Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-02
NEWS ITEMS.

The latest is a bread trust, formed
at Kansas City Missouri.
People who say sharp things get
the reputation of being blunt.
A pleasant manner attracts man;
brightness of brain holds him.
A woman's smile attracts a man;
but an even temper retains him.
Judge Acker, of the court of ap-
peals resigns, to take effect January
1st.
San Luis Potosi claims the great.
est increase of any Mexican state for
past year.
A pretty gown attracts a man, the
knowledge that it was inexpensive
delights him.
A mans mind is like a two-dollar
bill. The oftener he changes it the
sooner it is gone.
What attracts man is one thing;
what will hold him and command
his respect is quite another.
Crops in Kansas are short, as
usual, and immigration from that
country will pour into Texas.
1t is simple enough to be great
man; keep your mouth shut; and
when you see dollar, grab it.
The cotton crop of Georgia will,
it is positively asserted, show a
shortage of at least 25 per cent.
Dresses for fair young girls are
made very long this year-that is,
the hem reaching to the shoe top.
It makes no difference what wo-
mans first attitude is in a quarrel,
her last is that of asking forgiveness.
Cyclone reported near Manning,
Iowa, damages considerable proper
ty, only two persons are known to
be killed.
The eighth district congressional
convention of Missouri splits and
the democrats have two candidates
in the field.
A company with capital of $751;
600 has been organized to build a
pork packing establishment at Nash
vile, Tenn.
A Chinaman near Los Angeles
rented 200 acres of land and planted
potatoes. His net profit will be
fully $4,000.
Roller skates were first patented
by a London fruiterer named Tyers
in 1928 and his patent had one line
of wheels.
The body of a colored man was
found buried near Plaquemine. The
skull was crushed in and other evi-
dences of foul play found,
Wit is brush-wood; Judgment is
timber. The first makes the bright
est fame but the other gives the
most lasting heat.-Hunter.
Nine out of ten editors are worry
ing themselves over articles about
the necessity of taking rest. Let
them give their readers one.
A book lately appeared with the
title "Adyice to Plain Women The
publisher only managed to get rid
of one copy, and that was stolen
A newspaper, which is to advocate
the cause of the farmers in Anderson
county, Ga, has been organized. It
is to be called the People Advance.
There's a town in Missouri that
has gained in population 100 souls
in ninety years. Potosi, in the south
east, had COS in 1900. Now it has
705.
Seven persons made their escape
from the jail at Chattanooga, Tenn,
by unlocking the door with wooden
key. A reward is offered for each
of them.
The Memphis Appeal, which is
fifty years old this month, has cele-
brated its semi-centennial anniyer-
sarY by moving into its new six-story
building.
eff women are really angels"
writes an old bachelor, ''why don't
they ay over the fence instead of
making such an awkward job of
climbing
1t is said that the postmen of Lon
don walk, together, something like
1920 miles per day, a distance
equal to twice the circumference of
the globe.
A salute of 100 guns was fred at
Baton Rouge, La, by the anti-lot-
terry people, in honor of the passage
by the United States Senate of the
anti-Lottery bill.
Leonard Wagner, farmer, living