Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-30
NEWS ITEMS.

LII is eSGlmaIeQ JnaG every seal
consumes about ten pounds of, fish
daily.
The Alliance faction among the
Alliance Democrats has been de-
feated
Ex-President Cleveland will make
six speeches in Ohio for Governor
Campbell.
For the first time since 1854 the
New Orleans Mint is at work upon
ten-cent pieces.
A Cuban tobacco manufacturer
says the Mckinley bill helps the in
duotry IN Key West.
A turtle has been found at Lex1ng-
ton, Mo. Bearing marks on it in
1861 by an Illinois cavalryman.
Many Vermont farmers have de-
cided to plant nut orchards, as few
nuts are now grown in that State.
NJ. Il. George of Ogden, Utah,
who forged a receipt at Arkansas
City for $4,000 package, has been
caught.
The Indiana democrats will sup
port Gov. Gray for the presidential
nomination if he appears to have a
fair chance.
The Kansas Supreme Court is
having considerable trouble with
Mckay, the Alliance Judge of
Harper county.
Man is the universal animal. It
is estimated that there is 1,25O,OOO,-
900 of him on the globe. The
sheep rank next with 500, 100000.
J. NJ. Hill, the well known restau-
ranter and theatrical manager of
New York and Boston, has failed.
His liabilities are said to be very
large.
A clock 'for pointing out the di-
rection of the earth's orbital motion
IN the ethor" was recently exhibited
to the London physical society of
Prof. Lodge.
Houston county, Ga, claims the
youngest Confederate soldier in the
person OF Augustus L. Dixon, who
enlisted in 1863 under twelve
years of age.
Lansing, Mich, is corporation
of eight years standing. Reports
say that the company is doing fine
business, has $4,000 capital and is
good for all its contracts.
France exports seven times as
much brandy as it produces, which
shows what smart country France
is. Frenchmen know how to make
little brandy go long way.
When an optimist is so wild that
he can not recognize present condi-
ton as they are he has lost the re-
lation of affairs and his judgment is
not good of either the past, the pre-
sent or the future.
Bishop Coke, of Buffalo, finds that
his little episodical criticism of
women who ride bicycles is giving
him more publicity than his many
years of efficient service as Bishop of
Western New York.
It will take a cool 100000 to
pay the government pensioners and
sugar bounty men, and the people
foot the bill for the glorious privi-
lege of living in county where ''all
men are free and equal"
Excavations in England are prov
ing interesting. Further in the
north wall of Chester, England, has
brought to light number of carved
stones and some twenty-five grave
stones of the Roman period.
The little king of Spain very much
dislikes being seated upon the throne
of state ceremonials. He tries to
climb down and on one occasion de-
clared with tears that he would
rather sit in his mothers lap.
A st. Louis man was recently ar
rested and sentenced to serve three
months in Jail for entering burn
ing building and saving 6-year-old
child He was charged with OBJ
structing the fremen in the dis
charge of their duty.
Every telephone pole in the re-
mote country districts of Norway
has to be continually watched Oh
: account of the bears. which have a
mania for climbing the pole and
sitting on the cross-beams, swaying
backward and forward till the pole
finally falls.
The elevated railway proposed for
connecting the central part of Ma
Piles with the high ground will rest,
in some places, on towers 328 feet
high and the stations will be reached
by elevators. Electric power will
be supplied by a waterfall on the
river Serreno.
Statistics show the following to
be the average size of families in
the different European countries: