Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-29
NEWS ITEMS.

In Alaska flour is $15 per hundred
pounds.
Do not travel through life in the
vest pocket of some tough political
boss.
You must give man justice if
you want him to have it. Justice
can't be sold.
The soul has no dillow on which
to repose so soft and sweet as a
good conscience.
'Iast but not leased" said the
landlord as he looked at the vacant
house.
Of the twenty seven royal families
of Europe two-thirds of them are
Germans.
The United States imports more
gum for making varnish than any
other country
The story of COWS getting drunk
on fermented apple come from
Ol8rkSFllle, ME.
An oyster-shell in the teakettle,
will prevent the information of crust
in the inside.
Mrs. Mary Myrick, of Protone
Ill.,, has been elected school director
without opposition.
An Albany woman hidher diamond
earrings in her mouth and then
lectured the burglar.
To clean willow furniture use salt
and water. Adply with nail brush
rnd scrub thoroughly.
A Detroit manufacturing firm will
make steel wagon wheels with hol-
low felloes and spokes.
Breathing the fumes of spirits of
turpentine will afford relief to the
sufferer from whooping cough.
What farmer in all the land when
he sits down to nice meal of fried
chicken will not admit that it pays
to grow poultry.
A Rivet in the form of tube to
be used both as a rivet and IS q
drainage way is the latest wrinkle in
iron ship building.
Birdie: I don't believe in long
engagements, do you? John: No;
people are apt to find out too much
about each other.
Ohio comes to the front with a
pound and half baby, having
handsome head of dark hair and a
face the size of silver dollar.
The New Jersey man who secured
a patent on his idea of placing rub
Der on the tips of pencils is said to
have aealized 100000 from it..
The farmer who undertakes to
earn his bread by the sweat of q
hired mans brow, had better made
up his mind to do with out pie.
Salt as tooth powder is better
than almost anything else that can
be bought. It keeps the teeth
brilliantly white, the gums hard and
rosy.
It is said that Russia refuses to
join in the coercion of China, be-
cause she does not desire to
strengthen England's influence in
Asia.
The Grand Duchess Sergins of
Russia is so strikingly beautiful that
she is known as crowned Ophelia.
Thomas A Edison began as a tele-
graph operator.
Hot breads, cakes. ETC., should
never be covered with a cloth. It
matters not how scrupulously clean
the cloth may be, it imparts an I'M
desirable favor to them.
Mrs. Diaz- the wife of the Presi-
dent of Mexico, will in all probability
be as the head of the committee of
woman who will represent that
country at the Columbian Exhibit
ion.
Whether the hogs have the run of
the pastures or are fed in close pens,
it is very necessary to keep their
sleeping and eating quarters clean
and dry in order to maintain good
health.
Walter Scott to his wife: "'Tis
no wonder that poets have made the
lamb the emblem of peace and inno-
cence." "rhey are, indeed, delight
ful animals" said she; especially
with mint sauce"
Cream which is slightly sour may
be sweetened and rendered fit for
use in tea and COTE by adding a
little soda. It is even possible to
boil the cream thus treated without
fear Of its curdliug.
A Peculiar glossy and transparent
cloth is made from the fiber of net
Ties, which is used among other
thing for betting of machinery and it
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