Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

Humility seeks neither the first
place nor the last work.
The prettier thing is the worse
it looks after being dragged in the
mud.
A curious fact is natural history
that so many fishes frequently go IN
seine.
About the poorest man in the
world is the man who is poor as his
excuses.
The mounted police in Central
park. New York. are to have knee
breeches.
He who lends money to the poor
is often better than he who gives
them aims.
Near Adobe, Col, a work train
was run into by an express, and sew
enteen persons killed and thirty-fve
injured.
Don't hold wasp by the other
end while you thaw it out in front
of stove to see if it is alive. 1t is
generally alive.
The French sardine fisheries are a
failure this season, but the sardlne
factories at Eastport, Me-, are run
ming night and day.
As a boy Jay Gould signed his
name Jason" and like his prototype
he went in search of the golden
fleece and found it.
George Elliot quotes Ruskin as
saying that women have no real IN
terest in science but that they ''sen-
timentalize" in everything.
Physicians claim that they have
noticed less hay fever, which is a
kindred disease to the grip, this
summer than ever before.
Austin K. Smith, Covington boy
has been given verdict against the
Kentucky Central for $4,000 dam
ages for the loss of leg.
Through the use of the electric
light the time in passing through
the Suez canal has been reduced to
twenty-five and one-half hours.
Don't trxsto persuade bull dog
to give up IDIOT which he is in
possession. Possession to a bull
dog is ten points of the law.
Two swapping turtles, weighing
forty-three and thirty-seven pounds
respectively, were found lately in
the wheel pit of Connecticut mill.
Investigate a man closely who
talks about bad luck of opportunity
and you will find shoemaker who
wants to become president of a
bank.
Port Huron, Mich, has a man
who has been arrested ffty-three
times, and who spends most of his
time between the jail and police
court.
Tampa, Fla, has garbage crema-
tory capable of destroying forty
cubic yards of material in twelve
hours with about three-quarters of g
cord of wood.
Arrangements have been made il
India, by the forest department Of
the mysore State, for maintaining
: fuel plantations on a large scale fol
: railroad supply.
A food near st. Petersburg is
said to have destroyed one hundred
and fifty workmen's huts on al
island in the Neva.an drowned sew
eral persons.
1 Capt. G. N. Lewis. who killed {
man named Long, near Arlington
Ark, was tried by Justice Thomas
: Mosley and discharged. The testi
mony cleared him.
After careful experiments Prof
, Coin of Breslau has found that thu
heating of damp hay to tempera
ture sufficient to cause combustion
is due to a fungus.
: "Freddy" Gebhardt is said t.
: have lost most of his fortune as vel
as the Lily's love. Wonder if h,
thinks the two losses have any caus
: alive relation to each other.
The city authorities of jackson
Miss, after warning all sports tina
they intended to break up gamblin!
L there, proceeded to arrest all tina
S did not heed the notice.
Fred Meyers, chief operator of tn
". q. L. Co., of Montgomery Ala.
y has been elected by the city council
IS as superintendent of the electri
e system of Montgomery.
The wife of Charles Graham, liy
g ing near Louisville, Ky, became s.
y frightened by a drunken man swear
o ing at her, that she went into cor