Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Sisston Indian reservation.
The Grand Army people deny
the alleged abuses in tho Pennsyl-
vania Orphans Home.
The transfer of the Chicago &
; Atlantic stock to the Erie Is being
contested in court.
In close application to business
nothing on this footstool exceeds
a mustard plaster.
The empress of Russia has an
amber tea service which is said to
be the finest In the world.
The census officials estimate the
population of the country at pres
ent to be 10000, 900.
The public debt has been re-
duced SOS, 100000 during the first
year of the present administration
All the Massachusetts congress
men, except Mr.. Collins, want to
be renomrnated, and probably will
be.
States which have rooted Carrlck
Castle, Ireland, for three hundred
years are found to be perfectly
sound.
Ida Socks, of Easton, Pa, who
is twenty-four years of age, has
had four husbands in a married
life OF ten years.
The population of the Northwest
Territory is 1882, including 3d.
344 whites, 2O,17O Indians and
4,s4s half-breeds.
Brewsters, N. Y, is having a
siege of diphtherIa of the most
malignant type. Whole families
have been carried off.
The Mormons expect to COM
plete their great temple at Salt
Lake City in about two years. Its
cost will be three million dollars.
The tenth General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will convene In Richmond,
Va, Wednesday, May 9Th.
The Caucasian petroleum, which
excells all others in Illuminating
power, is SAID to be greatly Infe-
rior as lubricant to the American
oils.
Life has no wretchedness equal
to an ill-assorted marriage-it is
the sepulchre of the heart, haunted
by the ghost ofpast affections and
hopes irretrleveably gone forever.
A column article IN the Denver
News describes the finding in Mid
die Park, at the depth of 80 feet,
the agatized tlmbers OF q ship of
unknown length, "evTdently moved
by sails" Some observers, how
ever, consider the supposed ship
Every like o whale"
A saloonist avoids the liquor
license in Fayette county, West
Virginia, by locating across the
river which forms the boundary
lines. He has q wire stretched
across with a basket, which slides
back and forth. The Fayette coun-
ty customer puts money in the bas-
ket and gets whiskey by return
trip.
The Knights of Labor eo-opera-
tive farming scheme will be sue
cess if properly managed, and at
any rate it deserves encourage
ment. Every farmer of them will
think twice before he strikes
against himself, and it will not
hurt this country bit to have !
more farmers and fewer strikers /.
Philadelphia Enquirer, Rep. ]
The universal wish among the 1
friends OF labor is that neither capt. 4
tai nor labor may be tyrannical or
unreasonable. Inconslderate &C r
ton on either side will work great
harm to all. Let justice prevail .
and forbearance be chief factor in !,
the solution of every trouble. The y
best of reasons should be had for i
every movement made.-Indianap- :
oils Journal. 8
No corporation can afford to ar {
refuse to confer with its :
Public sentiment will
not sustain such intolerant action.
This is the day of arbitration, and Y
it has come to stay. But good faith 4
and honorable conduct on both :
sides are essential to the success of .
arbitration, and to the satisfactory Z
and profitable conduct of any en- \
erprlse.-Indianapolis Journal. a
Nature publishes on uncommon ]
Iy large story about herring jump n
ing out of the water when fright y
ened. A correspondent says he 6
has observed whole shoals of this In
fish, in their anxiety to escape
when persued by whales, piled up u
above the surface of the sea to a 7,
height of from three to six feet.
On one occasion the fish formed a
mass even with the top of the mast
Of fishing boat-vIz., about tlf- d;
zen tcet-and had part of this T
mass fallen into the boat it would n
doubtless have sunk" -
The New York Star says: Pa .
oers sent to a department are ex- =
mined to ascertain If they belong
% the public files. If they are so q
.reated they are considered as part
IF the official archives. 1t has al =
ways been the custom of the exc
,utive to send letters, etc., from
he White House for the personal T
Information of the department
chiefs. 1t does not follow, how 81
,ver, that they thereby become oil
official record.
Twenty-Five years ago a young HI
5cotchman named Garrick went =
% Australia, leaving his wife be-
hind him. After some years she
leard that he was dead and came
o Hamilton, Canada, with her |
lite son, and there married Mr..
Six years ago no died.
Meanwhile Garrick, who had not -
he'd, returned to Scotland with Ill
lice little fortune and began hunt
ng for his wife. Two weeks ago
he received letter from him,
md week ago he Joined her in