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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
the MERRY BRITISH eEeeAR.

brave the day, brave the night,
throw my sorrows TO the wind,
And try 10 keep q cheerful mind,
Although my coat is thin and light,
Although my hat
Is wondered at,
Because shaved the outer rim
To try and keep it smooth and trim.
laugh and sing and whistle, too,
When have wind enough TO spare.
But in the sharp and frosty air
My breath comes short, my nose turns blue
My fingers freeze,
And my poor knees
Would knock together did they dare;
But still keep 4 jaunty air.
When bread is scarce and shelter poor
watch the sparrows, and / say
Il only want a meal day"
And if they turn me from the door
tramp for weeks,
And dodge the beaks,
And with no money for a bed
try an archway or a shed.
brave the day brave the night,
throw my SORROWS to the wind,
lis wise TO keepa cheerful mind
And screw your courage for the fight.
And so, kind sir,
In case you err,
With over pity worse than none,
Just hand a copper and have done.
Nina F. Layard in Longman's Magazine.
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A Dogs Descent in a Paraohute>

Quite novelty in the way of balloon
ascension occurred at Reed Laks re-
ceatly Mr.. Charles Godfrey, proprietor
Of lake hotel, owns big msstiff,
weighing $50 pounds, which has always
eEinced great interest in balloon ascen-
sions, and a double parachute was ar
ranged, one Tor the dog and one for the
man. Both. went up. and when at an
altitude of about 1000 feet, the dog was
swung off. His parachute was slow in
opening. but came around all right, and
he fell in the middle Of the lake, from
whence he was rescued by a steamboat.
He howlsd. but was not hurt, and dog.
ascensioas will be a feature hereafter.
The Humane society threatens prosecus
tons.-Grand Rapids Cor. Detroit Free
Press
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Ribbons and soup Plates.

This craze for beribboning everything
has at last struck the soup plate.
Through the open pattern of its rim the
band is twisted in and out to the do
spair Of the guest, who fears lest he soil
the decoration, and to the distraction o.
the long suffering maid, who must take
ont and run this bit of frivolity at every
using. And yet we wonder why gizls
object to domestic service as a means of
livelihood York Sun.
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zI.n's Studio At n.,tiEuss.

Before we had gone very far along
the shore of the great lake that stretcher
between Martigues and the Mediter-
Hanean, we came to little building
with huge window opening upon the
dusty road and facing northward, and
In the garden beyond was something
white aud shining. A man was super
Intending some work close by, and we
asked him whose house this was, for
the window looked nightly like
studio,
Don't you know7" he said in amaze
ment. 1T is there N ziem lives"
We had thought NJ Ziem dead for
years, and here he was alive in Mar
tigues, which he had discovered before
we were borr
Here, the man went on. he has
painted all his Venices and Constanti-
noples and CaiIos. Eere is the Nile, or
the Adriatic, OF the Bosphorns, as he
wishes, flowing past his doors There
on the near hillsides are the stone pines
and expresses of the south and east;
on the water beyond lies Venice; and
in his garden are the mosques Of Con
stantinople. Allezr
We went and looked closer then, and
We saw that the little white shining
thing was toy mosque with dome and
,ninarets, that oriental pots and jars
were scattered about in the garden, and
that two or three men were putting up
another and larger mosque, the frame
work of its dome and minarets lying
with the stones and mortar below its
unfinished walis-Eizabeth R. Pen
cell in, Century
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FOSTERS FORECASTS.

