Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-01


from there are to be believed.
> No fewer than 1000 shade-trees
now make Washington glorious in
fresh green and fragrant blossoms.
,, C. P. Huntington, the great rail-
road magnate, was once a farm
; hand on a Connecticut homestead.
As a rule lawyers are brave
, class of men. cts conscience that
f makes towards of us" you know.
Tho chief recommendation of a
young man is modesty, obedience
TO parents, and affection for rela-
| tives.
Black sorrow and white joy,
, woven together in the loom OF
, time, make the gray experience OF
life.
New Ravens cat show was boy
cotted last week because It's prizes
were made by a firm under the Ia
Dor ban.
Let mo arrange the sewerage of
city, saith an ancient sage. and 1
care not who eateth the water
melons.
The Pennsylvania Railroad re-
Gently burned up fifteen hundred
useless coal cars to get the old iron
in them.
Those men who avoid healthfuI
exercise in the open air arc now
said to have a disease called cos
mophobia.
He that blows the Goals in quar-
rels he has nothing to do with, has
no right to complain If the sparks
fly in his face.
Orange growers in Riverside,
Gala. are complaining of she dep
relations of their orchards by
Eastern tourists.
Charles A. Dana calamity SAYS
in the New York Sun: "Men and
women arc equal, except where
women is superior"
When the burners of lamps be-
como clogged with char put them
IN a strong soap suds, and. boil
awhile to clean them.
British war ships on the Chinese
station are to be painted gray be-
cause that is the most durable and
least conspicuous color.
Col. o. q. Payne is quoted as
predicting that Blaine will be re.
nominated. He said it to q New
York Tribune reporter.
History is the witness of the
times, the torch of truth, the life
of memory, the teacher of life, the
messenger of antiquity.
"Politeness," says modern Soc
rates, "ls lawful tender all the
world over; it will win nine times
out of ten on mankind"
Money aud fame are two things
that men work hardest for, and az
ter death one is worth to them
about as much as the other.
As the medical properties of
some plants can be educed only by
distillation, so our good qualities
can be proved only by trials.
Exports OF provisions are declin-
ing. The less we send abroad the
more we have to eat at home.-
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
A Prohibition organ notes that
everywhere except in Kansas and
Iowa the Republican party is COM
ing out more and more for saloons.
The Caucasian petroleum, which
excels all others in illuminating
power, is said to be greatly inferi-
or as lubricant to the American
oils.
This from the Universalist is o
whole chapter on homiletics ''Tbe
best preaching is not that which
says most, but that which suggests
most"
Florence Molinelli, fifteen-year
old Denver girl, has made her de-
but as Juliet, and is said TO show
considerable genius for one so
young. II
The landlord who will remove J
all the patent medicine signs in the {
neIghborhood of his hotel should ]
be enabled TO retire with a million
this fall,
The life ola paper dollar is five
years, while a silver dollar lasts
twenty times as long. But neither
of them lasts a great while when
marketing for early vegetables.
Yamhill, Oregon, has nine robust
young bachelors who are fervently
praying that some gentle cyclone
will watt few marriagable dam.
sells inside the corporation limits.
The slow Philadelphia people
define New Workers as featherless I
blpeds who never have time to
finish what they are going to say,
and so speak in a sort of unIntellI-
gible IN Yawk gibberish,"
There may be q place IN heaven
somewhere away cut near the door
for the man who uses his toothpick !
in the horse car and other public
places, but he will certainly never
get a reserved seat,
One OF Hayes secretaries says |
he was the first president who had
scrap-books kept of what the pa
pers said of him. He had boxes
FULL of these books when he pack
cd up to go to Ohio, and they must
be mighty interesting reading for {
him now.
"Useiul Things to Know About |
Steam Boilers" is the title of book
Just published. One of the most
useful things to know about :
steam boiler is the exact minute ii
is going to burst, so that person
may get out of the way few min :
utes before the explosion takes h
place but this information dosent v
appear in tho book.-Norristown d
Herald.