Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-19

Well, what about a local immi
grafton society," The BANNER il
ready to publish free of charge the
call for meeting to organize.
IT WOULD be interesting to know
by what hokus-pocus method of ar
gument the protectionists are going
to convince the farmers that they
derive any benefit from the tariff:
SOME of the papers are wasting
their time in discussing whether
pigs tails are of any use to them.
1t is astonishing what dearth OF
intellect there is in some quarters.
SIR JOIN LUBBOCK says, in his lee
ture on Savages, that the negroes
never kissed until they were taught
by the white people. This is but
another evidence that the colored
brother is initiative.
The efforts to injure Senator Coke
because he did not shed his coat
and wade into the prohibition con-
test, which on all sides was conced-
ed to be non-political, last summer,
will prove boomerang.
The force of grim sarcasm was
never more keenly felt than by those
starving coal miners in Pennsylvania,
when the republicans tell them that
a robber tariff on coal must be main
tanned in order to give them good
wages and keep them a going.
RYDER HAeeARD, the English novel
list, expresses a willingness to come
over and lecture in this country, if he
can find manager who will guaran-
tee him $500 night. If anybody
had'a doubt, after reading Mr.. Hag-
CARDS She that he is possessed of
a somewhat disordered brain, this
resolyesit.
The Marlin Ball says that Texas
wants immigrants, but that men
without money need not apply.
People with money are generally |
content to stay where they are
Washington county has room for the |
class that the Ball excludes. and will |
welcome them if they are good hon
est workers
Rev. BURcHARD's conversion to de
mocracy and his announced purpose
of voting for Cleveland this fall are
not meeting with favor nor causing
much rejoicing in the ranks. 1t is
feared that he may be again chosen
as feeble instrument to work the
divine will in an opposite way with
some of his foolish alterations.
CART. GEO. ScHMrTr, whose com
state rangers was disbanded
some time ago, promises to make it
lively for certain parties when the
meets. Mr.. Schmitt was
the oldest and one of the bestand most
faithful ranger captains that were
ever IN the states service, and his
dismissal was an unjust piece of do
ing. ~
D. R, LOCKE petroleum V. Nasby) t
who is row in. his sixtieth year, {
is said to be IN bad health and a l
great sufferer from dyspepsia From !
The way he poured out his unlimited
gall and INDUCED in abusive Islander
Of this section, one would suppose
he had been life time sufferer from
although he disguised his {
nalady under an alleged humorous
style of writing. q
IT Is said that it is understood at
Holland Patent that Miss Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland receives $4,000
Tor allowing the use of her name as
principal of a fashionable young la
lies school in New York. Since her
experience in being made tool of
and her failure in editing certain
obscure periodical in Chicago, Miss
Cleveland ought not to trade on her
as the sister of her broth g
ii, even though the temptation is SO
great.
An Englishman, who visited Can s
ida some years ago, in writing back !,
n tha old oO,,DE,,, cDoI-o &C IL. | .,