Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Chicago rejoices IN the possessio /
OF regularly chartered menta
science universe ty. The kind o
mental science to be taught is made
clear by the .ract that the president
ia editor OF t Mind Cure Journal
of tn ut city.
The number OF words between
"ant" and "batten" in thu second
part of Dr.. Murray's great English
dictionary is 9,l35. The work Will
embrace twenty-six parts, on the
calculation that there are about
24O, 900 words in the language.
Cures for sciatica are reported q S
having taken place in Paris after n
single application of DR.. Debove's
method of freezing the skin above
the painful parts with a spray of
chloride of methal. The operation
is SAID to be applicable also to facial
neuralgia.
A woman IN Bohemia was lately
sentenced to Imprisonment for ten
days for forgery because she
changed her physicians prescription
calling for l.2O grammes to GO. 1t
is SAID that no similar case has
over appeared on the court records
of the United States or England.
President Cleveland's letter on
the lying qualities of the news
papers fits the mugwump organs
to a nicely. They began their ~
ing a year ago last summer, though
they deserved some better reward
than they have recelved.-Phila-
delphia Press, Rep.
Prince Sakala, son OF the King
of Vivi, has arrived IN England.
Sakala is boy about twelve years
of age, and is heir to the Kionzo
country, at present ruled by his
uncle. The Prince was brought
TO England by Mr.. Van de Veide,
of the Congo Free State.
Some twenty colonies have been
established in the Santa Fe district
of the Argentine Republic. Their
territory occupies ninety-fve
square leagues, and the settlers
number 1859 families. During the
last thirty years the district has
grown through colonization unit
it has a population OF 10000
souls.
Prohibition does not prohibit.
No man of any candor or care for
his reputation for veracity will tor
a moment deny this aphoristic
statement. The only question of
debate involved in it is the mean
ing that may be attached TO it by
those who use it.-Indianapolis
Journal, Rep.
Miss Rosamond Davenport-HilI, /
Mrs. Webster and Mrs. Westlake
have been elected members of the
London School Board, and Miss
Helen Taylor, who has been /
of the board since 1876. !!
could have been re-electsA hnt
she declined to dsr'cote herself to
inc iruitl'aS task of trying to ret
no % tho House of Commons.
An old autograph album IN
Washington contains the following
letter from Gen. Winfield Scott,
dated Washington, June Is, 1860, |
to the proprletors of the Girard .
House, Philadelphia: "GentIemen
me at the Girard House |
tomorrow night at II O'Clock, and |
give me bed at least six feet SIX
inches In length or one without a !
footboard." ]
The Apache war can be ended
only by putting troops enough in
the field to protect every exposed
ranch, guard every water-hole and
trail, and still have
enough men TO pursue the Indians
into their Businesses. The frontier
people ought to devote all their
energies to getting the government
to understand this and do lt.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
For some time the Standard OIL /.
company has been quietly fnvesti-
eating the natural gas wells OF Ohio.
1t is now SAID that arrangements
have been perfected for the con-
and control of the ma
tural gas fields of Ohio and Penn
sylvania. 1t is proposed to have
tho gas conveyed by pipes to Cleve-
and, Buffalo, New York and other
cities where it will be used for iuel I.
and light. /