Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-12
SUNDAYS st. Louis Post-Dispatch

I was OhO vi CuC IlOoG CIOu1IuDlO pa
pers ever issued from any office. I
contained twenty pages full of in
teresting reading matter and wa,
illustrated profusely with cuts. Oh
the first page is picture of thu
pope, st. Peters and the Vatican
and lengthy cable letter describing
the jubile ceremonies together Will
/ pictures Of prelates, cardinals ant
church tignitaries who took part il
the celebration.
WITH one protected infant crying
against another and kicking with al
its might to make Uncle Sam pull
the sucking bottle away there is 6
prospect that both will be choked of
and made to shift for themselves
The wool manufacturers are warning
, on the wool-growers and contendine
that if raw wool is not placed on the
free list they will essentially and
eternally be dad-blasted, while the
iron manufacturers are making the
same cry against the ore workers.
The delegates to that strikers con
vention which met the other day in
New York and issued an address
calling upon the anarchists, social
lists and all other kinds of lists" to
Join them in a war on the industries
of the country, must have held their
meeting in the back room Of some
saloon where liquor flowed freely
and fired their brains. This is. a
charitable supposition, for the hon
est laborers of this county are not
prepared to call upon the anarchists
for assistanc eyet.
A NUMBER of gentlemen are booked
to play star engagements in the
senate within the next few days. It
is announced that consideration of
the Blair educational bill, which is
the first thing on deck, will be post
poned in order to allow John Sher-
man to speak on the presidents mes
sage, which, it is understood, he
will proceed to tear into mince.
meat. The golden opportunity for
John to shoot off his bazoo was Just
before Bro. Blaine got in his work.
He may rear, pitch, cavort and snort
all he pleases now, and the result
Will be the same.
The disgraceful contest between
the McEnery and Nichols factions
in Louisiana have resulted in blood
shed. Police Commissioner Pat
was shot down in saloon
at New Orleans on Monday by two
parties named Claire and Gibson,
of the NIcEnery faction
was a strong Nichols man.
The friends of the deceased claim
that it was purely political muir
der and that the assailants were in
stigated to do the job and were fur
nished with weapons. In its worst
days Louisiana politics were never
i2sa more deplorable condition than
at this moment.
The Fort Worth Gazette in an
editorial on the waltz states that it
was born just one hundred years
ago in the ballet at the Vienna
opera house, and even on the stage
was very stiff to what it is now, and
was danced nowhere else except on
the stage for long time. The GA
zette, usually correct, is slightly off
in its information There is the
best of authority for the assertion
that the waltz originated in the baw-
dy houses Of Paris, where to please
sensuality was the
constant study. But custom has
made it fashionable in society and
people are too pure-minded to ex-
perience any unpleasant suggestive
ness from the indecent positions the
opposite sexes publicly assume in
the dance.
THE Galveston News for the sake
Of little excitement and by way Of
diversion tries to stir up bit of
strife and contention in regard to
the next succession in the United
States senate from this state, and
puts flea in the governors ear.
There is no use Of all this talk, for
there is no reason why Senator Coke
should beunceremoneously dropped,
md when a man has represented his
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