Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

New ORLEANS has at last abandon
ed heryolun teer fire department an
is now protected by paid depart
ment.
The Jewish, relief committee OF
Berlin having exhausted their pri-
vate funds have issued a call to the
public.
The Kansas Alliance Cooperative
Mortgage association, capital stock
$1.00O,0O0, Frank McGrath, central
figure, is the latest alliance enter
prise.
VIRGIN1A's building at the Expo
sition will be of the old colonial
type, measuring 33x76 feet, two
stories high and surrounded by a
piazza Is feet wide. Its cost will
be $4,000.
Vol. 1. No. 1. of the Velasco Daily
Times, has been received at this
Office. It is a neat five column
quorto, all home print, and has the
appearance of being fit representa-
tive of the growing little city from
which it is issued.
A CONVENTION of farmers of the
cotton growing States has been
called to meet in Montgomery, ala,
January 6, for the purpose of con-
sidering the expediency and practi-
cability of decreasing the acreage of
the cotton in the South.
The nine Lady Managers resident
in Chicago, called together by Mrs.
Potter Palmer, have decided to es-
tablish a model sanitary kitchen
in the Woman's building at the Ex-
position. An effort will be made by
a special entertainment or other
wise, to raise the $4,000 necessary
for the purpose.
HE aspirants for the Senatorship
now are Mills, Culberson, Terrell
and Chiffon, with the chances in ia
Vor of Mills. The people of Texas
owe it to Mills to elect HIM to the
Senate as vindication of his recent
defest for the Speakership, and the
people of Texas are large hearted
and generous and can be depended
on to do the right thing.
The special edition of the Hous-
ton Post Thursday contained TWEEN
ty-four pages, with full page des-
criptions of Houston and Harris
county, and extensive write-ups of
Houston's leading industries. 1t
was magnificent edition, unexcelled
by any that has been issued in the
State, a credit to Houston, as well
as the enterprising management of
that able paper.
STATISTICS continue to show a
large increase in immigration, bring
ing the total of new arrivals for the
last ten months to 523, 45S, as against
427, 666 for the corresponding
period of 1890, an increase of nearly
100000 and promising a total of
over 100000 newcomers for the
year. The returns also show the
change in the elements making up
this immigration, which has been
noted for some years past, the heavy
influx of Slavs and italians, who
have only just begun coming.
The late James Parton used to
tell how, early in his career, he was
itemizing for a weekly paper, and
he noticed that large share of
news was devoted to exposing hui
man frailties. Thereupon he re-
solved to make reform in journal
ism. He began to collect matter
for a new feature in his paper
Good Deeds Done Lately" Dur
ing the first week he picked up only
few paragraphs for it, but he
wrote fiourishing introduction and
gave good earnest of the future.
But the next week the stock was
still smaller Nobody rescued any
body else from a watery grave; no.
body lost wallet and rewarded the
ragmufin who picked it up; and so
the new department persisted of in
anation.