Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20
Miscellaneous Items.

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lied at Mexico, Mo.
Toronto proposes to have regi-
ment uniformed in Scotch kits.
Ladies' in Lexington, KY, have
organized an anti-slang society.
An Ionia mich. concern is ship
ping corncob pipes to England.
Pieces of licorice laid around
where ants run is recommended.
If we can not make life happy, we
may at all events make it interesting.
A home for broken down bach
elors has been founded in st. Louis.
Failing to make sheep pay can
generally be traced to want of care.
The worst of all knaves are those
who can mimic their former hon
esty.
You light match to make it burn,
and you burn a match to make in
light.
Love is a blessed wand which wins
the waters from the hardness of the
heart.
Beebee Beebee is the name of al
resident of BeeVille, Bee county,
Texas.
Steady work does not hurt sound
horse; it is the overcrowding that
Injuries.
In Germany more than 10000
married women work in shops and
factories.
There are one hundred and one
life prisoners in the Kentucky pen
No coward can get to heaven.
The tree of life is for "him" that
overcometh."
The largest State prison in the
United States IS located at Jeffer-
son City, Mo.
The United States man-of-war
Charleston, arrived at San Fran
cisco recently.
, The thinnest and at the same
lime one of the toughest feathers
AIMED is frogskin.
There is a pear orchard or garden
n the isle of Jersey containing six
y thousand pear trees.
The discovery of nickel near the !
'illage of Pleova, in Ontario, has !
.reated much excitement.
A waterspout on one of the Cor ,
smo (Spanlsh) islands killed six !
and caused much damage. '
In Jackson, Miss, man who
escaped from the penitentiary five
ears ago returned and gave himself =
Up.
Six million dollars is named as the s
alue of the estate Myra Clark ]
iaines won after her years of itiga-
ion. =
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rity can only be secured by having il
good breeding stock for a founda. f
ion.
The public debt of Philadelphia, A
'hich is S56,OO0,O0O, is larger, per c
apita, than the public debt of New {
-ork. A
The employment of women at the
loyal Observatory at Greenwich, 1
ing, has awakened widespread in s.
crest. n
New York city consumes daily e
bout $4,000 punches of asparagus
here has been no over supply this d
sason. n
In Swiss canton the municipal Il
authorities have decided that all en- fl
loyers must share profits with tbs
borers. .,
A lady of Martainsyille, Ind, has OF
head of natural hair seven feet in d,
myth. She is only five feet three a
ches tall. CT
The Baltimore American remarks
lat people who are always wishing &C
II some kind of weather are getting tv
this year. SC
Deputy United States Marshal fl
m Yates, noted character, was al
lied by Bob Marshal in brawl in
den in McAlester, Choc- 81
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A waterspout on one of the DE-
cores islands has caused immense er
image and resulted in the killing th
six persons.
A kiss is about the only thing you of
n steal and at the same time make he
e owner richer and happier than ST
q was before. or
From Jackson, Miss, comes the in
WIS that Senator George was bad &C
beaten by Barksdale, the ALI =
ce candidate.
1t is reported that vein of coal
rec miles wide and fifty feet thick
s been discovered in the Flathesd
untry in Montana.
Strabo informs us that the inven-
IN of bellows is due to the Scythian