Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25
Anderson b. Jones. Q eolOre

IS home from Brownsville, a villag
: fifteen miles from Monrovia. CIV
ing some account of the country
a He says that thcro are no horses
d no mules, and no oxen in th,
whole settlement. All the farm
b work is done with the hoe. tbs
k rake and the axe. He says: 81
have been all over tho settlement,
and found tho largest number Of
: peoplein suffering condition for
something to eat and for clothes TO
wear. There isn't Il doctor in this
: settlement-the settlement is too
0 poor 10 suppot one. Calico is %
cents per yard. A common labor
or, when he can get any work to
do, is paid % cents per day.
Picked pork is rs cents per pound;
shoulder meat rs cents per pound.
All the flour and meat used here is
imported from England and Amer
lea. Corn meal is 10 cents per
quart. Common -four is SIS per
barrel. The only slow way the
settlers have TO mako money here
is by raising and selling coffee. It
will take q newcomer like myself
five or six years get a coffee farm
in trim for selling coffee. The
public schools are poor. There is
class of people over here who do
not want the true condition Of
things written back home"
j A writer describing q Japanese
wedding says: At the end of the
room whore the ceremony was TO
take place there stood on tho mat
ted foor a dwarf pine tree, about
three feet high, and under it the
figures of an old man and an old
woman, tho whole symbolizing q
! long life OF married happiness and
a green old age. There were also
two b1onze storks and a bronze
tortoise, acd swinging censor of
the same met2l gave forth the rich
perfume of burning sandal-wood.
On low stand of gold lacquered
wood there were threo slender
porcelain bottles, covered with the
figures of the gods of wealth and
health and other desirable features
of lite, one being twice the size Of
tho others, and also o beautiful
little cloisonne vessel, looking
like teapot with two spouts, the
one opposite the other and with O
handle of lacquered bamboo. A
small tray, on which were three
delicate little china cups, each
standing in the one beneath it,
completed the outfit for the proper
performance of the marriage,
which in Japan IS neither a reiig-
ious nor a civil ceremony and no
priest or government official is
needed to tie the knot. The Japs
call the ceremony san-san-ku-do or
three times three are nine.
Louisville, KY, has organized q
cremation society; tho Buffalo
Cremation Society has erected .
furnace on the Italian plan; q Gre
nation furnace has been complot-
ed at Pittsburg; Cincinnati has an
organization that is building fur
mace; g society has been organized
in San Francisco and viii build
soon; Baltimore has live organl-
cation, embracing many prominent
citizens; Philadelphia's society is
several years old, and composed
largely of business men; San An
tonic will soon build a cremator-
lum, and Davenport, Ia, Detroit.
Los Angeles, Sacramento, Boston
and Worcester have organizations,
and are contemplating the building
Of crematoriums.
A tramping newspaper is the
latest move in South Carolina Jour-
nalism. A citizen of Edgefield
county announces his purpose to
buy an army press and keep q
movable office, printing the paper
alternately in the small towns and
villages ofthe county.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill Terry's
rigorous efforts have suddenly SUBJ
lded, owing to O decision of Judge
joffee In San Francisco that she
las no interest In the will of the
ate William Sharon, which deci-
len closed the case, and the will
vas admitted to probate.
There is man named Smith liy-
ng in one of the small towns In
iiohigan who claims to be a dem
list. A sign over his door, painted
y himself, reads: "Teath Extract
d Without Emmy Pane, Latin Gas
ZEN (l0) cents a Ha Har
An alleged pranre wolf has been
discovered providing about Essex,
n England. Tho animal was kill
d on the railway near North
Veald, 1t has been pronounced
y two eminent naturalists to be q
ne prairie wolf.
An electrician whose family was
realty annoyed by tramps rugged
battery so that he could paralyze
nyone who put foot on the back
tops The device Is effective, but
takes very nice discrimination
D avoid making mistakes.
It's announced that Mr.. Goodwin
NTH will leave Canada in the
prlng to make his residence ID
iDgland. He has disposed of his
interest IN the Week, but will con-
rlbute signed articles to its col
INNS.
Hanlan, the oarsman, doesn't be-
eve in gymnasium for ordinary
urposes of training the muscles.
10 says the old-fashioned rubber
trctchers to pull at with hands and
set are good enough apparatus.
The veterans OF the United
tates senate rarely pay any atten-
on to members who are less than
D years old and have served less
ian ten years on the floor.
A horse was struck by locorno-
We while crossing the track at
.dairville, Ga, the other day and
as knocked sixty feet by actual
There are two things that do not
'ok well together, and they are q
Irgo hustle and a tight-fttIng
'alskin saque. Ordinarily a word
, the wise is enough.
They say that Kansas Demo-