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ssrrine ana, ,5nol,inr rooas.

Cookery" says Yuan Mel, sis like
mstrimony. Two things served together
phould match. Clear should go with
clear, thick with thick, hard with hard
md soft with soft. 1 have known PEG
pie mix grated lobster with birds nest,
and mint with chicken or pork"
This, he observes, is an arrangement
in which one does all the monopolizing
and the other all the yielding.
Foods of a heavy flavor should be
served separately. Such are crab or lob
ster, samle Ia delicious kind of white
6almon). beef and mutton. These, we are
told, should be eaten alone, without any
adjunct.
The fire should be carefully attended
to. For frying or baking military
fire will be required. For stewing or
boiling. civil fire. Such is one of the
quaint idioms of the Chinese language.
Temple Bar.
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Bullets Went Three Men at a Time.

Army and navy officers have been
watching closely the military features
of the instruction in Chill, and the
arms have been carefully examined by
the authorities in this country. IL ap-
pears that it was the Mannlicher gun,
loaded with cartridges the size of ciga-
rettes charged with first cousin to gun
cotton, and sending a ball nearly two
inches long and three-tenths of an inch
thick against Salmacedas troops at the
rate of from forty to sixty per Minute
from each qua, that did the business for
the insurgent troops. The long, slen-
der, hard pointed bullets were of steel,
covered with thin coat of copper, the
soft metal being designed to follow the
rifing of the barrel more accurately and
with less wear to the gun than the naked
steel would make. Single bullets went
through two or three men at time
Washington Cor. Boston Journal
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EngIneer seerr Strangely Hurt

William H. Seery, engineer of the fast
express which leaves New York in the
afternoon at o'clock and is due here at
sos, met with a strange and probably
fatal accident the other day near Mon
mouth Junction. While he was leaning
out of the window of the cab, looking
back at the train, loose bolt few up
from the track, striking him in the head
and fracturing his skull. Hefen uncon-
scious, with his body hanging out of the
cab window
The fireman, W. Harry Bowers, was
in the tender at the time attending to
the scoop, which takes up water from
the track tank, and his attention was at
tracted by the blood which spurted on
him from the engineers head. He ap-
piled the airbrakes and brought tbs
train to stop. The unconscious engi-
neer was lifted into the baggage car,
and the fireman took the train through
to Trenton 1t is doubtful if Seery re-
cOvers.-Philadelphia Telegraph
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Stone EOreSts.

Stone forests are found in various
parts of the world. In many cases they
are hardened by some popularity of the
atmosphere, and are found standing
just as they were when clothed 18th
green foliage thousands of years ago.
The Little Colorado river, in Arizona, has
long been famous as locality for such
finds; at one place more than 1.50O
cords of solid stone tree trunks. sec
lions, limbs aud logs were found by the
govermneI surveyors. Most of them
were silicifed; many z to 10 feet in d.
aneter and from 20 to so feet in height.
Biologists say that the petritied trees
of the Little Colorado were once GOV,
cred with mari over 1, 900 feet in depth.
Some of the trees have been changed
to jasper, and have assumed various
hues; others resemble apal, and, when
broken open, the core is often found
lined with crystals of the most beauti-
tul tints.-St. Louis Republic.
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Two PInees Named hnksri1le.

Merchant wish to transport some
goods to Jinksville and
Railroad Official Grascibly)-Weu,
why in thunder don't you go to the
freight Department.
Merchandise large quantity of
goods, and l wish to inquire about
rates.
Of1cial-Go to the freight depart
meut, say. Whatever the rates are
you'll pay 'em or keep YOU goods at
bone No reductions TO you or any
one else. Hear that2 Clear out now.
Merchant-The Jinksville l mean is
not in this state, but the huntsville
over the line. There is a rival road
running tilere, you know, and can
easily
Of1cial--sit down. my dear sir, sit
down and lets talk it over. James,
bring the gentleman cigar Henry,
bring the gentleman a glass of cham
payne. George, tell the president one
of our most valued patrons is here
New York Weekly.
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The YeIascn Visitors.

