Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A millionaire has large power
A woman's glory is her gown
ireland will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Pride-a pair of stilts-awkward
but elevating.
Charles Dudley Warmers wife is
a fine musician.
Tact is hypocrisy in its most de-
lightful form,-Troy Press.
There never was a man yet who
found duty pleasant task.
Workingmen out on strikes might
do something at playing ball.
The ugly temper of a pretty
woman always shows through.
If there is no rest for the weary,
b en- there is no such thing as rest.
True merit is like river, the
deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
The sweetest picture in the world
is a pretty mother with her first
baby.
The pretense of saintliness de-
ceives no one so much as the preten-
der.
The biggest coward you can find
anywhere is the one who is afraid to
do right.
ECONOMY is the road to wealth, y
but you can't get the boarders to
believe it.
If you want to find the most mis-
cradle man in the world find the
most selfish one.
Six millions of dead letters are
annually torn and sold as old paper
in Washington.
1t is difficult for a drinking man
to hold his breath; it is generally
too strong for him.
The proprietor of a meat market
ought to make a valuable member
OF lOlnG cCmmlGUee.
If the whole truth were known,
the world would be full of people
with hanging heads.
In order to live Justly, and be re-
spected, we must abstain from that
which we blame others.
Do not get so many good ideas
that you have no time to carry any
of them into execution.
The man who never gives away
cheats himself out of a
good deal of satisfaction.
The trouble with the young is that
they do not do as the old folks adj
wise, but as they have done.
There are moments when the
heart awakens from a sleep to feel
itself alone and in the dark.
reflections make US sadder" said
an ugly philosopher, who must have
been gazing into the mirror.
No fewer than seven of the Ger
man Emperors are now being paint
ed by three artists in Berlin.
Unless man has a character that
won't show dirt, he had better not
have much to do with politics.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is in New
York arranging for the publication
of the memoirs of her husband.
Conversational art alone cannot
cure ignorance, but even it is less
fatal than intellectual feebleness.
Barnum during the last twenty
years of his life expended over 3d.
100000 in newspaper advertising.
A small box filed with lime, and
placed in a pantry, will absorb
dampness and keep the air sweet.
There are many who rather meet
their bitterest enemy in the field
than their own hearts in their closet
1t is never very easy to forgive an
enemy; it is impossible to forgive
him when he continues to prosper.
The increasing sales of the ardent
by some druggists indicate that
they sell more drains than scruples.
Though a loving thought may not
seem to be appreciated, it has yet
made you better and drawer for it.
The man who insists that doctor
bills are robbery might modify his
language and refer to them as pill
age.
"The Doctor" is the title of a new
farce comedy, by Charles Townsend
which will be produced at an early
day.
Miss Phoebe Cousins and Miss
Anna Dickinson are about to go on
the lecture platform to explain their
wrongs.
1t is said that one man in Idaho
will spend $4,000 of his own money
to exhibit the natural wealth of that
territory.
Gen. Grants old log cabin in st.
Louis county, Missouri, is to be
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