Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-08
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If twenty men agree to go fish
ing on a certain day one will actually
go.
A quiet influence against man in
a town is more dangerous than a
noisy one.
Bright pictures pasted on cloth
and sewed together make nice
book for baby.
The modern waltz is called ''the
fashionable shamble' by disaffect-
ed observer.
Man pray for more things that
they do not need than for things
they do need.
How seldom a man thinks or
speaks friends 0of who died six
months ago.
The phosphate beds of Florida
are said to surpass those OF any
other country.
Raum reports 929,426 pending
claims, half for pension and half for
more pension.
Our integrity is never worth so
much as when we have parted with
our all to keep it.
While cleaning out stable at Bay
st. Louis, Miss, a negro unearthed
$4,000 in gold.
If the hrohibitionist cannot get
what he wants at Bar Harbor he
viii go to Rye Beach.
We are sorry to state that Maj.
Maetze is very i'll, and doubts of his
recovery are entertained.
The largest railway depot in the
world is at Birmingham, England.
It covers eleven acres.
Street, cleaning reports are full of
sweeping assertions" these days,
but the streets remain dirty.
Ir. Fassett hasn't even learned
how to be Collector yet. He will be
eligible to reappointment after Nov,
3rd.
An army of locusts ten miles wide
swept over the Iunjab in
India. It occupied five days in pass
ing.
The school-boy, with his shining
morning face" is now again an in
teresting feature of the New York
landscape.
Old man-Nothing is valuable now
aday that can't be exchanged for |
cash. Young Man-How about rep
utation for honesty?
The life insurance companies re-
port that ten per cent, of deaths in
the last two years were from la
grippe.
He-You are the only girl who
can make me happy. She, coquet-
He-Yes, I have tried
all the others.
'sDo you believe man sprang from
the ape?" ''To; but I believe weman
springs from the mouse-in fact,
I've seen her do it.
He-I never saw clothing so
cheap as it is now. Any man can
dress like a gentleman, She-Yes,
indeed. So con the ladies'.
Gen. Boulanger is said to have
lost much of the good looks and
gallant bearing that gave him the
name OF the brave general.
The highest trestle on the line of
the Northern Pacific railroad is that
across the Corsican defile, Missoulai,
Mont, 300 feet above the gorge be-
low.
Gladwin county, Mich, boasts of
having the largest frame barn in the
world. It is 156 feet long, fifty feet
wide, and in its construction $780,
900 feet of lumber were used.
The largest lighthouse lens in this
country measures fifteen feet in
height and eleven and half in width, /
the internal diameter, OF 'bull's
eye" being eight feet eight inches.
The biggest horse IN the world is
now the pride and glory of Detroit.
The noble brute is twenty one hands
high, weighs 1865 pounds, and is
of remarkable intelligence.
Mrs. Annie Besant is not, as COM
monty supposed, a sister of Walter
Besant. but his sister-in-law, having
morried brother of his in 1867,
when she was twenty years old.
Some land.in Paris has been sold at
he rate of S2,000,0O0 per acre; some
n London for what would net SIS,
100000 per acre, and some in New !
York for sum equal to SS,000,000 !