Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19
BREVITIES.

England.
The coquette likes man after
her OWE heart.
The distance is not far from good
nature to grace.
Most mistakes are not made: they
are brought OIL.
The tramp has. mission. His
mission is dinner.
There are few dogs that bone
viii satisfy these days.
Every cloud has a silver lining,
unless you have torn 1t out.
Disagreeable truths are always in
tended for somebody else,
Railway circles are an endless
series of curves and rocky cuts.
With enough pennies you may
avoid both penury and the pen.
A man S idea of perfect woman
is one who thinks he is perfect
When you sell humbug the rur.>
chaser is in it to keep him compan y.
Two persons who have lied to
each other can never beco'ue sine ;ere
friends.
The Gar of Russia is one OF the
greatest old book collecto rs in
Eruope.
If ignorance of law excuses no
one, then some lawyers ought to be
hanged.
Helena, Mon, with a population
of only $4,000, contains thirty-two
milionaires.
In well regulated families of small
boys the slipper has been supplant-
ed by the stiff hair brush.
Lady Roseberry left her entire
fortune to Lord Rosebery for life,
with reversion to her children.
When a man is cross 1t is an evil
dence that he is suffering. he is en-
titled to sympathy, not reproaches
The right arm of blacksmith is
almost hypertrophied, while the left
arm, from disuse, becomes atrophied.
No man likes to feel that he has
been make a fool of, but did any
man ever live who was not made
fool of?
It is estimated that from 10000
to 100000 deer feed in the forests
of Scotland, and that 1000 stays are
killed annually.
Equal quantities of oil of turpen-
tine and essence of lemon are said |
to be excellent for taking stains and
grease out of silk.
But we fear that sparkling in the
immediate neighborhood of the girls
in question will be very dangerous
pastime.-Mursey's Weekly.
William Schaefer, of Liugeld,
Montgomery county, Pa, has made
a cane of 1864 pieces, which he has
presented to an intimate friend.
The light of a freely has been
found sufficient for the making of a
photograph from an ordinary mega
tive by l.. FARM, Bridgeport, Conn.
An employee of the postal tele-
graph Office of st. Petersburg has
invented a watch which requires
winding up orlv once in forty-fve
days.
The pumice stone was a writing
of the ancients. They used
it to smooth the roughness of the
parchment or to sharpen their l
reeds.
Thieves stole an organ from the -.
Presbyterian church at River Forest,
Ills, the other day. About a year /
ago the carpets were stolen from the q
church. t
Paradoxical: MY dear doctor, if |
III your patients are getting along S
Is well as you seem to be, then you
'annot be getting along at all
Blatter. I
A new waterproof glove has been J
out in London. In place !
# hardening when wet, owing to the b
peculiar dressing of the skin, the
ain does not effect 1t in the least. n
An ordinary transparent glass ?
lobe absorbs about 10 per eent. of I
he light passing through it. Ground d
lass absorbs 30 to As per cent. o
nd opal glass from 80 to 60 per
ent.
Senator Pierce, of North Dakato,
Tas once newspaper man, and was
onnected with the Chicago News.
n those days he was accounted a
God story teller and a connoiseur
/ dinners.