Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

bowls in the northwest, and travel il
the east is blocked by snow and ice
The Southern farmers should SEND
delegation to Washington to me.
morialize congress to pay them 8
bounty on raising cotton. The wool
men and sugar interests are repre-
sented. .t,
The Post inti1nates that Houston
will be satisfied if allowed to fur.
nish the next Acknowledgements
All right, If the Post has an enc.
my it would politically retire and
pigeonhole let it bring him out.
DUDLEY WooTTEN of Austin is said
to be an aspirant for congressional
honors to succeed Sayers. Dudley,
although a young man, is as "onsar-
tin" as Barnum's famous trick mule.
Even the prohibitionists are afraid
of him.
TIE Pilgrims Progress" has
been translated into japanese with
illustrations by native artists.
Christian appears with his head
close shaver, and the angels are
dressed in the latest Yokohama
fashions.
CHICAGO must be an older town
than was supposed. Leastwise the
Weimar Gimlet says that human
foot print ID 20 has been discop
cred in q rock in Nolan county. Ey-
identity Chicago girl strayed off
down there in prehistoric times.
Rev. FRANK BRISTOL, of Grace
street Methodist church, Chicago,
says that he can take Ignatius Don
nelly's cypher and prove by it that
Sir Walter Raleigh wrote Shake
speare and that Bob Ingerson wrote
the Pentateuch. But what's the
use |? - .i'.'.'s. -ia' = ~
DEEDS to town lots IN Fall Brook,
California. contain clauses forever
forbidding the establishment of sa-
looms and sale of liquors on the
premises. This is a good chance
for the prohibitionists to take Hor-
ice Greeley's advice and go west to
grow up with the country. 't''i'
The Chicago Inter- Ocean notes the
TACT that more than quarter Of a
century has elapsed since rich man
Or even a moderately wealthy man
1as been elected president Of the
United States. And yet, the rich
men cannot complain that they have
40 influence in this country. nj !
The fire marshal of. a western
own made petition to the city coun-
IL for an ak of the value of 81. The
communication was published in the
'fficial paper and cost $3.50. There
8 nothing that adds more dignity
han a respectable amount of red
ape, even in municipal affairs.
YARMOUTH, the republican candi-
late for governor of Louisiana, in
he early days of reconstruction was
N adventurer from Illinois, who was
and prosecuted in Texas
or embezzling cotton taxes. He is
ihown up in good shape in Sunset
Jox's, Three Decades of Federal
legislation" i-7f r"'s.1rH Il
AMONG the literature sold for the I
spread of anarchism is a book on
rhos, Jefferson, by Gen. NJ. NJ.
rrumbull, Of Illinois, showing that
he great author of the Declaration
# Independence was an anarchist.
This accounts for his being caught }
n company with Louis Lingg in a
ieance at st. Louis. -.'
For the past ten years at least the
papers throughout the country have
been quoting what "John Wanama-
,er, the wealthy Philadelphia mer-
.hant," said in favor Of advertising,
The biggest advertising Mr.. Wanna
maker ever received was through
lead;7heading, and that was when he
made the remark referred to, 81!
.sGFsGcD IHtdH Is aIE a. tEaf
Mrs. Was, wife Of the secretary
# the interior, has meyer recovered
rom the, shock loccasii02gped her BY
Witnessing the; sudden death Of |
Judge EIletts Of Memphis, when the
and party were on the way