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

Boston has failed.
The Nationalist of Poland sent 8
wreath to be placed on the grave Of
Mr. Parnell.
The eight-hour Law of Nebraska
was declared constitutional by the
district court.
IT takes million pounds of inb
every year to print Uncle Sans pa
per money and revenue stamps.
The Arkansas supreme court has
decided that opening a theatre on
Sunday is in violation of the law.
QUARANTINE has been declared
against Coelez by Gibralter on &C.
count of the smallpox raging there.
The lawyer who makes a fortune
out of divorce suits probably looks
on his exchequer as breach loader.
Gov. STEELE says that the last rush
of immigrants into Oklahoma
brought the toritory 10000 new
citizens.
BANKRUPTCY OF annexation" is the
cry in Canada, where political union
with the United States has become
the paramount issue.
WEST VIRGINIA miners have en-
gagged counsel to test the right of
employers to bring hired detectives
with arms into the state
HoN. JNo. McDoNALD, of Austin,
has been petitioned to again run
for Mayor of that city, the list of
petitioners making three columns
and a half in the Statesmen.
A New YORK journal reports that
the surface roads of that city carry
more passengers annually than are
carried by the combined steam rail
roads of the state in the same time.
SENATOR GoRMAx is working like a
beaver to roll up a big majority in
Maryland. The next legislature will
re-elect the senator's successor. and
he is anxious that he succeed him
self.
TIE campaign in Iowa has been
an exciting one. Four tickets in
the field. Boies, the democrat, will
probably be elected. Temperance,
tariff and silver are the three lead
ing questions.
DISTRICT court convened in Gid
dings, Lee county, Monday, Judge
Beauregard Bryan presiding. There
is very little on the criminal docket,
while on the civil docket there is
comparatively nothing.
The Vienna congress of analytical
chemists appointed committee to
consider whether sanitary control
ought not to be extended to hair
dressers' shops and public baths,
and whether the daily disinfection
of combs and brushes used in shops
and public places ought not to be
made obligatory by legislation.
The late George Balm was in all
likelihood the most popular man in
st. Louis. As president of the
Merchants Exchange of that city he
was as companionable with the
bootblack on the Exchange as he
was with the wealthiest capitalist.
In business circles he had national
reputation, and he was enterprising,
generous and open-hearted.
HENRY CLEws has written an article
on the race for riches. He says
most of the losses on Wall street
are due to confidence in insufficient
or secondhand information. His
motto doubtless is: "Be sure of
your clews and then go ahead"
But you can't most always some
times tell when you have them and
the mistake is what ''kills you"
IT is reported that Senator Quay
has instituted suit against several
Pennsylvania papers for libel on ac-
count of recent publications in rela-
ton to his alleged connection with
the Bardsley treasury steals. We
presume that the senator expects to
recover heavy damages upon the well
known legal that 1.-The creates the
truth the greater the libel,
BHoNoGRAPHs are to be used in
Mexican postofhcos for the benefit
OF those who can not read or write.
The illiterate Mexican will go to the
postofhce, talk his message into the
receiver of the photograph, and
when the cylinder reaches
its destination the person addressed
will be sent for and the message
will be repeated to him from an
other machine.
The enormous export of wheat
during the last few months are soon
to be followed by heavy shipments
of corn. On last Monday and Tues
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