Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-23

How devotional some ladies are
just after they have purchased new
dress and bonnet.
The legislature fixed the genera
state tax for 1891 at 163 on the S10t
and Is cents for 1892.
The Concho country has her in
nings this year and has. already
scored several base hits.
Most of the busybodies and gos
sips defend their bad acts by saying
that they are honest critics.
1t is reported that white servants
are rapidly replacing colored help il
the towns of Southwest Georgia.
New Orleans people are talking
of erecting monument to the mem
DRY of Chief of Police Hennessey.
There are 377.77 grains of pure
silver in a Mexican dollar, an6
371.25 grains in an American dollar
In old times a strong arm was
necessary to the dictator; but just
now he finds shorthand far more i'm
portant.
The worst education which teach,
es self denial, is better than the best
which teaches everything else and
not that.
More than sixty companies for the
manufacture of cotton goods have
been organized in the south during
the last eight months.
The capital of the Trinity seems
to be Bud Connors beef as much as
San Antonio is Callaghan's chill con
carne.-San Antonio Light.
The London Lancet says the best
authorities estimate that the average
duration of human life has increased
ten years in the last century,
Every man has scheme to work.
If man drops into the scheme you
are working it is done so that he
may get you to drop into his.
Nine hundred and fifty submarine
telegraph cables are now in opera
ton, most of them in Europe; their
total length is over $4,000 miles.
You often ask: "Why did he do
such foolish thing?" Why did you
do some foolish thing in your his
tory2 That's the reason he did it.
King Humbert is warned not to
put too much dependence on Mr..
Porter's census. Able bodied men
were overlooked by the enumeration.
One of the illusions is that the
present hour is not the critical, de-
cisive hour. Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day of the
year.
Out of the 100000 people in
the United States, 45,O0O,0OO of
them suffer from Catarrh, Hay Fe-
YER, or Bronchitis, in some of its
forms.
The story of a young colored girl
brought from Georgia to Minnesota,
and taught to believe she was a slave,
and beaten as such, comes from
Minneapolis.
Young man, instead of loafng
around at night go home and read
good books or papers. 1t will
make you better citizen, besides
being beneficial to you.
When Bismarck denounced the
tariff bill as being as of
fensive as bad egg, he had no ref
erenee to the outrage on nature
that will be in fashion tomorrow.
There will be no time for filibus-
tering or other foolishness in the
Fifty-second Congress. 1t will have
to hustle to find the money to paw
The bills made by the Fifty-frst.
Edwin Booth spends all his leis-
ure time in his room alone. He
never goes on the street or into So
eiety if he can possibly help it,s His
only companion is big black pipe.
There is a tract of forest trees in
southern Oregon, embracing about.
10000 square miles, which, if cut
and sold at SO per 1000 feet,
would pay our national debt twice
over.
Science" takes some wild flights
sometimes. A cranky Chicago ply
'ician publishes theory to the eff
.ect that the grip is due to mi
,robes that emanate from ''star
lust"
The freside is a seminary of inf
lite Importance. It is important
because it is universal, and because
he education it bestows, being wo-
zen in the wool of childhood, gives
orm and color to the whole texture
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