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The Daily Banner.
J. O. RANKIN. Proprietor.
O. H P. GAKKKTT. Editor.
Banday Morning, Feb. 12, '88.
If Volapuk is adopted ae a uuiver-
* sal language the telephone will have
fib lapse into innocuous desuetude.
The Post-DrSpatch is making a
jrigorous war on the registration
Jaws of St. Louis, and seems to he
conducting the campaign all bj it
pelf..
The Houston Herald has recently
undergone a change in appearance
1 much for the better, an«l now looks
: :iieat«r and brighter iu its enlarged
form.
John Sherman is away airing Lis
views to the Bostonians on tanfl.
tienator Kenua. of V\ est \ irginia.
shod 1 be sent out to camp on his
trail. ^
The Banner isn't given to taffying
itself overmuch, but if there is any
bette/ interior paper published in
lie'state than its weekly, would like
to see a copy of it.
The democratic party can better
afford to face the country on the
tariff issue than can the republican
party ignore it or advocate the con-
tinuance of the robber system.
— ■ -«■»» ■ —
In an interview with the Galves-
ton News Rutabage Johnson strong-
ly takes positign in favor of the
Blair bill. And still we are inclined
to believe that the sun do move.
Industrial schools and polytech-
nic? institutions—*and plenty df them
--are what this country needs to
elevate and dignify labor and to put
* period to agitators, strikes and
twyeots.
——4 ■ —r—
Misseuai has a vagrant law that is
ft disgrace to modern civilization.
Under it a kind of bondage and spe-
cies of slavery can easily be main-
tained and poor people imprisoned
lor debt.
Is Volapuk "hijams" means a girl,
which is supposed to be the feminine
lorm of the English word "jim-jams.''
When they give a fellow the mitten
lie sometimes feels as if he had the
jim-jams.
While certain persons are clamor-
ing for a copyright law the suffering
public should get up a counter peti-
tion to discourage it. There are too
H^ny cranks in this country writing
Iwokn already.
St. Valentine's day will be here on
Tuesday, and the idiotic custom
of sending gross caricatures to per-
sons, supposed to show up then-
weak points, will nq doubt be observ-
ed—-r"as usual."
An exchange has just caught onto
the latest fad in regard to the theory
advanced that Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote Shakespeare, but says nothing
. about the more marvelous one, that
JBob Ingersoll is the real author of
4he Pent itench.
The empress of Austria has grown
so embonpoint that she has retired to
(the Castle of Godolo, where she is
frequently seen with the beautiful
Archduchess Marie Valerie fencing
with swords and indulging in other
ctercist s to reduce her flesh.
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Should Riddleberger succecd
in having the secret sessions of the
senate abolised it will go a long way
towards removing some of the stains
placed upon the fair escutcheon of
Virginia in being represented by
> such men as he and Mohone.
The contested election case of
Lowry vs. White from Indiana has
resulted in favor of the sitting re-
' publican member, White, and con-
gress has escaped narrowly from
. committing a big blunder. White
* ma» elected by an overwhelming ma-
jority, but his opponent by strain-
eng viciously at a gnat tried to prove
that he was not eligible, and had
jtfen backing of members of the
Tecas delegation.
* T*e New York World is undertak-
ing a frig job when it proposes to
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
V-'.
The inventive genius of man has
wrought so many changes in the con-
ditions of life during the past half
century by evolving scientific princi-
ples and applying them to every day
business affairs as to have proved
that there is no limit to his powers.
By means of railroad locomotion,
electricity and other inventions, dis-
coveries and applied sciences the
various peoples and nations of the
earth so widely scattered apart geo-
graphically and so distinct by man-
ners, customs and laws, are at length
practically one uation and-one peo-
ple, and their interests promise to be-
come still more allied and mutual so
soon as other great scientific dis-
coveries and other great inventions
shall bring them nearer together in
manners, customs and business pur-
suits. It is this growing inter-de-
pendence, mutuality of interests and
reciprocity of trade that has given
origin to the attempt to build up
and establish a universal language.