Rev. o. Samuels, c. Mink WITT, ST..
q. Gardner and Chas. Parks all re.
turned from Velasco Friday night.
and from one of the party it is learned
that the public sale of lots was a
success. About 100000 worth of
lots we're sold, and every one of the
Brennan party became purchasers.
DR.. McGreggor and Col Stone, of
Austin county, was with the Bren-
ham crowd and also made some pur-
chases, and together with Messrs.
Threadgill and Bettison who went on
the Galveston excursion rendered the
visitors.
They say the city has marvellous
growth for a few months old city
and express utmost confidence of its
future.
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Or. co1r,n,, Bad and COCO Iuck.

OE. NOIAAhS bfAO anu eoO0 LICK. rfss
DIS. A. Collins, y Connecticut ply
sician, had an encounter with a wildcat
in the northeastern part of the state
which is rarely equaled in these days.
He was called to attend patient m
Sanel Corners, and the road lay through
q wild wood known as the Devils Hop
Yard"
When about half way through the cam
yon the doctors horse gave a snort of fear
and refused to go ahead. Wondering at
the cause of the animals fright, the doc
tor leaned out of the carriage and peered
into the bushes. He had hardly done SC
when two wildcats sprang from the
boughs CT hemlock tree One landed
on the launches of the horse and the
other dropped into the bottom of the
carriage and fastened its teeth in the
flesh of the doctors legs
A desperate struggle ensued, in which
the doctor, from loss of blood and
strength, became unconscious. In an
inside pocket of his coat the doctor car
ried small medicine case. During the
struggle this fell out and attracted the
attention of the cat, which began to claw
it and tear it with its teeth. In doing
so it broke a bottle of chloroform and
the contents seem to have stupefed it.
A farmer passing over the road some
time late sound the doctor unconscious
and the g 1cat among lot of broken
bottles -: bottom of the carriage in
deep stupor.
The cat weighed fifty-two pounds, and
was one of the largest ever killed in Con-
necticut. Chicago Tribune
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Ain,t Built That Way.

At the Episcopal church bazaar
there is post-ofice, where letters
for very near everybody is held for
postage, and some of them are
unique as well as amusing, as the
following which was taken out by a
K. of P. will show, the signature
which was that of a well known fe-
male society here, being omitted:
To the Right Honorable Lord
Chancellor of the K. of P:
eve object to the way you. as
Grand Master. run the Lodge. We
ladies would like to join, but are not
sufficiently skilled IN equestrian art
to ride the animal commonly termed
the billy goat. For lack of space
We will state our other objections
later. We would like to give you a
few hints on conducting a thing Of
this kind"
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ITENIICAL.

The position of the critic is easily
filled.
Race horses wear snow shoes at
Garfield Park.
The cats paw occasionally hooks
something good.
Pork Packers like library with
plenty of photography.
Of the twelve largest cities in the
world, three are in Japan.
The crank is always trying to wind
up somebody else's affairs.
The highest altitude ever reached
by balloon is seven miles.
The newest thing in chirography
is the most indecipherable
There are about 10000 bee colo.
MES in Ventura county, Cal.
New York has 800 clubs, $4,000
elubmen and S10,O0O,OOO invested in
clubs.
German physicians report several
cures of whooping cough by inocu-
lation
The amount of gold in the world
woald fit in room twenty-four feet
each way.
A Birmingham (Eng.) man called
White collected $4,000 pennies
during his lifetime
For cankered throat, sore mouth,
ETC., use borax and honey: drink
sage or slippery elm tea.
1t takes about three seconds for a
to go from one end of the
Atlantic cable to the other.
Large roller process Touring
mills have just been finished at
South River, Rowan county, n. C.
A branch of the Keely Institute
for the cure Of hhabitual drunkards
has been opened at Greenboro,
n. c.
When Rome went down one
thousand eight hundred people
owned and controlled all the known
world.
The emperor of Germany, while
entertaining much more freely than
MS grandfather did. has keen eye
20 economy.
The Norton iron company at Ash
and, KY, will arrange its furnaces
Tor the manufacture of steel by the
Bessemer process.
Thirty per cent of all women in
,he United States are working for
living, an increase of 8 per cent
over the year 1890.
A correspondent writes to say
hat he has such a cold in his head
hat he can't wash his face without
the water
Dick Skinner says marriage is a
failure" "A failure l thought he
married a fortune Yes, but the
girl that went with it has suspended
payment.
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A Table with Growing Legs

