Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-19
GENERAL NEWS.

Cholera is prevailing in various
parts OF Italy.
But $50 men are employed at the
Mare Island navy-yard.
Lady Dixie is brave woman.
who actually thinks she can still
clear Sir Charles.
The losses of property by fire in
the United States amount TO about
100000 900 a year.
a Missouri man has been fined
$685. for calling a candidate q thief,
robber and murderer.
Ex-Attorncy-General Wayne Nc
Neagh is making formidable
record as a lawn tennis player.
Eighteen mblebees, twenty
two wasps, or thirty-elght ordinary
honey-bees contain enough poison
10 kill an adult.
The Montreal chief of police
has decided that a man has no
right to sit on the, window sill of
his own house.
| A swarm of Dakota grasshop-
pers stopped twenty minutes for
refreshments and ate up a sixty
acre field near Fargo.
There arc 100000 Italian settlers
in the Argentine Republic, $4,000
IN Brazil, 10000 In Uruguay, and
5000 In Mexico.
Evarts has not been long IN the
senate, but the Boston Transcript
claims it is long trough to demon
strate that he is failure.
A colony of Ne W York female
cigarmakers has gone to Rich
mond to show the Virginia girls
how to manipulate the weed.
1t is said that the young Due do
Rochefoucauld, who is an officer IN
the French army. is engaged to a
young American lady in straitened
circumstances.
A New London oyster dealer
has invented DIRE dge with which
startish. the greTtest enemies OF
the oyster, can be taken from o
bed without bling the oysters.
The census just taken IN Paris
gives some curious statistics. 1t
shows that the city contains one
married woman of fourteen. three
widowers of eli ghtecn and two
widows of sixteen.
A recent investigator into the
causes OF consumption says that
the disease IS often inherited be-
cause the heir has taken for his
personal use the decendent's old
mattresses, VI Ibolstered chairs, and
carpets.
Most of the London hospitals
are witho at any endowment, rely
ing entirely upon voluntary con-
tributious for their support. Dur
ing the past year these hospitals
have cared for more than one mil
lion patients.
Durip G tho present summer $50
pilgrims have left Russia for
Jerusalem, and active preparations
arc be1ng made in several parts of
the country to celebrate the ninth
century of the introduction of
Christianity into Russia.
The champion stingy man turns
up in Fresno this time. He hired
a woman to do days washing,
she to begin at a. m. and to quit
at 6 p. m. By hard work she got
at $50 o'clock. The man
paid the bill, but made her give
him couple of cabbages out of
her garden in lieu of the half hour
she had saved by extra hard work.
At the close of the war there
were about 100000 pensioners
now there are 10000. Then there
were 1859 clerks in the pension |
Office now there are 1900. Then !
the annual payments were about
S 100000; now the Office expenses
alone are greater than that sum by 8
$500, 900, and the payments reach
$50, 100000.
When strong bank gives up the 9,
ghost 1000 guack financlers are
ready with a remedy against fiscal 9
disease. We propose the "single
rule OF one" Let severe penal r
law be enacted against cashiers
having more than one wife. Whom L
Venus captures cashiers heart
her bedizened,L courtIers run off
with the money. The handsome L
must go.-Western- Watch
man. l