It remains to be seen what success
it will meet with. The Banner is of
the opinion that it will prove a fail-
ure. A few persons may possibly
by dint of hard study for years suc-
ceed in mastering it sufficiently to
enable them to carry on business
correspondence in some sort, but to
the world at large they will appear
as jabbering idiots. A language
built up on no fixed principle of
steady growth, which has no his-
tory and no derivative origin, can
not become a success. And, be-
sides, as everybody knows, language
is affected by climatic influences to
such an extent that people of one na-
tion practically speak many tongues.
In that small boot shaped country,
Italy, thero used to exist diversified
with dialects almost unintelligible one
another in conversation. Iu Great
Britain to this day exist the Glas-
gow twang, the London cockney, the
Highland brogue, the Irish brogue
and a number of others peculiar
and distinct to themselves. Imagine
a Frenchman and a German,
or to draw a more vivid picture, an
American and an Asiatic or two per-
sons of any other nations or people
widely separated geographically and
by custom, surroundings and
climatic condition, trying to con
verse together in a tongue foreign
to both. It makes no difference
how strict the rules of construction,
pronunciation and syntax may be, it
will be almost impossible for them
to give the language the same ac-
centuation or to speak so as to un
derstand each other. But, if a uni-
versal language is practicable, why
do the learned men who have taken
the lead in inventing one take the
English language merely as a basis
and mutilate and butcher it up in
an unrecognizable shape ? Why
not adopt it outright ? It is now-
spoken in Great Britain, the great
island of Australia, the United
States, which is destined to be the
greatest power on the face of the
earth, New Zealand, British Ameii
ca, the vast empire of India, and
many other quarters of the globe,
and is destined to be the language
of the commercial world. With so
many people speaking it already,
withjits history, philology, luxuriant
and diversified growth, built from
Latin, Greek and Anglo-Saxon, con-
taining many words with a common
origin and familiar to other nations,
it would be much easier and more
practicable to adopt it as a universal
language than to establish one by
arbitrary rules. And
ENDLESS RESOURCE.
Ken- (lays are dear, and cannot be tailored,
Though in deep jrrief we cower and cling to death;
Who I)oh nut known, in living on, a breath
Full of Home gladne*a that life's rapture proved?
If I have felt that in thin rainbow world
The very bent won but a preface given
To tell of infinite greater tinu in heaven.
And, life or no, heaven yet would bo unfurled,
I did belie the soul wide Joy» of earth.
And feelings deep a* lights that dwell in seas.
Can heavc-u itself outlove mwh depths as thesef
Lire on! Life holds more than we dream of
worth.
—Eoj»3 Hawthorn* Lathrop in The Century.
AN EXCHANGE.
Everybody in New York who is any-
body known the wealthy, generous, hos-
pitable and clever Mr. Olied Carhart and
bia charming family. They had lived
many years in l^exington avenue, and I
am glad to know that they ai* living
there to this (lay. The Carhart mansion
i.-i as well known, as handsome in archi-
tecture and as grandly furnished us is the
liest house in Fifth avenue. Mrs. Carhart
is known throughout the city for her
liberal hospitality and her unstinted char-
ity. They have had but one child, a
daughter, a most accomplished girl, a
cultivated musician, and a young lady of
unexceptionable manners and bearing. If
Miss Henrietta had a fault (if fault it can
bo called), it was a fondness for harmless
mischief.
The Carharts frequently gi *e very de-
lightful parties, chiefly of .he musical
sort. Miss Carhart lieing, as I have said,
a comjietent musician. And it had hap-
pened that Mrs. Carhart had issued cards
on Monday last for a musical soiree on
the following Thursday. And among
the invitations were one for my friend,
Charles Crackles, and one for me. Crackles
had lieen rather more intimate witty the
family than I was, and it is possible that
my being favored with occasional invita-
tions from the Carharts was by reason of
my lieing a very perfect jierfornvr oil the
triangle, and therefore, in some sort, a
desirable addition to the ordinary musical
entertaiment.
The Carharts, notwithstanding that
they did not much care to lie very inti-
mate with (he Hogey family, would not
slight their neighlsjr, and when the cauls
were sent out for the Thursday a cwnl of
invitation was sent to Mr. I5ogcy. And
thus it was that I come to narrate the
mischievous work of our valued friend.
