Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-22
GENERAL NEWS.
The Archbishop of Paris is dead.
Russell Sage is SAID TO be worth
$4,000, 900.

'iiNN A''V CHuSD IN'llIa HIS ldu
sixteen governors, eight Of whom
were Germans.
1t is seventeen years sInco the
first railroad across the continent
was completed.
Republican politicians arc trying
TO make out that North Carolina is
doubtful state this year.
Tho supreme court of the Unit
cd States has decided that the In
dams are foreign nation.
The number of women lawyers
in Chicago is placed at fifty, the
physicians at three hundred.
Philadelphia grave drggcrs, it
is reported, have organized n
branch of the Knights of Labor.
Foot-hghts are not used at Chi
cago amateur performances. Feet
there can be seen without them.
Mrs. Grant will soon DO paid
another S250,000 nstallment of
profits from her husbands book.
Archbishop Gibbons will be
very otleminatc in his new cardi-
nal hat. 1t will cost him $4,000.
In England a militia officer is
mover recognized by his military
title unless in uniform and on duty.
b. X. Bruce Is credited with the
ambition to represent the MIssis-
sippi "shOcstring" district in con-
grcss.
The French sculptor, jean Gau-
therin, has made a portrait bust of
the eminent architect, Richard NJ.
Hunt.
More than threc-fourths of tho
cotton produced IN the world IN
1880 was grown in the United
States.
Prof. William D. Whitney, of
Yale college, has been elected a
corporate member of the Academy
of Turin.
1t looks us though another fusion
canvass would be made by the
Democrats and Greenbackcrs IN
Michigan.
The pen loses its power when it
ceases to be truthful, as the sword
its honor when 1t ceases to contend
for the right.
Henry George, after investlgat-
ing, reports that tho miners arc
the worst paid workingmen in the
United States.
Very warm, light blankets and
fcather-cloth are now made from
the waste feathers of domestic
fowl and game bird.
Canada would be wiser TO cstab-
lish q throc-mile limit for Ameri-
can defaulters rather than for
American fisheries.
According to the Almanach dc
Gotha for the present year, the to-
tai population of the empire of
Russia is lO4,0O1, $50.
1t is said that the lady physi-
clans of Philadelphia will soon be
numerous enough TO form q medi-
cal society of their own.
1t is claimed that the actual
prayer-book used by Mary Queen
of Scots on the scaffold was latoly
sold in London for el27.
Tho Virginia City Enterprise
donIos that Senator FAR and Mr..
Mackay have adjusted their differ
onccs and become friends.
NJ. Pastcur's testimony is that it
is easier to cure a temperate victim
of rabies than one who smiles as
he gulps down whisky or beer.
Tho Massachusetts Legislature
has appropriated $4,000 to enter
tain President Cleveland in case
he goes up there next November.
The Petersburg, Va, Index-Ap-
peal says the Alcom boom for the
vHe-prcsldeney is growing among
tho old war wings of Mississippi.
Lord Randolph Churchill is not
without admirers it seems. Some
ono has sent him check for 920O
for the Parliamentary fund of his
party.
The Barring Brothers are nearly
as rich and as powerful as the
Rothschilds. 1t is half A morican
house and keeps $50, 100000 "rcady
for instantaneous usc."
A Boston amateur photographer
has just had made by q Now York
firm, the largest camera over made
in this country. 1t carries plate
24x33 inches. and cost $3.50.
A method of firing dynamite
shells from ordinary cannon has
been invented by Lieut.. Grayson,
and successful experiments hsvn
been performed in San Francisco
No Prss: ~
go 49, U,-'''I' i"uy CAN lraVel with
, ~. mcr nuSo . consent TO her
no such onc-sided business in tho
latter country TO the effect that No
married Austrian snbicct chill 70
coive a passport without the ev
press consent of his wife
h,hS oeorse OF Ureece has near
~ hhishod q splendid palace at
ooPonhaSen, ana mas saved enough
money 10 0lVG MN q lltp lnpnmn ut