Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-06-07
FOLK NOTES.


ally to f4,929.
Thurlow Weed never laid up dollar
until he was fifty years old.
Lorne and Louise have combined
income of $4,000 "a year, and do not
hoard any Oft.
The Prince of Wales will unveil a
statue of Sir Francis Drake, the naviga-
tor, in July at Tavistock.
The Earl of Zetland has given $685.
900 to the Edinburgh Association for
the University Education of Women.
Gel Ingersoll declines to make any
more engagements to lecture, it is said.
finding his law practice more profitable.
Prince George, son of the Prince of
Wales, is on board the Canada in the
| port of Halifax. Nova Scotia. He is
rated as midshipman.
The grave of Linton Stephens, whom
Georgians consider an ADLER man than
his brother, Alexander H., is marked
only by mound of jasmines and roses.
Mrs. Anandibai Joshu, native of
India, eighteen years of age, is on her
way to the United States for the purpose
| of fitting herself for the practice of
medicine in her own country.
Following the Chinese plan, the
British Government has conferred
| title upon dead man. That is to say,
it has made the late Sir George Jessers
son baronet for his fathers sake.
| Mrs. Lucy III. Pickens, the widow of
the war governor of South Carolina, is
ut work in that state in the interest of
the Society for Restoring Mount Yer
non, Washington's home, 10 its former
condition.
! Joaquin Miller says the daily news
paper is ''the six-shooter of civilization"
Then man who carries newspaper
in his pocket is liable to be arrested for
carrying concealed eapons.-Boston
Transcript.
Josh Billings thinks he is the best paid
writer in the business, as he recently got
$400 for II words. This came from
wealthy New York merchant who want
ed one of Josh's quaint sayings for an
advertisement.
Robert Lincoln, during the illusions
to his father on the occasion of the ban
quet of the Army of the Potomac, was
deeply moved, and drew back behind
the drapery of the box that he might
hide his emotion.
Professor Tyndall resigned his con-
nection with the British Board of Trade
and Lighthouse Board because of diff
ference of opinion on tie constitution
of committee of inquiry into the prop
critics of a particular Illuminating
power.
Oscar Wilde was lately seen by a
Boston Herald correspondent in Lon
don restaurant with two charming ladies
and lord. He still clings to the brick
red necktie and the long locks parted in
the middle. The quartet were the OBJ
served of all observers.
"Mother Goose" according to the
latest authorities, far from being a myth,
was the wife of Isaac Goose. and lived
in Pudding Lane (now Devonshire st )
Boston. She was born in 1865 and died
in 1857. The first edition of her nursery
rhymes was published by her son-in-
law, Thomas Fleet, in the year 1719
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts, who is
taking great interest in the International
Fisheries Exhibition in London, has
commissioned an artist to paint a picture
twenty-five by fifty feet in size, at a cost
partments. The painting will repre-
sent morning fish sale on the sands of
Scarborough.
Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, of patent-med-
icine fame, who died of paralysis at her
home in Lynn, Mass. was of Quaker
parentage. Her maiden name was
Estes, and she was born in Lynn sixty
four years ago. Her four sons are dead.
but her husband and daughter, Mrs.
G. G. Cove, survive her. She is said to
have been woman of intellect and
benevolence, esteemed by wide circle
of friends.
The venerable Bishop Peck, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, not long
ago gave all his property to the SYRIA
cuse University, preferring to dispose
of it thus during his own life. II have
an ambition" he said, ''to die withou ut
anything. for l am going to where /
shall have infinite riches of kind that
will suit me better than any of these
material things"
Mrs. Gresham, the wife of the new
Postmaster General, is low in stature,
slender and well proportional. She has
beautiful blonde hair, n peachy COM
plexion, large hazel eyes, overshadowed
with long silken lashes. At a recep-
ton she wore beautiful wine-colored
silk dress and long string of pearls en-
circled her neck. She is about thirty
two, and is what might be termed
model of feminine beauty.
Rev. George +. Moore of Putnam, O.,
who has been chosen to the chair of He
brew, Arabic and cognate languages at
Andover, Mass, theological seminary,
is called a remarkable linguist, able to
write and speak readily French, Ger
man, Italian, Arabic, Coptic. Ethiopian
and many other Oriental languages. His
wife is as familiar as he with the first
four, and is called, one of two or three
women in the country who can talk Ara
bic.
The death of General Grants mother
calls to mind letter which he wrote to
her forty-four years ago. when he was
a West Point cadet, expressing hope
that has been wonderfully fulfilled.
"Your kind words of admonition, he
wrote. "are ever present with me. How
well do they strengthen me in every
good word and work! Should become
a soldier for my country, look forward
with hope to have you spared to
sharewith me in any advancement /
may gain. and trust my future con-
duct will prove me worthy of the pa
triotic instruction you and father have
| given me-"
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