Miss Henrietta, who thought it would be
a matter of ^me amusement; if she
changed the invitations, sending to Mr.
Bogey the one intended for Mr. Crackles
and the one for myself (which was done
by sending loth invitations to the wrong
numbers), and also sending one to Pro-
fessor Tod, who had been invited by Mr.
Bogey to hold forth on the temjivrnnce
question on the same evening of the Car-
hart party, so that Crackles and I, when
we went to No. 1156. d'ould lie going to
the Carhart soiree, whereas we should be
going to the tenn>erance and total absti-
nence meeting. On die other hand, Pro-
fessor Tod supposed that by jjoing to the
opposite house, at No. 1155, he would be
going to address a large numlier of dis-
ciples on the alworbing subject of tem-
perance, which was the hobby equally of
Mr. Bogey and Professor Tod.
Accordingly, and as innocent as two
"lamlw of the first year," we went
together in full dress to the Bogey resi-
dence instead of to that of the Carharts.
As we alighted from the carriage I ob-
served that carriages were every moment
dashing up to the door in quick succes-
sion. while there was scarcely any light
nlxnit the premises at No. 1155. Strange!
Still worse, however, and more dis-
couraging, was. the glance I got fas I
entered the narrow ball) of the persons
who were hanging alxnit the staircase
and the parlor doors. Why, some of the
guests had overcoats on, many of them
had r.ot Iteeti shaved for ages and not one
that I saw had patronized the hairdresser.
Very, remarkable this! But we were
there, and we went into the hall, and
scarcely had Crackles and I entered lie-
fore we were violently seized by four
solemn, and I may add seedy, jx rsons,
headed by a man with a white cravat,
who informed me that he was Mr. Bogey
(I had never before laid eyes 'on Mr.
Bogey) and that this was the committee
and that we were rather late. What
this meant I could not possibly divine.
Crackles and I were hurried up stairs
into a dingy room with one gas burner in
it. where we were desired to leave our
coats and hats. Another singular fact!
The parlors below were evidently full of
guests, but there were not any other
coots or hats about the darkened room.
Tv'e, however, laid aside our overcoats
and hats, and it seemed very much to
embarrass these worthy persons when
they saw us in dress coats, embroidered
ihirt fronts and white silk ties, and be-
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had 1 done so when erwybody in
the assembly rose and took a distant'sur-
vey of tl»e triangle. I then was requiifad
to mount the step of the little platform
to get into a chair, when the whole meet-
ing broke out in a lit of the most enthusi-
astic applause. I trembled. Always
innocent and confiding, I had suffered
myself to be led, in white kids and fine
clothing, and with my liair carefully-
dressed, into the midst of a society of
decidedly deranged persons. I rose to
take a handkerchief from my pocket.^
The crowd again applauded, and I hastily
hat down again. v * f
"Our friends are giving you tin enthu-
siastic welcome, sir," said Mr. Bogey.
"Yes," said I, "thank you." A-nd, de-
voteu as I am to art, the heroic idea
seized me save my triangle. I re-
moved it fnom thu table, fresh applause
following that movement, and I imme-
diately dropjied the instrument, upon
which I heard a droll little man. leaning
over to sjH-ak ,to a vOuug lady in s)iec-
tacles, whisper to her friend, "He will
use that thing as an illustration: 1 have
heard of his doing so. It is very inter-
esting."
My listening was. however, interrupted
by a question from Mr. Bogey. '"Iiave
you your notes with you? or perhaps you
do not use notetf" I answered that I
could not very Weil perform music, and
especially the triangle, without notes, an
answer which seemed terribly to puzzle
Mr. Bogey; but that gentleman went on
to say, consulting lus watch, that it was
late and was I ready to begin? or would
I desire to take something before I b'ftin,
and ho jiointcd sigi.^antly to tbo pitcuer
on the table.
I, thinking to >ain tirr-;-, if nothing
else, said: "Thank you, I would like to
have a glass of sherry."
A shudder ran through every member
of the committee. "A what, sir?" in-
quired Mr. Bogey.
