Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-11-05
NEWS ITEMS.

large collection of beetles.
Gazing in of the river front at New
Orleans has caused much damage.
j.. R. Lenist of Lincoln, Neb., was
horsewhipped by the woman he had
spurned.
Jay Gould was a surveyor and
school teacher and once peddled
mouse traps.
You can tell what kind of a spirit
there is in a man by the way he
treats a woman.
Andrew Carnegie has shipped to
President Harrison eighteen gallons
of line Scotch whisky.
AtPeterboro, Ont, child was in
advertently boiled to death in an at
tempt to cure it of fit.
The newest patent shoe has a
device of springs in the heel which
lessons the jar to the body
Gen. Lew Wallace has just secur-
ed patents. on a fshing-rod and a
rail coupler for railways.
It is estimated that to collect one
pound of nectar, 3,750,000 visits
must be made by the bees.
The cultivation of the castor oil
bean is among the grand and paying
industries of the near future.
Ex-Governor Anthony of Kansas
is DESTROYS of succeeding P. B.
Plumb as Unites States senator.
There are more than twenty times
as many Germans IN England as
there are Englishmen in Germany.
A San Jose, Costa Rica, dispatch
says business and crops throughout
the country have never been better.
"Goldbugs" are at work in
Colorado trying to pack the Denver
mining convention against free
silver.
The feeling against President Diaz
in Mexico is to be so bitter among
the Catholics that a revolution is
looked for.
The free schools for colored
children in Virginia for the past
twenty years have cost cost nearly
$6,00O,00G
Little Queen Wilhelmina, of Hol-
land, will begin her reign August 81
1898, when she will have attained
the age of eighteen.
Sampson Mccain, an Irishman,
breaks silver dollars between his
fingers, and chains capable of
sustaining 6000pounds.
The government engineer of Hon.
auras, who regulates the mahogany
cut, estimates the value of trees now
ready for market at S200,000,000-
The Manila hemp plant, which
is very similar to the banana, is
found to thrive best in soil COM
posed of decayed vegetable matter.
The lake which has the highest
elevation of any in the world is
Green Lake, Col. Its surface is
10,252 feet above the level of the
sea.
There are now in this country ten
clergymen who can minis
ter to the deaf and forty Of these are
themselves deaf mutes. In this
country about 10000, persons are
totally deaf, aud there are about one
half as many in Great Britain.
A process has recentlybeen discover
ed Tor making flour of bananas.
Chemical experiments show that
This -four contains more nutriment |
than rice, and that when eaten with |
beans, corn or sage it forms a very
palatable and nourishing diet.
An electrical journal tells of the COD
struction to an electric walking-stick |
of which the knob consists of a |
small electric lamp in a thick glass
bulb, the battery being two cells of
a peculiar shape down the can itself.
The lamp gives sufficient light to
light the bearer up stairs at night
Experiments by NJ. Hormuzescu
have shown that when an electric
current is passed continuously ,
through a WIRE at certain tension
IN the open air, the wire is caused |
to vibrate The author supposes
that the effect is produced by the
of heat from the wire to the
air.
The first piece of steel manufacture
ed in this country of which there is
any record was made by Samuel !
of Simsbury, Conn, in June,
L725. Although patent was granted
him and Joseph Dewey of Hebron,
Conn, by the state court, they did
not take advantage of it aud did not
continue the business.
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