Among other predictions W. T.
Foster, the noted st. Soseph Mo,
weather prophet says: While the
center of this storm is in tina middle
portions of the great valleys warm
weather will be general over Texas
and the SoutherR states, with fire.
quent showers of + n IN most of the
Southern states, as the warm wave
moves slowly eastward. Not far
from tbs 25th cool waves will reach
Texas and gradually extend south
eastward into Florida by the 25th
or 29th..
On the Path the storm center will
affect the Ohio valley while the warm
waves will be reaching the Atlantic
states. At the same time the cold
wave will be spreading out over the
Missouri and Mississippi valley
above st. Louis.
About the 25th the STERN center
will reach the Atlantic states and the
cold waves will be entering the Ohio
valley. At this time the storm wave
on the Atlantic coast will be losing
energy and as it passes out by way
of the mouth of the st. Lawrence
valley on to the Atlantic coast about
the Goth it will become only a mod
crate storm.
Severe gales may be expected in
the vicinity of the upper lakes about
the 23rd and oath, while the storm
center is at its greatest force in the
middle Mississippi valley.
A lurge amount OF rain and snow
will fall in the United States from
the effect of this disturbance and
the weather of every part of the
North American continent will be
affected by it. Precipitation will
not occur everywhere, but the heat,
cold, clouding and clearing weather
of the whole continent will be domi-
mated, controlled, by that storm
wave.
l have thus given forecasts of this
storm wave more in detail than
usual because regard them as of
more than usual importance. No
other meteorologist would under
take to give the details of storm
wave as 1 have in the above, and
while readers of these forecasts are
watching, ready to criticise any error
1 make in reference to 1t, they should
remember that while my letters are
dated later these calculations: are
necessarily made on December 7,
sixteen days before the storm center
is due to cross the Mississippi val
ley. Ny readers will also note that
I do not undertake to give the exact
date that any feature of the weather
will reach any given point, but
usually use the term about" By
this 1 mean that the weather event
will occur at that place within TWEEN
ty-four hours of sunset-before or
after-on the date mentioned.
Even the vanity of woman is born
of a desire to please man.-News.
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A Ruthless RELIC Fisnd.

The relic hunter fend IS at work On
the monument of Nathaniel Hawthorne
to such an extent that a big fence will
be placed about it to keep intrudeTs
away. The magnificent tombstone has
been Clipped continually until now there
is scarcely any of it left. A stranger
went to the grave last week, and with a
heavy chisel broke off large bit of the
stone. he brought it to Boston, it is
said, and sold the chips at fabulous
prices.-Phiiadelphia Ledger.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

The bullfrog is combination of PTS
catorial, venatorial and aquatic delights
From his cradle to his grave he is an
ornament and an honor to the land.
There is fine sport in the hunting of him
and the eating of him, and it is both
policy and justice to protect him from
the onslaughts of rival and foreign bull
frogs.-Louisville Courier Journal.
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AT the Cumberland Presbyterian
church extension conference at st.
Louis Wednesday Rev. A. h. What
ley spoke for Mexico, asking assis-
lance. At the conclusion of his re-
marks one of the ministers asked
whether or not it would be well to
concentrate work upon poor ignor-
ant Roman Catholics there and give
them the light of God instead of
spending so much money on Mexico. y
This brought statement from Mr..
Whatley to the effect that Roman
Catholics in Mexico were stepped in
ignorance. Il have an instrument
of torture in my satchel," he said
(which brought from Mexico with
which ignorant Catholics scourge
themselves. A friend has a rope
with barbed wire in it which one of
his converts was made to wear by
priests, as penance, around her
waist next to the flesh"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

Perhaps one of the best ways of fixing
the words and idions of a language in
ones mind is to teach them to somebody
else. The learner should try to impart
to some member of his family what he
has already mastered. He should, above
all, seek command first of words in IA
miliar use, leaving to a later stage of
his progress the forms of literary express
sions: his first business is with the COM
mon objects of daily life, his last bust
ness is with general terms. As he sits at
his desk he ought to be able to name
every article about him, just as when he
is riding in the street car or on the rail
way he should be able to mentally recall
the equivalent for every detail in the
moving panorama of objects.-Boston
Herald.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

Swelteling Strauger-Phew! Seems as
if I'd melt. Thermometer must be about
a hundred.
Ctizen-Nonsensel You go to the top
of that forty story building, climb into
the tower and look Up at the official
weather service thermometer and you'll
ind it isn't over seyenty-si5.-New York
Weekly
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