"A glass of sherry," I replied inno-
cently, "or claret, or brandy and water,
whichever is nearest your liand." Great
consternation npi>eared to arise among
the crowd at my very ordinary remark,
which, I could ]»erceive, was being re-
!>eated from bench to bench.
"Bralidv, sir," exclaimed Mr. Bogey.
■'•Are you mocking us?" "W.e]l," said j
I, "anything; I am not particular. You
asked me to take something to dfiuk, and
I said wine or brandy, or a drop or f\vo
of old Bourbon— anything of th.-V'f'nd
will do.1' W hereupon the limattcs began
to hiss me. nud one gentleman among the
crowd called out that the man (meaning
.me) was a fool.
. The people rose from their seals. The
utmost confusion prevailed. The noi'o
I« came threatening. Mr. Bogey got up
and, in a very severe tone and with n
terrible frown, addressed me person!-#;-,
saying: "Your conduct demands e\
planation, Mr. Tod." --Tod yourself."
said I, now positively angry. "Who is
Tod? Hotel* Crackles! Where are you?
What is all this alxnit Tod?"
"Can't say," answered Cnicldes, and,
guided by his voice, I saw him at the
other end of the room and heard him de-
clare that they did not appear to have so
much as a "tod" in the whole establish-
ment. "Why, can't you see, De Cor-
dova, that this is a temperance meeting?
We have evidently got into the wrong
house." "Certainly," exclaimed Mr.
Bogey, "you were, or, at least, Professor
Hiram Tod, of Mudham, Conn., was to
address this meeting here to-night on the
glorious subject of temperance and total
abstinence."
"A temperance meeting!" cried I.
"Certainly, sir," replied Mr. Bogey.
"Now, who are you, if you please?"
"Never mind who I am," I retorted. "I
held us drawing on white kid gloves. ]
give you my word that some of them
wore 'woolei) gloves.
Oue of the committee here inquired of
me how were all the folks at Mudham. I
could not see any particular fun or wit
ill that question; but the gentleman, ap-
parently meaning it as a joke, I smiled
it ia strange grimly and said: "That in good—very
that tiiis patent and common-sense
view did not appear to the learned
men who have undertaken the task.
work vp popular sentiment in thie
in f»vor of division. And un-
: &1 the editor feels that he has ac-
shed bid job he had better
I out of TBtav- In the present
of public sentiment one could
plot-treasonable designs with more
Absolute safety on Tf**8 B0^ than
talk of dismembering fhe biggest
«t»te in the ueioo.
A citizes of Chicago the other
Sunday dropped a blue poker chip
into the church contribution box,
thinking it was a dollar. The next
day after discovering his mistake he
went to the deacon, and offering him
a dollar, requested the return of the
chip. The deacon refused and know-
ingly remarked that "blues" were
worth $5 apiece. That deacon should
be investigated.
These isn't so much talk now as
there used to be about downing
Major Joe Sayera for re election to
congress next fall. The mental vision
is dawning brighter in certain quai"
ters.
The board of health of Philadel-
phia hare decided that utraw and
hay placed in street cars in cold and
muddy weather breeds disease.
good, indeed—glad to know you, sir."
Whereat the inquiring mind of that
member of the committee seemed puzzled
and ovm disturbed, and rather to shrink
back into himself as a thing subdued.
Another member then asked if I was
ready, to which I replied that I was. In
this manner we entered the parlors.
Horror of horrors! There were rows of
benches a/id chairs at regular interval*,
occupied by fiersons in the lowest condi-
tion of soediness. The ladied wore K u-
amnotTod." "No! no!" exclaimed a tall,
thin and solemn man who had just como
into tlip room and strode straight up to
the platform with the air of a man who
had a right to>tbat place and took it. "I
am," said the man, "Professor Tod, of
Mudham. Conn., and what I have gone
through this night nobody would scarcely
believe."
Well, I need not say that neither
Crackles nor I waited for any further
explanation, but. made our way to the
street door with the utmost celerity,
where I saw the Carhart mansion in a
blaze of light, and, understanding now
how matters stood, and that I had been
undergoing torture through my having
got into the wrong house. I crossed over
the way, and Crackles and I spent the
remainder of the evening with the intel-
lectual Carharts.
