Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-09

y Some men buy umbrellas. som
n men achieve them, and some get we
and swear.
a 1t was an editor who called on til,
t bartender for a little more insid,
matter.
1 Monkeys that obtain their nutri
l ment in the tops of trees have loft,
browse.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes has
been elected president of the prison
reform congress.
A committee has been organized
in New York to seek aid for famine
stricken Ireland.
Old Battersea bridge, the solitary
surviving pile bridge on the lower
Thames, is to be pulled down.
The number of diamonds known
of the weight of thirty-six carats and
upward does not exceed twenty.
The collection on the water works
proposition at San Antonio met with
defeat for the advocates of the meas
ure.
Some New Jersey hack-drivers
have been fined for swearing. What
is the use of being hack-driver in
New Jersey.
Cameron, Mo-, has hog thief
smooth and bold enough to steal
hogs at night and sell them to their
owners next day.
1t is understood that the commit
tee that investigated the carges-
against House Postmaster Wheat
will recommend his removal.
The selection of a site for the
Columbian Fair in the Windy City,
has given new name to Chicago
bangs. They are called the Lake
Front.
There is no royal road to learning
or to virtue-no short cut or fairy
given aid or magic art to lessen toll.
The only royal road to the perfected
powers of the mind and character is
by the way of endeavor.
'EPapa, why do they call this CEN
sus report from Washington a.
rough count"
Because it hasn't been filed yet,
my son."
81 say, pa, heard the news?" ''No,
my boy. What is it," "Why, they
aren't going to have the lamp-posts
any longer" 81 am surprised! What
is the reason!' ''Why, they're long
enough"
Nothing hlnders the constant
agreement of people who live to-
gether but vanity and selfshness.
Let the spirit of of humility and be-
nevolence prevail, and discord and
would be banished
from the household.
Woman's virtue is perhaps a ques-
lion of temperament.
Women do not disapprove of
heir rivals, they hate them.
This body is not home, but an
nm; and that only for a short time.
The only real courage shown on
Earth consists in living on it.
There are some secrets which do
lot permit themselves to be told.
Brain is always to be bought, but
passion never comes to market.
With most men nothing seems to
AVE happened SO long ago as an at
air of love. :
Travel, in the younger sort, is a
'art of education; in the elder part
# experience.
Firmness, or stiffness of mind, is |
lot from adherence to truth, but !
ubmission to prejudice. :
LlIe Is broken up into deIuslve {
ainbows. There is hardly any T
teady, pure white light anywhere. L
Most of US would read our own b
with blind unconscious o
ess and be immensely amused a
hereat. f
For every cent a man has he has =
wo cents worth of desire. :
Do you know what duty is! 1t is
hat we expect of others. :.
Revenge is always the weak pleas d
re OF little, narrow mind. i
Honest poverty is better than n
ealthy fraud. e.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst az
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Turin is the first italian city which re
N boast of a library intended e1- til
usively for women. ii
The great fight on the tariff bill W
lded Tuesday. 1t was passed by