Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-26
HERE AND THERE.


public parks.
Paris surgeons now make dimples al
one napoleon each.
There are 1000 men at work on De
: Lessep's Panama canal.
The past winter has been one of the
, best for numbering ever known in Maine.
In Siberia milk is sold in blocks with
little stick frozen in for handle to
carry it.
There are ten thousand Mormons
who uphold polygamy in the territory
of Idaho.
Five boys under twenty years of age
are in Jail in Portland, Oregon, charged
with murder.
The sleigh stage which runs between
Fairhaven and Benson, VT, has been
used for l24 years.
| Pennsylvania produced S4.5 per cent
of the 1852, 475 tons of coke made in
the country in 1880.
A Boston firm recently shipped lot
OF base balls to the students of Robert
College at Constantinople.
About $50 miles of thread are made
| Il
years ago it was all imported
This has served as test winter for
the st. Gothar1 tunnel, which has an
swered the best expectations.
A Chicago man is the possessor of an
old red cent which he claims to be the
first penny coined in America.
Over $4,000 head of buffalo have been
1 ar Of ha
Montana Territory, this season.
Mahogany, ebony, rosewood and
cedar are used as fuel by the poorest
people in some parts of Mexico.
A West Point cadet begins with the
same pay which a Prussian captain re-
ceives after twenty years service.
The Orleans Princes have mortgaged
all their property in France to foreign
corporations for $4,000, 900 francs.
The immigration to Dakota will be
unprecedentedly large this spring. Al
ready mnltitudes of people are on the
way.
Walking from his home to the London
docks, an aggree ate of IL 1928 miles, a
man has collected 100000 cigar ends in
seven years.
There has been no colder season along
the Hudson than the one just finished
since 1S4S. This year the river has been
closed 120 days
There are already 1,600 telephones in
Mexico. but they have no hello in that
language. The nearest substitute is the
word "he,' pronounced ebay"
The principal Roman Catholic news
paper organ of Dublin, gives full and
fair reports of ID. l.. Moody's discourses
in that city during his late visit.
A Florida alligator culturist has 200
of the animals ready for shipment to
various sections of the country from
which he received orders for them.
All the Texas papers report extensive
farming preparations in progress. More
corn and other grain is the determine
ton of many farmers in Mississippi
Colonies of Russian Hebrew refugees
have been established in Dakota, Kan
sas, Virginia and Oregon, and good
crop reports are received from them.
AT the sale of the King lib airy at New
York, last week, an almanac printed by
William Bradford of Philadelphia, 1856,
sold for $500. Only one other copy is
in eXistences
A neat cemetery has been laid out at
Tel-el-Kebir, and the bodies of all the
English soldiers who were killed in the
Egyptian campaign have been collected
and buried there.
There sre LOO foundlings at single
institution in New York CITY, and the
collection has been made within two
years. Most of them were left upon
the doorsteps of wealthy residents.
The postal cards are made at Holy
oke, Mass, by forty men, who turn out
a million daily. They have diminished
the consumption of writing paper by
from $4,000, 00C to S15, 900, 900 year
Omaha has high school principal
who makes written contracts with the
BOYS to the effect that after being called |
up certain number of times they shall |
be whipped; and he says the plan works
finely.
A Turkish Pasha has shown his appre- |
citation of the work of mission schools |
in his country by the following remark:
'When a girl has come back from the |
AucElCdu uhlsSlOu DCuOOl yOu SuOuiu |
not say girl, but q school has come"
A religious sect in Switzerland con-
templates emigration in mass to the
Argentine Republic for the pur-
pose of escaping military service at
home, it being contrary to their doc
trines to bear arms or take part in war |
fare.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that |
never before in the history of the new |
Northwest has the spring movement of
immigrants and home-seekers set in to-
wards the inviting fields of western |
Minnesota and Dakota so early and In |
such tremendous volume.
Four states i'm New England have |
made more or less changes in their di- |
vorce laws for the better within five |
years. Divorces have, in consequence, |
fallen off nearly one-third in Vermont,
one-fourth in Connecticut, and the |
changes made the past month in Maine |
laws will insure q further reduction.
New York Is a great nut-loving COM
munity, and has developed special |
fondness for the peanut. That city is
the center of the trade, and during the
present season has received the bulk of
l, 100, 900 bushels from Virginia, 800, 900 |
bushels from Tennessee, and 120, 900 |
car loads from North Carolina.
According to Electricite, spiders,
which are very numerous in Japan,