Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-08
GENERAL NEWS.

y
ents IN the freshman class al
Yale.
The queen of Roumanra is re-
ported to be dangerously i'll with
dropsy.
There are twenty-five thousand
more men than women IN Phrla
doIphia.
Mr.. Bayard mas sent TO the Della
ware Historical society collection
OF photographs OF Gen. Grant.
Prominent Georgia farmers arc
preparing TO substitute Chinese
for negro labor on their planta'
tions.
A Russian, at Yarkton, D. T.,
contcmplatcs making q trip TO
Moscow in an ark of his own manu-
facturc.
There is grca! stampede OF
Alaska miners to the Yukon gold
fields, where rich bar dIgglngs are
reported.
Over 81, 100000 in drafts and
cash were found IN the 4,S4S,O
letters sent to tho dead letter office
last year.
According TO New York medI-
cal journal one-halfthc adult men
in America living in our cities are
bald-headed.
Since 1870 Alaska has paid into
the United State treasury over ST.
100000 rental from the seal fur
franchise alone.
Count Herbert Won Bismarck
new salary is $4,000 marks-but
1000 less than that drawn by
Prince Bismarck.
At meeting of royaIists. at Bel
fast, 1t was decided to send fifty
men to stump England, explaining
the dangers of homo rule.
A largo amount of money is be-
ing expended on the oyster beds at
Ardcc, ireland. This industry is
said to be looking up in the Elmer
aid isle.
Big bugs, about three inches
long, one inch wide, and armed
with formidable-looklng claws,
have appeared in great numbers IN
Buffalo.
The New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio railroad is capitalized at $685.
900 mile. The $3.50 rcpres-
ents the cost of the road, and the
100000 represents water.
Mr.. Abbey, now southwark of
the carth's equatorial glrdle gave
assurance Just before he left Paris
that the Mary Anderson season of
thirty-one weeks IN America nett
cd 1887 900.
Mr.. Thomas Juglarls, of Boston,
has received from the king of Italy
the decoration of the Order of the
Crown and the title of chevalier.
He is the only person in this coun-
try thus honored.
w. V. Cox, chief clerk of the
Washington National museum, has
received from Sunset Cox n fine
specimen of an EgyptG:.iin mummy
$500 years old The mummy will
be PLACED! on exhibition.
The membership of the CONNER
cial Travellers Association has IN
creased from $3.50, the original num-
Der, to 1875, with an average
monthly increase OF nearly 1000
during the past SIX months.
The Dallas News says: "Henry
Watterson, writing from London
to the Courier Journal, compares
Gladstone TO Jefferson Davis, and
says he thinks them In many char
acteristics, very much alike"
Miss Corinne Baker, of San An
COLO, graduated at Oxford, MISS,
recently and received the degree
of b. L. A distinction never be-
fore attained by southern lady
at any southern institution for the
co-education of the sexes.
The HOllander relishes feast
of deeayed shark, yet looks with
horror on bread and butter. The
Japanese have a prejudice against
milk and beef, but will enjoy stew
ed or roasted rat, The Turks
shuddeF at the thought of eating
oysters.
Some OF the iron manufacturers
of tho Lehrgh valley have begun
to make street-paving blocks from
blast-furnace Stag. Some pleasing
little ornaments of delicate TINT are
already made from Stag, and If it |
can be put in durable block shape |
there seems to be no reason why it
should not become favorito
building material.
One of the newly invented de-
teclive cameras exhibited at the
American Photographers Conven-
ton in ST. Louis last week was the
"satehel eamera." 1t looks exact
ly like an alligator skin handbag,
is carried by a shoulder strap at
the side of the operator, and pic
lures arc taken without attracting
and without focusing t.
object.
George Alfred Townsend,
"Gath, the famous newspaper cor
respondent, it is estimated, has
written on an average, $4,000
words a week for the last twenty
five years. At this average the
aggregate would foot up 1850. 900
words per annum, or $4,000, 900 for
tho quarter ola century. That
would make $50 volumes of 700 to
500 pages.
The Mexico Two Republics says:
Two weeks ago grasshOppers set
tied in immense swarms upon the
fields of San Vicente, Ell Zapoc,
Santa Barbara and San Martin, in
the State OF Oaxaca, but the val !
liant inhabitants of that district !
turned out IN force and fought the
winged pest so tierceIy, tooth and
nail, the hoppcrs actually took to
light from that lnhospltablo re- 5
5Ion.