Nearsighted Lady-The boy who is
trying to tie that tin can to that poor
dogs tail ought to be thrashed within
an inch of his life-the horrid little
brute.
Maid-It's your boy, mum
My boy:"
Eyes, mum"
Tell him if he'll stop I'll give him
some cake Good News.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

IT is the opinion of some military
men that the new drill tactics will
have the effect of decreasing the
State volunteer guards as the new
tactics will never be as popular as
the old.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

In the line Of eating the Manchus,
who have ruled in China since Its con-
quest by them some $50 years ago. are
strongest in baked meats. The Chinese
excel in soups.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

A writer on social affairs In Iceiap.
says there is not a single prison on tn:
island; that such things as locks, bolt.
and bars are unknown, and hat there
are neither watchmen nor policerea.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

Old French forts are being sold very
cheap. \ French artist has bought the
Fort du Guesclin for about ST. 100. They
so from u few hundred 10 81, 00Q
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

The Houston Post thinks it doubt
full whether Reagan's successor will
be elected by the extra session of
the Legislature.
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. Point for Scbure.r,tas

a rew Gays since there was published
the particulars of case Oh the Little
Miami railroad wherein Mr.. Walters de-
clined to pay his fare, having neglected
to place his commuters ticket within his
inside pocket for the convenient refer
ance of the conductor. The train was
held for quite fifteen minutes for him to
get OF. He did not get off and the train
men did not put him off 1t is under
stood that the conductor has since been
discharged; but that is not all of it. The
commuters out along the line have been
talking about it ever since, and not long
after the occurrence two Camp Dennison
citizens became so excited in reviewing
it that they came to blows and had TO be
drawn apart by mutual friends.-Chcin-
nati Commercial Gazette.
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ohfrct to the Name.

Some one wishes the board of lady
managers of the World fair to change its
official designation. 1t does not smack
of business. The word lady is terribly
overworked of late. "Oh, woman, love-
ly woman, nature formed to temper
man, would not sound as well if lady
we're substituted --Yankeo Blade.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

In the abysses of the oceans, below 500
fathoms, many animals have either i'm
perfect eyes or none. Their condition
in this regard affords a suggestive par
allel to that of cave life, and the causes
are probably the same. Science is Of the
opinion that all deep sea life originally
emigrated from the shadows.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
The Weekly Banner,
SUPPLEMENT.

The dread lagrippe has made its
appearance in some sections of this
country.
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A Poetic Child.

My Oldest boy, who has not yet reached
the mature age of three, has, think, &
poetic way of expressing himself. Thu,
the other day, on noticing the ripples on
the lake in Central park, caused by the
wind, he exclaimed. Mamma, look; see
how the water is laughing New York
Cor. Babyhood.
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Cloth and Pnner Made from One Tr

The paper tree of the South seas Is a
species of the mulberry. Its inner bark
is so delicate that soft and pleasant
feeling cloth is made from it, which the
natives use in making their ''beSt suits. y
1t is also used in the manufacture of a
very fine grade of paper.-Philadelphia
Times.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

The government sugar bounty
was a great thing for the half dozen
sugar planters of Texas, but If
doesn't help the masses. A cotton
bounty would come near reaching
the people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

AT Wednesdays session of the
Southwest Miners convention at Ell
Paso the committee on resolutions.
John II. Reagan, chairman, submit
ted its report. 1t requests the
friends of silver to keep a definite
policy in view and labor to secure a
free and unlimited coinage and seek
the repeal of the requirements to
purchase silver bullion and issue
treasury notes thereon, to secure re-
opening minis of the United States
to unrestricted coinage of gold and
silver. The resolutions demand of
congress that mining property be
exempt from the provisions of the
law which prohibits the investment
OF foreign capital in real estate prop
erty in territories The resolutions
were adopted and the congress ad-
journed sine die.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

