Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-07
BREVITIES.

Some men are misers of money
others of cheerfulness.
The Pullman dividend of per
cent will be paid on May Is.
This is the month to use spirits of
turpentine with liberal hand.
God is in violet though you
may not find Him in sermon.
1t is best not to dispute when
there is no probability of convincing.
It is a colossal mistake to think
that stale bread makes the best
toast.
The Pullman company employ
1000 men in their large plant in st.
Louis.
Russia has just borrowed another
S100,000.000 for the extension of
railways.
Chicken croquettes, served in the
shape and form of a lamb chop, are
the latest.
Facts teach us the fidelity of all
dogs: fiction records this trait in
few women.
Beets are the one vegetable the
average cook never allows to boil
long enough.
There is a sufficient recompense
in the very consciousness of noble
deed.-Cicero.
To act upon a determination made
in anger is like embarklng vessel
during storm.
Kansas farmers planted 100000
acres more of wheat last fall than
the year before.
Clean nickel plate with whiting
wet with gasoline. If a stove, be
sure the fire is out.
A lady who died in Glasgow be-
queathed 10000 to Gen. Booth for
the Salvation Army.
A new wrinkle in wedding cake is
to have it cut in the shape of heart
and put in Cupid boxes.
We learn wisdom from folly, but
it is less expensive if we learn it from
the folly of the other fellow.
Experiments are being made to
telephone across the Atlantic ocean
on the Mackey-Bennett cable.
Reports from 40 railroads for
March show an increase in earnings |
of 4 per cent over March 1890.
A new filling in for sandwiches is
a very fine grated combination of |
chicken and ham applied as paste.
Car works are to be established |
at Memphis, Tennessee, and a horse
and mule shoe factory at Strasburg, |
Virginia.
The Lehlgh Valley declines to re-
duce coal rates in compliance with
an order of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Make money your servant; don't
let it become your master. To know
how to guide and control it, get a
practical education.
A gold plated coin will not pass
current any longer than man of no
plated with educational &C
compllshments will.
There are too many of the bonds
of iniquitY on the market. They Of
fer large dividends, and they find
too many ready dupes.
A Troy policeman swore as follows:
''The prisoner sat on me, calling me
an ass and an idiot-all of which 1
certify to be true. Exchange.
The loss of 100000 by the
Ninth National bank of New York
is denied. The loss was laid on
President Hills personal estate.
There is a growing disposition
among the thinking public men to
favor the pooling of railway earnings
as the best solution of railroad wars.
England has more women work
ers than any other country in pro
portion to population; II per cent.
of the industrial classes are women.
About once a fortnight put teas,
poonful of soda in your coffee and
tea pots, add little water and let
boil until sweet and clean. Wash
and rinse.
The deepest copper mine in the
Lake Superior region is 5000 feet.
Within nine square miles there is
more copper than in all the rest of
the world.
The friends that people make
when they are young are the. most
and the ones who make
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