Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-29

n sample carload OF Alabama
coal has been shipped to Brazil.
Portland, Oregon. expended
last year. 100000 in improve
mGnts.
Last year Cincinnati produced
S6,OOO,OOO worth OF boots and
shoes.
Work on the Panama canal is be-
ing vigorously pushed for
ward.
A great many people shoot off
their mouths SIMPLY to hear the re-
port.
The British museum has recent
ly added a largo number of books,
extending back INTO the sixtocth
century.
From Castlcton, VT, there are
shipped evoy month about $4,000
900 slate pencils.
Wayne MacVeIgh has been olect-
ed president of tho Philadelphia
Civil-Service Reform association.
1t is estimated that not less than
$4,000 trees were planted IN Bcrks
county, Pa, on Thursday last,
Arbor Day.
Thirteen million sheep nre said
to have died in New South Wales
within the last three years for
want of water.
A lightning rod which does not
go down into the ground far enough
to reach perpetual moisture is
worse than no rod at all.
The government official crop re-
port makes a reduction of $4,000
acres IN tho winter wheat area
from that of two years ago.
1t is stated that the British gov
crnment has decided to subsidIze a
line of steamers between British
Columbia and Hong Kong and
Australia.
Joseph LilIey, the oldest eX-
United States Senator, finished his
nincty-fifth year heartily and in
happiness at Nottingham, N. H.,
recently.
1t begins to look as though the
senatorial fight in Massachusetts
might bring the Republican party
of that state under the control of a
new set OF leaders.
The Atlanta Constitution calls
Mr.. Blaine 1.-The presidential
Herod." Sherman, Logan and
Edmunds, are the "innocents"
whom he is slaughtcrin".
commodore" Strain, the steam
ship owner of New York, is said to
be worth s7,UOO,OOO. Not many
years ago he was a country doctor
earning 81, 1000 year.
It is now understood that France
will join the powers in an ultima
tum to Greece, insisting on disar-
mamont, but will refuse to join in
any naval demonstration intended
as coercion.
Women govern us. Let US try
to render them more perfect. The
more they arc enlightened, so much
the more shall we be. On the
cultivation of the minds of women
depends the wisdom OF man.
Three hundred and seventy-thrce
cases of canine rabies were report
ed in London and nelghborhood
during 1885, and its 26 deaths from
hydrophobia. The greatest num-
Der of cases occurred between July
and December.
The happiest place IN the coun-
try must be the town of Webster,
N. II. 1t has no pauper nor crImi-
nal, and has no resident to whom
1t gives aid, and there is no penal
OF reformatory institution any
where that contains one ofits sons
or daughters.
There is a wolI-foundcd belief
that if unhappiIy married men and
women spent halfas much time try
ing to be contented as they do in
trying to be miserable, half the d.
vorce courts in the country would
be out of employment. Very Of
ten people find what they look for
in this world, whatever that may |
be.
The following is told of we'll
known London diner-out, whose
love Of oysters is notorious. At a
dinner party the other evening
oysters were duly served TO him,
but when he got the fourth he sent
his plate away. The hostess, by
whom he sat, observing this, OK
pressed her concern, adding, Il as
sure you they are natives" 81
don't doubt It," he replied ''but
that last one | ate was y settler"
A Nebraska husband went home
the other day and found that his
wife has elopcd with 4 handsOmer
man. Instead of getting his pistol
and taking the war path, he quick
Iy settled down to business. When
told a certain sum of money would
secure the capture of his wife, he
replied. mo, thank you, ! will
save that TO educate the children"
There was nothing heroic about
this, but there was good deal Of
common sensc.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Domestic differences are not
TO our New York clubs.
The other day at the conservative,
in st. James street, London, one
member made complaint of anoth-
er TO the committee with regard to
l carding transaction. One night
A won 81, 300 from B. WHO settled
1T once. On another occasion the
tables wero turned, and A. lost
s23, 900 to B. but next day gave
notice that he would not pay, as
he was under the influence OF wine
1t the time. They wore both COM
PEELED to resign.
Burnet Bulletin; Some men do
not seem to remember the hundreds
If kind words that the country !
paper bestows reguIarly---the
of harsh things it sup
Dresses-but when 1t chances to
offer little criticism, to commit q
slight error, or express an adverse