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

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d A Denver dentist tells OF q gin
i only Ia years old with Il tull set o
j false teeth.
President Cleveland is said t,
have a very human weakness TO
minstrel shows.
$ Secretary Whitney has seen II
; Ito deny that he gave his wife /:
: 100000 necklace.
Mr.. Gladstone announces re
duction of 20 TO 80 per cent. il
rents 10 his tenants.
The English still hold the leac
in dycing turs, and tho best seal
, skins arc all colored by them.
1t Is estimated that Senator Ed
: munds is working to get second
! place on the next Blaine ticket.
They are considering III differ
ent systems of laying telegraph
wires underground in New York.
Mr.. Blaine will take a rest and
then write another book, going
further back in American history
One field of ice that passed down
the Penobscot river last week was
declared to contain upwards OF l5U
acres.
A bill TO abolish the office OF
lieutenant governor is under con-
sideration IN the Mississippi legis-
Iature.
Prior to the year 1898 all the
proceedings of the United States
senate were held with closed
doors.
Kansas ProhibitIonists are try
ing to persuade the Republican
party to plant itself on their plat
form.
I Several Michigan congressman
are unwilling to servo another
term. Michigan was always a
queer community.
/ Constituents of Senator Jones of
Florida hope that he will soon be
able to report progress IN the
courtship case.
| Mark Twain's long bushy hair is
said to make him look like an I'M
kempt miller, with plenty OF flour
sprlnkled over him.
Rev. r. A. Pearce, the only or
dalned deaf and dumb clergyman
in the Church of England, was
recently presented at court.
The colored employees of 4
Georgia railroad struck last week
because of the appointment Of one
Of their own race as foreman.
So far IN 1886 no killings at Tex
as country dances have been re-
ported. There were a good many
In the year just gone.-Fort Worth
Gazette.
The real development of oyster
farming IN the Chesapeake dates
back only to 1857, and Its pripci-
pal growth has taken place in the
last ten years.
Just 100 years ago the state of
Pennsylvania passed law levying
ad valorem duties on seventy
articles OF manufacture, including
iron and steel.
The artisans and operatives of
Montreal deposited Sl44,000 IN
tho Postoffico ssvings bank last
year. They have now 100000
in that institution.
If every boy treated his girl
friends as he would like other boys
to treat his sister, there would be
better code of morals when they
were grown up.
The oldest dwelling-house IN the
United States is situated near the
San Miguel church. 1t was built
before the Spanish conquest.-Las
Vegas IN. M Optic.
Paul Savanna, professor of fenc-
ing in New York, says hundreds OF
ladies practise daily with the fOils,
and that the custom is growing
rather than declining.
Gen. Tidball says in event of
war there would not be much
trouble in improving coast fortIf
cations, but what is needed is guns
with which to arm them.
The Vermont maple sugar crop,
it is predicted, is to be the best in
several years. The peach may not
bloom and the orange is depressed,
but the sap still waves as it were
Boston Record.
| If the rebels were to invade Ohio,
as John Sherman every year says
they are in the act of doing, they
couldn't make q worse mess than
the politicians are making.-Har-
risburg Patriot, Dem.
/ At Modesto, Cal, a Chinaman
has succeeded in matchmaking his
countryman to the extent of $40 a
week by q pretense Of being able
to protect their gambling games
from police interference
| The Hampton institute, near
Fortress Monroe, has now over
6l7 students, of whom 40 are In
dams and the rest negroes. 1t has
land and improvements worth
100000 and is free from debt.
| Remembering 1876. the country
may indeed look with suspicion
upon any scheme for counting
the electoral votes that emanates
from John Sherman or, as for that,
any other Republican. - Macon
Telegraph, Dem.
! An overseer of the poor at st.
Adams, VT, who investigated a
case of supposed need, found the
head OF the family saving his
money to feed his horse abundant
ly while he let the rest of the fam
lily beg daily tor their food.
/ Ii Gen. Sherman had been as
badly routed by the enemy in the
war time as he has In his contro-
versy with Gen. J. 3. Fry, he
would have gone into history at
the head of the list of military
failures.-NatIouaI Republican.
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