Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-10
ABOUT VARIOUS THINGS.

|
The grayling in English rivers attains
a weight of three pounds.
Only one of the national senator's was
born west of the Mississippi.
Details are being arranged for the
construction of tower at He'll Gate.
| The Salvation army is creating con-
siderable disturbance in various parts
of Ireland.
The first telegraph Office established
in the Holy Land, has just been opened
at Nazareth,
Gait q Kerr is the somewhat sugges-
tive name of an amicable business firm
in Stanton, Va.
Newman Halls church. in London,
has 1,071 members. Its thirteen Sun
day Schools have $500 children and 400
teachers.
Portable paper houses are coming
into vogue in England. 1t is said that
they will be usad to extend the accom-
mediation of seaside abodes.
The Chicago Herald believes that
t"No l." who is wanted in England, has
gone to Moscow 10 act as master of cere-
monies at the czar's banquet
Massachusetts, has still within its
borders few representatives of its thir
teen original tribes of Indians, number
ing about 225 families and 1000 indi-
viduals
In Great Britain the loss to the Gov
eminent by worn silver withdrawn from
circulation because of deficiency of
weight caused by wear and tear amount
ed last yearto $4,000.
A good joke on Uncle Sam is told by
: the Philadelphia papers. A circus pro-
cession was parading the streets, when
one of the mail wagons got hemmed in,
and but few people knew the difference.
, j. X. Parkinson, of Cincinnati, who
( has just been admitted 10 practice be-
. fore the supreme of the United States
is deaf and dumb, and is said TO be the
!, first deaf mute ever admitted to that
court.
r 1t is becoming fashionable for the
Z wives of the professors at Cornell uni
versity to take degree. Not less
than five are pursuing courses in the
Q university. One will graduate this
7 year.
a Professional incomes in Germany are
= very small in comparison with those of
. America. The average income of
s Judge, lawyer, doctor, professor or
b superior officer, is not generally more
: than 81 900.
o The Texas legislature has given
e another million acres of land for uni
J. versities aud another for common
i schools, and voted to submit consti-
e tutional amendment permitting local
c school taxation.
. The oldest person in Norfolk. Conn,
d is widow of ninety-two years. She
d was the sixth wife of man of whom it
+ used to be said that 'no woman in Nor
g folk need despair of getting married as
IS long as he lived"
The largest barrel on record was
), built at Seidenberg, Germany, in 166l.
l. 1t consisted of 112 solid slaves or beams
q feet long. 1t was 16 feet across the
n ends. Is feet through the center and
N held 800 hogsheads of water.
r. About 40 per cent of the land in the
VI United States remains unsurveycd.
81 Minnesota, Dakota, Montana and
L. !: Indian territory alone have an area of
unsurveyed land more than twice as
great as that of the - original states.
A Dakota Judge suspended sentence
"a in the case of Il man convicted of as
ct sault, but the sheriff took different
~ view of it, and put him into prison,
re where he remained three months before
y the irregular proceeding was exposed.
A writer in one of the medical jour
nails says he has found the application
~ Of strong solution of chronic acid,
8. three or four times a day, by means
If y, i,. ~ no, h.a act
be and easiest method for removing
n warts.
= The bellies of the Pinto tribe of Indians
- walk along the railroad tracks of civil
A. cation in Nevada and gather the black
K. dope" which drops from the axles OF
ed the cars. With this they smear theii
y cheeks and arms and grow more beauti
AS fat.
~. A large tract of land in the south Of
> England has been leased for the purpose
+. ofeducating young men in the ways o.
", colonial life. The boarding house will
% be roughly furnished. Major Genera
us Fielding is one of the promoters of the
no scheme.
list Nebraska swarms with land hunter,
cd this spring. They come from Iowa, In
re- diana and Illinois principally. with
no no scattering crowds from New York ant
. the New England States. A majority
of them intend to become actual set
" tiers.
e. The Khedive of Egypt has voluntarily
given up $751; year of his civil list
ne to be devoted to the payment of the
tn smaller idemnity claims. He will still
nu receive 1886, 5000 year, however, anC
,o the members of his family 5000, 900 ,
he year more.
to A Pawnee City (Neb.) man sent thi
m order to his merchant: please sent
me by berrer too pounds of shughor.
-. blackin brush, five pounds of coffey
nd and some little nails (my wife had
baby last night -and two padlocks ant
monkey-wrench."
. An extraordinary project has been sug
Gil gested in Paris. 1t is to connect til,
capital with the city of Rouen by
a tunnel The length of the work woult
: be over seventy-three miles, while tn,