Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Old style frc-placeS are bccom-
inr fashionable in residences.

ing fashionable IN residences.
Sarah Bernhard Is gong to
South America to conquer another
continent.
The japanese are said to be
showing an amazing eagcrness TO
be known as n Christian nation.
Senator Ingalls, is passionatcly
fond Of flowers, aud Senator Plumb
has 4 strong liking tor hard work.
According to the Churchman no
workman that belongs TO labor
union can now consistently solicit
and from charity organizations.
The Washington Capltol says it
is authorized to say that Secretary
Manning has no idea OF withdraw
ing from the treasury department.
The captain OF bark Just arriv-
cd from Liverpool reports passing
eighteen iccbcrgs from 100 to 700
feet high on the 23d and 25th OF
last month.
The Paris Morning News re-
ports that Mr.. Thorndike Rice, the
proprietor and editor of the North
American Review, won 10000
francs the other day in two sittings
ut Monte Carlo.
Temperance tourists will be glad
to know that at Newport, the
/ finest summer sea resort in this
country, there will be no liquor
sold this summer. Prohibition is
the law OF Rhode Island.
The American workIngmcn-
the bone and sinew of this coun-
/ try-have precious little use for
the red flag, and the bIatherskitcs
who force themselves TO the front
as labor rcformcrs.
Dir. Frederick Palmer, an emil
ncnt physician of Boston, with his
little four-ycar-old grandson In his
arms, jumped ovcrb :ard Monday
last from the deck of Il Portland
steamer. Tho bodies have not
been recovered.
Thc violence of the labor temp
est promises the more speedy en-
( throncmcnt of reason and justice,
and to reason and justice let all
turn as the sources of peace and
prosperity TOR both labor and cap
ital.-Philadclphia Times.
At Tlffin, O., n valuable horse
died from eating tne bark OF a To-
Gust tree TO which it was hItched.
Another horse hitched with him
was seriously afflicted by eating
the bark, but recovered. The
symptoms resembled belladonna
poisoning.
There were nineteen revolu-
tionary soldiers buried IN Bur-
lington, Vt. Three we've generals,
three cClOneIs, six captains, one
surgeon and six privates. Per-
haps this suggests an explanation
why it was so hard to raise money
to pay the army at that time. The
surfelt of shoulder-straps may have
been worse then than now.
Thieves broke into the Penns-
worth Methodist church of PEN
saukin, Pa, and stole the pulpit
Bible and many hymn books. The
former they threw into a fifty-foot
well, where it was discovered. The
pastor, the Rev. George Greening,
at once had himself lowered into
the well where he grasped the
book, but the foul air ovcrcame
him, and he was dragged to the
surface insensIble and resuscitated.
The first fire insurance company
in America was the 'PhIladelphia
Contributlonship," organized in
1852. This grew out of a system
of private underwriting through
brokers, which began at least as
eIrIy as 1921. 1t was not until
ZOO 81 ~ e. -.
l'Sz mat inc hrst marine lhsur-
ahce company as such, was organ
ized-the insurance company OF
North America, also OF fn'iauei-
pnia Whlch mas Just PuoilShed
history OF inc beginning OF uhder'
writing IN America.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is
asserted 10 have the most
complete collection of newspaper
clippings in Washington. all re-
lating 10 himself. His wife reads
tho entire daIIv press of Georgia
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