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

Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD has
,een reelected president OF the
Tomen's Christian Temperance I'M
on.
A man at Langhorne, Pa, is fit
ing up pigeon house to accommo-
late thousands birds. It will be
he largest flock of carriers IN the
country.
GREAT meetings are being held
daily all over Kansas to warn the
alliance members-elect to the leglsla-
ture that they must not vote fol. In
gals for the senate.
IT Is said that Major Burke, the
e1-treasurer of Louisiana,
who is now in Honduras, is failing
in health and that his mine interests
have proven almost worthless.
An English experimental, Mr.. L.
t. Chaplin, has given an account OF
hypnotizing a laying hen, and In
ducing her in that manner to sit on
a sitting of eggs until seven of them
had Matched out.
The whole Mckinley bill is ex-
planned by one sentence in the ad-
dress of the New England Tariff Re-
form League: ''The men by whom
the new schedules have been ar
ranged have goods to SELL"
The Globe-Democrat acknowl-
edges that 'stoo much tariff In the
Mckinley bill, and too much mig
ger" in the force bill is what's the
matter with the Republican party.
TRADE societies are moving in
England in the direction of getting
more complete information as to
the extent apprentices are employed.
This information will be interesting
and instructive.
The intention and announcement
of the last administration was to
adapt Southern policy" to draw
from the Democratic ranks thous-
ands of voters who were protection
lists, and establish ''white republi-
can party" AS far as this being a
drawing card at the recent election
the southern policy" and the
"white republican party seems to
have been an ignominlous failure.
WILL some esteemed republican
contemporary, say the San Antonio
Light or Express for instance, point
out an Ararat upon which the Arc
of the G. o. P. can rest till the
Democratic food has sufficiently
subsidized for the ''dove" to be sent
out, to see if there is an olive branch
in sight. 1t doesn't look now like
she ''could find rest for the sole of
her feet" by 1892.
The Oswego Palladium, comment
ing on the result of the late election
says: THE people wiped out
Mason and Dixon's line on Tuesday.
There is no longer ''Solid South"
and a Republican North. The people
of both sections have come together.
The old bitter feeling is obliterated
and the Northclasps hands with the
South in thegreat battle for
Tariff Reform There is no longer
a Republican North! The whole
country is Democratic"
UNEASY lies the head that wears
crown. The Empress of Russia,
formally the Princess Dagmar of
Denmark, celebrated for her beauty
throughout Europe, has become so
thin and haggard that her old
friends scarcely recognize her. The
fear of assassination for herself, her
husband and her son is what has
caused her loss of flesh.
The statement made by the state
geologist says the Gazette, that the
iron fields of Eastern Texas will af
ford 100000 tons of iron to the
square mile is attracting wide
spread notice. People who really
knew nothing of the resources of
this state were not prepared to find
in it formidable rival for Pennsyl-
vania and other iron producing sec
tions.
NEIL Van Doornum writes the
New Orleans Times-Democrat that
he is experimenting the getting out
of a section of one of the big red
wood trees of Tulare county, Cal,
for exhibition at the Chicago Expo
sition. The tree measures 80 feet
in circumference at the base, its
height 312 feet being 172 feet to
the first limb, which limb measures
three feet in diameter. The tree is