It apfx-nrs that the trials through which
Crackles and I had passed were as noth-
ing in comparison with the martyrdom
which that jxwr creature had undergone
in the refined society of the Carharts,
through his baring mistaken the house
by reason of Miss Henrietta's humorous
joke. Because nobody in that company
knew him. everybody had assumed the
privilege of staring at him. The serv-
ants. when tliev ushered him into the
•'rawing room, sneered at him because
lie was notwt'U dressed and had no white
! kid gloves on.
j Never having lx«en in New York be-
j fare, and living as he ditl in the no doubt
j classic shades of Mudham in Connecti-
|cut. he jegarded much of what he saw,
i with reluctance, as proof of the eccentric
I manners of a strange people, whose de-
! geiieracy he de;ilor»d. He blushed when
j ho beheld young ladies who wore very
; low d.-esses and did not blush. His color
i deejiened when ho saw elderlv ladies,
whose cheeks, which were pale by r.&ture.
| had been deeply colored bv art. and he
' trembled foi his reason a * he saw languid
| young men dressed to distraction, with
their hair jarted in tlie middle lisp ihe
m<wt siiq ill and inane notis«nse to young
who not only seemed satisfied to
ance, lie thought
which "he was so well i
ham would immediately
that the people would with one ft
inand, "Tod! Tod!" And still wonder-
ing wiupre he was to stand and speak, he
began during his throat and settling bh
cravat, as some public speakers have the
liabit of doinir.
Instead of calling for Tod, they, on the
contrary, fell into groups with their
backs turned to Tod, and disposed thein-
,selves to listen to a quartet, which Toe
thought was by long odds the greatest
private riot he had ever listened to
And amid the din of the music Tod heart
Miss Henrietta say: "Oh, why is not
Mr. Cordova here? The music only
wants his triangle to be perfect."
"Perfect?" said Tod to himself. "How
can all this? nonsense advance the sacred
cause of teni^ierance?" But imagine the
feelings of l*rofessor Tod when that piece
of music had I teen finished, fancy, if
you can. the horror of that good uian
when servants entered the room in a
sort of procession, bearing ice cream,
cake baskets, etc., laden with delicacies,
whi'n another bore a waiter upon which
were decanters containing wines and all
such sinful (leverages.
Thunderstricken by a sight so melan-
flioly. the professor bore it all in silence
until the servants stopped before him—
him! the great apostle of total abstinence
— with the water of liquid damnation,
and a lady inquiring of him, in a soft,
insidious voice, if he preferred claret
champagne or liquor. Had he, then,
lx»en invited to New York only to be
ridiculed and insulted? He rose, and,
i'lrusting his hands into his waistccat—
his favorite attitude in his public ad-
dresses — ho shouted rather than said
"Look not upon the cup when it is red."
•'Dear me!" said the lady, while every-
body began to gather round the profeosor
"you need not have red wine if you don't
like it. Try Chnblis or champagne."
"Avaunt!" said Tod. "I touch not the
accursed thing. Ladies, why was I
brought hither to perform my little part
in the preat movement now going for-
ward. if I were not wanted."
"Oh!" cried a lady, "this must lie Sir.
Cordova all the while, and nobody has
asked him to play." Upon which one
gentleman looked up into Tod's face and
propounded ibis timely and senaiblo in-
quiry:
•■Haven't you brought your triangle.
sir?"
•t'0h! insult me, ladies. Shame on
you! Is it a Christian act to bring me
frbffi" my happy Mudham home, to "find'
myself useless and eontemned?" «.■
"My goodness, oiy -dear sir,", said
anot !•••!•, «Jw« all want to hear you if you
will i:-it- the kindness to begin." " *
••I am quite ready, sir," said Mr. Tod,
:o whi. h another exclaimed:
"All right, sir, we desire no better;
where is your triangle?"
"Shame on you," cried Professor Tod,
addressing Mr. Carhart. "Are you the
master of this house?"
