Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

You never lose by dong a good
act.
The brains thinks but the heart
decides.
Mother-in-la and mules have a
hard time.
The city of Hamburg has a sur
plus of S2,250,OOO.
II sell cigars in seven languages"
Is sign in Philadelphia.
Ropes Pass claim that they will
have deep water in 60 days.
One of the signs of an intelligent
woman is contempt for men.
Even a congressman sometimes
gets his eyes and nose mixed.
1t is thousand times harder to
be happy with riches than it is
without them.
There are few animals you can
trust with absolute liberty and
fewer men.
A counterfeiter at Little Rock,
Ark, stored his bogus money in his
wooden leg.
-Floresville little town on the
Arkansas Pass road is said to be
booming.
The rumor that Secretary Tracy
will be elevated to the supreme
bench is denied.
Time will tell, but the ordinary
man with an important secret won't
give time chance.
There Is one thing a woman can
never do-she can't make man tell
her where he has been.
We do not like to see ladies with
very small feet Ladies should not
stand upon trihes.
A fellow who had cramps found
fault with his physician because the
latter didn't take pains.
If man acts natural he is sure to
act honest, his conscience never
made him dishonest.
The only good argument seems to
do these days is to relieve the per-
son who brings it forth.
Tell the story briefly; if it be
long story,take a long time in telling
it, and tell it in short chapters.
Many a man attempts to tell the
story of his trade within the meas
ure of an inch. He can't do it.
Busybody is an individual who
goes about stealing other peoples
time and fooling away his own.
There is truth enough in exls-
tence for a dozen worlds like this
and there are lies enough for fifty.
A paper recently started at JUL
an, Idaho, has for its motto, 'Grasp
for all in sight and hustle for more"
Have the courage to be ignorant
of great number of things, in or
der to avoid being ignorant of every
thing.
There is no way of making a per-
manent success in this world with
out giving an honest equivalent for
| it.
A Kentucky doctor has been boy
cotted because he gives bromide of
potassium instead of whisky for
snake bites.
The person does his level best
and tries all ways known to him de-
serves some credit, even if he does
not succeed.
The annual report of Col. Wilson,
superintendent of the West Point
Academy, shows $50 students in that
institution.
A new albuminous poison of one
hundred times the power of strych-
nine is extracted from the seeds of
Abrus precatoria.
The ancient Bactrians suffered
the bodies of their departed rela-
tives to be eaten by dogs specially
kept for the purpose.
For every day that man knows a
woman, he finds her capable of do
ing something better and meaner
than he had believed she could do.
A young woman at Ashland, Wis,
after suffering four years from what
was supposed TO be consumption,
has just coughed up single nail
A woman whose husband was
paying an election bet by pushing a
wheelbarrow twenty-five miles, told
the census taker that her husband
was lunatic.
Litewayte-It's very disagreeable,
don't you know, to associate with
ones interiors.