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is named Gallagher. Waco has
a number of street arabs, who are
said to render the lives of these two
gentlemen a burden. Everywhere
they go their ears are greeted with
the expressions 'Let her go Gala
CHER and "Shoot Luke, OF give up
your gun"
JOSEF HOFFMAN, the musical
prodigy of Cincinnati, who is
only twelve years old, drew a
$4,000 matinee audience at
Boston. The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children is en-
deavoring to prevent kim from CIV
ing exhibitions and charge that his
father forces him on the stage
against his will.
Mr.. WIN. EDMUNDs, well known
citizen of Waco, who was recently
connected with the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, is temporarily editing the
Examiner. The Attic wit and classic
language which flows from his spark
ling pen would indicate this without
the necessity of asserting it. There
isn't more brainy man in Texas
than VIM. Edmunds.
NINE tenths of the republican con-
vention of Louisiana which met a few
days ago and put out ticket was
composed of negroes, while only one
negro out of the seven nominations
made for state offices was honored
with place on the ticket. And yet
the bloody-shirt shriekers up North
charge the democrats with suppress
ing the colored vote.
Moses is still after the capitol
board. A small patch of plastering
cracked and fell the other day, which
is considered as proof of the faulty
construction of the dome. Doesn't
Moses know that climatic influences
cause plastering to give away in this
section frequently, and that in warm
countries it is almost impossible to
keep it from falling?
ACCORDING to the New York
World, great sensation was crea-
ted In the United States senate the
other day, when committee bill
was up for discussion and amend
ment, by the long-winded and proix
Evarts moving to strike out certain
words and clauses as mere surplus
age. No doubt he was thinking of
the surplus in the treasury at the
time.
The manifestations of extreme So
licitude among the republicans over
the factional war reported as being
waged in the New York democratic
camp are amusing. Their fears
might as well, however, be quoted
at once, and as for hoping, they
need not lay the fattering..unction to
their souls that any contingency will
ever arise to call the g. o. p. back in
to power again
A BRITISH sea captain pitched a
United States marshal of Virginia
overheard for trying to serve a civil
process on one of the passengers the
other day while the vessel was in
American waters, and carried one of
his deputies off several miles before
he was permitted to land. And yet
this little incident has not been dig
nifed with editorial mention by any
of the papers even.
LORD DUFFER1N, formerly COVER
nor-general of Canada and at present
Viceroy of India, has voluntarily ten
dered his resignation to the crown
and will be succeeded by the Mar
quis of Lansdowne, Canada's present
governor general. Earl Duferin is
the peer of any statesman living,
and neither England nor the world
can afford to lose his valuable ser
vices in the field of active diplomacy.
THE BANNER is inreceept of a copy
of the Chicago Graphic which is de-
voted to illustrations and writeups,
of the interstate drill to be held at
Austin next May. The committee
in charge evidently understand the
value of printers ink and can be de-
pended upon to properly advertise
that imposing event, which is destin-