Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-01
NEWS ITEMS.

yellow FEVER is reported raging IN
Rio Janeiro.
There are 302 public schools in
New York city.
Wyoming has law imposing a 81
tax on bachelors
Large numbers of Italians are emf
grating to the United States.
Marry Anderson is preparing her
dramatic memoirs for the press.
In Bulgaria only 81 per cent. of
the population can read and write.
Two thousand men employed in
the saw-mills at Ottawa, Ont, are on
a strike
Henry NJ. Stanley is planning
new Congo expedition for King
Leopold.
AT London, lockers declined to
unload grain on the Lydian Monarch
Sunday.
Land values in Berlin have in
creased sixty-five per cent in the last
ten years.
London enjoyed IL hours of sun
shine on a recent Sunday most
rare record.
TIE Bank of London has advanced
the discount rate of interest from
p to 3 per cent.
Savernake forest, one of the most
famous estates in England, has been
sold for S4,00O,0OO.
A Countryman was in Athens, Ca,
Friday exhiting with one foot exactly
the shape of hoof.
Secretary Balfour's sister is ex-.
pert photographer and has produced
some very clever work.
WHEAT has gone up to 81 OS in
Chicago, and the merchants are play
ing it for all it viii bear.
AHEAD of hair measuring ten feet
and seven inches in length adorns
Mrs. Philpot, of Gainesville, Texas.
Her height is only four feet.
1t has been lately pointed out
that the alr is much contaminated
with arsenic, especially in English
cities, from the burning of coal.
J.B, Polk, the comedian, has tenn
pOrarily retired from the stage to
work his gold mine in Northern Cali
fornia.
Cardinald Manning says that moth
ing will help international peace and
universal brotherhood like worlds
congress.
A Georgia boy with an extraor-
binary nose is advertised by a dime
museum manager as ''The Human
Elephant"
Mention is made of a child born
at Hartford, Conn.,, last month
which weighed only two pounds and
three ounces when it was three days
old
An Odessa correspondent says
during the coming five weeks 10000
troops viii be sent to Sebastopol
and Odessa from Batoum by the
Russian volunteer fleet.
A Chicago man whose gloves had
been cleaned with benzine struck a
match to light cigar and the glove
took IRE and burned his hand quite
badly.
Kentuckian who had arrived at
majority offered his first vote the
other day, but so great was his ex-
Element that fell in heapin a dead
faint and cold not sit up for an hour.
The gas generated in barrel of
sauerkraut caused fatal accident
in Crawford, N. j., to Mary Han
necker, twelve-year-old girl The
barrel exploded and a stave struck
her in theltemple.
A German substitute for leather
in some of its uses consists of this
board with wire netting besween5
the whole glued together aud press
ed. The material is ton and pliable
and srited for trunks, etc.
Miss Ella Ewing of Scotland coun-
| ty, Missouri, is Is years old, s feet
high, and she weighs 245 pounds,
without carrying surplus Of flesh,
She is said to be the belle os Scot
land county. Herfeet are Is inches
long.
A ''iocomotivo-steamboat" is be-
ing built in Sweden for the naviga-
ton of chain of small lakes sepa-
rated by falls. The boat is to be
fitted with wheels fitting a track,
and power can be applied either to
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