/ had presented to me on the Sd Of
May last a small fancy table as birth
day present-painted black, vanished
and gilded However, it had not been
in the house very long before the legs
were observed to be growing, and they
are continuing to do so. One of the legs
has put out shoot four inches long,
upon which there are ten leaves. Alto.
gether it is a very pretty table. with its
black and gold, and now the green. /
think they are apple tree leaves. set
it out of doors occasionally, so that a
little moisture might be given to it to con-
tinue the growth, as do not know but
it may blossom and bring forth fruit.
which would very zach increase the GU
riosity. Cor Montreal Witness
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Effect of Electrical Light on Fish


A correspondent states that fishing ali
along by Totland bay. Isle of Wight.
was very poor, and that since the set
ting up of the search light for the forts
it bad become worse He also heard
thar there used to be very good place
for fish near the lighthouse at st. Cath
crimes point. but that the electric light
had driven them ali away, and now il
was quite useless putting out nets in a
spot where, few years since, a decent
haul was looked on as certainty. He
solicits opinions on this matter from
those who are more versed in sea fish
and their ways than he is himself
Electrical Review.
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Sword

Up to within a decade or less sword.
fsh were not considered edible, but now
Few salt water fish command higher
price. The swordfish steaks are delicious
and bring from fifteen to twenty-five
cents a pound in the retail markets.
Swordfish are found in eastern waters,
from Block island to the Canadian line.
Hundreds of men devote the summer
months to capturing them and fish for
other species the remainder Of the year.
New York Telegram.
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A Female Locomotive Engineer.

West Virginia boasts of the only reg.
ularly employed woman railroad engi-
neer in the world. She is withal young
woman fair to look upon, with all the
accomplishments common to genteel
young ladyhood. Her name is Miss Ida
Hewitt, and she is daughter of one of
the chief owners of the Cairo Short Line,
on which she runs. She knows all the
mechanism of the locomotive, is fairly
expert with the tools used in its con-
struction, and though taking an engi-
neers place at first only as a supply. she
now makes regular runs on her locomo-
tive, that is model of neatness, and has
never failed to be on time but once since
she put her small hand on its lever Her
hair is covered with cap, her gown
with suit of blue denim, and her face
on the lookout is said t. be one of most
piquant charm.
Our power of decaiving others de-
ponds greatly on our power of deceiv
ing ourselves 1t is having this gift
highly developed that makes woman
and some statesmen So dAnyernns
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sIght Restored at Ninetr.flre.

The Welsh newspapers report re-
marka BILE event at the village of Llanon,
Cardiganshire, where the Rev. William
Herbert, late rector of the parish. enter
tanned 500 of his parishioners at tea in
commemoration of the restoration of his
eyesight in his ninety-ffth year. The
reverend gentleman, who is the oldest
clergyman in the principality, had held
the living of Llanon for half a century.
Six years ago, however, he lost his sight
and resigned the rectorship in conse-
quence. During the last few months he
has been under the treatment of an
eminent Manchester oculist, and the
cataracts being removed from his eyes,
his sight has been completely restored,
and he is now enabled to read the serv-
ice in church.-London Globe
Tie Women Farmers Of Kans---
The husband of a Woodlawn widow
died seven years ago. Since then she has
Kept house and has done all the farm
work that cher man" did on the 100 acre
farm. Until this year she has even cul-
tivated the sixty acres Of corn planted,
but now the eldest of her three boys is
fourteen years old, and strong and
anxious to help her. When her husband
died he left her a 81 400 mortgage. She
has paid all but $500 of this and spent
5000 in improving the place She sold
$500 worth of stock and produce last
year.
Many a farmers wife or daughter has
had to plough corn. tend garden, drive
binder, cut and stack hay and cook over
a hot stove while the men took to the
shade and rested. The overworked
farmer is very often the wife or daugh-
ter.-Kansas City Star.
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1t was the time Of night when bored
bellies yawn and beaux linger. Hints
innumerable had been sown on barren
ground, George Deadgone would stay.
Finally Miss Nosnooze excused herself
for few moments. A minute later the
cook, in full regalia, entered the parlor,
and. walking up to George Deadgone
asked:
What would you like to have for
breakfast. sirG
And then George Deadgone, noticing
that Miss Nosnooze had gone, went
New York Herald.
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Snow That Did Not Reach tho oround