"Why, of course I am," said Mr. Car-
hart In amazement, and evidently regard-
ing me, represented as I was by Mr.<J'od,
as an outrageous maniac. "Why, of
course I ain."
"Well, then," exclaimed Tod, drawinr
himself up, "then let me tell you, Mr.
Bogey"
' He is nrnd," shouted Mr. Carhart.
"Mr. Bog«y Hr<* nver the way. We do
not even visit, and I do uot know him at
all. Are y®u Mr. Cordova, the great
amateur performer on the triangle, or
who the aeril are you!"
"Triangle again!" cried Tod, ''Sir, I
am Professor Tod, Mudham, of whom
you have no doubt read (If you take The
Mudham Register or The Chickenborough
^aliadlum) as a temperance lecturer of
some little fame. I belie-re, and I received
an invitation from you, or rather, as it
appears, from Mr. Bogey.''
"Oh! I will take the good gentleman
over the way,""said Mr. Carhart, and he
did so; and Tod slept at Mr. Bogey's
that night* vowing that never again
would he 1*5 tempted to visit what he
called "that sink of iniquity," New York.
—R. J. De Cordova in New York Star.
P.ecord of the Meftiengor Roy.
A man sends me a suggestion from the
District Telegraph company. He wants
the company to keep people who send
boys out advised of their progress. For
instance, they might have blanks ready
to fill up and send them to the expectant
customer, cay, every fifteen miuutes.
"By telegraphic advices from corner
of Kearney and Market the boy is buy-
ing a ctory paper, and will at once pro-
ceed on his way with your message.'*
Fifteen minutes later: "Corner Du-
pont and Geary. Your messenger has
reached here safely, aud is waiting for a
car to pass."
_ Fifteen minutes later: "Union square.
Your messenger has already reached fif-
teenth cliapter of his story. He has only
twenty-two more to finish."
"Your messenger has reached Masor
and Geary, and will proceed as soon as
he lias smoked his cigarette."
''Your messenger has reached his desti
nation. Will lie back to-mortow—Sar,
Francisco Chronicle. ®
nHEUMATISM. NEURALGIA,
• OR KINDRED
BETTER HAVE.
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Colors of Cattle.
By knowing their colors the
popular improved breeds of cattle
can usually be readily distinguish-
ed. For examplo, the Dutch cat-
tle (Holsteins) are black and white,
though neither all black nor all
white; but either oolor may pre-
dominate, and white is pure whito
and the black puro. black. The
Jerseys are tfsnally fawn or light
gri&aled brown,..generally carry-
ng some fhitc, but not always.
Tho Hcref<|rds are light red, with
white face, legs, tall, sometimes
the belly, and often tho dock una a
lortion ol tho back lined white.
The shorthorns vary -.more than
any oilier breed, bat whether red.
oan or white, or a eombihatiod%of
these colors, they havo no others.
The most severe cold will soon yield to
Chambfrl iin's Cough Itemed-. It does not
suppress a cold but 'oo ens ar d re eives it
No one afflicted with a throat or lung troubje
can use it w thoilt bencfi'. Price so cents per
bottle.—Sold by R. E. Luhn.
Traffic Siorj la Twenty-Eight Word.,.
nets and high drones, and the gentlemen ,
wore overcoats. Moat remarkable mifri- j l'''<l|,nj "• Init «v«ii appeared rather to
col soiree this! The rooms were dimly j1'*14'1- *" V ti' * - •
lighted, and the wlicleafiair wore a most j A'-Kl 'his po«r heathen, who had lived
dreary appearance |a" b'8 life in Mudham, wished himself
Solemnly up the center aisle I was j 'XK'k there with all hw h^rti aj he re- c 's&the, world ia it plaved.—
marched at the head of a procession of } member*! Knv plainly ami nfniply tern- wa>hington ~ " -
the committee (Crackles, lieing alarmed,
had remained at the parlor door), up to n
little platform at the upper end of the
room, on which platform was a table, be-
| bind which were sever.d chairs ina semi-
!circular form, and on tho table stood a
pia-her of water and a tumbler. What
iu the name of common sense could be the
availing of this! Tliere was not even n
piaw> m t be room. Queer musical jiariy,
certainly! Mr. Bogey motioned me to hi
down. Always desirous of avoidingdan-
ger to my Iriangle, I drew it from my
l>ocket and laid it on the tabl<». Groat ap-
plause followed this innocent action.