The first steamboat to arrive at
Dallas since the Inflated Sallie
Haynes went down at low tide many
years ago, drew up Thursday morn
ing at the foot of Commerce street.
1t is fiat boat, about sixty feet
long, well rugged with machinery.
1t has been christened The Dallas.
1t was loaded with cordwood. Its
arrival was announced by the firing
of anvils. Speeches were made and
the wood was auctioned off by
silks at first and later by cords.
The sale amounted to handsome
profit to the Davigators. Navigation
advocates are enthusiastic over the
start made. They propose to carry
the project forward until water rates
are secured. The first boat draws
sixteen inches of water when loaded.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

Even the vanity of woman is born
of a desire to please man.-News.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24

A New YORK letter to Philadel-
phia Press says: There is one
thing that Mckinley has said here
which it is permissible to quote. He
met Tom Reed a few days ago and
he said to him: Creed, you have
got to be mighty careful during the
next season"
why SOP"
Because it only takes a two
thirds vote to expel member, and
the democrats have got them"
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TEXAS Farm and Ranch truthfulIy
suggests that Southern farmers
seem to get left at every turn of the
wheel of fortune The famine in
Europe will enhance the price of
flour, and opening the German en-
pire to American hog products will
enhance the price of bacon and lard
articles the Southern farmer must
buy. A large cotton crop, with the
help of commercial gamblers, puts
down the price of cotton, which is
the only article the Southern farmer
has to sell. The remedy for these
things is to raise hogs and make ba-
con and lard to sell, and raise less
cotton and get better price for it.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15
Cnrious Aatural F.snneI.

The mountain canyons play curious
pranks with the weather # towns situated
at their entrance. In Boulder one day
the sky was bright. the sun was shining
.ercnely and the mir was absolutely with
out motion. Il was perfect morning.
About 10 o'clock a strange roar could be
heard afar of in the mountains. For
nalf an hour il grew louder and louder,
but not breath Of air stirred the dust on
the streets Of the town. Then there came
a rush of wind that almost took men off
their feet. For an hour dust, sticks and
scraps Of paper were hurled with binding
force. Locomo,ion was nearly impossi-
ble. Then the wind lesseEed, the atmos-
phere cleared, and in few moments the
day was as placid as though the great
mountains bad given no manifestation Of
their mysterious forces.
The canyons act as tunnels. They
galh the wind in the big end, as it
we're, and shoot it out through the little
era with its power multiplied a dozen
Times. us startling freak until you
are us,d to it.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15
ApriI Is, 1891.
Diet for 1t Healthy Man.

A Wholesome diet in good health for n
man of business, who walks a fair dis
tance, or indulges in some equ valent out
door exercise, would be abundant and
palalable, inviting in appearance and ac-
companied by plenty Of pure, cool water,
lemon and orangeade, the juicy fruit and
salads, the succulent vegetable, meat and
vegetable soup beef and mutton pretera-
bly, boiled or roasied-sea fish, clans, oys-
ters, game, poultry, digeslible sweets and
tea, cofFee cocoa or chocolate in modera-
tion. Frozen ices and creams eaten mod
alely, when the system is not over+heated,
are refreshing and nutritious. Whole
waeat bread, baked potatoes, milk, cream
and new cheese, new laid eggs, either
boiled or poached, will complete an ideal
dietary for Il healthy man who uses his
brain rather than his muscular powers.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