~ANN DASA ~NOS AASSSh Nho
Possibly the most novel feature of
two balloon voyages near Denver, and
the one mostly commented upon, was
the experience of the Eagle Eyrie
and its occupants in the snowstorm.
Not a flake of the beautiful
dropped in Denver OF on the crowds
of people who gazed on the air
ship directly above them. The sun
shone brightly and oppressively hot, and
yet in five minutes after the great gas
bag had left the earth it was in raging
snowstorrn, almost directly over the
point where the balloon was cut from its
rnoorings.
1t was blowing a perfect fury, the
great fakes swirling and flying in blind
ing profusion into the faces of the voy-
ayers, filling the basket and covering
the top with a sheet fully three inches
thick. No such occurrence has ever been
recorded in the history of ballooning,
and the chances are not favorable to its
ever occurring again. But the space OF
100 feet and the occupants of the car
vanished from ter glowing sunshine
into the freezing low.-Denver Repub-
lican
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CoLLEGE ExERCIsEs.

The Fall session of Blinn Memorial
College ended Friday evening and
the public examination will be com
menced Monday morning and con-
tinued until Thursday evening.
The College has enjoyed pros
porous session this Fall, the attend
ance having been in the neighbor-
hood, of IS students. and the exami-
nation promises to be a creditable
one
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Distinguished Visitors.

H. S. Downing, general claim
agent of the Santa Fe, was in the
city Tuesday for the purpose of set
ting claims of parties in the wreck
north of here Monday.
W. A. Truly, travelling passenger
agent, and Travelling Auditor Cox,
F. N. Taylor, trainmaster, and as
sistant master mechanic Farrell of
the Santa Fe, were here Wednesday.
W. c. Watson, general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific, was
here "Wednesday night.
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He Got the Pass.

An application for an annual pass
was once made to Commodore Wander
bilt by the president of road about
twenty-five miles long. Your road
doesn't seem to cover great amount
of territory, suggested the commodore
to the applicant. No." said the ap-
plicant, ''it isn't quite so long as the
New York Central, but, by gracious
Mr. Vanderbilt, it's just as widel" The
pass was issued. San Francisco Arga-
aaut
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Price of HairpinS,

Hairpins vary in price from few
pennies a gross to $500 apiece. Perhaps
the hairpin is the most useful all-around
article CT feminine wear. 1t serves not
only the purpose for which it was de-
signed, but also as glove buttoner, shoe
buttoner, cuff fastener and even breast
York Recorder.
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Rarnn Hirsch,s Wealth.

One of the best of authorities on
wealth looks upon Baron Hirsch as in
the first rank of the worlds millionaires,
in fact not far from the very top. He is
convinced that Baron Hirsch is the
owner of at least $4,000, 00O.-Blakell
hall in New ToYk Truth.
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breeze jeopardy compensate for the lack
Of shade. Most prairies are slightly
rolling or billy, having somewhat the
appearance of a sea with heavy waves,
and occasionally, browning one of these
low swells, there is grove of young
trees. Sometimes, however, mot even
a shrub is visible for many miles,
Maurice Thompson in st. Niaholas.
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Mr.. HUGO LEHMAN, editor OF the
LAGRANGE Deutsches Zeitung, is in
the city in the interest of his paper.
The proprietor of the BANNER knew
Mr.. Lehman in Houston some eigh-
teen years ago, and wishes him every
succuess in his business because he is
a good mana trained journalist
and worthy of success.
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How the Prairie Looks.

