Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Cabinet photos, only 81 a dozen
at Smells gallery.

1hcIO were HtlluCI "AhS ava ~
CARS at the Detroit banquet.
A Florida woman confesseS TO
having had tOrty-tWo children.
Oscar Wilde advises TO "never
read books that try to prove any
thing"
The Alabama Democratic convcn-
ton will be held June ., at Mont
gomery.
Roasted almonds are growing IN
favor at dinner parties rs substi-
tutc for olives.
Logan says parties cannot live on
past records, and no certainly
ought 10 know.
At the exhibition of water colors
in London $4,000 worth of Ameri-
can pictures were sold.
The Milwaukee Knights OF Labor
gave the Socialists the shake. 1t
was the sensible thing TO do.
Haverly considered white a lucky
color and so had his Philadelphia
theatre painted accordingly.
Congressman VIM. l.. Scott. one
of the wcalthiest members, began
life as page in congress.
Judge Poland went all the way
from Washington to Burlington 10
ENJOY tob4gganlng carnival.
President Cleveland is reproach-
cd for having pigs feet IN addition
to pie at his informal dinners.
The Nebraska State Farmers
alliance has declared in favor OF
Senator Van Wyck's reelection.
The Kentucky legislature has
passed bill allowing the defend
ant. IN criminal cases to testify.
a Philadelphia man put actively
.ntp balky horse by cmptying the
contents OF lighted pipe into its
ear.
Thc Kontucky state senate
adopted resolution declaring
against reducing the turiff on
hemp.
The Pennsylvania contribution
to the Hancock fund is $1,000, of
which $1,000 was contributed by
Two men.
/ Since 1893, as statistlclan
, learns, wars among civilized ma
tons have cost the lives of 4,47O,-
900 men.
| Some malicious person says that
the delicious fresh vegetables serv-
ed at Florida hotels all come out
of cute little tin cans.
/ Senator Evarts Gays he is aware
! that the voice OF Wall street is not
! the voice of New York state. He
represents the state.
{ Bob IngersoIi wants his party to
recover conscience and put up
some new candidates. This is
hard on the sta"dhys.
The hen, Of Kansas yield six
tunes ~ much his the market garde'
ners. aud sixteen times as much as
the potato fields of that State.
The very heated passages in the
dispute between Senators Morgan
and George last week were omitted
from the Congressional Record.
J., fla man e,uld only see his own
faults as easily as he can discover
those of his nelghbor, how his
bump Of selfesteem would dwIndle.
Tho Astor library, New York,
contains 22l 400 volumes, exclu'
sivo of pamphlets, and had last
year daily average Of 2S5 read
ers.
A writer IN tho Arkansaw Tray
eler says that from his boyhood
storms have always been attract
i've to him. No wonder he mar
/, ried young.
Nine millions of acres of land
in Germany are devoted to the
cultivation of the potato. The
product last year amounted to "a
100000 tons,
, The immense prehistoric shell
, heaps at Damarlscotta, Nc, are
being dug up and shipped to Bos
ton to be ground into dust and solo
as poultry food.
Undoubtedly the strongest rea
son offered for the election o
Logan as president is that it wouiC
, result In Mrs. Logan's presiding al
the White House.
The first coinage made by au
thority of the United States was
: of copper and bears date 1887
One OF the inscriptions is "M,nt
Your Own Business"
l Mrs. Dcsdemona Wadswortl
: Fullmer Smith. who dIod recently
in Salt Lake City. aged seventy
six years, was one of the first o.
Prophet Joseph Smiths wives.
General Logan has not writer
Il novel, as charged. OF course
! not; when the general ventures
into the field OF fiction he writes
history.-Macon Telegraph.
The New York Legislature has
before II q hill TO prohibit girls
from marrying before they arrive
at the age OF sixteen and boys be-
fore eighteen.
The great pork king OF Chicago
| Phil. Armour, sells more lard tc
creameries, which make specially
of pure creamery-butteI, than to
any other manufacturing interests
A substitute for quinine, de,
scribod as being even superior to
that remedy, has been obtained
from Peruvian plant known to
botanists as Lantana Brazilieuse
In Zanzibar, tho leaves of a spe.
cics of fig are used for polishing
wood, just as we employ sand,
paper, and are said to give a finish
which sand paper Gun not Impart
i
. Pierre Solidor Milon, q Philadel
phia music teacher, is IS years
old and one ofthe few survivors o.
, the troops of the first Napoleon
: He is the father of sixteen chill
dren.
One of the institutions at So
nora, Cal, is a curfew bell, and
: when il rings nj nipht all minor,