Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Grcon-npplo pic on some ofthe
hotel bills of fare delights the
heart of the medical practitioner.
The Boston Herald thinks Prcsi
dent Clevoland's civil service CON-
missioners arc "mon who believe
in it."
The Methodist church IN Amcri,
ca controls fifty-two colleges, with
endowments aggrcgatlng eleven
million dollars.
A goose that has been in the La
Clair family for forty-onc years
died in western New York the
other day.
A young woman OF Ithaca has
nearly 81, 900 silk worms suspend
ed in paper cones, and all spinning
away lndustriously.
The long drought has left the
Northwestern streams 50 low that
$50, 100000 feet of logs arc chung
up" away from the mills.
The arid region is onc-half the
area of the United States. and less
than ono-thlrd of it is susceptible OF
being reclaimed for husbandry.
The Boston State is of opinion
that tho Republican party has gone
so far in the antisaloon movement
that rum Republicans must leave
IT."
Cabinet pudding with which no.
tel dinners arc so familiar, Is de-
cIared by crazy man 10 have been
'invented" by G. Washington's
cook.
American pork now enters Ger
many through England and thus
evades the payment of duty. In
England it is branded as English
pork.
The eldest and largest tree IN
the world is said to stand near the
foot of Mount Etna. 1t is 2l2 feet
in circumference and is chestnut
of course.
United Ireland suggests "clap-
ping every Ulster magistrate into
JAIL" and letting the soldiers deal
with the riotous Orangemen I'M
fcttered.
Asbury Park and Ocean Grove
are SAID TO surpass all competition
in the matter of indecent bathing.
1t Is described rs saturnalia of
moist lewdness.
The anti-saloon Republicans are
unanimous in their opinion that
the Democratic party should be
downed. The will SEQ about "put-
ting down" rum afterward.
Daniel Slower of Cation, ILL.,,
has an undisputod record of 1873
rattlcsnakes killed in the past four
months. He has $50 rattles to
shoy for 1t. He has also killed
i04 blue racers.
Miss Sarah Henshaw, for sixty
years travelling evangelist, has
Just been holding meetings IN
Wondfnrd, Vt, She speaks with
great power, although almost 20
years old.
Horses arc not fully matured un-
til 7 wears Ct age, nor do they az
rive at their full strength until 8
years old. Immature animals are
often overtRxed and their future
usefulness injured.
Henry George has expressed a
desire to become a candidate for
mayor of New York city on the
workingmen's ticket. Like many
others, Mr.. George Is o friend to
the Iaboring men for Office only.
1t is said that when Mary Ander-
son is ready to marry her choice
will fall upon George Avery of
Louisville. This probably means
that he is her choice now and will
so continue If she doesn't change.
A shepherd dog raised in ValInla
Mich, was taken to Nebraska with
its master. A few weeks after
wards it appeared at lis old Michl-
gan home, having every appearance
OF having made the long journey.
The inhabitants of Maine are not
physically, Judging
by the graduating class at the
Nichols Latin school of Lewiston.
The seven young men who COM
pose 1t average six feet in height.
Co. C of the Tenth Iowa volun-
teers in the late war is SAID to have
had fourteen pairs of brothers,
three pairs of trIplets and three
fathers with a son each. II must
have been rather montonQns at
roll-caii.
Among the first instaiImcnt of
Chinese that went to North Adams,
Mass, was Lin Gin Gong. lilo be-
came converted to Christianity,
studied hard, saved money, and is
now about TO return to his native
land as a missionary.
G. G. Barnes, the Mountain
Evangelist Of Kentucky, who has
been travelling in Europe and the
East, is in San FRANCISCO on his
way home. He is conducting 2
series OF meetings, assisted by his
son and two daughters. |;
President Dwight OF Yale has .
scholarly stoop, and this is why .
ittle New Haven girl, quite limo
cent of an attempt at pun, said
Mama, l think he Is the stopped
est man L ever did see" T.
A tweIvo-yoar-old boy in Pleas
INT Valley, o., attempting to draw
water from wslI fifty feet deep,
ell IN. lie went 70 lhe potion (
hitting the stones on the
,idps, grasped the rope, and was
irawn oHF in safety by his mother
md sister,
Rartendcrs who keep their mon
Y on the shelf behind the bar
hould beware of young men car
'yIng canes. Two such young men
lave been arrested in Boston,
where they were stealing money
W means OF; very sticky substance