thank
you for five cents worth OF black
lead" Drug clerk-"Do you wish
to use it as toilet powder"-Tid-
Bids.
Respect your husbands preju-
dices, respect his relations, espec-
tally his mother-she is noue the
less his mother because she is your
mother-in-law. She loved HIM be-
fore you did.
Too great familiarity and too evil
don't pleasure in the society of a
young man are errors into which
no delicate and pure-minded girl
should fall, If she desires to retain
the respect of the opposite sex.
Two or three acres of ground
were displaced last week by a
landslide at Vienna, Me-, ard car
ried down sharp descent some
twenty-five or thirty rods. Tho
ground displaced was from two to
ten feet in thickness.
The San Francisco courts are to
introduce the Chinese oath, which
consists in the witness cutting off
the head of a chicken as he repeats
a formula promising to tell the
truth, in the hope of reforming
Mongolian mendacity.
Kite flying has become such
mania at Baritan, ILL.,, that promi-
nent citizens engage in it. One
kite is seven feet long and has
been sent 1000 feet into the air.
Three men and a wlndlass are re-
CURED TO draw it back to earth.
The new frleze IN the mayors
room IN the Boston city hall has
attracted attention from the fact
that in one corner is the American
eagle and in the other a fine rep
resentation of the Irish thrush
clasplng shamrock in its claws.
Archbishop Gibbons will receive
the Cardinals hat on June 30, the
twenty-ffth anniversary of his con-
secratlon to the priesthood. He
is ffty-two years of age, and will
be one of the youngest members OF
the Sacred College.
The Yaldosta (Ga.) Times very
pertinently observes: If "a good
war record" constitutes the sole
qualification for office let us hunt
up some of the poor privates who
did their duty, some of whom are
unable to work for themselves.
AT a Yale dinner Rev. DIR. CIapp
told a story of a student who ask.
ed his fathers consent to an en-
gagement with one of the New
Haven beauties. The father con.
sented at once, saying lie himself
had courted the SINE girl when he
was a STUDENT at the college.
The old idea that slow-grown
timber was stronger than that
grown quickly is disproved by re-
cent tests, so far, at least, as bak Is
concerned. Second-growth hick-
DRY is usually more valuable for
handles of axes and hammers, and
thco annual rings show it to be of
swlfter growth than the first stock.
How men and manners change
In our young days man that
would publicly advocate his own
claims for governor, senator or
president would have been regard
ed as guilty of very indicate
act. Now it is regarded as just
the thing OF all others others that
he should do. We prefer the old
style-letting such Offices seek the
man.-Mountain Echo.