Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-17
GENERAL NOTES.

of n village near Berlin, winch contains
a tree of melancholy reputation A
few days ago the body of the seven
teenth suicide was cut down from its
branches. Inasmuch as it had never
occurred to the authorities to cut the
tree down, it will doubtless continue to
bear fruit of the same kind.
THE railway tunnel under the Mersey
from Liverpool to Birkenhead is adj
vancing rapidly and it is expected that
trains will be running through it within
two years. The total length of the tun-
mel is three miles, and the length OF sub
aqueous part of it three-quarters OF a
mile. Since boring machine driven
by compressed air was brought into SER
vice, the rate of progress has been ten
wards in twenty-four hours.
THE expenses of the government in
the Star Route cases up to the present
time are estimated at S350,000. The
special prosecutors get s4OO a day ana
$50 day for their expenses. The
total cost is 81, 900 day, exclusive OF
the cost of witnesses. Over 800 wit
nesses have been summoned by the
prosecution, most of them from west OF
the Mississippi, involving an outlay OF
nearly S150,O00. 1t takes wealth TO
fight wealth nowadays in our criminal
courts.
The Crown Prince of Germany is an
earest Frcemason, and recently deliver
ed an address before tho Royal York
Lodge in Berlin, which caused great
sensation and drew forth much COM
ment. The burden of his remarks was
that Freemasons should be moro pro-
gressive, and that instead of clinging to
old traditions, whose only Importance
is their antiquity, they should distin-
guish themselves by being in the fore
most rank of seekers after new and liv-
ing truths.
THE unfinished Washington Monu-
ment at the National Capitalis no longer
fit subject for testing 1t has now
reached such height that its lines be
gin toindicate what great beauty the COM
pleted shaft will have. 1t is already high
er than any of the pyramids except two,
and when it is done will be the tallest
structure in tho world The monument
will probably be finished near the be-
ginning of 1856. Already the mania
which some people have to see their
names in public places shows in inscrip-
tons on stones contributed to decorate
the interior of the shaft. Too much
care cannot be taken to head off petty
and unpatriotic advertising schemes of
this kind.
OUR farmer friends will do well to
learn a lesson from the experience of
some avaricious sons of the soil in the
old Green Mountain State. Some farm
ers learning that few butter dealers
were attempting to corner" the mar
ket, thought they would have sharein
the good fortune to come with tho adj
vance in prices. Millions of pounds of
butter were stored in expectation of the
rise that never came. The season for
new butter came on, and buyers were
forced to place their old stock on the
market, at great discount on the pur-
chasing price. Knowing ones estimate
that the loss on the butter thus held
will amount to S750,O0O. Farmers
ought to be satisfied with good fair
price, and leave the uncertainties of the
'corner" business to others.
The "Irish Revolutionary Brother
hood" has been organized in New York
as protest against the proceedings of
the Philadelphia convention. O'Dono-
van Rosa and all the bright lights of
the dynamite party figure conspicuous
ly in the new organization. At the ini-
tiatory meeting the action of the juries in
Dublin was most severely denounced,
one man speaking as follows: "How
long is this thing going to lastp Men
who have stood in the front ranks of la
Dor and of patriotism have been thrown
into prison one by one. There is no
mercy there; there is no justice in that
prison." "Put up the money" cried
another. Here, let's all put up 81
apiece, and we'll have another rafting
explosion across the water, in a few
months. The time has come when any
Irishman who who wants to do practi-
cal work mus. step right away to the
front" Then Rosa made speech.
1--WE have done good work in the past,
he said; 'let us do it in the future We
need not find fault with the convention;
let us just agree to differ with it. Let
them try their way, we will try ours.
Some things are not well perhaps. In
view of the judicial murders that are
about to take place in Dublin, the exc
cution of Cavendish and Burke may
have cost us too high a price" And
others followed in the same vein, when
the "Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood"
adjourned, in the meantime to plan an
explosion which will shake tho United
Kingdom from center to circumference.
All reputable Irishmen will rejoice in