Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-23

Bismarck's bedroom contains only
three pieces of furniture-an enormou:
wash hand stand, small camp bed
stead and s bootiack. There used tc
| be a couple of hair brushes. Take
them away" said the prince few
/ years ago; "a towel will do TO peyt my
: hair nowadays"
Ehe colored people In small town II
Georgia had gathered at their church
to hold funeral services over the re.
mains of woman who had died a
couple of days before, and the cere-
monies were about to begin, when the
bereaved husband, who was large,
corpulent man, beckoned to one of the
men standing in the vestibule to follow
him to the horse shed in the rear of the
church. When they arrived there the
bereaved turned on him with:
See heah, Moses, wants an under
standin' wild yo' befo' dis funeral goes
any furder"
"What is it, julius" asked the other.
'Las' week, when we buried Henry
Carriers wife, yo' was right at hand.
Yo' crowded yo'self right up to de
front. When de weepin' begun yo' set
! yo'self TO work an moaned an took on
until Henry hadn't no show tall.
Some of de white folks reckoned yo'
was de bereaved yo'self"
Il dun couldn't help it, julius"
"Yo' couldn't9 Well, now, let me
give yo' pinter Lucinda was my wife
and nobody else's. She libed wild me
an died wild Inc, an Use got to foot all
de 'spenses. Now, den, when de sad
ness begins pze No. from start to fin
ish. TIE de bereaved, while yo' is only
an outsider who feels sad cause TIE left
all alone in de world. If yo' go to
takin' on like yo' did last week, Tze
gwine ter forgit my great loss jist long
huff to turn round an gin yo' such
lift under the ear dat you'll reckon yo'
is the subject of the funeral. Do yo'
h'ar me, Moses?"
81 does"
"Den cum along, an recommember
what Ize been saying Better take
seat in de back row an hole yo'self
down, for at the very fust whoop of
sorrow Tze gwine ter light on yo' wild a
fo'ce of to'teen boss power. "-Chatta,
oooga Times.
Electrical Cremation.
The latest novelty in the way of |
disposing of the dead is an cleo
trical crematory, in which the pro-
cess of burning a corpse is carried out
as follows: The body, being shrouded |
in sheets made of asbestos, is laid upon
q frame consisting of fire brick, while at
the foot are large copper plates, to
which the leads from specially con-
dynamos of high electro-mo-
tive force are attracted. The body ap-
parently occupies the position of fla
ment in an incandescent lamp, and,
upon the current being passed through
it, would be instantly carbonized; while,
as the air would have free access to it,
the process of destruction, or rather
decomposition, would be immediate.
The process appears to have the recom-
of great rapidity of action,
and of freedom from many of the OBJ
ections to cremation in the ordinary
yay -Chcistian at Work. l.
Hearly l,5OO pounds OF turtles are
ioade into soups, steaks, outlets and
oatties every week in this city. The
turtles vary in weight from 10 TO 400 ,
pounds. They are captured on the ,
FLORIDA coast and are brought to the ,
,:ty by steamers. IN order TO keep the {
turtles from crawling overheard their :
Gppers are tied together and the ma,
inc reptiles are laid upon their backs
Il coils of rope made for that purpose.
IN arrival in this city the turtles are
'laced in wooden boxes floating in the
Cast river Just behind Fulton market.
they are fed upon cabbage leaves and '
rinds. 1t is an interesting
light to see 400-pound turtle come to =
ne surface and take bite OF water
Melon. A few are kept in the market
0 attract buyers. As they lie upon Il
heir backs day after day and gasp for t
reath they excite the pity of passerS c
y. Their helpless and suffering con .
ition is markedly at variance with p
heir former liberty in the COOL green CT
sa.-ErDest Jarrold in New York Jour
al. m
on want to shoot at the dog fori fl
What harm has he done youf" s.
The young man, very much abashed, :
something about "only want ri
lg to have little fun and scare the 81
og," and sheepishly returned his pis- OF
i to his pocket. The little incident " "
ad the effect to raise the driver in my D,
'timation, and the favorable impress. i,
on was further heightened when the WI
nglisman offered him drink from a
ask of whisky, which he refused in a y
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