Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dora Wiley has left the jed
Prouty' company.
The sea has a net population of
several thousand millions.
A state official of Maine is wear
ing a straw hat which he bought in
1859.
Miss Maude Banks will play Joan
de Arc" in English on her tour this
season.
The contract for the federal
building at Ell Paso has been let to
San Antonio man.
Beware of the under-tow when
you see blonde young woman in a
black wig.
Burglars recently cracked the de-
pot safe at Brooksville, Fla, secur-
ing $4,000.
A Philadelphia mendicant known
as Blind Johnny" is said to be
worth $4,000.
Beatrice Golde is with the Spider
and Fly" company and is doing
some fine work.
The latest discovery in the way of
cures for Bright's disease is diet
of fresh buttermilk.
Ex-president Cleveland did not
make single speech in the cam
paign just closed.
a cheerful old man OF old woman
is like the sunny side of woodsbed
in the last of winter.
A factory for extracting the juice
of the palmetto berries has been es-
tablished at New Smyrna.
The citizens of Nashville have
subscribed S200,0O0in stock towards
a new packing company.
The chains of habit are generally
too small to be felt until they are
too strong to be broken.
A chicken with four legs, four
wings and two heads has Just been
hatched at Delmar. Del.
The young woman who proposes
marriage to a man is only trying to
make name for herself.
The hardest battles of life we
have to make with ourself when we
want to think well of others.
R. P. Flower complains that every |
morning he finds on his table pile |
of political mail two feet high.
"a man cannot afford to make a
fool of himself" But consider how
reckless of expense some people are.
As reasonably expect oaks from
mushroom bed, as great and durable
products from small and hasty eff
forts.
We can never know anybody per-
fectly well until we know how to
love everybody in christian spirit
of heart.
Seeing is believing; and when a
man sees a swarm of bees about to
settle on his head it is time to be
leaving.
Utilizing scrap steel rod by weld
ing it and drawing it into fence wire
is one of the recent successes of
electric Welding.
Fanny Davenport's board costs
her So week. She lives wholly on
toast almost black with carbon and
weak green tea.
The Crescent plantation in Ascen-
sion parish, La, takes the palm for
tonnage of cane, having cut thirty
FIVE tons per acre.
Aunt: Do they teach by the OBJ
iect system at your school? Little
boy: Yes'm. They is always OBJ
jecting to something or other.
1t is good to be active in debate;
but the thought that strikes like a
hammer comes from the pen that
moves as slow as an hour-hand.
Timid Husband-Whst shall we
do when the wolf comes to the
door? Courageous Wife-Why,
thank Heaven that we have got
door.
A feature of the Frankfort-on-the-
Main International exhibition will be
The transmission of electrical power
over copper wires from a distance of
lao miles.
The Rev. ]. Winthrop Hageman,
Of the Franklin Avenue Presbyteri-
IN Church, N. Y, has resigned and
Will enter the Episcopal church min
stry.
Nathan Mizell has in his orange
grove in Polk county, Fla, a tree
hat is seven feet in circumference
md which has yielded from Is to
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