Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-18
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representative warner, oil SILVER
dill notoricty, is physically, one OF
ne biggest mon in congress. being |
more than six feet tall. He IL
described as looking like a stall |
vart Presbyterian elder, rather
tnan lawyer and 4 soldier.
Hogs differ Ms much as other I
,nimals in their abrily to take Oh
at. Thrifty young hogs OF i'm /
proved breeds will gain much fas-
ter on the same amount OF food /
0 han old aid unthrIfty animals that
belonE TO no recognized breed.
Massachusetts added only sl2i
niles last year to Its previous 1913 |
niles of railway. This mileage is |
owned by 6S corporations, whose
aggregate stock Is over sI2S,000,- |
900, and net debt nearly S75.000,- |
600. There are $4,000 employees.
The Northern railway of Russia
is using peat as fuel to a great
extent, and saves half the cost OF
wood or coal by the operation.
The peat Is found chiefly near
Moscow, and is cut mostly by
steam machinery, which can pene-
trate to the depth of twenty feet
from the surface of the bog.
Lynchburg, Va, has added to
her fiourlshIng tobacco industries
the now one of cigarette making.
which now employs many addI-
tIonal hands, chiefly young women.
The tobacco grown IN that region
during the past season was of I'M
usually fine quality, and the fall
business was unexpectedly good.
1t is not of much use to try TO
persuade dairy farmer to procure
improved breeds of cows if sc has
not learned to libnraIly feed the
natived stock he may now have.
He would be disappointed with re-
suits till he get the semi-starvation
horesy out OF himself.
For giving style, finish and beau
tiful trottlng action to gentlemen's
roadsters, the American Cultiva-
tor, believes that nothing has yet
been found superior to the Morgan
cross, especially that which comes
through the Black Hawk branch
of the family.
DURING the last year Messrs. Ar
mour & Co., OF Chicago and Kansas
Coty, killed little over 100, OOl
hogs and 10000 cattle. They have
in their pay roll at the stock yards
1900 men, and during the winter
season frequently exceed that num-
Der. Their capacity for slaughter
ing hogs at their packinghousc in
Chicago alone is 1900 PER day,
their usual run being about 5000
hogs per day.
In Germany q printed formula
at the head of the postal cards
reads: "Only a fow lines to-day"
Then the space left for the mes
sage is followed By the printed
formula: "God be thanked, / am
in good health, and hope to hear
you are also. The weather is =:
write soon, and give my love 10
all. In haste"
Somebody says IN London pa
paper that the highest velocity yet
impaired to cannon ball is 1926
feet per second, equal to a mile in
SO seconds. The velocity of the
earth at the equator, due to rota-
ton on is axis, is 1000 por hour,or
a mile In SO seconds; thus, II
cannon ball were fred due west
and could mrintain its innitia! We
locity, 1t would beat the sun in its
apparent journey around the earth.
Mr.. Perry Belmont says his COM
mittee clerk, Mr.. II. Conquest
CLARK, ais an expert stenogrnpher
and who, in addition, understands
French and Spanish, law reporting
and European politics" He might
have added, "and can get up fac
smile documents with dispatch and
have names forged thereto with
neatness. "-PhIIadelphia Times.
1t has been demonstrated by cx-
pertinent that English thoroughbred
horses imported among the Arabs
will not only excel the Arab in
speed, but will soon equal it in en-
durance. The staying qualities OF
the thoroughbred do not suffer by
comparison with those of tho IA
nous courser of the desert.
A remarkable explosion which
occurred IN Germany shows the
force possessed by dust. A sack
of -four falling down stars, opened
anil scattered the contents in a
cloud through the lower room,
whore burning gas flame set fire
to the dust, causing an explosion
which lifted part of tho roof of
the mill and broke almost all the
windows.
"Pse got a complaint ter make"
said Jim Webster to his employer,
an Austin merchant. "What Is it,"
Ode book-keeper kicked me, sab.
| don't want no hook-keeper ter
kick me-" "Of course he kicked
you. You don't expect me to at
tend 10 everything, do you? l f!
oant't look after all the little de-
tails of tho business myself. -
Texas S,itings.
Texas has an area of unorcnpied |
prairie lands, spreading from the
Seth parallel TO the gulf of Mexico,
larger than New York Pennsylra-
MIA and Vermont combined I; her
wood lands covere a territory
equal to the State OF Name. These
lanes aro superior TO and
can DO had on cheaper terms than /
any public domain IN the United
States,