Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-30
BREVITIES.

WORKING girls
One New York hotel rents for
$3.50, 900 a year.
Sometimes the lay of the minstrel
produces an egg.
The prince Of Wales carries $780,
900 life insurance.
Masculine dwarfs should trayel
by the "limited mail"
A famine is threatened as a result
of the drouth in Russia.
The tallest man in Parsons, Kan,
is named A Short Inch.
Ex-President Cleveland has a re-
markable memory for faces.
A Georgia woman caught thirty
three rats in trap one day.
Schooners Head is near Bar Har-
Dor, but there's no beer there.
The highest altitude ever reached
by balloon was seven miles.
A four-winged duck was Matched a
short time ago at Bar Harbor, Me.
The male of the silkworm moth
travels at the rate of 100 miles a
day.
Bee county ginned its first bale
of cotton of the new crop last Satur-
day.
Portions of Cheyenne county, Col,
are being desolated by grasshop-
pers.
The grade of the Brooklyn bridge
roadway is 81 feet per 100 feet of
length. :
Over 10000 acres of grain and
timber land has been burned near
Milton, Cal.
A great fnancier is thief who
succeeds. A thief is great fnan-
cier who fails.
A church with poor foundation
never gains anything by having a
very tall steeple.
A method of blasting by electricity
has been tried in Sweden, with re-
ported good results.
The best kind of religion to have
is not always the kind they have in
the biggest churches.
True worth never seeks credit f@.
more than it Isl. that is left for imita-
tors and counterfeiters.
Heaven is always close to the
penitent sinner, but millions of miles
away from the hypocrite.
There is nothing for which man
has to pay so dear as he does for the
privilege of being stingy.
William Waldorf Astor, the head
of his family, is the greatest real
estate owner in the world.
The drouth in British India con-
tinues. The poorer classes are suf-
fering for food and water.
A Shreveport Na.) beet of the
blood-red variety weighs forty-six
pounds. 1t grew on Silver Lake
soil.
On dark nights white light can
be seen further than any other color
on bright nights red takes the first
place.
Ex-President Cleveland is to be
given dinner at Sandwich on the
18th by the Massachusetts Demo
crazy.
Two witnesses in a murder at
Buffalo Valley, Tenn, MORALLY |
wounded each other in the court |
room.
A Delaware peach grower says it
doesn't take frost to kill the set
ting blossoms. A cold wind will do |
it as etfectually.
A flowing well from which
strong current of cold air constantly
gushes is the latest curiosity near
Greenburg, La.
A Viennese professor says thai
the figure of the average human
male is much nearer perfection THAI
that of the female.
Yellow fever is abating in Vera
Cruz. All the cases are now confined
to the hospitals, and none is con-
sidered dangerous.
An Atchison woman discovered
by accident that peppermint will do
to. flavor ice cream when there is
nothing else in the house.
The government has been unable
to locate the man who assaulted
Detective Freeman, and who is sup
posed to be Defaulter Marsh.
1t is asserted now that G. ".
Marsh, the Philadelphia bank wreck
er, is on his way to Brazil. having
started for that county May 80.
Frank Melbourne, the self-styled
Rain King, succeeded at Canton, O.,
on Tuesday last in bringing nice
shower of over an hours duration
according to promise, He now pre-
diets a good rain for that entire