Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18
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Distinction is now acquired, not
by worth, but by wealth.
Berlin horse cars carry annually
nearly 1O0,000,000 passengers.
There are 14,465 women CONNER
cial travellers in the United States.
Great minds like great establish
ments want day off now and then.
Hawthorne was for many years
the obscurist literary man IN Amer
lea.
Twenty million acres of the land
of the United States is held by Tor
eigners.
Years alone do not make age IN
less one has some of the ills which
age brings.
DIR. Mendel of Berlin announces
that he has discovered that coffee in
toxicates.
Thirty thousand dollars a month
is paid out for lottery tickets in Key
West, Fla.
A pearl worth $4,000 was recently
found in the Piectonica river, near
Argyle, Wis.
The good time that is coming
travels on foot and makes many long
stops on the way.
At Leoti, Kas., there is only one
doctor, and he has no opposition
within $50 miles.
There are 10,S61 school districts,
62,372 teachers and 100000 school
children in japan.
An Englishman proposes laying
deep sea electric cables by means Of
submarine boats.
The National library in Paris is
the largest in the world. 1t con-
tains 100000 volumes.
Man is sign-post: he can point
out the right ways for others, but
he can't go himself.
There are several ways of looking
at life, but none of them make it
look very comfortable.
Few are born to do the great
work of the world, but all can make
home better and brighter.
No woman has a right to be old at
forty-fve unless her life has been
full of cares and sorrows.
In 1870 about 500 women were
practicing medicine in this country;
now there are nearly 5000.
Rev. Henry Roqninger oficiated
at the second marriage of his moth
er last week at Bethlehem, Pa
Capt. W. D. Andrews of Toronto
has rescued during his lifetime six
ty-nine people from drowning.
Turin is the first Italian city
which can boast of a library in,
tended exclusively for women.
The aggregate debt of all the col
onies of Australia is S215 per head
of the population, or S668,000,000,
The Prince of Wales recently said
81 have always thought the American
ladies the cleverest in the world"
A pretended preacher and negro
voudou doctor, was arrested at Mo
bile, Ala, for swindliRg two women
Mrs. Jefferson Davis expects tc
see the first volume of her life Of
her husband published about Octo
Der 1.
Francis the First of France be
came more famous for having los'
the battle of PaYia than had he wor
it.
There is wheat enough in Port
land, Ore, to load ffty-seven ship!
and to give 100000 to the farm
ers.
Artificial musk is a recent chemi
cal achievement, a process for it
production having been patented il
Germany.
At Is per cent month for none,
to move the crops, three remove
would be as bad as fire for tn,
corn crop.
Love may Tighten labor, but tn,
experiences of others with povert,
goes to show that labor NAV ais,
Tighten love.
A cylinder head in one of Nash
viIle's 100000 holy GaskiI en-
gines is cracked, and the new pump
ing station is idle
Women have the qualities whicl
attract without retaining affection
men have the faculty of retaining
without attracting.
Hogarth's house at Chiswick Eng
land is rapidly going to decay, an
i l.