Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

crop of 10000 acres.
Senator Hurst. of California, has
an income OF $4,000 per day.
1t takes at least. three persons to
form corporation in Indiana.
Drinking between drinks is what
ruins tho American constitution.
There is just now quito n favor
able activity in the raw silk mar
ket.
The Fifth Avenue hotel in Now
York is rented for SIS5,000 per
year.
The time has gone by when men
sheer at poultry raising as a small
business.
The rich editor, Joseph Pulitzer,
has invested 100000 in govern
ment bonds.
The past month has been the
coolest March in England tor
seventy years.
Miss Mary Lee, the eldest
daughter of the beloved Robert 4.
Lee is in Portugal.
Mark TWAIN is to be the nominee
of the Knights of Labor for the
mayor city OF Hartford.
The Florida hotels get their
supplies of meat and vegetables,
and even fish, from New York.
A nugget of gold weighing forty
seven ounces was taken out of q
mine at Forest City, Cal.
The New York Evening Post
calls the Blaine educational bill a
"bill to promote mcndicancy."
Tho fire indemnity paid by in
surance companies on Boston prop
erty last year amounted to over
81 100000.
Numerous candidates are already
IN the field for the place made va
cant by the resignation of Con-
gresham Pulitzer.
The Pope of Rome is subscri-
Der to the New York Christian Adj
vocate. The total circulation Of
the paper is $1,000.
The National bank at Angelica,
N. Y, is wrecked. Its cashier
took $4,000 of its money, and is
in Canada for his health.
Two large pile-drivers for the
government work in Kentucky
river have just been completed at
the ship yard at Covington, Ky.
Mary AIbro, aged IS, a $4,000,
orphan hciresss, of Covington, KY.
eloped with n skating rink man,
They were married Mt Falmouth.
Wyoming cattle kings have pur-
chased 81, 100 acres in HIllsbOro
and Manatee counties, Fla, for a
cattle range. The price paid was
sS4, 500 cash.
Logan's bill to increase the
army force to 10000 men failed to
pass the senate by a vote of 10
yeas to 81 nays.
A younger brother of the famous
Marquis of Queensberry has just
arrived in San Francisco from the
Sandwich Islands.
VIM. Walter Phelps belief that
Blaine's nomination is inevitable
has been confirmed by his recent
visit TO Maine.
There are $4,000 beer saloons IN
Paris. Since they have become so
numerous not so many thirsty
Threats as formerly are crying.
"On to Berlin!"
There is some talk in Vermont
ofdowning the Republican machine
and nominating ex-Collector Wells
of Burlington as Republican can
didate for governor.
Mr.. A. Cutter, of Louisville, KY,
holds the championship of pulling
the body up by the little finger OF
one hand. He did it six times in
succession IN 1878.
A heavy tax is to be placed on
the waters from Lourdes and other
shrines in France, and the govern
ment expects to derive a revenue
of 100000 francs therefrom,
The crime of the last boy sent TO
the New Hampshire reform school
was the setting on fire of passing
load OF hay, whereby the farmer
sitting on top of it was nearly
burned to death.
"Chambcrmaids" in Mexican ho-
tells are male Indians, termed
mazos, They are quick, and will
hire themselves to q stranger IN
the capital for IS week, giving
their employer undivided and very
welcome service,
A recent careful calculation
shows that England owns nearly
three times as large an extent OF
colonies as all the rest of Europe |
together. Her colonies are eighty
five times as big as the mother
country.
The literary st. Botolph's Club
of Boston has begun q series of
weekly "rmoke talks" the men,
bers enjoying their cigars while
the chosen speaker dIscourses in
an easy conversational way. The
club proposes moving into the
Back Bay district.
The onions of Wethersfeld, Conn.,,
have long been famous, but Sunder-
land township, in western Massa-
chusetts, devoted sixty-three acres
to that odoriferous bulb last year,
which yielded 524 bushels to the
acre each, worth $4,000, or about
S3l7 TO the acre.
A boy in the gallery ola Spring
field, Mass, theatre Disconnected |
the actors the other evening dur
ing q most effecting part of the
play. The stage had been darken-
ed and one of the actors at anoth-
er's approach repeated his line,
'EHark What is that?" "Rats!
shouted the gamin, and the au-
dlence and actors responded.
At the loot of Main street in
Danbury, Conn, stands a house
built by EInathan Osborn in 1896. |
1t is low, hip-roofed house, stud
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