Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-29
BREVITIES.

It seems that civil servie is not to
be expected in this country without
tips.
1t is the tree that stands the
stralghtest that does the most to
resist the wind.
The man who does his best IN
the place he new has is on his way
to a better place.
Hlldegarde Hawthorne, grand
daughter of the celebrated writer. is
engaged in authorship,
Cardinal Manning denounces lot
-teries and ratfies ct fairs for works
of charity or religion.
George H. Jesse, the playwright,
has fallen heir to property in
Ireland worth s25O,0O0.
Pere Hyacinthe, it is said, has be-
come q Theosophist, and Will de-
liver lecture on his new faith.
1t Is estimated that 1t will re-
quire about S11, 100000 to pay the
bounty on the growing sugar crops.
Chicago restuses the vast sum of
1921, 967 from liquor licenses, and
nearly 100000 from other pur-
suits.
Capt. HawIey Smart, the En-.
glish sporting novelist, is an old
soldier, and fought in the Crimean
war.
The body of the late Earl of
Northecl5 was cremated, and the
ashes deposited in the family
vault.
A lean wood.plle in winter is a
sign there will be sweating and
perhaps swearing at the block IN
summer.
A wife interested in her hus-
bands business is a sign of ap.
proaehlng prosperity and accumu-
lated wealth.
Australia ships large numbers
of eggs to the British markets. It'll
takes SIX weeks for them to reach |
the markets.
The angels have orders to throw
every window in heaven wide open
as soon as the last 1.-THE is brought |
into the store house.
The love of hattery in most men
proceeds from a mean opinion they
have of themselves, in women
from the contrary. |
1t is adding insult to injury to
burn up the farmers fence in try
ing to cook the corn that you
helped yourself to.
Wild dogs never bark; they simply
zhine and howl. Wise men say
ing Is but an effort to speak on
animal
last year the London youth wore
their hat brims within half an inch
of their noses. This years fashion
Tits the hat backward.
Lord Lytton's health is said to
be seriously compromised, and he
thinks of resigning his post OF
Am bassador to France. |
Winfield Scott, one of the great
est generals America has ever
produced, is honored by monu-
neat worthy the name.
As long as fashionable society
lancing continues, the devil will not
De very much alarmed about his
uture business prospects.
A Georgia exchange explained
he recent absence of editorial
natter from an issue by saying
hat 1t was too hot to write.
There are thousands OF men VINO
would do brave things in an emer-
,ency, who make their wives get up
very morning to kindle a fire.
1t is florist in Vermont who has
ecured the permission of Presi- ,
lent Harrison to call a new double ,
White pink the Mrs. Harrison :
link"
The works of Thackeray are
aid 10 sell more largely at the
and to be in greater
Iemand at the libraries now than
ivcr before.
Rudyard Kipling's age is definite /
? fixed by the statement that he h
7as born in Bombay in Christmas
7eek, 1865; and is therefore in his e
9th year.
Elizabeth BlsIand, who did some
lobe trottlng few years ago, and :,
as recently been in Europe, will :
Don marry a New York lawyer =
AIMED Wetmore. >
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures, a lawyer, Fl
on the Nebraska prohibition
cket for the Office of Judge on the
lpreme bench, and Mrs. Woodward =
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