Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

swaps 'AC iiauC lIOHl peanut OH.
Gen. Daniel E. Sicklcs has be-
come 4 member of the Tammany
society
Ex-Gov. Porter Is talked of as
Of the Indiana Republic
can committee.
The municipal election in Phila-
delphia resulted IN a gain of two
Republican councrlmcn.
NJ. V. Montgomery, commission
cr of patents, is said to resemble
the portraits of Napoleon 1.
Senator Logan will speak at tho
Republican club celebration OF
Washington's birthday IN Detroit.
A correspondent says If there is
any change IN the cabinet Thur
man will have the first refusal of
the vacancy.
Senator Stanford is of opinion
that Mormonlsm will die out of it.
self if left to the operation of natur-
al causes.
Mr.. Labouchere says an inter-
view with the name of the "inter-
viewer" left out is rather poor
reading.
Speaker Carlisle is opposed to
the Blair educational bill. lie con-
srdors that Kentucky doesn't need
such help.
EX-Congressman Grape seems to
have the inside track for the Re-
publican nomination ior governor
of Massachusetts.
Senator Wilson OF Iowa says that
prohibition is Ca fixed fact" In his
STATE. If that Is so it is all tho
more demoralizrng.
The Introduction of natural gas
at Pittsburg has reduced the guam,
thy of coal consumed in that city
100000 bushels per day.
They have Il woman at the Paris
circus that jumps from one horse
to another, they going round the
ring in opposite directions.
Tho first coinage by authority of
the United States was of copper
and bears date 1887. One of the
inscriptions "Mlnd Your Own Bust
ness"
Congressman Mckinley thinks
Mr.. Randall will only need to Sc
cure twenty Democratic votes to
kill the tariff measure which Mr..
Morrison brings forward.
Lulu Hurst. the Georgia girl who
mado many thousand dollars by
exhibiting her alleged electric
is now a student in Shorter
Female College.
Moodey and Sankey are draw
ing such immense crowds in New
Orleans that the Washington Ar
tillery Hall where they have their
meetings will not begin TO hold the
throngs.
During the recent cold snap and
snow storm in Florida the unso-
phIsticated chickens greedily snap
ped up the first fakes that fell,
supposing thom to be q new species
Of food.
1t is estimated that Senator Jones
of Florida, at present in Detroit,
paying court to fair widow, has
sent, so far, 22O bouquets, and 22O
lvowments, one for each day OF
his stay in Detroit.
The immense prehistoric shell
heaps at Damariscotta, Me-, are
being dug up and shipped to Bos-
ION to be ground into dust and sold
rs poultry food.
eve arc descended from the
apes" says writer. Some are
md then again some of US are as
as it were.-Burlington
Free Press.
A Liverpool court has decided
hat theatre manager can refuse
admission 10 people known to DC
n the habit of talking during per-
ormanccs.
DIR. NJ. Salm, oculist, the al
eyed hero of u seduction scrape at
Bolton has returned to Austin and
lonounces the whole story as an
nfamous falsehood.
Tho Paris Patrie, which calls the
month of January, 1886, "the red
month";" shows that on every day
If January ;horc was a murder or
IN attempt at murder in Franco.
NcighborlY calls. Kentuckians
ire moving 10 Dakota and Michi- |
5andcrs are moving to Virginia.
rho North and the South are get
ing all mixed Vp,-Qeprier Journal.
Including headlines, The Phil
'dclphia News tho other day head
ID department What Phlladel-
'hia Editors Tank" 1t occupied
'no-eighth Of = columr.-Puck.
If OFF gTca! manufacturing in
Iustnies are ever 10 compete with
he outside world they must 30 re-
ieved of some of their oppressive
OF the principle ofthc lis.
Il Mr. MorriSon's bill.
= Kansas man who went to Wash
ngton last fall, and, with good en-
.orsoment, applied for Post Off
C, is said to be saving wood in the
ANY yaEd and trying to earn
nough money to get home with.
Congress shows an inclination to
INQUIRE what Butler did with pro.
erty which he confseatod while
n New Orleans. This gives an
nexpeeted turn to the silver ques-
lon.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
DR.. G. Il. Fitch, who has been
Dr. five years in charge ofKakaako
eper hospital in Honolulu, thinks
hat in fifteen years there will be
My enough natives left TO make
uriosIties. Liquor and leprosy
re killing them off.
Within week Neal Dow has
uthorIzed the statement that there
no open liquor selling in Maine.
reads somewhat queerly that
nring the visit of two evangellsts
Bangor that "thcro Is a move :
tent looking to shutting up tho
lloons,"