A Curiou* Iiuliar. florn.
There is among the musical instru-
ments in the National mnsenm one which
the visitor invariably pronounces a horn,
and yet it is nerpr blown, li ia the
nyns tcran^s of India. The small end
is placed against t!i» throat of the per-
former so that it rest* upon th« vocal
cords Th*n ar the performer draws a
breath he produws upon the nyaa
thiar«» a ciwu reed like note
ctinouff instrument can be placed againai
the cheek* or the soatrila and air* conh*
rendered. The Hindoo musicians are
proficient in the un of th« uponga. as it
woe called In ancient times, but Yio-
Alan's
Back
Across
Track.
Engine
Boars;
Man
8nores.,
Engine
Rushed ..
Man
Squashed.
Widow
Snorts.
Seeks
Courr.c;
Lawyer
W eepf>,
Jury
Slofcps.
J udge
Charges
Heavy
JTollers
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i|>enmce meet ings were conducted in his
Halite village. wi,h .clips' rtf tea. a hymn
or two and an address? by Professor Tod.
And he wondered what on corih all these
niUHcnl prpistration* had to do with an
eornet-t and whjI stirring apjusil not to
drink w ine or whisky. Fo there he rat
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Cot. Globe-Democrat.
nr
Tie FUwr TtowM.
The nettle is among tho substances
which science lias pat to use during lb*
past few years. This weed is even being
culuvated m Germany, its fibre having
proven valnable for a Tariety of textife
in a coraor. while Miss Henrietta per- i fabrics. In Dresden a thread is produced
r..,i„ .i .. «.» from it to fine that a length of aixtv
w"1 • p""*"-
formed a fantasia on the piano, and be
wondered wliat all that mtfriUna bunging
of the keys was about and why the young
lady exerted lien*if to that terrible «-
j teut. and when the tune was to be begun,
) til/ his brain was bewildered. So when
Miss Henrietta had finished and everv-
I'lacijij a uiap£le on a table, but scarcely i txxJjr had applauded the piano perform-
How cunningly natare hides every
wrinkle of her inconceivable an'iquitv
under /oses and violets and mornina
dew!—Emerson.
T|*vEloVat$d Railroad Journal.
ft 4. , 6
St. Patftck's Pill are a perfect and reliable
family medicine. They are small, easy to
take and have a pleasant but certain cathar-
tic iffect. Much sickness can he avoided by
their timely use. Sold by R. E. Luhn.
A camel will work seven or1
eight days without driking. In
this respect he differs irom some
men, who drink seven or eight
days without working.
Croup may be prevented by giving Chan*--
berlain s Cough Remedy as soon as tko child
shows the first symptom of the disease, which
can a ways be done if the remedy is kept at
hand. Hi argeness is the hr.st symptom, of
croup. Sold by R. E. I.unn.
Berlin will soon be the moKt^bril-
liantly illuminated city in Europe.
The electric light is being fitted all
along the Unter den Linden, and
the Leipziger strasae, which is up-
ward of a iui!e in length, is already :;
illuminated throughout by electric-
ity, which in to be introduced into-
all the priticij>al ntreets nud squares-
There i* no Verdigris or other io.p
• bases Barley Malt Whisky. It is
nutntious, afcd th* tw-t oi alt W
family and medicinal pu ptoses.
Giasutuik Si Meyrr. Krenham.
St. Petersburg has but ono
ire engine, and the same precautio:
fire are taken there and at
oscow as were m use a century-
Jo. Wiftyrthinea are stationed on
towers seventy-five or a hundred
feet high, and when a fire is discov-
ered a signal is given and the fire
department-turns out. fc
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A Blaming to Every Woman.
Those ol onr lady readers w
would like to know how chili
biabino may be made paini-mi
•Aft can get the information in
waled envelope by sending I'ou
oenta in postage stamps to •
MRS. E. KIVIRB,
Box 288, Jersey City, N. J
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