Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Diphtheria has no terrors for
parents since Red Star Cough Cure
was discovered.
Ro1bury, Mass, claims the hon
or OF establishing the first Sunday
school in the United States.
Ten new railway companies were
Incorporated during the recent ses-
sion OF the South Carolina legisla-
ture.
Bronson Howard, the play
wright, fully prepares everything
mentally before putting it on pa
per and never rewrItcs.
Lumber men in Name are crowd
ing the moose to their last ranges.
An unusual number of Canadians
are among the wood-choppers this
winter.
a Mexican editor Is 10 be shot
tor publishing articles charging
General Trevino with treason and
his wife with ImmorslIty.
The VI orld would tremble if the
military power of Greece were
commensurate with her "spunk."
Washington Republican.
1t is said that Bismarck's income
is lin the neighborhood of $780,
0OO." Nice noighborhood to live
in.-Indlanapolis Journal.
The penalty for selling a cigar
cite to a boy or girl under sixteen
years of age in New Hampshire
has been made 800 for each offense.
In Lyon county, Nevada. they
claim 10 have found fish covered
with hair instead OF scales. There
is something suggestive in tho
name OF that county.
Thomas Sexton, member parlla-
ment for South Sligo, is a printer
and journalist. He is an easy
talker and his speeches have the
merit of reading well in print.
a local morning contemporary
speaks OF q prominent Pennsyl-
vanian as "a born politician"
Most politicians have that pecuIi-
arity, we belIeve.-New York
Graphic.
A diamond broker exhibits in
Washington a $4,000 necklace,
containing forty-one stones said to
be absolutely perfect. They were
selected from more than $4,000
900 worth of gems.
A Chicago street corner lot that
was bought 30 years ago for less
than $4,000, has just been leased
for 80 years at an annual rental of
$4,000. A 10 story building, to
cost round million, will be erect
ed upon it.
An old oalIen bucket hanging
over a well in Keokuk, To-, drop
ped on the head OF a darkey, forty
feet below, and was dashed to
pieces. The darkey came up smil-
ing with the rim on his arm.
The Paramount Park Art assocl-
ton, of Philadelphia, has sent out
an appeal to the whole country for
to erect monument
to the memory of Gen. George B. !
Clellan in that city, as it was his
birthplace.
The largest individual patron of
the Washington Post Office, recelv-
ing more mail than the PRECEDENT
Or any member OF his Cabinet, Is
pension attorney whose mail fire.
1uently amounts to four and five
hundred letters day.
a Connecticut man drank some
0Il of vitrlol in mistake tor whis-
Key, and it killed him. This shows
,he value OF training. A Colorado
cowboy would have done the same
hing without even discovering his
error.-New York Tribune.
"Dick," the native policeman at
Sitka, has made a polished cedar
zane for President Cleveland. 1t
s most curiously carved with en-
'iems representing the traditions
If the bear family and is finished
With a ferrule OF Alaska gold. !
The Medical Era says that 1.-The
water drank by PhiladeIphians,
wing to the presence of ccmeter-
es near the river, is Il product of
he rainfall INTO the SchuylkllI,
mixed with large proportion of
he distiIlate of the bones of their
Il
By the wreck of a bank in Lam
aster, Mass. recently, widow
ost her whole fortune-S2000-l
an unknown person IN
Boston arranged to pay her s120
nnually representing six per I
ent. interest on her loss) as long {
IS she lived. .
Railway men complain of the
Weight of the passenger cars now
'uilt, and show by figures that an
ngine hauls between five and six
'ounds of dead weight for every
ne pound of paying passenger
7eight, reckoned when all the
eats are filled. /,
The London Times lately con 6
aimed an advertisements for {
mart-looking second footman, who {
lust have uneXceptionable charac- {
err and be active, an early riser, t
nd speak French and English. i
he ilducement held out to this t
aragon are $50 year. l
The lumber manufacturers be- l
Teen MIneola and Jefferson and ,
hose on the Galveston, Sabine and
t. Louis Tailrnadc. lla7e formed an
Ssociatlon with hcadquartors at
Their intention is to !.
DOL the lumber SO that dealers
lay be supplied promptly. y
The Mormons are thinking about G
to the Sandwich
stands. This is good news for
verybodY but the Sandwish Is. Il
Lnders, who have had nothing e
orse than leprosy and the CoQlie {
rstem to contend with heretofore. 7
Philadelphia Enquirer, Rep. {
Young man." says the Boston |,
transcript, SIT is unnecessary for e
on TO go TO the devil" This in Il