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

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The passenger trains to the Niagars
Falls are said to be daily crowded
with people going to see the wounder
full ice bridge. With the exception
of the winter of 1915 this is the
first bridge formed in many years
and it is truly a great sight to see
the masses of snow and ice, which
will not entirely melt away until late
in the summer.
A WoMEN's congress is to meet at
Washington City in the latter part
of March to devise scheme to com
pei the lords of creation to recog.
nize their political rights of suffrage.
The dear creatures can't understand
that the only reason the horrid men
folks withhold their rights is be-
cause they suffer too much already
with household duties.
The Waco Examiner complains of
a "scurvy" trick played on its re-
porter by some one who gave him a
bogus account of killing, which ap-
peared in flaming headlines and ar
tistic coloring. Nobody but a
blooming idiot would play such a
practical joke, after rejecting on the
number of ways in which the news
papers could get even with him.
Mr.. CRA1N's bill providing for a
change of time in the convening of
Congress from December to Janua-
ry has met with a favorable and
unanimous report from the commit
tee, and should become q law, for
the reason that it has always been
The custom to meet and adjourn I'M
Ill after the holidays without accom-
plishing anything. ,' 5..7'
Now that ingalls, admits the pater-
nifty of the letter written to a friend
n Kansas City, in which he passes
! high encomium ON President Cleve-
and, and which surreptitiously found
is way into the Times, of that city,
Mr.. Ingalls, for the sake of decency
md consistency should refrain from
making any stump. speeches during |
he coming campaign .IS -,tr. |
III HAS been discovered that En-
,land, Sweden and Switzerland
AVE been extensively engaged in
paupers to- this. country in
rider to prevent them from becom-
ng charge at home, and find no
rouble in inducing them to leave byI
,aying their passage The neees-
ity of strict immigration laws is be-
oming more apparent. ~ 5
The Health and Home Library is
he title of a new publication issued
uarterly from Chicago. 1t is only
j year with a town lot in Santa
California, thrown in for
God measure. The current number
ontains an article on the 'fVisona,"
Thich is claimed to be a nearer ap-
roach to universal language and
1ore easily mastered than Volapuk.
LEVI KAHL, farmers boy living
ear Foxburg, Pa, was recently
to death by a number of
he village boys, who dressed as
hosts and appeared to his vision in
lonely spot in the woods where
orrible murder had recently been
ommitted. Such practical jokes of
en- meet with serious consequences,
nd the perpetrators Of them should
e punished severely.
Mas. E. G. B. Dow, wealthy wo-
IAN of Dover, n. h, who is worth
100000 in her own right, wanted to
xereise the franchise of voting at
election, and was refused.
n order to get even she bought up
majority of the stock of the street
ailway and at the stockholders
leeting cast all Of her votes in favor.
f herself for president. The other
tockholders were surprised
A. n Nh, MpReAS, Of Gunnison; Col,
as invented an, improved air ship,
'hich is the. subject of an illustrar
ion and an article in the Scientific
.meriean. It has. side fans Or
Tiings and fan-tails ike q fsl'ss to-
teer it, aad it IS thought that a
success can, be made of It.
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