Have you ever seen a western prairiel
If not you might enjoy being there fcr
a month in summer As on the ocean,
90 on the prairie, there is usually a
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Mr.. JOSEPH F1scHL has just re-
turned from Brentwood and
brought with him collection of the
products of Brown county, consist
ing of corn, oats, wheat, mlllet, cot
ton, being in all thirteen varieties of
cereals, six different kind of grasses,
several different kinds of fruit and a
lot of the finest thin shelled pecans
that grow in Texas. The collection
made about as creditable showing as
most any county could make.
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WEDNESDAY last about o'clock at
Weibuschs gin, on Birch creek in
Burleson county a boiler exploded
breaking both legs of John Keeper
from the effects of which he died at
1 o'clock that night. No one else
was hurt, the balance of the force
being at dinner.
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Hon. R. @. Mills writing to a
friend in this city under date of the
18th inst, in answer to a telegram
deploring his defeat, says that as
far as he is personally concerned
the defeat does not amount to any
thing. That it was an idea of
which he was champion and that
the money power and monopolists
combined to defeat that idea, and
that unless the party was up and
doing to unhorse the enemy, there
was no telling what effect it might
have upon the Democratic party.
He said nothing about being sick.
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LOCAL NEWS,

MANY Christmas presents were
purchased Saturday and were lad
away to await the suspicious mo-
ment when they should be pres
seted,
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A Rural Experience.

What kind of seeds ought to plant,
G7cle 81, to get a good squash cropT'
Squash. o course What did yer
#lpnose-lilocksG New York Epoch.
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The kitchen of NJ. Geo. Ewing,
residing near Whitman, burned
about daylight last Friday morning,
and his residence near by made a
narrow escape.
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The old year is rapidly drawing
to a close and old accounts should
be squared SO that all could start
out with clean ledger January 1,
1892. Send what you owe the BAN
NER. Many of the subscribers of the
paper have been getting it for years
and have neglected to pay up should
not start on another year without
squaring themselves with it.
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Professor Mendclef has succeeded in
distilIing petroleum from mineral sub
stances which cannot be distinguished
from the natural product This re-
wives faith in the belief that petroleum
L OF mineral origin.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A PROMISING PRODUCT.

The manufacture of a new disin-
fectant and deodorant, called Sauri-
don, has been commenced at Mary
hill, Eng. It is residual product
of an uncommon kind of blackstone
shale, which is composed of animal
and vegetable remains, is remarkably
light, yet yields large proportion
of a heavy volatile oil. The
oil is extracted by dis
tillation, and the residual product is
reduced to grains of different sizes,
varying from a fine powder to the
size of pea. The powder is claimed
to have an instantaneous effect upon
obnoxious matter, while being also
tasteless and colorlcss, and
harmless to all animal life. In the
granulated form, the substance acts
powerfully for tiltering and sweeten-
ing water. The oil, mixed with
other substances, is used as man.
ure, which combines the qualities of
a fertilizer and a powerful insecti-
eide.
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THE young folks are preparing
for lively time during the Christ
mas holidays.
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Endurance OF the morse.

A gentleman desiring to test the en-
durance of a horse drove one 1000
miles to dogcart, the cart. passenger
and baggage weighing over 800 pounds
The journey was done in nineteen CON
secutive days, an average of over fifty
two miles day. The longest distance,
sixty-eight miles. was covered on the
last day. The road was selected at
random. and led from London to
York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Carlisle,
Nottingham and London again The
horse was fifteen hands high what is
called well bred and returned home
according to the report of the veterin
airy no worse for the journey -Ex
ahan9e
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4 Calf with Eight Feet.

Uncle Peter Ledsinger, colored, who
lives in the Fifth district, had calf born
on his place Friday with eight feet-tBo
on each leg. The two surplus ones on
the hind legs were rather small The
calf lived until Monday, when it died,
never being able to stand up.-DyerS
burg {Tenn.) State Gazette