There is horse in the United States
army on the retired list, drawing pen
sion. IT, fact. The horse bel Dged to
Captain Keogh, near relative Of Cen
eral Custer. aud IS the only horse which
escaped the massacre in which that gen.
eral was killed. His name is Comanche,
and be il stationed nj Fort Riley, Kan,
with the Seventh Cavalry-Custer's old
regiment His pension Is sufficient to
pay his transportation wherever he goes
and to pay for his forage. He Is cared
for by man detailed for that duty, and
who does nothing else. He is saddled,
brldled, aud equipped and led out for in
-peclion, yet no one sits in bis saddle.
lie has been much sought after by enter
prising showmen, but Uncle Sam says no.
lie will be kept as long as life lasts, and
after that will probably be prepared and
sent to the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington. When found Comanche
was many miles away from The scene Of
tie battle lie had seven wounds and
was nearly exhausted from less Of blood.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15
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nual advertisers 10 is proper to state distinct 3
chat their privilege only extends to their im-
mediate business Real Estate Legal OF o.Ne'
advertisements sent by them 90 oe an adoluon-
sl charge and no variation.
ra-Obituarv notices of more than 1--WE lines
will be charged for.
jon WORK Posters sale Bills, Circulars.
Cards. etc. executed promptly neatly ana "'
fair prices,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

About two miles above Parkersburg on
the farm of E T. Bartlett, the site of a large
prehistoric village has been found and many
relics unearhed. The village borders on
the Ohio river. The earth is furrowed in
many places, aud is intermixed with frag
ments OF pottery, bones of animals such as
deer, bear, etc, with many utensils and or
naments of stone bone and shells.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15
POETE y.
APRIL.

They promised me a flower bed
That should he truly mine.
Out in the garden by the wall
Beneath the ivy vine.
The lockwood bush would have to stay,
The daily rose bu-h too;
But rthe rest they les me plant
Just rs chose 10 do.
Though not q daiIodil was up
The garden smciled of spring.
And in the trees beTond the wall
heard the blackbirds sing.
/ worked there all the afternoon;
The sun shone warm and still;
| set il thick with flower seeds
And roots of dailodil.
And all the while dug. planned
That, when my flowers g-ew,
I'd train them in lovely bower
And cut window through;
The visitors who drove from town
Would come cut there to see
Perhaps I'd give them each bunch,
And then how pleased they d be
made my plans-and then for weeks
Forgot my roots and seeds,
So when came that way again
They all were choked with weeds.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

One can cut glass with scissors easily
as though it were an autumn leaf. The
entire secret consists in plnnging the pare
of glass into a tub of water, submcrgc also
The hands and the scissors. The scissors
will cut in straight lines, without flaw.
This result Is achieved in consequence OF
the absence OF vibration. Ifthe east por-
tion of the scissors is left out of the water
the vibration will prevent the glass-cut-
ting.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

\ Clarksburg (W. Va dispatch says:
italians are returning in squads from the
interior daily, en- route to Pitt,burg They
decline 10 explain why they are leaving their
work unfinished or what they expect to do
at Piltsburg. Their movement, are mys-
terry, and confirm the reports that Italians
are congregating in that city"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

y Aw'll informed journal SAYS "If there
be no mistake in the figures. every bushel of
wheat now in the United States, including
the perhaps 100000 bushels now existent
as -four, will be wanted for consumption at
home between this and the time Of our next
harvest"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

Ii Is estimated in the AHhqbqd Pioneer
that the treasure lying idle III India in
the shape of boards or ornaments amounts
to 81, $50 100000.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

"a good wife is heavens greatest gift
to mar and the rarest gem the earth
holds remarked Mr.. Jarphy the other
morning; "she is his joy, his inspiration
aud his very soul. Through her he
learns TO reach the pure aud true, and
her loving hand leads him softly over
the rough places. She is Jeremiah"
said Mrs. Jarphy solemuly; Jeremiah,
what wickedness have you been up to
now ? There's 10 use Of waiting or whip
ping round the stump, for III hear Of it
soon enough. Say it right out, Jere-
miah p
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-04-15

Doctor-"Well, Dennis, did you take
the pills | sent you p
Dennis" Indade, docthor, an l did
not; ye wrote on the box 'One pill three
times day an I've bin waitin' till see
YOU 10 ask You how man was to take
little bit av pill loike that three times
in wan day?"