Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-07

tlOuS 10 Ouaklun, lncludlng the Der
Der railway, was something under
Sl7 100000 This did not include
the ordinary charge for the main
taInance. of the troops, nor yet
part of the transportation expen-
ses.
Cincinnati was ninety-seveu
years old Monday. 1t was on Dec.
%, 17SS. that Israel Ludlow and
about twenty others landed on the
present site of the city and con-
cluded TO settle there. In 1889
Fort Washington was erected, and
in 1902 the City of Cincinnati was
incorporated.
; The oldest gas company in New
York City made a million dollars
profit in one year on three-fourths
that amount of paid up capital.
: The recent revelations about our
gas companies and their huge I'M
paid additions to their capital stock
have added q new phase to Wall
street. Men now speak not only
of watered stock, but of acrated
stock.-New York Star.
The Halifax Gazette gives
startling account of the parbarlsm
that exists among the fishing peo-
pie who make an annual migration
from Newfoundland to the Labra-
dor coast, as shown by the horrible
condition OF the vessels IN winch
they are transported and of the
wretched huts in which they live
when on the coast. Their degrad-
ed condition is equal only by the
slavery of women in the English
coal mines, which was long ago put
n stop to by legislation.
The enormous power of ocean
tidal waves has frequently been IL
Illustrated, notably when a United
States war vessel was carried two
miles inland on the coast OF South
America and left standed there. A
fresh instance, even more remarka-
BILE, is reported from Batavia, as q
result of the Krakatoa earthquake
which was the supposed cause of
last years red sunsets. Great
masses of white coral, weighing
several tons, some of them estlmat-
ed at from thirty to fifty tons in
weight, were torn from their rocky
beds and carried several miles in
shore. The war vessel was light
enough to float, and it only requir-
ed sufficient depth of water to car
~ her island tor two miles, but
these masses of coral must have on
fered great resistance te .Ibs ON.
ward flow of the lave.
. well-to-do burglar has Just
been detected and arrested in Eng
land. He rented a respectable
residence at Aston, and was regu-
lar attendant at church, his son and
daughter being In good situations
in Birmingham. When the police
searched his house they found an
enormous quantity of silver and
electro-plated goods, set of val
liable diamond studs, and much
other stolen property. A large
part of the electro-plate has been
traced as having been stolen from
the houses of newly married cou-
pies. The police suspect that the
prisoner attended church merely
Tor the purpose OF tracing by the
reading of the banns newly mar
ried people whom to plumber of
their marriage presents. There
had been recent marriage in the
house IN which he was caught.
Anont the frequently made
charges of adulteratlon in alcoho-
lie liquors, NJ. Girard, chief OF the
Municipal Laboratory OF Paris.
puts "French brandy" under SER
Ious cloud. He declares that al
most no genuine brandy is now
manufactured in France. From /
1910 to 1850 about 2h,000,000 gal
Ions were made yearly, and fully
seven-eights oft came from grapes.
At present moro than 50,000,000
gallons are yearly turned out, but
not ] per cent of it is from the
grape; grain, cider, beets, potatoes,
ETC., forming its principal sources.
"The spirits thus obtained" says
NJ. Glrard, "would be fairly whole
some if they were properly recti-
fed. But they are not" Invaria-
bly, when put upon the market they
are charged with acids, others and
essential oils of the most deadly
nature, To the consumption of
such stuff, instead of the pure
grape brandy of former year, NJ.
GiraTd attributes the startling in
crease OF violent insanity and other
maladies in France, in which no is
probably correct.
Gen. Meredit Read, in his speech
at the banquet given in PhlIadel-
ph:a by the Pennsylvania Histori-
calSociety ON The 200th anniversary
of the introduction of printing in
to the middle colonies, announced
an interesting discovery which be
made when United States Minister
in Greece. In speaking of Frank
lin he said "Wherever types are
set, or the electric spark may wan
der and work, Franklln's name is
commemorated. The most remark
able result of Franklin's diseove-
ries, the electric telegraph
owes its name to that mother
of civilization. the Greek language,
and 1t is a remarkable fact that the
venerable rocks which watch over
the vIolet-crowned city of Athens
have assumed the philosophers
features. For l discovered many i
years ago, while daily scanning the Il
outlines OF the ancient Acropolis, /
that the northwestern profile look \
ing toward Mars Hill and the sea Z
is as perfect q likeness of Franklin c
are the southeastern is of Wash b
lngton. 1t is a happy and strik- !.
ing coincidence that the father of &
our country and the man whose t.
key unlocked the mysteries of the n
universe look down from that y.
classic hill from whence flowed TIE y
influence which gave % mankind :